Arizona republican., 1920-02-11

as represented in Germany few years ago, and in Russia now. as the logical outcome of czarism, must be over thrown. The bitterness and hatred which exist in the industrial and social world are owing largely to the failure to recognize that the interests of cap ital and labor are one. This equalities in the exploita ton of labor by capital, but the same tyranny has been shown forth at other times by labor when It has denied the right of free men in the free republic to work for the sup port of their hungry families clamor- | ing for bread. when plenty is all around us.
 NecroIogy
 Five bishops of the church have died during the past year. To Bishop Will Hams of Nebraska, who died early in the year, l referred in my address of last year.
 The Rt. Rev. Robert Atkinson Gib- son, D. D. bishop of Virginia, died on February IT, 1919. It was my privilege to know Bishop Gibson as a neighbor and friend during my rectorship of Trinity church, Columbus. in the dio- cese of southern Ohio when he was rector of Christ church, Cincinnati. I can bear testimony from personal knowledge to the simplicity and sin cerity of his character. to his evan | gelical piety, his kindliness of spirit, and tender heart which made him a devoted pastor of his people, and a brother beloved by his fellow clergy men. Without striking gifts a preacher or administrator, Bishop Gib- son, a true son of Virginia, Sreturned to take up his work as a bishop in the noble old diocese which he served with fidelity, and where he realized the noblest vocation of a bishop, as a true shepher of souls.
 With no bishop of the church have I had longer and more affectionate associations than with the Rt. Rev, Dr. David II Greer, bishop of New York, who died on May 20. At my or dination to the deaconate in St. John $ chapel Cambridge, in 1882. he preached | the sermon, and more than twenty eight years afterwards in 1911, he preached the sermon at my consecra- tion as bishop, in Trinity church, Bos- ton- This is a unique experience in the history of the American church, never known before or since as far as my knowledge goes. It is perhaps of no importance to others, but is a matter of some interest and sentiment to the parties concerned.
 It was through his influence that I was called from the rectorship of my first parish in Massachusetts to the rectorship of a church in Providence. R. l., where for fifteen years Dr. Greer
 
 Grace church in that city. Under his leadership it became the second parish in New England and his fame as a preacher of great intellectual force and emotional spirit was widespread. Few men had so attractive and winning a personality, and his reverence for the personalities of every individual with whom he came in contact drew the hearts of everyone to him. I have sometimes thought that his best work sag. the retirement of a provincial city where he had time for study and re- flection. From Providence he went in the prime of his manhood to become rector of St. Bartholomew church in the city of New York. Here his repu- tation was enhanced as preacher and he became equally distinguished for the rare executive ability that he dis played in the development of an ex- elusive and aristocratic old parish, into great institutional church. He was called after many successful years of work as a rector to- be bishop coad- tutor of New York and on the death of Bishop Potter he succeeded as bishop. But it was the call of duty that made him accept the episcopate. The office itself did not appeal to him at first. He was preeminently a. pastor and preacher and a parish administra tor. He was most happy and successful in the office of a presbyter, yet he was deeply loved by his clergy and the people Of his diocese, and nobly did he fulfill the duties of his great office. retaining and extending his influence as one of the foremost citizens of New York, he touched upon every depart ment of human interest that affected the clty'S life. His oratory was of the feverent southern style in manner, but his thought was clear cut and logical. He appealed to the intellect as much, or even more than to the heart of his hearers. Rationalistic, yet comprehen- sive in his views. with little of the ec- clesiastic about him, he never depart CT from the evangelical faith in which he was educated, and to which he turned more and more in the later years of his life. His enthusiasm and youthfulnesS of look and temperament continued to the end, in spite of the limitations of age and sickness, and he never ceased to dream dreams and see visions for others as we'll as himself. One characteristic was that he always thought that men of lesser gifts than himself could accomplish as much as he was capable of doing himself. His faith in ahd loyalty to his friends were supreme.
 The Rt. Rev. Dr. Gray who had been bishop of southern Florida retired several years ago from his episcopate 14. 1919.
 Pathetic indeed was the death of the Rt. Rev. Dr. Sage, missionary bishop of Salina, in the prime of his manhood after an episcopate of only one year; in one of the weakest and most diff ficult districts of the church. But he was developing and deepening the work of his district with fine spirit. enthusiasm and unselfish consecration. when on October 2, just as general convention was about to assemble in Detroit, the hand of God touched him and he entered into eternal life.
 The Church In Arizona. Its Achieve
 ments and Opportunities Phoenix
 The most notable recent achieve ment of the church in Arizona has been the raising of a large sum of money to complete rhe building fund of the cathedral, which now amounts to S100, 900. Strictly speaking this achieve ment should be credited to the year 1920.
 The Cathedral
 The history of the movement may be recalled for the interest and in- struction of those not familiar with the project. Soon after the arrival of the present bishop in 1906, to assume the rectorship of Trinity church, Phoe-