Its work was strangely unstable.

The proved defects of it as a working system were grave.

The criticism of George Keith seems justified by the event--its candle needed a candlestick.

But no man can truly write the history of the church of Christ in the United States without giving honor to the body which for so long a time and over so vast an area bore the name and testimony of Jesus almost alone; and no man can read the journeys and labors of John Woolman, mystic and ascetic saint, without recognizing that he and others like-minded were nothing less than true apostles of the Lord Jesus.
* * * * * One impression made by this general survey of the colonies is that of the absence of any sign of unity among the various Christian bodies in occupation.

One corner of the great domain, New England, was thickly planted with homogeneous churches in mutual fellowship.