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continued to live until this day, he WOulC
have harmonized with such men as Bishops
Griswold, Moore, and bishops of kindred
spirit, such ministers as DR.. Minor, Bedell
and others of the same spirit on both sides
of the Atlantic, as he did all the days o,
has life. While he continued to hold broth.
erly intercourse and fellowship with such
men as the venerable Rector Of St. Paups
Church, Baltimore, and the aged Professor
of Biblical Literature in the General The.
illogical Seminary, forgetting to add
that his whole heart and soul would still be
with the Theological Seminary, Virginia,
that received from him it's first fostering
care. How could he forget the child of his
adoption =? Young men may change-con-
tract, or develope, and expand but how
can advanced age act thus? Who would
wish to? We would be less respected
DR.. Wilmer was not ordained until about
twenty seven years of age. He had been a
thorough business man, and of sound judg-
ment previous to his entrance on the duties
of the ministry. He was born in the vicin-
ity of Chestertown, Kent county Maryland,
and received his education in Washington
College, in the same vicinity, and was rec
tor of the Charch in Chestertown, previous
to his removal to Alexandria, Place man
in his position out of it he reflects no cred
it on himself
Had DR.. Winners life been extended, it
is more than probable he would have enlarg-
ed his own Episcopal Manual, and let 9TH
ers, as he wished, make their own compila-
tons, and send forth their own productions
However well meant, there was time
when this enlargement of Winners Manual
and its omissions, touched sad chord in
the hearts of some but they are not here
now to be sad. The grave utters no COM
plaint. Whatever views it may be imagin-
ed that we entertain, it has not been with
in the range of our knowledge that any
cherish views at all at variance with the
Episcopal Manual, as compiled by DR.. Will
mer. That he was fitted for the mitre we
do not doubt; but why talk of mitres, when
he has received crown of life. It is a
matter of record, if not on earth, beyond
tue earth, that DR.. Wilmer and his elder
brother, the Rev. Mr.. Simon Wilmer, oc-
cupied prominent position in the resusci-
tation of the expiring church in their native
state, Siafyiand: 36d whgn Dr.. " inner
located himself in Alexandria, such was the
degraded condition of the church in Virgil
MIA, that on one occasion, when riding in
stage filed with passengers, to whom he
was a stranger, he was ashamed to acknowl-
edge that he was an Episcopal minister
He labored side by side with the first few
in the resuscitation of the church in Virgil
MIA. In travelling over that moral waste,
in regions almost inaccessible, he found that
some devoted pioneers, of some other de-
of Christians, had preceded him.
His exclamation then was, ''Thank God !!
If [ could stay their progress by the raising
of finger, | would not" And yet he was
the author and compiler of the Episcopal
Manual, which occupies prominent posi-
ton in the present day.
While we ayow that our sympathics are
most with those who love the Bible, and it's
broadcast scattering over the whole earth,
it is in vain then, with some, that we avow,
but zee acW arop, that we love, with our
whole hearts, that branch Of the Apostolic
Church to which we belong, and the Pray
er-Book next to the Bible, and the Bible
above all /; for without the Bible, the world
would be moral desolation