Show TilE DEATH OF BISHOP LEpWARDA Though not altogether unexpected the news of the death t of Bishop Able Leonard I Leon-ard of the Protestant Episcopal church Is none the I lusa grievous lie died at St Murks hospital in this city at an early hour yesterday morning In the fiftysixth year of his age and the sixteenth six-teenth of his bishopric he having been consecrated as Missionary Bishop of this Jurisdiction on January 25 1SSS in the spring following he moved with his family to this city and here his home has been ever l since To 1 say that BIshop Leonard has been a faithful energetic and successful administrator ad-ministrator of his work here would be but to express the universal judgment Hut he has been far more than that he linn given his whole time and thought I 10 ii aim nas labored with a zeal om clcncy and success that mark him ns a worthy successor to the great missionary mission-ary bishop who preceded hint in this field BIshop Tulllo now of St Louis who was one of the great and famous bishops of the church and is now at lie I head of the house of bishops by seniority To say = that a man is worthy successor of so Illustrious a dignitary is high praise but it can conscientiously conscientious-ly bu paid of Bishop Leonard In constant con-stant travel nnd care of his widely scattered Hocks Bishop Leonard spared himself not at all and ministrations were so extensive lhat when we say that In the course of them he baptized InOO J people continued 1SOO and raised 300 000 for church purposes we onlyenu n elate thy outward and visible signs of his success It was In the inner work Inculcating purity of life elevation of thought and forbearance and charity char-ity among men that his great work was fruitful and In the t splendid example that was shown forth In I his dally life and the faithfulness he displayed to duty and to the great wOIk for the Muster Mus-ter which he never failed In performing perform-ing His was a fine character and everyone every-one who hud knowledge of him is the better fOI that knowledge Ills influence in-fluence was always powerful for good und never l failed to be powerfully cx orlcd He set a high pattorn for all eminent moral cachets and leaders and because of his life and work here much will always be expected from the Bishop Bish-op of this Jurisdiction whoever he maybe may-be Eminent as Bishop Leonards work in specially church lines was concerned his work in the educational field and In the peculiarly Christian mercy ol1 the hospital was a close rival to It Rowland Row-land Hall the Episcopal school for girls has received his fostering care in a high degree and has been much enlarged und Jm1JIove by 1 him But his crowning work aside from his work In the episcopacy proper was In the complete regeneration of St Marks Hospital He found it occupying a I number of shacks on the corner of Third South and Fifth East streets with u plain brick building of raLlier I cramped size for headquarters he left i it a palace of brick near the Warm Springs with every convenience as a modern thoroughly equipped hospital one of the great benefactions of this I whole mountain country If his fame were to rest alone on ills work In making ma-king this great < institution what it now Is from the small foundation whence he transformed it that fame would always al-ways be bright and enduring But not to any one feature of his work will his biographers look Lou his fame but to all the great achievements he brought to pass and lo the large work he did for all this Mountain and Basin country III which his field of labor la-bor lay and in the admirable example he showod forth td nil of what a noble Christian character should be and of what a zealous conscientious > laborious labori-ous life filled with many lasting duties du-ties can accomplish for the best good of mankind |