The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-05-14
THE NEW BIsMoPs.

Sketches OF the Newly |
Created Members Of the Methodist
Episeopaey.
twill be pleasant news to all Methodists
to learn that the selection for the high of
fice of the Episcopacy have been 50 judi
ciously made. and that men have been
chosen who cannot fall to fill the Office TO
the satisfaction Of the Church.
The following brief sketches give the
salient points in the life Of eachi
HENRY w. WARREN.
Rev. Henry W. Warren comes directly
from the PASTORAL work, and his uniform
success in that line marked him as q man
who might well be chosen to exercise a
supervisor Of those whose chief business
Is as pastors. DR.. Warren is a native Of
Massachusetts,; graduated at Wesleyan
University in 1858, and for two years
taught ancient languages at Wilbraham
Seminary. In 1855 he Joined the New
England Conference, and while member
of L was appointed TO leading churches.
In 1854 the Massachusetts, State Senate
appointed him to preach the election SER
mon. ~ ,s,l,.
He was transferred to the Philadelphia
Conference in 1871 and stationed AZ the
Arch street church, and In 1874 10 tne
New York East Conference. be renamed
three years in that Conference, when ne
was again transferred TO the Phtiadelphla
Conference and stationed at Arch street
church second time. He has wgltten
considerably for the church periodicals,
and has travelled extensively in Europe
and the east. He is the author oil book
Of travels called "sights and Insights,"
and a popular work entitled "Recreationss
| in Astronomy. DR.. Warren lectured
twice in Pittsburgh during the last winter,
and made many friends, both by his In
tellectual ability and his very aaable man
ners. He is tall, somewhat slender In
build and straight as pine. He Is man
Of varied accomplishments, alike popular
as speaker and writer, and has Tine ex'
ecutive abilities.
CYRUS D. Foss.
Cyrus D. Foss is President Of Wesleyan
University, at Middletown, Conn. Mr.
Foss was born at Kingston, n. Y, Janu
airy II, 1884. He entered Wesleyan Uni
versity, and graduated therefrom in 1854
Soon after graduation he became teacher
in the Seminary at Armenia, N. Y, o.
which institution he. was elected principa!
in 1856. The year following he Joined
the New York Conference. In that Con
ference he filled the most important ap
pointments. In 1875 he was elected Presi
dent OF Wesleyan University. The ability
he has exhibited in this and other fieldI
Of labor, and the confidence the Method
ist Church has in his fitness Of the high
est office in its gift caused his name TO bt
placed in the front OF those mentioned FOL
/ the episcopacy from the outstart. Mr.
Foss has, including the present one, beer
a member OF the General Conference
three times, and is well and widel!
known. The objection that was offered
and that only by implication and not b.
name, to his being elected to the Bishop
ric was his very rare fitness Tor the posi-
ton he now fills,
A thoroughly competent educator il
looked upon as invaluable, and as Mr
Foss is numbered among this class, 1t wa
thought by some that he ought not to b.
lhhGu nun q pOolbLSh IL hASh h0 eAA w
such great good, even to be raised to I
nominally higher one. Wilbur Fisk
President OF Wesleyan University for man!
years, and predecessor to DR.. Foss in tina
place, was elected bishop by the Genera
Conference which met at Cincinnati il
1895. He was in Europe at the time, and
OF course, could neither accept nor de-
cline; but en- his return to America hi
gave notice that he preferred the highe
work Of instructing young men, and re
fused ordination. DR.. Foss' name was be
fore the General Conference eight year
ago, when eight bishops were elected, bu
he withdrew from the contest, when Bish
op Foster, a member Of the same con
ference, was chosen. DR.. Foss Is ranket
among the most remarkable OF the pulpl
: orators OF the Methodist church, and hi
abilities in this direction has given him
wide fame. He is man Of fine physiqu
and capable Of a large amount Of physica
and mental work.
John = uuRSr