The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-06-28


that Il Il wonderful success. The archl.
tect, Mr.. CasselI, OF Baltimore. has undonbt.
edly given the utmost satisfaction.
The conservation OF the chanel was set
Tor noon on Thursday, and by that time a
large congregation. including many from a
distance. had assembled. We observed, be.
sides the trustees. the following clergymeu :
The Reys. Alfred NJ. Randolph, b. d..
Walter w. Williams, ID. d., George A.
LesSin, K. A. Dairymple, S. r. d Pere.
CRIME Wroth, William NJ. Dame, and Others.
OF Baltimore; Z. c. Ma,lock, OF Philade.
pbia; j. 4. Wheat, ID. D.. J. s. Lindsay,
ana ID. r. Forrest, ID. d., OF Washington |:
.. r. Hon, ID. D., W. l.. Braddoek, w. L..
hyIand, aud Thomas Duncan, of Maryland !;
:. H. Hobard, ID. d., Of Winchester; A. S.
Johns, OF Middlebnrg; Reverdy EstiI, az
ferthmouth; and c. Miunigerode, ID. d.,
OF Richmond.
The procession was headed by Bisbop
Whtilc and Bishop Lee, OF Delaware.
Next came Bishop Pinkney. OF Maryland.
ana BISHOP Peterkin, of West Virginia.
The members Of the faculty and some visit.
ing clergy followed. the line was met at
the door Of the church by Cassius +. Lee.
ESQ, and Colonel Arthur Hubert, as repre.
senta,ives Of the trustees, who brought up
the rear As 1t advanced up the centre aisle.
The Bishop reading, as required, the Oath
Psalm, aud the congregation responding.
The sentence Of conservation was read by
the Rev, Professor Nelson. At the conclI-
sion OF the conservation service proper,
morning PRAYER was said by Bishop Peter
Kin, Bishop Pinkney reading the lessons.
Bishop Lee took the anti-eommunion ser.
vice.
The sermon was by the Rev. joseph Pack
ara, ID. d dean Of the seminary, on He.
brews Kill, I: Remember them who have
spoken unto you the word Of God, whose
faith follow, considering the end OF their
conversations IL was q skeich OF the mast
Of the seminary. including a memorial of
deceased professors and alumni, particularly
commemorative Of the Rev. Drs. Keith.
May, and Sparrow, and Bishop Meade.
| There Is but one opinion as 10 the merits OF
this discourse, which was heard with breath.
less interest by all present. Nothing more
perfect in its way could have been prepared,
and no other living man could have pre-
pared it so we'll. 1t is gratifying to know
that II Will be published as paper OF per-
mauent value.
Before the conservation services the men,
bers OF the senior class read their essays in
The chapel The names Of the graduates,
with the titles o! their respective papers. are
a follows: William Herbert Asheton
John Wyclife y" Jacob Birmingham :
" The Confessions of the Reformation " ;
Francis NJ. Burch: Erasmus y; William
:. Campbell: Christianity a Living Is.
sue" George II. Edwards " John Huss" I;
DOugla HoOff: - Charles the Fifth in his
/ Relsuon 10 the Reformation Duncan Me
Culloh: Melancthon as R,former" /;
John MOncure: "The Early British
| Church.; j. Green Shackelford: "The
Illumination OF Rltionalism" Samuel A..
Wallis "PantbeiSm in Modern Thought"
These geatlemen all belong 10 the diocese
Of Virginia, except Mr.. Brittnghan, who
is OF West Virginia. After the conservation
services, and an elegant collation., the con-
gregalion again assembled in the chapel
aud the graduates received their diplomas
at The hands Of Bishop Wblttle, as president
Of the seminary. They were then adj
dressed by the Rev. DR.. Minnigerode, Of
Richmond.
The annual ordination Of Friday, for
reasons indicated above, was the first that
had taken place at tie Seminary since 1878.
In 1879 and 1880 they were in ST. Paui's
church. Alexandria. At ii O'Clock the
procession entered the church from the
lower door. FIRST came the six deacons to
he ordained priesls-namely, the Reys.
William M. Clark, OF MeckIcnburg; Ed.
ward L. Goodwin, Of Franklin; Arthur
Is. Lloyd, of FarmviiIe; Mercer p.
Logan, OF Petersburg; Thomas j. Packard,
OF Hallfax; ID. Watson VIM, Of King Will
liam. These gentlemen were flanked by
the Rev. Professor McElhinney, who pre-
scented them. Then clme the new gradu-
ateS. already mentioned, 10 be ordained dea-
cons, with Mr.. Davis NJ. Wood, OF Bote-
tourt, eleven in all. They were presented
by Rev. Professor Nelson. except Mr.. Brit
tngbam, who was presented by the Rev.
DR.. Meade, examining chaplain to Bishop
Peterkin. All the candidates and present
ing clergy, twenty persons in all, wore sur
plces aud stoes. The Use Of the stole by
those TO he ordained deacons was remarked
as an innovation on mmemora usage, at
least on custom since the war.
The service through. the prayers were
read by the Rev. X. Il. Mason, b. d., OF
Baltimore county, Md son-in-law OF
Bishop Johns. Bishop Peterkin read the
Litany and Ante. Communion. The ordina-
ton sermon was by the Rev. Richard L.
Davis, ID. d., OF Leesburg, on st. Luke xiii,
AZ, As, A II was an able and fervent eX-
position Of the office Of the Christian minis.
iry-practical rather than doctrinal-and
quite worthy OF the reputation OF the godiy
and gifted preacher. After the sermon the
service proceeded as laid down in the Ordi-
nal. Bishop PeteIkin ordained his own
candidate and Bishop Whitile the rest
of the deacons and all the priests.
The Rev. George II. Edwards, one OF the
newly. ordained deacOns, read The Gospel.
The Holy Communion was celebrated by
Bishop Whittle, Bishop PeterkIn assisting.
The congregation was larger if anything
than the preceding day, ana the entire occa-
sion in the highest degree imposing and in
terestiDg. None equally so is ever wit
messed anywhere else in Virginia.
The assignment OF the new dcacons to
their several spheres OF labor is not yet CON-
peted by the Bishop, but the following are
ascertaned: The Rev. W. Ii. AshetOn goes
to Nottoway; he Rev. Francis Nj. Burch
TO Lynchburg; the Rev. William ). Camp
bell to Essex; the Rev. Douglass Hoof to
Suffolk the Rev. John Moncure TO Nor
thumberland; and The Rev. s. A. Wallis
to Pohick church, Fairfax. OCCASIONAL.
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