. Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops. n, sir, but do you keep ajournal of the business of the House ? Yes, replied the bishop with benignantcourtesy, such is my custom. May I then, sir, I ventured tremblingly toask, correct my minutes from yours? Most surely, my son, said the bishop, withinstant perception of the situation. And fromthat day on, for a long time, and until I hadmastered the procedure of the House, and hadlearned how, correctly, to keep the record ofits business, I took my minutes, at the close ofeach days sessions, and revised, verified, oramended them, according to this p
. Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops. n, sir, but do you keep ajournal of the business of the House ? Yes, replied the bishop with benignantcourtesy, such is my custom. May I then, sir, I ventured tremblingly toask, correct my minutes from yours? Most surely, my son, said the bishop, withinstant perception of the situation. And fromthat day on, for a long time, and until I hadmastered the procedure of the House, and hadlearned how, correctly, to keep the record ofits business, I took my minutes, at the close ofeach days sessions, and revised, verified, oramended them, according to this precise andunimpeachable record. Precise and unimpeachable, I have calledBishop Whittinghams methods, and I doubtif any terms more accurately describe him. Hewas a man, especially in the ecclesiasticalrealm, not only of wide but of precise learn-ing ; and I doubt if, when he sat in the Houseof Bishops, he had any superior, if he had any The Right Reverend Doctor William Rollinson Whittingham, Bishop of Maryland. From a photograph. New Btsbop Mbittfnabam 17 peer, in this particular. A bishop who hadquoted a pre-Reformation Archbishop of Can-terbury in support of an argument he wasmaking, was interrupted by Bishop Whitting-ham who said, I beg my brothers he quoted an Archbishop of Canterburyas having said so and so ; did he not mean Archbishop ? repeating a name which, evidently, no one present recalled, but makinga correction which, as obviously, no one pre-sent ventured to contradict. But such impressive illustrations of unusuallearning were accompanied by characteristicswhich, very often, accompany it. BishopWhittingham had been a theological profes-sor, and to the end he retained peculiaritiesnot unfamiliar in such a calling. Born in NewYork in 1805, and graduated at the GeneralTheological Seminary in 1825, he returned,after brief rectorships in Orange, N. J., and atSt. Lukes Church, New York, to the GeneralTheological Seminary as a professor, less thansix ye
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