Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-06-14
The New Bishops.


ing in regard to the Bishops recent
ly elected by the M. e. General
Conference:
CDR. Thomas Bowman, who re-
ccivcd the largest number of votes
for the Office, was born in Mary
land; for the past twelve years he
has been President Of the Albany
University, located at Greencastle,
Indiana, and under his superintend-
ence the institution has maintained
a very high position. He is thor
oughly identified with the system of
the itincracy, and is, probably, the
best representative Of the Gravel
ing preachers Of the entire number
of new superintendent. He is no.
ted for the strength and directness
Of his preaching, and is loved and
admired by all who know him.
While not 50 magnetic IN his style
as Bishop Simpson, Bishop Bowman
is decidedly the most effective in
the pulpit Of any member of the
Board.
CDR. w. L. Harris has been for
thirteen years the Assistant Secre-
tary of the Missionary Society, the
associate and active helper Of Rev.
Dir. Durbin, who is at the head Of
that branch of the Church work.
He was formerly Professor of Nat
ural Sciences in the University at
Delaware, Ohio, and has also, for
long time, acted as. Secretary Of the
General Conference. He is a man
Of commanding presence, exception
ally pleasing in his address, genial,
cultivated, and thoroughly devoted
to any interest intrustcd to his
care.
"Rev. Randolph S. Foster was
born in Kentucky, and educated at
Augusta College. When eighteen
years Of age he commenced
itinerate work in Ohio, in which
State he remained until thirty years
Of age. He was then transferred to
New York, whence he was elected
President of the Northwestern Uni
versity, at Evanston, III. He was
the head Of that important and rap
idly-growing institution nearly three
years, and made reputation for
high scholarship and efficiency
Upon the death of DR.. McClintock
he was elected to the Presidency of
the Drew Theological Seminary,
New Jersey, from which position
he is now called to the Episco-
pacy.
CDR. Isaac w. Wiley is the editor
of the Laaies' Repository, the chair
filed by the late Davis w. Clark at
the time of his election rs Bishop.
DR.. Wiley was formerly connected
with the Chinese Mission, losing his
wife in that country. He is ripe
scholar, an excellent preacher, and
a most atfable and courteous gentle
man.
"Rev. S. M. Merrill is at present
editor of the Westean Christian Id
cocate, published at Cincinnati,
Ohio. lie possesses fine logical
mind; not at all brilliant in his pull
pit efforts, he has yet achieved con-
siderable cminence in polemics.-
He is well versed in the doctrines
and laws OF Methodism, and as q
disciplinarian, administrator and
counsellor, will be valuable to the
Church and his colleagues.
"Rcv. Eli G. Andrews is not so
well known to the country, but has
good reputc among his brethren,
with whom he has been more inti-
mately associated. He is now pas
tor of the Seventh Avenue Church,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
"Rev. Gilbert Haven enjoys, un-
doubtedly, the widest notoriety OF
any of the new Bishops, in conse-
quenco Of his long editorship of Ii
on's Herald, Boston, an unofficial
Methodist paper. He is avery bril-
liant writer, erratic at times, strong
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pronounced type, and in danger offly-
ing off at tangents. His new posi-
ton may make him a trife more
conservative, in which case he will
be of great service. When Mr.. Til
ton left the Independent, Mr.. Bow
man offered Mr.. Haven $4,000 per
annum to take editorial charge OF
that paper.
Grey. Jesse 7. Peck, the eighth and
last, is by no means. the least. He
is the heavy man of the Church,
weighing fully three hundred pounds
He has filed many prominent posi-
tions in the Church, especially
those identified with its educational
interests. He established the Syr-
acusc IN. W University, which
promises to be one of the best in
the East. He spent ten years in
California, but returned to the
States some five or six years since,
All these men are between fifty and
sixty years of age, with the excep-
ton of Rev. DR.. Haven, who is
about forty-five."
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