Show I fi I r 1 i i 333SG S tt y 3XtgXEi < SB t n III I 11 II EPISCOPAL CLERGY > AND MHM > I i I r If I r T 0 I BEES OB1 OHTJBOH t WILL JOIN IN I I tijI I Bishop Leollard CELEBRATING > TODAY THE FIT 1N I Onor TEENTH ANNIVERSABY Off HIS J f i I f 1 I it Js G J ELEVATION TO THE EPISCOPATE > J I sfs JjJIII = J r > I In the cathedral church of St Mark I 1 t I + erected many years afro and recently m d enlarged according to the plan of th < I Venerated founder a brilliant function f will be performed this morning With festal lights and splendid music and all I the acoessorlAil Of 1 Signified ritual tho I Right Reverend Abel Leonard S T D beloved and respected bishop of the t I missionary district of Salt Lake will I celebrate tho fifteenth anniversary of 1 his elevation to tho episcopate The I deoplyrecosaed chancel will be filled j I with visiting bishops and clergy whll < II i nave end transepts will be crowded I r I i I with members oC thc flock over which their chief pastor so worthily presides j I and by friends and wellwishers oC i + i j every creed Tho combined vested I I I 11 choirs of St Marks and St Pauls will render the special musical service and I I 1 l bishops and priests In their robes and I J H I i h I I academic hoods will lend variety and color to the SC ncI 1 1 nc-I t As the organ peals forth p stately t + t + procession will proceed up the center T J j11 i ulslu Following the crossbearer will I II march at least fifty vested slnaers and I behind thnm about the sanys number j I II of pupils from Rowland Hal with them the-m principal and members of the faculty f n I I r I Alter these will come the clergy Qf the 6 I jk 1 f t city and OU UylnS parishes and mls talons Including the dean and archdeacon i I arch-deacon The rear prill be brought up 11 k j by four visiting prelates and by the J J bishop of Salt Lake who comes to his t II t cathedral church to Join hIs clergy and i j people > In l fittingly commemorating this 1 + solemn and joyous anniversary The i holy cucharlst will be celebrated a historical I I I his-torical l statement will be read and congratulatory gratulatory addresses delivered j t I t i I 1 VISITING BISHOPS q The bishops who have come hero ton to-n 1 t do honor to their brother of Salt Lake H r a are the Right Rev William Ford Nichols t t l I Nich-ols D D of California Right I Rev I I f William H Morolond D D bf Sacramento + i I i If Sacra-mento Right Rev James B Funsten + S II l D D of Boise and Right Rev Charles 1I I Il I I S Olmstead D D of Colorado I a o t m It vas a notable array of American I f I it blshona that assembled In the Christi Christ-i j i church St Louis Mo on the 25th day f f It of January 1S8S It being the feast of + i the conversion of SU Paul There were I tl nine bishops in tho chancel every one I + II I of whom could trace his successIon I f + 1 back to the ancient churches of Eng l I fi l I j + 1 d land and Scotland and so hy an unbroken II 3 n un-broken chain to apostolic times The IL I 1 i q ti il occasion was the consecration oC the t f I I lj hf I Ii f Rev Abiel Leonard who had been recently j t re-cently chosen bishop of the missionary f J IH 1 I jurisdiction of Nevada and Utah The I ijl t bishopelect was 31 years and 7 months t I i old and so had only slightly exceeded Is I 1 I I the minimum age at which a bishop I 5 1 t f can be consecrated I I I Ij h ILLUSTRIOUS ANCESTRY I t The Rev Mr Leonard had already S f1f attained a position of eminence In the I I f I < j I church having completed nearly fifteen Itt I years of active service In the ministry i I I He was born In Fayette Mo on the l f I tt 2Gth of June 1818 nand on both the paternal pa-ternal and maternal sIde Is descended I from distinguished ancestry His father I fa-ther was 1 the Honorable Abiel Leonard I rc Justice of the Supreme court of Missouri i j 1 Mis-souri and a famous Jurist of his day 1 t whose opinions and decisions are well t I I 1 i 1 known and widely quoted at the present i I I pres-ent time Ills grandfather was Capt 1 i tlf i Nathaniel Leonard of the United States i q army who served with distinction in I I H the War of 1812 His greatgrand I j jl l father was the Rev Ablel Leonard 1 I who served as chaplain to Gen Washington I Wash-ington in the War of the Revolution 1 4 I An ancestor on the maternal side was 1 i Colonial l Governor Massachusetts while another maternal ancestor was I t John Leverelt at one time president ort or-t I J Harvard college The family Is originally 1 I j 1 origi-nally descended from a titled house In i1 I 1 Sussex England and Its connection t I with the old colony < of Massachusetts r 1 dates back to the year 1C52 I I GRADUATE OF DARTMOUTH 1 Young A > Leonard was educated at the preparatory school of Washington I university St Louis going thence to Dartmouth college New Hampshire t m mI where he was graduated In 1S70 The f t I l I same year he entered the General Theological E I > Theo-logical seminary In New York city f fi r from which he graduated In 1873 Ho p I received deacons orders at the hands c t of Bishop Robertson of Missouri In the 1 t Church of the Transfiguration New i f r t York familiarly known aa the Little I rf i Church Around the Corner and began + r work In Sedalla Mo where he was l4 4 sUbsequently ordained priest Of nearly 1 a fifteen years In the ministry prior to his election as bishop seven were spent j i 1 In Atchison Kan as rector of Trinity 1 1 parish which comprised In Its membership I t mem-bership Senator Ingalls and family I f several Judges of the Supreme and i District courts and many other citizens I Ii I occupying prominent positions f FOUR SURVIVING BISHOPS I I r Nine bishops took part In the consecration iI i j t conse-cration of Dr Leonard but of this N I i number only four survive to the present 11 I pres-ent day These are Bishop Tuttle of i Missouri Seymour of Springfield h I Walker formerly of North Dakota 4J ail now of western New York und Talbot Ilt + formerly of Wyoming and Idaho now t of central Pennsylvania The five deceased t I de-ceased bishops are Vail of Kansas who L I performed the act of consecration I + 1 Qulntard oC Tennessee Perry of Iowa t l Thomas assistant bishop of Kansas I S 1 and Burgess of Quincy t jf SEMINARY CONFERS DEGREE + t r The General Theological seminary k which Is Bishop Leonards alma mater t t conferred upon him the degree of Doctor I Doc-tor of Sacred Theology on the occasion I t j of his elevation to the episcopate and R I in recognition of his learning and services r 1 J dl ser-vices k I d Immediately after his consecration iL Bishop Leonard completed his preparations I f prepara-tions for the severing of old tics and p i I in the spring of 3SS8 bade farewell to I E 4t the scene of his early labors where he 9 1 had acquitted himself with marked success l l suc-cess < and with his family removed tot to-t f the distant missionary field y I 1 a 1 The life of a missionary bishop in the t far West is very much removed from It i f one of pleasant ease It Is In very It + I truth a strenuous life making constant I k and exhausting demands upon health 17 f r I and strength The work calls for mental I tf 1 men-tal and physical powers of a high order 4L There must be an Iron constitution I 15 proof agaiVist the fatigues and hardships 1l 1 hard-ships of travel in the wilds remote from i i1 m towns and the Iron highway There t 1 must be administrative and executive 1 ability beyond the average keen insight Ik in-sight Into character the habit of command u com-mand quickness to grasp the necessities j i necessi-ties springing from everchanging conditions Ii iJ con-ditions much Christian fortitude and I ti neverfalling courtesy In no bishop off of-f i the Western church today are these I and kindred qualities more happily 1 I II combined than In Blahop Leonard 1 I Jtl I 4 4 ill I I J J = oJ = = r t t PL its t tf 1 < pr G d ist lEfliS4f1tn a t S m J t r J I t i r S f Bishop A Leonard whose fifteenth anniversary as a prelate of tho church Is to be celebrated today FIELD IS LARGE The field presided over by Bishop Leonard is known as the missionary district of Salt Lake and embraces the whole of Utah with several counties of western Colorado eastern Nevada and southern Wyoming thrown In The entire en-tire Jurisdiction covers an area of fully 200000 square miles or forty times the size ot Connecticut Within the limits of this vast expanse are great mountain ranges and wide stretches of desert Cities and towns are few und far between be-tween and the population Is comparatively compara-tively small and scattered In the valleys val-leys converted by Irrigation Into prosperous pros-perous farming settlements in rough mining camps and In the few towns of size and Importance to which the former for-mer arc tributary may be found about 350000 souls of horn no fewer than 223000 belong to tho Mormon church CHANGES OF BOUNDARIES The geological boundaries of the Salt Lake district have been altered within the past few years mainly by the ceding of certain < counties In Nevada Ne-vada to the bishop of Sacramento and by assuming charge of the western slope of Colorado The actual area oC the field however was little less than at present while the population wlis far more sparse and inaccessible when the newlyconsecrated bishop entered upon his work In what was then known as the missionary Jurisdiction of Nevada Ne-vada and Utah in succession to the flight Rev Daniel So Tuttle D D translated to the diocese of Missouri r 14 4 Bishop Leonard speaks unassumingly of the work hp has accomplished since coming to Utah I found lie said on my arrival In the spring of 88 four clergymen at work in Utah and four in Nevada T lese men were scattered over u vast territory During six months of the first year I traveled over 10000 miles by rail and stage and confirmed 120 persons besides preaching preach-ing baptizing and catechizing children In remote and distant points Since I have been in the district 1 have succeeded suc-ceeded In starch and maintaining nineteen missions have built eight rectories rec-tories and one parishhouse have baptized bap-tized In round numbers 3500 persons and confirmed 1SOO Our records show that we have a communicant membership member-ship equal to onescventyelghth of the entire Gentile population although this does not by any means Indicate the proportion of noncommunicant members mem-bers of church families who rightfully belong to us by baptism and who receive re-ceive religious instruction from our clergy lay readers and Sunda schoolteachers school-teachers During the period covered over 300000 has been contributed for church purposes In the district alone There are now In the field twentyone clergymen and thirteen lay readers besides be-sides four women workers EIGHT CHURCH SCHOOLS When I came to Utah there were eight church schools which had been anted by my predecessor Bishop Tuttle Tut-tle Of these two were located In Salt Lake City and one each at other points In Utah namely Logan Ogden Plain City Eureka and Layton and one at Reno Nov These schools did excellent service under the thenprevailing1 conditions con-ditions but as time went on and the public schools and high schools became more numerous and better fitted to carry on the work of education on broad and generous lines the necessity for maintaining several special church schools became less apparent and they have been gradually discontinued with the exception of Rowland hall In this I city pn which my best I > efforts In tile educational line are now concentrated I ROWLAND HALLS GROWTH Rowland hall as I found It was a small adobe building affording accommodation accom-modation for nine boarding pupils and 100 day pupils It has since then been I enlarged three times at an expense of I 25000 and with Its present attcndvnce j of fifty boarders and 110 day pupils is again exhibiting symptoms of overcrowding over-crowding I ST MARKS HOSPITAL I Another church Institution Which I from a small beginning has grown to large dimensions Is I St Marks hospital I Originally a 1 small building of brick and II I timber at the corner of Third South and Fifth East streets with a capacity of twentyfive patients It haw developed I devel-oped Into an imposing pile of brick and brown atone affording accommodation for 1UO patients Ill well na for a successful suc-cessful training school for nurses We are preparing to enlarge and still further fur-ther Improve at an early date I also aim to enlarge and improve the trainIng train-Ing school for nurses and hope to raise at least 10000 for that purpose so as to make It inferior to none In every particular |