Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-12-17

No man need marvel at or doubt
the truth of the statement made re-
Gently by tho newly appointed Bishop
OF Eastern Oregon when he declared
his office would be in his saddle. The
vast empire of magnificent distances
ana insurmountable obstacles which
The church militant must overcome
IN It's missionary campaigns is Nigh
Ter than any Eastern man has any
conception of. The experiences OF
nm VINO becomes the standard bear
or or the cross in this region are as
varied as the changing hues of the
autumn leaf or the veer OF sum
mer's breeze
Inc Rev. DR.. Robert l.. Paddock. of
New York. who was chosen at the
recent Episcopal convention at Rich
mond. Va. for the post of missionary
bishop in the mining camps and cat
tie ranges" of Eastern Oregon knew
what he was talking about when he
declared: This work in the West is
not of my choosing. but, just as SOL
der is ordered into battle. so am |
ordered on to the firing of missionary
work in this country. My work there
VIII lie totally different from that
here. There will he Sky pilot
riding among Indians and cattlemen.
My Office will be in my saddle. will
have no fixed abode"
bishop Paddock was brought up in
the great and bounding Northwest,
MS father before him having been
bishop of Washington at time when
conditions were more primeval than
they are now, going thither from
Brooklyn.
There are seventy-five cities In the
United States which have greater
populations than the whole seventy
five thousand square miles OF terri
tory over which the new Bishop will
have charge. Take Maine, New Hamp-
shire. Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island and Connecticut, throw in
Maryland or the kingdoms of Bel
GUM or Holland, and lay them ali
down in Eastern Oregon and they
would not overlap the borderland of
his vast field of work.
Little Rhode Island. with its 1850
square miles area, has thrice the nom
ulation of this territory. Cut Rhode
Island. Connecticut and New Jersey
out of the map of the United States
and lay them on the map of South
eastern Oregon and they would not
blot out an inch of railroad or az
large n population as lives today in
The smallest of the three states. There
Is n region more than 100 miles ono
way and 120 miles the other in which
there is not mile of railroad track
laid, surveyed, or will be iai,i OR sur
veyed within the next two or three
years. There are only few hun
dred miles of government military
and state roads in this undeycloped
region. which will be marvellously
rich in resources once railroads en-
Ter there and irrigation projects are
completed. Over the lonely stage
roads in such counties as Malheur AMI
barney the Bishop will be compelled
TO drive or ride day at a time with
out seeing the curl of smoke from a
human hafttation or hearing the sound
OF voice other than wild animals or
his own. 1t took three weeks to get
complete election returns from these
counties last year.
viii Find Few Churches.
In all this "howling Wilderness of
Southeastern Oregon he will have few
churches and chapels in which he may
raise his voice in eXhortation or prav-
err. and no vested choirs for chants
or lltanies. He will be required to
furnish song. sermon and supplica-
ton for most of his services. Often
times in the smaller mining camps or
III the heart of the cattle counry the
saloon must serve as his sanctuary,
and his hearers will be rollicking.
drinking and smoking men. He will
sometimes be obliged, If he takes ear
nestly to his task, to go down into
the bowels of the earth and talk to
the rough. dirt besmeared miners,
who, while ready enough to listen to
SKY pilot will insist that he be q
good fellow" and mix" with them.
BILLED shirts and "chokers' won't go
far in the cause of salvation in the