St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-29
ANOTHER CONSIDERATION.
Rev. A, Fl. Graves to Be Ordained
Missionary Bishop of Nebras K a.


when Rev. Arson K. Graves, who has
for six years been pastor of that church,
will be ordained as missionary blsnop
of Nebraska.
BishOp-elect Arson r. Graves was
born at Wells, Rutland county, VT,
April Is, 1912. When he was five years
Northern Illinois, which was then a
frontier country. Here he lived through
his boyhood, attending the country
school, and spent one term at the acad-
envy at Marengo. AT eighteen he re-
turned to Vermont, and fitted for col
lege at the Rutland High school.
He entered Hobart college in
1862, and graduated in 1866.
While at college he was bap-
tried by Bishop Nicely and confirmed by
Bishop de Lancey. In his junior year
he took both the White and Cobb prizes
for essays. In his senior year he
studied law while acting as principal of
the Try House school, Philadelphia.
He graduated from the General rheO-
logical seminary in 1870, having taken
the full course in two years, and was
then ordained deacon by Bishop HOra-
ito Potter in the Church of the Trans
tiguration, New York. The year 1879
lie spent In travel in Europe.
Bishop LittlejOhn ordained him
10 the priesthood In 1871, in
Holy Trinity church, Brooklyn. On
his return from Europe, he took the
church at Plattsmouth, Neb., and then
went to assist in the missions of the
Gethsemane church, Minneapolis, under
Rev. DIR. Knickerbacker. For two years
after that he was rector of All Saints
church, at Mortified, MINI. While visit
ing in the East in 1876, he was in
dueed to take missionary work in north
ern New Hampshire, where he laDOred
for four years. The next three years
he was rector of st. Peters church.
Bennington. Vt. From Bennington he
was called to GethsemaBe church,in
Minneapolis, in 1888. During the six
years of his rectOrship new stone
$4,000. This is maintained as free
church. and the number of communi-
cants has increased from 274 to 765.
THE CEREMONIES.
The c0nsecratOrs are to be: Rt. Rev.
Rt. Rev. George d. Gillespie, ID. d.. of
West Michigan. and Ri. Rev. David b.
Knickerbocker. ID. d., or Indiana. The
preacher will be kt. Rev. Marion n.
Gilbert, d. d., of Minnesota. The pre-
seniors are to be Rev. ID. b. Knicker-
booker and Rt. Rev. William II. Hare.
ID. d., of South Dakota, and the attend
ing presbytUrs, Rev. h. w. Oliver, D..
d.. of the Platte. anu Rev. E. G. Bell,
ID. D., of Minnesota.
The ceremony falls on the day of the
feast of the circumcision. Morning
prayer will be offered Oh that day at .
O'Clock by priests to be selected by the
missionary bishOp-elect.
AT 10 O'Clock the procession will be
formed in the yestry and will be as fol-
lows: Choiristers. preceded by the
crOSs-bearer; theological students from
Faribault; ministers of other religious
bodies; DRAGONS; priests; the mission
airy bishop-elect, with his attendant
presbytors; the bishops in reverse
order of conservation. Upon entering
the church, the procession will pass up
the central aisle under ten floral arches.
A professional hymn will be sung dur
ing the entry of the body. The choir
listers will then proceed to their seats in
the choir. while the theological students
and clergy will open ranks and allow
the bishops. in the order of the cOnse-
Grafton. to pass through. The bishop
elect, led by the Bishop of Missouri, will
then proceed to the sanctuary and the
o her bishops TO the seats reserved for
them.
After the singing of Palm l22 the
holy communion will be observed. the
''celebraDt' being conducted 10y the
bishop of Missouri. The Nicene creed
will then be recited. and the preacher.
Rev. NJ. n. Gilbert, will deliver the ser
hn nf
the attendant preshytOrs will conduct
the bishop-elect TO the chair. where he
will be met by the presenting bishop
and the bishop from Indiana, Rev. ID. b.
Knickerbacker. He will be conducted
to the altar rail. when the ceremony of
the presentation will be begun, which
consists of the reading of the certificate
of election. the election by the mouse of
bishops, the confirmation by the house
of deputies. the consent of the bishop
elect to conservation and the adj
ministering of the oath of
conformity. The bishops of Chi
cago will sing the litany, and
the bishop of Missouri will offer prayer.
After the formulated questions have
been answered the new bishop will be
consecrated and presented with the holy
Scripture. The ceremony is then COM
plete, and he will take his seat In the
sanctuary while the lie Deum is being
sung. The aims collected by the dea-
cons of the diocese of Minnesota will be
appropriated as special gift to the
bishop OF the Platte for use in his new
district. At the conclusion
of the benediction occasional will be
sung, and the ecclesiastical procession
will pass out in the same order OBJ
served ON its entry.
The church will be most deliberately
decorated on this occasion, which is the
initial event of the kind in this state.
Rev. A. r. Graves has sent about thirty
five or forty invitations to clergymen Ill
this city without regard to creed, and
has invited them to enter the procession
and occupy reserved seats.