Evening star., 1922-04-09
.NHE Rambler cannot hope to
tell all the interesting things |
about Bishop Pinkney that

7HE Rambler cannot hope to,
tell all the interesting things
about Bishop Pinkney that
might be truthfully told. In
the first place. Interesting things" is
a relative term. Almost anything
that concerned Bishop Pinkney would
be interesting to many persons. and
that could be told about the Bishop
would interest them in the least
However. nearly all those persons
who follow the "rambles" have a rea-
sonable interest in bishops in general
and in Bishop Pinkney in particular.
There is one thing about this good
and venerated bishop Che has been
dead thirty-nine years) which seems
not to be generally known or which
seems to have been forgotten. It is
that he was once a Methodist and. of
course. if he had continued to be a
Methodist he would, no doubt, have
become a Methodist minister and very
probably a Methodist bishop
There is another thing about Bishop
been universally noticed. or which
has been forgotten. 1t concerns his
whiskers. The Rambler insists that
Bishop Pinkney wore the kind of
whiskers which the Rambler said he
wore. Two or three Sundays ago the
iambler wrote: I'm several homes
the Rambler has come upon a picture
of the bishop. usually a faded photo
graph. Those taken when he was
past his physical noon show him as
heavy-set man, with full face,
with white hair on the sides and
back of his head. but bald from the
forehead 60 the crown. He wore what
were called 'siders' These were
strips of white hair reaching from
the temple half way down the cheek"
Inc Rambler also described his eyes.
hose' mouth and expression of the
race but there is no need to repeat
tnat part of the description. In con-
nec'ion with the whiskers, the Ram
bier has received the following letter:
Dear Mr.. Rambler: 1 have been
much interested in your articles about
Bishop Pinkney. but 1 wish YOU had
studied the subject little more so
as 10 De little more accurate about
some points. l do not suppose he
could have been more intimate in anv
family than in ours. and we each
one knew him most Intimately and
loved him dearly. He was the friend
OF my grandfather, and my father,
and we have many pictures of him.
but IN none of them is there the least
sign of the whiskers to which you
refer. He always had a clean-shaven
face and your account was the first
l ever heard of any eye or throat
troubles and l never heard him COM
plain of an ache or pain, but he
was always ready to help all in need,
sorrow, sickness or any other ad-
versity. and l know of many occa-
sions where his services were given
SO simply, SO unselishly. One case
l recall is of a man who was i'll with
smallpox, with no one specially to
care for him. He went to the house
and nursed and cared for him night
and day to the end and seemed to
think he had done nothing extraordi-
nary. purerfi more godly. Christian
life was never lived. nor a more de-
voted lover of the beautiful ritual
and>teachings of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church. and he lived its every
form and teaching and impressed
them on all with whom he came in
contact. and 1 wish there were more
like him nowadays. You do not know
me. SO I do not sign my name. as it
is not worth while. I only wanted
to add word of undying love and
reverence for one of Gods great SOL
diers and servants
X X X
EVERYBODY who knew Bishop