The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-10-17
CAROLINA'S BISHOP.
coxsroRxrfoy or THE REV. DE.
JOSEPH y. CHEsHfHE'
The Highly Interesting Ceremony '
Place sunday ut Tarboro--o'nef
Old North State News.

TARgORo. N. c., Oct 1s.-There was
a most impressive religious cereino"'
here yesterday-the conservation OF rev.
DIR. Joseph Blount Cheshire, Jr. as Pro-
testant Episcopal Assistant Bisnop Oh 'ne
ptocese OF North Carolina 1t took place
IN Calvary church, OF which the Bish-
op's venerable father has. for fifty years.
been rector, and was attended by many
persons of religious or social prominence
from this and other States. Governor
Carr was among those who ATTENDED.
The ceremony began at IL o'clock, ana
the handsome church was filled. There
was large procession of clergy, SIX
bishops being present. and about forty
priests. Right Rev. Theodore Benedict
Lyman, ID. d., LII. D., was the conse-
orator His assistants were Bishops a.
Watson, of the Diocese Of East Carolina,
and Capers, of the Diocese Of South car
DINA The presentation was by Bishops
Weed, of Florida. and Sessions, OF Lou
isiana-
The conservation sermon was preached
by Bishop Dudley, of the Diocese OF
Kentucky. The attendant presbyters
were Rev. Drs. Pettigrew, Murdoch ana
Wingate, of the Diocese OF North caro-
lima. The morning prayer was SAID by
Rev. Israel Harding OF Washington, and
Rev. /. Mex. Pittinger, of Raleigh. Rev.
Julian e. Ingie Of Henderson, read the
certificate of election; Rev. James A.
Wiston, OF Hickory, the consent of the
standing committee OF the Church In
the United States to the election, and Rev.
Dr. Matthew NJ. Marshall Of Raleigh,
e H. i've onpnr a
| the diocese, read the consent OF the
| House of Bishops.
| Last May the convention OF the clergy
and laity Of this diocese met here.
| and after a long debate decided TO elect
| an assistant or coadjutor bishop. Bishop
Lyman. who is now both old and feeble,
urged that he be given this assistance.
| June the 9th was set as the date OF an
| adjourned session OF the convention, ana
on the 18th. after two days bahoting'
and on the sixty-third ballot, DR..
| Cheshire was chosen.
Rishon Cheshire was born at Tarboro
| in 1850 He is a graduate Of Trinity Col
Iege Hartford. and for time was
teacher at Eliicott City. Md. He studied
law and practiced at Baltimore and
later at Tarboro. In 1876 he was ordain-
ed to the diaconate by the late Bishop
Atkinson, of this diocese, at Tarboro
N. C. Three years later he took charge
of the Chapel Of the Cross. at Chapel
Hill, n. c., and IN 1880 was ordained
a priest by Bishop Atkinson. couple
Of years later he became rector OF 81.
Peters church, at Charlotte. where he
remained until his conservation yesterday.
He has always been an earnest church
worker. and has established five mis-
sions A few years ago the University
of North Carolina gave him the honor
of the D. d. degree. He was prominent
lv mentioned a year or two since In
connection with the bishoprics of Geor-
gia and Alabama
This event recalls some incidents In the
early history of this parish. II Is the
oldest in the diocese. 1t was here the
early conventions of the Church were held.
In Calvary Parish the first convention
of the Church in North Carolina met in
the year 1890. and IN this little city the
centennial anniversary Of this memora-
HE event was celebrated in the year
1890 In old Cavalry church, just one
hundred years ago next May, the Rev.
Charles Pettigrew was elected Bishop
Of the Diocese Of North Carolina, being
the first Bishop ever elected for the
diocese. He was a native of the State
of North Carolina; and here the Rev.
Or. Cheshire was consecrated Assistant
Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina
He was born and reared in this parish.
the Bishop-elect, Pettierew was never
consecrated, an untimely death having
removed him, so Bishop Cheshire Is the
first son of North Carolina elevated TO
this high and sacred office in his own
State.
One of the attendant presbyters. the
Rev. William s. Pettigrew, is the grandson
Of Bishop-elect Pettigrew. and assisted In
the conservation here. where one hundred
years ago his grandfather was elected
Bishop.
In his sermon yesterday. on the occasion
of the conservation, Bishop Dudleys
theme was witness Of the Continued
and Unbroken Episcopate to the Resurrec-
ton OF Christ" The Bishop preached
from the choice of Matthias and spoke
for an hour, with his usual eoquence and
fervor. Of the divine appointment Of an
authorized ard qualified testimony to the
great and browning fact of the resurrec-
ton as essential 10 the continuity of the
faith. the assurance of the reason, and
the very life of the Church.
| Witnesses for Christ. we are" ex-
| claimed the Bishop; chosen of God at
the first. and continued In His Church 10
| the present hour. and though not eye
| witnesses as was Matthias and the other
| apostles, yet witnesses from your regen-
| Grated souls and your renewed and en-
| lightened consciences to His living power
| and grace"
Continuing in this strain. the Bishop
| spoke Of the power Of such a real his
| torica1 testimony TO carry conviction 10
every earnest and fair mind, because II
was the testimony OF faithful men. whose
authority history accredited as being one
and continuous from the apostles, and
| whose influence was great and strong and
permanent only as Il was real and per-
cOpal and true