Show BRIGGS WILL BE ORDAINED Ceremonies Will Take Place I New York Sunday New York May 12 Bishop Potter gave out the following formal notice today todaThe The Rev Dr Briggs and the Rev Charles H Snedecker will be ordained on the day officially appointed by the bishop of New York May 14 at the procathedral Staunton street New York at 1045 a m The Rev George William Douglass will preach the ordination ordi-nation sermon The Rev Charles B Smith wi present Dr Briggs and theRe the-Re George Francis Nelson will present pre-sent Mr Snedecker Bishop Potter chose the procathe dral for the place because Dr Briggs hail nked to hf issijnpcl to work there and will work there in future The Churchman of this week says The sensational stories that have appeared in the daily press with regard to1 the ordination of Dr Briggs suggest the necessity of giving to our readers certain information that may help them to a right judgment II the premises The Rev Dr Briggs was ordained to the deaconate having met all requirements re-quirements and having been recommended I recom-mended by a standing committee composed com-posed of the Revs Morgan Dix Thomas Thom-as II Harris Octavius Applegate and J S Shipman and Messrs Stephen P Nash G M Miller S Nicholson Kane and Herman C Vanpost He has metal met-al the requirements for advancement to the priesthood and has been recommended recom-mended again by this same committee with only one change in its composition composi-tion Many persons have been disturbed by passages quoted in the daily papers fiom Dr Briggs late book I is only I fair to state that mot of these pas sage appear to be wrested from their I true setting I |