The life of Philander Chase, first bishop of Ohio and Illinois, founder of Kenyon and Jubilee colleges . lectedby the Diocesan Convention. Their desire was torender the college popular among all classes of thecommunity, and this object could only be effected bysinking in some measure its distinctive features as aChurch institution. In these and similar plans a largeportion of the clergy and laity in the Diocesan Con-vention was generally ready to support them, believingthat Episcopacy in Ohio was practicable only in themildest and most liberal form. 2i6 The Life of Philander Chase On the other
The life of Philander Chase, first bishop of Ohio and Illinois, founder of Kenyon and Jubilee colleges . lectedby the Diocesan Convention. Their desire was torender the college popular among all classes of thecommunity, and this object could only be effected bysinking in some measure its distinctive features as aChurch institution. In these and similar plans a largeportion of the clergy and laity in the Diocesan Con-vention was generally ready to support them, believingthat Episcopacy in Ohio was practicable only in themildest and most liberal form. 2i6 The Life of Philander Chase On the other hand, the Bishop insisted that thetheological and ecclesiastical character of the collegeought to be maintained as superior to every other con-sideration. He was well aware that the religious andbenevolent persons in England and in America whohad contributed their money toward the establishmentof the institution had done so, not for the diffusion ofmere secular education or even of general Christianity,but with the object of raising up clergymen to ministerto the flock of Christ in the remote PRAYER CROSS AT KENYON COLLEGE Dedicated June 22, 1902, in Commemoration of the First Service held on GambierHill by Bishop Chase, in 1826. Page 216. CHAPTER XXV AN EFFORT AND A FAILURE THE second volume of the Reminiscences begins withthe story of the second effort to obtain a grant ofland from Congress. Again this unwearied man jour-neys over the Alleghanies in midwinter, leaving nostone unturned to bring about the great object so dearto his heart. He found not only a friend in his rela-tive Judge Cranch, in whose house he remained duringhis stay in Washington, but met again his belovedbrother Dudley, then a member of the Senate. Inwriting to Mrs. Chase the Bishop says: Though Ifail in my immediate object, my brother Dudley Chase,whom I pray God ever to bless, says that the effort isworth the trial in making known the object of mymission. The struggle in this connection was very
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