The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-15
Ills Tenth Anniversary in the Episcopate the
Occasion Of Notable
Exercises.
both CLERGY AND lAIIY
Commemorative Resolutions and a
Bishops Pectoral Cross Presented
Speakers Were Rev. NJ. NJ. Marshall,
Archdes con E. a. Osborn, Hon Henry
a. London, Hon. Richard n. Battle.

a. London, Hon. Richard a. Battle.
Ten years of service in the Episcopate
was fittingly commemorated last night
when the clergy and laity of the Episcopal
Church met in the Church of the Good
Shepherd to do honor to Bishop Joseph
Blount Cheshire
Ten years ago he was made Assistant
Bishop of the Diocese of North Carolina,
afterwards succeeding to the Bishopric.
Last night the people whom he had so
faithfully served showed their esteem and
regard.
There was present a very large congrega-
tion and within the chancel sat represen-
tatives of the clergy of the Diocese. 1t
was an inspiring scene and its beauty was
increased by the large vested choir which
rendered the appropriate music of the oc-
! casion-
After the celebration of the regular ev-
ening services Bishop Cheshire came for
ward and delivered the following address,
THE BISHOPS ADDRESS.
MY Dear Brethren:
You who honor me with your conf
dcnce and affection have thought proper
/ to take notice at this close of the tenth
year of my episeopate of my service as
yeuf Bishop. / am most grateful for the
kindness which prompted the thought, for
my own While such an anniversary must
need fill my mind with solemn and
sCbering thoughts, as l contemplate the
great possibilities of such an office and
contrasts them with the 1neagre results
acoompllhed. l could almost wish that no
one but my self should have recalled The
associations of the day. For only seven
| years did Bishop Ravenscroit lift UP his
voice like trumpet in proclaiming the
true principles Of the church and of the
gospel in this Diocese of North Carolina.
For twenty years before his sad defec-
tlon Bishop Ives spread abroad the knowl-
edge and influence of the church with a
contagious zeal and enthusiasm, perhaps
not equalled since among us For twenty
seven years the noble presence the COM
manding intellect, the persuasive voice,
the sanity character of Bishop Atkinson
was our strength and our confidence
under God. For full twenty laborious
years Bishop Lyman with unmeasured
diligence Watered and tended what others
had planted and himself added no incoa-
celvable area of new acquisitions to the
spiritual vinyard
The thought which at this moment
pauses most beautifully upon my mind
IS that our own Episcopate has already
exceeded that of the great Bishop Raven
croft by three years has continued fully
halt as long as these of Bishop Ives and
Bishop Lyman and more than one-third
OF that OF Bishop Atkinson
AS We descend the stream of time.
swifter and swifter flows the current You
have right to know what l have been
dong these years. / give you a brief
and compendious summary of my work
In the exercise of my ministry during this
time l have held services more thar
1000 times. have preached 1,400 sermons,
delivered 500 addresses. confirmed 4,400,
have consecrated 27 churches and chapels,
have ordained 27. These services have
not been all in this Diocese From time
to time | have given aid to my brethren
when | could do so without neglecting
my proper duties. OF the combinations
our Diocesan Register contains the rec
ord OF 3.528. Of the remainder many
were in the district of AshevIle after l.
had been let off from US in 1895. Some
were in other Dioceses-East Carolina,
New York. Newark. Albany, Rhode Is
land. One was in the District of Orkery
Islands. but my ministrations have mostly
been confined to my own Diocese. / have
seldom been beyond its borders except
when called by some demand of duty
Il am not apologizing for these minis
tratlons outside our own Diocese. You
would not wish 4ne to do So The bishops
special field IS his own proper diocese, but
the bishops office is not local. 1t has
It's universal aspect. This, the bishop of
the diocese is connected with the wider
field of the world and he has his duty 20
the church at large. In the exercise
of this larger function 1t has been my
duty to take part in the conservation
OF the other bishops, both diocesan and
missionary. AS consecrator, assisted by
the bishops of East Carolina, South Caro-
lima and Virginia l had the happiness
OF conveying the apostolic commission to
our dear brother-the bishop of Asheville
have recently taken part in the conse
Grafton of another honored Presbyterian
very dear to us all, bishop of Mississippi.
Through no extraordinary progress has
marked these ten years, there has been
steady and moderate growth. In 1893 the
27 counties now constitute missionary
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