High Church
one of the three great parties in the English Church.
They regard the Episcopal form of government as so essential to a true church that, as a rule, they do not feel free to recognize, as sister churches, those Christian denominations which are under other forms of government. Dur- HIGH EXPLOSIVES ing the 19th century High-churchism developed first into Tractarianism and then into Ritualism. Believing the Church to have received the right of autonomy from its Divine Head, the High-church party disapprove the Royal Supremacy, and dispute the right of the civil courts to try ecclesiastical cases.
HIGH SCHOOLS and the Carolina and Yadkin River railroads. It has important industries, including furniture mills, car shops, wagon factories, silk mills, etc. Pop. (1910) 9,525; (1920) 14,302.