The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-22
AS SETTLED PASTOR.
Rev. David C. Garrett Instituted
at st. Marks.
: IMPRESSIVE SERVICE.
Bishop Paddock 10 Present and the Rev
L. II. Wells. OF Tacoma. breaches
Eioquently.

At yesterday mornings service In st. Marks
Episcopal church Bishop Paddock formally in
stituted a. rector the Rev. David c. Gsrcett, who
for some months has had charge of the parish.
Every seat in he building was taken when
the choir and clergy entered singing the fsmil-
lar professional hymn, Onward. Christian
Soldiers"
After the regular morning prayer, the bishop
announced that the assembling was for the pur-
pose of instituting the Rev. d. G. Garrett into
the parish as priest and rector Then the letter
of Institution was read. prescribing the usua!
pastoral duties The reading over. Mr.. Frank
Dimick. the senior warden, formally presented
TO the pastor the keys OF the church. which he
received in the following form:
II receive these keys of the house of God at
your hands as the pledges OF my institution. and
of your parochial recognition and promise to be
faithful shepherd over you, in the name of the
Father, and of the Son. and OF the Holy Ghost"
Following this the bishop made short invo-
cation. ending with the Lords Prayer. At the
close Bishop Paddock received the Rev. Mr..
Garrett within the rails of the altar and pre-
sented him with the Bible. the Book Of Common
Prayer. and the books OF the cano rs and Of the
conventions in these words:
Receive these books, and let them be the
rule of thy conduct in dispensing the divine
word. in leading the devotions of the people,
and In exercising the discipline OF the church;
and De thou in all things pattern TO the flock
committed to thy care"
The CHI IL sang the "Laudate Eomen," and
the bishop prayed for a blessing upon the pastor
aud upon his congregation. closing with the
benediction.
Then the instituted minister knelt at the al
tar, praying for himself:
20 Lord. my Cod am not worthy that thou
an af yet thor has CT
honored tiny servant with appointing him to
stand in thy house and TO serve at thy holy al
tar. To thee and 10 thy service devote myself.
soul, body ald spirit, with all their powers and
faculties. Fill my memory with the words OF
thy law: enlighten my understanding with the
illumination of the Holy Ghost, and may ali the
wishes aud desires OF my will center in what
thou hast commanded, and, to make me instru-
mental in promoting the salvation OF the people
now committed to my charge. grant
that may faithfully administer thy
holy sacraments, aud by my life
and doctrine set forth thy true and
holy word. Be ever with me in the performance
of all the duties OF my ministry: in prayer to
quicken my devotion: in praise to heighten my
love and gratitude; and in preaching TO give
readiness OF thought and expression suitable to
the clearness and excellency Of thy holy word.
Grant this for the sake of Jesus Christ, thy Son,
our savior"
The service closed with special prayer for the
congregation offered by the newly instituted
rector, and the singing of this hymn:
lord pour thy spirit from on high
And thine ordained servants bless,
Graces and gifts to each supply
And clothe thy priests with righteousness.
within thy temple when they stand
To teach the truth as taught by thee,
Savior. like stars in thy right hand.
Let all thy churches pastors' be.
''Wisdom and zeal and love impart,
Firmness aud meeknese from above
To bear thy reopIe in their heart,
And love the souls whom thou dost love.
ITO love and pray and never faint,
By day and night their guard to keep,
To warn the sinner, form the saint.
To feed thy lambs and tend thy sheep.
$50 when their work is finished here,
They may in hope their charge resign:
SO when their Master shall appear,
They may with crowns of glory shine"
Just before the offertory was taken Mr. Garrett
spoke, triefiy expressing mis- feeling of added
responsibility at the formal establishment of the
relation Of pastor and people between him and
the congregation. He hoped that the parish
would unite With him in efforts 70 extend the
work. he also referred to the brass altar cross
the gift OF the Kings Daughters, which had Just
been put in place. This. he said. would be for
him a memorial of his institution and his
thought was "God forbid that I should glory,
save in the cross of Christ"
After the ffertory the Rev. L. Fl. Wells, of Ia
coma preached the following sermon:
And he had a golden reed to measure the
city according to the measure of man
that is OF (an) the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. xxi Is
IL.
"St. John is caught up in a vision aud is see.
ing things 10 come. An angel is showing him
the holy city, the new Jerusalem, q glorious
vision of the ideal home of the future, which is
four square, q symbol OF perfection, whose
gates are OF pearl, symbol OF purity.
"And the angel, who shows and explains il
all TO 81. John, stands with golden rod in his
hand-gold, which is a symbol of the highest
standard; aud il is according to the measure of
a man, that is Of angel, which means that the
true standard by which we are to gauge our.
selves is not to be low and imperfect but the
very highest. The standard Of true man and
of an angel are the same. The heavenly city
which is to be is not TO be measured by an
earthly. but by heavenly rule The stunted
conception. warped judgments, narrow preiu-
dices evolved by the world of business and So
eiety cannot furnish the perfect ideal which is
to lure Us on to noble efforts and a higher life
THE world is struggling upward to be sure.
TO a streter honesty, purer morality and a
more mercifui and charitable temper bur Wa
all know that there is vast gull between the
ordinary business standard or society ethics ON
the one band. and the perfect law of God on the
other. The warped and stuntei aspirations of
man cannot of themselves evolve the perfect
type OF true manhood. The only adequate con-
ception Of righteousness and biessedness must
be a heayen-sent rule. as welded and inter-
preted by heaven-s sent messenger.
$50 much for the meaning of the text. and
now for its application.
You. too. stand in the streets OF a new and
fair city-not one sent down from heaven. but
upbuilt by the toilsome hand of man; not the
hope OF the future. but the realization of the
present: not the final heavenly reward of earthly
toll and suffering, but after all the outcome %
bitter loss and disappointment. and the fruition
OF a brave dream first dreamt amid smothering
ashes aud smoaldering embers OF dire ruin and
desoiation.
'You are justly proud of your city: Won are
very hopeful Tor its future. Yoa are full of
plans for its growth and development You are
projecting even greater buildings than have
beea built. You are lsying out wider additions
on every side. You are planning more stupen.
dous projects ana forming greater corporations
and organizing more enormous operations and
enlisiing millions OF new capital in grander en-
serprisesS Your minds TEEN with conventions
for the future, which a. first call forth the de-
rislve smile OF capitalists, then attract their in
vestigation and finally command their conn
dence and cooperation.
This fertility oil plans and multitude of
projects Is one of the characteristics of our Wig.
orons state, and especially OF your wonderful
city. But all this is according to the measure
OF a man. Although l speak TO you as a com.
parstave stranger yet know enough of human
nature and enough OF life on this Coast 10 ne
aware that In al these Seething schemes there
must be many which are not contrary 10 law
which cannon be summoned before any human