B. Wyatt, who succeeded Mines in Trinity Church.  There is another also whose name is interwoven in the history of the Church’s mission in California.  It is that of Right Rev. William Ingraham Kip, D.D., LL.D., who was consecrated first Bishop of California, October 28, 1853.  Few, if any, of his day, were better fitted in scholarship, zeal, and other gifts and qualifications for his work than he, who is the famous author of “The Double Witness of the Church,” a book which has largely moulded the faith and practice of the churchmen of this generation.  Bishop Kip’s immortal work and Mines’s incomparable volume deserve to be ranked together, and though they differ widely in their manner of presenting the Old Faith, yet are they one in purpose.  Is it not a little singular, or is it not rather a happy coincidence, that the two foremost pioneers of the Church’s work in California should thus be the authors of works which are fit to take rank with the Apologiai of the early Christian writers or the “Apologia pro Ecclesia Anglicana” of Bishop Jewell?

Mines went to his rest in 1852, just in the prime of life, while Kip was spared to the Church until 1893, witnessing its great increase and reaping the abundant harvest from that early sowing.  The growth is seen to-day in the three dioceses in the State.  California, the parent diocese, with San Francisco as its chief city, Right Rev. William Ford Nichols, D.D., Bishop, has its eighty-one clergymen, with its eighty-six parishes and missions, and 8,585 communicants.  Los Angeles, Right Rev. Joseph Horsfall Johnson, D.D., Bishop, has its forty-nine clergy, with its fifty-six parishes and missions, and 4,577 communicants; while Sacramento, Right Rev. William Hall Moreland, D.D., Bishop, has thirty-four clergymen with seventy parishes and missions, and a list of 2,556 communicants.  All this, however, is not the full evidence of the strength of the Church on the Pacific coast.  There are the church schools and hospitals and other agencies for good, and there are the blessed influences which the Church, with her stability and order and work, is exerting among the people.  The results arising from the presence of the members of the General Convention will be gratifying.  Everywhere throughout the State of California this august body was hailed with a glad welcome, and San Francisco and her suburban towns did everything possible to make churchmen feel at home.  The attendance at services was large, and a deep and an abiding interest was enkindled.  It was said by the press and by leading citizens, that while many bodies had met in San Francisco from all parts of the land, none had ever surpassed in standard that of the Convention or even equalled it in dignity, scholarship, eloquence and other noted characteristics.  The newspapers of the city, such as the Daily Call and the Chronicle, gave up large space to the services, debates and other features of the Convention, and they were always complimentary