New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-25

The Rev. DIR. J. P b, Wilmer, who was chosen
at the late convention Of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, held at ST, Paul's Church in this city, to
fill the episcopate vacated by the death of the
lamented Bishop Polk, will doubtless be welcomed
by the whole community as most worthy sue
eessor OF as worthy man as ever filled an episco-
pal chair on this continent. Towering above all
other considerations, he is known to be a man of
solid, earnest piety, answering as nearly as man
may to the apostolic requirements OF this no
better proof is needed than is afforded by the fact
that he is lone that ruleth well his own house,
having his children in subsection with all gravity"
His example and influence there, are to be seen in
the sober and firm attachment of all his children
to the church of which he is SO worthy an orna.
ment. 1t is an additional consideration in support
of his eminent fitness for the high position to
which he has been called, that it is not only in his
own immediate family that the church
has worthy members; but that in the per-
son of Bishop Wilmer, of Alabama ano.
ther able and pious pastor, she has his
cousin engaged in the same lofty and responsible
duties to which he has himself been called and
that the Wilmer family is one of the Oldest and
most respectable in Virginia, Earnest in his con
victions, and firm in the maintenance of them, he
is yet full of that charity which liberation for
the opinions of others is based, and most pleasing
in converse, Of admirable physique, commanding
presence and dignifed men, he is yet charmingly
aftable and unassuming in his social intercourse.
As a conversational, he is among the most delight
fully entertaining and instructive to be met with
and as preacher, his eloquence has always com
manded for him the highest appreciation. His
learning is equally varied and profound. Itfs a
fortunate circumstance, in our Judgment, in view
Of the too moderate salary which the present cir
cumstances of the church have rendered it neces-
sary, for the present to attach to the episcopate
Of the diocese, that he is the possessor of means
which will the better enable him to treat thatas of
secondary Importance.
native of Alexandria, Va, the Bishop elect is
about ffty-two years Of age. BE graduated at the
University of Virginia, and subsequently at the
Protestant Episcopal Seminary near his birth
place, and was Immediately ordained. His first
charge was over two parishes in his native State,
in which he made himself universally beloved and
respected for his many excellent qualities and for
the faithfulness with which he discharged the
duties of his pastorate. From this he was called
to build up the church of St. Marks in Philadel-
phia, and succeeded so admirably that he made it
one of the largest, best known, and most exem-
plary in the country, After filling the rectory of
st. Marks for many years, he on the breaking out
of the war, resigned his charge cast his fortunes
with his native State, and retired to Albemarle
county in Virginia, He left the bosom of his fami
ly there to undertake voluntary clerical duties in
the Confederate army, and distinguished himself |
as highly in the discharge of them as he had in all
the others to which he had been called.
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