"Receive," said the Rt. Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, "Primus" of the Protestant Episcopal Church and Bishop of the See of Bethlehem, Pa., "the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands."
He was addressing the Rev. Ernest Milmore Stires, Rector for the last quarter-century of St. Thomas' Church, Manhattan, who knelt before him, pale and grave. In the chancel stood 35 bishops; 430 clergymen were ranked in files in the nave; hundreds of wealthy laymen were packed shoulder...
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