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274 spiritual work; a free reading room for intellectual needs; a lodging house where three hundred men lodged each night; and a coffee house in which on an average six or eight hundred meals were given every day. While doing this work, he was actively engaged in opposing Tammany Hall; and he suffered many inconveniences on account of this opposition. He was for years a member of the Civil Service committee in New York. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Union college, in 1882, and from Princeton in 1896; and that of LL.D. from Columbia college in 1897. He is the author of "Christ and His Church" (1878); "Life Lessons of the Prayer Book" (1890); "A Creedless Gospel and the Gospel Creed" (1894); "New Testament Churchmanship" (1899); "The Calling of the Christian" and "Christ's Sacrament of Fellowship" (1902); "The Building of a Cathedral " (1901).

In founding the new diocese of Washington, Bishop Satterlee's aim has been to emphasize the separation of the church from the state, not merely for the sake of the state, but for the sake of the freedom of the church, and in order that she may deliver her Gospel message fearlessly, untrammeled by any secular or political influences. The cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul was founded several years before he came to the diocese. In giving his efforts to this work, while he has labored to secure the land and bring to the cathedral foundation material resources, his first aim has been to create and set in motion the spiritual work of the cathedral. Bishop Satterlee started regular open air services on the cathedral grounds for the preaching of the gospel; built an altar of stones from Jerusalem for the administration of the Holy Communion, and erected a baptismal font, paved with stones from the River Jordan and large enough for immersion, for baptism.

Aided by Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst and the late Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, the educational work of the cathedral is provided for in the foundation of a school for girls and a school for boys.

Bishop Satterlee has always taken a great interest in young people, and has had between one and two hundred young men under his charge while they have been preparing for the life of missionaries and clergymen.

The one ruling thought which he has always presented to them is "that the chief cause of failure in life is want of faith in Christ and Christ's direction; that Christ who came to this world from the out-