The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-09

many honors. He preached the open
ing sermon in Lambeth place at the
Lambeth conference in London in 1885,
and has preached on special occasions
in most of the cathedrals of England
He received the degrees of D. D. and
LII d. from the universities of Oxford,
Cambridge and Durham. He was in
vited by Queen Victoria to a private
afterward presented by the queen a
portrait of herself and an elegent copy
of her Highland Journal
The bishop is chaplain general of the
societies of the Sons of the Revolution
and the Colonial Wars of the United
States. He held the first Protestant
public service ever known in Cuba. He
acted as presiding bishop of the Amer
lean church, owing to the absence of
Bishop Williams of Connecticut, at the
| last Lambeth conference, 1897, as he
! has for several years at the churC h
functions in America In 1899 he was
asked by the Church Missionary So
ciety of England to be present at the
centenary of the society as the repre-
/ sentative of the Episcopal church in
America and deliver an address. This
! request was seconded by the board of
missions here and was accepted. Last
winter Bishop Whipple made an Of
fetal visit to Porto Rico. by request of
the presiding bishop and the bishops in
charge, TO examine the field for work
of the church.
Bishop Whipple had the sole charge
of the vast diocese of Minnesota uD 10
fourteen years ago, when he asked for
cOadjutOr. who was appointed in the
person of MahlOn n. Gilbert. a bright.
vigorous young man; but the bishop
Outlived his far younger assistant, who
died early this year. At the diocesan
council just held in St Paul the ven
cradle bishop surprised his people by
announcing that he would not ask for
o., fHa.ar- fs.ef hi hG1 md
strength had been regained in such de-
gree that he could perform all the work
easily. When he began his work in
Minnesota fOTty-one years ago there
were but 10000 people in the state and
not a railroad. No life was ever more
truly dedicated to any work. All his
journeys, whether in the tOrridity of
summer the forty degrees below zero
of a Minnesota winter or the driving
rains and winds. were made in an open
sleigh or wagon. on horseback, by canoe
or ON foot, carrying his impedimenta
on MS shoulders. As a friend and adj
mirer of the bishop said to the writer:
1T has been a life Of fearless devotion
and courage. but by his wise judgment,
broad catholicity. splendid statesman
ship. absolute self-abnegatiOn, his keen
sense of justice and his manliness, he
built up a diocese that looms up in the
history of the church. a witness to its
founder" All this had been accom-
I pllSlG0. Wnen. fourteen years ago. MS
health broke down. owing to the fear
full exposures of his frontier journeys
and to his having been several times
lost in billiards. With this. and the
fact of the rapidly increasing popula-
ton, it became, as stated above, neces-
sary for him TO obtain an assistant.
This relieved him of a portion of the
bur den, but he has always been the
great diocesan - guiding. directing
planning and working. Railways and
the comforts and Iuxuries of present
day civilization which now belong tC
the state make il difficult TO realize
what the work of Bishop Whipple's
! episcopate has been. Some years after
/ his coadjutor was elected the northern
I part of the state was made into a mis-
SiOnary Jurisdiction. The intimate
4 friendships which the prelate has en-
J joyed with distinguished men OF Amer
7 lea and Europe throughout the past
/ half century help tell the story of the
mans own remarkable personality. 1T
I is a life that no pen can do justice TO.
/ declares a close friend of the bishop
[ who assisted the writer to points in the
/ career now under survey
Though serious has been the nature
of his life work ard weighty the prob.
1 lens with which he has been called
upon to deal with with plenary au.
( thority. Bishop Whipple is a humoriSt
I It 50 not designed to detract from the
T. dignity Of his character and position
when it is asserted that he is not only
a fun lover. but fun maker. Count
Hess anecdotes in support, OF this state
n1ent might ne related. They have beer
related. IN fact. with sIrrh freIuencl