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Show A FAITHFUL SHEPHERD. Judge Goodwill tells in his "Weekly" the great work accomplished by Bishop Scanlan in L'tah and Nevada. He measures his worth by his works. Here is how he pictures the life of the great Bishop: "A picture of the great Cathedral, which has just been dedicated, is seen o; our first page. It is a monument to a tireless, indomitable, capable, self-sacrificing 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 impressive-ness impressive-ness 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 poor, he built up a little church, established an orphanage, orphan-age, 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 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 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 gener-ous ones, and coincident with that the foundations of the new Cathedral began to take form. It has required many years to complete it, but it is finished, fin-ished, and as it stands, it is, as we said above, the monument to the Right Reverend Bishop Lawrence Scanlan. x "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 the dedication .were in progress all the Exultation in his heart was for his creed, that, personally, in his soul, were ringing tlx- words: 'But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth ? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain Thee; -how much less this house, -which I have ' built?'' And so we fancy he was asking himself if he had done all he could have done, but he will' not forget to pray 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 name's sake, and Thy mighty hand, and Thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house, then hear Thee from the heavens, even from Thy dwelling place, and do all that the strenger 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 incident. inci-dent. He believes that he who serves his fellow men best serves God best, and his work is for man who is lu's brother, and he wants no reward here, for he 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 will be: 'Welcome, good and faithful servant!'" |