_The Clergy and Trustees of St. Andrew"s Church, Aberdeen, to the Right Reverend John Williams, D.D., Bishop of Connecticut.
Right Reverend Father in G.o.d:_
It would have given us unfeigned pleasure, as the representatives of the congregation in which your great predecessor was consecrated and in which the centenary commemoration of that happy event was celebrated, to have expressed to you and your accompanying delegates, on the occasion of your memorable visit in October, the pride with which we cherish the links that bind us to the Church of America. Sensible, however, of the incessant demands made upon your time on every day of the festival, we postponed the expression of our feelings until the approach of Christmas, when we might add to the salutations of the season our congratulations upon your safe arrival in your own diocese, a prosperous termination of your visit to Scotland for which we both publicly prayed and gave thanks to Almighty G.o.d.
Right Reverend Father, we beg you now to accept the a.s.surance of veneration and respect with which your presence inspired us, and of grat.i.tude for your fatherly counsel and encouragement to us and our fellow-churchmen; and we further pray you to receive the accompanying photographs of St. Andrew"s, to remind you of a church so closely a.s.sociated with the history of your own See.
We beg to subscribe ourselves, Right Reverend Father,
Your faithful servants in Christ,
J. M. DANSON, M. A., Inc.u.mbent of St. Andrew"s;
ROBERT MACKAY, M. A., Curate;
JAMES CHIVAS, Church-warden and Canonical Lay Representative;
JAMES THOMSON, Church-warden and Trustee;
R. B. HORNE, Trustee and Lay Representative;
H. T. PATERSON, Trustee;
ALEX"R WALKER, Trustee;
JAS. TURREFF, Trustee;
JAMES TAYLOR, Secretary.
_Advent_, 1884.
_SIT DOMINUS DEUS NOSTER n.o.bISc.u.m, SICUT FUIT c.u.m PATRIBUS NOSTRIS._