New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-22
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The AsaSS Bishop EOlks
In our report of the proceedings of the Protest.
ant Episcopal convention, the preamble and reso-
lutions presented from the committee on the death
of the late Bishop Polk we're printed from rough
draft, and contained several errors In order that
they may appear in the form in which they passed
the convention, we republish them as corrected,
They were as follows
WHBREAs, On the 14th day of June, in the year
of our Lord 1861, it pleased Almighty God, in His
wise providence, to take out Of this world the IT.
Rev Leonidas Polk, D. D., chief pastor Of the
church in Louisiana and the convention of this
diocese, assembled in ST. Paul's church, New Or
leans with entire submission to the will of God
under this trying dispensation, desire to put on
record their profound sense of the great loss which
the church has sustained in the removal Of one
who, during long period of uninterrupted labors
in the episcopal Office, had, by the manifold at.
fractions OIL personal character and by the wis
dom and yigor of his administration, not only
greatly endeared himself to the affections of the
people whom he served but had been the means
| under God, of laying broad and deep the tounda-
| tons of the church IN Louisiana, and of extending
its influence through all parts of the State;
| In 1871, on application made by the diocese of
Louisiana to the general convention of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church in the United States, for
some fit person to take the spiritual oversight OF
the church in this State, the Right Rev. Z. Polk,
| D. D., then missionary bishop of the southwest
was selected by that venerable body to become
| diocesan of Louisiana.
| In 1854, our right reverend father in God was
called away by sudden providence, from the re-
| sponsibities Of EARTH to the solernites of his
| Makers presence.
During this interval, the church in Louisiana,
| struggling against many emharrassments, was
| greatly prOspered; the number of her clergy
multiplied from four resident ministers who joined
! in the application to the general convention to
| thirty-two officiating clergymen, whose names
appear the records of the last diocesan cOnven-
4 . a., II,
convention increased from three to forty the
confirmed and communicates in still greater ratio
and the church became firmly established in the
confidence and respect of the community. The
| spiritual interest of the Colored population was
carefully attended to many congregations were
formed among the servants on the plantations and
numbers brought under the wholesome discipline
of the church and instructed in the Gospel, were
annually confirmed and added to her communion.
All which fruits of grace bear witness to the zeal
and devotion of the parochial cergy-as, also, to
the faithful overseeing Of cur late lamented bishop
whose couusels and encouragements were never
wanting to sustain the parish ministers in these
works Of faith aud labors of love.
Resolved, That in the appointment Of the
general convention in l84l of the Ri Rev. Leoni-
das Polk, D. D., then missionary bishop of the
Southwest, to episcopal jurisdiction over the
diocese of Louisiana, we recognize with gratitude
10 God the elevation over us of one, eminently
qualified in mental endowment and christian
graces to administer the Office of bishop to the
suna and social characteristics TO meet the psCu-
liar wants Of the church in Louisiana
Resolved That this convention entertain deep
sense OF the value of the services rendered to this
diocese during the administration of Bishop Polk
and of his enlightened devotion to the spiritual
interests of the hpck over which the Holy Ghost
had made him overseer. The episcopal addresses
annually delivered before the conventions, bear
witness to the abundance Of his labars and while
the growth of the church, its general prosperity
up to the date of the late unhappy war between
the States, and the unbr0keu harmony which pre-
vailed throughout the diocese indicate the pru-
deuce and energy Of his government.
Res0lHed, That this convention call to mind
with melancholy satisfaction the many generous
and noble traits Of character which distinguished
our late beloved father in God in all his Official
intercourse with the members of this diocese and
appeared conspicuously in all his private and
social relations to the clergy and laity of the
church. who will long cherish the memory of their
departed bishop as an aifeCtiOnate father, O. iu-
dicinus counsellor and sympathzing friend
ReS0lUed, That in the plan devised for the crea-
ton OF the university Of the South' and in the
measures adopted to secure the permanent endow
ment Of that great enterprise for the religions and
intellectual developments of the country, wereeog-
nize that broad and comprehensive Christian phan-
throphy, and that enlightened devotion to the best
interests OF the church in the South which so emil
nenty characterized our late father in God. in
whose mind the noble project had its birth aud by
whose untlfng energies, In connection with others
like minded in Southern diocese it had been well
night brought to q successful achievement when
arrested by the unhappy commissions of the
country.
letter by the president of this convention, ex-
pressing the Christian sympathies of the church in
Louisiana, be addressed to the afflicted family Of
our deceased bishop.