The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-05-31
new BISHOP
CONSECRATED
BY NORTHERN METH
ODISTS MINNEAPOLIS
Services Simple But
Impressive.
Thousands Sings Hymns IN Streets
Before uditorium-Tears Fall
From Eyes Of KneeIing Cand-
dates as Vows are said-Mat-
ter of Negro Bishop to be
Voted on.

Minneapolis, Mimi, May 26-In
services remarkable alike for their
simplicity and soemnity, eight bish-
ops or general superintendent and
two missionary bishops of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church elected at the
present session of the General Con-
ference, this afternoon took the vows
which bestowed upon them both the
highest power and honor in the pos.
session of the church. AS climax
to the services of conservation, the
entire board of bishops, including
those newly elected, repaired to the
grave in local cemetery of Bishop
Isaac Joyce to pay homage to his
memory.
Those who by their repetition to-
day of the vow, 81 will so do, the
Lord being my helper" took upon
themselves the administration of the
church's affairs, were:
General Superintendent C.
Stuntz, New York; T. S. Henderson,
Brooklyn; w. o. Shepard, Chicago;
Naphthali Luccock, Kansas City; F.
]. Mcconnell, president Depauw Uni
versity, Greencastle, Ind; F. d.
Leete, Detroit, Mich. r. ]. Cooke
New York; w. P. Thirkield, presi
dent Howard University, a Negro in.
stitution at Washington, D. G.
Missionary Bishops-John Wesley
Robinson, Lucknow, India; w. p Eve
land, president seminary, Williams.
port, Pa.
Hours before the auditorium was
opened for the general public, an i'm
mense crowd filled the street before
the photographed doors, and passed
the time in the singing of hymns
When the curtain was raised, at 8
O'Clock, upon the members of the
board of bishops, the bishops-elect
their presenting friends and other
officials of the church, not a seat was
vacant, and scores had been turned
away.
During the entire preliminary serv-
ice, in which bishop after bishop took
part in the reading of the Scriptures
or of the ritual of conservation, there
was hush over the audience that
permitted the low tones of the speak
ers to penetrate every portion of the
building. And when on the final
charge, the. consecrating bishops, with
hands laid upon the heads of the
kneeling candidates, urged them to
"be so merciful that ye be not re-
miss; so administrate discipline that
you forget not mercy that
when the Chief Shepherd shall appear
you may receive the never failing
crown of glory through Jesus Christ,
our Lord" tears fell from the eyes
of numerous bishOps-elect upon the
open pages of the Bible.
DR.. Stuntz was the first to be con-
.secrated, the venerable Bishops Hen
ry w. Warren and John M. Walden,
both of whom now are retired, per-
forming the ceremony. Others re-
ceived the laying on of hands," in
the order in which they were elected,
two ministerial friends presenting
them and the different bishops Of
ficiating in each case
The Conference will next begin up
on the closing of the business of the
church, the principal event being the
selection of editors of the various
church papers. Whether a success
sor shall be elected to the position
of Missionary Bishop w. +. Oldham,
who has been chosen for a position
of the board of foreign missions, also
will be decided, as will the question
of Bishops of races and languages -
This provides for the election Of a
bishop for a race of persons of that
race, the question of a Negro bishop
for the Negroes, churches of the
South being that chiefly before the
conference. If agreed to by the pres
ent session it must go before the
annual conferences of the church in
the next four years for approval and
then must come up at the next
quadriennial conference for final
action.