The Washington herald., 1907-09-08
By DEXTER MARSHALL.

Church of jamestown. Va, three cen
turies ago by means Of a Mems Offer
ing. The contributors are to include
boys Of ali ages as well as men connect
ed with the organization, and the aim is
not so much TO secure large individual
giving as TO include them all. AS Oc-
tober 8. the date set for announcing the
result, draws near. it is becoming evil
dent that the Offering will be well worth
while. II Is believed that It will total
sl0oe,oC0 at least, and that no other en-
terprise of the church Is going 10 suffer
from this special one.
The raising OF a miilion-dollar fund.
much of it contributed in dimes. nickels.
and even in 1-cent pieces, without cut
ting in upon anything else, never could
have been accomplished without a good
deal Of effort. And, naturally, the bish-
ops Of the Episcopal churchsare in the
front rank OF those who have labored
10 bring about the desired result. with
the clergy and laymen supporting them
most Loyalty. AS a matter OF fact. no
movement IN this church ever has had
more unanimous Endorsement than the
Mems Offering OF 1907.
Two Great Missionary Bishops.
The presiding bishop, Daniel Sylvester
Tuttle Of St Louis who has taken spe-
cial interest in the Offering, is one Of
the most interesting men in the United
states, entirely apart from his Episcopal
Office. He is seventy, and the number
seven has been a signicant one through
-kaf- re0-
was graduated from Columbia in 1851
and at the early age Of thirty was conse-
Grated missionary bishop Of Montana.
Utah, and Idaho, in 1861 He served in
this place nineteen years, his transfer TO
the diocese Of Missouri coming in 1886
Had he remained only part Of a year
longer the transfer would have come in
1887; Is IL was. his work in St Louis
was hardly under way before the begin
ming OF that year.
Ethelbert Talbot, now bishop Of Cen
tral Pennsylvania, who followed Bishop
Tuttle in the inter mountain missionary
field, Is by nine years the younger man.
Bishop Tuttle. whose diocese now lies
west Of the Mississippi River. was born
In the East, at Wiudham, Greene County.
y. Y. Bishop Talbot. whose post is now
IN the East was born west Of the Miss
!ssippi, a Fayette, No Dartmouth was
his college. but, like TuttIe. he got his
theological degree at the General Theo-
logical .Seminary. in New York The
number%seven is NOT wholly absent from
the salient dates in his career; he was
graduated from college in 1870 conse-
Grated missionary bishop in 1857. and
transferred 10 the Central PENNSYLVANIA
diocese, the see city of which is Bethle-
hem. in 1881 Both these missionary bis
hops have written instructively and en-
te-tainingly about their missionary years
-Tuttle in his autobiography and Talbot
in the volume entitled My People of the
Plains
Tuttle is rather stout and short He is
bald and wears a patriarchal beard. Tai
bot is taller and shaves his face clean.
Both know a joke when they see it. both
know how 70 make jokes. and neither is
prone TO be annoyed when the joke is on
him One Of the first jokes PLAYED on
bishop Talbot in Wyoming was perpe-
trated by a friend who happened TO live
in new town where the bishop was 10
1
the notice Of the speaking. which said
that guns would be taken I'D at the
door" This playfulness bothered the
bishop at first, but he accepted the ex-
PLANTATION that the only way to get the
boys 10 come out" was to suggest the
possibility Of a scrimmage.
He played a pretty good Joke himself
on some poker players that he surprised
IN certain camp on his first visit there
He stock looking at them while tnav
opened a jack pot, remaining Calmly
Quiescent" until about $500 was up. Then
he put his hand over the pile and al
lowed that they could 90 no better than
10 drop tEs game right there and give
the $500 TO the Lord, They knew who
the bishop was. had felt ashamed of
themselves all along, and promptly gave
up their wealth
Salt Lake City was Bishop Tutue's
headquarters during seventeen of his
nineteen years as a missionary bishop.
but he was we'll known all over the big
Held visiting as many places as possible
every year and travelling unnumbered
thousands OF miles on foot in the sad
die, and by stage II was hard work.
mo doubt. but he didn't mind that. he had
Learned to work hard while in the sem
mary through which he earned his way
as tutor and otherwise.
The DOg-lOving BishoD.
Not whit less interesting in the Mems
Offering than these famous former mis-
Tsionary bishops is William Croswel
Doane, William Of Albany" He is eight
years the senior OF Bishop Futile and a
native Of Boston. His father. George
Washington Doane. was Protestant Epis-
copal bishop Of New Jersey. and the late
George Dosne. one Of his sons. was a
noted prelate in the Roman Catholic
Church. with the title Of monsignor.
The Bishop OF Albany has long been
famous because Of his love for dogs: he
Is the bishop who agreed with Ruskin
that the dogs attitude to his master is
as reverent as the ideal mans attitude
should be 70 the Almighty. Many good.
copy-making stories OF Bishop Doane
have been told. Once, they say, when he /
called upon newcomer in Albany who
was not az home at the moment a SER
want told the lady Of the house upon her /
return that "a man named Doane" had +
called and left his card, adding:
He had tree dawgs wit him-one Of /
EN- powerful big one. mum-and he /
looked like a bit Of a shport. to be sure,"
The bishop never has admitted the /
truth Of this yarn. but he laughs as 4
heartily as any one when Il is told In his 4
presence The powerful big dog" men
TONED BY the servant was gigantic St. /
Bernard. which was famous for years \
1t was this dogs characteristics which 4
led the bishop 20 make hts oft repeated |
remark about the reverence dogs feel for 4
men For years the bishop was accom-
panied on most Of his walks By three
dogs, the big st. Bernard, some sort Of /
a terrier. and a small white and exees- /