East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-12-11

The Southern Churchman, the or
gan of the Episcopal church, publish
ed at Richmond, Va, gives the fol-
lowing review Of the work of Bishop
Paddock, the newly appointed bishop
Of eastern oregon, who comes to his
new field of labor about January 1,
1908:
When Bishop Paddock leaves the
Church of the Holy Apostles, on
Manhattan's west side, he will leave
there one of the most remarkable
records of achievement that the his
tory of the church in New York has
ever known. This is not praise for
the new bishop OF eastern Oregon, at
least it is not undue praise. Yet the
achievement has not been his entire
ly, and in some measure It can be
duplicated II the same methods be
employed.
1t was six years ago that Mr.. Pad
dock left old pro-cathedral work on
the lower east SIDE and went to Holy
Apostles, Ninth avenue and Twenty
eighth street There were at that
time about 100 communicates, and
not nearly all Of them came to serv-
ices with regularity or took any part
in the work.
Today the communicates number
as reported to the last diocesan con-
vention, $40, and most Of them are
81, IL, ha oh ~
on Sunday. but a large proportion
are in the organizations.
The list of organizations is formid-
able, and not all are in the church.
There is the Lower West Side Minis
ters' association, which numbers more
than 40 members. all names save
Jew and Roman, and they have
brought about effectuai Christian
union. There is the Chelsea Park
committee. which has delegates from
the schools, the labor unions, the
lodges, and all sorts of agencies in
the neighborhood. 1t has gotten the
city to purchase an entire block, tear
down the houses, and now II is max
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space, with play grounds for children
and casino for adults.
Next. there is the Chelsea Improve
ment society, started at the sugges-
tion of a janitor, and prosecuted
largely through the women, which
stands for the same objects that a
village improvement association in a
country village might seek to accom-
plish, and which has done wonders
for good politics and in arousing
voters to go and cast an intelligent
ballot The executive committee
numbers about 100.
There is the Chelsea House, self
supporting, wherein 35 young women
, live This is not under the parish
but 1t was started by 1t. Next there
is the Boys house, wherein 10 or IL
boys find regular homes-until they
/, can get employment and go out and
} support themselves. The rectory Is
settlement house with four workers
and the parish owns another house
like it, wherein live four women
| workers.
Almost all Of the financial support
: for all of these things has come from
the parish. And the parish is made
: up of people who live in boarding
houses and tenements, move and re-
move constantly, and have for neigh
bors the tenderloin, a Hell's kitchen
! negro quarters and a whole lot o.
other things from which 1t is gener
ally assumed parishes cannot be made
and financial support cannot be Sc
cured.
Not finally because it is all tina
the parish does, but finally because
! the list cannot be indefinitely contin
: ued, is the parish's support of mis-
: slonary in the Mexico field, and thu
: raising of $3.50 by the envelope sys
tenn in order that the parish may sent
missionary to China.
Asked how it has all been brough
) about, Mr.. Paddock disclaimed hav
ing done much himself, but said i
has been the result of old-fashionet
: religion we'll worked at He believes
that the same methods will produce
the same results, approximately Il
practiced by anybody anywhere.