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Early Days of the Protestant Episcopal Church
which assembled on January 9, 1846, and laid the foundation of
educational progress in Texas.38 It is, of course, true that 'some
of this anxiety for schools was affected by denominational zeal-
the desire to keep the children of Church families under the con-
stant influence of their own form of religion. Yet there was also
the sense of responsibility that a Church which professed to be
"the friend and patroness of learning" should render her full con-
tribution to "a country where few schools of any kind exist."89
The work of the Church in Texas took on a new vigor with the
arrival of Bishop Freeman in the southwest. On March 18, 1845,
he landed in Galveston, and during the next three weeks he
visited Houston and Matagorda. The next year, he returned for
a more extended period, and spent nearly two months in Texas,
from March 13 to May 10, 1846. Everywhere he found the
Church growing, and the buildings in Galveston and Houston
were already too small for the congregations. Trinity Parish,
Galveston, and Christ Church, Houston, both relinquished their
missionary aid and became self-supporting on July 1, 1846.40
The annexation of Texas to the United States had been com-
pleted in December, 1845. The Foreign Committee therefore
withdrew its supervision of the Texas Mission on January 1,
1846, and the Domestic Committee of the Board of Missions took
charge until the organization of the Diocese in 1849. At the
General Convention of 1847, "considering the altered relations of
the former Republic of Texas," the House of Bishops changed the
title of Bishop Freeman to "The Missionary Bishop of this Church
appointed to exercise Episcopal functions in the States of Arkan-
sas and Texas and in the Indian Territory south of 36j degrees
North Latitude.""'
Bishop Freeman and his Texas clergy were doing much to ex-
tend the Church into new fields. In March, 1843, Mr. Gillette
visited Washington and Independence. And in the summer of
1845 he went to Richmond at the earnest request of friends of
"Ives' Report, in The Spirit of Missions, May, 1846, p. 153. Eby, The
Development of Education in Texas, 101.
"Polk to Eaton, quoted by Eaton to Bishop Kemper, August 30, 1844,
in The Spirit of Missions, October, 1844, p. 369.
"Bishop Freeman's Report, in The Spirit of Missions, August, 1846,
pp. 285-291; August, 1847, p. 252.
"The Spirit of Missions, August, 1846, p. 273. Journal of the General
Convention of 1847, p. 151.309
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