Readings:
Malachi 2:17-3:5
Psalm 120
1 Peter 3:8-17
John 8:31-36Preface of a Saint (3)
PRAYER (traditional language):
Merciful God, who didst send thy beloved
Son to preach peace to those who are far off and to those who are near:
Raise up in this and every land witnesses, who, after the example of thy
servant Paul Jones, will stand firm in proclaiming the Gospel of the Prince
of Peace, our Savior Jesus Christ, who liveth and reigneth with thee and
the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
PRAYER (contemporary language):
Merciful God,you sent your beloved Son
to preach peace to those who are far off and to those who are near: Raise
up in this and every land witnesses, who, after the example of your
servant Paul Jones, will stand firm in proclaiming the Gospel of the Prince
of Peace, our Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you and the
Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.
Lessons revised at General Convnetion 2024.
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PAUL JONES
BISHOP (4 SEP 1941)
Paul
Jones was born in Pennsylvania in 1880. He attended Yale University and
the Episcopal Divinity School [then called the Episcopal Theological Seminary] in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was ordained
and served a mission church in Logan, Utah. In 1914 he was made Bishop
of the Missionary District of Utah.
He was an outspoken pacifist, and when World War I began in 1914, he spoke against it. As the war progressed, and when the United States entered the war in 1917, many Americans were vehement in holding that pursuing the war was a moral duty, and opposition to the war was immoral. In the spring of 1918, yielding to pressure, Bishop Jones resigned as Bishop of Utah. He continued to speak out within the Church as an advocate of peace and the Christian renunciation of war, until his death on 4 September 1941.