The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-20
TRIBUTES To BISHOP LINES

The Rev. Dr. Lines of New Haven is just the sort of bishop that the diocese
 of Newark needs although few rec
 tors down New Jersey way don't know it.-Hartford Post.
 The fact that the Rev. Dr. Lines of
 New Haven has accepted the offer of ] the Newark, N, J., bishopric and will leave New Haven is a source of regret
 for his people ia the latter city, much
 as the Newark see may gain by the | change. He leaves a most enviable en-
 vironment, one of his own making and
 one in which the work must have grown to be less irksome through sys-
 tematic and thoroughly competent management, as well as the assured sympathy and support of the people.
 He will take up more difficult task, but one to which he will bring large ex- perience, natured capacity and excep- 1 tional daptability-Bridgeport stand- ard. a
 Rev. Dr. Lines writes from Antwerp that he has decided to accept the elec- | ltion to the see of Newark. It.is sorrow
 ful news for his parish and for New
 Haven; and in the same measure it is
 good news for the Jerseymen.
 All who know Dr. Lines have known all along that his decision would be determined by consideration of duty, and not by considerations of his own ease and comfort. It will be no light wrench for him. He goes from a sim
 gularly happy pastorate and from | city that honors and loves him to take up the burden of the episcopate in diocese that has known its full share ot troubles and distractions. There have
 even been unpleasant intimations that some of the Newark clergy will meet him with eoldness and disaffection. But
 no friend of his will worry unduly over these outgivings. Dr. Lines manliness and kindliness can be trusted to disarm any such initial opposition. if 1t exists,
 He will have Newark as fond of him in time as New Haven isand that's say ing good deal. Hartford Courant.
 The Rev. Dr. Lines announcement to
 Dean Mann of East Orange that he has
 decided to accept the election to the
 bishopric of the Episcopal diocese of
 Newark shows that the .Irreconcila-
 bles'' of the diocese. if they ever did,
 as has been alleged, try to frighten him into declining, have signally failed in the accomplishment of their purpose.
 The election was followed, as the New
 York Times stated at the time, by a Ivituperative newspaper colloquy be- tween the factions in the church and al E little handful of the more pronounced
 Ritualists who warned the bishop that l if he came he would find divided fold l to preside over. The more tolerant of the partisans have, however, drowned i so darkly upon them to discourage 1 them from further demonstrations, and the Rev. Dr. Lines will doubtless find his new field an agreeable one to work i in after all.
 Two or three months must yet elapse before things can be made ready for his lconsecration The consents of the bish-s 1 ops and standing committees must first i be had, and though these will be cheer- 1 fully given by all as matter of course, l it will be some weeks before they shall l all have been secured. The present cal lculation is that the new bishop will be
 formally inducted into his new position Hate in October. Either Grace church < in Orange. of which the Rev. MT. Mann I is rector, or Trinity church, Newark, l the oldest and wealthiest in the diocese,
 will be. selected. The Rev Dr. Louis
 Shreve Osborne, the rector of Trinity,
 is i'll with pneumonia at a summer re
 sort in Canada but the attack is not
 considered a dangerous one, and he will I in all probability have recovered in time to make the arrangements for the
 use of his church, if it should be chosen.
 Tn The coming of the new bishop has gfiivp gfsiivp
 en rise, too, to a mild agitation as to i the place of his residence. The epis-
 copal residence Is now on North Airing
 ton avenue-a villa home on one of the Imost exclusive streets in aristocratie
 East Orange, and the supposition is that Bishop-elect Lines will make it his
 home. But Newark interests are urg-
 ing him to sell that property and with
 the proceeds purchase d more central
 land accessible residence in the city of 1 Newark. New York Times.
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