Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-01
EIGHT new BISHOPS
Elevation of Eminent Metho-
dist DivineS.
CEREMONY IN BALTIMORE
Conservation Exercises Held in the
Lyric.
SPECTATORS FILLED THE HALL
Each Candidate Presented by Two
Elders-Exercises Followed by
Reception of Friends.
SPECTATORS FILLED THE HALL

BALTIMORE. June lin the presence
OF $50 members of tho general conference
Of the Methodist Episcopal Church 800
visitors to the conference and citizens oil
Baltimore and the families Of the candt-
dates eight new bishops Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church were consecrated yes
terday afternoon at the Lyric
Bishops Consecrated.
The bishops consecrated We're as fol-
lows:
William F. Anderson If New York.
John l.. Nuelsen of Rerea Ohio.
William A. Quayle of Chicago.
Charles William Smith of Pittshurs.
Wilson Seelev Lewis Of Sioux City. Iowa.
Edwin Holt Hughes of Csreencastle. Ind
Robert Mcintyre of Los Angeles Cal.
Frank Milton Bristol of Washington
For more than an hour before the con-
eecration services began the great nail OF
the Lyric was crowded ne aisies along
the side the open space in the rear ana
every place else available was packed
With people who stood all the time that
the service was going on.
Arrangements for Presentation.
On each side of the stage were four
email mahogany tables in front of each
was a hassock and on each one of these
tables was a fine morocco-bound Bible.
with a copy of the ritual. Behind each
one of these tables were three chairs
the middle one for the bishop-elect and
those on the side were for the elders
who were to present him for conservation
There being eight bishops TO be conse-
Grated. four tables were placed on each
side of the platform. while the chairs
Of the consecrators were between these
two rows In the rear.
Bishop Warren Chief Consecrator.
AS senior bishop of the church. Bishop
Henry w Warren of Colorado presided
At the services and was the chief conse-
orator. With firm voices. but with coun-
tenances depicting their sense of the
solemnity OF the occasion. the candidates
answered each one of the questions put
to them and made oath at the conclusion
Of each answer.
Ceremony of Conservation.
Bishops Warren and Goodsel walked
over and took their places in front of the
station occupied by Bishop-elect Anderson
and his presenters, and as they halted
the three behind the stand arose. Turn
ing toward the consecrators. Rev. DR..
Waters presented Bshop-elect Anderson.
Bishop-elect Anderson knelt on the has
cheeks, while his lips moved in prayer.
DR.. Waters and DR.. Kelly. the presenting
elders. each put their right hand on the
head of the bishop-elect. and then Bishop
Goodsell put his right hand on. and Blsh-
op Warren's lay on all the rest. AS the
consecrator Bishop Warren then pro-
nounced the words of ordination. which
were used in the conservation OF each one
of the eight
After the words of the conservation had
been pronounced Bishop Goodsel1 placed
before the newly consecrated bishop an
open Bible and delivered the injunction.
The same service was gone through for
each one of the candidates. Bishop Nuel-
sen was presented by Rev. Edmond c.
Amer and consecrated by Bishops Good
sell and Cranston. Bishop Quayle was
presented to the consecrators by Rev DR..
Naphtali Luccock and elevated to his
high office by Bishops Moore and Hamil-
ton. Rev. DR.. W. w. Evans presented
Bishop Smith. and Bishops Hamilton and
Berry consecrated him. For Bishop Lewis
the presentation was made by Pev. j. Is.
Trimble and the conservation was done
by Bishops Spellmeyer and Mcdowell.
Bishops Mcdowell and Bashford conse-
Grated Bishop Hughes after he had been
presented to them by the latter's brother.
Rev. DR.. Matthew S. Hughes OF st. Louis.
Bishop Mcintyre was presented by Rev
DIR. Christie Gaieneer. and Bishops Burt
and Luther B. Wilson consecrated him.
DR.. Bristol's Elevation.
Bishop Bristol was presented by Rev.
Or. James c. Nicholson of Baltimore.
and his chief consecrator was a former
member of the Baltimore conference,
Bishop Luther B. Wilson. The injunction
TO Bishop Bristol was delivered by Bishop
Thomas 3. Nicely of Buenos Aires. South
America.
The conservation was closed with a
prayer for the new bishops by Bishop
James W. Bashford of Shanghai. China
The concluding hymn was announced by
Bishop William Burt of Zurich. Switzer-
land. and the benediction was pronounced
by Bishop Nicely.
After the services the new bishops held
a reception On the platform, and hun
dreds of their friends congra tulated them
upon their elevation 20 the episcopacy.
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