St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-27
TWO BISHOPS talk.
Woman's Auxiliary Listens
to Bishops MeLaren and
Morris.
Western Missions Discussed
and Compared With
EARLY Days.
Woman's Work the Great In
centive and Aid to Their
Success.
Doings Of the Social World
During a Cold Spell Of
Weather.

Bishops McLaren and Morris adj
dressed the Woman's Auxiliary Of the
Episcopal Church in St. Paul yesterday
afternoon at Christ church on the sub
iect of missions. The meeting was
opened by an organ voluntary and the
singing of Hymn POP, followed by
prayer and the singing of that universal
missionary hymn, From Green
lands Icy Mountains" Bishop Nc
Laren said that by his unfortu-
nate punctuality he had been placed
in the uncomfortable position OF having
to speak when he had expected to listen.
However, he felt glad to be able to meet
so many of the woman's auxiliary as
he then saw before him and to be able
to say what he thought Of the work of
this organization. 1t had passed its
initiatory period and was recognized
force in all church werk. He had been
struck with the changes few years
could make in other things beside church
methods. by his visit of the last few days I
i'll Duluth. Forty years ago he heard OF
Minnesota point, and there was not then
a single house where now stands the
populOus city; Out the growth of the
city was not more wonderful than the
growth of the church in the same time.
There were reasons for decreased
church membership for years after
the Revolution. The sentiment OF loyal |
" to the union of states had bred pref |
udice against Il church that was called /
the English church. 1t was wonder that !
the church tad survived the strug
Gle OF the Revolution. but it was Il
plant of divine growth, watered by |
heavenly dew and protected by celestia !
power. 1t had led timid life for years, |
but soon it began to feel the breath OF
anew life that was like the opening OF
an apocryphal book. Duluth's tranSfor-
nation from a pile of stones to the busy
metropolis was not more important in !
the Northwest than the wonderful !
emcrEence of the church from tha5 !
time of obScurity into the Importance !
of today, and the most important
change in the outlook is that Of the pJ- I
sitiUn of woman'S work in the church
today. And the reason of this change
is because this is a real Catholic church,
not of the wealthy and aristoeratic, but
one that has mission to ali sorts and
conditions of men. The work OF woman,
who can do so much more than any
other, reaches down to the low and
humble, and is the hope of our church.
Woman organized would be the
mightiest factor in the regeneration of
the world. 1t is by doing the work Of
the Master in a spirit of Self-fOrgetful-
ness that we get the greatest spiritual
good for ourselves. l do believe that
the result Of that larger spirit OF devel-
Opment, that entire cOnSecratiOn to God,
will be this, that the work we do for
others will return in larger showers OF
spiritual benefit on ourselves. In help
ing the missionary in the West we shall
help ourselves. In seeing Christ tollng
up the mountain sides in the person of
His servants we shall better see the
blessing to our own souls.
The twentieth century VIII be an age
of faith, an age of love-nOt of low,
selfish love, but higher form of that
divine attribute-a love that loves a
man because for HIN Christ has died.
God has created each Of His creatures
for purpose, not TO lead d selfish life,
but to accomplish His glory by the un-
SelfiShnesS of true charity that loves
that that does not love you. Work with
a steadfast purpose. DO not ask what
you are here for, but take the lessons of
charity and humility and love as your
guide. You can spell your way to
heaven by those two words, charity and
humility. Work out. then, the ends for
which God has created you.
Bishop Morris. Of Oregon, prefaced
his talk by saying that he had expected
to meet different kind of a gathering
and to hear some reports from the
women and their work. The woman's
auxiliary had been called the right arm
of the board Of missions. My field of
labor is in the West. Many people do
not realize where the great West has
gone to-
The bishop told some funny stories of
the idea people in the East have of To-
cailtes in the West. One mans limit
seemed to be Tit1in, o.; another
thought that Omaha was the extreme
border of the habitable West. Twenty
four years ago he had succeeded Bishop
Scott as the bishop Of the Northwest.
and had gone by way of the
lsthmus of Panama to San Fran
cisco, then by water $50 miles more to
Portland. At that time in Oregon and
Washington, there were only ten clergy
men and eleven churches; now they
had four bishops, Rt. Rev. Paddock,
bishop OF Olympia; Rt. Rev. Wells,
bishop of Spokane; Rt Rev. DR.. Talbot,
of Idaho and Wyoming, and Rt. Rev.
Barker, who was consecrated at Du-
nth, and himself, Rt. Rev. Morris.
Bishop Morris thinks that one of the
disadvantages they labor under in the
work in the West is the lack
of interest in the work of those
who try to engage in it,
There are some men engaged in church
work out there from Minnesota, and no