The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-16

be the guest Of Bishop r. S. Spaldng
until Monday.
Bishop Rowe viii speak tonight at
tDSSen, returning tomorrow TO address
the WOmen's guild of st, Marks cathe-
dral and St PauIs Episcopal churches
al O'Clock in the afternoon. In the
evening at s o'clock he will address the
men of the Episcopal church, and sun
day morning viii preach the sermon at
the cath edral, and another at st. PauFs
AT the evening service.
Bishop Rowe is one of the most pic
tufeSqu6 nSureS ia the Episcopal
church. Fourteen years ago he was
sent 10 the new missionary field Of
Alaska, and the story OF his work dur
ing THAI time is filled with hardship
and struggle. "A man Of less persever-
ance would have qUailed at the task
before him, but Bishop Rowe threw all
OF. his energy into the work before
him, and at the end of fourteen years
he brings back story of ten thousand
native converts, UWenty-Gne missions,
ten church schools and five hospitals.
At general conference of the church
in New York in 1895. the matter of es-
"a blishing a new mission field in Alas
ka was brought up. The general con-
ference voted in favor of it, but the
bishops, at subsequent meeting, ta-
bieO the action and decided against the
project. j. PierpOnt Morgan, a mem
Der of the church. asked the bishops to
reconsider their action and offered to
pay the salary Of a bishop in the new
considered the Rev. Peter Trimble
Rowe was selected TO take charge of
the new work, and Mr.. Morgan kept
his promise.
Bishop Rowe had been at SauIt Ste
Marie on the Great Lakes. where he
established a mission and later a par
1sn, and was fourteen years rector of
the parish there. He was elevated from
this position to the bishOpTic of the
new field, and went at once TO Alaska
20 begin his work
Work in Alaska.
Arriving at Juneau. two years before
the great rush to the KlOndike, Bishop
pack of dogs and started over the
mountains, They lived entirely upon
their own resources, and the dead of
winter found them far inland When
EDring, came they cut down trees and
built a boat, which they pilOted safely
DOWN the Yukon river.
The Hero Bishop" worked into the
far north of Alaska, establishing mis-
insurmountable We're accomplished by
him. ana steadily the new mission field
gus sifled the opinion of Mr.. Morgan,
made i'm far away New York. The es-
adjustment of hospitals and schools
was made all the harder by reason of
the fact that upon some Of the freight
from the states the bishop was COM
PEELED TO pay $500 ton. But he per
Bishop Rowe's work among the In
dams of Alaska is one of the most
powerful chapters i'm all the history of
the Episcopal church. In some distant
missions he encountered a polyglOt of
speech, three and sometimes four diff
ferent languages being spoken by the
Indians. Here and there he was COM
PEELED 10 read the service OF the church
In the native tongue. but as the gospel
spread, so did the knowledge of Eng
lish and the work become easier.
Bishop Rowe viii relate some of his
experiences at the salt Lake meetings.
although he is talking here merely at
the invitation of the local church.
When he goes east He viii visit his old
home at Sauit Ste. Marie, where me will
spend Christmas, and later he will go
10 CuicagO and other eastern cities and
deliver lectures in the interest ana for
the benefit OF the mission fields of
Alaska.
Pm getting old now" said the bish-
on last night. and I can't do fifty
miles day over the snow with as
much ease and grace as I used to-
could do a Marathon race not long ago.
hut I don't suppose / would be much
of a competitor nowadays. Tt has been
pretty hard work up there, but we have
done fairly We'll"