The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-03-31

in part. the result of the inability of old
er and more experienced men to accept
the Office, says the Boston Transcript.
The bishop of Winchester's long training
in the best traditions of the episcopate
marked him out as a wise selection.
Doubtless the reasons of health which
compelled him to leave South London
were equally decisive against his going
to FUiham. At the same tine, to many
people the name of the bishop of Step
new was the first that suggested itself
bat they were met by the objection that
il is not customary to promote a Suffra-
gan TO be the head of the diocese in
which he has assisted the previous Dish
Op; that DR.. Ingram is very young for
such responsibility, and that at the same
tire mis- life has been too full to admit of
his pursuing profound studies or assert
ing to himself a place in the world of let
ters or of scholarship; it was objected that
1t IS many a long day since there was a
bachelor bishop at Fulham; and, not
least, that there is something so at
tTactive and genial and even juvenile
about him that the clergy, instead OF
holding him in awe and reverence, might
be drawn in spite of themselves to treat
their bishop with an unwonted and even
an unseemly familiarity. But despite
these Imposing objections, which are not
even yet wholly hushed, it may fairly be
hoped that the kings first appointment
OF a diocesan bishop, startling and al
most unprecedented as it is. will be iusti-
fei by its ultimate success.
Or Ingram is hardly expected by his
fellow churchmen to attain quite the
scholarly level of some former inhabi-
t~Hts of Fulham palace. He won no great
ydhors at oxford, and his work has been
Illat OF the practical business man rather
thaR that of the theoIogian or scholar
Not that his pen has been wholly idle
he mas written many religious books of
Inverse character. Some deal with alb
S Sti theology others with practical
Christianity in the slums But as 2
writer he is ineffective. Nearly all his
works with the exception of work in
NteaC cities, are Comparativelv MIN
portalt and superficial
u Is rather as the friend. the nractf-
CaI friend OF that multitudinous British
IL luuaI' the man in the street. that
1T. ingram has won his reputation Tbe
winning of it has been done since 1900
I,eiore that his life had been much like
nat Oh any young L1nglfshman destined
t. the church. 'iiieo
re was porn forty three years ago in
" icesteIshIre. His father was fine
y, L. Nlnnlngton-Ingram of Stanford
hcctory and Ribbesford House. an[i -
ms mothers side he is a grandson oe ~ IN
epys. who was bishop of Worcastar
5IoHl iS4I to 1861. He was educated at
borough college. and took a scholar
mp al hebIe college, Oxford where he
was under Dr.. Talbot. with whom he
III now share the episcopal oversight in
-cHdon- He was ordained deacon and
priest by the bishop of Iichfeld in 1891
and licensed to the curacv of e. N NJ. cor
shrewsbury. Two years later he he,
came private chaplain to his bisbon Dr
-'1aciaSah, now archbishop Of York who
may ialfly be said to have discoveraJ
nm. linen, in Is $50, he entered on
inc work which ultimately brought him
|" the front, as head of Oxford house
"I belnhaI Green. Canon Henson had
PIvceoed him, and had found the tasl,
Almost more than his strength eouId
cope with Mr. Ingram brought to i
an Ghtlrlng Flgor, ana he established a
once close bond Of interest betwea3
the young OXonians and the VOL of
tne settlement. He developed it's aotiv:-
ties ooth on the social side and on ina
argUmentative INC
Sunday after Sunday he stood in Vic
tofla park, welcoming the arguments of
! the atheists and meeting them with
style Of eloquence which began insensi-
LtS TO aSslmIlate itself to their own In
N-c'"fla park that arena Of free snaecb
+it look ms stand among the socialists |
WIN their red flag the Salvation ARM
win us BRASS band, the Labor party the
s =, IiIe h1ornonS, ubiquitouS gen
tiemen with fads, ana cranks of all va
rleties: The appearance of a .'reaI. mar
kson IN the midst OF these gro,,ns NO.
snfi1ciently novel to bring a crowd snd
II IS to Bishop Migrants credit (and tho
secret of his success in other directionsY |
that he could hold it. Humor. po,n4
repartee and pertinent anecdote-au 1f
these are his; and they only kent the
tpeople agape while serious words v-er,.
oeftly inserted. 1t is still EASY as one
hears him preach in St PauTs. to re-
construct the scene In the park and as
preacher the bishop will probably car
l r. he effects of it through life
I lie continued his work at Oxford house
ktil the autumn of 1887, with the adi,tion
IEof the rectory of Bethpal Green and tho
,trufal deanery Of Spitalfelds and az
B chapla1p Of the archbishop of York he
Was IN the forefront of the now familiar
|E1lclufe Oh the diamond jubilee service. at
Fl. t'auI S. IN September OF that wear
LORD salisbury appointed him to sue
ceed bishop Browne as canon residentsrc
! OF ST Pauls, and as was generally an |
tlcipated, he shortly afterward beean,,
olshop or StePney, with the oversight of
East and Cat f1rsti Of North I,onfIon
The effect of his work may be seen IN
me increased support of the East I,o,,3o-,
cnufeh fund; not so much because +he
Disiiop Is a great organ:zer-tf,ne cso ouIr
Si9" II he Is that--hut because nconIs |
- H'Ne IN him personally and llIled 70
near Elm preach about his x,,r,.
LIT files were open to him all over ~,
U'osese aud III other parts CT England as