The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-08-18


predict the effect of the death of Bishop |
Whitehouse upon the diocese would at this |
time, of course, be futile. There has |
been much discussion recently about divid- |
ing the State into three episcopates, with |
bishops at Chicago, Peoria, and Springfield, |
and it is probable that the next general con- |
vention will make such division. The |
diocesan convention, which meets in Sep
TENDER, may, however, elect his successor,
who would be bishop of Illinois until the
segregation, and entitled to select his place
of residence. The only person whose name
has yet been mentioned in connection with
the bishopric is Bishop GARRISON, of Ne
braska, gentleman of learning, who is well
qualified to discharge the duties of the
position. He now holds the position of
missionary bishop.
HIS MENTAL TRAITS.
The venerable bishop was man of no
! ordinary ability. The powers which he
showed in his New York pastorate in earlier
years, and which caused him to be sought as
bishop of Michigan, and afterward of
Illinois, were widened and ripened by the
advancing years Age did not wither him,
nor custom stale his infinite variety.u The
special knowledge of the churchman was
supplemented in him by the requirements
of the man of the world. With HIM, general
and special culture went hand in hand.
The classical attainments of his younger
NusS ANhAoihSu ONOl StScu VIII ulllls Dub
his most extensive requirements lay in the
domain of church history an theology. To
him the fathers and the schoOlmen were
familiar friends. There was no ecclesiassi-
cal point which was not known to him; no
branch of canOnical law of the Episcopal
or the Roman Church that was not at his
fingers ends. Never was this rare knowl-
edge more fully tested than in the
Cheney trial, where he and the
learned counsel for the pross cation, Mr..
Innate acquaintance with subject with |
which few churchmen even are thoroughly |
familiar. His home life was happy and |
serene. He lived as became a bishop, in |
dulging neither in empty ostentation nor |
false humility. He lived we'll, ENJOYING the |
comforts of life, which were made for the |
use of man. His was a hospitable board, |
where friends we've always welcome. and |
where they loved to linger. Though a hard |
worker, sparing himself in nothing, and
knowing little rest, he took that care of
himself which enabled him to discharge his
manifold duties at an age when
most men are mustered out of the service.
AS AN ORATOR.
While his personal influence was such
that those who loved him praised his SER
mons without measure, and, which proves
their sincerity, went gladly to hear them,
vet the fairer verdict must be that they can
hot 10 oNoidOu lain. llNOlul6U
sentences were the terror of reporters who
were too often unable to make satisfactory
meaning out of them. His style was often
clumsy and entangled; it seemed as if he
sSrove to hide his meaning, rather than set
it forth plainly. Yet his imposing presence
and his striking delivery often made amends
for the defects of the discourse.
One of the most singular misconceptions I'M
der which he suffered was in relation to re.
ligious matters. The bishop knew no sect
within the Holy Catholic Church, whereof he
was member. He was neither high church,
low church, nor broad church. He acknowl-
edged no such terms. To him there was but
the Episcopal Church. body governed bv
certain we'll understood laws and well defined
usages. Within the covers of the prayer
book and the canonical law were contained
the laws which were TO govern him. He
never overstepped them. And VET while
there was none who ever followed the
law more rigidly. no one could have
been more peTsistently denounced for ex-
travanagant high churchism ana rituallsm.
Alter all, there was nothing ritualistic about
him-nOt in the sense which the word is
now made to convey. He loved the rites
and ceremonies of the church, ana strove to
have them carried out, for they were part of
its usages. But he was as far removed from
'bell and mass and candles" as he was from
the unadOrued services of an Independent
meeting house. He had no sympathy with
st. Adams and none with those who sought
to strip the church of these forms which
had come down from the days OF Cranner
and Ridley.
TIE AMERICAN CHAPEL IN ROME.