The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-03-04
REV. DR.. HART At ST. PAUL'S
TRIBUTE TO THE LATE RT. REY.
BISHOP WTLLIAMS.
Noted Trinity College Divine Gives an
interesting Sketch of the Lamented
Frelate-Teachings Like Those of the
Old English Theologiams.

AT st. Paul's Episcopal church last
evening the Rev. DIR. Hart of Trinity
college, gave a memorial address on the
late Bishop Williams. 1t was in part
as follows:
shall take for my text the following
WORDS: If thou be a master, lift not
4 myself, but make thyself as one of the
rest
This is the sentence which our good
Blshop Williams wrote in the book
Wnlch told of his ordination. 1t was
essentially characteristic of the man.
II was mute but eloquent testimony
20 MS abject humility, his hope that
me power vested in him might not be
USED except for the advancement of the
gospel. 1T bore witness that he was a
Ialthful follower of the precepts laid
down by the church.
All who knew him realized that he
was in very truth a reverend father in
God. lie was among us as one of our
selves, and seemed of our own family
Yet he was always the master guide, the
ruler and the teacher.
Bishop Williams graduated from col
lege at an early age; was the intimate
friend OF eminent scholars all his life
time; was elected president of a college
before he was thirty-one years of age;
and was chosen by unanimous ballot
the assistant or bishop coadjutor of the
oldest diocese in the United States.
His labors in the Wesleyan Divinity
school fitted him to be a master for
xeaching; his accuracy of memory, his
winning personality, made him in every
sense master of men
did this gift of God, recognized by
men, lift him up? Was he arrogant or
tyrannical, as rulers and masters often
nre? 1t is not necessary for me to re-
ply to that question, for each one of you
can answer it for himself. He was,
however, sure of what he knew. He did
not revise his creeds and beliefs because
of the views of those who differed from
him in religion He was a true scholar,
but withal a modest man. His religion
was so real and so natural that it SEEM
ed part of himself.
"TIe often spoke Of the beauty of the
simplicity of common life. In our COL
1ege he spoke of the first presidents
considerate kindness, his unwavering
patience, his work which he made seem
q labor of love. AS the years go on,
changes must come but never may it
lose the marks or the memory of him
who was it's first master, a master who
lifted not himself up, but made himself
as one of the rest.
1T has been said that the success of
the beloved prelate's life was due to
the happy combination in him of the
enthusiasm of youth and the dignity of
man. The reason he retained so much
youth was that his manhood matured
so young. AS he never ceased to be
boy, so he never began to be man.
YHow came he to accept the theology
of the church? While yet in the course
OF preparatory study, he came face to
face with the organization and frame
-Mnrk of the Christian church This
opened to him a new aspect of Chris
tianity and indelibly impressed upon
his life and character certain beliefs
which he always chung to in after
years.
ITO a boy brought up as he was I'M
der the influence of Scott and under
the tutorship of DR.. Jarvis, with whom
he read theology, it is but natural that
he should become what was then called
high churchman. L wish that we
could know how he was effected by the
agitation in his younger days, in Eng
land, as to the apostolic succession of
our ministry. When a young deacon
he went to England. Knowing his