Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-11-07
NO. So.

IIlpune, Will DC READ by many with great
interest-it being brief sketch of the
sermon of Bishop Whitehouse before the
Pan Anglican Council at Lambeth Pal.
ace:
* s. y This done, the bishop of
Illinois, who was the only Bishop present
wearing the black gown, assembled the
pulpit. The congregation he looked
down upon was certainly the most re.
! markable and most notable that has been
assembled in our generation outside the
pale of the church of Rome More than
thirty Of them were spiritual peers of the
United Kingdom. They have chargeof
diocesos comprising very large proper
tion Of christendom and the whole of
Protestant christendom, and were all more
or less distinguished for their piety and
scholarly attainments. The Bishop of
Illinois, who has fine voice, must have
been distinctly heard by every father of
the church present, however deaf he may
have become by age. His manner was
pleasing and his English perfect, although
foreigner
The text was taken from the words of
Paul, in which he besought the Corinth-
ians (l think to "Fill up the measure of
Christ's suflerings, for his body's sake,
which is the church."
The bishop said that, By the courtesyof
his grace Of Canterbury, the duty of
preaching before the synod had been
dcputcd to the American bishop, and by
the friendship Of the presiding bishop he
had been selected for the honorable and
responsible position. lie felt it, he said,
to be the most trying position of his life,
for, though of course officially they we're
equal, he felt that he was occupying the
position of father offathers, at whose feet
he should be sitting as child He had
however, prayed that he might glory in
inlirmity, and that thus the power of
Christ might be manifested in him. Re-
tcrring to the place and cause of meeting,
he said they were assembled in halls 10
which the fathers of the church for six
centuries, from Boniface onward, had re.
sided. He and they had met to try topper
feet the unity of the Anglican church.
Some Of them had come from across the
great Atlantic; they were the weaker
branch, and had come hoping to gain
strength from combined wisdom. He felt
that the prayers Of the departed spirits
of their great predecessors would be with
them
The bishop dwelt at length upon the
responsible nature of their duties as faith.
ers of the church to assist in "Filling up
the measure of Christ's sufferings," etc.,
and expressed an earnest hope that ere
they separated they would successfully
seal the visible unity of the Anglo, Cath
olic church.
Hobbs, the old rascal, says an Ameri-
can girl loves with her eyes, an English
girl with her arms, French girl with
her lips, and Italian and Spanish with all
three. A Boston woman capituates in
three months, New York woman in two
and New Orleans woman in one. Caus.
es partly a climatic and constitutional,
and partly few words from the old folks
in the back room.
a witness being called to give evil
lence in court in Connecticut respect
ng the loss of a shirt, gave the following:
Mother said that Ruth said that Nell
'aid that Polly told her that she see a
nan that see boys shirt all checkered,
,heckered, checkered; and our gals won't
lie, for mother has whipped them thou
and times for lying"
A boy who asked Boston police off.
er for shelter in the Station House said:
See, Cap'n, first my father died, and
ny mother married again, and then my
mother died, and my father married
gain; and somhow or other, don't seem
, have no parents at all, nor no home
or no nothing"
Why is pretty lady like a locomo-
We? Don't give it up there are plenty
easons. She sends off the sparks, trans.
orts the mails (naes), has train fol-
wing her, and passes over the plain.