(from the
Episcopal Calendar--a 1994 addition)
Paul Jones was
born in Pennsylvania in 1880. He attended Yale
University and
the Episcopal Divinity School 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.
