| Show EPISCOPALIAN CONVOCATION Salt Lako Missionary Holds Meetings This IV In Honor of Leon Kor Th Uth of ard th con of the Salt lk of the aru held this In tills city begun Saturday night wH nt How Howand and hall In honor at at Idaho of California and ot at well as Dish Dishop op Leonard With thorn wore I of China Hector of u d of ho why Is a aI I l the convention Tho of th building were handsomely Uco orated and there wa good le Light ere skived by the received two one tho unexpected performance by hlo little old trl on Hie piano ot n Ion ana tho of n rom the teachers and pupils ot the Mrs Leonard gave a luncheon Batur Iny noon wan enjoyed by the and other clergy and at Its clow was ft Hold cross ami chain from the clergymen of his diocese The and bin later St Marks hospital where there wore short nei Icea In the St Marks cathedral was crowded yesterday at both the the choirs 01 both St Marks and St PaulB furnished the Nichols if California In the morning from the text Clod of our fath fathers ers hag chosen time Acts 22 The speaker said In part partI I well remember that when sint In tho little college own In New I was about o bo consecrated to the the ministry There were three or four other young men there with the same before them and we wore quite naturally drawn together by mu ual Interest uny sympathy Among hem the man who Is now your bishop later 1 was at the meeting of the house of In my parish home In when was elected o the post of missionary bishop Now for the third occasion tho paths of our converge I have no wish to heap compliments my friend because he would re them but I cannot but that he hes s worthy and deserving of every bit of satisfaction happiness that has como to him through the active consecrated life hn passed The lost of missionary bishop Is not an one few in our church arc more solemn than tho election of such nn Tho house of bishops the solemnity of It A light of Inquiry la turned upon every man laminated And after the nominations made tho vote Is not taken on the same day The house sleeps upon It Itan an It were and to the election calm deliberate Invoking this aid of he heavenly for guidance It Is a fact worthy ot note that more of our American bishops have been ad to the holy on DIP day of January than other day In Inthe the Christian year What liner or more natal day for any We have the wonderful conversion of aul of Tarsus to remember That blinding lash of lightning at Damascus n t only changed his but brought him Into a new activity It was not only the day of conversion for Paul PaulIt It was also his day of commission To Ht Paul commission meant In Its mission He had nn overmastering sense of mission This dominated his life nt It lias come to be bethe the dominant In all the At the evening services Olms stend of Colorado pave a review of the history of the church deprecating pop Ignorance on the subject which hindered tho churchs mission He said there could be and IB only one church one Christ one and one baptism the unity of the church Is not de destroyed through the fart that customs differ The church of England was the to declare Independent of the Unman pontiff who that his Is divine Tho advance of civilization in thin country IH due to tho speaking who brought their religion social and cus customs toms from the glorious mother country Bishop said that the Ho Homan man had taken the religion of the church to the Tho reformation washed avay the defile The settlers In brought the church with thorn to this country The revolutionary war hud wrought great havoc to the church of In Virginia where at the out outbreak break of tit war there were es and In ISOO only IS The i ker deplored fart that the of iod was not used In ome public schools for the moral training It would give the children If nothing elm The bishop cloned with a tribute to Bishop Tuttle the pioneer who pre preceded ceded Leonard In this Jurisdiction tion In a biographical way It may b stated that Leonard was born la Fayette Mo In f New land parentage He graduated from college In 1870 received his theological training In the general the theological at New York end in inthe the fall of was ordained a deacon In the Episcopal church I on onard ard entered on his flint pastorate at where he wa ordained st stand and from 1177 to he was located at Hannibal whence lie removed to At In he wan mis missionary bishop of Since coming to this city Leonard mu built up the work h r In a remarkably ef way including two Indian OM and the growth of St Marks U a noteworthy example of his able efforts |
