New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-27
DR.. GREER MADE BISHOP
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cession No crucifers or crossbearers headed
it, as was the at Bishop BURGESS
conservation. Following the vested choir
came the lay deputies to the general
convention lay members OF the Standing
Committee, the vestrymen of St. Bartholomew
Church, the lay trustees of the Cathedral Of
st. John the Divine. deacons. clerGy from out
side dioceses clergy of the diocese according
to their seniority, clerical deputies to the gen
eraI convention, clerical members of the stand
ing Committee, the Rev. Drs. Samuel Hart and
George T. Nelson, the Bishop COadjutOr-elect
and the attending presbyters, the Rev. DIS w
Z. Huntington and Morgan Dix. the bishops and
then Bishop Potter. The laymen turned into
pews in the centre aisle. while the clergy pro-
ceeded to the sanctuary.
BEGINS WITH COMMUNION.
The service began with the communion Office
conducted by Bishop Potter. Bishop Burgess
read the Epistle and Bishop William Hobart
Hare of South Dakota, the Gospel.
Following the communion service. Bishop
Doane entered the pulpit and began the ordina-
ton sermon.
He took as his text the twenty-nfth verse of
the second chapter Of the First Epistle Of St.
Peter. THE shepherd and the bishop of your
souls" He spoke generally OF the duties Of
bishop IN his diocese. of their multiplicity and
arduous nature
He emphasized. however. the satisfaction of
work well DONE a satisfaction to be attained
only by deserts. Time and again he leaned
across the pulpit and directed his address to DR.
Greer who sat before the altar rail. Bishop
Doane said in part:
Not the least wonderful, not the least merciful
not inc least helilu OF 'tle aStetS ~ ~ tbe con
tact Of the Godhead with humanity i lie vas
into flesh, but by taking Of the manhood into God
lie tabernaced in US all of US entire humanly
We have learned and declared. JIstln, Mar
said that Christ, the first begotten Son OF Cod Is
ths L0sosi OF winch te "LOe ui man fr,r1 IIis
miraculous conception by the Holy Ghost in the
npoI anI o D0Yaood 1T o tdoE lin for fy Years
old when he was barely thirty1 lie touched also
tolls and temptations. bereavement and pain city
and country inland people and seafaring men. doc
tors and lawyers scribes and Pharisees rich men
and poor men the quick and the dead dead r SO COM
Il is TO our infinite comfort to add, and II seems
4 fitting subject Of thought. and Of thankfulness
or TO accept from inspired language. not only tn, the
10 our most sacred institutions napIlsn' eonIri1 ma
sttution and perhaps at Emmaus-not only these.
but aso all the varied phases and functions OF the
came TO minister; the priesthood. as he only is the
Ghurchs accepted description OF its highest office
dntolerable and impossible. except as He makes 1t
ard ais it win HIMSELF the Shepherd and Bishop
No small part o. the hardness and heayiness, Of 4
beside all OF his own work. ne must oe held &C
Is iae oversight OF the eplscopate. me reSpGns-
b.uty cannot be shifted ana may NOT DE shiTkeu
@ - &c ro9sy win aU faltbfil diiIseDce to- han
ish and drive away from the Church erroneous ana
strange doctrines contrary 10 Gods Word bind
the srir OF Tear But OK power tempersd by love
ana toned ~ t0oerness, SHis eE't tsS NJ IN
clergy" and tho charge OF the clergy IS added to
the bishops duties. and this makes his cure OF
Here and there. IN the decayed parishes and the
niue country conE ee'llioiy t'a me ,I
care ana we have the right and the duty to see 70
troiGen down or it's deep waters foued 6y the feet
az false teachers and uufaithful shepherds. II IS
wise and well. I believe 10 avoid the scandals OF
trials for heresy and prosecution In courts gcele-
slastcal or civil FOR breach Of ritual law Patience
lions and penalties. Hut unless oVeTl9okinS means
ignoring. unless oversight means the Nelsonian
honesty tlnR That we have come FAR short in the
past OF discharEing our duties as oyerlookers and
authority when the faith IS denied or diluted dis
snc ys' ana authority both fan in not letting the
Church know that We are neither blind nor dumb
HARD. BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE.
What has been hard but not impossible. in this
great city parish. with its enormous congregations;
20 tb snir t' Of WHAT NAV can perhaps access.
mower OF personality The cold aloOfness of old
peared IN the true Thought OF the bishops place
among men, as father and brother, not In caste.
not in n class but only fellow and friend.
The next note IS the giving, the laying down OF
life for the sheep These words in the author
lied have only the representative IN the
original and vet ~ is word with these two shades
OF meaning Not to lay down llfe only. but to 1--we:
not 10 give up in the one supreme act OF sacrnce,
but to keep giving I'm continual conservation.
There is minute act Of work or service which
the sense of this conservation does not lift TO dig
nifty and importance.
For one I welcome with all my heart and all my
hopes the growing spirit IN the Church to-day Of
reconciliation and OF recognition. The day is past
sure that they asserting truth unless they do
IT in tho of denying and denouncins error.
possesses himself is found I'm declaring that some
| else does not possess It.
When unity ~ IL viii be. not by pride IN
apostolic succession but by the humbeness OF tho
meaning merely, what II does In part.
broken hold upon the authority Of the past. hut
meaning still more the univeUsalness OF fun SYM
patty with the age In which we live, and larger
outlook upon the wide future OF the wide world:
not by the denial of grace In saCraments not min
istered by men episcopally ordained but by mani
sacraments breeds In ourselves.
And the last line along which with restless and
resistless urgency this necessity must cOnstrain
| and compel every member or tho Church In his
vocation and ministry is missions. because missions
| is the vocation of every member Of the Church.
PRAISE FOR DIR. GREER.
There is no missionary in the Christian world
| in farthest foreign places or remotest region OF
| the earth. In whom the presence OF this note of
| shepherdship has been more dominant than in
/ the person and in the priesthood OF my dear and
/ reverend brother whom hands are 10 be
laid to-day. St. Bartholomew's parish might well
have claimed exemption from the payments Of con-
| tributions to our general mission work instead OF
4 efa flfnr In front of Ito