Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-04-15
RELIGIOUS RESTORATION.
A New England Clergy mans Pilgrimage
Through fhe soutaern States.

Letter OF Rev. !. L. Roy, 20 n. Y. independently
/ see that the American Home Mis-
sionary Society is following up the track
of my pilgrimage through the South,
with permanent occupation. At Knox
vile, Tennessee, Rev. I. d. p. Stone has
been commissioned. AT Chattanooga
that strategic and historic locality, that
point where the railways of the great
South converge from the four quarters
that place Of manuf8ctures-the Rev. j..
II. Manning has been stationed. He is
getting his work well i'm hand and under
way, having the generous cooperation Of
the post chaplain, Rev. T. p. Van Horne.
As this is 10 be one of the permanently
occupied forts, it must be a place Of
safety a. well as Of interest. AT Mem
phis, Rev. Il. T.. Bliss new church is
under way, and is TO be completed by the
first Of May-oue of the first fruits OF
the fund Of Forelather's Day. At
Helena, the friends have raised $500
for q minister, and the society is
about sending him along, agreeing TO
supplement the salary; while the Con-
gregatonal Union IS negotiating for
church site / see by the New Orleans
TTa1cs that on the fourth Of March Rev.
Wm. T. Eustis, Of New Haven, COM
meuced service, under the auspices Of the
society, in the Second Presbyterian
church, bought anu beautifully fitted up
jy the aid OF the Congregational Union,
FOR the First Congregational church OF
that city. The Site is central and fitting
i'm every way. While / was there the
corporate society was organized, with
twenty-seveu male members, among
them some of the oldest aud best known
citizens. There is a clear demand for
Jhis church; its success, with fair adj
miuistratiou and the blessing of God,
must be a certainty. In that city Of two
hundred thousand souls, with direct COM
munic8tion with the North 10y the great
river and the ocean, there must alwavs
be a large representation Of tie Congre-
gatiouai material. To Savannah, that
beautiful "Forest City, the society has
sent Rev. Henry y. Grant, Of East Ca
naa;., Con-, a son OF DR.. Grant, formerly
a missionary Of the a. b. c. +. n. among
the HISTORIANS, While 1 was there
thirty business men put their names
10 paper pledging to become members
Of corporate society, and by their in
fluence and substance TO aid in It's sup
port. Hesloes these, twenty more gave
verbal promise of the same. II was an
interesting fact that of these tYo-thirds
were eX-0fiicers Of the Union army set
tied there iu business church militant
indeed they will make. OF these there
were enough to form the nucleus of a
church. A pleasant aud convenient hall
was engaged, and church viii soon be
provided by the assistance Of the Con-
cregational Union. Speaking with Rev.
John Pierpont, who is now serving the
Government Ia an important position at
Washington, of my calling at Savannah,
he was reminded of a visit he made some
years ago in that city, when ais son was
pastor OF the UEitsrian church there IL
having gone cut that the father was 20
preach for the son, toward the end OF the
week influential members waited upon
the pastor and told him that IL would not
10 70 allow that abolitiOnist TO preach.
50 in the strait OF the young man for
a sermon the Old man proposed to lend
him one. Twas done; and, the people
being highly pleased with It, the pastor
had the pleasure Of telling them that it
was his fathers sermon! AtCharleston.
the old "Circular Church" which was
organized in 1880 by English Dissenters,
which has ever held a leading position
i'm the city, bot whose house Of worship,
that cost S74, 600, was burned in the great
fire Of 1852, IS now much reduced Ia
means and membership. When l was
there il was having no public worship,
except that the GCiofed portion Of its
members We're holding regular service in
a mission chapel built by the church sew
eral years before. Tine deacons who
were men OF eandor and probity, assured
me that no Northern man would again
be acceptable to them. They complained
of the last pastor, who at their cOmmun-
ion table even had expressed such SYM
pathv with the South and its Institutions
making it q mistake thai he had been
horn North that they had cautioned him,
saving that they only wanted talk Of
RELIGION at the sacramento board,
and who bad now gone back publicly to
b.srafe the south. At New Bern, Rev.
a Ellsworth, who went out under
the augpices Of the A. III. Nj. s., 10 now
reioicinv i'm chapel lifted up In one OF
t6e Qovernment buildings, purchased
for that purpose. The printed "consti-
tuition and bylaws" OF this society,
drawn un hv the Rev. Capt. Horace
James, IS model Of its kind. AT Rich
mond, twenty-five men signed E pledge
that they would giYa support TO Con-
gregauonal Church IN that city. Some
OF these were old and influential citizens.
The society has been diligently searching
for the man that is gsaa enough TO occu-
py that post, and hopes soon to have
him on the ground. Richmond was APP
propriately the head and the heart Of
the rebeiiioni it IS now the centre Of in
hpenee in the South, Under the reign
Of freedom, with It's commerce by rail-
way, by canal across the
State westward by the LANES
and the ocean, with It's man
uiaoturing powers on the Falls Of
the James, and with it fine location
this city must become one Of great i'm,