Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-28
DIR, COrlew and the Cedar Hill Camp
Meeting.

When the GAINESVILLE District
Conferencerelegated to the Presiding
Elder. pastor and campers the ques-
ton of camp-meeting or no camp
meeting this year, Bro. Goodloe,s
resolution to attend to his own bust
ness would have been in order. In
deed it is a good resolution to form
and maintain at all times but DR..
Corlew thought otherwise, and pre-
coded the meeting Of the preachers
and campers with an able (?) article
of such marvellous literary and logI-
cal beft that he deemed it worthy
the columns of both the Springfield
Record and GAINESVILLE Tobacco
Leaf. An ordinary man would have
been content with one circulating
Medium. He discussed freely the
expense of camping though he has
never camped; but the expense OF
camping is 50 insignificant that he
will b lid and be ready for the next
camp-meeting-of course. But the
Doctor is a man of delicate feelings;
hear him: 81 would delicately in
dictate to the Methodist ministry
| that Christ met with opposition OF
the most powerful character while
uDon the earth" Marvellous man
of apostolic lore! How you shed
Iiobt upon our benighted visions.
I dub you president of the Eclesias-
ticaI Normal School for ClarksVIlle
District. He protests against any
ministerial interference on behalf OF
offenders. BLESSED are the merci-
full He grows exceedingly delicate
when scribbIing about the boarding
tent Hear him: "In other words
: one big greasy spot on the face o
the earth at which any - can lap.
t T suppose he must have been too
+ delicate to fill the blank. But To-
= his delicacy he might have inserted
: the names of DIR. McFerrin, Blshol
7 Kepner. Bro. Plummer or the name
9 of many other elegant and retine'
d ministers who have patronlze'
n and heartily endorsed them. ID
e Dublished twelve names of person
y whom he represented as being in ia
If vor of camping. These twelve rel
e resent the proprietorship Of fou
:, camps. and one of the proprietor
y mentioned is opposed to camplh
n This wear. He denies the right
II the P. e. and pastor to estimate tn
+ amount of good accomplished b
At Communicating. That is delicat
)r now, isn'tit? Bro. Burr visits ever
$ pastoral charge in the district ever
5 three months. Bro. Turner paste
n ates in the practice Of ten or lively
II musicians, DR.. CorIeW being one
II fine number. As a matter OF cour
III they have no right in the premise
Il unIess it be to stand at his door WI
their hats under their arms al
learn of the amount Of good accoI
plished by the camp-meeting. b
he is steadfast; hear him: al
opposition on the part Of ministe
indicates fickleness." OF course
l., will enlarge upon this subject in
NC first lecture before his class Of the
Dc Iogues in his Normal School.
n~ 1t was this letter of DIR. CorleV
%" in the Tobacco Leaf of May 81, a
" in the Springfield Record as 50
thereafter as he could get it PIT
~ ished. that took the camp-meeti
IN : out of the mouths Of the preach
- and campers and put it into I
mouths of the people. Their lnq
ries on the subject suggested to
Ger Ger the paragraph that appeared o'
,erX my SIGNATURE a week or two a
rain which DIR. Corlew has seen pro-
ness to call "an unmerciful attack VI
iT Pa- bisDositiOn." Ifthere was anythl
,nees stmmercifuPj in it it must ht
IAN been that he was not brought m
zen, prominently to the surface, for L
tb bet eure therewas nothing 'Unmerclt
y be in the language | used. lie trle'
any make me appear inconsistent
land cause / said that the campers canl
a aghi in good faith, and Afterwards
may f9g that they camped repeatedly agai
far their Judgment. Ordinary men '
way read my letter understood me
BIa qliS- mean that the campers built u
i tiing camps in good faith, believing
e CO the pastoral charges would go he
may may iIv into the work and sustain tn
4 the hut finding that their faith was
n IL the well founded they camped I'M