The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-15
St Marks Church Crowded by an Audience
Comprising the Most Distinguished
Men of the Denominations.
An Impressive and Deeply Affecting
Sermon by Bishop Whipple.
Saturdays Proceedings of the Episcopal
. General COnvention-The National
Council of Congresationalists.
BISHOP KNICRERBACKER.

| Ceremonies Incidental to the Conservation
of -ndiana's New Bishop.
| Special to the indianapolis Journal.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13.-St. Marks Protest
ant E piscopil Church was filled with a bril-
liant congregation, this morning to witness
the consecra.ion of Rev. DR.. David Buell.
| Knickerbackar, to be bishop of the diocese OF
Indiana. Many were unable to gain admit
tance, and alarge crowd gathered before the
main entrance long before the usual time for
opening the doors. There were present
among the congregation many members of
the House of Bishops and of the House of
Deputies OF the General Episcopal Conven-
ton. The conservation services, which were
of most impressive character, were
conducted in strict conformity to the
beautiful ritual of the Episcopal Church.
The bishops and various clergymen who
took part in the exercises entered the church
proper and proceeded to the space before the
altar, headed by the choir, singing the pro-
cessonal hymn, 80, day of rest and glad
ness" The bishop-elect, accompanied by
the attending presbyters, Rev. J. B. Wake
field, president of the standing committee of
the diocese of Indiana; the Rev. e. Thomas,
president OF the standing committee of Min
nesota, and Rev. w. w. Raymond, of Indi-
ana knelt in front of the chaucel during the
singing of the introit, taken from
the 10th Psalm. The bshop-elect
was attired in plain white surpllce, and the
attending presbyters in white surplices and
pure white stoles. sgnifying their dignifed
office. The ante-communion service, COM
prising The Lords prayer, the collect for the
day and the Commandments, was read by
the presiding bishop, the Rt Rev. Arthur
Cleveland Coke, of Western New York.
Then followed the conservation collect the
reading of the first verse of the third chapter
of First Timothy, and the fifteenth verse of
the twenty first chapter of the Cos
pei of st. John. The choir chanted
the kyrie and the Nicene creed
arranged in A fiat by j. Kendrick
Payne. The sermon was preached by the
venerable and distinguished looking Right
Rev. Bishop Whipple, of the diocese of Min
nesota, under whose charge the Bishop-elect
has been for many years. The Bishop spoke
from the text found in st. Matthew xvii,
18: "And Jesus came and spake unto them,
saying, all power is given unto me in heaven
and earth" He dilated eloquently upon the
doctrines embodied in the text as applying
to the duties of the bishops exalted Office;
offered advice and encouragement to the
Bishop-elect, and in closing addressed
him directly, complimenting him upon his
past record in the ministry, and commend
ing him in the future to God The long
iror hoip IF bo 1oro1obar Hnotinr down
over his shoulders, his stern, determined
countenance, his powerful voice, and his
manner of delivery combined to add an un-
usual impressiveness to his sermon, and so
deeply affected became the Bishop-elect dur
ing portions of the delivery that tears trick
led down his cheeks. The Bishops closing
words were as follows;
my brother beloved, my heart is over
full as bid you God-speed to-day. For al
most quarter of q century you have been
my own son in the gospel All these years L
have watched you with fathers care. Your
whole ministry has been given to the flock
of which you were the first and only pastor,
Always foremost i'll missionary labors, al
ways glad to minister to the sinful, the
sorrowful, the sick and the dying, few men
have been permitted so to en-
dear themselves to a flock committed
TO UIelr care. we SDdll HISS your
strong arms and stout heart. The poor, the
the homeless, the suffering will miss the one
whose willing feet were always at their door
in hours of sorrow and death. You will be
missed everywhere, save from my heart. l
would not keep you if | could. The Master
calls you, and you shall so, laden with the
love of all our hearts. You go in the
full maturity OF a rounded manhood, strong
to endure hardships, a good soldier of Jesus
Christ. In this most solemn hour of your
life, forget these bishops, forget this gath
cred congregations think only of our blessed
Lord and think OF yourself as receiving
from his pierced hands this apostleship, that
so, by the conservation of your whole self,
body soul and spirit, through the power of
the Holy Ghost which you receive this day
for this apostleship, you may so fulfill your
office as to receive from Him the crown OF
life"
The immediate conservation services were
brief. The Bishop-elect was presented by
the Right Rev. Bishop Scarborough,
of Northern New Jersey, and the
Right Rev, Bishop Seymour, of the
Springfield, H., diocese. The secretary Of
the House of Deputies of the general conven-
ton read the certificate of election OF the
house, and the registrar OF the House of
| Bishops presented the certificate of election
from the House of Bishops, in the name of
the Right Rev. Bishop Benjamin Bosworth
Smith, S. T. D., LII. d., senior bishop of the
Episcopal Church in America. The candi-
date was then examined upon the funda-
mental doctrines of the church, in the man
ner set forth in the ritual, after which the
assembled bishops performed the ceremony
of the laying on of hands, The prelates who