Kenyon College - Reveille Yearbook (Gambier, OH)

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I ishof) Iredell r I 'HE Right Reverend Gregory Thurston Bedell, Doctor in Divinity, third Bishop of Ohio, was horn in Hudson, New York, August 27, A. D. 1817. His mother was a gifted and a godly woman; his father was a clergyman of great personal charm and brave devotion to his work. In Philadelphia, where he lived for many years as Rector of St. Andrew’s Church, his wonderful gifts of eloquence are still remembered. The son was blessed both in his father and his mother; and never ceased to be grateful for the influence and training of a Christian home. He was also blessed through the teaching and example of that pure and blessed saint, William Augustus Mahlenberg, to whose school on Long Island he was sent whilst still a l oy. From this school he passed to his college work, which was faithfully done and in which he obtained distinction. The college, however, was but a feeble taper, and soon expired. Its only graduating class was that of which he was the foremost member. His theological course was pursued at Alexandria, Virginia, an institu- tion which has trained many of the foremost clergymen in the American Church. His grand uncle, the Right Reverend Richard Channing Moore, Doctor in Divinity, was then Bishop of Virginia. He was ordained to the deaconship by this good Bishop in July, A. I). 1840; and to the priesthood in the following year. This saintly old man was then on the verge of the grave, but he made the journey northward that he might lay his hands in blessing on one whom he dearly loved, and whose success in the ministry he ardently desired. The testimony of his nephew then and afterward was, that “a more affectionate, laborious,zealous, devoted, eloquent father in our Israel sleeps not in the tomb than good uncle Moore.” Bishop Bedell’s first parish was at West Chester, Pa., where he remained for three years. He was then called to one of the most influential parishes in 5