Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-05-23
PERSONAL.

REV. DIR, GRAHAM, OF Christ church
Nashville, and Bishop Quintsrd, are il
the city.
Mr.. NJ. J. O'BRIEN, general superin
tendent OF the Southern Express com.
pany is in the city.
Mr.. JAMES WALLACE and Mr.. Keep,
OF New York, purchasers Of the water
works, are still in the city.
Hon. w. H. TURLEY, mem Der OF the
State senate from Knox county, was in
the city yesterday, en- route to his plan
tatiOn in Bolivar county, Mississippi.
w. a. GOODWIN, ESQ, returned to
the city yesterday from Bolivar, Ten
nessee, where he attended the Episcopal
convention as q delegate from Calvary
church.
Rev. MR.. GRAHAM, Of Nashville,
will preach this morning at Calvary
church. In the evening the rite Of con-
firmation will be administered by the
bishop OF the diocese.
WE learn that Mr.. B. H. Carbery,
sr., member Of the well known and pop
ular firm of Carbery d Casey, Front
street, leaves this morning for Europe.
We join the legion OF friends in wishing
him bon UOyGge.
We regret 20 learn Of the recent death
OF HOratIo , .; In New York city.
The deceased was the son Of General
Lloyd Tilghman, brave officer of the
Confederate army, who fell during the
late war.
Mr.. A. Fl. GROTE, of New York, az
ter pleasant sojOurn Of few days in
our city, left yesterday for home. We
hope he will again visit Memphis very
soon and remain some time among his
many friends here.
A WRITER in the Religious Herald,
published at Richmond, thus very Justly
deals with one of our leading Baptist
ministers: "DO you know Rev. Sylvia
nus Landrum, d. D., pastor of the Cen
tral Baptist church at Memphis? If not,
you have pleasure in store for you.
During the short time he has been with
us, he has attained an enviable position
IN the denomination, ,as an able preacher, |
and man OF great purposes and holy |
desires. He possesses deep hold upon |
the affections of the people, on account |
Of his rare social qualities, his genial |
and his ardent devotion to the |
cause of Christ. Brother Landrum is
eminently pjOuS man. Alas!
this cannot be said Of all |
ministers. Too many Of US,
because we are used to the handling, |
treat sacred things with fearful levity, |
thus impairing our influence, emascu-
ating our spiritual integrity, and, in
stead of winning souls, driving them
away from the cross. Brother Ism
irum's piety is of that simple, unObtru-
,ive kind, that makes itself felt by its
rather than by any prOtesta-
ion. lie is pastor in the true sense of
he word, seeking to know the wants
and desires of his people, and faithfully
unto them the bread of life.
He was born in OglethOrpe county, Ga,
II 1920, his parents being from Orange
county, Virginia. He was baptized in
1887, graduated at Mercer university in
-S46, was ordained the same year, and in
he ensuing year assumed the pastoral
'are OF the churches at Lexington and
Athens, Georgia. At both of these
places he was greatly successful, the
membership nearly doubling itself He
assumed the care Of the church at Ma
,on in lS49, and was pastor in that city
or ten years, accepting the care of the
church at Savannah in 1859. His work
n that city is well known. He re-
III AOo hau uaIluS luS WdT, III
aithful discharge Of his duties, not even
a single Sabbath, and was
at his post by General Sher-
mans army. 1t is probable that the
savannah church was the only one.
'long the coast from Baltimore to Gal
7eston, that did not suspend for time
Turing that terrible period. He became
pastor OF the Central church at Mem.
Dhis in 1871, and has been greatly
uccessful, receiving sixty-one by bap-
ism last year. The church was heavily
n debt, and otherwise embarrassed, hav-
ng an unfinished house on their hands.
The debt has been paid, the house
will soon be finished and when finished,
will be the handsomest in the city. In
$40, he received the decree Of doctor of :
iVinity from Georgetown college, Ken
ucky, and also from the Columbia uni
-ersity at Washington. Brother Lam :
rum commenced the ministry in feeble I
ealth, but this so constantly improved s
hat he has not missed ten Sabbaths in +
years from eickness; and, I
uring all this time, there has not been ,
week that he was not pastor of some I
hurch. He is a public-spirited man,
ttending our great denOminational !
atherings, and exercising a saIutary in g
uence upon these bodies. His oldest
on has recently graduated at Brown !
and is the pastor at Shreve-
Ort, louisiana