The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-26
CONSIDERATION or TIE BISHOP
OF FLORIDA.


Interesting Services at Trinity Church.
The conservation of the Rev. John Freeman
Young as Bishop of Florida took place yester-
day at Trinity Church. The service, which
began at eleven A. M. and continued until three
P, M, was participated in by over one hundred
members of the Episcopal clergy, besides six
bishops, viz.:-Bishops Hopkins of Vermont,
Odenheimer of New Jersey Wilmer of Loulsi-
ana, Gregg of Texas Cummings of Kentucky,
and Bishop Payne, Missionary Bishop OF Africa.
The presiding bishop was Bishop Hopkins, and
the candidate was presented by Bishops 0den-
heimer and Or gz. The sermon was delivered
by Bishop Winner, anu was most able defense
of the Book of Common Prayer and of
the ca'hoho and progressive spirit of the
Episcopal Church. The Book of Common
Prayer was the offspring of tue wisdom OF
ages, and was only adopted after having
been reviewed sixteen times and after every
thing upon which the Church had not set her
seal had been excluded. The book was con-
sidered in its capacity to repel external assaults,
to harmonlze internal strife, and to develope
the spirit of inward holiness and lie as against
q celd rituasm. With her open Bible and her
ancient creeds, and combining doctrines and
duues, the Church refuses TO bind her members
to any particular system OF theology The
Church was catholic and progressive, although
conservative, and the Book of Common Prayer
could never embody the religion of anV one age
or body of men. II was not presented as q
complete system OF divinity, but as the best sys-
tenn consistent Win J1e religious unity OIL all
men. More might have made it uncatholic, and
less might have rendered 1t unsound The dan
ger of ritualsm was in Obscuring the sense of
Gods preserce by symbolism, but form was
essential to univeIsahty among diverse lands
and to continuance during different times.
In addressing the candidate the Bishop
alluded to the fact that diocese in the extreme
North, and one in the extreme South, had each
recently knocked at the gates Of Trinity Church
for Bishop.
Besides the clergy in surplices, some thirty
others were in attendance, and The combined
choirs of Trinity Parlsl and of st. Johns and
Trinity Chapels participated. In the procession
Of clergy. observed on account of color, was
the rector of colored church in Mulberry
street.
Bishop Young was born in the State of Maine
in the year 1920, receiving his collegiate
course in Connecticut, and his theological in
Virginia. His ordination as deacon was in
lS45, and as priest in 1916, in st. Johns Church,
Tallahassee, which is to be the Bishops cathe-
dral. His first parish was at Jacksonville,
Florida; thence, as a missionary, he was called
successfully to Texas, Mississippi, and Loui-
siana. In June, 1856, he was called to Trinity
career he ORGANIZED q number of parishes aud
erected several churches. He was elected
Bishop in May last and will depart at once for
his diocese.
The beautiful and impressive conservation SER
vice, with its procession of chorisers and clergy
and white robes, and the solemn imposition of
hands, was witnessed by hundreds, who can
appreciate, in the language of Macaulay's tribute
to the Church, cher liberal articles, her decent
ceremonies, and her noble and pathetic liturgy"
IN. Y. Herald.