. Letters from Waldegrave cottage. ties and many entered the grammar school in Philadelphia andsubsequently graduated at Princeton College, wherehe was appointed tutor in the year 1796. He studied theology under the direction of BishopWhite, by whom he was ordained deacon in June^1798. He spent some time in the discharge of hisduties as rector of St. Georges parish, Hempstead,L. I. By this time he had become a man of mark^and exhibited such extraordinary pulpit powers thatthe attention of more important congregations wasdrawn to him. He received a call to St. Markschurch in
. Letters from Waldegrave cottage. ties and many entered the grammar school in Philadelphia andsubsequently graduated at Princeton College, wherehe was appointed tutor in the year 1796. He studied theology under the direction of BishopWhite, by whom he was ordained deacon in June^1798. He spent some time in the discharge of hisduties as rector of St. Georges parish, Hempstead,L. I. By this time he had become a man of mark^and exhibited such extraordinary pulpit powers thatthe attention of more important congregations wasdrawn to him. He received a call to St. Markschurch in the City of New York, which was soonfollowed by a still more important call to becomeassistant minister of Trinity church. He filled thisposition with great and increasing popularity fromabout the year 1801 to 1811, when, in consequence ofthe failing health and infirmities of Bishop Moore,he was elected, almost unanimously. Bishop of thediocese of New York. Thus was it that BishopHobart rose from one position to another until he \. THE RIGHT REV. JOHN HENRY HOBART, , LL. D. Third Bishop of New York. Bishop Hobart, 115 reached the highest pinnacle of power and influencein the American Episcopal Church. How well, andsuccessfully, he discharged the important trust his-tory testifies. He not only administered his func-tions as bishop with great care and unfaltering zealand promptitude, but he also carried his labors intoother vacant dioceses, particularly New Jersey andConnecticut. He helped to establish in New YorkCity the General Theological Seminary and publishedmany books and controversial writings in defenceof Church doctrine and polity. The accumulating labors of Bishop Hobart beganat length to make serious inroads upon his constitu-tion, and it was thought advisable for him to visitEurope, which he did in 1822, travelling throughEngland, Scotland, Wales, France, Switzerland andItaly. In all these countries he was received withmarks of favor, and returned home in 1824 wit
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