The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-07
STRENUOUS PRELATE VISITS FIRING LINE Bishop of London Spent His
 Easter There PREACHED IN HANGAR Addressed Cavalry Massed on Horse back and the Wounded In Hospital.
 Celebrated Holy Communion
 In Shell Riddled Barn
PREACHED IN HANGAR
By HORACE ANNEsLEY

London, April 17-(Special.)- .)-That man.
 ly prelate, the Bishop of London. other
 wise the Right Rev. Wilmington Ingram,
 who visited the United States and played
 tennis with the then President Roosevelt,
 Easter with the British army, is back safe
 and sound after an experience which he
 described in the last sermon he preached
 to the troops as the most remarkable
 and impressive of his life.
 Into only little more than a week,
 this indefatigable and big-hearted prince
 of the church, who served his episcopal
 apprenticeship in the sums of London,
 packed round of activities that would
 have taxed the endurance of the Full
 Moose" himself. and amazed. by his en- ergy, all who met him. programme had been arranged for the bishop before hand, so that no branch of the army in the field should be forgotten, and there were present at different services the fly ing corps, gathered in one of their im-
 mense hangars, the Household cavalry, massed on horseback in the field. parts of the Army Service corps, drawn up be- | side their lorries, groups of patients, doc- tors and nurses in the hospitals. conva- l lescents fin their camps officers and men of the English regiments attached to the Indian divisions, and many infantry bri- gades, with their artillery, fin halls open l field or the market places of the pic- turesque old Flemish towns. So the bishop passed along the whole British front, often we'll within the range of the German guns, and through places devastated by IuI, firo ca ho his safety had many anxious moments. COnsecrated Graves
 1 At one part of the line. where there 1 had recently been heavy fighting. some 300 | officers, many of whom had been in the | b1ttle were present. There were veteran l generals kneeling side by side with newly commissioned subalterns in silent rever- ence on the hard stone floor. At another time when a confirmation service had | been arranged. several men came straight I out of the trenches with the mud still caked on their puttees to receive the lay l ing on of hands. At the graves he passed, the bishop said short prayers of con- secration.
 At ' a. m, on Easter day. he cele- | brated the holy communion In barn. the roof and walls of which had been scared and shattered by gunfire. Over 200 men took communion. and at the end of this service 150 men of other regiments wero found outside the l building. They had been waiting since | ' o'clock and had been unable to en- 1 ter the crowded room So the bishop celebrated once more. while outside, I the boom of the big guns and the crack ] of the rifles could be heard distinctly. on the evening of Easter day, he preached his final sermon at general l headquarters in the presence of Sir john French. many distinguished of ficers and large body of men. On
 Easter Monday. the bishop left the front to visit Rouen and Havre before returning to England.
 How He Received Interviewer l Most Americans are familiar, of l course, with Dr. Ingram's athleuc, ge- niaI. somewhat raw boned personality