Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1919 — INDIAN WARS ECHO IN CHURCH DRIVE [ARTICLE]

INDIAN WARS ECHO IN CHURCH DRIVE

AGED BISHOP D. S. TUTTLE BRINGS SPIRIT OF FRONTIER TO MODERN BATTLE. Ab echo of the Indian wars of ths late sixties, brought to date through the lessons of modern war organization In Europe, has been Injected Into nation-wide campaign ofthe Episcopal l church by the Rt. Rev. Daniel Sylvester Tuttle, D. D., LL.D., bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Missouri, who at the age of eighty-two years Is taking dr leading part in the great campaign. Adventures of the. “Buffalo Bill” type filled the early life of this benign octogenarian who rode, rifle In band, through Ind la n- Infested westers plains. —— — Battled for Church. Doctor Tuttle's home Is now’ In St Louis. He Is senior bishop of the Episcopal church. As a circuit-rider in the days of the fighting West when crossing the plains was a continuous battle, his adventures matched the fictitious ones of modern film favorite*. The present patriarch of America braved the terrors of the plain" in 18S7, riding with rifle ready, to carry the message of hope to the settlers of Montana, Utah and Idaho. When Deer Lodge, Mont., was being consumed by fire, he poured buckets of water upon a building in which w»b stored enough powder to blow up the town, and thus saved Deer Lodge. For 19 years he struggled against the doctrines of Mormonism in Utah, and yet whan ha left Salt Lake City, he carrled away the respect of the Mormons because he was a fair, though uncompromising, fighter. _ An Athlets at E i q hty-Two. He Is eighty two years old. six feet tall, still at athlete, and has been a bishop since his thirtieth birthday, having been elected before he was old enough to take office. Bisbop Tuttle was elected honorary chairman of the national committee projecting the Episcopal church's na-tion-wide campaign now in progress. He called the membership to rally in the following words: "Summon the men. Call the women. Forget not the children. Discipline the recruits. Furnish the munitions and supplies."