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Show Bishop Scanlan A PICTURE of the great cathedral, which will be dedicated tomorrow, is seen on our first page. It is the monument to a tireless, indomitable, capable, self-sacrificing man, who, in his youth consecrated his life to the work of the Master, and whose accounts have been balanced nightly since, and the balances carried to his credit in the great ledger beyond the stars. In his youth he chose the desert for his field; he worked without recompense; in rough fields he bore the banners of the Master; he disarmed those who made light of his work by the very impressiveness of his sincerity, and hushed scoffers by a life which was at once above fear and above reproach. By hard work, when this region was very "pool, he built a little church, established an or-1 or-1 phanage, helped establish a hospital, saw to the schools for both sexes of the children of parents of his faith and just simply worked on, and on and on. At last when fortunes began to be accumulated accumu-lated here, some of the members of his flock began to ask for a more stately house of worship. His reply in substance was: "We are doing very well. If you want something finer bring me the money, for I will not ask the poor of my flock for what, if given, might bring distress to the givers." Then contributions began to come, most generous gen-erous ones, and coincident with that the foundations founda-tions of the new great cathedral began to take form. It has required many years to complete it, but It is finished, arid as it stands, it is, as we said above, the monument to the Right Reverend Bishop Lawrence Scanlan. " But the bishop is just the same that he was when a simple priest, traveling the desert on foot, not always with enough to eat, and often like the Master, having no place at night, wherein to lay his head, and we suspect that when the ceremonies of tomorrow shall be In progress all the exultantlon in his heart will be for his creed, that, personally, in his soul will be ringing the words: "But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven heav-en and. the heavens of heavens cannot contain Thee; how much less th's house which I have built?" And so we fancy he will be asking himself him-self if he ' i- done all he could have done, but he will n. ., forget to prav for his people, and we suspect the prayer will close as did the other one: "Moreover, concerning the stranger, which is not of Thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for Thy great name's sake, and Thy mighty hand, and Thy stretched out I arm; if they come and pray In tills house; then hear Thee from the heavens, oven from Thy dwelling place, and do all that the stranger I calleth to Thee for; that all the earth may know Thy name, and fear Thee as does Thy people Israel, Is-rael, and may know that this house which I have built is called by Thy name." With him the great cathedral is but an in-j in-j cident. He believes that he who serves his fel low men best serves God best, and his work is for man who is his brother, and he wants no reward re-ward hero for ho is working in the hope that he may so live that when he wakes from the final coma, the first words his soul will hear wil be: "Welcome, good and faithful servant!" |