The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-28


Rogers. Coming down to the death of
blshop Jarvis in New Haven, May 3d.,
1913, the speaker briefly rehearsed the
efforts to elect his successor, Bishop
hobart, of New York, was prevailed
upon to temporarily care for the Dio-
cese of Connecticut in connection with
ms work in the diocese of New York
rms temporary arrangement lasted un-
I'll June I'd, 1919, when the real success
sor of Bishop Jarvis was chosen in the
person of Rev. Thomas C. Brownell, of
Trinity church, New York, who was
unanimously elected. The service of
Bshop Brownell was treated of at con-
siderable length, bringing the review
uoWn to the end of the half century al
lotted to Dr. Seymour. In closing DR..
Seymour said:.
trust that what has been said may
impress upon you the thought that has
| SO often been in nv mind. that since
the prosperity which we enjoy has been
secured for US by the earnest and faith
lul lapors of these men, it is our duty
TO show our appreciation of their mer-
It's by initiating their good examine +"
| Inc registrar of the diocese, Rev. DR.
osniuel Hart then read the history of
| tne remainder of the century up to
1877 as follows
| Rev. DIR. Samuel Hart,
Il crave your Indulgence while I'M.
| dertake to trace before your minds the
| leading events in the history of This di-
| ooese during the past half century or,
~ speak more accurately, during the
past SIX and forty years I cannot tell
Oh the heroes who recalled the days of
our origins who had lived through
| the changes of the Revolution and laid
the foundation of our fully organized
diocesan life. 1t is modern history with,
which have to deal.
In 1850 the population of the state
was about $4,000; the number Of com
munlcants of the church in 10 parishes
was about $500; the present population
OF the state, according to the latest
published estimate, is about 81. 600 and
the number of communicates regis
tered In l51 parishes and missions is
over $4,000. That is to say, the number
OF communicates has increased three
fold while the population has been null
tiplied by less than two and a quarter,
Bishop Williams, in thirteen years as
~N1ANN>eAit
bishop, has admitted about 265 young,
men to the deaconate and has laid
hands In confirmation upon about 49,
900 persons, more than nalf as many
| again as the present number of COM
municants. For the last ten years our
bishop has been the presiding bishop of
this church. and for several years the
senior bishop by conservation in the
whole Anglican communion.
This is glorious day in Hartford.
wrote the aged Bishop Philander Chase
in Illinois on the Wednesday succeed
ing the nineteenth Sunday after Trini-
ty A. d. 1851; our assistant bishop is
consecrated by Bishop Brownell in that
blessed city
The conservation of the youthful as
sistant to the already venerable bish-
op of Connecticut was indeed a memoir
able event. Bishop Browneu himself
presided, and all the other bishops of
New England dioceses and Bishop De
Lancey of Western New York united
with him in the act of conservation.
while the sermon was preached by the
sanity Bishop of Maine Eighty-six
clergymen attended the services, most
OF them we are told-for it was a.
novelty then-wearing SUPPLIES. DR..
Williams was already we'll known in
Connecticut a diocese he said in the
letter in which he accepted his election
in which I was confirmed and received
both my orders; in whose principles
was educated, and whose spotless his
tory | reverence and love- The two
bishops Immediately began visitation.
the senior bishop administering confir-
nation and the assistant preaching the
sermons and making the addresses
new inspiration was thus given to the
work of the diocese, and when. as was
soon the case, it's care practically de-
VOWED upon the junior bishop, he be-
gan that long-extended and long-con-
tinued series of visitations which were
for many years so prominent and so
pleasing a feature of the church work
in Connecticut
10 speak in any attempt at detail of
that work, to make any estimates of IFS
results, to describe the place which orr
bishop gained in the affection of the
churchmen of this diocese and of the
citizens OF this commonwealth is be-
yond the purpose of this paper. A sec
ond generation has half run it's course
since that October in 1881; that aged
prelate, who had already sat for %
years in the chair of Seabury and of
Jarvis, nobly sustained by his son in
the Lord, now became his brother in
the highest office of the church, full of
years and of honor, has now fallen
asleep, leaving the memory of kindly
service and gentle guidance as a. per-
petual blessing to his people; the cler-
gymen who were forty-six wears ago
the chosen representatives of the con-
Vention and the counsellors of the |
bishops, DR.. Harry Croswell and Will
liam Cooper Mead and Robert Alexan
der Hallam and Jacob Lyman Clark
and Thomas Winthrop Coit-typical
men as leaders and legislators and pas
tors and missionaries and scholars, men
whose influence will last though their |
names may not be familiar-have COM |
pleted the service which they so we'll |
rendered to their generation by the will |
of God; and with them there rests
from his laborS one whose name is |
closely associated with theirs, and who |
was chosen to the standing committee |
before Bishop Brownells time, DR.. |
Eben Edwards Beardsley, to be re-
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