Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-10-06
FROM HENDERSON, KY.

IN the chair, David Morton elected
secretary. This Conference is com
posed of one hundred and twenty
seven members, and several candi
dates will knock for admittance dur
ing its present session. 1t has ter
districts and one hundred and sever
pastoral charges. Nine of its pastor'
and Presiding Elders received one
thousand dollars and upward last
Conference year twenty-five re-
ceived six hundred dollars or more
siXty-nine received less than five
hundred dollars forty-one received
less than three hundred dollars
thirty received less than two hun
dred; thirteen received less than
one hundred; one received twenty
dollars and twenty-five cents. The
average salary is four hundred and
fifty dollars, sixty-one and a halt
cents. The Conference lost only one
of its members during the present
year-Dr. j. H. Linn, P. E. of Lou
isville District. DIR. Linn was a
gifted and honored Methodist
preacher, and died at his post.
Bishop Hubbard Hinde Kavan-
augh was a member of the Kentucky
Conference at the time of his cleo
ton to the episcopacy. Let me
sketch him as he appears before me
on the rostrum and in the chair.
He looks to be about seventy-fve
years of age and well preserved.
His hair is thick and stands on end
'like quilts upon the fretful pOrcu-
pine ;" yet the Bishop is not fretful.
His brow is low and Lodges well a
keen blue eye; his mouth is large
and his lips come together with a
terrible positiveness his shoulders
are broad and square and he would
have borne an Egyptian bod with
as much christian courage as Poly
carp exhibited in the flames of mar
tyrdOm his fore front is rOtund, yet
his step is quick and firm; he is
about five feet eight inches high and
weighs about two hundred and forty
avoirdupois, though his moralweight
far exceeds this. When he speaks he
says something. He articulates dis
tinctly, never telescopes his words
or leaps his periods. When he
breaches the power of God falls up
on him, and the heavenly treasure
in that earthly vessel burns to the
consumption of episcopal stiffness
and book trammeled utterance. He
rivets your mind, warns your heart,
enthuses your soul, he pours the
gospel into your almost bursting
heart like holy wine and you see
naught else than Christ, Kavanaugh
and congregation.
The Conference was addressed by
DIR. RedfOrd in the interest of the
Publishing House, and informed by
him that there was a balance of near
four hundred dollars on the cali
made upon them last Spring for
three thousand dollars. A collection
was taken upon the spot and the
amount raised in a few minutes.
The Conference then passed strong
resolutions endorsing his admins
tratiOn of the affairs of Publishing
House.
The announcement of the death
of Rev. James A. Duncan, d. D.,
president of Randolph Macon Col
lege, Va, brought sorrow to many
hearts. DIR. Duncan was rare man.
| remember him as he stood before
the General Conference in Library
Hall, Louisville KY, in May, 1874
he was in his prime. The question
of electing another Bishop was agi-
tated in the minds of the delegates
to the General Conference, and all
eyes were turned to the distin-
guished divine of the Old Dominion.
/ verify believe he would have been
almost unanimously elected on the
first ballot. But this is another one
of the inscrutible DEGREES of that God
who founded and loves His Church.
Through the kindness of my good
friend Joseph F. Redford am most
happily hOnaed in one of the sweet
est Presbyterian families in Ken
lucky. Mine host, Campbell H.
johnson, is one of the most frater-
nal, cOmpaniOnable and knightly
spirits that l have ever known.
Down town he is leading and sue
cessful druggist; at nome he is
married, happy and most genial
man; along the street, and in fact
everywhere, he is bright and zeal
Gus Mason. He is Deputy Grand
Master Of the Grand Lodge of Ken
lucky and will, in my opinion, sue
coed the present Grand Master. But
the most attractive portion of this
family is the group of sweet little
children whom | have already
learned to love. l have Rev. H. A.
NJ. Henderson, d. D., for my room
mate, and right glad am 1. DIR.
Henderson is a Methodist preacher
and a member Of the Kentucky Con-
ference. He is superintendent of
public instruction and editor and
proprietor of the Kentucky Free
mason, a monthly journal devoted
to the interest of the craft. He is
also a contributor to Scribner's
Monthly. There now, your readers
who do not know DIR. H. have inn
agined him to be large, pOrtly man
large as Tom Beasley and hand
some as Sam. Caldwell, but they are
quite mistaken. He is a small,
erect, thin-visaged man, andreminds
me of the gifted and lamented Gill
Poindexter. Hei is bundle of brain
and nerve. Gifted in speech, and
gifted with his pen, he lives to pur-
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