The Glenwood post., 1908-11-21

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The warmth of love for thee. And
now, while starts
The unrequited tear, and while we beal
Soul-burning virtues to thy sacrifice
For men, our common voice. impetuous
cries
| We loved thee!
We loved theei Yes, and bowling down
Before the wise, mysterious will
OF him, who called thee to thy crown,
We love thee still!
We, who knew Bishop Knight as
friend and neighbor, are filed with sor-
row, yet we are hardly in position to
realize how great is the loss to the peo-
pie of the district of western Colorado
through his death.
Fortunately there exists record in
concrete form of the Bishops achieve.
ments during the first eight months of
his pastorate over this district, and
when one glances over the record
those few, short months, and notes the
promise of further great deeds by those
accomplished, then, verify can one say,
"Our loss is great -
The record referred to is the Bish-
ops annual address, read before the
convocation of the district held in Glen
wood Springs early in September, 1908.
From this report. one notes that on
January 1st there were but 10 places
in all western Colorado where services
were being regularly held. On the day
of the report, the number had grown
to 4S. These extend from the northern
most Lines of Routt county down to the
Businesses of the southwestern corner
of Colorado. In nearly every hamlet
in this great field, including every por
tion of the state lying west of the con-
tinental divide, services are held oc-
casionly, and in the forty eight includ-
cd in his report, the services are being
held with regularity.
of the great stretch of country under
his ministration is sufficient to picture
the hardships and privations which he
had to endure in the fulfllment of
his duty. especially when we bear in
mind that most of the places in the
district he had visited not once, bur
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no storm or wintry blast deferred him
from making the long, weary stage
journeys necessary in this work. which
he began almost Immediately upon his
arrival among us last winter / do not
believe that consecutive DAYS have
passed since that arrival, in which he
remained at home. Always there was
some call for him to answer, and ever
was he ready to respond.
Many of the places in which he es-
tablished regular services, had, previous
to his coming, no regular ministration
from any church or denomination. In
fact it seemed to be his spirit to minist-
er first to those places where the word
of God was not being preached by any
one. And he was constantly planning
for the extension of this especial work,
Even at the time of his last illness. and
during it, he was planning to establish
and maintain a missionary to work
along the line of the Moffat road in
Grand county, in the little towns which
have sprung up there, and in which no
minister of the gospel had ever been
seen.
Yet, with all this, he found time to
care for the places where there were
established congregations. This con-
gregation he helped to secure funds for
building of its own, where it might
worship God; that congregation need
ed rectory for the comfortable hous-
ing of its minister, and he led the cam
paign for funds to put up such a build
ing, insisting that it be properly, sub
stantially constructed, and not forget
ting to head the subscription list with
a goodly sum in his own name.
He had dreams for the future of
church institutions; schools and hospi-
tails, but these he resolutely put in the
background, preferring, as he put it in
his report: "To discharge the trust
the church lays upon me by investing
missionary funds in men, endeavoring
to secure the best men I can find for
our work. and offering them as much,
in the way of compensation, as my
funds will permit"
And that he did faithfully and wise
ly "invest his funds in men," is prov
en- by the splendid body of the clergy
of the district. All of them earnest