Evening star., 1907-11-10

tions. for the Industrial training of the
lower classes and for the Christianzing
and uplifting OF all humanity"
From far Alaska is coming Right Rev.
Innocent Pustinsky the Bishop of the
Russian Church in that territory. He has
had a varied career, having been at one
time a grand opera singer in st. Peters
burg: but that period in his career was
simply a makeshift, as he had always de-
termined to do more noble work. His do
cese has until within g short time been
the largest of any ecclesiast of similar
rank, having comprised the United States
as wen as Alaska, but another bishop to
be stationed in New York will now take
the states leaving to him his eighty-two
congregations in the northwest. with their
10000 members. He is allowed 500, 900 a
year by the home church for his churches
are far from selt-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 1t. He
has Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Denver and the gulf states on his timer
airy before reaching Washington, where he
will he shortly before the holidays. He
looks to be more than thrty-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 well. rut always thinks in
Russian and translates the Russian into
English as he goes along in a conversa-
ton.
Few men have more and better monu-
ments to their church work than Bishop
Thomas D. Beaven of the diocese of
Springfield, Mass He has just turned his
fifteenth year as head of the diocese and
has been thirty-two years a priest. But
it has been in the last dozen years that
his great work has oeen done. His dio-
cese now has a Catholic population of
over 100000, has over $50 churches and
fifty schools, besides various hospitals
and homes. This latter branch of char
liable effort has been the field In which
he has made himself most felt. The
Mercy Hospital is his. St. Luke's Home
became maternity hospital, but was out
grown and by his efforts was made a
$50 COO addition to the Mercy Hospital.
The old building will become home for
working girls. The convent for the Sis
ters of ST. Joseph he built, as well as the
Mount Marie summer home for the sis
ters He has erected an orphanage for
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 estate has
been purchased and a sanitarium es-
tablished. These are all in the vicinity
of his home at Springfield. In other
places he has fostered ST Vincent's Hos
pital, Worcester; the House of Providence
Hospital. Holyoke: the Farren Memorial
Hospital. Montague City and st. Joseph's
Academy. Chicopee. He is tireless
worker himself and imbues others with
the same spirit for doing good.
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The oldest Congregational pastor In
England is Rev Thomas ord of Horn
castle. Lincolnshire. Although ninety
five years old he still takes a very active
part in religious work. having just
preached his five-thousandth sermon on
the seventy-third anniversary of his or
dinatiOn Owing to failing eyesight. the
veteran pastor has to trust entirely to his
memory. which is so wonderful that he
can reCite whole chapters of Scripture.
Mr.. Lord has been a teetotaler nearly
all his life and always a nom smoker. He
Beef and mutton have been his favorite
meats. He lives with his daughter and
son-in law, and. to use his own words, he
Lives with the family and fares as they
do
Don't worry would seem to have
been one of Mr.. Lords notices through
life. ITO a great extent l attribute my
long life to keeping an equable and quiet
mind" he is wont to say.
Mr.. Lord served an apprenticeship to
shoemaking, but in July. 1894 accepted
a call to the Congregational ministry. He
has been an active temperance worker for
seventy-ive years, and has attended the
Union Of England and Wales for fifty
years without a break. He has been
three times married and is now a wild
over. He had the uncommon experience
Of celebrating a golden wedding with his
second wife.