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

Rev Mr.. Hooper spoke on the Life
and Times of the Second Bishop of Con-
llecticut," as follows:
There was on May 9Th; 1895, a notable
gathering of the clergy and laymen of
the then young diocese of Connecticut
in the first Trinity church. They had
come over roads then beginning to be
fragrant with the blossoms of spring to
this elm shaded city that they might
mourn the departure of their head, the
apostolic Seabury, that with wisdom
and elaboration they might under the
guidance of the Holy Ghost, choose
some godly and well learned man to be
their bishop.
From the. pulpit high against the
wall the preacher, dear friend of
Bishop Seabury, with deep emotion,
with we'll chosen words, expounded the
passage in the thirteenth chapter of the
epistle to the Hebrews, and seventh
verse, Remember them which have the
rule over, who have spoken unto you
the word Of God, whose faith follow,
consider the higher end Of their CONVEX
sation," and applied them their first
bishop.
More than one hundred years have
rolled by, years Of effort and accom-
plishment, both with state and the do
cese, and once more there gather in
New Haven clergy and laymen of Con-
necticut. They have come with a de-
sire to know something Of the past and
to forecast the future. There meet
here to-day the new and old. We look
back to the time of slow and almost i'm
perceptible growth and forward to the
enlarged work and more onerous bur-
dens which our Lord would lay upon us
and him who is to be in this mother df-
geese the coadjutor of this man whom
we love for his learning, his modesty,
his kindness, his genteness, and in
whom we recognize a type of the true
Connecticut churchman John Williams,
our diocesan and presiding bishop of
the American church. Many years
may he live to guide us by his counsel
and cheer us by his example
We are here to remember the way
God has led us all these years. We are
here that we may not idly and listlessly
turn back the pages of our history,
'Where closely mingling pale and slow
The characters of joy and woe"
where we may find some event written
large and fair, others faint and OBJ
scure, but that we may by opening the
book of the past learn what were the
natures, what the principles, what the
actions of those who shaped the course
of the American church, when she was
our ALL weak, despised. When such
taunts as, "I did not know there was AN
Episcopal church. were common in
some parts of our country.
Among the pioneers and founders,
without forgetting many honored
names, Connecticut would place itself
by Abraham Jarvis, Doctor Of Divinity,
the second bishop of this diocese.
The honor justly due to the first bish-
OPP of Connecticut, the heroic Seabury,
has partially obscured the fame of his
friend and successor.
Concerning Bishop Seabury much has
been written; very little has been said
of Bishop Jarvis. Bishop Seabury was
an author of acknowledged ability and
Effectiveness; two sermons and some
Episcopal charges are the only publica-
lions of Bishop Jarvis. Bishop Seabury
was a pioneer; to DR.. Jarvis fell the
task of sustaining and strengthening
the work his predecessor had begun.
1t seems to be fitting that the Ameri-
can church should in this one hun
ycdl clllSL GlGCtiOH "
the Episcopate of Connecticut, know
what manner of man he was, and why
for nearly fifty years he was power
among his brethren. They always rec
ognized his sound judgment and the
great executive ability which fitted him
for the many delicate duties they laid
upon him. He was, by both inheritance
and conviction, Churchman, and
knew the full strength of her position.
Abraham, the sixth son and ninth
child of Captain Samuel and Naomi
(Brush) Jarvis, was born in the pleas
ant shore town of Norwalk, Conn, on
May 5, 1888. His father belonged to a
we'll known and highly esteemed family
of Huguenot descent, which had been
FOR many years settled at Huntington,
Long Island. In 1877 he had conformed
to the Church of England and never
faltered in his allegiance to her scrip
tural and Catholic principles. His
muscular and sturdy Guardianship is
shown by this incident preserved by
his grandson, that elegant scholar, DR..
Samuel Farnlar Jarvis.
When the earnest and persuasive
Whitfield was arousing and electrify-
ing New England by his eloquence, he