The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-02-25
fMADE A BISHOP SUFFRAGAN
DIX. &. y. NJ RCH tONSE(RATED
At GRACE CHt Rt N.
bishop Doane Of Albany Preache. a No
table sermon on ti,r authority for the
bishops once and Church Union
New Bishops Career and once.

New Bishops Career and once.
The Rev. DIR. Charles Sumner Burch,
archdeacon of Staten Island and rector
of old st. Andrews Church. Richmond.
was yesterday consecrated the first
Bishop Sutfragan of Tin" | piscopal diocese
of New York and the first suffragan
in the Church in America under the new
law. The service took place in Grace
Church and eleven Bishops took part in it.
The sermon was preached by Bishop
Doane of Albany and created good deal
of comment by the utterance concerning
the authority for the Bishops Office itself
Advocates Of church unity were delighted
with the sermon, declaring it would
greatly help their cause. Bishop Doane
said:
The great hindrapce to the spreading
of the Kingdom and the preaching OF the
Gospel of Jesus Christ to-day is our dis
union. the unhappy divisions of Christen-
dom. When the sacrament of holy bap-
tism is denied to infants. when the Holy
Communion is taught to be mere me-
mpnto and not a memorial sacrifice, or a
mere feeding with no Offering; when it
is taught and held as II repetition and not
a repetition. IA re-pleadng; when the
laying on of hands for the gift of the
Holy Ghost is denied and disused or when
the personal feeling of vocation or the
election of a lo of laymen is accounted
to be sufficient authority for the exercise
of the ministry these and such like seem
10 me the great dividing lines Of separa-
ton, and | am free to stand, condemned
or approved. III the convict ion that anger
and prejudice being laid aside, there
,ioh, h. , ,v,, f,nnd toward r.storad
"'s"' ' ~ ~ n -.
uhhF o'her lha' 'o'hPel'ns an i'o''9
tants to be Protestant fplscopallahiI"d
or all the Eplscopahans and every other
kind of Protestants to be swallowed whole
bv the Roman church. tue fa-t"rils beng
sim ieit ou' III lhe co'o' ,r..,
Il am not proposing any plan lhi- is
one of those tremendous issies III which
God must propose "a we'll a. dispose.
our part is not planning but prayer.
One thing is very clear to me. II Is that
+ in more ways than one We need to look
= into the question of the episc rpate as
to il. origin and definite position in the
| Church We mlsread the prefac. to the
ordinal who read from the apostles times
there have been three orders IN Christ :
4 Church What is said there IL, There
have been three orders of ministers -
bishops. priests and deacon-. And We
| certainly misconstrIe the whole sentence
. when we leave out the words in this
= Church What is said there L.: No man
should he counted or taken To bc a lawful
! bishop. priest or deacon in this Church
\ except he has had the episcopate Consc-
. Grafton or ordination
t 1T really hccnmes very difficult TO
4 define with verylposi,Ne lines the episcopal
= oflicr or the episcopal order in carly
i ap,stolic times Some, ines wonder
4 whether in thus matter we are not doing
/ tho sl,ne ,hinr that We ar. tempted 20
1 do in considering the solemn quests
I of cnlrch union. hynC TOO much s'rsss
upon technic.l expression and terms
forgetting that the unity for which our
n Lord promises is not all on" fold but