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Franklin Spencer Spalding

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Oct 6, 2026

Bread in the Wilderness

Bread in the Wilderness

Sermon for the Feast of John Paul Jones, Bishop

Oct 6 · 24 Mentions

Steven SmithGUEST
0:56
Please be seated.
Steven SmithGUEST
1:02
In December 1914, in this cathedral, a 34-year-old priest named Paul Jones knelt here to be consecrated as the fourth Bishop of Utah.
Steven SmithGUEST
1:19
Today, we celebrate Saint Paul Jones on the 85th memorial of his death in 1941.
Steven SmithGUEST
1:30
Reverend Jones was from the East, and he probably hadn't planned on Utah at all.
Steven SmithGUEST
1:47
He was raised in Pennsylvania, graduated from Yale, and then studied at the Episcopal Seminary in Cambridge.
Steven SmithGUEST
1:57
He was groomed for a comfortable Eastern parish, which his father, who was a priest and rector, had already lined up for him once he graduated from seminary.
Steven SmithGUEST
2:10
But in Cambridge, the young Paul Jones heard the third Bishop of Utah, Franklin Spalding, speak about the need for priests and missionaries in the Wild West of Utah.
Steven SmithGUEST
2:28
He made an appeal to the men at that seminary to come and work with the people in Utah.

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