The Boston Daily Transcript" of the 18th ult, gives the followi ing facts in regard to the consecration, in Emmanuel Ciurch, Boston, of the Rev. Logan Roots, B.A., a¢ Musionary Bishop of Hankow.
In the procession as it proceeded into the church at the hour of eleven o'clock there were several bishops and priests. The candidate for Episcopal honours Rove Gomer by hi two presbyters, th near F. Mo jer of St. John's College, Shanyhai, and the Rev. Herman Page of Chicago. I the procession also were Bishop Frederick Graves, D. D.. of Shanghai, China, who was the consecrator; Bishop John McKiwi, D. D., of Tokio, Jay n, and Bshop William McVickar, D.D., of Rhode Island who ce-consecrators; Bishop William Lawrence, D. D., of Massachusetts op Sidney C. Partridge, D. D. of Kioto, Japan, who were resenting bishops; also Bishop Alexander D. D., Western Massachusetts, james H. Van Boren, D.
Rice. In advance of the clergy marched the vested choir of Emmanuel, which sang asa processional. "0 Zion,' Haste," by Walch. Arthur S. Hyde, the organist of Emmanuel, presided at the ins tram-ut, and also acted as choirmaster throughout the service. In the process ion also marched a large body of seminarians from the Episcopal Theological School.
"At the conclusion of the sermon, by Bishop Lawrence, ' O Spirit of the Living God" was sung. The bishop-elect a-couded the steps of the chancel, vested in his rochet. and was formally presented to the presiding bishop, who occupied his episcopal sext in the centre near the communion rail. Testimoni-s having been demanded these were presented by the Rev. John J. McQvok, D. D., of Hurtford, for the House of Bishups; by the Rev. Gear Hodges, D. D., Theological School, Deputies; and by the Rev. Edward Abbott, commission te consecrate Following came the promise of eonform-Sty to the doctrine, diviptine, and worship of the Cure!; the presiding bishop offered the usual pye sand the litany was recitei by Bishop Partridge, the preseribed suffrage for our brother elected" being used in i's proper place. After the examination of the Rev. Mr. Roots, the choir was heard in the anthem, "They that wait upon the Lord," by A. S. Hyde; and the remainder of the consecration service was carried out in the usual way, the "Yeni Creator Spiritus" being intoned by the seven bishops standing over the bishop-elect, who meanwhile had been vested with the rest of the Episcopal hibit in the Each Isid his hands upon Mr. was then ted to full communion with his fellow prelates of the Church, tT lace within the communion rai conclusion of the the procession had returned to the chapel, Bistiop Roots was made the recipe-ut of numerous gifts, which came to him as one of the most dolizhtfal features of 'A besutifal communion service for use in the Oxthedral at Hankow was the gift of the al isoopal Theological from which inst: tu-Roote was graduated in 1896 the present students of presented him with "hile St. Paul's Society, connected with Harvard University, gave him a bishop's ring, which, however, will not be engraved with the seal of the missionary diocese of Hankow until some appropriate design is selected. A Bible, beautifully bound in crushed levant and appropriately inscribed, came from Bishop Roots's father, P. K. Roots, who was a lay deputy from Arkansas to the recent General Convention; while " per-anal friend presented him with a copy of the Prayer Book, also bound in crushed levant and appropriately inscribed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.