The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-05-22
Sketches of the Bishops of the
VI. a. Church. SOuiI.

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| Vi. r. Church. South.
The New York Christian Advocate, of
May 8, contains a good report of the
proceedings Of our General Conference,
including some admirable sketches of our
Bishops. We see the hand of a friendly
artist in these sketches, and would not
find it difficult to locate the anonymous
writer. Though a minister of the North
ern Church. and living within its borders,
if the fact were known, we doubt not his
residence would be found to be many
miles south of New York. We should
modify a sentence or wo,-BishOp Nc
Tyeire was never Presiding EIder-but
we print it as we find it in the New FORK
! Christian Advocate, as follows:
Bishop Robert Paine, ID. D., the senior
Bishop of the M. Il. Church, South,
although nearly four score, is still etfec-
tive He is native of North Carroll
ma, born Nov. II, 1899, but settled in
| his youth in Tennessee, and in 1918 was
admitted into the Tennessee Confer
ence, and soon took rank and filled prom
inent appointments until 1880, when he
was elected President of LaGrauge Col
! lege, Alabama, and remained seventeen
years, until his elevation to the Episco
pacy in 1916. He had been a member
! of the General Conferences OF the Metn-
odist Episcopal Church five times, until
| the separation in 1914, owing to the action
against Bishop Andrew. He was Chair
man of the Committee of Nine, whose
report forms memorable chapter IN
Methodist history He was member OF
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at the first General Conference he was
elected Bishop, and became the colleague
of Bishop Soule and Andrew, formerly
of the NJ. + Church The Bishop pre-
! sides with much dignity, is prompt, firm
and genial. A year or more ago his
health was feeble, but he now enjoys re-
markable health for his years, and pre-
sides at Annual and District Conferences.
He now resides at Aberdeen, Mississippi.
His Life and Times Of Bishop Mcken-
dree," though long delayed, has proved a
valuable contribution to Methodist histo-
ry. Rather full temperament, medium
! height, and not unlike, in some respects,
the quiet dignity and robust form of the
late Bishop Morris.
Bishop George Foster Pierce, son of
the venerable and distinguished Dir. Lo-
wick Pierce, is the next in seniority since
the death of Bishop Capers, Bascom,
! Early and Andrew. He was born in
J Greene County, Ga, Feb. 3, 1911, and
still resides near Sparta, In that State.
He designed in his youth 10 enter the
| profession of law, but turned from his
studies, and in his twentieth year was
admitted into the Georgia Conference.
Possessed of fine pulpit abilities, as well
as scholarly attainments, he commanded
prominence in South Carolina and Geor-
gia. He was prominent IN the General
Conference Of the NJ. h. Church in 1874
in sustaining the Southern view of the
question at issue He was, also, a member
of the Louisville Convention in 1915, and
of the General Conference of the Church.
South, 1886 In 1913, he was elected
President of Emory College and held
the position until 1854, when he was
elected Bishop. He is still royal preach
er, very refined in his manners scholarly,
and seemingly of aristocratic carriage /;
tall, without being portly, neat in person,
piercing eyes, and benign countenance.
The principal work from his pen is emit
tied "Incidents of Western Travel"
He has written much and well in the
Southern papers. His recent minstrA
tions and social intercourse at Newark,
n. j :, was an ovation.
Bishop Hubbard Hinde Kavanaugh,
d. D., was born in Clark county, KY,
il 1862, and in his hoYhOod he learned
the art of printing. Converted in his
was received into the Kentucky Confer |
ence, and for period of fifty four years |
he has been effective, Possessing great |
physical endurance and superior pulpit |
talents, his ministry has been one of sig |
nal success, both in the pastorate and |
episcopate. In 1854 he was elected |
Bishop of the NJ E. Church South, and |
has been foremost and Outspoken in his |
fraternal feelings to our church upon |
suitable occasions. Though he is seventy /
eight years of age, he is an untiring and /
successful worker, not only in the local /
church work near his residence in Lou
isville KY, but in the Church general.
His visit to Round Lake Fraternal
Camp-meeting some years ago is pleas
antlY remembered by all branches of
Methodism. He gives but little eyi-
dence of his great ags, and has the pa
triarchal beating of Bishop Roberts in
his later years, is stalwart and of full
habit, with piercing eyes and sunny
colntenance.
Bishop William May Wightman, D.
D., LII. D., is South Carolinian by
birth, at Charleston. January %, 1908,
where he now resides. He was finely
educated and graduated Nth distinc-
ton at the college Of Charleston in
1927. In his seventeenth year he was
converted. and while at college he de-
termined to enter the ministry under
the oounsels OF Drs. Capers and ANDREW,
who afterward became Bishops. When
he was twenty years of age he united
with the South Carolina Conference.
His scholarly education and pulpit tai
ents we're soon appreciated. In 1884 he |