The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-11-29
REV. DR.. WARNER DEAD
Was Rector of Trinity Church, New Or
leans-Sufered from La Grippe.

The death of Rev. Beverley Ellison
Warner, which occurred Sunday morn
ing at his home in New Orleans, ha:
been announced He was the rector o
Trinity church. He had suffered from
la grippe which aggravated his hear
trouble. He died suddenly.
SKETCH-OF DIR. WARNER.
DR.. Warner was born in Jersey City
N. J., October "a, 1855. He was a son
of James Warner and Anna Carscallen.
After obtaining the rudiments of his ed
ucation he attended Princeton College
and then went to Trinity College and
later the Berkeley Divinity School. In
1886 Trinity Colleg conferred upon him
the degree of Master of Arts. He was
ordained minister of the gospel of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in 1879.
The University of the South conferred
upon him the degree of Doctor of Di-
vinity in 1896. The degree of Doctor
of Laws was conferred upon him by
Tulane University in 1905.
DIR. Warner came to Trinity parish, in
1893 from Bridgeport, Conn, where he
had been pastor of the leading Episcopal
church. With the exception of few
weeks that he was in Philadelphia as
rector of ST. Stephens church, his serV-
ice for seventeen years were unstlntedly
given to Trinity parish.
PRESS COMMENT
Times-Democrat: He was a church
man widely famed for his devotion, his
force and eloquence; an author whose,
purity of thought and scholarly diction
had charmed and won and held a great
audience of discriminating readers; a
citizen who fearlessly and faithfully dis
charged his civic obligations to the last
letter; leader of good causes whose
name was in itself a host and whom
honorable men of all creeds and walks
of life followed with implicit confidence.
A gentleman of distinguished natural
endowments, scholarly attainments, lofty
purposes, catholicity of spirit and
boundless sympathy, DR.. Warner was a
tower of strength to the community,
whose loss untimely is wellnigh 1rrepar
able. No man has enjoyed in greater
degree the affection, respect and conf
dence of any community, and no man,
we think, better deserved them. 1t is
comforting to reflect now, when he has
been summoned away, that the people
of New Orleans testified to kim living
their love an desteem and rendered
their grateful acknowledgement of his
worth and work.
New Orleans Picayune: From the
moment of his transplantation to South
ern conditions and activities he sought
to identity himself with the people
among whom he had come to labor, and
in every good work in his church and
out of it he was Jealous and devoted.
Particularly active and faithful was
he in the sanitary ministrations which
were inaugurated during the yellow
fever visitation here in 1905, and in that
strenuous season he was always in the
forefront of useful and courageous
service. Prominent in the affairs of his
church and force in social and educa-
tional circles, he was active in works of
practical charity, having been largely in
strurnental in establishing the Kingsley
House here, an institution for the bene-
fetal uplift of the humble and the needy.
Passing away in his ffty-ffth year, af-
ter much worthy activity, DR.. Warner
was still comparatively young and
seemed capable of much further useful
ness, but an attack of grip had dragged
him down and his career was cut short,
but not until he had achieved much that
merits the praise and consideration of
his fellows.
New Orleans States The loss of such
a man does not, as we have said, belong |
alone to the congregation to which he
was so devoted, but is shared by all de-
nominations and creeds. He was worthy
in every respect of the tribute which
Archbishop B1enk paid him in saying
He was scholar of real distinction,
citizen of loftiest ideals, and as a clergy
man of the Eposcipalian Church he left
deep and lasting the impress of his
splendid personality"