The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-31
BISHOP wHIPPLE ON MISSIONS.
The Venerable Divine's Coming visit
10 London, Eng.

me venerable Divine's Coming visit
10 London, Eng.
Lake Maitland, Fla. Jan. 3O.-On Sunday
morning Bishop Henry B. Whipple preach
ed a grand missionary sermon at the
Church of the Good Shepherd, opposite
his beautiful winter residence here, to a
large congregation gathered from Orlan-
do, Winter Park, Forest City, Palm
Springs and Altamonte Springs It was
the prelude to the gratifying announcement
that ne had been officially invited to be
present and deliver an address at the cen
tennial anniversary OF the Society of Do
nestle and Foreign Missions of the Church
Of England. to be held in London some
time in April
AS this highly complimentary invitation
has been officially Endorsed by the gem
eral board of missions of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of America, ii is Bishop
Whppie's good pleasure to accept it with
cut hesitation.
There are many reasons why this vener-
able and beloved bishop, SO often called
the st. John" of The House of Bishops,
and Straight Tongue" by the Indian
tribes of Minnesota, should be the Ameri-
can representative at this proposed great
gathering of eminent prelates. Owing to
the continued feeble health of Bishop John
Williams of Connecticut. and Bishop
Thomas NJ, Clark of Rhode Island, the
honors as well as the labors of ''presd-
ing bishop" have devolved upon him for
a number of years past he having pre-
sided over several of the trieunial gem
eral conventions. Under his direction,
therefore, the latest important missionary
enterprises of the church have been es-
tablished or enlarged as in Alaska, in
Brazil, in China, in japan, in Greece, In
Western Africa. in Hayti, in Cuba and
in Mexico, as well as in all parts of our
country, including the missionary diocese
of Southern Florida where Bishop VIM.
Crane Gray is doing a noble work, up
building new churches and esta blishing
mission stations on the coast from Tampa
around to Miami and inland so as to EN-
brace the Seminole Indians for whom a
church and preacher and a school and
teachers have been provided.
Again, for more than forty years Bishop
Whipple has been a missionary to the In
dams of Minnesota, and with his conse-
Grated and now sainted wife, made rec
ord for heroic endurance and patient labor
and amazing good results that made his
name a household and revered one the
world over. And in his later years, en-
feebled by age and long and arduous serv-
ice, he has lost none of has zeal and enthu-
siasm in the cause of missions. Probably
no bishop in the Episcopal Church to-day
is so we'll posted, by experience, personal
observation and hard study, on the sub
ject of both home and foreign missions.
This fact was made clearly manifest at
the great tent convention of the Florida
Christian Endeavorers held at Winter Park
last spring. Such an address he then de-
liVered on the early history of foreign mis-
sions was never before heard in the South
In wonderfully attractive manner he
traced the origin of each great missionary
movement in foreign lands, his big heart
taking in all the Methodist, the Presbyte-
rian the Baptist, etc, as wei as the Epis-
copal Some humble. feryent soul, inspired
perhaps from God above, started the work
that finally grew into a mighty power that
swept like a cyclone over heather lands
and oppressed peoples
At the close of Bishop Whipples power
fun address President Francis +. Clark
d. D., the Father" of the great Chris
tan Endeavor movement, came forward
and grasped the bishops hand 0hey had
never met before), and with moistened
eyes and tremulous voice thanked him
for his noble words of cheer. Then, turn
ing to the great multitude that overfiowed
the tent, Father Clark told Of his re-
cent trip to Africa and other foreign mis-
sion fields, where Christian Endeavorers
have local organizations. 1t was surprls-
ing how readily he took up Bishop Whip
PIES points, and told what hnaEy became
of those early missionaries of several de-
nominations, and how he had met their
sons or grandsons or daughters or grand
daughters who were still holding up the
Risen Savior as the only hope of
heather nations. Bishop Whipple, there
fore, goes TO the great missionary centen-
NAL in London thoroughly equipped for
he work TO be assigned him, and i'm the
performance of which he will glorify God,
bless humanity and honor the country he
loves and the church he serves.
Bishop Whipp.e also goes TO inspire
others with his unfaiing faith In the final
triumph of missions, for he claims that
we are living in the great missionary age
OF the world, in which "the kingdoms OF
this world have become the kingdoms OF
our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall
reign for ever and ever" Seemingly i'm
penetrable barriers have been broken down
and fast closed doors opened to the faith
ful missionary. There Is no country where
we may not carry the gospel of Jesus
Christ. Divine Providence has been fusing
the nations of the earth into one COM
non brotherhood. Suddenly the doors of
Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philippines
are opened to MS and already the mission
aries of the cross have entered and in
the name of our Lord and Savior they
win redeem and possess those doWn-trod-
den lands. Showing his hearty sympa-
thy with the work of all denominations in
the mission fields. Bishop Whipple says,
''It Is a time for brotherly sympathy and
great-hearted work. With such RESPONSE
bllltles around us there must be no diva
ions among those who love the same Saw
Tor and look for the same heavenly home.
surely in such a day as this it is no time
Try on the earth where we may not carry