As sons and daughters of the Church of England, our religious heritage reaches back to the earliest days of Christianity in England and beyond that to our Lord’s commission to the Apostles to “go into all the world and preach the Gospel.” When British settlers first came to this continent, they brought their (Anglican) Faith with them. After the American Revolution Anglicans in the United States called themselves the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. In 1789 they adopted a Book of Common Prayer whose Preface states that: “…it will also appear that this Church is far from intending to depart from the Church of England in any essential point of doctrine, discipline, or worship…” (1928 Book of Common Prayer, page vi).