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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

John Henry Hopkins (1792–1868)

Hopkins, John Henry. An American divine and writer, the first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Vermont (1832); born in Dublin, Ireland, Jan. 30, 1792; died in Rock Point, VT, Jan. 9, 1868. He was originally an iron manufacturer, afterwards a lawyer, and won eminence by his vigorous and versatile writings. Among his works are: ‘History of the Confessional’; ‘The End of Controversy Controverted’; ‘The Primitive Church’; ‘Essay on Gothic Architecture’; ‘The Church of Rome in her Primitive Purity’; ‘Scriptural View of Slavery,’ a defense of the institution; ‘Law of Ritualism’; ‘History of the Church,’ in verse.