The Newtown bee., 1905-11-10
Rev. F. F. Johnson CONSECRATED A BISHOP WITH IMPRESSIVE
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. contending for our forms of faith and order. One wearies of the chipping at Tables of Stone, which we hear in the first tables to the ground in holy indignation, when he saw the people worshipping a golden calf. The tend ency to put the form for the spirit was doubtless forced sharply upon his consciousness. His soul was full of the spirit of the law; he carried tables written with the finger of God and here were people so far from a true conception of the Eternal Name that even Aaron could consent to an un- worthy similitude, borrowed from the sensuous worship of Egypt.
 "He wist not that the skin of his face shone when he came to them' the second time, but that shining twas the fOreShowing of the power which makes able ministers of the New Tes- tament, mot of the letter, but of the spirit." The man of force in the min istry is the man who lives from great depths of being. He brings his forms of faith and order, but Creed and Church and Holy Sacrament are all ir- radiate with Spirit and Life. In the find himself and the Father of His Spirit.
 1 know very well that our material environment is not friendly to this remoteness of spirit uality. l know, too, that as far back as the time of Abraham and Moses the springs of power were in the souls of men who talked with God, as man talketh with his friend. The convinc- ing force of Christianity is in that demonstration of the Spirit through pose and genial, holy influence, which commends itself to every mans con science in the sight of God.
 It was my privilege to be present at the consecration of Bishop Hare thir- ty-tWO years ago. We were rectOrS in the city of Philadelphia. He went to remote Jurisdiction among the Indi- ans, known as Niobrara. With sin : gle, consecrated purpose he put his strong, full manhood into the work. To-day statistics are utterly made quate to tell what his work has been. A great territory, comprising the Reservation in the State of South Da- kota and the Santee Reservation in the State of Nebraska is his juriSdic- fiction. He does not want our praise. We all regret his enforced absence to- day. l may presume upon his absence to say that the personal force of the man has radiated far beyond his ac- tual achievements. He has command ed not only the affection of and cOnti- dence of the whole Church but also in the Councils of the Nation his force p,,l tvoI hnc do fn1 has stood for the Eternal Right, in the name of God and humanity and no man can do that and fail to reflect the light of God. "The righteous shall shine forth as the sun and they that bring many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever"
 And you, my beloved brother, a friend to me when friendship was very present help in trouble,
 ARE CALLED TO BE THE FELLOW
 HELPER
 unto the Kingdom of God and a com- fort to our beloved Bishop of South Dakota. The prayers of the whole church will go with you, as you go to him. Elisha will be ready for the fall ing mantle of Elijah and the Chariot will drive on with your consecrated will holding the reins. l need not eX- 
 an humble, self-distrustful man of God, with the force of a consecrated purpose in you-seeking not to shine but to do your duty. Your work will be what you are-and your compensa- tion realized in that bleSt hour when Sower and Reaper shall rejoice togeth- CT, in the transforming presence of the Lord of the Harvest. We say to you, as we lay our hands upon you, in the solemn consecration to an postol ic work,
 "God for thee has done His part,
 Do thine.'
 During the sermon the bishop-elect sat at the foot of the choir step in a chair once belonging to Rev John Beach (which came from England) and now kept at the Rectory. At it's close he was presented to the Presiding Bishop by Bishops Brewster and Lines. The certificate of his election was read by Rev pr Samuel Hart, secretary of the House of Bishops.
 The testimonial from the bishops was read by Rev pr John Binney, dean of the Berkeley Divinity school, as follows:
 In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
 HOUSE OF BISHOPS.
 Il SpeCldl oeSSlOn,
 New York, June 9, A. D. l9O3 WE, whose names are hereunder W written, fully sensible how im- portant it is that the Sacred Order and Oflice of d Bishop should not be unworthily conferred, and firmly per Suaded that it is our duty to bear teS timOny on this solemn occasion with out partialty or affection, do, in the presence of Almighty God, testify that the Reverend
 FREDERICK FOOTE JOHNSON is not, so far as we are informed, justly liable to evil report, either for error in religion or for viciOuSneSS of life: and that we know of no impeachment on account of which he ought not to be ordained and consecrated to that Holy Office.
 Daniel S. Futile, Bishop of Missouri. Ozi William Whitaker, Bishop of Pennsylvania.