Presldiimg Bishop of the Episcopal
Church of the I'nHefl States
He is a Patriarch of the United
States, because in length of service as
a bishop he out Ji'stances every other
bishop in his church, and. It is believ
ed, in every other church. He was
consecrated in 1867 and hence has
served as a bishop for 52 years.
He is 82 years old, straight as a
stripling, lively as a cricket, and deaf
as a post. At a recent coirisecration
service in the Cathedral of St. John
the Divine in Xew York City, he was
the only participant who could be
heard all over the cathedral. He
stands more than six feet high, is
broad-shouldered, and has the vigor
of a well preserved main a score of
years younger. Xear his eightieth
birthday, he still went swimming at
his summer home at Lake Wequeton-si'r-g,
Michigan, and apparently enjoy
ed it as much as he had in his
younger days.
It is to the colors of the Nation
wide campaign of the Episcopal
church that he summons the men,
women and children of that faith a
campaign of spiritual education which
will result in the raising of a tre
mendous fund to be spent in increas
ing the activities of the Episcopal
church at home and abroad; in the
building of churches, rectories, com
munity houses, schools, colleges,
orphanages, hospitals and dispensar
ies; in the raisitng of a new army of
workers to carry the church's mess
age of sympathy, courage and help
still farther afield.
Bishop Tuttle was born in the state
of Xew Yoric, at . Windham, Greene
county, educated in the public schools
there, the academy of Delhi, Xew
York, Columba College and the Gen
i oral Theological Seminary in Xew
! York city.
