The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-08-10
BISHOP LITTLEJOIIN.
Valuable Qualifications That
Brought to Office

Brought to Office.
Methodist bishops have been visiting
Long Island and exercising their spirit
ual overseership there for hundred
years and more. The Long Island Ro-
man Catholics are under the care and
rule of the Bishop OF Brooklyn. The
one man who wrote after his name
"bishop of Long Island" died last Sat-
urday and was buried yesterday.
Has any one counted the eminent
churchmen who have set out from Con-
necticut or journeyed through it on the
way to the Episcopal chair DR..
Littlejohn was one Of them. Meriden
and New Haven knew him before
Brooklyn and Long Island City. 1t was
from New Haven that he went to the
parish on Brooklyn Heights which has
since had the ministry of DR.. Charles
H. Hall and now has that of DIR. Nc
Connell-a notable succession, physical
and intellectual, 1t was during his
Brooklyn probably some
time in the early sixties-that he made
a visit to the west. In Chicago he
preached by invitation in a small wood
en- church that had been in its small
way an ecclesiastical storm center.
What had raised the storm? A little
black cross painted over the door by
a pious rector, and painted out by his
sternly Protestant successor. What a
gulf separates these days from those.
DR.. LittleJohn was consecrated in
1S69-the year that saw the consecra-
tons of DR.. Doane Of Albany and Dr.,
Huntington, of central New York-and
entered upon an Episcopate that was
to last thirty-two years. His new
robes became him; he looked every inch
the bishop. He brought some most
valuable qualifications to the office;
perhaps also a handicap or two, in the
shape of firmness not always gentle.
a manner not always winning. What
ever mistakes he may have made no.
body ever questioned his conscientious
ness-his recitude Of intent. He was a
painstaking administrator in his well
years, not sparing himself, full of cares
and tolls. He did a great deal of useful
sAiN
sea His lectures at the University Of
Cambridge twenty one years ago still
live in the memories of the English
men who listened to them. The prin-
cipal of an English theological school
spoke of them this very summer to a
visiting Brooklyn clergyman as having
kept the hearers "spellbound." In his
study, at his writing table, as in the
pulpit, DR.. Littlejohn was diligent
servant of his church
1t was probably misfortune that he
was not able to make Brooklyn his see
town, as he greatly desired to do at the
outstart. Circumstances first thwarted
him and then carried him away cap
tive. An attempt to obtain church
Of his own in the big city fell through
Of what followed, the Brooklyn Eagle
says
"Afterward, came the placement, or
displacement, of the bijou cathedral
and of the school of ST. Paul and of
St. Mary ON the Hampstead plains, in
unequal degree to the glory of God and
to the memory Of Alexander T. Stew
art The cathedral and the schools,
with the See House, at first felt the
chilling and ironic touch which seemed
to satirze every effort of the merchant
to make his millions interconvertibe
with fame. The story was
one of more exterior assumption than
internal dignity and of more financial
ingenuity than of moral fragrance
There has always been a disjoined re-
lation of this great diocese to its arti-
fetal center, and an infelicity in its
separation from its natural center"
The bishops closing years were years
of grief and of physical feebleness
The stout heart remained-he would
not hear of a coadjutor-but the time
of work was over and the time of rest
at hand.-Hartford Courant.