The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-12
BISHOP WHIPPLE H0NORED.
THE REPORTS WHICH COME FROM
HIS SUMMER HOME.

Some of the Interesting Facts of His
Career-The High Esteem in which
He Is Held in FIOrida-An Affect
ing Scene in Which He Played a
Leading Part.
Pine Crest Villa, Maitland Fla, Nov.
1.-THE people here in what has been
Bishop WhippIes winter nome for many
years, and where he has abundant in re-
ligious and charitable works, feel highly
gratified at the reports from his summer
home in Faribault, Mimi, of the high hon
ors paid him on the anniversary of his for
tieth year as bishop of that diocese. In
fact, the whole state of Florida has an
interest in the remarkable career of this
foremost of American Protestant Epsco-
pal bishops of the present day as he was
the beloved rector of the Episcopal Church
at st. Augustine previous to his election
as Bishop of Minnesota. Not only in his
own church has ne made warm friends
and supporters, but his broad catholicity
of spirit has endeared him to Christians
of all denominations, especially here in
Orange county, where he has so long liv-
ed and labored during the winter season.
In a recent letter to the Morning News
about the Senior bishop" I stated that
Bishop Clark of Rhode Island, and not
Bishop Whipple. as reported in the news
papers, held that office. But it is sin
gular fact that while Bishop VIII ans II
Connecticut and Bishop Clark had never
been exposed to the hardships that came
to Bishop Whipple on the far-off frontier
of Minnesota for years before modern civ
ilization reached that region with its COM
forts and helpers, this pioneer Western
bishop has been compelled to preside over
several-in fact, many-Episcopal gather
.ings because of the feeble health of the
late Bishop Williams and Bishop Clark
1t is a great tribute to his powers Of en-
durance after so many years of exposure
and burdensome labors on the frontier
He seems never to be idle, but always at
tending to His Masters business" In
both England and America his name has
become a household word-chershed and
revered with a grateful remembg rance o his
jealous and unselfish labors for the good
Of his fellow men without regard to race.
color or UNCONVENTIONAL lines.
Not only in the Episcopal Church gath
erings does 1t devolve upon him to pre-
side for an invalid Senior Bishop" but
at the recent meeting of the trustees of
the Peabody Educational Fund, in New
York, it was Bishop Whipple second vice
chairman, who had TO preside in the alb
sence of Chairman VIM. NJ. Evart an in
valid, who is the sole survivor of the orig
inal board. 1 am firmly convinced that
Bishop Whipple's long residence on the
frontier, where for so many years, he was
deprived of The luxuries and leisure that
so many have enjoyed in our more favored
section of the country, has not only pro-
donged his life but enabled aim even in
his most enfeebled condition of body-his
mind being always bright and active-to
accomplish very often the work of TWO or
three men. Not only his own church sim
enjoys his active labors. but they are
shared by the claims of the Indians. the
negroes, the cause Of general education
and a score Of other phlanthropic and re-
Hgious movements.
And this is why the recent anniversary
of his fortieth year as the Bishop of MIN
nesota was such a love feast" where
Bishop Henry c. Potter and other eminent
preates, as well as humber ministers of
the Gospel paid high tribute to his long
and laborious service. II mold" said Rev
Dr. c. G. Tiffany, Archdeacon of New
York, THAT a bishop in this time in which
we live must not only be great ecclee-
iastic, but a noble man. He must feel
the great appeals OF humanity Such a
man is the one who came to this diocese
forty years ago. He came, a young man,
to sparsely settled state. One would