The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-20
CHAPLAIN M'CABE IS DEAD.
THE BISHOP SUCCUMBS TO THE
STROKE OF APOPLEXY.


HAS Htcu liz VIC ftDsUItAA SIuC6 Hc Wat
stricken on Dec. ll-Got His Familiar
Title for His work in the Civil War
RAISED "a Million for Missions
Bishop Charles C. McCabe Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, who was stricken with
apoplexy near the Twenty-third street
terminal OF the Pennsylvania ferry on
December II, while on his way to his home
in Philadelphia, died yesterday in the New
York Hospital.
Policeman 1eedner, who caught the
Bishop when he reeled and fell, carried
him into a saloon near by to wait for an
ambulance. The Bishop was unable to
talk coherently and his identity was not
established until after his papers had been
examined at the hospital. He lapsed into
unconsciousness at the hospital and was
unable to recognize his family when they
arrived at his bedside. With him when
and Mrs. M. G. Miller Mrs. McCabe's sister.
They had been with him almost constantly
in his illness.
The funeral services will be held at s
o'clock this afternoon at st. Paul's Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, Eighty-sixth street
and West End avenue. The body will be
taken to Evansville, ILL.,, for burial.
Bishop McCabe was born at Athens,
Ohio, on October IL, 1885. He was Familiarity
known by the Methodists all over the coun-
try as Chaplain McCabe, because OF his
services in that capacity in the civil war.
He was educated at the Ohio Wesleyan
University and entered the Ohio Conference
in 1850. He went TO the front in 1882 ss
chaplain Of the l22d Ohio Volunteers. At
the battle of Winchester, while caring for
the wounded of his command, he was taken
prisoner and spent four months in Libby
prison. He was a good singer, also some
thing Of a poet, ami this combination, with
hia phaarv HiaInRifinn annhlAl him tn Ta-
date much geniality and tighten the life
of his fellow prisoners. He wrote his prison
experiences under the title Of The Bright
Sile of Libby Prison" a lecture which he
delivered many times. He rejoined his
regiment soon after his release from prison
and later entered the service OF the Christian
Commission.
At the centennial Of American Methodism
in 1860 he RI Used ss7, 900 for the Ohio Wes-
leyan University. His success as a money
getter led 10 his appointment % assistant
corresponding secretary OF the Church
Extension Society. In the sixteen years
he held this office his work became known
TO Methodists the world over. He attained
fame as a singer, composer ana adapter OF
hymns. InJSsi he was elected corresr ond-
ing secretary of the missionary society OF
the Church and four wears hter was made
senior secretary. He raised the ~shibboleth
"A million for MISSIONS" and through his
wonderful energy got the money. The sub
scription the following year went over the
million mark. He was made a Bishop in
1895 and chancellor of the American Uni
versitv at Washington in 1902.
Bishop McCabe was a member OF the
international polcyholders' insurance COM
mittee and recently caused much COM
ment by writing a letter in which he sug-
gested that the COMMITTEES should indorse
the administration tickets OF both the
Mutual and the New York Life. He also
criticised the methods of the committee
and resigned from it.