A master builder, being the life and letters of Henry Yates Satterlee, first bishop of Washington . e Holy Communion to a man who had beenliving in immoral relations with his housekeeper. Hespoke of it from the pulpit without mincing necessity was a great pain to him, and no one canmeasure just what it did cost him. It had a salutaryeffect on the community. Even the family of the offendersaw the justice of what was done and held no resentment,but continued as adtive parishioners. Mr. Evarts saysin this connexion: He made the Church, in its dis-ciplinary characfter, and as insisting u
A master builder, being the life and letters of Henry Yates Satterlee, first bishop of Washington . e Holy Communion to a man who had beenliving in immoral relations with his housekeeper. Hespoke of it from the pulpit without mincing necessity was a great pain to him, and no one canmeasure just what it did cost him. It had a salutaryeffect on the community. Even the family of the offendersaw the justice of what was done and held no resentment,but continued as adtive parishioners. Mr. Evarts saysin this connexion: He made the Church, in its dis-ciplinary characfter, and as insisting upon a moral stand-ard, a real force in the community — and yet he did not,in the long run, alienate even the most grievous accepted his words and his decisions as inspiredby an honest, loving and righteous motive. He never hesitated to rebuke when he felt it to bea duty. Shortly before his death he considered thatan affront to the hospitality of his house had been offeredby a dear friend. He immediately and sharply expressedhis mind, though in such a way as to leave not so much. ZION CHURCH, WAPPINGERS FALLS 1882] SETTING LINE AND PLUMMET 49 as a ripple upon the surface of friendship when the inci-dent was closed, and it was closed as quickly as it wasopened. He believed in and adled out the wisdom ofJesus the son of Sirach: Admonish a friend, it may behe hath not done it: and if he hath done it, that hedo it no more. Admonish thy friend, it may be he hathnot said it; and if he have, that he speak it not a friend: for many times it is a slander.^ He would not hesitate to have it out with hisfriend, or to state bald and disagreeable truths to thosewho to their undoing were wilfully blind to fadl. Hehad Hatred of sin, but not the less A heart of pitying tenderness And charity, that, suffering long, Shames the wrong doer from his wrong. Over-organization is an enemy to spiritual progress,and when we learn that some twenty-eight organizationswere bro
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