novelty and speed for the Episcopal wheels of duty. I have good reason to remember how Mr. George H. Hooke expedited matters for me with his pioneering motor in the strenuous days of the fire and earthquake of 1906. And our busy Dean Gresham is ever ready to whisk me about San Francisco in his truly decanal car. It would be an omission indeed, however, not to make some reference to automobile wheels in their furtherance of Episcopal recreation and playspells. Though never feeling, in the later concentrations of my visitations around the large centers of population that an automobile would better facilitate the getting about, especially as the public ways of transportation were constantly under more adequate development, and our railroad authorities as represented by my good friend of many years, Mr. William Sproule, President of the Southern Pacific Company, and his predecessors in that company, as well as the authorities of the Santa Fe and Western Pacific and other shorter lines have ever been singularly generous in granting free transportation, I owe much to the thoughtfulness and consideration of my good people in the enjoyment of their "cars." Mrs. Louis F. Monteagle, whom dear Archdeacon Emery used to call our "Lady Bountiful," for the continuous later years of my active visitations provided for my visitation of the Salinas Valley congregations in her automobile, going with the party when not absent from California, as President of the Woman's Auxiliary, stimulating them with her own zeal and addresses. In these parties there were generally included: Mrs. Nichols and the Archdeacon and some Rector of a leading parish. Then by the same kindly provision, recreational trips have been widely made with delightful parties to points of historical interest like Drake's Bay, Fort Ross, The Petrified Forest, Lake Tahoe and Coloma, as well as to St. Dorothy's Rest, Rev. Mr. Maxwell's St. Andrew's Camp for Boys, through the great redwoods over the Oregon line and a crowning expedition to Crater Lake and Mount Ranier, en route to the General Convention HOUSE PARTY AT "THE BEND" With Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Wheeler and Family Including Motoring Parties of Bishop and Mrs. Manning of New York and of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Monteagle AT "FILOLI," HOME OF MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM B. BOURN in Portland, Oregon, in 1922, stopping at the home of baronial suggestions and beauty of Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Wheeler, "The Bend" on the McCloud River. Others throughout the Diocese and State too have associated happiest hours with their automobiles in affording me and mine joys of longer or shorter outings, the late Mrs. George W. Gibbs in a journey over the Mexican line and other trips elsewhere, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Bourn at rare "Filoli," Mr. Philip M. Lansdale, Mr. Edward H. Clark, Jr., and many another have expedited my visitations and contributed to that "rhythm of riding" on air for after all does not the air inflated tire really bring the automobile into the aeronaut class? Verily then: The spirit a Californian feels Delightsome is on California wheels. B CHAPTER X DAYS OF DIOCESAN DEVELOPMENT EFORE coming to California I had not been unaware of the impression "trippingly on the tongue" that the California Pioneers "had left all their religion the other side of the Rockies." It suggests of course that such a jettisoning of character-cargo ought to have sensibly and noticeably accrued to the spiritual and moral asset of the "Middle West." But however that may be, facts soon showed no such de-naturing or de-spiriting as that. The first organization of the Church of the Pacific Coast was entered upon in the very thick of the Gold Rush, July 22, 1849. Forty of the leading young men of the new community, which surely is one more than one for every one of the Thirty-nine "Articles of Religion," subscribed their names to form Holy Trinity Parish, San Francisco. And their sentiment expressed in that primary document is well worth the perpetuation which has been given it, together with all their names on a bronze tablet on the present Trinity Church walls. All things considered it is a rarely intelligent and striking missionary prospectus. "We recognize the obligation to evince as individuals and as a people our gratitude to Almighty God for all His mercies in imparting our spiritual things to a country that is affording us in such abundance its worldly things." And in a pen and ink sketch of the first plain building, as reflecting the masculine make-up of the motley inhabitants then, three ladies were pictured in the foreground becauseas one of the original signers told me—they were at the time the only three ladies in the whole congregation. Another curious phase of things then, was the juxtaposition for a while, due to circumstances into which we need not enter, of the only two of our Church buildings on the whole Pacific Coast, on two corners directly opposite each on the same street. When Bishop Kip |