Chapter II: Preface: vii

CHAPTER

I YOUTH AND MANHOOD 1

II DEACON AND PRIEST 18

III SAINT PETER'S PARISH 27

IV ELECTION TO THE EPISCOPATE 46

V FIRST YEARS IN THE EPISCOPACY 55

VI MAN AND BISHOP 77

VII HISTORIAN 88

VIII WORK AMONG THE COLORED PEOPLE 99

IX DEVELOPMENT AND CONCLUSIONS OF THE BISHOP'S WORK 109

NOTES 127

PUBLISHED WRITINGS OF JOSEPH BLOUNT CHESHIRE 131

INDEX 135