Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-12-21
OUR CHURCHES.
No. VII.

We have extended the history OF the
Nashville churches, which has been pub
lished in the Sunday issues of the UNION
AND AMERICAN to embrace those OF
Edgetield. After McKendree there is no
society of the Tennessee Conference Meth
odist Episcopal Church South, better known
to our readers than
TULIP STREET CHURCH, EDGEFIELD.
1t was the 18th of June, 1859, that Thos.
Dunlap, Robt. p. Estes, John o. Wright
Geo. Stubs, John I. Hill, Henry n. Sny-
der, lrby Morgan, Ferguson Flemniing and
Henry s. Peach, Trustees, purchased 100
feet of ground on Russell running back to-
ward Fatherland street ia feet to an alley,
on which to erect meeting house for the
Methodist Episcopal Church South. Tile
purchase embraced lots Nos. IA and - in
Zollicoffer addition, and cost 81, 425 or S24.
% per foot. The lots were first sold to
Jas Davis and by him conveyed to the THUS
tees.
A building committee of five, consisting,
we are told, Of John L. Hill, Thos. j..
Bransford, Irby Morgan, II. II. Snyder and
the Rev. VIM. Burr, commenced with very
inadequate means the present building,
which, however, was not finished up stairs
or above until after the four years war be-
tween the States, when it was completed
during the pastorate of the Rev. DR.. r. A.
Young in 1866.
The value of the property was reported
to the. last annual Conference to be 1900,
and is insured for one-half of that amount.
The following record will show the dates
and the names of pastors stationed there:
1S59-60, Rev. VIM. Burr.
1S60-61, Rev. VIM. p. Owen.
1S61-62, Rev. Jas. III. Gardner,appOinted
but never took charge, owing to the war
just then commencing.
1S62-63, 1S63-64, 1896, Pulpit filed
by Rev. DIR. s. D. Baldwin and others until
close Of the war, when the first annual Con-
ference was held there.
1S65-66, Rev. DR.. Robt. A. Young.
1S66-67, Rev. j. d. Barbee.
1S67-68, 1860, Rev. Dr. Jno. W. Han
ner.
1S69-70, Rev. DR.. D. G. Kelley.
1S70-71, 1S71-72, 1872-73, 1S73-74, Rev.
Robt. X. Brown.
1t will be seen that the pastor now in
charge, the Rev. r. K. Brown, is the first
TO be retained until the limit of four years
the itinerant feature of the Methodist
discipline forbidding the stay of pastor at
any station for a longer period than four
consecutive years. He is comparatively a
young minister-the junior of his prede-
cessor. Previous to the last annual Con-
ference, he had added 240 to the member
ship of his charge, which was an average
of so members annually for three years.
lie is devoted pastor, of single purpose
and one great Notwithstanding and sensi-
tive, but intleXibly bent on the discharge Of
duty. His convictions are that the Sunday
school is not an independent order to do as
it pleaseS, but that it and the choir and all
the auxiliary organizations should be at all
times subject TO the discipline of the church,
and that the pastor is chief in control.
The effort he has made to build up that
church on pure and enduring basis, makes
his acts a part of the history of that station,
and it is doubtful if any one will ever fill
the pastors position more acceptably for
four years than he has done.
What he has done has been from sense
Of duty, and if commended publicly Or
privately it will be the spontaneous tribute
to merit and not at his bidding nor with
his knowledge or consent.
The probabilities are that the present
church ediice win in few years become
too small for the increasing membership
and growth of Edgetield, and that it will
have to be abandoned for more comm0di-
Gus and convenient one further out ON Rus
sell or some adjoining street. 1t has
membership of 800, and Sunday-schOol of
$50 members. Maj. Z. p Weakley is
Superintendent of the Sunday-school. The
officials of the church consist of board of
twelve Stewards, and board of nine Trus
tees.
BOARD OF STEWARDS.
John 5. BransfOrd, Chairman.
William A. Benson, Treasurer.
William II. Morrow, Secretary.
7. p. Weakley, Edward Gillian, Andrew
Allison, A. l.. Minis, w. I. Gates, J. II.
Dodd, James w. McFerrin, H. B. Plum
mer, Watson NJ. Cook.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Geo. j. Stubberfield, Chairman; j. II.
DOdd, Treasurer; John S. BranSf0rd, Sec
rotary; w. j. Arlington, G. L. Howerton,
Ii. n. Snyder, II. S. Peach. ". L. Gates.
The vacancy occasioned by the recent
death of Geo. w. Buck, the youngest MEM
her, has not yet been filled.
The fifty foot lot fronting on Russell
street, adjoining Col. II. L. Jones, was pur-
chased of him for parsonage. 1t has been
inclOsed, and shade trees planted within
and on the pavement in front, and the next
step, though it may be delayed by the
financial pressure now existing, will be the
erection Of a residence for the pastor.