New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
BISHOP SATTERLEE
A Worthy Biography of Nota-
bic Churchman.

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LongInsns, Green Co
Two thoughts instinctively arise at
reading of the title-page, to be con-
frmed repeatedly at reading almost
every page of the whole stately volume,
and to stand as most satisfying con-
viction when the reading is finished
Happy the writer of the book TO have
such a subject as Bishop Satterlee!
And happy the subject OF the book to
have such a biographer as Bishop
Brent! The two are comparable and
congruous in gifts, in ideals, in vision,
in sympathies; and the elder thus tnds
in the younger a singularly fit recorder
and interpreter. We are made to feel
that we are looking directly at Bishop
Satterlee and not at mere slmulacrum
formed from the self-exploitlng fancy
of another. We are looking through
medium which discloses and not DIS
torts. and which is at once transparent
and illuminating.
In ancestry Bishop Satterlee enjoyed
union of those two elements whicn
contributed most and best to the found
ing OF the American state and people.
He came on the one hand from the
Soterlega of Domesday Book, through
the Sotterley of the Wars of the Roses
and the Satterlees of Devon. the last
settling in New England in 1888. On
the other hand the names Of Mynderse.
Bradt and Yates tell Of those who at
the Indictment of Usselncx followed
the track of Hudson and founded the
seat Of empire on Manhattan Island.
In some notable respects the Dutcn
rats prevailed above the English. Yet
though he was born in the Dutch Re
/ formed Church, Henry Yates Satterlec
soon became attached 10 the American
branch of the Anglican communion, and
/ to it devoted the labors OF fruitful
life, though with a broad cathollcity
that stamped his churchmanship as all
| the more genuine because II was so
! liberal.
| An engaging picture is given OF his
! early career as rector OF Zion Church,
at Wappinger's Falls. Indeed, this may
be said in dual sense. for the word
/ picture is supplemented by an exquisite
/ engraving of the church building and
by another Of the young rector. OF
| these and the numerous other illustra-
| tons in the volume it is fitting 10 re-
/ cord word of specific praise. In
these days of process" engrsvings
many books suffer from a multiplicity
/ of crude and cheap photo-engraYings.
/ But the plates in this volume have the
mellow charms of both mezzotints and
| photogravures, and in both views and
portraits are altogether delightful.
| His coming 10 Cavalry Church, New
York. was little short Of epochal, for
| himself and for the Episcopal COM
munion in this city. II was a daring
/ experiment for the young churchman.
I Calvary itself was an experiment,
which remained 20 be justified by the
/ event. His predecessor there was one
| of the most notable Bishops of that
time. Calls TO the vacant parish were
| declined successfully by at least three
! men who presently became Bishops.
Then he accepted a call; himself in
| time to become a Bishop, and he had
as his assistants there three or four
Young cergymen who subsequently
were elected TO the Episcopate. Above
most other churches of New York,
/ Calvary was a veritable School of the
i Prophets.
His great work there, for a free
} church, and for a church which should
| in a peculiar sense render high civic
: service 70 the whole public, was an
! ideal preparation for his episcopal
/ labors, and for the founding Of that
national cathedral which was the
browning achievement Of his life. As
/ the first Bishop Of the Diocese of
Washington he became not merely a