Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — TWO NEW BISHOPS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TWO NEW BISHOPS.

Sketches of the Two Men Chosen by the Methodist Conference. After a hot fight lasting nearly all day the ~Methpdist__geueinX conference at Cleveland broke the deadlock and elected Chaplain McCabe and Dr. Cranston bishops of the church. Dr. McCabe pulled through by a majority of only eight votes, but I >r. (’ran st on,on (he eighteenth and last ballot, had thirty to spare. Dr. Earl Cranston was born June 27,-.

1840,. at Athens, O. His education was obtained at the Ohio University at Athens. He became after leaving college a traveling minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church and served in that capacity until the breaking out of the i war. He enlisted in

bishop cranstox. the United States service and rose to the rank of captain of the Sixtieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. In consequence of that service he is now an honored member of the military order of the l Loyal Legion of the United States in the Ohio commandery. His service in the church after the war was in the Ohio conference until he was transferred about 1880 to the Colorado conference, where he beoame a prcsiding elder. In. ISB4. upon' the election of Bishop Walden, Dr. Cranston was chosen to succeed Bishop Walden 'as one of the book agents of the Western Methodist Book concern in Cin cinnati. He has held that position until now. Dr. Cranston has always held ahigh rank as a pulpit orator. Charles C. McCabe, D. D., was born

Oct. 11, 1836, in Athens, O. He entered the Ohio conference in 1860 and was stationed at Putnam. In 1862 he became chaplain in the One Hundred and Ohio Volunteer Infantry. At the battle of Winchester, Va., in June, 1863,

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 Station, but, with broken health, 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, -In 1866 him into the service of the Ohio Wesleyan University. In 1868 the board of church extension asked 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.Tiis 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.M’CABE.