The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-03-04
ST. Marks DEBT
IS CLEARED OFF
Bishop Spalding Returns With News
for the Episcopal People of
Salt Lake.
EASTERN PUBLIC LIBERAL
VIEWS OF THE BISHOP ON THE
MORMON QUESTION.

st. Marks hospital, which has been
carrying a debt of nearly $4,000 dur
ing a good many years. has rid itself
Of nearly all this burden. Bishop F.
S. Spalding of this Episcopal diocese.
who returned home yesterday. will tell
this news to the congregation of the
cathedral at the morning services to-
day, and before night it will be re-
peated in every Episcopal church in
the city.
During the past three months tha
bishop has been in the east endeaYOr-
| ing to raise money to pay off this debt
which interfered with the progress oE
the hospital. He said yesterday that
he succeeded in obtaining pledges
for nearly the entire amount, and the
little that is left will be paid off with
out much difficulty. New York and
Philadelphia furnished the larger
amount of the money obtained by
Bishop Spalding. The latter did not
say that cultured Boston was back.
ward, but although he spent some time
there ne was not able to arouse the
enthusiasm he did in Gotham and the
city Of Brotherly Love. Cleveland.
Providence and Cincinnati were visited
by the bishop and considerable success
''~-o mt III tAACSC tAItNS-
Views on Mormonism.
Bishop SpaIding arrived home yes
terday morning over the Rio Grande
railroad He was tired, but enthusi-
astic. He said he would speak today
at the cathedral on his trip. and them
he mentioned the fact that he had
raised nearly all the money required to
pay off the debt of the hospital.
sfT 4 mn e
terest to tell you" he said after a
moments reflection, except that the
east is still there, and while 1 had
plenty to do 1 enjoyed the trip. Yes,
1 gave a number of lectures while in
the east. Did 1 touch On Mormonism?
Yes, in a way. l took the position that
l had not lived long enough In Utah
II give any valuable opinion on the
political or commercial aspects Of
the Latter-day Saints. I told the peo-
pie ] addressed that 1 had tried 10
study AIormonism with some care, as
a religious and theological system, and
In regard TO its materialistic concep-
ton Of God in views of family life,
which grew out of the doctrine of the
pre-existence of the soul, and also from
the teachings I had heard from Nor
mon missionaries on the life Of Jesus,
and I felt that the churches had a
great Ntdl ~ tO III lCdtuil-S III I TAN
what 1 felt TO be true Christianity"
Successor to Dean Eddie.
There had been some criticism OF
what the bishop said While IN the east
in regard to the Latter-day Saints, but
his statement above explains in a nut
shell the views he gave to the people
he addressed.
Bishop SpaIding said that he had
not considered d successor TO Dean J.
B. Eddie, who recently resigned on &C
count of i'll health, and said that a.
clergyman to take his place would bs
considered at a meeting of the vestry
to be called for some evening this
week. Rev. G. c. Huntings, who has
been chaplain at ST. Marks hospital.
has been occupying the place MAIDS
vacant by Dean Eddie since the latter$
left for Los Angeles. The bishop said
he had been in the city too short q
time 70 say who would be given the
prieStly office