The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1914-02-19
NEvADA'S Mill
IANT ARCHDEACON

ID. holman Buck, IN western Ne
vada Miner.)
Within a short while there will be
issued call for convocation of the
House of Bishops of the Episcopal
church, to elect a successor to the late
Right Reverend. Henry Robinson,
Bishop of the Missionary District of
Nevada--being a missionary jurisdic-
tion and not a diocese Nevada will
have no voice in this election, so that
we cannot even guess who our next
bishop will be. If it were a diocese
there would be no need to guess, for
we have bishop material within the
confines of our own state.
The death of our beloved Bishop
Robinson calls to mind the man. that
we fancy will miss him most of all
he who was his lieutenant, and was
so constantly with him. and who was
relied upon by his bishop to carry
forward so many of his plans. The
bishop found him here travelling these
deserts when he came, and he has
gone and left him here, still travel
ing from town to town; from camp
to camp rounding out his more than
20 900 miles each year, with no slack
eping of pace or loss or zeal-having
begun his citizenship in this state six
teen years ago.
While the writer is not particularly
noted for religious zeal, yet for the
past seven years we have been thrown
III close touch with Rev. Father Haz-
lett and have been drawn to him be-
cause while carrying to the people the
gospel of Christ, we have found him
to be human-and above all to be a
man. We have ridden with him across
the long stretches Of desert on bur
ros, beneath the blazing desert sun
of summer and battled with the win
try blasts and billiards, but never a
complaint have we heard him utter,
for he was doing it for the Master s
Cause. We will never forget the long
weary ride on n cold winter day
across the desolate wastes to Raw
hide in the. early days of that camp.
The conveyance was a broken down
stage pulled by equally dilapidated
horses. When about half way on the
journey one of the poor beasts gave
completely out. The driver being of
type designated by Zola as human
brutes, began belaboring the poor
beast in a most brutal way. Rebuked
by the archdeaeon in a gentle man
ner, he turned with oaths and threat
ened the Father with the same treat
ment. Beng athletic the Father
reasoned with him both spiritually
and physically and the disabled horse
was unlocked and the driver walked
Eve miles to the next stacy station
where fresh horses were secured.
/ A % 10 LOT
building in course of construction was
secured, canvass was stretched over
windows to keep out the wind and
cold, stove was hurriedly set up
and miners eandlestieks were driven
/ in the wall to hold the sputtering
candles: beer kegs being the most
plentiful things in tn ecamp in the
early stages a supply was secured and
stood on end and with planks laid
across them formed the pews. Every
man in camp constituted himself a
committee to rustic a congregation.
/ Some of the more enthusiastic secur-
ed the piano from "Rag Time -
/ Kelly's dance hall and that night the
FIRST Episcopal service was held in
1 the wild and woolly camp of Rawhide,
large number, made up from the
good women of the camp, girls from
the dance halls and cred lights,
prospectors, mipers, investors from
the east, mining promoters, team
sters, saloon men and gamblers, and
no more attentive, sincere congrega-
/ tion ever assembled to hear the mes
sage of hope extended. After the
service Father Hazlett sought his
place to retire, the only available
place being a big tent better known
as "rag house, where IS or so
cots were strung out in rows without
any semblance of even muslin par
/ tions between them. He was assign
ed cot among crowd composed of
al ranks in life. Without affecta-
tion he quickly knelt on the ground
reside his cot in silent prayer, and as
he did so half-drunken men ceased
their cursing, others quit swearing
about the "grey- -gacks" or "erums'
I in their hunks, while several rough,
weather-worn miners and prospectors
who had probably not thought of
prayer since leaving their mothers
knees knelt at their cots Such has
been his quiet example wherever he
has gone, whether it was in the more
prosperous towns of the state or the
mining camps of the desert and
mountain.
He has been always ready, day or
night, to respond to the call of sick
or wounded BODY or a sin-sick soul. A
bunch of men discussing Father Haz-
lett in Tex Richard 8 gambling house
after his service in Rawhide, one of
them remarked: FThere is Sky
+ piIot that ooaS for nv money 'cause
he's man That's it, He's a
man. One fitted by nature to stand
the hardships demanded of a man in
Peculiarly fitted because of his init
mate knowledge of the great diverse
types of peoples that go to make up
our citizenship. Little brown churches
standing as links to a life behind, dot