Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1896 — TWO NEW BISHOPS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TWO NEW BISHOPS.

Sketches of the Two Men CRpsen by the Methodist Conference. After a hot fight lasting nearly all day the Methodist general conference at Cleveland broke the deadlock and elected Chaplain McCabe nnd Dr. Crunston bishops of the church. Dr. McCabe pulled through by a majority of only eight votes, but Dr. Cranston, on the eighteenth and last ballot, had thirty to spare. Dr. Earl Cranston was born dune 27,

,1840. at Athens. O. His education was obtained at. the Ohio University at Athens. He became af-' ter lenving college a traveling minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and served in that capacity until the breaking out of the war. He enlisted in the Vnited,, States

Service and fose to the rhuk of contain of the Sixtieth* Ohio'Volunteer Tnftuj;(s. In eon-seqhence’ W'that service be ‘iD'now an honored member of'the millfiry«<f¥(*er of the Loyul Legion -oflthe United’States in the Ohio comniundory. His service in the church after the war won is the Ohio conference until he .was transferred about 1880 to tbg .Colorado cogforojjc^j.,where lie become a. presiding elder. Ip 1884, iibon the election of Bishop Warden, Dr. Cranston whs ehosep’to succeed Bishop Walden as one of the book agfhnfs of the Western Methodist Book concern in Cincinnati. He has held that position until now. Dr. Crnnston has always held a high rank as a pulpit orator. Charles C. McCabe, D, D., was boro

Oet. 11, 1830, in Athens, O. He entered the Ohio conference in 18(30 and was stationed at Putnam. In 1802 he became chaplain in the One Hundred and' Twenty-second t Ohio Volunteer Infantry. At the battfe of Winchester, Va., in June. 1803,

while looking after the wounded on the field, he was captured and taken to Libby prison, where he remained a captive for four months. After his release he rejoined his regiment at Brandy Stntion, but, with broken heulth, was sent back to the hospital at Washington. After the war he re-entered the regular work of the ministry and was stationed at Portsmouth, O. In 1860 the Ohio conference called him into the service of the Ohio Wesleyan University. In 1808 the board of church extension naked that he might be appointed to aid Dr. Kynett in building up that cause. For sixteen years he traveled through the-,length and breadth of the land and saw the work advance with unexampled prosperity, upon every side. In 1884 he was re-elected missionary secretary. Through his matchless inspiration and efforts a cry of “a million for missions,” once a prophecy, is now one of the brightest facts in the history of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

BISHOP CRANSTON.

BISHOP M’CABE.