The conquest of the continent . Bishop Nichols of California Bishop Spalding of Utah PAST AND PRESENT LEADERS ON THE PACIFIC COAST On the Shores of the Pacific 159 again going to Zillali. ^Well/ I said, ^how isyour town getting alongT Ob, it is first rate.^^Dont you want a clergyman there nowT No,he said, you are too late. Other people aregoing to build us a church and send a minister,and we dont want more than one at presentuntil we get larger. And so the opportunitiescome and go, and the bishop has to turn hisback upon them because he cannot get helpenough to send clergymen and build churche
The conquest of the continent . Bishop Nichols of California Bishop Spalding of Utah PAST AND PRESENT LEADERS ON THE PACIFIC COAST On the Shores of the Pacific 159 again going to Zillali. ^Well/ I said, ^how isyour town getting alongT Ob, it is first rate.^^Dont you want a clergyman there nowT No,he said, you are too late. Other people aregoing to build us a church and send a minister,and we dont want more than one at presentuntil we get larger. And so the opportunitiescome and go, and the bishop has to turn hisback upon them because he cannot get helpenough to send clergymen and build churches,even in the larger and more important citiesof his jurisdiction.* It would be impossible to tell here the storyof the Pacific Coast. We can only say thatfl„ , . there are (1911) five dioceses and Bummary of ^ ^ Results three missionary districts, with eight bishops, 300 clergy and 35,000 communi-cants, where Bishop Kip, a little more thanhalf a century before, found one clergyman andthirty-nine communicants in California, a
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