The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-19

pathy essential to successful teacher; able to arouse enthusiasm, and at the same time clear-sighted and sane in all his Judgments; ayerse to over-minute- ness of definition, yet excelling in the power of clear statement; conservative himself in his firm position on the old Foundations, yet toward others tolerant with the Liberation, not of indifference, but of Christian charity and catholic mind and spirit, mind that loved ana trusted truth, and was not much afraid of light or liberty he left his impression | upon many minds as q master of theolo- sy More than four hundred students, having sat at his feet and looked up to him as friend and father, went forth from him to labor in the sacred minis try. Among these sons in the gospel are thirteen bishops, the heads of several theological seminaries. other teachers Of divinity, and priests and deacons labor ing in all parts of the church's field at home and abroad.
 It seemed most fitting that the memo rial to the bishop in this diocese should | aim to perpetuate this work which he so loved and wherein he labored With such success.
 If it seemed otherwise to any, I would ask them to think what object proposed as a memorial would have been nearest the heart of the bishop himself. That l consideration with me was conclusive.
 For the Berkeley Divinity school, the death of it's founder and head made, it is true, a crisis in it's history. The trus- tees, however, had trust to be fulfilled. The amount of the property committed to their trusteeship; the history of the institution, a history yielding in honora- ble import to that of no other institution | connected with the church; it's record as to the past, it's promise for the future, of service to this diocese in particular considerations like these demanded that the trustees should administer their trust to the best of their ability. In these convictions they elected as dearf the Rev. John Binney, D, D.; and called, to fill the chair of doctrinal theology and the prayer book, the Rev. Samuel Hart D. D, Tn the acceptance of these elections they congratulate themselves upon securing the men most competent to continue the work of Berkeley's frst dean and great teacher. Let me say that the aim of the school so far as l may speak for it, shall be, not many students, but high standard. Employ ing the most approved methods, and ac- cepting the assured results of the best scholarship, steadfast in the sound prin- ciples of Anglican theology, loyal to the Catholic faith and to the Holy Spirit of truth, may the school be, and may it
 -tolN lN1i ic11 fn q generations to Gods honor and glory In the fulfllment of this, its founders prayer, shall live on the work he loved. As one of our own poets has said:
 New England Baeda, thou of yesterday,
 The years are all before thee. Year on
 year
 Shall seed thy purpose on it's winding
 way,
 When we are dust who looked upon
 thy bier.
 The service and influence of Berkeley are not restricted to this diocese. None the less, however, it has been and is our diocesan school. It were not easy to over-estimate the service it has ren- dered to the diocese. The greater num- Der of our parishes being rural, it is JuBSllOll Nll0lIl0l llle ptoI pi SPeai NiSt' for such parochial work is that obtain ed in a large city. Many of our very best men have been drawn to Connec- ticut by the attractions of Berkeley. The school has furnished half of our present number of clergy. It has been a medium of communicating through out the diocese the great bishops spirit, and a chief instrument in making diocese as homogeneous as it it.
 Moreover, if any diocese, surely Con- necticut is justified in having her school of the prophets. It is, I believe, in some quarters, the fashion to sheer at Con- necticut churchmanship. l am not now concerned to defend it, certainly not on any petty or provincial grounds. Con- necticut has stood for something in the life of our American church. Hers is our most venerable see, hers the richest contribution to our prayer book, hers the unfailing championship of primitive truth and apostolic order. Wrapping itself about the roots of our history in this land, emshrned in the hearts of our liturgy, Connecticut churchmanship has meant something in the past It should mean something in time to come. Venerable as it is, let it be no putrifac tion, but rather a living thing, mani festing vitality and growth, and bring ing forth more fruit in old age.
 Of peculiar interest in connection with our great loss, is a communication which has come into my hands. It is an expression of sympathy with this diocese from the diocesan council of Aberdeen and Orkney, at a meeting held February 2S, 1899 This commu- nication has been transmitted to me for publication in the journal, and pres- ervation in our archives. The memory of this gracious action by brethren be- yond the seas, shall be another of the many ties binding this eldest of our American dioceses to the Scottish church, and to the diocese of Aberdeen in particular.
 The month after our bishop died there occurred in Aberdeen an event to which he had looked forward with especial in terest. There was unveiled on March 16 by the Marquis of Lothian, the me- morial tablet, erected by churchmen of Connecticut, to preserve the memory of the place, hard by where Samuel Seabury was consecrated the first bish- op of the church in America. On that occasion the address of the Bishop of Aberdeen was full of tender and appre- ciative allusion to the late bishop of Connecticut