Excerpt from Life of Bishop Croes, of New Jersey

"Not having the opportunity of being confirmed at that age in which I had an ecclesiastical right to receive it, I was determined not to be without it, and therefore went and received Confirmation, even since I became a Methodist preacher. Yes, I was confirmed In the Collegiate Church at Bristol, in the year 1782, by that very holy man, Dr. Lewis Bagot, then Bishop of that see, and afterwards Bishop of Norwich. You see now, my good sister, both from my teaching and practice, what I think of the rite of Confirmation." - Adam Clarke's Autobiography, pp. 669, 670.

"We believe in the doctrine of the Apostolic succession, we hold that no man has a right to preach the Gospel and administer the Sacraments, who has not been Episcopally ordained." - Rev. George M. Randall, D. D.

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