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Show WEBB A LOW CHURCHMAN. New Bishop of Milwaukee Diocese to Dispense with Showy Service. BISHOP W. W. WEBB. (New Wisconsin Prelate Opposed to High Church Rites.) Mllwuukee Thooloviitlon of lllshop t'oudjiitni Walter W Webb to the hotd of tho Mllwuukee diocese means t ccitnln. though unostentatious step backward fliuu the rouise toward the, tdopllon lu the west of thu high rlinrch rites so long advocated by the lute Hisltnp N'IcIioIhou ' With Ihe ctovvnlng of lllshop Webb will come Ihe Hist of tho lowei chinch -oif-monles. lllshop Nicholson hail long been, with lllshop Ornftou, nf I'tuid du l.ae, it devotee of thn high chinch misude lllshop Giufton even, worked for an alliance wllh the (JicpK Catholic chin ch Bishop Nicholson was not finite so iiiillcul, hut ho was stitllclontly advanced to huvo cere monies in his cathedral so formal that but for (lie language In which tho xerv Ire was Intoned, there would bu little dlffeieuce fmm tin- Unman C'utholU c-atlieilral lllshop Webb did not sympathize wltli litis movement. Ills Idea Is u mine missionary spirit m the iliurch a gelling down lo the common people lathei than an appeal lo tho woulthlei Toll., by an exlitiviiguiirn in ritual ami leiemtmy lllshop Webb wa I'hlludelplilu horn, and graduated fiom tho University of Pennsylvania. Then ho wont to New Kiiglaud, Hi st us a student ut Trinity college, llaitfonl. Conn., then to the Hoikeley Dlvlnltv school Ho win or- nluliicd to the deacouate by tho bishop of New Hampshire, and later elevated to thu priesthood hy Ihe bishop of Connecticut Ilo hud hoped lo wot I, lu the Maine woods, hut his old friends In I'lilludel phlu called him buck anil he In-caiiie assistant at Ihe Church of the Kvau gellsts, Philadelphia, ami later became rector of HI. Cllzabcth's In 1902 he ciiliie west as a teacher at Nusholah seminal y A year ngo ho was made I hlsliop coadjutor against the vote of 'tho clergy with the suppoit of the low 1 churchmen In the laity. Now he Is utl vanced lo charge of the diocese. |