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Bishop Henry Codman Potter BISHOP HENRY CODMAN POTTER. that was more whether Bishop Potter ever paused a thirty-day period richly at It ls to bf doubted he among the city poor. no more than a comparative glance makes for righteousness than the time passed HE student of physiognomy requires of New- filled with the fruit that elements of society was starr, face of the late distinguished Bishop and clerical labor among the cultured the smooth-shaven, scholarly Incum¬ The change from executive most surely and recup<-ra*a and at the face of the present eminent the Bishop proved the axiom that men rest York, Horatio Potter, ('oilman Potter ling In the extreme, and that which has caused th**rr. Intuitively that Rlshop Henry more work, If only lt be different from bent of Ihat position, to know most swiftly when doing tim" . Potter, the first of the name on this been said of Mr. Huxley, gazing for the first ¦:; a race of churchly men. Robert weariness. It has comes of history records him mental and physical fleet of hustling about like r/f| came to America from Coventry, and with Its manifold beauties and Its tugboats side of the Atlantic, he was cited New-York Bay, a man he would pref¦¦<¦ In Nine years after his arrival bit of salacious tattle, that next to being as settled at Lynn. Mass.. 1680, gossips with a brand new well have ex' lalrm-| of the Massa.-husetts Colony for religious midst of his Stanton-st. experiences, might to before the authorities a tug. Bishop Potter, In the rn appear In his although he very lng a missionary. During that memorable It would seem that he persisted poaitlon. to a he would prefer being contumacy. Massachusetts au¬ that next being Bishop man. He labored early .-. | of war as put forth by th*- nor withheld his charitable hand from any declined the declaration to he shunned no contact, for ;. properly Island. There h" was .me arnon/? the first "as is day, so shall thy strength Ix-," and thorities, and removed to Rhode late, glorying In the knowledge that thy res,! MuV.l. when it was set off from Newport. incident of a virtual transference of the Kpiscopal for the town of Portsmouth, April 16, In New-York witnessed the remarkable that miserable slpn the ("inpact of Shawmut. near Warwick, Rhode Island. 1648 visited the tailor shops and the tenements in the Indian deed mission. The Bishop - name likewise appears where he was sentenced to Im¬ to the Stanton-st. menace to deeency and well-ord His with other men of Warwick, home. He entered the grogshops, the standing was taken to Roston. together In th.- IfKht of his¬ people .ailed among the "sweat si he Whatever other view may be held of him their capacity fir evil. He Journeyed for non. onformism. th- nani'-s of many men living, and nuietly calculated of the Diocese of ."- prisonment and among his descendants appear "f their enforced sufferings. Ht* was Bishop was a determinate quantity, ami to th»* bottom the depths "f tory, hs communities in which they lived. Som*' <.f these descendants probed rector "f th-* Stanton-st. mission. He sounded distinguished in th" Judge "f Hi" Supreme York, ami the Indefatigable million, and he accomplished pre-eminently ile Court in 1661, and Stephen Potter, between the upper tsn and the lower Potter, Clerk "f General and mighty gorge of separation to serve. And yet thi- were John in three members ,.f th** family, Joseph, Sylvester Master he had lovingly bound himself "f Rhode island in 1727 179B Potter mar- great and good thinKs for the work for the Chunh ia Couti Stat.- and settled in Dutchess County, where Joseph although In keener con'rast. of the Thomas, removed t" New-Torh the ninth. Alon/.., became Bishop of vice was merely a continuance, been his expressed 1 whom be had ten children, of these before he had set nut to do, for lt has always ri*<i Ann Knight, by late Hishop "f New-Tork. History rarely nearly thirty years was strongly emphasised by I was Horatio Potter, the a church for tie- whole people. This point and the tenth br ithers were contempora¬ make ..f bis church of a '. Pennsylvania, to a sin«le family, yet th.- Potter in September, 1M!"4. In the course conversation Church Bishops it is of remark that afi-r his return from Europe to catb. gives two Episcopal the Rift of th.- Episcopal Church, and worthy Bishop he had received any impressions In regard in the ofllce within "f the of New- was ssked by ¦ Tribune reporter whether ries highest the assisting Bishops at th" consecration Bishop building. He replied with convincing earn. Rlahon Alonzo Potter was ..ne of on nuvcu-uv- .. IftlS. Ynik in Trinity Church In my oplnion to mu. ii importance, "No, but I am confirmed Ti. i.sac! in ;i record of new cathedral Wh as Provisional ur plans regirding the Potter was consecrated are wise | Horatio on the death <.< church is building In this city ami h.- became Bishop I attended ser Bishop, in 1883 ihe then ven¬ ti the endowment feature. Bishop Oaderdonh in 1881, in London, only a fen f"r an assistant in tarry on St. Paul's Cathedral, erable divine asked rim and I witnessed a most Imp; the diocese, in th.- interest of prhlch .lays ago, the work of an.l the KiKht thousand people gather' so many fruitful years, ¦pcetacle. he had spent -7 unani¬ m> lier the Kt-eai d..me to worship. There rn which mel on September the convention c. Potter, to '.-abby' in his fustian Jacket, porter mous!', elected his nephew, Henry elbows with th- h.- was consecrated in railroad man, rubbing that Important post, is >'-«"! 20, 1888, in Hie presence racy of C.reat Britain. That Grace church on October That is w- hav. of churchmen, anil th.- occa¬ cathedral idea why of a notable body ¦.-. hy the fact thai ii s.-t aside as an endowment fund sion was ma.I-- memorable service conducted by the money we receive for th*- building was th-- list consecration this The endowment nish..p. Benjamin Bosworth th.-dral in city. tin- arced presiding close tin- cath-dral will rise side by sid. ..f K.-ntii' ky. ulm was linn verging Smith. Bishops of ¦uructun- is completed the fun.ls to ru his year. Forty-three to up..ti ninetieth the It can l-e thrown open tl wei.- in attendance, tor General ready. th-- Church alike. In a parish church, \ ¦. "f th" Church was in s> ssion in Phils poor Convention "' to rent pews and to ker at the tim--. More than .!»hi members necessary .1.-iphia together with all of th- plat.- in ..rd.-r to k.-ep things runt, were . th.- clergy present, id.-a is to have the flnam "f th*- General 'i'l.logical Seminary. th.-.Ital students Potter, that there will never be an; after the consecration, Horatio by condition Boon as w lvntinar." execution of personal Instruments, resigned p, the "f the work Herein is dearly shown that about the entire charge ami responsibility the il "f the new Bishop. lng Cathedral of St. John Divine of th-- diocese into the hands that Bishop ]¦ the head ot th.- Diocese "f Nea ind shine the lessons Bishop Potter, ¦'kW in W irk in <Jra in New-York Stat-, garnered pastoral York, was born Schenectady, * to his h.u As has I.n said, h.- is a son "1 Parish and later added by May Sc 1835. When he accepted the r--- lat'- "f Pennsylvania. Alonzo Potter, Stanton-st. th- Bishop *$$¦¦ was a close "f Dr. Nott, th.- president "f Un¬ 'rare Church it corporation an.) a grandson but u; ¦: was obtained chiefly ra her than broadly Christian; ion College. His education . Philadelphia, nml tor vent he began with a tempered zeal aril at the Episcopal Academy, for fixed habits in pursuits; but human consideration a tim.- lu- engaged mercantile . rn to color the fabric anew. He brought was for as he seemed predestined this not long, and new mcth'*ds of j for the Church, ami found content in foll-.um;; pew principles education under th" di¬ t.i;- th- r with a calm, undemonstrstt. out a course of classical which imperceptibly but Jus' "i his father ani Professor c. E. Hare, purpose, rection ol thc forces aboul I>. II. entered the Theological Seminary converted quiescent 1> vitalized factors for good. So sue. snd was fr.un that Instltu* Virginia graduated the became one of in 1857. During tin- same year method that parish tinti learning earnest and aggr.-s-iv. lu- married, ami mi May 25 nf ihe same year industrious, in whk h this was .. received deacon's orders at the hands of his I'm manner Philadelphia, ll- would have been worthy of the flm-h t---: father in St. Luke's Church, ->f Horatio P it in Church, Pittsburg, Octo¬ judicial conservatism Bishop was "r.laiiie.i Trinity has fora'srd f: liv Bowman, Assistant Bishop himself. Ci.aie Church goos ber 15, 1858, Dr. entire rl< I and assumed his flrsl past..rai lhat time, and throughout the p- of Pennsylvania steadily conserving Its forces sgall as rector -f Christ Church, Greensburg Peen charge is fist when in May. 18150, h.- waa called t" si. John's 'cor, which approaching, Penn, to with new conditions,wlth '.'" al chunh. at Troy, N. Y. In 1802 he was elected have cope are fast developing all around il rector "f christ Church, Cincinnati; a year later sendee that ai an established order.
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