| Show TWO MORE METHODIST BISHOPS I j- j Frank 31 M. Bristol and Robert tyro have c been added to tho college of bishops in iii tho ho Methodist church and k tho church is the richer for ft it ft Thero are arc twp men widel widely different in method and yet alil e in man many ways ars and both have earned tho the great reat honor to which the they have been called if good lives fives ves and md effective service constitute earn earning 1 Both born J in tho the year 1851 I is a Scotchman and T came to the United States when a a achild child His family was poor and he had the tho usual hard poor boy time to get an education But Dut ho bo got it It anti and 1 was the better for the th adversity which se seemed med like misfortune while ho was fighting Then he was made pastor i ot of a little HUc church down in Illinois and anti presently he ho needed a bigger building One o of the m means ans by which he paid t his way through school was to wor work wort i 1 at the tho trade And when his official board could not possibly w. see the wa to way a new church tyro i ro proposed to Ia lay tho brIck himself l r f And he lie did TIle The great cost of tile the structure was mot met by tho the minister And to this day that preacher keeps in tho the place of honor in his bis study n down here at Los Ios Angeles the tho steel trow trowel 1 with which he bought his education edu cation and with which he tic won his I wa way He lie was a wonderful preacher gifted fi as few men have been and there was no more stopping him than there Is pushing forward to high place one of or IY d the tho undeserving The world finds on ont 1 Mr Ir Bristol was born in York State and came West Yest to school Ho He is a University man and most of at his charges have been in Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago until he wa wad called calle to Metropolitan tan church in Washington where President Pres Pros ident Went McKinley was an attendant It if not a member He Ho is Is' Isa a small man In and yet there Is a world of ot energy In the little frame Ho has written some somo beautiful essays essaY and a afew few poems I Ho He one Hmo thought ho he I aDem-I was a Dem Democrat octaL but ho refused to be he carried I awa away in the rush of the silver fever feyer of He Ho attended tho the Chicago convention con con- of that year ear and ha had place al atthe at t the tho newspaper table because all th the thc f boys bors liked him He sat eat there ther through the wonderful speech of or n Bryan an I and was the tho only man at the long oni r tables of an any party who was not Influenced In with the tho enthusiasm th the S Nebraska man had bad e evoked i f Splendid Splendid but but It is a mistake lt ho S i. i said Sagacity it clear dear judgment broadmindedness broad broad- I. I j mindedness equity these equity these have hare been a 4 his distinguishing traits through a aUE all aU I E I tho the years cars Wonderful eloquence that tha t never let IH go of or earth in the reach read h hafter after aCter Heaven this heaven this has been his t ma mn 1 r chinery And he has gone A bishop of or the Methodist church is one of the big non of ot th the tho world Ho He Hohas I has a great Influence In the forming of or sentiment for the nation Ho lie is in ina II 1 a position of or great responsibility These men that have been elected f to that great groat office at Baltimore are of ot tho the timber of men who have o madeI made I Methodism and so greatly helped the people of or the whole world They have hac made mado their denomination bigger biggert t c and the world better by their lives and their labors It Is good to know that Quayle Quale and Bristol and are arc of the most eminent bod in that body com corn munion |
