the old Diocese has about the same strength that it had in the period preceding Division. It has, however, been a case like that of the oft-repeated Alice, who "had to keep running just as fast as she could to stay where she was!"

While the Mother Diocese can rejoice and feel a maternal pride in all the advance made by the daughter Sees and be thankful for her own blessings of gain and welfare she has never lacked the challenge of problems nor the consciousness of great opportunity. To illustrate this as well as to single them out for especial treatment and as well for their encouragement of outcome, several developments from our Diocesan history will be given later chapters to themselves. Some of them may be claimed as locally featuring the Diocese. But continuing here to follow the ordinary annals of Diocesan growth, at the end of the first decade of my episcopate in my Convention Address of 1900 I ventured upon a summary of accomplishments which seemed to mark the headway then. In any such estimate there could easily be listed many things which had not been accomplished and if it is not included here it will safely be taken for granted by anyone at all interested in these Days of My Age. The summary of 1900 was as follows:

"These projects which, from time to time, during the decade have been noted in annual addresses have been carried into effect, viz:

"1. The beginning of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in 1893 and the meeting of Pacific Coast Bishops in its interest in 1896.

"2. The initiation of a Cathedral system and the growing work of the Cathedral Mission.

"3. The Division of the Diocese for the erection of the Diocese of Los Angeles in 1895.

"4. The invitation to the General Convention to meet in San Francisco in 1901 and its acceptance, promising the first General Convention of the twentieth century on the Pacific Coast, as an object lesson of Church extension.

"5. The erection of the Prayer Book Cross, in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, as a historic mark of the first use of the Book of Common Prayer in the present territory of the United States, and so of the primary event of the American Church.

"6. The constituting the Bishop a corporation sole to make secure holdings of Institutions and also those of encumbered Mission property until ready to be turned over to the corporation of the Diocese without encumbrance, and to facilitate the readier handling of some of the business of the Church.

“7. The functions and advantages of an Archdeacon have had demonstration as those in the main of a General Missionary and Aid to the Bishop. I venture to hope that at this Convention provision may be made, in accordance with the Canons, for the support of this office which has been found so helpful and has, probably, already more than paid for itself in its direct agency in increasing revenues and properties for the Church.

"8. Forty-four church buildings have been acquired in the last decade. This includes eleven before division in the territory now forming the Diocese of Los Angeles. It is an interesting fact that, in the city of San Francisco, during the ten years, five of the eight old parishes have built costly new churches, besides four new churches for new work, averaging nearly one building for each year of the decade. There are sixteen points in San Francisco where regular Sunday services are held. I am satisfied that the passage of the carefully drawn proposed amendment to the State Constitution will facilitate church building."

Any Chapter of Diocesan Experiences would be a sad travesty on that "Psalm of Life," the thirteenth Chapter of First Corinthians, if it counted lines of development without taking cognizance of the only true moving cause of them all. Without their prompting and energizing by love of Christ and the Church, and our fellow man, there would be the sounding of brass and the

clanging of a cymbal all through such a Chapter of hollowness. Material standards and big showings are an obsession of success of the age. California from its very history of

"The Days of old

The Days of Gold,"

is especially susceptible to it. Religion and the Church move in an atmosphere of an infection of mammon worship. They are exposed to its deadening influences. And our own Diocesan development has been no exception. We have as a Diocese been most fortunate in having for an Historiographer one who under God made no unimportant part of the History he wrote, especially in its pioneering Chapters. The late Rev. Douglas Ottinger Kelley in 1915 published his "History of the Diocese of California, from 1849 to 1914," which has well realized the hope he expressed in his Preface that it might be “in some sort an authority regarding the early annals of the Church in California, so far at least as the gathering of them together for convenient reference." There has been many a phase of it to hamper our progress and to repress us into regret and repentance, not to say into arrested development at times. But we have not been without a consciousness of its failures. We have tried to be obedient to the vision of a spiritual elan as the critical feature of our life. Missions, and Quiet Days and Retreats and emphases of the devotional and sacramental verities have been resorted to for their stimulus to the "things that matter" back of the things that measure. And this we hope has tempered somewhat our human craving for notoriety to be reckoned among "the biggest" or "the first” to make any goal of running record. However faultily we have developed toward it, as a Diocese, there has at least been the yearning towards that pristine ideal that "the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." And this is an aim which we trust we can in all humility read "between

the lines" as we proceed to some following Chapters which treat in more detail of the development of some of the special projects that have taken shape in these Days of My Age.

CHAPTER XI

THE CHURCH DIVINITY SCHOOL OF THE

PACIFIC

(I reprint here with modifications the historical sketch I prepared at the time of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Divinity School, from the Pacific Churchman of October, 1918. There are also added reminiscences after twenty-five years by the Rev. Griffin Marshall Cutting, the first undergraduate to report for the beginning of the School.)

HE OPENING service of the Church Divinity 'School of the Pacific was held in San Mateo

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in the rooms set apart for a chapel in the first building, on St. Luke's Day, October 18, 1893. It was a celebration of the Holy Communion by the Bishop who made an address, with the Rev. James Otis Lincoln, Gospeller, and the Rev. William Ingraham Kip, 3rd, Epistoler. Besides these were present the Rev. J. DeWolfe Cowie, the Rev. William A. Brewer, the Rev. Geo. Wallace, Mrs. Nichols, Mrs. J. O. Lincoln and Mrs. H. R. Judah. The morning sunlight flooded the altar auspiciously for the hope in the venture of faith to find for the Divinity School an interpretation of its chosen text, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life." Bishop Kip in his problems of finding clergy to man the vast field committed to him, had referred in his charge to the Diocese of 1867 to "the necessity for a Training School for our Candidates for Orders." In 1868 the Rev. Dr. Breck in his second instinct to go to the regions which lie beyond, with his Divinity Students brought from the East made a Divinity School part of the plan he initiated at Benicia and it continued till 1870. In 1892, in my Convention address, I made as already stated a forecast among other needs, for the establishment of a Training School for Students in Theology. Conditions became more and most insistent for such a Training School as the need for clergy increased and as the distance and expense of sending Candidates East, and the advantage of having an In