The Newtown bee., 1905-11-10
Rev. F. F. Johnson CONSECRATED A BISHOP WITH IMPRESSIVE
 CEREMONIES,
In Trinity Church, Newtown,
ON THURSDAY LAST.

With impressive ceremonies and in the presence of congregation of 800 people, Rev Frederick F. Johnson was consecrated on Thursday last in Trinity church, bishop of the Episco- pal church, having been elected in June last by the House of Bishops to be an assistant to the venerable and beloved bishop of South Dakota, Rev William Hobart Hare, D. D.
 The weather was ideal for the fall season, and added to the completeness and Joy of the occasion. The services of the day opened with Morning Prayer at g a. m., at which Rev O. O. Wright and Rev L. R. Sheffield officiated. At II o'clock the bishops, clergy and others who came to take part in the process feet south west of the church, where they vested for the service.
 They were marShaled in order by Rev James H. George, rector of Trinity parish, and his assistants, Rev George w. Griffith of Bethel and Rev George w. Davenport of Danbury. The stu dents of the Berkeley Divinity school led the procession, and were followed by the clergy of the diocese, clergymen of other dioceseS, officials of the di- ocese, of the board of missions, and of the general convention; Rev George T. Linsley of Hartford, deputy regis trar of the convention for this occa- sion, coming last. Then followed the bishop-elect with his two attending presbyters, Rev George Hickman Buck of Derby and Rev Charles J. Sniffin of South Lee, Mass; after him came Bishop Lines of Newark, N. J., his presenters; then Bishop Jagger, the preacher, and Bishop Courtney, for merly of Nova Scotia and now rector of St James, church, New York; and last the bishops of Western Massachu- setts, Pennsylvania and Missouri. On arriving at the church, the procession reversed, and the presiding bishop entered first. At the close of the professional hymn, the 2Oth Psalm was chanted as an intrOit, and the Pre- siding Bishop began the communion service. Bishop Vinton read the epistle,- and Bishop Whitaker read the Gospel. After the Nicene Creed had been said, with great volume of mems voices, the sermon was preached by Rt Rev Thomas A. Jagger, former ly bishop of Southern Ohio, now rector personal friend of the biShop-elect, who was indeed about to become his colleague in parochial work when he was elected to the episcopate. He took for his text Exodus 34 :29: "Moses wist not that the skin of his face shOne while he talked with Him. Bishop Jagger is a man of fine personal appearance, and was heard with great pleasure and had the closest attention of the great audience. It was with evident feeling Bishop Jagger spoke as be delivered the closing charge tC the candidate.
 The sermon by Bishop Jagger, based on the text Exodus 34: 29, was as fol lows:
 Moses stands out in our view as ont of the most illustrious personages ir history. But his luStre was not so wide actual shining of his face was pro phetic of his whole influence in human history. He was, in fact, a leader o serfs. He was no demagogue, but i'm pelled by Divine Call to lead peO pie broken in spirit and morale by Op pression, out of their captivity. H was Self-diStruStful, rather than self seeking or ambitious. The sympath of race was strong within him. Fort years of residence in the Egyptian Court, as the son of Pharaoh's daugh | ter, could not make hlm IOrgeU Una he was Ia Hebrew of the Hebrews.
 He slew an Egyptian who was smit ing an Hebrew-one of his brethren But when he interfered to preven two of his Hebrew brethren fror Wronging each other, they turned UT gratefully against him and became ir formers in the matter of the slai
 Egyptian.
 He was at once the deliverer and tn peace-maker. He knew how marrow
 malignant and capricious his own pe(
 pie could be. It was their malignity
 rather than Egyptian enmity tha
 drove hlm into exile. But they Wer
 a people chosen of God fO" a purpose
 and he chose rather to suffer atflictiO
 with the people of God than to enjo
 the pleasures of sin for season; e!
 teeming the reproach of Christ grea
 CT riches than the treasures in Egyp
 He went blindly into
 DUTY WHICH WAS BR1sTLING WIT
 DIFFICULTY AND DANGER;
 which offered no reward on earth an
 for which he deemed himself untittet
 He was not permitted to see his mi
 sion successfully accomplished. H
 sowed and others reaped. He was r.
 moved before his work had been appr