| Show WAS A KINDLY MAN FROM THE HISTORY LATE BISHOP COXE ritti have ilecia i paa 1 curitti christian Ck million of Ill hornet otnes their towler ile ia stood bf by tin tile tolon I 1 ulan lii in k vil liar A fig ure lids th ll 11 from front the church 6 and state in tit tin recent U death 0 of kr r thur Cl euland L land coxe of ev ea I 1 ork he ile annab the bishop of the cliot st stint lilt II 11 diocese of NN ua ebbern NW N W lorl ork bishop born in I 1 eibl ind in ila mi nit ole ig j aad is a son soil of th rei rel ibinson boson coe D 1 I a noted dan divine dione he ile waa aas with nith ti honors by the un of the of 1 I 1 ork it the age ot of tu tent ent L immell tely entered upon a line f airs course of stud it the general Ile ideological seminar ind at his erdl bl t tion entered on oil i tt brief chir chairge ge of st in 1842 he lie became la ator tor of st johns john s Hait torl conn brill lint of this parish t tsehe L irs when shen he ws is to the of grace larch baltimore in ili 1863 he be ame rector of calvar cahar church X ne e w tork ork only to ba be chosen after its to 0 liars for the episcopate ot of western estern tv I 1 ork orl the e bears cars of his manhood ul d a aroid foundation for the tile emin ace which he aft afterward erNard altair attained ed it ns he was as still a student in the beneral il seminar it ve me not that he published his hit christian ballads thie this alume mas i once recognized as placing its among the choicest ot of lous poets and it has continued to he t a household book in england as ill tell as here during hie his it hartford he published athanasion Athan Atha oslon ui ed other poems and 0 olier her poems saul and other poems oems and impressions of eng sai I 1 this last volume was the result of atin in extended and ver important and fruitful european tour it a a dose ose study and a delicate dc licate on and it was exceedingly sell ell received in england it u as juat just at the ose tose of his hartford that it he published his apology for the english lish bible and succeeded la r ee curing jie le suppression of the costly but very d rel revisions of the english which hid been made b ae american bible coclet his nine eare earis of grace irace lurch church baltimore brocht into pro prominence the intense which aich was a rn marked aked character chara ctet of the e tan man he lie was as diligent duding the mar ar b la I 1 visiting the eick sick and I 1 sol t lers ders in hospitals and on the flem and I 1 a his parish he stood firmly tor for the union on cause though a large part of t lis a parish sympathized with ith the appo t ite te side it was a time that tried n tens hearts and engendered intense in tensest st bitterness litt erness even in familia dr cc coxe e bw lhowe beeer eer er stood firmly b his convictions i and would not yield to any de I 1 band mind in behalf of the confederate A close cause yet ho he was as kind and as concill conciliatory atory as he vas alas firm and he ion von the hearty respect of those who offered most widely with alth him birn in his episcopate blihor coxe as a tau aa of mark among his fellow bishops A 1 it 11 TIM LATE BISHOP BIS OP COXE eli Is mind was ery acthen and very resourceful filled with alth a devotie love for r his church and his hi country he Ilitch ditched itched ed all events with the ee of a churchman rc hman and of a patriot in fiance ice he urged religious reform and the t revivification and independence of the e galilean church he corn com eted the exercise of papal influx lee te in this country countr 3 as for instance tr ir al vigorous protests against the corn com 1 of monsignor Mon bignor satolli as a papal Ib legate to america one of his most Por tant works vis the establish tilot tilt of the christian literature illner i new york city this society has pub lluhi 1 l a superb edition of the ante nicene ane bathes which was yas edited by dishop bop coxe coze nowhere else have his hit ir irnest 11 est carefulness careful nese nem and hie his great learn IB beet more gnall el he himself Ilin telf loohs upon ulon his ills work n tho the magnum opus of hie his literary liter ar life of 0 bishop cove coe s controversial hae ml litti a pr wide circuit cir cult tion 10 n ni my hia ill opan lett lettai to toik dijuk 1 I in to tint thit popes 10 ae 8 litter convening com the cal count chunil 11 |
