The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-04
Sketch of Rev. DIR. Hawks.

The New York Tribune presents the fol-
lowing sketch of that eminent Minister of
the Protestant Episcopal Church, Rev. DR..
Hawks, who died on Thursday last, in the
city of New York of the disease known as
Bright's disease of the kidneys, in the sixty
ninth year of his age. This sketch will be
read with interest by his many friends and
admirers:
Francis Liester Hawks was born in New
bern n. c., June 10, 1893. He graduated
from the University of North Carolina in the
year 1915. He then studied law, and in 1919,
ut the age of twenty-One, he was admitted to
the bar. For several years he practiced law
in North-Carolina. At the age Of twent-three,
he was elected to the Legislature of North
Carolina. He after began a regular
course of study in theology, he having deter
mined to enter the ministry of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. In 1928, he was ordained
in that Church by Bishop Ravenscroft of
North Carolina For brief period he Off
Gated in New Haven Conn, as assistant to
the Rev. DR.. Harry Croswell.
In 1929. he was appointed assistant minis
ter at St. james Church, Philadelphia, Bish-
OPP White being then rector. He became rec
tor OF St. Stephens Church. in this city.
early in 1881, but resigned the office at the
close Of the year. He was next called to St.
Ti:omass Church. in this city continuing
rector of that church till 1913. In 1885, at
the General Convention, he was appointed to
the Missionary Bishopric III the South West
but he declined the appointment. AS histo-
rian for the American Episcopal Church he
visited England, and obtained many vaua-
bic papers concerning the rise and progress
of Episcopacy in this country In 1897. in
conjunction with Dr. Henry, he founded the
New York Rscieto, of which, for. while, he
continued editor. About this time he foun-
ded St. Thomass Hall, at Flushing, Long
Island-a school intended for the special
benefit of the sons of the clergy, but it was
closed in few years, leaving him deeply in
debt. He removed to Mississippi in 1913
and was elected bishop of the diocese the
same year. In the following year this cleo
ton came before the house of clerical and
lay deputies, in general convention. Strong
opposition made to DR.. Hawks, and the
matter was finally referred back to the do
cesc OF Mississippi. The diocese expressed
the utmost confidence in DR.. Hawks but he
refused to accept the bishopric He became
rector Of Christ Church. in New Orleans, in
1874. lie remained rector of this church for
five years during which time he elected
President of the University of Louisiana
He returned to New York in 1919. becoming
rector of the Church of the Mediator, soon
after merged in Calvary Church. He
elected Bishop of Rhode Island in 1852. but
declined the Office. In 1861. he resigned the
rectorship Of Calvary Church, and accepted
the charge of IL parish in Baltimore. He
finally returned to New York and resumed
his ministry in the University Chapel, Wash
ington Square. Within Il few weeks work
was commenced on a new church for him, in
Twenty fifth street, near Madison avenue.
During the late war, DR.. Hawks sympath-
lied strongly with the South, but of his poll
teal principles it is unnecessary now to
speak. lie a man Of remarkable eloqu
ence. The writer well recOllects hearing him
preach charity sermon, over thirty years
street. in which he described snow storm
and the sufferings of the unhoused poor so
wildly that there probably not dry
eye in the congregation.
Dr. Hawks made many and valuable con-
tributions to literature and science The
following are among the more important of
his works "Rcports of Cases Adjudged in
the supreme Court Of North Carolina, 1926
90" q vols, Svo., Raleigh. 1925 y Digest
Of all the Cases Decided and Reported in
North Carolina > Contribution to the
Ecclesiastical History OF the United States"
q vols, Svo, embracing Va and Md. n Y,
1864 } Egypt and Its No numents,"
8yo., 1849 } AuricuIar Confession in the
Protestant Episcopal Church" 02mo., 1900
Dr. Haws has translated Rovera and3 Tschu-
dis " Antiquities of Peru" 1854 and has
edited the - Official and other State Papers
of the late Major-General Alexander Hamil-
ton" 12mo 1S42) and various other liter
airy works.
The funeral of this eminent divine took
place in New York on Saturday last at Cal
vary Church, of which he had been for many
years the pastor. The Express of Saturday
says:
'At half past two o'clock the remains, fol-
lowed by large procession, were brought
to Calvary Church, where they were received
by Bishop Potter, Bishop Quintard, Bishop
Lay, Bishop Talbot, and some of the leading
ministers of the city, at the porch. Bish OPP
Potter subsequently recited initiatory senten-
ces of the Burial service, while the body was
carried up the central aisle, escorted by the
pall-bearcrs. When the remains were brougt
at the foot of the marble font, at which DR..
Hawks administered the right of Baptism
for many years, the services were COM
menced by the Rev. DR.. Washburne, who
read the opening collects of the service, after
which the Rev. Dr. Tuttle announced the 62d
hymn:
When Isurvcy the wonderous cross
On which the Prince of glory died."
which was sung by all the congregation