Arizona republican., 1912-05-09
TRIBUTE ID
 DEAD BISHOP
Rt. Rev. J. w. Atwood Eulogizes Bishop John Mills Kendrick at Meet ing of Episcopal Convoca- tion in Tucson

AL the EplScOpallan cOnVOcatiOn for the state of Arizona now in session
 at Tucson. Bishop J. w Atwood de-
 livered the following eulogy on the
 late Rt. Rev. John Mills Kendrick
 bishop of New Mexico, and for many
 years bishop of Arizona and a be- loved resident of this city.
 After speaking first of the death of
 Bishop MacKay Smith, of Pennsvl-
 Vania, the only other bishop of the church to pass away since the con-
 vocation last met. Bishop Atwood
 said:
 The second death among the bish ops was that. last December. of the
 Right Reverend John Mills Kendrick. D. D.. bishop of New Mexico. and
 for more than twenty years, bishop of Arizona. Known to. and loved bv
 many in this missionary district. my
 own friend for many years and my bishop from 1906 to 1911, our grief
 at his departure has been as great
 here in Arizona as in New Mexico. Bishop KendriclI was born seventy five years ago in Gambler. Ohio. and was educated at Marietta college where his father was one of the pro- fessors. He felt the great impulse which stirred the hearts of so many young men. interrupting their college course, driving them in a fine spirit of loyalty and cOnSccratiOn into the ranks that were fighting for national unity and the destruction of slavery After the war was ended. he studied law. but was soon led towards the ministry, taking his theological course 1 at BeXleV hall at Gambler Bishop kendricI was 2 born missionary, the l pioneer blood ran in his veins, and ! he was full of the pioneer spirit He 1 loved 10 blaze new roads in the l wilderness He wanted always to
 make straight the pathway in the
 desert for the coming of the king.
 For brief spaces of time, he was the rector of small parishes in Kansas. and Ohio. but they were little more
 than missionary sttions He was wide ly influential and useful as the gen | eral missionary of the diocese of southern Ohio. which prepared him for the office of a missionary hishop
 "On January IS. 1889. he was con-
 secrated bishop of New Mexico and
 Arizona. in trinity church. Columbus
 ohio. It is an interesting coincidence to me personally that five years lat er. I became rector of that same church Of which he was in charge when elected bishop. and that at tho same age. twenty-five years later. or the same day Of the month, l wa, ! lconSecrated to succeed him as bishOr of Arizona.
 Bishop Kcndrick was one of tho most faithful and sincere bishops thi. church has ever had. He was a mar of solid rather than brilliant attain. ments. He was well born and q mar Of scholarly tastes. who read widely II Bnt he was a thorough democrat ! simple and almost austere in hi \ tastes and character. Tn spite of | delicious sense of humOr and a read, | wit which characterized him, his tenn | Derament was q serious one and h. Hound. little amusement outside of hi | work. His judgment was good and h \ understood human nature He wa \ always kindly and responsive to oth | CTS, in spite of a certain reserve Bu he could be inflexible in his opinion | and his acts when he felt that h U trOVersy. He was slow to adop II changes and he loved the old way. II No man could have been more mod
 est than he and he shrank from a II praise. This does not mean that h Idid not like the approval and goo ItWill Of others. He was devoted { his friends. He felt the sorrows c this world keenly as they came | i h inn,
 \, them and would not cry out
 M For more than twenty years h II served the church in missionar M jurisdiction that was three times a ! large as any other within the limit | of the United States. When task M were made easier for other bishoI M and new missionary districts wer
 M erected, he never asked for relief fC
 M himself. He rarely asked for none MI for his work from the board of mis
 siOns. and rarely did he appeal fc MI special gifts for that work All tn M was distasteful to him. It was, per
 haps, a mistaken policy, for he coul MI have impressed himself more Widel
 on the church at large and contrit M uted to missionary knowledge an
 N zeal through his personality, if | M had been better known Had mol
 N funds been at his disposal, and Ina MI he known more of the clergy of tf
 MI church. he could have developed alon M various lines the wOr of the churC II in this southwestern country Bl
 the amazing thing is that he accon M plished so much in the establishmeI MI of missionary stations and the buil( WI ing of churches and the securing MI men for them He was eminent MY practical and splendid busine. HI man. No one knows this better tha M his successor. Self sacrificing to M wonderful extent, never complainin M or hardly conscious of what scene M to others the trials and difficulties M his works he once said to me, "W M do not have to endure hardShipS M Arizona: we only have to put up wit M certain inconVcniences." Almost alon Hl unrecognized. unknown. he laid fir M and deep the foundations of churC M which is destined to be a growth M factor in all the development of tn M new commonwealth, along socia M civic. ethical and spiritual lines H III