Identifier: lifelaborsof00hare (find matches)
Title: The life and labors of Bishop Hare : apostle to the Sioux
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hare, William Hobart, 1838-1909 Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960
Subjects: Hare, William Hobart, 1838-1909 Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Anglican Communion Anglican Communion Missionaries Dakota Indians
Publisher: New York : Sturgis & Walton
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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a wellman, but as a convalescent, and further: *Imust admit that the work in South Dakota hasreached proportions which puts its proper over-sight and direction quite beyond my strength.Of course, relief must be had for me, and, whatis more important, for this Missionary District.Of what nature that relief shall be, it is the pre-rogative of the House of Bishops to determine.From South Dakota he wrote to his sister at thistime: I am standing being in harness betterthan I had dared to expect, and I am behavingas well as I can in the matter of saving myself.The General Convention met in Boston, inOctober. There was no canonical provision forthe appointment of a coadjutor to a MissionaryBishop. But when Bishop Hares needs weremade known a new law designed to meet them—and them only—^was passed, and in the follow-ing June, the Rev. Frederick Foote Johnson,general missionary of Western Massachusetts,was chosen Bishop Assistant to the Bishop ofSouth Dakota. The relief thus accorded came
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BISHOP TUTTLE. BISHOP JOHNSON AND BISHOP HARE.IN THE CHAPEL OF ALL SAINTS SCHOOL TO THE LAST 898 in the most acceptable form it could have taken.The sympathy and harmony in which theyounger and the older Bishop worked togetherfound expression in many ways. In privateand in public, Bishop Hare summed up his per-sonal feehngs concerning Bishop Johnson in thewords: I have found a man like-minded whowill naturally care for your state. Writing tohis sister, soon after the coming of his assistant,he expressed himself more intimately: Per-haps I have not said it, but Bishop J. proves allthat I could wish, both personally and officially.The duties assigned to the younger man ofgreater physical strength were performed so wellthat Bishop Hare could devote himself all themore effectively to those which he retained. Thewonder is that he could retain and perform somany through the few remaining years of phys-ical torture. Even before Bishop Johnson could first joinhim in South Dakota, he was oblig

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