The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-12-27
BISHOP FUTILE SOUNDS GALL FOR
 BIC CAMPAIGN

Summon the men. Call the women. Forget not the children. Discipline the recruits. Furnish the munitions and supplies
 It is the voice of the Patriarch of America sounding the call to the col ors says the Christian Herald Of December 20.
 And who may this Patriarch be that speaks so trumpet-tongued to the men and women Of the United States?
 He is that man who. rife in hand, cartridge belt sIuug across his shoul- ders, braved the terrors of the ma rauding Indian bands of our Western plains in 1867 to carry a message of hope to the white men and women who had settled in Montana, Idaho and Utah. He is the man who, when Deer Lodge, Montana, was being con suTned by fire, carried water and poured it persistently and successfully upon burning building in the vaults of which was stored enough powder to wreck the entire town
 He is the man who for 19 years struggled hip and thigh against the doctrines of MormCnism in the very onghold of Mormontsm, and yet when he left Salt Lake City had the respect and good wishes of the Nor mons because he was a just and fair, as well a s an uncouprorliSing fighter
 He is the man who was elected a bishop before he was old enough to be a, bishop according to the canons of his own church, and was obliged to wait until his thirtieth birthday to h zTvr orders but five years before being elected to the Episcopate.
 He IS the Right Rev. Daniel Syl- vester TuttIe, DID, LID, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States.
 He is a Patriarch of the United States, because in length of service as a bishop he outdistances every other bishop in his church. and, 1t is believ- ed, in every other church. He was consecrated in 1867 and hence has served as a bishop for 52 years. He is S2 years old, straight as a stripping, lively as a cricket and deaf as a post. At a, recent consecration service in the Cathedral of St, John the Divine in New York City, he was the only participant who could be heard all over the cathedral. He i stands more than six feet high, is | broad-shouIdered and has the vigor 1 of a WeN preserved man a score of | years younger. Near his eightieth i birthday, he still went swimming at his summer home at Lake Wequeton- sing Michigan, and apparently enjoy i ed it as much as he had in his 1 younger days
 1 It is to the colors of the Nation Wide campaign of the Episcopal 1 church that he summons the men, ] women and children of that faith--a l campaign of spiritual education which 1 will result In the raising of a ire rnendous fund to be spent in increas- 1 ing the activities of the Episcopa. | church at home and abroad; in the building of churches. rectories. com nrunfty houses, schools, colleges orphanages, hospitals and dispensar- ies; in the raising of a, new army ot workers to carry the church's mess age of sympathy, courage and helT st+ll farther adeld. | Bishop Futile was born in the state of New York, at Windha1n, Greene | county, educated in the public school! there, the academy of Delhi, New York, Columba College and the Gen
  York city. He was a favorite of thC late Bishop Potter, whose son he tutored in Greek and other sub i iects, and who ordained him a dea ! con in the Church of the TransfiS llrat.on, New York City, in 1862.
 Immediately upon being graduated from the theological seminary, h. went to Morris, N. Y.. as assistant tt Rev. George L. FCote, rector of Zior churGh He served there five years during which time he married Ms: Harriet M. Foote, the rector's daugh ter. There their first son was born.
 In 1867 he was appointed Mission ary B,shop of Montana, having jur7Ls diction also in Utah and Idaho. St1i under 30, he could not be consecrat ed and was compelled to wait unti the following January for that cere
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 Leaving wife and son behind, h. tourneyed to Salt Lake City by stag' coach from North Platte. Neb., t Denver, and thence to Salt Lake City