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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2009
Eighteenth century Delaware has one example of interchurch co-operation which is of interest to those engaged in such movements in our own day. Although the field of activity between the Church of Sweden and the Church of England extends beyond the borders of northern Delaware, yet in this limited area all the essential characteristics of the movement are to be found and can be examined in some detail. Beginning as two separate and distinct national churches, by means of friendly co-operation they became one church within less than a century.
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32 Records of Holy Trinity, etc., 501.
33 Ibid., 518.
34 Old Swedes, Philadelphia had a similar provision from an earlier date and it may be of some significance that Dr. Collin from the time of the new Philadelphia charter always had Episcopalians for his assistants, although he never allowed his churches or himself to become officially connected with the Protestant Episcopal Church.
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