The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-05-03
DEATH OF BISHOP AMES>

Bishop Amcs, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, died in Baltimore, on Saturday
morning of last week. No man in the
Methodist Church was better known than
Bishop Edward RAYMOND AmeS. His father
was born in Massachusetts and graduated
at the old Harvard University He settled
iii Il district OF Athens county, Ohio, which
was afterwards known rs .imeSville, where
the Bishop was born on the Goth of May,
1896 During the year 1926 he entered the
Ohio University. and while there was con-
vertpd. In 1878 he opened high school at
Lebanon, Illinois, which was the gem OF
McKendree College. After remaining there
until $50, he entered the itincrant ministry
rs Il member of the Indiana Conference.
AS one OF the delegates to the General Con-
ference of 1910 he was elected correspond
ing secretary of the Missionary Society for
the South and West. From 1911 to 1852 he
was presiding elder in the Indiana Confer
cnrr During this time the question of
slavery had entered the church i'll viru-
lent form, and an attempt by the General
Conference to discipline one of its bishops
resident in the South for holding and sell
ing slaves led to the separation of the church
into Northern and southern which separa-
ton has continued to this day. Bishop
Ames, at that time and atterward, did what
he conScirntionSly could to stop til" scpara-
ton and to heal the breach
In 1912 he otiiciated rs chaplain to a coun-
ell of Choctaw Indians, and was the first
chaplain elected by an assembly of that
body DIR. Amcs Travelled extensively i'll
the West and South, and among many of
the Indian settlements along the Northern
lakes where he was greatly instrumental i'll
establishing schools and missions which
have continued to this day. He also found
ed schools among the Indian tribes west ol
the Arkansas river.
In 1913, he was elected president of/SffS-
| Indiana -ASbury University, but preterring
to remain in the more active work of The.
ministry, he declined the office and honor,
| and in 1852 he was re-electe,lt t. the General
Conference, ny which body he was chosen
| Bishop, together with bishops Scott and
Simpson. He was he first Bishop to visit
| the Pacific Coast.
During the cI|1l war, Bishop AmeS served
on several IMPORTANT commissions, and his
action was the suls,ct of considerable COM
lltit AZ the Dut bftak hl the Sllllt lie His
| tened from the West and took up his abode
| il>i,altimure where he has since resided.
" His nearneas to Washington during the
war gave him ready access to the ear OF the
| President and his Cabinet. When the gov
| eminent seized the ecclesiastical property of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South be
| cause of the ,liSloyalty of that Church, Bis
| hop AmeS, as the representative of the loyal
| Methodist Episcopal Church North, was
| ~ President
| Secretary Stanton To take charge of all such
| contiscatcd property for the loyal MethodiStS
of the South. The Bishop visited New Or
leans and other cities of the South i'll this
| behalf and organized the loyal Southern
| McthodiStS into societies. He was an iuti-
mate friend of both the late Presidents Lin
| coin and Grant
| He has been for years Il sufferer from ,lia-
hete$, and for the past half year has been
| iucapacitated for exercising the duties Of his
| office. At the German Methodist Episcopal
Conference, which met i'll Baltimore 4 short
| time since, he presided, from which time he
began 10 slowly pass away.
ON Thursday, Bishop Simpson, of Phila-
| delphia, called on him. Bishop .tmeS rec
ognized him, and being told that many
| prayers had been offered for his recovery,
said: = am sure that | have the Synpa-
thy of the church. Bishop Simpson pray
ed and at the end the late divine said
| Amen.
Bishop .\mes was married twice. His
| first wife was Il daughter OF Judge Bench,
! of Indiana, and his second, who survives
| him, Mrs. Porter, widow OF Henry Porter,
of India napois. He leaves three children.
| One son, Capt. +. Il. AmeS. of the United
States Army, on the retired list on account
of ill-health; Il daughter married TO Mr.. W.
j. Hiss, and single daughter, who resided
with him.
The body was emhalmed on Saturday
The remains are encased i'll Il live oak coffin,
which was the divines wish. At his
quest there was no floral display. On Sun
| day the public We're not allowed to view the
features. Religious services Were conduct
ell at his residence, OH Monday afternoon.
at ; o'clock, and the funeral cortege pro-
ceeded 10 Madison Avenue VI. L. Church.
an hour later Rev. Bishop Simpson, OF
philadelphia, conducted the funeral SER
IEvices, assisted by ReV.'. DIR. W. :. Edwards
and j. A. Price. The remains We're kept ai'
the church on Monday night TUESDAY
morning, at ten o'clock, the body was cou-
veyed to Greenmount Cemetery and in
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