Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-01-17
From the Rutland Herald.
The Death of Bishop Hopkins.

The death of Rt Rev. John Henry
Hopkins, the Bishop of the Diocese of
Vermont, is an event which will bring
sorrow to large circle of friends and
acquaintance in all parts of the coun-
try and in Europe. We have none of
the particulars of his death, which took
place at Burlington, Thursday afternoon.
His age was 76. He was the Senior
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the United States.
He was born in Dublin, Ireland, JAN
uary 20, 1892. He came to America
with his parents in 1900, and was educat-
ed chiefly by his mother. He was in
tended for the law, but after receiving a
classical education he passed year in a
counting-room, and about his 10Th year
embarked in the manufacture of iron in
the western part of Pennsylvania. On
the Sth of May, 1916, he married
daughter of Caspar Otto Muller retired
merchant, formerly of Hamburg and sub
sequently of Baltimore. Mrs. Hopkins
still survives, and is woman of tastes
congenial with those of her husband, and
a woman of rare excellencies of charac-
ter. The iron business was Frustrated by
the peace of 1915, and in October, 1917,
he left it, bankrupt in property, and after
six months study was admitted to the
bar in Pittsburg, and few years since
one of the oldest members of the bar in
Western Pennsylvania said that he was
one of the ablest men in the profession
while in its practice, and had he contin-
ued would have won its highest honors
and rewards
In 1928 he left the bar for the minis
try, and was ordained priest in May,
1928, and Immediately became Rector of
Trinity Church, Pittsburg. A new church
edifice being required, he became its arch
itect, studying Gothic architecture for
the purpose. In 1926 he was sent as
clerical deputy to the First General Con-
vention after his ordination, and again
in 1929, taking in both prominent part
in the debates. In the Diocesan Con-
vention of 1927, he was prominent
candidate for the Office of Assistant
Bishop of Pennsylvania, the members
being equally divided between him and
DIR. HI. U. Onderdonk, and Mr. Hopkins
own vote securing the election of the lat
ter. In 1881 he accepted call to Trim
ity Church, Boston, as Assistant Minis
ter on the Green foundation. A theo-
logical seminary was at the same time
established in the Diocese of Massachu-
sets, in which he became Professor Of
Systematic Divinity. In the spring of
1882, he was elected the first Bishop of
the separate Diocese of Vermont, and
was consecrated in New York October
31st, by Bishop White. He Immediate
ly proceeded to this Diocese, accepting at
the same time the Rectorship of St. Paul's
Church, in Burlington. He soon began
boys school, which enabled him to give
remunerative employment to a large NUM-
ber of candidates for clerical orders. In
erecting the needed buildings for the ac-
commodation of this growing establish
ment, he became involved to degree
which resulted in the sacrifice of his
property, and an amount of debt which
was not in his power to cancel for many
years. He resigned his Rectorship in
1856, in order that he might devote HIM
self more unreservedly to Diocesan works
and the building up of the Vermont
Episcopal Institute" now successfully in
operation by his son, Rev. Theodore A.
Hopkins.
1t will be remembered that in Septem-
ber last Bishop Hopkins attended the
Pan-Anglican Council at Lambeth Pal
ace, England, which was congress of
eighty of the chief Bishops of the Epis-
copal communion throughout the world,
colonial, American and English. He
took prominent part in the proceedings
and preached in many Of the churches in
London. An incident ACQUIRED which
has excited much comment. 1t was pro-
posed to celebrate the concluding services
of the Council in Westminster Abbey,
London. The Abbeys are not controlled
by the Bishops in England, but by
Deans, and Dean Stanley undertook to
decline to grant the use of Westminster
Abbey for that purpose, unless the assem-
bled Bishops would pledge themselves to
a certain course which was unanimously
declined by the Council. Dean Stanley
has since addressed an excuse for his
rudeness to the American Bishops. Bish-
op Hopkins answered him in an article
which has been extensively copied in this
country and more extensively in Europe.
The London Church Times says of it:
Dean Stanley has paid the penalty Of