The record-union., 1899-10-18
THE BISHOPS ADDRESS.
Interesting Review Of Church Az
fairs in the District.


Dearly Beloved in the Lord: We are
assembled in the Primary Convocation
Of the Missionary District Of Sacra-
mento. This would be the Twenty fifth
Conyocation Of the Jurisdiction or
Northern California, were such juris-
diction still in existence The old vol
ume is closed. A new one is opened.
Marked changes have taken place in
this part Of the Lords vineyard since
you last met in convocation. It pleased
our Heavenly Father, on July y, 1893,
to release from physical suffering, and
from a multitude of cares and crushing
burdens, the Right Rev. John Henry
Ducachet Wingfield, D. D., D. c. l.,
LII D., who for more than twenty
three years was the Bishop of North
ern California. His funeral services
were conducted a few days later by the
Bishop Of California, assisted by sundry
Of the clergy, in st. Paul's Church,
Benicia, which had been his pro-cathe-
dral for twenty-five years.
On February 10, 1899, in the same
place a memorial service was cele-
brated in his honor, before a great con-
gregation Of those who had known and
loved him. It was one Of the first Off
cial acts after my conservation to pre-
side at this service, to plead before
God, the Holy Mysteries, in interces-
sion for him and his bereaved family
and jurisdiction, to give thanks for the
rest attained, the victory accomplished
and to consecrate a. brass memorial pull
pit. inscribed with his name, presented
by his friends and former pupils. The
Bishop of California was present on
this occasion, and paid a glowing and
worthy tribute to the soldier spirit of
your late Bishop. manifested as 1t was
in constant tolls, unwearying labors,
missionary zeal, and, above all, in re-
naming steadfast at his post of duty
when i'll health, domestic tragedy, dying
schools, increasing financial entangle-
ments and the repeated call to other
episcopates combined to tempt him to
desert the post where, as he believed,
God had placed him. Other voices were
raised at this service to tell of his
fervid eloquence, his power as a
preacher, his intellectual abilities, AMI
to recite numerous instances of his per-
sonal affection and devotion as a true
father in God to his clergy and people.
<AAtd lASiG NOuAQ put OI1 IECOIui AOA
myself, that wherever I have gone in
Northern California I have found many
to whom the memory of Bishop Wing
field is exceedingly precious. Cody
laymen and hard-working priests have
been foremost in appreciating his many
nobilities of character and his never
failing sympathy for his brethren of
the ministry. Truly after such life
of blood and stress and toll as Bishop
Wingfeld lived.
How. sweet the calm of Paradist the
blest
During the prolonged illness of your
late Bishop the jurisdiction enjoyed
the episcopal oversight of neighborinG
Bishops, and from December. 1896. to
the time of my conservation Right Rev.
DR.. Anson r. Graves of the Platte was
in charge, under commission from the
Presiding Bishop On every side l find
abundant evidence of the inspiriting in
ffuence and practical wisdom of Bishop
| Graves. 1t is surprising that he was
able to accomplish so much in the two
short visitations given to this field, and
our gratitude will always be due to
Bishop Graves for coming to our aid
50 generously in time of need.
| The General Convention of 1898,
meeting at Washington, D. c. ordered
that the bounds of the missionary dis
| trict then known as the Missionary
District of Northern California be
| changed by the addition of all that por-
ton of the State of Nevada lying west
of the west lines of the counties of
J Elko. Lander and Nye: the district to