The conquest of the continent . BISHOP J. P. McILVAIXE BISHOP G. W. DOANE In the Land of the Lakes and Rivers 59 years later that our first missionary bishopwas consecrated for a foreign land, bnt fromthat time the expansion of the episcopate athome and abroad proceeded on an equal foot-ing.* Probably a majority in this conventionwould not have been ready to send a bishopbeyond the seas; at any rate it was decided totry the new officer of missionary advance firstin the home field. The need for him there wasspecially realized by these men whose childrenwere looking, or it may be, already troopi
The conquest of the continent . BISHOP J. P. McILVAIXE BISHOP G. W. DOANE In the Land of the Lakes and Rivers 59 years later that our first missionary bishopwas consecrated for a foreign land, bnt fromthat time the expansion of the episcopate athome and abroad proceeded on an equal foot-ing.* Probably a majority in this conventionwould not have been ready to send a bishopbeyond the seas; at any rate it was decided totry the new officer of missionary advance firstin the home field. The need for him there wasspecially realized by these men whose childrenwere looking, or it may be, already trooping,toward the west. So with solemn earnestness the House ofBishops responded to the call for a great ad-vance and chose the Eev. FrancisL. Hawks, , as Bishop of theSouthwest, and the Eev. Jackson Kemper,, as Bishop of Indiana and Missouri, towhich title was afterwards added that of Mis-sionary Bishop of the Northwest. Both menwere prominent clergy of the Church in theirday. Dr. Hawks being rector of CalvaryChurch, New Y
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