Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-01
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BURLINGTON. Vt, Ang. u-Rey- Arthur
Crarshay AlIlson Hall Of Oxford, Eng.
received his election 70 the Protestant
Episcopol bishoprie of the diocezs Of Yer
mont.
Nine candidates had supporters among
the 100 DELEGATE. pre~.ns- OF the>e Rev.
DR.. H. p. Nichols OF Min aeapsis bad.
next 10 Father Hall, the largest number
Of votes, Rev Je-sQh Carey Of Saratoga
standing thlri.
Tue whole s,anibcr IT yoses east by the
Clergy WAS a; by tie isisy s.. Father
Hall received / br eieeti.,n lIy the Clergy.
but nos by The ,aity. ssa by the eanonical
Law OF the chsrs h the elergy and iaity
must concur 90 the selection Of bishop.
On the a~eDul ballot Father Hall re-
ceiyed ajorstF Of bosa the derry and
laity vutes sztst, asld WAS decl AIRED elected
bishop OF the diocese by the president Of
the convention. His election Was then
M.de Ua.nImsus.
DR.. Bliss, chairman of the standing
committee. sent cable TO Father Hall
Immediately, advising him Of the action
of the couvenG loa.
The vufss o. ,5e second ballot were cast
for the same candidates. except that DIR.
r. r. Daveaprt 4 Memphis received one.
Rev. W. b. Walker OF Bennington, Rev
". +. WEEK OF Brandon. Charles S, FORBES
Of St Aihans and Col K tlredge Haskins
Of Brattleboro were appointed u committee
to formulate letter Of notification to
send Father Hall informing him OF his
election. They met Las, evening and per-
formed their WORK
sketch OF Father Hall
Rev. Father A. C. A. Hall is quite well
known to the American people. He was
Is years in Boston. and WIS prominently
mentioned rs a possible successor To the
late beloved Phillips Brooks as bishop Of
Massachusetts.
Though recalled to England In 1891 by
the order to which he bad vowed obedi-
ence, Father Hall j. essentially an Ameri-
can How thoroughly he was such, and
an American churc imam, ali came Out at
the tiuie OF hi- recall,
He WAS always considered a high"
ehurehman Blu, DR.. Hall was brought
up in low" church principles, his home
influence being saiust the ritualism and
priucip Piles OF ne su-ed!led high church.
Later new l,s-oas and new Influences
came into hi, life, and found 70. III in his
heart and soul tn lodge themselves
Upo" III. Graduation
at the university Father Halls newly
trained sympathi,s led Kim to enter the
Society OF Mission Priests of St John the
Evangelist, which had its house, as it has
now, at Cowley, hear Oxford-whence the
popular designation "Cowley fathers"
This society was then IN its first decade,
having been established about 1850, and
was the first, II Father Ignatus and his
order of Beuedic.ine monks are to be left
out Of account. 10 attempt a r vival Of the
monast ici,m in the Anglican communion.
The father lived ia community They
were bound by fhc three vows of chastity,
poverty and tb,dieBce, and gave them
selves To
Private Devotion and Discipline
in order To prepare for their spec tally
chosen worA oi preaching missions and
conducting retreats.
About - yeas ago Father Hall came to
Boston iis one If the clergy of what is now
the Mission church OF st. John the
Evangelist, on BDwdoiu street, remaining
here until recA. ID 10y tie head of the or
der two years ago.
Father Hall T., e is at once strong and
gentle, holy an! intellectual. The eyes
look not mer,iy upon things, but into
their very sonl The mouth does not look
does not, yet. On occasions that bespeak
sympathy or gentle kindness, no voice
could have tiner ,weeter quality.