The conquest of the continent . appears four years later in Illinois, where, inthis memorable year of missionary awakening,1835, by a corporals guard he is again electedbishop of a diocese which had, in all, four pres-byters, one church building and thirty-nine com-municants. James Hervey Otey had also, in 1833, beenchosen by a convocation of five clergymen—the entire number of clergy in that part of thecountry at that time—as bishop of Tennessee,and was consecrated in the following year. Heattempted to do for his state and the greatsouthwest which lay beyond it some such thingas Chase had bee
The conquest of the continent . appears four years later in Illinois, where, inthis memorable year of missionary awakening,1835, by a corporals guard he is again electedbishop of a diocese which had, in all, four pres-byters, one church building and thirty-nine com-municants. James Hervey Otey had also, in 1833, beenchosen by a convocation of five clergymen—the entire number of clergy in that part of thecountry at that time—as bishop of Tennessee,and was consecrated in the following year. Heattempted to do for his state and the greatsouthwest which lay beyond it some such thingas Chase had been doing in Ohio and Illinoiswith equal devotion and equal hardship. Butof him we shall speak later. No doubt such men as these had uncon-sciously been shaping the convictions of theChurch. It could not but be seen how sharpwas the dilemma. On the one side was theChurchs responsibility—certainly for the en-tire nation, and after that for the world; onthe other, the ineptitude of the Church unless .;^%.*. ..>.^.. i^^ .... RT. REV. PHILANDER CHASE, The Gathering of the Forces 55 equipped with her apostolic ministry in itsthree orders. How, then, could the episcopatereach the United States and the world? Ohio,Illinois and Tennessee had solved the questionby a most desperate resource—by electing, intheir feebleness, a man to whom they could giveno support, and for whom there was not evena strong parish of which he could be plainly was an impossible burden, whichonly a few daring souls would take up. Andno man so elected could hope to do his work asit should be done. It was at this time that there flashed upon the mind of the Church another solution. ^^ Bishops must be sent, not called. Bishops mnst be ^ ^ Sent—Not caued 2Students of ecclcsiastical polity re-minded themselves that the episcopate is com-mitted not to a single man, but to a body—theepiscopatimi in solidum. Not to the individualbishop, but to the House of Bishops was en-trusted the preser
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