CONNECTICUT TO SCOTLAND. A.D. 1784--A.D.1884 A GRATEFUL MEMORIAL BEFORE GOD _OF THE EPISCOPATE AND THE EUCHARISTIC OFFICE_ TRANSMITTED BY BISHOPS KILGOUR, PETRIE, AND SKINNER TO SEABURY AND THE CHURCH IN AMERICA. _Think upon them, our God, for good, according to all that they have done for this people._ In making the presentation, Mr. Nichols spoke as follows: My Lord Bishop: It has been delegated to me by some of the clergy and laity of the Diocese of Connecticut--not only those with whom it has been my privilege to share in the events of these ever-to- be-remembered days, but by many whose hearts are following us in all these services--to place in your hands this Chalice and Paten, and to read the explanatory address. By the happy foresight which has characterized the preparations for the centenary celebration, there is placed on the wall of this holy place a copy of that Concordate in which the three Bishops of your Scottish Church and the first Bishop of our American Church plighted their troth. It was indeed a "great mystery"; it spoke concerning Christ and His Church. As I sat in this chancel on Sunday last, by one of those coincidences which I believe may occur for the eye of thankful faith as well as for the eye of sentiment, the sunlight which bathed your beautiful city with its warmth, so shone its colors through that south chancel window that at the beginning of the service they fell athwart the Concordate hanging on the opposite wall. Then, beginning at that, as the service went on, and as the sun circled its daily course, when the time came for the Consecration-prayer, the light fell upon the sacred vessels of the altar. So the sunlight took its way from the Concordate which the exigencies and circumstances of that far-off time demanded, to the symbols of that perpetual concordate which exists in the one body of Christ--between the Head and the members, between the living members of that Body, between the living members and the members of that Body in Paradise. I could not but think that the brief course of the sunlight here might stand for the dial of the century gone. Exigencies and circumstances that are special, require special concordates. Both Churches then had them, and they framed that agreement. The century has led us around from those exigencies and circumstances to a condition of prosperity, in which the only thought need be of the supreme concordate in the Communion of the most precious Body and Blood of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May this Chalice and Paten, the symbols of the renewed troth of the Churches, be the symbols of all prosperity for both, as in the Master's work they enjoy "the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace." Mr. Nichols then read the formal letter of presentation, as follows: DIOCESE OF CONNECTICUT. July, 1884. _To the Bishop of Aberdeen, representing the Church of Scotland:_