Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-13
VOICES OF THE WEST.
The WOman's Auxiliary of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church
BEGINS ITS ANNUAL CONFERENCE.
Appeals for the Missionary Bishops Of
Wyoming and Utah.
THEY WANT MONEY TO FOUND SCHOOLS

burg took place in Trinity Protestant
Episcopal Church last evening. There was
good congregation. In the absence of the
regular organist, Mr.. 7. 7. Doyle presided
at the instrument. The collection taken for
the woman's Auxiliary was bountiful one.
After the opening services, and the read
ing of Scripture lesson by Bishop Pad
dock, of Washington, Bishop Whitehead,
of Pittsburg, began the work of the confer
ence by speaking of the qualification he felt
at the visit of the Western bishops. They
could not appreciate, he felt sure, the bless
ing which they we're comforting on the Pitts
burg diocese by their visits. The bishops
had come to receive benefit in return, not
for themselves, but for their dioceses. He
hoped they would succeed in persuading out
of the pockets of Pittsburg people much
money for their work in the West. Bishop
Whitehead then called attention to large
map of the United States which hung upon
the wall 1t illustrated, he thought, better
than any oral description could do, the
great extent of the Western missionary field.
TERRITORY UNTOUCHED.
In explaini lg the manner in which the
territory beyond the Mississippi is divided
into its several dioceses, the Bishop re-
marked the fact that the Indian Territory
awaits occupation by the church. All
missionary work, in this land and in foreign
lands, he said, was one with the work of the
church in parish and diocese. All church
work is in the same line, looking to the sal
walton of men. The mission work in the
West had received special attention from
the Protestant Episcopal church only dur
ing the years tince 1866, when bishops were
elected for Nebraska and Colorado. Bishop
Whitehead said he remembered we'll when
those two bishops were chosen. He thought
it peculiar and appropriate circumstance
that the reverend gentlemen who we're COM
missioned to the work among the Indians,
both wore wigs. Much sport was made of
that fact at the time. He took great interest
in the missions of Bishops Bramble, Tuttle,
Coxen and Whitaker, and heard with in
terest the marvellous yarns which they told
on their return from their Western work.
The Bishop said that he then felt it to be
his duty to go into the mission field, and it
was without any hesitation that he decided
to place himself under Bishop Bramble, of
Colorado.
IN PRIMITIVE TIMES,
When he went to the West, in 1867, the
western terminus of the railroad was Jules
burg, and he reached his position only by a
long, tedious and dangerous stage ride. The
preceding stage had been robbed by Indians
and il was on the occasion of that trip that
Bishop Whitehead carried horrible revol-
yer, of enormous proportions, for the only
time in his life. He told something of his
experiences in the West thai his episcopal
visitors mighr know that he could appre-
ciate their labors and sympathize with them
in their hardships.
After the singing of hymn an address
was delivered BY Bishop Ethelbert Talbot,
of Idaho and Wyoming. He is young man
of fine physique. erect, square shouldered,
with a clear, ,clean-cut and intellectual coun-
tenance and head of magnificent dark
hair, thick and wavy. He wears an appear
ance of youth beneath his actual years, his
face being smoothly shaven and his step
elastic. His voice is strong and deep, and
his speech ready and fluent.
FELT AMONG FRIENDS.
Bishop Talbot expressed his qualification
over the fine attendance. He felt very
much among friends, he said, and had for
years known that in the Bishop of Pitts
burg he had sympathetic advocate of the
work of the missions in the West He
spoke of the diversity of classes in his dio-
cese, saying:
NY chief work is among the white people.
Then have also to deal with the Mormons
the Mormons not also white people. Lastly,
have to look after the Indians.
Bishop Talbot spoke then specifically of
the work among the Shoshone and Arrapa-
hoe Indians on the Shoshone reservation.
He paid high tribute to Rev. John Rob
erts, young English minister who has been
for nine years working among the red men
there. That devoted missionary was said to
be lone of those men, rare in our day, of
truly heroic spirit, real saint Of God"
Yet, because of his modesty and the isola-
ton of his location, the field of his labor
bad been neglected by the church. Bishop
Talbot said that when he received
his invitation to come to Pittsburg
he accepted it gladly, because he
felt sure that he would find here some gen.
erous hearts that would respond to his In
dian call. He was endeavoring to raise
S., 600 with which to establish an Episcopal |
school for the Indian children of the |
reservation, and he appealed to |
the rich people of Pittsburg for pecuniary |
aid.
THE MAN THE SENATE OPPOSES.
The Bishop said that he had Just come |
from Washington, where he had talked with |
Mr.. Morgan, the new Commissioner of In |
dian Affairs He spoke highly of Mr.. Nor |
gan, saying that he considered him a broad |
minded man, with whose Indian policy he
would be glad to cooperate Mr.. Morgan
had recognized the excellence of Rev. Mr.. |
Roberts work by appointing him superin-
tendent of the Government school on the |
reservation. The Bishop argued,
however, that there was not, in Govern
ment school, that opportunity for religious |
teaching which the church desired to give
TO the Indian children.
Bishop Talbot does not believe in the
system, and he said so in en-
phatic language. Its early abolition would
be. ne said, a great benefit to the red men.
He did not consider it to be good policy to
the Indians in communities,
from the influence of Caucasian |
farms and place them on their own re-
sources.
BISHOP LEONARD TALKS.
Bishop Abiel Leonard, of Utah and Ne
vada, was then briefly introduced. He is
tall, handsome man, slightly bald, wearing
q full dark beard just beginning to reveal
traces OF gray. He is fluent talker. He
pointed to the map, remsrking that one
would require spy glass to discover the
diocese of Pittsburg. 1t must be pleasant,
however, he thought, to have a diocese
where the Bishop could stand upon hill
top and overlook the entire territory. After
this little dig at Bishop Whitehead, the
speaker turned to the diocese of Bishop
Talbot, saying that it appeared to be of SO
great an extent from one end to the other
1nly because the railroads were very
crooked, having been built in circuitous
lines at SO much mile He then described