Author: Philander Chase

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781332166657

Excerpt from The Reminiscences of Bishop Chase, Vol. 2: Now Bishop of Illinois During the delivery of the above address in the Convention at Zanesville, there was manifested great uneasiness, and when the time came to make remarks, there was great opposition made to placing die seminary anywhere but near some town. To build up a literary institution from the stump, in the Wood, was a chimerical project, and would surely fail, and become aft object of ridicule. This was the sentiment of Col. John Johnston of Piqua, who mentioned Franklinton, near Columbu, as an figfbk place, and offered to procure the old court-house, and other buildings of that county, as a gift to the prinary, if placed ttaf, alleging that they were worth f 26, 000!! as by his statement xude in writing is still to be seen. Others insisted on its bring bsed in Chilicothe, others in Worthitigton, others in Cincinnati, others in Zanesville, Delaware etc. All went to procure the postponement of the resolution to fii the institution on Alum creek, and to set a time, the term of ten months, in which the Bishop might receive propositions from other, or any places within the Diocese, which he should preserve, and lay before the next convention. It was also resolved, that public notice should be given during the first six of the ten months inviting such proposals. This defeat of the Alum creek project was at the time a supposed triumph; and such certainly it was, but not in the way expected, for God ordered it not to gratify a mercenary atati-Episcopal spirit, but to enlarge his Church, and the means of doing good. And often has the writer since reflected on the painful moments which he passed in Zanesville, at this convention, with feelings of peculiar gratitude in view of the glorious results of his failure on Alum -creek. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.