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The Life and Times of Patrick Torry, D. D., Bishop of St. Andrew's With an Appendix on the Scottish Liturgy
The Life and Times of Patrick Torry D D Bishop of St Andrew's With an Appendix on the Scottish Liturgy Author:J. M. Neale General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: J. Masters Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sele... more »ct from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. FROM BISHOP TORRTS ELECTION TO DUNKELD TILL THE NEGOTIATION FOR THE CONSECRATION OF BISHOP LUSCOMBE. A. D. 1808 -- 1824. Before Bishop Torry's consecration, the great age and mental imbecility of Bishop Strachan, of Brechin, rendered a coadjutor necessary. Dr. Gleig was now unanimously chosen, and the College confirmed him without difficulty. Only eighteen days after his own elevation to the Episcopate, Bishop Torry had the satisfaction of assisting at that of his friend. Mr. Gleig to Bishop Torry. "Stirling, Oct. 17th, 1808. " Right Rev. and dear Sir, " Permit me to congratulate not you, but the Church, on your promotion to the Episcopal bench -- a measure I earnestly recommended years ago, and from which, now that it has taken place, I augur the happiest consequences. The office of a Bishop among us is certainly not an object of worldly ambition; but it is an office which must be sustained, and which, perhaps, those are bound to undertake, who shall be solicited to do so in the way that you and I have been solicited. Were the case otherwise, I should, most certainly, not have accepted of the election to the See of Brechin : an election, which, when I last wrote to you, I had every reason -- from what I heard -- to think would have fallen on Mr. Walker. On a better one it could int. GLE1G ELECTED COADJUTOR OF BRECHIN. 73 not-have fallen, had his residence been anywhere but in Edinburgh ; but when I shall have the pleasure of seeing you and Bishop Jolly, I will convince you both that a second Bishop tn Edinburgh would not be endured by the liberalist...« less