The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-06-07
Diocese Of EaStou.


of the Diocese of Easton met in Christ's
Church of that town on Wednesday morn
ing with Bishop Adams in the chair.
There were twenty ministers and twenty
five lay delegates present. The Rev. j,
A. Mitchell of Centrevillo was elected
secretary. Mr.. Henry :. Coudon of this
county was appointed on the Committee
OF Elections, DIR. Il. G. MLckall Commit
tee on Accounts, and Rev. Z. X. Miller
on State of the Church.
The delegates from Cecil County were:'
Augustine parish-Rev. Jacob Miller.
North Elk parish-Rey. L. X. Miller,
IL, 5. Coudon.
North Sassafras parish-ltev. Thomas
Duncan, H. N. Uhler, NJ. d.
Trinity parish-Rev. VIM. Schouler,
DIR. r. G.. Mackall.
DIR. Mackall offered resolution that
article | / of the constitution be amended
so as to allow lay representation on the
Standing Committee, claiming the laity
should have word in the contemplation
of the election of a bishop, aud showing
that the diocese is only one out Of three
in the fifty in the country that thus dis
franchises the laity. He claimed that the
functions OF the committee ale not &C.
clesiastical only, and should not be con
fined to the priests.
Mr.. Pearce opposed the charge, saying
it was legally wrong, as ecclesiastical
matters should be left to ecclesiastical
men.
On motion of DR.. Martin, action on
this subject was postponed indefinitely.
Dir. Mackal has offered this resolution
several times before, and each time it has
been defeated. Two vacancies occur in
the standing committee this year, owing
to the removal from the diocese of Rev.
F. w. billiard and Rev. A. r. Walker.
The Diocese has suffered during the
year considerable loss in the number of
Clergy. The Bishop recommends that
Rev. Hunter Davidson be placed under
the Rev. E. X. Miller for Port Deposit
and North Elk Parishes. We take from
the Easton Ledger the following sketches
of the four ministerial delegates from
Cecil
REV. f. X MILLER.
The Rev Enooh X. Miller, Rector of
st. Mary Anne's or North Elk parish,
Cecil county, was born in London, Eng
land, jan. 10Th. 1910, and was educated
in be public and high schools at RICHEST
er, New York, to which place his parents
removed with their family in 1914.
lie also attended Olivet College, Michi-
gan, and the University of Rochester,
which institution he left when he enter
ed the army in which he served for near
ly three and a.half years. Was ordained
as a Presbyterian minister anc served as
a chaplain, also as Pastor of mission
church in Wisconsin for year. In Janu-
airy 1867 he was appointed Missionary
superintendent for the American Mission
airy Association of the State OF Arkansas,
which position he filled for nearly two
years He changed his church relations
in 1856 aand was confirmed by Bishop Lay
the MiEAionary Bishop of Alabama and
Indian lerritory, and was ordained at
Christ church, Little Rocks to the Dia-
conate in May 1868. In September 1865
he took missionary work under Bishop
Kemper and was ordained Presbyter by
aim in March 1870 at Racine. Wisconsin,
and continued on the same field until he
was called to his present charge, Oct.
LIST, 1874.
He built three mission churches in
Wisconsin and has also built a small mis-
sion chapel in his present parish.
REV. THOMAS DUNCAN, D. d.
The Rev. Thomas Duncan. d. D., of
| North Sassafras parish, is the son of a
Louisiana planter. He was born in
| Philadelphia and reared in Louisiana.
After taking orders, he was assistant in
Trinity church, Washington, D c., and
then was called to a Virginia parish
where he remained until the war, when
he accepted a call to st. Bartholomew,
diocese of Maryland. He went from
there to st. Johns, Knoxville. Tenn. for
six years, to recruit his health, he then
accepted call to New Brunswick, Brit
ish possessions. He was next called to
| the Henshaw Memorial church, Balti-
more, and from there went to Nenia,
| Ohio, to take charge of St. Andrews
| oh nI I'd hn
ed the charge he now has in the diocese
of Easton. DR.. Duncan's postoffice is
EarlevilIe, Cecil county. He has printed
various tracts and pamphlets on church
subjects. The degree of D. d. he got
from the Columbian College University,
DC.
| REV. WILLIAM SCHOULER.
The Rev. William Schouler, since 1880
rector of Trinity parish (Elktnn), Cecil
county, was born February %, 1871, in
West Cambridge New Arlington), Mas
sachusetts. He was prepared for the
ministry while teaching at St. Paufs
school, Concord, n. H., and under the
direction of the Rev. DR.. Henry a.
Colt. He was ordained in 1864. He has
held these charges; Hopkintou. n. H.,
| St, Stephens, Brooklyn, serving one
year as Chaplain of the Home for Aged
and Orphan" in addition to duties as
Rector of st. Stephens; Brandon, VT;
St. Johns Syracuse, New York, Union
Springs, N. Y; beside his present charge
at Elkton. MIR. Schouler is Dean of the
Northern Convocation. He has publish
ed "rhe church Catechism verified by
Holy Scriptures"
REV. JACOB MILLER.
The Rev. Jacob Miller was born in Phil
adelphia, on March II, 1927, and was in
the printing business for about - years.
| He studied for the ministry at De Lancey
! Divinity school, Geneva, New York, and
was ordained deacon by Bishop Simpson.
| About % years ago he was ordained
priest by Bishop Coke, and he was the
| first person that Bishop ever ordained.
He has held parishes il Western New
| York and Pennsylvania, and is now rec
tor of Augustine parish, Cecil county.
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