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


of bishops. Bishops White, Clagget,
Jarvis, Moore and Parker composed the
house. Bishop Jarvis, with that nicely
OF conscientious scrupulousness which
he had was not present when the ques-
ton was considered. The decision OF
the other bishops found the conduct
or the said Ammi Rogers in the state
OF Connecticut since he left New York
had been insulting, refractory, and
schismatical in the highest degree and
were 1t tolerated would prove subver-
sive of all order and discipline in the
church" They declared that he was
amenable to the authority of Connec-
ticut. The bishops also proposed the
Canon of Removals." which was the
first to cover such cases. Under what
Bishop Jarvis and Connecticut church
men thought was the decision of the
house of bishops there was a session
of the convocation at Cheshire, October
3, 1904, when, in the presence of the
| presbyters of the diocese, the bishop
pronounced sentence of degradation
against Ammi Rogers, The accusa-
| lions of the degraded man We're now
redoubled, some of the clergy sympa-
| thized with him, thought the bishop
had been harsh and tyrannical, was a
| lord bishop, not a meek and loWly
shepherd of the people. Mr.. Rogers
| with his ingenuity of language and IA
cility for influencing the passions of
| men turned it to account both politi-
| cally and enthusiastically. He defied
the authority of the bishops, he ridi-
culed and slandered every one concern
ed in the sentence of degradation and
still officiated in defiance of law and
| order. A civil suit for SANDER citing
| the bishop before New York court to
pay damages We're among the least of
the malicious acts of this unprincipled
man. OF his work at Hebron, into
| which he intruded. Of his making men
who were undoubtedly sincere in their
| love and regard for the church aid him,
| we need not now speak particularly.
1t is enough to know that, while tech
nically Mr.. Rogers had civil law upon
his side in some respects, he had open
| ly and maliciously broken every bond
of unity and order, and had exalted the
| individual above the church in it's con-
stituted authorities.
1t was very hard for Bishop Jarvis
to think tina any were ready to attrib-
ute to him qualities he did not pos
sess. 1t was exceedingly bitter to find
those once friends cold and distant. A
man of peace, he disliked controversy
and debate. A man Of the purest and
noblest morality, he could not tolerate
the slightest approach to immortality.
The church in Connecticut was still in
| the experimental stage of her exist
ence. She had not those sure and I'M
1 f,t t,,,l
now serve as precedents. She had not
fully recovered from the effect of the
revolution, and had no precedent to
! guide her Her bishop acted as he
thought upon decision" of his peers
Others and among them Bishop White
regarded it as an opinion. 1t was while
smarting under sense of this unjus-
tice that he said in an address to the
| convention of 1907: The false tongue
of the transgressor has found listening
ears, and minds disposed to credit his
tales. By them the bishops character
has been loaded With obloquy and re-
| proach, and Korah, Though thus to use
the name is degrading even to Korah)
in the eye of his company has become
the saint and the bishop the sinner"
Bishop Jarvis had the pleasure of as
sitting at the conservation of DIR. Benja-
min Moore of New York in 1907 and
of DR.. John Henry Hobart and the Rev
| Alexander Vets Griswold in 1911
These men, afterward so marked in the
influence of the church, would have
been consecrated in New Haven when
the general convention met here in
May 1911. But the small attendance of
clergy and laity and the presence only
of the senior bishop, DIR. White, with
Bishop Jarvis in the house of bishops,
compelled the two bishops to go down
to New York, and there in Trinity
church, in the presence of Bishop
Provost, who came from his sick room
for the service, the conservation took
place on May 20.
1t was two years later in the pleas
ant home he had made for himself in
! New Haven, in the presence of his wife
and one son, after having with great
devotion and reverence received from
the Rev. Henry Whitlock of Trinity
church, the holy communion, that he
gently passed from earth in the seven
ty-fourth year of his age. He was
buried beneath the chancel of the new
Trinity church, and upon the walls of
the church may be seen the appropri-
ate tablet with an elegant Latin in
scription, which filial piety and correct
tatse prompted.
The four bishops of the diocese have
been of marked and strong character.
AS we know the second bishop better,
we shall the more highly esteem him
enroll Abraham of Connecticut"
among those whom the American
church deem worthy of high praise for
the work they did for the sufferings
they endured and for the manner in
which they triumphed over many diff
culties. Courage, endurance, firmness
characterized him, and thankfully we
unite in the joyous and loving tribute
to a man who in the days of the
churchs weakness did his full duty.
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