Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1870-07-20
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Autumn LeaveS-NO. 6.

Some time in December, 1925, | looked
upon the hill city of Knoxville, East Ten
nessee, for the first time. Then and there,
| formed a limited acquaintance with DIR.
James King and Mr. Hiram Barry, en-
gagged in publishing a newspaper. The
former has passed away several years since.
The latter survives, an aged and feeble
man, but one of Gods noblest worlle-an
honest man. He and the writer have
known only one generation of men-no
more; we never shall But if there is vir-
tue in the attribute of honesty, IA founda-
ton is laid upon which an edifice of large
moral dimensions may be created to our
memory in the affections of our surviving
children, when we shall he inmates of that
house not made with hands, and citizens
of that city which hath foundations, whose
builder is God.
| travelled the year of my transfer on the
Little River Circuit, in which | now live.
Conference was held that fall (lS26) at Alb
ingdon, Va. My labors the ensuing Con-
ference year were on the Wytheville Cir
cult, and IL very laborious wear il was But
under God, religion triumphed at Wythe-
vile, which had been a stronghold of inf
! deity for years past that period. | built
! the first Methodist church-house erected
! in that place for methodist worship, ia
| cob Fisher, mechanic.
| There were some sixty accessions to the
church in Wythville that year. Infidelity
and its leaders there were crushed and
victory ever since has preched upon the
| standard of christianity. The writer was
the first Methodist minister invited to his
table by the chief of infidel sentiments
| there, where / met with u most cordial
| receptin and princely entertainment
General had recently been elected to the
| United States Congress, and by accompa-
| nying us to our rather rude but new
church, awakened attention of many to
| his movement on that occasion, who said
their leader had gone into captivity by the
hosts of God That was proud day for
MethOdism in the aristocratic town of
| Wytheville. A minister of some emf
hence, now in that place / believe, some
years since. formed matrimonial alliance
with widowed daughter of mine host.
In the fall of that year, 1927, the General
attended our camp-meeting at Cripple
| Creek Camp-ground. The sainted and
| lamented Rev. s. Patton was Presiding
Elder that year. He was one of Gods
noblemen-an honest man and christian
of patient spirit, long suffering and pro-
verbally meek, who finished, | think, his
labors on earth in 1854, in the city of
Knoxville, Tenn. That fall, in NOvem-
Der, 1927, my relation, from Il state of single
alliance with Mrs. +. q. D, relict
of Mr. j. D., Il popular Methodist
minister who was taken from the evils to
come, BY wise and benifcent PrOvi-
dence. who governs all things after the
council of His own will TO the writer,
this change of relation was the most unfor-
tunate occurrance in his history, as it was
the beginning of personal SORROWS which
ran through cycle of some several years.
Respect for ashes mingled with the COM
mon dement's of the tomb, admonish
silence and controls our pen on this feature
| of our "reminiscences. FORESTER.