, 1863-12-31
Chicago @ribn11f'
Two BISHOPS.

denomination Who, s0ce aue scIese1oA ~
terances Of Hopkins, hare been waiting for
a leader under whose standard they might
ra11v and identify themselves Is believers
in The eternal doctrines OF progress and
freedom, and their faith as broad enough
10 acknowledge any truth without fear Of
temporal effects. Bishop Potter ssys: "f
1--WE wish peace for the next fifty years,
" either at home or abroad, We must re-
store the Union, VIC must uphold and es-
"tablish upon firm basis tie sovereignty
aof the National Goyernmcns-and how
sever reluctantly forced to believe it, re-
"moye the element which Inns been dis
"turbing our repose." And still further,
Bishop Potter urges this fact as q cause Of
dcyout Thanksgiving: That "the institu-
"tion Of slavery has been put under ban
"by sovereign authority'-and he looks
upon the course Of events ~ ProTiden-
4ial ain that this civil war was
"lcngthened out that the nation
"might open it's eyes to the na-
"turc of the power undermining it, and
"that The people OF the North might be
"forccd to do what they were too slow to
"do for the deliverance Of their county,"
And now by the side Of these bold, brave
words for liberty, religion and human
rights, while they are fresh in the minds Of
our readers, nc desire to place On record
the utteranccs Of the Bishop Of the diocese
Of Illinois, in his annual address to the
Diocesan Convention, which will be found
in connection with Bishop Potters dis
course he snys: ain my humble judg~
ssuent, it would have been safer and wiser
"to have left this subject (the state Of the
country alone NY apprehension is not
p" diminished that the pastoral letter (of
Bishop Mcnyainc, Of Ohio) will prove
"serious embarrassment in the way Of the
restoration Of our conventional unity.''
These extracts mirror the two Bishops
to the life; the one, bold and unhincling in
his antagonism to the wrong; the other,
temporizing, timta a1lsni yisat;a the
ono soundinRS blsstSf fhne,<
dom, olledng ao Hassbf sfittots ; ;theatha
waving i1is sghito tisg and inviting taEn1s !:
1heone lending in beautiful union, rc1ig-
viQ4&and patriotism the other holding
.{116neEh1m his forms and rules and
him, his lore Of country
Eat6RN0ne believing that the church is
founded upon rock unshaken by every
/; ;l5t6in, be it ever so severe; that her por-
are wide enough for the admission Of
truth without fear Of obscuring her an
s7Eicnt glory or diminishing her future con-
,'ss4uests; the other interposing his puny
form ut The door, lest some gliding Of the
4 yGoFnicc should be merred, or the velvet Of
cllancel soiled, or some tender-con-
:sc3aced parisaioner should take of1ense ut
fheHntrance Of the stranger and inconti-
nently leave, thereby threatening the pros
pectapthe tin boz. Bishop Potter is the
Good Samaritan who has found Ills coun-
try wayla1d4;y. thieves, and bleeding from
her wounds, and believes in applying the
balm and oil the other is the Leyite jour
neying towards Richmond, the Jerusalem,
where he was to feast with his brethren,
who crosses over to the other side with
hands on breast and eyes uphfted, fearing
that consolatory word or charitable deed
might embarrass the conventional unity
with his Southern brethren" over there,
who were the thieves.
The contrast may be summed up in
this: That the one il live man, full
Of ardent patriotism, large sympathies,
holy reverence for all great truths
Of reform and progress and a
hearty dctcstation Of evil, be it individual
or national, who believes that it is the mis-