The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-23
BISHOP HUNrINGroN.

4Aane Great Episcopallan by His
 Mothers Accommodation from the
 Congregational Church.
 The bishop comes of the old Con- necticut stock of which Lafayette in addressing one of the family presented 10 him upon his last visit to this e6un- try said, Young man, you have noble blood in your veins; see that you never dishonor it.
 The present bishop was born in Had ley in the old homestead, where he now spends every summer, and was the eleventh of a large family. One of the most interesting incidents in the history of New England gationalism is the accommodation of his mother. Elizabeth Phelps, wife of the Rev. Dam iel Huntington, While in these days one is not more afraid of excommunic2- tion from Congregational Church than called the Pope of Hadley." He soon which fed strong mems minds. The pastor in old Hadley at that time was the Rev John Woodbridge. He was of an anathema from the Roman Catholic Church, in those days it meant much, socially and religiously. Eliza beth Phelps was noted for her piety and good works, and was beloved by all the people in the town, but like her husband she was of progressive mind and was not content with the formal and oEtho- dox theology of the day. Those were the days when future punishment and everlasting damnation were doctrines noticed in the remarks and conversa- tions of Mrs. Huntington signs of the influence of new, and as he thoughtn erroneous thought. He became con- vtneed that heresy was in his flock, and that the only way to extirpate that evil was by publicly welding the ax of ex- communication. It could not be done with readiness. For B years the Pope
 # Hadley" labored necessarily to -ring about a vote sufficiently large to excommunicate the bishops mother, At last he accomplished his purpose and she was cut off. Had there been an Episcopal church in that region in those days, so the bishop asserts, his family would have become Episcopalians. As 1t was, they began to. attend the Unitar-. ian church at Northampton, across the Connecticut River. and in this way Bishop Huntington came to be identi- fled with the Unitarian church.
 As far as is known Bishop Hunting ton has never i1dulged i'll any amuse- ment whatsoever, simply because he has been too busy He is not opposed to the diversions with which other people while the time away, but he Is. completely imbued with the idea that such things are too frivolous for a man who has a great work to do. The near- est approach the bishop has made to amusement is to ride horseback while spending the summer at his farm in Hadley. He has always been interest," ed in horses, and to-day will stop in the street to notice fine animal Also, the bishop is extremely fond of dogs, not little ones, but large. massive animals. For several years like Bishop Doane of Albany, he had magnificent female St. Bernard. When she, with her litter of F or 13, died, several years ago, much #to the bishops regret. Thomas B. Proctor of Utica, a loyal of the Episco- pal church and a warm friend of the. bishop, instructed a fancier in Massa- chusetts to send to him at Hadly the finest bred St. Bernard he could find In, the State For the last year the bishop has been watching the growth of his new pet, but opening the door of the old house at Hadley last summer he .ound the dog stretched out dead The bishop remarked one day with a suspic- ion of earnestness that he thought there ought to besa place in Heaven for large dogs.
 The bishops views of amusement are. not those of most persons. He received ah invitation last winter to be present at a smoker of the Syracuse alumni of Amherst College "Smoker?" said the bishop to one of his family. Whats a snoker?n Upon being informed that a smoker was where men got together for a social evening, and smoke if they so desired, the bishop sat down and wrote this reply to the chairman of the committee which invited him; II do not approve of smokers. College life is cer- tainly not elevated by affairs of this nature. I beg to be excused from at tending.
 Yet Bishop Huntington syinpathizes with young men In their pleasures and their ambitions. While a professor at Harvard University he raised the money for the first gymnasium built in Harvard yard, and at his inctigation Harvard athletics had their be gining, Syracuse Letter N. Y. Sun.