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most part he felt the sympathy with
Bishop Greer's policies and II he felt
doubtful toward any OF them his ad-
miration for his superior was so high
that he soon became sympathetic as
he understood these aims and methods
better. It Ia believed that this great
loyalty and love for that good man
who has gone on, Bishop Greer, and the
feeling that his purposes as outlined
before his death should suffer no
change or abatement furnished an
excellent reason for the election of
Bishop Burch. However that may be
1t would certainly seem to be the new
Bishops sincere wish to carry onward
the works begun or organized by his
predecessor in ONCE.
Has an Adopted Son.
The lady whom the Bishop met and
married when he was a struggling
dominus still graoes his home with her
lovely presence; two children are
theirs, a daughter. Mrs. Grace Wal
ker, who is now in Serbia with a Red
Cross unit, and a son, Albert c. Burch,
natal city. The pair have with them
an adopted son, to whom Bishop
Burch has given the Christian name of
his father. Their home is at West
Eighty-eighth street, but November
tho family will remove to the Bishops
Palace, a picturesque stone house in
the French chateau style which was
erected on the cathedral grounds. Be
ginning tomorrow Bishop Burch will
move downstairs In the nearby Synod
House and take the seat of his revered
predecessor. Bishop David Hummell
Greer.
Something of the expected delibera-
ton of speech and the careful choice
of words of a man OF God mark the
conversation of the new Bishop. The
churehly tone is present also but not
in a marked degree and it is especially
lightened when he hears or utters a
bit of pleasantly. A thorough church.
man is he, yet the manner of one al
most tradition, does not appear pom.
derable, and he gives the pleasant i'm
preston which is usually so grateful
and unexpected to layman of appre-
ciating the value of life's amenities even
to the extent that these are sometimes
shown by the man of the world As
was also to be expected on the morn
ing after his election. which is said by
those who witnessed it to have af-
feoted him deeply, the subjects he
chose to speak of pertained to the
ultra serious. They largely tended
n ~ he
of his church and they fell deeply al
though, owing te circumstances, they
were expressed briefly.
VIII Continue Policy of Bishop
Greer.
The new Bishop will go on IN the
steps of Bishop Greer he said with
a smile. 1T is my wish that / may
be able to carry out his plans first be-
cause in my judgment these plans are
all good and second for the reason
that l have been associated with them
from their inception and Endorsed
them from the beginning.
Il was always in sympathy with the
hopes and aspirations of Bishop Greer,
or IL from lack of familiarity with
them, l temporarily disagreed with
him. was soon brought into sympathy
by long and interesting explanations of
his ideas. No one of them should
prove unfruitful and it is to be my
purpose to see that none does from any
neglect of mine or of the other ser
wants of the church
ITO speak in mator terms these
plans were IaiS Tor church extension
and missionary work in the church and
Gar the completion Of the Cathedral.
AS to both my heart is full and my
hand Is active. ~ extend our missions
which now number approximately
ninety and to get the fullest results
for good out of those now at work,
the church needs money. further
and extend the work of the City Mis-
sion Society, the most important in
my opinion Of any in the diocese. we
Will begin an every day campaign to
be followed by a nation wide campaign
next spring. Twenty millions of dol
lars are needed for carrying out our
ideas for church extension work.