Year: 1875

WIZ hOhOutu UnC tC5tiJ ldll W cltCt
any of the five nominated, the bishop
shall nominate five others, of whom
the vestry shalr elect one.


S. ID. DAVENPORT, Rector.


r. MORGAN, Secretary pro. tenn.


BISHOP GARRETT'S LETTER.


DALLAS, February 5.
To The Rector and Vestry of st. Mathews


GENTLEMEN--Your letter of the 7th
ultimo, containing copy of resolu-
tions adopted by you, has been received
and its contents duly noted.


l have delayed my reply thus long
that I might have opportunity and
inspect some poi ton of my field, and
SO decide intelligently on the best point
for the concentration of my energies,
and from which my operations may
be carried ON most successfully.


Ihave now come to the conclusion
that Dallas offers the greatest natural
advantages for my work. have ac-
cordingly resolved to make it my per-
manent home and center of operations,
provided can obtain here such help
and cooperation as are absolutely
necessary for their due execution.


Your resolutions, so enlightened,
liberal and churchly in character, and
withal so expressive of your confidence
in me, have supplied one important
element of the cooperation aforesaid.
l accept them gratefully, and esteem
them very highly as giving substantial
promise of the mutual sympathy and
good will which shall always charac-
terize our future work.


The adoption of your church as my
cathedral involves no necessary charge
in its parOchial character beyond that
i'm your resolutions, nor any
in its ministry beyond more frequent
services by myself, nor any in its
ritual beyond that which decency and
order require in every well-governed
parish church.


We shall, < 20, aim to beautify
the sanctuary as we may be able, but
this, not because 1t is a cathedral but
for far higher reason, because it is
the house of Coda reason which ap-
plies to every church as well as this.


st. Matthew's is henceforth to be
called a cathedral because the bishops
chair of Office is to he'the"c, as it is not
elsewhere in his jurisdiction. Here
is to be his ecclesiastical home; re-
freshed here he will go forth to his
lonely journeys, and carry still with
him the impulse and momentum
which his zeal and love have ac-
quired in this spiritual center of life
ana peace. Here will councils as
sembie in days to come; ordinations
be performed and missionary efforts
planned and prayed for. Here will
young clergy, by and by, be trained in
sound knowledge and churchly prin-
ciple; hither will they return from
distant fields for temporary refresh
ment aud renewed courage. Here, as
at central heart, must the warm glow
of spiritual life be ever maintained,
and the sweet harmony Of an able
ministry, a beautiful ritual, and pro-
found purity be found in store to give
tone and vigor to every portion of our
entire Jurisdiction. And thus the
whole bound together by bonds of a
common sympathy, and life will grow
together In the measure of every part.


On you, by this arrangement, rests
the obligation


/. That you recognize not only your
parochial but also your diocesan status.
You are now called upon to hold aloft
the standard not merely of parish
but of diocese of immense extent.


2. As the mother church thereof your
interest, sympathy and aid must not
he limited to yourselves alone, but
must extend to every member of the
family, however remote his dwelling.


8. You must give the key note of ali
diocesan harmoDies. Your faith, love,
zeal. courage, morals and liberality
must be such as rightly to command
the admiration and deserve to be the
example of all surrounding parishes.


Very grave, indeed, are these respou.
sibilities, hut grandly do they ennoble
those who heartily sustain them.
Whatsoever more is needed to enablt
me to reside among you has beer
already set forth in print, and Is in
youf hands aud those Of the committee
Of seven. l need not refer to the sub
ject further here than to say, that what
soever Is obtained by that committee
for any specified object will be de
voted 10 the furtherance of that ohjec
and none other.


Praying that our heavenly father ma,
always have you in his holy Keeping
] am, gentlemen, your faithful frien'
and bishop,


ALEXANDER c. GARRETT.


Grant is aov figuring TO get Brook
In and Garland out of the governor