The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-17

KEY. DSIJdIIlll w NIPPlOs
bishop of Minnesota, died yesterday
morning at o'clock at mis- home in Farl-
bault, Mimi, where, for the past week,
he has been battling bravely with death.
His DEATH although rot unexpected,
came as a great shock to thousands OF
people in Minnesota and the Northwest
where, for over quarter of a century,
his has been a familiar public figure.
The end was peaceful and painless
All day Sunday he was unconscious, and
with the dawning of the morning ne
passed quietly away, surrounded by his
wife and daughters. The immediate
cause of death was heart failure. 1t
was feared from the first that his illness
would prove fatal because of his advanc-
ed age and feeble condition.
He leaves surviving him wife and four
children, Mrs. H. A. Seamdrett, of Fari-
bault; Mrs. F. w. Jackson, of Cleveland,
Ohio: Mrs. Farnham, of Philadelphia,
and Col. Charles H. Whipple, U. S. A.
The body will lie in state in the chapel
at his residence, and the funeral will
take place on Friday, at 2 o'clock, from
the cathedral. The body will be inferred
in the cathedral q tomb being made IN
the floor of the crypt to hold the re-
mains. He will sleep in the city he loved
the most, amid the scenes of so many of
his tolls and triumphs.
BY the constitutional provision of the
church Bishop Edsall, recently elected
bishop coadjutor succeeds to the bisn-
opric of the diocese The succession will
not be announced until the general con-
Vention of the church, which meets in
San Francisco on Oct. 2. At this conVen-
ton Bishop Edsall will be officially de-
clared bishop coadjutor, and will then
naturally succeed to the higher office.
The reception of the news in St. Paul
called forth on every hand expressions of
HIGHEST love and for oiShnn
Whipple numbered his friends in this city,
as elsewhere, by the thousands, and It
was as a personal friend, for into his
friendships he poured the enthusiasm
and strengthening sympathy of his life.
Not hamlet in the state but heard of
his death with feelings of sadness, for he
was well known everywhere. His life
was a part of the history of the great
West, and he was a pioneer Of the pie-
neers. Among churchmen his death oc
casioned untold grief, for so long has
Bishop Whipp1e held his high command
that it is hard to think of anyone else
succeeding to his work. He was one of
the greatest figures in the councils of
the Episcopalian church, not. alone in
this country, but the world over.
The coming convention of the church at
San Francisco will hold memorial serv-
+, ices for him, at which the great church
to which he gave his uDtiring energy will
pay IlIil q lI1DuIG SUCH dS lew InSn nave
ever received.
TRIBUTE FROM HON. A. D. WHITE
When Hon. Andrew D. White was
president of Cornell university, Bishop
Whipple preached in the chapel one
morning, and Mr.. White afterwards paid
his the following high tribute:
Take the sermons we had last Sun
day, the two discourses preached by the
great apostle to the Indians -discourses
not only noble in themselves, but
preached in such a way that you felt
that behind the sermon there stood
mana very great mana man who
has made his mark on the history Of
this country; man to whose honor
statues will be erected; man who has
stood between the helpless Indian and
the wild greed of the whole Northwest; (;
man who has fought scoundrelism
and lust and avarice in low places
and in high: who has pur-
sued it to the national capI-
tai, and driven it hence; who has taken
, hold of governors of states and presi-
dents cf the United States, and has told
them, IF you don't cut loose from these
things, will denounce you to the world,
and he has done it. 1t was something
to sit in the presence of such man
and his closing words in the afternoon
regarding the future of the country and
them? Certainly none of us ever will.
There is no man who heard them who
was not strengthened by Them
BISHOP EDSALL is SHOCKED.
Bishop Edsall, who will be Bishop
Whipple's successor, was greatly shocked
TO hear of his death. He said, in speak
ing of Bishop Whipple:
The sad news of Bishop Nnipple's
death comes as a bereavement not only
to his wife and family and the circle Of
his Intimate friends, but to the Episcopal
church of Minnesota, which he had guild
ed so wisely for over forty years, to our
church in the United States and through
out the whole Anglican communion.
Nor is the loss simply an ecclesiastical
matter. lie whole state of Minnesota
will mourn him as one who for forty
years has been one of the foremost citi-
zens, and whose heroic pioneer struggles
have entered into the up-building of the
state.
He was a great man. Great in mind
and heart as he was commanding IN
physical presence and stature. He has
given his life to God and the good of
ms fellowmen. And now his struggles
are over and he has gone home.
personally, am too grief-stricken to
pe able to say much at this time. /
loved him as a father and he honored
me with his love-. He was waiting fer
me to come and help him, and was
waiting with pleasure in the thought
that I was going to be privileged to
tighten his labors in his declining years.
and be helped by his fatherly counsel.
But now the blow has fallen and 1 am
overwhelmed with the knowledge that
instead of being simply coadjutor OF
my beloved church 1 must be prepared
TO assume the full burden of diocesan
Responsibility
Il called to see Bishop Whipple Satur-
day, and while, of course, he was toe
sick to See me, his family was so grave