The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-12
Some Remarkable Accomplishments
 In fhe Life Work of ClerRyaen

bers. He Is allowed y1oo, 900 a year by the hor church, for his churches are far from seif@supporting.
 The Bishop *travels constantly, but this is his first trip through the United States and is quite different to what he usually does--''mushing it. 'as he calls it. He has Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver and the Gulf States on his itinerary before reaching Washing ton, where he will be shortly before the holidaTs.
 He looks to be more than .thirty-nine years old, for he is a large man and wears a heavy beard that. with. his long full robes, adds age to his appearance. He speaks English fairly we'll. but all ways thinks in Russian and translates the Russian into English as he goes along in a conversation.
 Few men have more and better mon- uments to their church work than Bishop Thomas D. Beaven, of the dio- cese of Springfield. Mass. He has just turned his fifteenth year as head of the diocese and has been thirty-two years priest. But it has been in the last dozen years that his great work has been done. His diocese now has a Catholic population of over 100000. has, over 150 churches and fifty schools. be- sides varous hospitals and homes. This latter branch of charitable effort has been the field in which he has made himself most felt. The Mercy Hospit- al is his. St. Luke's became a mater-- nifty hospital. but was outgrown and by his efforts was made a s60.000 ad- dftfon to the Mercy Hospital The old building will become e home for work ing girls. The convent for the Sisters of St. Joseph he built. as well as the Mount Marie summer home for the Sis- taA nrrb4 4 x1ax xrA fnF boys and infant children and home for aged men. The home for infants he Is making ready to replace with fire-proof building. A large private es- tate has been purchased and sanita- rum established. These are all in the vicinity of his home at Springfield In other places he has fostefed St. Vim of Providence Hospital. Holyolxe:. the Farren MemnraI Hospital Montague City. and St! Joseph's Academy. Chi cago. He is q tireless worker hirnself and inbues others with the same spirit for doing goed.
 The oldest Congregational pastor in England is Rev. Thomas Lord of Horn- castle, Lincolnshire. Although es years old, he still takes very active part in religious work, having just preached his 5,OO0th sermon. on the seventy third Anniversary of his ordination. Owing to falling eyesight. the veteran pastor has to trust entirely to his memory which is so wonderful that he can recite whole chapters of Scripture.
 Mfr. Lord has been a teetotler nearly all his life and always a non-smoker. He has never dieted himself in any way-. Beef and mutton have been his favorite meats. He lives with his daughter and son-in-law and. to use his own words he Hives with the fam fly and fares as they do."
 Don't worry" would seem to have been one of Mir. Lords notices through life. ITO a great extent attribute my long life to keeping an equable and quiet mind" he Is wonttto say.
 Mir. Lord served an apprenticeship in sfoenaakihg but in July, 1884, accepted call to the Congregational- ministry. He has been an active temperance worker for seventy-five years, and has attended the annual meetings of the Congregational Union of England and Wales for hfaS years without q break. He has been three times married, and is now widower. He had the un- common experience of celebrating golden wedding with fis second wife.