The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1892-02-27

ST. JOINS; john WILKINSON, or St
Marks; John Gierlow. of the Church of
the Advent; +. E. McManus, of St
Paul's; p. G. Robert, of the Church of
the Holy Communion. Geo. II. Hunt, of
ST. James; S. T. Brewster, of the
Church of Holy ~Innocents; J. P. T. In
graham, of Grace church; b. E. Reed,
of Mount Calvary church, and b. F.
Newton, of the Missionary church of
the Good Shepherd. The cathedral was
crowded with members of the congre-
CATION and friends of DIR. Schuyler, ire
spective of creed.
At the opening Of the service Rev. F.
B. Scheetz, of Grace church, Kirkwood,
delivered a brief eulogium upon the life
and character of the venerable dean,
after which Bishop TuttIe delivered the
following congratulatory address:
BISHOP TUTTLB's ADDRESS.
Among the ancient people Of God the jubilee
year was ushered in with the blare OF trumpets.
Homes were regained. Slaves were set free.
No land could be alienated by mortgage or
rental beyond the fiftieth year. and must in the
jubilee be restored to the owning family Of
original allotment. In hearts and homes were
joy and thanksgiving and the voice of melody.
This is the day of a jubilee year. A sacred
anniversary day for u priest of the Most High
God, who has served a half century Of active
duty in the priesthood. He IL dean Of the ca
thedral, and the bishop leans on him. He is
pastor of the flock gathered here. and their
hearts are full of love for him. He is an aged
brother among many fellow presbyters. and
they esteem and veneratve him.
Then let joy and thanksgiving and the voice
of melody be with us too.
Fifty years OF active work as priest and nearly
thirty eight Of those years in this city and
parish. Think Of hem-of the children
taught, the homes watched over, the
souls washed in the LAYER Of regenera-
ton and fed with food from the
table of the Lord and converted to the service
of God, the marriages blessed. the sick rooms
visited, the poor and needy helped, the
dying eyes closed. the sacred bodies laid BIZ in
committal earth to earth. dust to dust: think OF
them all, and then of the thousand influences
for good that gather upon and go out from the
blameless, kindly, unselfsh, purifying daily
work Of a faithful pastor, and tell me il the
quiet joy felt by our brother to-day and the
warm thanks tenderly pervading our own hearts
do not make Of it a jubilee day of gladness,
In lsi2, when our brother WIS ordained priest,
We in the United States had only twenty-seyen
dioceses and twenty bishops OF the latter Bishop
Griswol was the senior. and. therefore. the
presiding bishop, and Bishop Lee Of Delaware
was the junior. And among them was only one
missionary bishop, the apostolic Kemper.
Only seven Of our living bishops were ordained
priests before ls42-viz.: Williams. Kip, Clark.
Bedell, Bisseli, Howe tf Central Pennsylvania
and Lyman.
Our brother came to this diocese in 1854. On
the list of clergy with him in the Journal Of 1855
only one name still remains, that Of Rev. F. b.
Scheetz. or the other twenty, five only. |
think, are alive-Clerc, Comingo, Corbyn,
Dunn and Irish The same year. or in
the first annual convention after his ar
rival, he was elected a member of the standing
committee of the diocese, and with the excep-
ton Of the year 1853. he has served continuous
ly in that important post for the last thirty
seven years. and deserving now. In 1858 he was
elected a deputy to the general convention Of
1850, and that of 1899. when he declined re-elec-
ton. he has represented this diocese in all the
eleven general conventions that have been since
held. Such a record of Uninterrupted labo-
devoted service to the general interests
Of the church is not often equ3lei, and / doubt
IL it can be found to be surpassed.
Are we inclined to think that the weight Of
years towards hfe's evening must make ons's
chariot wheels drag heavily and with a creak-
ing mournfulness: Using our eyes We are
to say: Not so:" at least where service
Of the church and duty to the Lord lend cheer
inspiring vigor.
MEMOIR OF THE PAST.
May l he pardoned, on this, my brothers
festal dav, a few words showing how his life
and mine. by Gods providence, have been
linked together
In May, 1868, l was living alone in a log cabin
IN a mining gulch in the Rocky mountains OF
l was almost l,500 miles from the
nearest railroad, but there was a telegraph line
70 nv toup of Vir0ipio (ytv pv
this came to me:
To-day you were unanimously elected bishop
Of Missouri. write N. SCHUYLER,
President of the Convention"
That convention was held in Kirkwood. OF
the twenty -four clergy Of the diocese on its list
1nly two besides the president remain, DR..
Berkeley and Mr.. Scheetz. The kindly, beautiful
came, being twenty-on days on the way. |
by due course of mail. 1t was answered on July |
Just eighteen years afterward, almost to a
lay, the same message came to me from the
anne president of the convention, when / was
n another mining gulch in southern Utah, q
hort distance over the line from Arizona, and
% miles from the nearest railroad. The subse-
,uent letter came soon after. My answer
and / followed the answer to become
Intimately associated with my loved brother.
whose vigor had been spared to express in two
etters. separated by near a score Of years, and |
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quest of the people Of Missouri that 1 would
,ome and spend the last days of my earthly life
lmong them.
1t is proof Of the changes and chances Of hu-
nan life and Of the reduplicated changes and
,hances Of clerical life that of the fifty eight
:lergy on the list of that convention Of 1885. not
ret six years ago, only twenty nine, Just half
Ire in the state Of Missouri, and only seventeen
n the diocese Of Missouri. How such a fact
.r,phaa;za. anI a1oaptu,far tha 6ff- 80 |
continuous duty in the priesthood and the thir-
years Of loving service in this one pas
orship of our brother!
He has served loyalty under three bishops of
Missouri, and all have loved him. Two he has
ollowed to their graves Of peaceful rest, and to
third the honor is reserved and the pleasure
oven to greet him on this hallowed day, and to
peak for himself and for the hosts innumerable
4 admiring friends the wishes Of joy that their
learts are warm with and the prayers for bless
ngs on his loved and honored head.
And to be q voice to give utterance to the
Iesire and intention dominating the minds Of
hose many friends, my brother beloved, In
ommemoration of this, your honorable jubilee,
hose friends wish to erect the Schuy-
or Memorial house, q parish house for
sunday schools and guilds and for the
Of the nan missionary sctivi-
les that God providence and its location throw
Ipon the hands of the cathedral, and q house
or the diocese. for diocesan conventions, and
clearing house and q home for the bishop and
ity clergy and country clergy alike. You, and
hose with you in the past, builded better than
knew when you erected this magnificent
to the glory Of Coo and for the service
{ men, well fitted to be named cathedral and TO
70 held IN most reverent esteem The home
our friends would build must be In seemly
with the csthedral(ostly and impress
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for years and years, fxr bsyond what you %