The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-06-03
Columbia District Conference

Columbia District Conference.
1t was our pleasure to attend the late
session OF this body held at Olivet.
NEAR reynolds StatiOn) which by the
way, Is one of the most beautiful coun-
try churches in all these regions.
rms convocation of Methodist people
embraced the various circuits and
stations within the ecclesiastical iuris-
diction of the Rev. Wellborn Mooney.
Ihis annual coming Together of minis
tiers and laymen has been instituted
within the past decade, and is a kind of
intermediate church council between
she Quarterly and the Annual Confer
ence of the Methodist Church.
The interest OF the occasion was at
tested by the daily and nightly attend
ance OF overlooking congregations.
Bishop Enoch NJ Marvin of st. Louis,
presided over the deliberations. We
may best characterize him by saying
that he is a most labOrious, seIf-sacrific-
ing minister of the Gospel. Some 20 years
since in the city OF st. Louis, Bishop
Marvin, then comparatively young
man, proved himself no ordinary dia-
lectician, in very protracted contrO-
versy with Bishop Bronson of the
Catholic Church. He has read much,
thought much, is a scholarly divine,
cultivated and disciplined by a severe
mental training, and all chastened by
grace divine into the finely rounded
proportions Of minister of Christ.
Beside distinguished visitors from
Nashville and other poiI.t and beside
the crowds from the surrounding
neighborhood, there were present as
official members, some 50 in number
clerical and lay Representatives, of Elder
| Moneys district. Rev. Mr.. Mooney
will pardon the suggestion here made
that so large an auxiliary force as fol-
low his skilful leading would seem TO en-
title him to SacerdOtal robes. The prop
er handling of this extensive body of
efficient cO-laborers necessitates on his
part consummate discretion, intelligent
forecast, and a high degree eff admins
tratiye ability, all of which we think
he possesses.
The tabulated reports from the sew
eral charges of Columbia District dis
closed some points of great interest to
the church. The rolls of the district,
made of Giles and part of MauTy, eX-
hibited the large aggregate of 4, 400 mem
| bers, served by some II or IA regular
| pastors and many active local preach
ers. And throughout the district,
Notwithstanding the continued cry of
! hard times, these faithful men are
| lengthening the cords and strength
ening the stakes of Zion. Church
edifices are being built, parsonages
erected and congregations organized
'in the regions beyond" Apropos
of this there is progressing to COM
pletiOn at OliveJ a handsome parsonage
under the auspices of that prince of lib
eral laymen, ID. T Reynolds, aided by
! the generous BuforGs, and other large
hearted citizens of the neighborhOC d .
In this connection we mention that
there was IA noticeable void, and a va
cant seat i'm all the business sessions of
the Conference, caused by the neces-
sary absence of one of the pillars of
that church, in deep bodily affiiction,
| Oscar A bernathy.
The readers of the CITIZEN need not be
told that the Mount Olivet people are
a choice community. II we were their
preacher and suited them, as the pres
ent model pastor cOrfessedly does, we
should be tempted to move partial alb
rogatiOn of the rule which restricts the
! pastOrate to no longer term than con-
secutive years at the the same place.
Why, dear reader, to say nothing of
the higher enjOyments of this feast
of tabeTnacles at Olivet - enjoy
ments, moral, social and intellectual,
the gastronOmic DELEGATIONS of the oc-
/ CdSlOu were dDSOiuIeIy ali JudJ IuO ulOSl
gustful epicure could ask. What must
they have been to hungry tOwnsman,
whose usual delicacies are beef and
| bread for breakfast, bread and beef for
dinner, and both beef and bread, and
bread and beef, for supper, peradven-
ture. We un lertake to say, in all Sc
robustness, that on Friday and Saturday
of the feast, the only times we were
present, the bountiful display of good
things, rich and rare, made us forget
| for the while the depleted shelves of the
larder cleft behind u.s." The news o.
these good things reached Pulaski OF
Saturday evening, and on Sunday morn
ing, such an hegira of hungry men anC
boys as thronged the highway TO the
doomed Olivet, has not been paralleleC
during the present series of short crops
Fortunately for Olivet, Culleoka is to bt
the victim of the next chord" (e) of for
ayers, but doubtless, her "cOm (m)is
sary' will be equal to the emergency.