The Washington herald., 1908-02-23
Bishop Satterlee Eulogized
by Rev. c. E. Smith.
HIS CAREER IN THE MINISTRY
Was Destined for a Soldiers Life
and Born in Pale of the Dutch Re-
formed Chureh-ChOsen to WASH
inEtOn Diocese I'm 1s96-COnse-
Grated with Great Ceremony.
By REV. c. ERNEsT sMnTn.


community. More and more since he
became first Bishop OF Washington.
twelve years ago, on March q next.
Bishop Satterlee had been growing In the
affections Of all who were brought into
close relationship with him. OF a sin
suiarly lOvable nature, he drew men 10
himself by those strong bonds which only
deep affection can forge. Therefore, as
year followed year. an ever widening cir
Gle Of his fellow-men gave him not only
love. but reverence.
1t WAS good TO be with him. His very
presence was an inspiration. Being what
he was. he could not but be a great spir-
itual force. and the world to-day is in
fnitely poorer by his loss. Truly Of him
il may be said. as WAS said OF one like
minded with himself, He was a good
man and full OF the Holy Ghost and OF
faith"
Value to the Diocese.
Looking back now al what Bishop SAT-
terlee has been TO his diocese, and what
he has accomplished during his all too
brief episcopate, we car the more readily
realize that there's a divinity that shapes
our ends, rough hew them how we will
Henry Yates Satterlee was not born in
the church. His earliest religious asso-
Citations were with those Of the Dutch
Reformed body. But all the tendency OF
his deeply poetic and spiritual nature
was toward that type Of saintllness de-
veloped by the old Catholic Church. Its
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centuries; It's glorious victories and
splendid martyrologics; its prayers and
services consecrated by the continuous
use OF generations OF saints IN paradise:
its stately buildings and ancient shrines
appealed 10 him with strange fascina-
tton, and il was natural. even inevitable,
That though destined. as Il was supposed.
for West Point and a soldiers career
that when he came 10 the parting OF
the ways he went not 10 West Point but
to Columbia College.
Wanted 10 Re "A soldier.
Natural, too. and inevitable that he
should offer himself as a good soldier Of
Jesus Christ. seeking Christs commission
not in the body into which he had been
born. but into that toward which all his
devotional instincts took him.
In 1865 nc was made a deacon in the
Church OF God. At once H. went 70 Wap-
pingers Falls. y. Y, whore, as assistant
minister he began a work which he laid
rot down until he WAS called 10 be rector
OF Calvary Church. New York. Two years
after he went 10 Wappingers Falls he
was ordained 70 the higher office OF the
priesthood In 1874 he succeeded to the
rectorship OF the parish ia which he had
already purchased FOR himself a good de-
gree by faithful work as assistant
The Church Called Him.
Then Calvary Church called him. and
he took up the work OF that great New
York parish. His career there was mag
niicent II was an unbrol1en record OF
spiritual success. His Gaiilee Mission
its very name telling the character OF it's
work-was. from the first. q testimony 10
the workings of spiritual power. and il
went hand in hand with success at the
parish church. Social conditions, wide as
the poles asunder. were being touched. in
iuenced. and uplifted For fourteen
years he was in the highest sense not only
pastor OF Calvary parish. winning many
souls 20 Christ. but pastor also OF New
y ork City.
No wonder dioceses wanted him as
bishop. When the great diocese OF NIassa-
chcsetts fell vacant and the roll was
called only one name stood higher than
OF Phillips Brooks. Massachu-
setts' own son-as it's choice for bishop
Ohio called him and Michigan called him.
but he did not want 20 be a bishop.
NolO Episcopari was his attitude. as
gss1x D.
dral council in his own library. SO that
those influential dioceses were fain 10 seek
another as leader
Washington Called Him.
Then came Washington knocking at his
doors. Men had not thought Of calling
him. II would be useless. He had said
NO" before. more than once. He would
doubtless say the same again. Therefore.
thought OF other clergymen.
notably Dr. Lindsay. at that time rector
Of ST. Paul's. Boston, but formerly rector
Of ST. Johns. Georgetown. But ballot
followed ballot. and no choice was made
DR.. SatterIees name had been
Presently the chair announced
that DR.. Henry Y. Satterlee had been
duly elected Bishop Of the Diocese of
Washington. This was on December 6.
1895. On March ., the conservation took
place in Calvary Church New York.
The service was one of great dignity.
Bishop Cleveland Coke of Western New
York. WAS the conservation prelate. as
sisted by Bishops Huntington. Dudley.
Whitehead. Potter. Rulison.
Paret. Talbot. w A. Leonard, Nelson.
Cheshire, and Penick. Bishop Hunting
ton was the preacher.
Immediately after the conservation
service the new bishop sent his first pas
torai letter 70 the clergy and laity Of his
diocese. That evening he confirmed IL
persons for the Bishop of New York in
Calvary Church.
His First VfBitRtiOn.
Four days later Bishop satterlee held
his first visitation at Epiphany Church.
confirming a class OF fifty candidates. Tn
the afternoon he was in 81 Johns
Church, where he confirmed thirty-two.
and the evening saw him al ST. Paurs.
where, after confirming sixty-one per-
sons, he preached his third sermon and
h. third address Of the day.
From that time TO this the bishop has
5eeh IN AdDOiS oit- II Is, perhaps. not
too much to say that his labors were. in
part. the cause of his not having greater
strength tC resist in his last hours.
Worthy now OF special remembrance
are two scenes in his life since he be-
came Bishop Of Washington. which put
Bishop Satterlee gzitf1 singular clearness
before us not because they differ radl-
cally from scores of similar scenes. but
simply because they attained wider no.
tice-even an International one.
Mission 10 the Cznr.
The year after his conservation he was
travelling in Europe for rest. which he
needed badly. 1t was the time the Ar