Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-03-25
CHURCH Of
THE HOLY FAITH
Edifice Is Newly Decorated
and Chancel Re-
arranged.
MEMS MEETING ON TUESDAY
Santa Fe in Line to Become Epis
copal Residence for
the Diocese

J The Church OF the Holy Faith will
be open for services tomorrow. The
beautiful new doors and stained glass
transoms given by Mrs. L. B. Prince
and the Guild are in place. The in
! terror Of the church has been newly
| decorated, and the chancel re-arrang-
/ ed so that there is now a double choir
instead Of the old single one. A new
pulpit has been built. and in many
ways the church has been beautified
and made more attractive. The serv-
ices tomorrow will be as usual.
There will be a meeting of all the
men interested in the affairs of the
Episcopal church on Tuesday night af.
ter service, at the home of Bronson
NJ. Cutting on Buena Vista Heights.
Bishop J. NJ Kendrick will be pres.
ent, and some matters of vital i'm.
portance to this parish will be dis.
cussed. All men who make the Church
OF the Holy Faith their religious home
are cordially invited to be present.
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 Santa Fe,
and with Rev. John NJ Kendrick for
Ia quarter century bishop of New Mex.
leo and Arizona, in charge. Bishop
kendrick has been in charge of the
combined district ever since it was
created twenty years ago and his re-
cord of service is perhaps unequalled
IN the United States. This district has
been the largest in the United States
and the topographic conditions have
made it in many ways the most diff
fcult to take care of. Bishop Kend-
rick, one Of the religious pathfinders
OF the west, and the people throughout
New Mexico everywhere receive with
genuine pleasure the news that he is
to confine his activities to New Mexi-
co hereafter
Bishop Kendrick at present makes
his home in El Paso, but it is hoped
that eventually Santa Fe will become
the Episcopal residence and be the
headquarters of the diocesan govern
ment, at its almost inherent right.
In giving up the work in Arizona
the bishop will naturally leave with
regret section he has done SO much
to develop and 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 ac-
tive OF any period of similar length
during his lifetime, in a professional
way, and there will be no disputing
that he has left the impress of his
blameless life and character as we'll
as his energetic work in the interest
OF the church. on the numberless COM
munities comprised in his field of
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-
CURED has kept the bishop engaged
IN travelling 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
were few railroads, none perhaps ex.
cept the main lines of the two large
systems that now cross it, and most
OF his travelling was by stage or pri-
Vate conveyance. During these trips
ne has suffered much of the hard
shlps of pioneering and incidentally
enjoyed much that was humorous and
exciting as well as rigorous. Those
events may be reviewed in memory
with greater interest perhaps then
were the experiences themselves. but
since they are survived they are
doubtless among his treasured recol-
lections. Best of all it was through
such vicissitudes that he came to
know and esteem so highly, the repre-
sentative people of the southwest.
who in turn have reposed in him their
utmost confidence.