St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-06-19
BISHOP WHIPPLE.
Celebration of the Seventy-fifth Ami
versary OF His Conservation.
Closing Exercises of His Shattuck School and
st. Mary's Hall.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. |

fifth anniversary OF accession to the Eplsco-
pate, were very elaborate and by O'Clock
the weather was so fine that the affair was
proceeded with according to the programme.
Shortly after the hour named, procession
was formed, consisting of COM
mittee of twenty citizens, the city
council, the Faribault guards and band,
and great number of citizens and visitors,
and proceeded to the bishops residence,
where he, accompanied by Mayor c. L. Low
ell and Gordon E Cole the orator of the day,
was received and escorted in a barouche to
the public park opposite the cathedral. The
pretty park was delightfully."- inviting, the
drops Of the recent showers still glistening
on the trees, and the smooth, well-kept lawn
beneath the young maple grove cleaning in
the filtered light of the now bright sun. The
handsome and massive new fountain sent
forth Joyous spray, and hundreds of ele-
gantly costumed ladies added brightness to
the charming scene.
At 10 O'Clock the graceful pavilion was oc-
cupied by the honored bishop and a number
of representative men, and fronting it were
several hundred chairs filled with ladies.
There were at least 1000 people on the
grounds. The band edited the audience
with choice selections, until, Mayor Lowell,
stepping to the front, pronounced hearty,
cordial and eloquent address of welcome to
the many visitors, according them the free
dom of the city, and briefly stating the OBJ
ject for which they were gathered. He closed
by introducing Gen. Gordon E. Cole.
Mr.. Cole began his address with glowing
Ga1,,
who carried Christian civilization into the wilder
ness in the early history of the nation, the story
of whose deeds live only embalmed in the fading
memory of Christian men and the pages of the
historian. But to you, sir, he continued, ad-
dressing Bishop Whipple, the auspicuous for
tunes of your time have awarded a nobler and
more enduring fame. Twenty-Five years ago you
came among the warning nations of the Dakotah
and the Ojibway to take up career upon rude
and barbarous frontier, which shall end
only with your life; but the happy
results of which shall endure so long as
Christianity itself. Barring your breast to the
perils of an inclement climate Drawing the dan
gers of savage malignity, disregarding the dis
couragement of skeptical friends and defying
the fierce opposition of interested foes, you be-
came the constant and persevering defender of
the untutoreds Savage for many years, to the
frauds of designing traders and dishonest agents,
TO the elicentiousness which demoraliZed his social
life, to the vendors of the deadly fire water which
still further brutalized and degraded him, you op-
posed your single voice. You found those who
are now your loving and happy wards sunk in
depths of barbarism, degradation and misery.
Hunger, disease, drunkenness and licentiousness
had reduced the remnants of once powerful
tribes to a condition below barbarism
itself, all those evils fled before your benifcent
administrations, colonies of Christian Indians
sprang up on every reservation, the toll of the
chapel bell, supplanting the mufhed drum of the
medicine man, called in mellow tones in every
agency to the Christians devotions; the thrift
less habits of wandering tribes were abandoned
for fixed habitations and cultivated farms; the
naked savage was clothed in the white mans
| garb, and subsisted upon the proceeds of his
own honest labor The chiefs sent their sons
! to your seminary to be educated, and many
| thriving Indian missions winning souls from
| barbarism to Chrstancy under the charge of In
dian deacons, reared and fitted for holy calling
Long before the outbreak of 1862, when the
| fruits of long years of wrong were wreaked upor
| the defenceless heads of our innocent frontiers
men, and gentle mothers and innocent babes ex
plated in one fell holocaust the accumulated
injuries of generations of fraud and misrule, the
ancient feuds of these contending nations had
faded away before your successful efforts Those
who chanced to meet the band of Christian
| Indians who came last week as delegates
over territory larger than Rice
county, among the pine woods of the
north, could form some faint idea of the wonders
which the quarter of a century of your episco-
| pate has wrought in this single branch Ami
mated not by the pardonable partially of
| friend and townsman who has witnessed all
! whereof he speaks, but only by desire for truth
! and justice, ] voice sentiment which will fine
response in thousands of loving hearts, not alone
in this country, but wherever the Christians Goo
is worshipped, (for no more contracted boundary
circumscribes your fame that the name of Ell
| lott must no longer be suffered to shine on oul
| historic pages as the sole greatest apostle tt
the Indians, but first on the tablets on which
are inscribed the suferings, the sacrifices
and the triumphs of that glorious apostle
| ship must and will appear, there to shine
on so long as time shall last, the name which we
| to-day delight to honor, the fame which we are
| here assembled to commemorate. To this yoI
have dedicated, reverend and venerated: sir Won
have dedicated the best years of your life to the
red man; you have given your health, youl
youth, your strength; but nobly have you beer
repaid. The thousands of voices, which, in al
the savage dialects of the border, make the
prairie and the forest vocal with blessings OF
| your head. The joy which contemplation of
| good work done and successfully done in the ale
Walton of human misery always brings its OWE
! exceeding great reward
But not alone among the ignorant and untu-
tored savages have your victories been wrought
| You came upon this frontier, and you found
scarcely the vestige of the church, which it NAV
! be almost said was founded in the wilderness BY
your unaided efforts, and out of which, under
your ecclesiastical care, has grown in quarter o.
a century one of the most prosperous dioceses Of
| the American church. The name of Heber the
| loved missionary bishop of the English church
| is remembered more by his glorious poetry and
| the grand old anthem which has become house
| hold word wherever the English ritual is celebra
| ted, than by his successes as missionary Be
| ginning in the feeble infancy of our state be
fOra no ~ %oIo
| Your footsteps led the way of the emigran
| wagon through forest and prairie, and wherever
| the early hamlets rose there side by side witt
| the school house rose the mission chapel. Of the
| long list of communcants which now grace the
rolls OF our churches, by far the larger number
| came not here churchmen, but have been won by
your ministrations and those of your faithful
| clergy, emulous of your example, from those tc
whom the sweet ritual of our communion was ar
| unknown tongue. The rapid advancement OF
Minnesota from bowling wilderness to one o1
the most prosperous of the band of common
wealths which cluster in the Mississippi valley
has had no parallel in the annals of colonization
but the church over which you preside has
guided by your wise and faithful councils, kep
equal footstep with the state until the history O.
Minnesota to-day is the history of its unparalleled
| success.
| But perhaps the most striking of the triumph.
| which have distinguished and adorned your ca
reer has been the noble educational institution:
which your labors have founded, and the liberali
! ty of your friends, some of whom are with us II
person to-day, and all, / am assured, in spirit
| have SO magnifcently endowed. In 1860 yor
! found here in about equal proportions the tepee.
| of the Dakotas, the wigwams of the Winnebagoe:
and the log cabins of the first settlers, inter
| spersed with few small Eastwood frames No
brick or stone building existed These bluffs
now crowned with your noble edifices, and smil
ing meath the skill of the landscape gardener
were clothed with dense and uubroken forests
A onestory building, now used I believe, for s
blacksmiths shop on Fourth street, was the
only temple of learning. one small wooden
| church the only religious edifce
You build, as you have often said, upon faith anc
indeed it was faith which could almost remov,
mountains only that could have wrought sucl
miracles in stone as now crown the beauteou.
| heights. We read in song and story of the labor
of the gentleman and Alladans wonderful lamp
but no marvels CLEAN in the pages Of orienta
romance which exceed those which your magi
wand, aided by the generosity of friends thai
whom more or better or truer no man ever had
has summoned forth from the forrest and tn