The conquest of the continent . irst five years of his episcopate the clergy ofhis diocese increased from five to a whole generation had meanwhile beenlost to the Church.* Kemper and Otey were close and life-longfriends. Though far separated and each re-A Circuit in spousiblc for a vast territory, inthe South purpose and sympathy they fought shoulder to shoulder. In the fall of 1837Bishop Otey wrote urging his brother of thenorth to accompany him on a tour of the Kemper the invitation came as a constrain-ing call, and accordingly, in January, 1838, hedropped down the gr
The conquest of the continent . irst five years of his episcopate the clergy ofhis diocese increased from five to a whole generation had meanwhile beenlost to the Church.* Kemper and Otey were close and life-longfriends. Though far separated and each re-A Circuit in spousiblc for a vast territory, inthe South purpose and sympathy they fought shoulder to shoulder. In the fall of 1837Bishop Otey wrote urging his brother of thenorth to accompany him on a tour of the Kemper the invitation came as a constrain-ing call, and accordingly, in January, 1838, hedropped down the great river to Memphis,where news reached him that Otey, prostratedby an attack of fever, begged him to make thevisitation in his stead. If possible I shallgratify him, Kemper wrote home, for I ammuch attached to him and I belong entirely tothe Church. So began a magnificent tourwhich, taken in connection with his other activi-ties, affords a most impressive spectacle of the * McConnell: History of the Episcopal Church, page RT. REV. JAMES H. OTEY, , In the Land of the Lakes and Rivers 79 expansion of the Church throughout the landat the opening of the second generation of thenineteenth century. His route lay throughNatchez, New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola,Tallahassee, Macon, Columbus (Georgia),Montgomery, Greensboro, Tuscaloosa, and Co-lumbus (Mississippi), and terminated at Mo-bile and New Orleans, whither he returned inMay. He could report that in about fourmonths he had visited nearly all the parishes inLouisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia andFlorida, confirming in nearly all; that he hadconsecrated eight churches and advanced twodeacons to the priesthood; and that he had be-come a living witness to the Church at large ofthe wants, claims and prospects of the south-west.* Even the above resume does not do full jus-tice to the work of Bishop Otey. He felt him-self responsible for the lands and the peopleswhich lay beyond the Mississippi, and tried topenetrat
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