Eureka Reporter | 1904-04-29 | Page 5 | Lesson the Bishop Needed

lesson the shop needed bishop nicholson of milwaukee has a story of personal experience to tell to those who seem swamped in wor nes it happened during the first years of bis ministry when he was rector of a philadelphia church the parish matters social and financial were in a bad way and straightening them out was slow work he was distinctly discouraged one day when having gone to new york on business he stopped to look at the brooklyn bridge then building A man cover ed with dirt was working on the abut ments that s pretty dirty work you are engaged in said the bishop well yes answered the laborer but somehow we don t think of the dirt but of the beauty which is to come out of our work it was the lesson I 1 needed and I 1 went back to philadelphia the better for it said bishop nicholson mil walkee waukee journal