_, and in one
instance it is added in parenthesis, "not Iscariot." St. Jude was
an Apostle of our Lord and wrote the Epistle which bears his name.
He is sometimes called the Jeremiah of the New Testament, as he
wrote to the Church in "solemn and rugged language of present perils
and coming storms." The object of his Epistle is to contend
earnestly for pure Christian doctrine, and it is he who has given
us that stirring text which is adopted as a motto by all true and
loyal Churchmen, viz.: "that ye should earnestly contend for the
Faith which was once delivered to the Saints." He is said to have
been married and to have left descendants who were summoned before
the Emperor Domitian as confessors for Christ's sake. St. Jude is
commemorated on the double Festival of St. Simon and St. Jude,
observed on October 28th. It may be that the union of these two
names is intended to be an illustration of that unity of the Faith
for which the Epistle of St. Jude so strongly contends, as these
two Apostles ministered and suffered together, (See SIMON, ST.) The
Collect {158} for the Day embodies this idea. In ecclesiastical art
St. Jude is variously represented, as having a boat in his hand; a
boat hook; a carpenter's square; a ship with sails in his hand;
carrying loaves or a fish; with a club; with an inverted cross; with
a medallion of our Saviour on his breast or in his hand; with a
halbert; as a child with a boat in his hand.

Jurisdiction, Episcopal.--By this term is meant the sphere of a
Bishop's rule or ministration. This is defined in Article 4 of the
Constitution adopted by the General Convention which provides, "and
every Bishop of this Church shall confine the exercise of his
Episcopal Office to _his proper Diocese_, unless requested to
ordain, or confirm, or perform any other act of the Episcopal Office
in another Diocese by the Ecclesiastical Authority thereof."

Jurisdiction, Missionary.--A portion of a State or Territory set
apart for the missionary work of the American Church, to the
oversight of which a Missionary Bishop has been appointed, is so
called. The term Missionary Jurisdiction is also applied to the
foreign field where a Missionary Bishop has been appointed to the
exercise of Episcopal functions in any missionary station which the
House of Bishops with the concurrence of the House of Deputies may
have designated.

Jurisdiction, Resignation of.--Sometimes it happens that a Bishop
from old age, or sickne