Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-20
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH.
Ordination of Priests Yesterday Morning
Bishop Whipples Address Last Even
ing Upon the Missions and Work of the
Church.
Ordt,,ation Ceremonies.

The services of st. Paul's Episcopal
church yesterday morning were of an un-
usually interesting character, consisting
of the ordination of three candidates for
the ministry, and preaching by the Right
Rev. Bishop Whipple.
The church was filled to its complete
capacity, and the music was particularly
choice and impressive. The TIE Deum,
as sang by the new choir, was rendered
with great fervor, and great force of
expression.
Miss Anna Crocker, the new organist,
with Miss Dickey Gordan, gave great and
very general satisfaction.
The candidates for admission to the
Christian brotherhood as missionaries,
were Mr.. Charles Morris Armstrong, who
will engage in Christian work in the par
iSh of Ortonville; Mr.. Andrew D. Stowe,
who takes charge of the Anoka and Elk
river parish, and Mr.. George E. Swan,
who will preside over the Fergus Falls
parish
Prior to the ordination, and after the
usual morning services, an eloquent SER
mon was preached by Bishop Whipple,
which was heard with great interest The
ceremony of ordination took place i'm
mediately after the sermon, when Bishop
Whipple ordained the candidates,
the Rev. DR.. Thomas and the
Rev. Geo. B. Whipple uniting with the
bishop in the imposition of hands
A touching address was then made to
the candidates by Bishop Whipple, who
alluded to his acquaintance with the can
didates, two of whom, he said, he had
known from boyhood He referred to the
offers which had been made the candi-
dates to accept calls to rich and inf1uen-
tial parishes, instead of accepting which,
they had declared their firm intention of
remaining with him.
bishop Whipple at Christ's Church.
Bishop Whipple delivered an address in
Christ's chuch, st. Paul, last evening
upon the missions and work of the
church He commenced by an allusion
to the fact that he had been twenty-one
years bishop of Minnesota and with him
it was towards eventide; that he owed a
deep debt of gratitude to the laity and
clergy of the diocese who had given him
a love unclouded by doubt-the diocese
had been free from party strife and few
diocescs were more united in love to each
other. He said this was the church s ad-
vent season when world wide the church
was telling her children, ''Thy king COM
eth" He had no argument about the OBJ
legation of their work. No man had ever
accepted the truth that God was "our'
Father who did not think Of his brother
whom he might help on the way heaven
ward and home-that as the grave grew
nearer theology grew strangely simple.
We were children oftener than we used
to be and no story was SO sweet as the
good news of the gospel of the Son Of
God. He had no tale of hardships to ex-
cite their sympathy. The hap
piest life God ever gave to
man was that of the minister of Christ
ers which men of the world did not will
ingly take on themselves. 1t was no
harder to go to the Rocky mountains to
tell of the love of God than it was to go
there and dig for gold. 1t was no harder
to die for Christ in Africa than for
soldiers to die for their country There
never was a time since our Lord ascended
unto heaven, when a man might be so
glad to live. God in His providence was
breaking down barriers which had isolat-
ed nations, fusing all peoples
and kindreds into one family.
ly marvellous discoveries as the
telegraph, telephone, steam and myriads
of inventions were preparing the time
when nations might be born in a day,
This was the first time since our Lord as
scended into Heaven, that there was no
ploce on earth where we might not, with
out let or hindrance, CORY the gospel of
Christ. We were so busy with our mate
rial interests we did not note the progress
of the kingdom of Christ. He gave
brief review of foreign missions if we could
call anything foreign to the love of Christ.
A few years past India was land wholly
given up to heathenism. Its caste and
philosophy seemed to make an unpene-
trable barrier to Christian work Yet to-
day there were over half million Chris
tians in India more than there are COM
municants of the Episcopal church in
these United States. He alludedto China
as the only country where the only test of
nobility is education, where the poorest
citizen could become a noble if he be-
came great scholar, and his son sink to
the peasant if he grew up ignorant.
He spoke of our bishop having
translated the Bible in the Mandarin
tongue, poken by two hundred mill
ion that he had founded a
christian college, and that
the work never was as hopeful. If we
turn to Africa it had been land of cru
city, degradation and darkness. He
drew picture of DR.. Livingstone, the
lesson of his life. his death, his influence
on the natives; of Stanley, the press re-
porter, taking up his work. of the singu-
lar way in which God had used this to lay
open the dark continent to the gaze Of
the christian world He then
described the freedmen, their noble bear
ing as protectors of white women and
children during the civil war, that al
though every slave knew the failure of
their masters would be the guarantee Of
their freedom there was not one act of
cruelty or wrong. He alluded to the way
in which Africa had been linked TO the
fortunes of the church Of God. Moses,
the queen of Sheba, the man from Africa
bearing the cross of Jesus up the hill of
calvary, the Ethiopian eunuch and said out
of the solution of the problem of elevating
this race here would come the solution of
the problem of the ages. Ethiopia would
stretch out her, hands to Cod" The bishop
spoke of the progress of the gospel in
Tasmania, New Zealand, Australia, Aus
tralasia, Orange States and Pacific Isl
ands.