The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-14
HENRY BENJAMIN WHIPPLE CELE-
VERSARY OF HIS BIsHOPRIC
CHURCHMEN DO HIM HONOR
EPISCOPAL CONGRESS- CLOSES WITH
AN INTERESTING SERVICE AT
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
THREE OF THE WORLDS RACES

Helped by the LabOrs for Good
of the Pioneer Bishop, who Has
Seen the Wilderness That Was
Blossom and Bloom With the
Fruits and GIorfes of Civilization.
Beautiful and essentially solemn were
the services held last evening a st. Paul's
| Episcopal church in celebration of the
fortieth anniversary of the conservation
of Rt. Rev. Henry Benjamin Whipple D.
D., as bishop of Minnesota The church
was crowded with people. The full sur
pliced choir was in attendance and the
| song service was unusually fine. Rev.
| Harvey Officer Jr., acting rector of st.
Pauls church, conducted the services, in
which Bishops Gilbert and Potter also
participated.
At the conclusion Of the praise service
Bishop Gilbert spoke briefly.
Forty years ago last June he said,
! Henry Benjamin Whipple was made bish-
op of Minnesota and entered upon his
work here in the West. 1t has seemed
| fitting to US that we should ask friends
outside the diocese to testify here tonight
| to that love and esteem in which our be-
| loved bishop is held throughout thte epis-
copacy and even in the outside world.
| We decided that instead Of a sermon we
should have three addresses dealing with
three different phases of the bishops
work first, as related to the diocese;
second, as related to the world without;
and third, as related to the episcopacy.
1t has seemed especially fitting to us that
the son of an old friend and fellow worker
with Bishop Whipple, the Rev. Nathaniel
S. Thomas, should speak of the bishops
work as related to the diocese. L take
great pleasure in introducing to you the
Rev. Nathaniel S. Thomas"
Mr.. Thomas address, though brief was
replete with "reminiscences of the bish-
ops work in Minnesota when the speaker
was only boy.
IF there ever was young man., said
the speaker, who had a theme dear to
his heart, it is this young man standing
before you tonight. Standing here in my
! fathers church, memories OF childhood
! irexpressiby dear come tlocking back, and
the brightest of these memories cluster
about the name of your beloved bishop.
AS child, youth and young man 1 have
| loved the bishop, if not in my judgment,
certainly in my heart.
| WHAT HE IS, NOT WHAT HE DOES.
81 remember once asking my father what
| the bishop had done to be considered so
| great a man, and his answer was Don t
| you know, my son, that a man is great
for what he is. not for what he has
done And it is for what the bishop is
| that we honor him
Mr.. Thomas told how thirty years ago
| in Faribault when his father, Bishop
| Thomas, was struggling with a poor mis-
sion, Bishop Whipple, by his unfailing
cheerfulness, his zeal and his piety, kept
up the tagging courage of the little band
of workers.
80 pioneer missionary" eloquently con-
| cluded the speaker, The load that he
has carried, the prayers that he has
| said in secret in his closet, the lofty as
! piration, the determined zeal that he's
carried through untold difficulties no
earthly brain or human tongue can meas
ure or praise
Rev. DR.. c. c. Tiffany, archdeacon
| of New York, spoke on the bishops work
in the world without.
81 hold that a bishop in this time in
which we live must not only be a
great ecclesiastic, 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.
MISSION IN THE WILDERNESS.
"He came, a young man, to sparsely
settled state. One would fancy that his
| first duty would be to conciliate the rich,
! certainly not to espouse any cause that
would turn the wealthy class against
him. But what did he do? He listened to
| the cry of the red man on the frontier,
wards of the country who were then at
! the mercy of irresponsible agents.
''The Indian's cause was an unpopular
| cause at that day. It stirred UP the bit
crest antagonism. Well, YOU know that
! long history, and even better you know
| the results. Now the req man has Chris
tan missions, there is nothing but kindly
feeling toward him. His history has been
turned nom the book of horror to the
| book of heroism, and pre ise for this be-
! longs to one man alone, Bishop Whipple."
DR., Tiffany referred to Bishop Whip
! pies work among the negroes as a mem
! Der of the Peabody commission. He has
found, said the speaker, 'the man with
I the black skit as well as the man vii II
! the red skin TO be the child of God. Let
! US change the skin and go to England.
! There we will find as we'll as in this coun-
I try that the name to conjure with is the
name of the bishop of Minnesota. For as
| he has helped the poor and the needy
the rich have remembered him. "And
! you reverend father concluded Dr.
| Tiffany, turning and addressing Bishop
! Whipple, when your time has come to so
/ to that world beyond, and may the day
| be far distant, you will find not only
| the countless white whom you have
| aided and blessed, but also the converted
! red and black men who also are
/ brothers"
BISHOP POTTER'S TRIBUTE.
! Right Rev. Henry Cochran Potter, D.
! D., LID, bishop Of New York, spoke
on Bishop Whipples work in the epis-
copacy. He said in part: 81 think you
! will agree with me, men and women,
| that this is the lifting conclusion to the
| church congress. 1 am especially ela /
! of this occasion, for it gives me an op-
portunity of saying something of Bishop
Whipple's life in it's relation to the Of
! flee and ideal of episcopacy The bish D
/ of Minnesota has been Catholic bishop,
and I use that word in its highest and
truest sense. His episcopacy has been
broad one In our discussion of rituals
! at the church congress last evening l
wish some one had set forth more clearly
that the Episcopal church is a church
| and not a sect. 1t should be great sat-
| isfaction to you that your bishop has
not spent his time pickering over those
petty questions that after all have moth
| ing to do with the great fundamental
verify of the cross of Christ He has
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