South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-12-07

summon the men. Call the wOm-
en-. Forget not the children Dis
cipline the recruits. Furnish the
munitions and supplies"
IL is the voice OF the Patriarch OF
America sounding the call 20 the
colors.
And who may this Patriarch be
that speaks so rumpet-tongued 20
the men and women Of the United
States? The Christian Herald OF
New York asks the question and an
swers thus:
he is that man who, rife In hand.
cartridge belt slung across his shout
ders, braved the terrOrs Of the ma
rauding Indian bands OF our western
plains in 1867 TO carry a message of
hope 10 the white men and women
who had settled in Montana. Idaho
and Utah. He is the man who, when
Deer Lodge, Montana, was being
consumed by fire, carried water and
poured il persistently and success
fully upon a burning building in the
vaults of which was stored enough
powder TO wreck the entire town.
He is the man who. for 10 years,
struggled hip-and-thigh against the
doctrines of Mormonism in the very
stronghold of MOrmonism and get
when he left Salt Lake City had the
respect and good wishes of the Nor
mons because he was a just and fair
as we'll as uncomprOmising 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 10 wait until his Goth birth
day to be consecrated. He is the
man who had been in holy orders
but FIVE years when elected 10 the
episcopate.
He is the Right Rev. Daniel Syl-
vester Tuttle. d. D., Ii. D., bishop
of the Episcopal diocese Of Missouri,
presiding bishop OF the Episcopal
Church of the United States of
America
He is the Patriarch of the United
States because in length of service
as a bishop he outdistances every
other bishop in his church and, it is
believed, in every other church He
was consecrated in 1867 and hence
has served as a bishop for 81 years.
He is 50 years old, straight as a
stripping, lively as a cricket and deaf
as a post. At a recent conservation
service in the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine in New York City he was
the only participant who could be
/ l..
stands more than six feet high, is
broad-shouldered and has the vigor
of a well-preserved man a score of
years younger. Near his S0th birth
day he still went in swimming at his
summer home at Lake Wequeton-
sing, Michigan, and apparently en-
| joyed il as much as he had in his
/ younger days.
1t is to the colors Of the Nation
Wide campaign OF the Episcopal
women and children of that faith
church that he summons the men,
campaign of spiritual education
which will result in the raising Of a
/ tremendous fund to be spent in in
! creasing the activities of the Episco-
1 pal church at home and abroad: in
the building of churches, rectorios
community houses, schools. colleges
orphanages, hospitals and dispen-
saries; In the raising OF a new army
of workers to carry the church's
message OF sympathy, courage and
help still further afeld
Bishop futile was born in the
state OF New York. at Windham
Greene county, educated in the pub
| lie schools there. the academy OF
| Delhi, New York; Columbia college
and the General Theological semi
nary in New York City He was a
| favorite OF the late Bishop Horatio
1 Potter, whose sons he tutored in
Greek and other subjects and who
ordered him a deacon in the Church
of the TRANSPORTATION, New York
| City, in 1862.
Immediately upon being graduated
| from the theological seminary. he
went to Morris, n. Y, as assistant to
the Rev. George L. Foote, rector OF
Zion church. who had suffered a
paralytic stroke and who was a dis
tant relative by marriage. He served
there five years, during which time
/ he married Miss Harriet NJ. Foote,
the rector's daughter. There their
first son. George Marvine futile,