Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-01-04
REv- ". =. EWALKER.
EPISCOPAL BISHOP OF NORTH DAKOTA.

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EPISCOPAL BISHOP
THE following letter IS received &C
companylng the above portrait of the
newly appointed Episcopal bishop Of
North Dakota.
New YoRK, Dec. q, 1883.
Yesterday at Calvary church in this
city, the Rev. w. D. Walker was conse-
Grated to the Office of bishop of the Pro-
testant Episcopal church Of the United
States and his Jurisdiction will be that Of
missionary bishop of North Dakota. II
Is probable that some, if not all, your
readers will feel interested in this event
and therefore Will briefly refer to it.
and first an outline of the plans and
purposes pursued by this church IN refer.
ence to the territories Of the West may
not be out of place.
In the general convention which met
in 1885 the church then by resolution
declared herself missionary church and
adopting as her inspiring motto, the say
ing of our Lord ssThe field is the world, Z, =
she went forth on her mission, and
planting her missionaries in Africa,
China and the isles Of the sea, she at the
same time went forth to the new terrific
ries Of the West, and sent out the Rev.
jackson Kemper as Missionary to the
Northwest" which then included what
are now the states of Wisconsin, Minne-
sofa, Iowa, Kaneas and Nebraska. As
these vast territories were peopled by the
advancing tide of emigration and sub
divided and organized by the civil gov
ernment, the Episcopal church was ready
with her missionary bishops to supple
ment and carry forward her work, and
the election of Bishop Whipple for Min
nesota, Bishop See for Iewa and Morris
OF Oregon, was done ere the territories
were admitted rs states or Immediately
after. In selecting her men for these
advanced posts, she has always endeav-
ored to choose those best adapted by
natural endowments as well as education,
for the field chosen to be occupied. 1t
was in this spirit that in 1865 Bishop
Ciarkson was selected tor Nebraska, and
the adjoining territory of Dakota, then
just opening in its southern portion to
settlement, was added. The rapid and
steady influx of immigrants demonstrated
the impossloility Of one man doing JUS
tice to so large field and accordingly at
the general convention held in Philadel-
phla last October, the territory of Dako-
to, Bishop Clarkson resIgning the juris-
diction) was divided on the 18th parallel
and made two missionary Jurisdictions
and the..southera portion attached to the
jurisdiction Of Bishop Hare, who as mis-
sionary bishop west Of the Missouri had.
endeared himself to the church and made
record as a good soldier Of the cross.
For Northern Dakota the choice, with
singular unanimity, fell upon Rev. Will
IAN David Walker rector of Calvary
Chapel, New York City, aud after duly
considering the subject in all its bear
ings. he accepted the office, land yesterday
in the presence of large congregation,
and of nearly two hundred Of his brethren
in the ministry, including eight or
ten of the bishops of the church, he was
set apart for this work with the prayers
of his brethren, that like Barnabas and
Saul at Antioch he might go forth to the
work for which the Holy Ghost hac
called him.
Bishop Walker is in his 44th year and
is unmarried. In person he stands over
six feet high, of fair proportions, possibly
little slender, his frame is erect, his
complexion ruddy, his hair black and his
eyes bright with mild intelligent ex-
preston that at once arrests attention
and attracts you by Its gentleness aud the
| winning manners thst accompany it.
He ls . graduate of the General Theo-
logical Seminary of New York and has
uSyer had any other charge than his
present one, which he has held for twen-
ty-one years, and from AAIs hourisAlne