Albuquerque morning journal., 1910-10-19
BISHOP Of NEW
MEXICO WAS A
PATHFINDER
Kendrick Religious Pioneer in
Southwest Before Day of
Railroads. Phoenix and Ari-
zona Hate to Lose Him.

There Is general satisfaction
throughout New Mexico at the recent
action of the house OF bishops of the
| Episcopal church in making New
Mexico a separate. diocese from Ari-
zona, with headquarters in Roswell
and with Rev. John M. Kendrick for
a quarter century bishop of New Mex
| ice and Arizona, in charge. Bishop
Kendrick has been in charge of the
combined district ever since 1t was
created twenty years ago and his re-
cord Of service it perhaps unequalled
in the United States This district has
been the largest in the United States
and the topographic conditions have
made 1t in many ways the most diff
ficult to take care Of Bishop Kend-
rick, one of the religious pathfinders Of
the west has been coming to Albu
querque almost ever since there was
and Albuquerque ana the people
throughout New Mexico everywhere
receive with genuine pleasure the news
that he is to confne his activities to
New Mexico also hereafter. That he
viii be sadly missed in Phoenix is
shown by the following appreciation
in the Phoenix Republican;
II is understood that it is not un-
likely that sometimes during the ses
sion of the house of bishops, which
will come to an end on the 22nd, Rev.
J. w. Atwood. pastor of Trinity
church in this city will be elected
bishop, in which event it would be
quite natural to expect that he will
be assigned as the presiding bishop
of the new Arizona district.
Bishop Kendrick it is presumed will
eventually make his home in Eel Paso
which is the largest city in his new
field and which has heretofore been
included in the combined field. In
giving up the work i'm Arizona the
bishop viii naturally leave with re-
gret a section he has done SO much
to develop and in an army of friends
and co-workers by whom he is held
in such high esteem. The last twenty
years have probably been the most
active of any period of similar length
during his lifetime, in a professional
way, and there viii be no disputing
that he has left the impress of his
lbameless life and character as well
as ihs energetic work in the interest
Of the church, on the numberless COM |
COiHpilStu III MS ilclu "a |
labor.
The New Mexico and Arizona dis
trict was the largest missionary dis |
trict of the church in the United !
States and the careful attention It re-
Iuired has kept the bishop engaged in |
the greater portion of the |
time during the more than twenty |
years he has had it under his care,
In the days of his early work there
we're few railroads, none perhaps eX
,ept the main lines of the two large
systems that now cross it, and most
If his travelling was by stage or pri-
late conveyance During these trips
ne has suffered much of the hard
ships of pioneering and incidentally
enjoyed much that was humorous and
exciting as well as rigorous. Those
vents may be revised in memory
With greater interest perhaps then
we're the experiences themselves, but
ince they are survived they are
doubtless among his treasured recol-
ections Best Of all it was through
uch vicissitudes that he came to
now and esteem so highly. the repre-
people of the southwest, who
n turn have reposed in him their ut
most confidence.
1t is not supposed that he will be-
ONE a stranger to or an infrequent
isitor in these parts. but in transfer
ing his activities elsewhere, the peo-
lie of Arizona will feel their loss Of