Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
HONOR MEMORY Of
BISHOP BOWMAN
Special Services Held in Cal.
vary M. E. Church, East
Orange.

Special services in honor Of Bishol
Thomas Bowman, whose funera
took place last week, were held yes.
terday morning in Calvary NJ. f
Church, East Orange. Memorial
services will be held in the church
later.
Blact ana purple crepe was draped
above the four doors on the exterior
Of the edifice, while inside the pew OF
Bishop Bowman was closed with
bands of the Same material. large
picture of the deceased bishop, also
draped with purple and black, was
placed on the communion table lminc-
diately i'm front of the pulpit.
In the Sunday school rooms, where
the classes were assembled, the ser
vices took the form of short ad-
dress by Lincoln e. Rowley, for years
A personal friend of Bishop Bowman.
On behalf of the Mems Bible class of
the church, resolutions of regret were
offered by Professor Charles ".
Evans.
The service was opened with a
prayer, offered by Rev. Thomas Mich
olson, president of the Board of Edu-
cation of the Methodist Episcopal
Church This was followed by the
edlogy, delivered by Rev. Fred Clare
Baldwin, pastor, who announced that
its title would be Our Brother, the
Bishop"
Mr.. Baldwin called attention 10 the
bereavements of the two communities
of Orange and East Orange In the
death of Bishop Bowman. senior
bishop OF the church; Rev. John p.
Callaghan, of the Church of Our Lady
Help of Christ ans, and Rev. John IL.
Travis. Of Calvary Baptist (colored)
Church, East Orange. to show how
the hand Of death had struck down
these three men, all of whom, he de-
clared, We're mourned outside of the
bounds of their several communions,
within the space of ten days. He de-
clared that the manhood of such men
alone is what demonstrates the worth
OF churches and creeds.
The pastor then drew three obser-
vations from the life of Bishop Bow
man, considering it in point OF long
evity, activity and as an aecumulat-
ing life His was long life. cover
ing almost q century" said Mr.. Bald
win. Its youth was spent among
the echoes of the Revolutionary War.
The War of 1912 must almost have
seemed like q memory to him. The
Mexican War found him assiduously
pursuing his academic work The
Civil War observed him as a chap
lain Of the United States Senate,
while the Spanish War found him
but recently relieved of his official
burdens, and these are all the wars
of our national history"
Mr., Baldwin attributed Bishop
Bowman's longevity to three causes.
The first of these, he declared, was
heredity; he came of good stock The
second was his perpetual avoidance
of all the physical vices. while the
third was declared to be the calm.
tranquil. unfrctful, yet busy and
achieving. life which he led Yet if
he had lived different kind of a
life he would net have lived so long.
said the speaker.
Then followed a sketch of the
bishops life from his graduation from
Dickinson College, in 1897 to his re-
tirement from office in 1896. showing
that throughout that whole time there
was not year In which he rested
from toll
Mr. Baldwin concluded the eulogy
by summing up the bishops life with
the words: Our privilege was to
behold it in the aftermath Of tn
day of it's toll and the still more bril-
liant foregleam of it's coronation.
What we beheld was the outcome,
the product. the character. There il
stood, fla shing down to us the sulen-
,ior of another world"