Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-20
TENNESSEE CONFERENCE.

of the Tennessee Conference is wind
ing to a close, and must say that ii
: has moved as sIuggishly as the old
Essex-''a monster of such fright
full mein" that she will long be re-
membered by Port Hudson boys.
Bishop Dogget is great man. AS
he appears before me take him to
be seventy years of age. He is a
Virginian, by birth natural and spir-
itual converted at camp-meeting
and reioices in the fact. When DR..
Bascom was elected Bishop in 1850,
Dogget was elected his successor in
the editorial chair of the Southern
Quarterly Review. He continued
in that responsible position seven
years, and was elected to the episco-
( pacy by the General Conference at
its meeting in New Orleans in 1860.
He is about six feet high and a fine
specimen of old Virginia gentility.
He can carry a pocket handkerchief
a month, keep his mouth clean with
it, and hardly soil or wrinkle it.
His preaching is unlike that of any
member of the Episcopal college.
He fingers around courts and kings
and dwells with singular grandeur
upon the triumph of the gospel
against odds. AS presiding officer
he is elegant, graceful, courteous.
He takes the the Conference upon
his heart and calls on heaven for
help. Will your readers be sur
prised, after such a description Civ
en-, that he was publicly calaed in
Tulip Street Church by the Tulip
Street Sunday-school ? DIR. Har-
grove presented the cane on behalf
of the Sunday-school, stating that it
was taken from one of the beams
that supported the great chandelier
in old McKendree Church, and ex-
pressing the hope that it would con-
tinue to support one Of the great
lights of the Church. The Bishop
was happy in his response. His al
fusion to the sainted McKendree
was thrilling. Then, growing witty,
he said: 81 receive this cane with
the hope that in my intercourse with
Methodist preachers I may never
have occasion to recall the apostolic !
injunction, beware of dOgs.'' DR..
Young, Sec'y, in reading his min
utes on the following morning no
ticed the Bishops Gaming, to which
he (the Bishop objected. DIR. Young
then told him that he need not be
sensitive on the subject, that he had
been handsomely caned the night |
previous by Elm Street Church;
whereupOn the Bishop said: "Well, |
well, l excuse you then, as it affords |
you an opportunity of announcing
to the Conference your own good |
fortune"
On Tuesday night we held me-
mortal service in Tulip Street |
Church. Our brother, A. F. Law
renee, had died during the year.
Bro. Lawrence had been twenty
nine years a member of the Confer
ence, filling various circuits, stations
and districts. He died at his post, |
during that long and severe snow |
spell last winter, and died happy. |
1t is a great consolation to the living
ministry to know that after the tolls |
and sacrifices Of their itinerant life |
their brethren die well. They carry |
nothing with them, and leave but |
little behind them that this world is
willing to count; yet an unblem-
ished ministerial character, cOnse-
Grated life and dying testimony to
the power of the Christian religion
cannot be lost upon the world. A
touching scene took place during
the service. One of the speakers,
filled with emotion, turned to the
little son of our deceased brother,
took him in his arms and prayed
most tervently that the mantle of
his sainted father might fall upon
him. A handsome collection for
the relief of Bro. Lawrence's family
succeeded the memorial service.
He was universally beloved Wher-
ever known, and in all the assem-
bly, where | was appointed to pass
the hat l do not remember a single
preacher who failed to contribute to
the fund. / pray God to spare me
until my loved ones become self
sustaining, for though the sum given
these claimants upon the Conference
fund is but pittance, yet there are
but few cases in which complaint is
not made either that the amount is
too much or too little. There are
Just few people in the Church, l
fear, who would wear a minister's
life away in trying to save their
families from sin, and then turn
their backs upon their widowed and
orphaned ones when they most sad
ly need their aid.
The Sunday-schoOl of Tulip Street
Church gave to the Conference a
hearty welcome on Tuesday night
before our convention. l must say
that / have never seen a more sue
cessfuI and efficient school. I am
persuaded that its superintendent,
w. II. Morrow, is one of the best in
the land. The school has two SUI
perintendents, three secretaries,
three librarians, one treasurer and
one historian. 1t has an aggregate
membership of three hundred and
ten. 1t passed a review before the
Conference that will be long re-
membered and highly appreciated
by us. At the close of these bril-
liant exercises, interspersed with
sweetest singing, there came re-
ounSt from tho school that the Com