New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-03
BISHOP WHIPPLE'S SERMON.
BEGINNING WITH RELIGIOUS sERv1CEs-A
GREAT CONGREGATION.

BEGINNING WITH KELlO1OOS SthNAOH~0 ~
GREAT CONGREGATION.
The congregation that assembled In ST. georges
Church for the opening service filed the great Dulhr
ing to oeerfowng. Ex-Governor Baldwin. OF Michi'
ran ex Governor A. H. Rice, OF Massachusetts,; J. O.
bancroft Davis Baltimore, exAssistan Secretary OF
state: J. Perpont Morgan of ew-York; ex-Mayor
seth Low Of Brooklyn; ex-senator Erastus' CORNING
OF Albany: Ex-Governor Clahin, OF Massachusetts;
The Rev. DR.. Cox, Buchanan winthrop, of New-York'
the Rev Dr. Colt OF Concord n. H.. and the Rev
DIR. Phillips Brooks, arc only few out Of hundreds
Of WE'LL known people who were in the pews' Inc
Students of the General Theological Seminary, clad
IN oxford gowns sat together in the south transept
The following assistant clergy of St. Georges Church
acted as ushers The Rev. Dr. Henry Wilson, the Rev.
Charles scaddng the Rev. W. T. Crocker the Rev.
MIR Edwards and the Rev. A. Z. Atcheson There
we're between twenty five and thirty usheIs,
members of ST. Andrews Brotherhood and 81. Georges
cbuycb Tbir task was not easy one, and 1t was
we'll performed
PROMPTLY al II o'clock the great assemblags Of
orshippers rose receive the procession of bishops
which was met at the main entrance of the church
nv the supplied choir, singing The Church's one
fo,ndatIono The presiding bishop the Rev. Dr.
John Williams. of Connecticut, and the preacher
for the day the Rev. Dr. Henry Benjamin Whipple,
Bisbop OF Minnesota, led the procession, which was
closed by the Rev. DR.. Tatlock, the secretary OF
the House Of Bishops, and the Rev. MT Hutohins'
OF the lOWeT hOusO'
sd WELL RENDERED MUSIC.
The service was not choral, but the "Amens"
we're intoned The musical part Of 1t was splendidiy
rendered by the choirs of ST. Georges and Trinity
churches. assisted by about twenty women and
girls.
The apte-communon service read by Bishop
Williams Bishop Clark OF Rhode Island was the
episer and Bishop Courtney, of Nova Scotia was the
gospeller Bishop Williams read the commandments
and the Nicene Greed. The ofertory was for foreign
and domestic missions. Bishop Williams read tho
nraver for the Church militant, and the eXhoration
The Holy Communion was administered by Bishop win
Jams 10 the House of Bishops. Then assisted by Bishop
Gregg OF Texas Bishop Morris, Of Oregon; Bishop
Neev of Maine Bishop futile, OF Missouri, and
others he administered 1t to the clerical deputies and
afterwaN 10 the lay delegates
II was beautiful and impressive services not soor
= IN he forgotten by those who attended IT. Bishop
wblpnle took as the text of the sermon he preached
The FIRST verse of the xlivth Psalm 1--WE have heard
with orr ears o God, fathers have told u.s. wha
works Thou ddst In their days, in the times of old
His opening words were
brethren: shall take 10 for granted that there Is
,assbs Church; that It founded BY Our Lord Jesus
r,s, and has His promise that the gates Of hell shall
oaver nrevaf against We believe that ours Is pure
brsnch Of this apostolic Church that 1t has hfee1oc
ministry that saersments, Baptism ana the supper
:, the Lord are OF perpetual obligation, ana are d4Vn'
h.nns,s 81 grace: that the faith delivered 10 th'
saints is contained in the Catholic ereeds and has I'M
warrant OF Holy Scripture which was written by inspra
ton OF CD On centennial day shall speak OF I'M
history and mission Of this branch OF the Chaicn Oh ou
Lord Jesus Christ
\ : srRUGeLEs AND TRIALS OF THE CHURCH
,n.n h. prooeeded to trace In eloquent language tn
struggles and triumphs Of what he described a
specially "ths Church of the Ensish-speahinT race
from the days whom Master wolfal in 1873 celebrate
orr,un,on for the crews of Martin Frobisher on u
azores of Hudson's Bay down to the present uas
when he came to speak OF these times ana her prou
,es ana prospects, his words bore special weight an
significance which were recognized by tno cios9' es1
1881 .,,.n,,on NJ his hesrers Part OF what he SAT-
was: - -. -, tn
We are living in the great missionary age OF th
churcb There Is no nation the Garth 70 whom wv
nav mot carry the Gospel. More than soo'ooo,oo'
,uuIs for whom Christ died have not heard NAV us.s