Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-04-01
WHOLE NO. 2,4l6.
TIE NEW n,sar0ps
Who Will Preside oyer the south
ern NelhOdisls.


ern IethOdisls.
| The question, who are to be thu
next Bishops of the Methods
church? having been asked, the
Jacksonville Union says: "Fiv'
years ago, Bishop Marvin, after al
extensive supervisory tour over the
vast field of Methodist foreign mis-
sions, went up to make his report
to the great head of the Church
Three years later, Bishop Doggett
of Virginia, folded his hands and
went to sleep under Virginia SHOWS,
and only few days ago, as it were,
Bishop Wightnan, at Charleston,
went cover the river" to meet his
brethren. Death has been busy
among the shining lights of Meth
odism. Bishop Pierce, of Georgia,
practically retired by reason OF
i feeble health. Bishop Paine totters
under the weight of years. Bishop
Kavanaugh is aged and infirm. II
is thought that five new bishops
will be elected at the General Con-
ference which meets in Nashville
on the first Wednesday in May,
next, three to fill the vacancies
caused by death, and two to meet
the requirements of the increase in
the members and work of the
church. AT this time, therefore, ii
is matter of general speculation
and much interest among the Meth
odists, as to who will be elevated to
these high and responsible positions
the highest in the gift of their
church militant. The Union has,
for few days past, taken pains to
watch the drift of theory and con-
lecture, and this morning presents
the result of its observations.
The most talked-of man for the
bishopric in the South is DIR. Atticus
G.. Haywood, President of Emory
College, Oxford, Georgia. DIR. Hay
wood is an aggressive churchman
of great energy, force, and re-
markable executive ability, which
has evidenced itself in his brilliant
management of Emory College.
He is eloquent and scholarly, wields
a trenchant pen, has become of late
an author of repute, and is leader
in his denomination. His fitness
for the bishopric is conceded, his
merits agreed to by all, and his emf
nent services and good works justify
his elevation to the college. Emo
ry college is the pride and boast of
Methodism in three States. DR..
Haywood, 10y personal energy and
high ability, has brought the insti-
tuition from mediOcrity to swell
ing state of prosperity and an en-
Viable notOriety. If he should be
taken from its head to wear the
gown of a prelate, there does not
appear in the whole Church, South,
a successor so well qualified TO carry
on the work of education i'm Geor-
gia, Alabama and Florida. 1t is
rumored that Bishop Pierce, the
warm friend and admirer of DR..
Haywood, will oppose his election
on this ground. Others, however,
think that DIR. Haywood, as bish-
Cd, could do as much for Emery
college in the way of supervision,
direction and advertisement as he
does now. 1t is certain that upon
this issue hangs all the doctors
chances for the biShOpric. 1t is
considered almost certain that DR..
Alpheus w. Wilson, of Nashville,
will be made bishop. He is Sec
retary of the Board of Foreign
Missions, and has done valiant
service in that cause. He is about
forty-five years of age, vigorous IN
mind and body, a very brilliant
preacher, and a most prodigious
worker. He is man of unusual
moral and spiritual force. His ele-
walton will be the direct reward of
distinguished services and eminent
abilities which have been freely
dedicated to the service of the Mas
ter.
Rev. j. G.. Cranberry, ID. D.,
Professor of Political Economy in
Vanderbilt University, may be set
down as a strong probability. He
is man of splendid attainments,
fine scholar, a scientist of deep re-
search and original thought, an able
lOgician and one of the most adj
vanced thinkers and theologians of
his denomination. Rev. Thos. o.
Sommers, Vice Chancellor of Van
derbilt, has also been spoken of,
but it is hardly probable that the
church will take two leading men
from its principal university at
once.
1t is thought most likely that DIR.
E. r. Hendrick, of Missouri will
be made bishop. On the theory
of territorial division, his chances
are very fair. The M. E. Church,
South, stretches up into Illinois,
and has organizations as far West
and North as California and Oregon.
There are two annual conferences in
California. Therefore it is desira-
BILE that the bishop, who must COM
pass this vast area, should be chos-
en- with some reference to geogra-
phical position, and DIR. Hendricks,
one of the greatest ornaments and
props of the church, will surely be
in this connection.
Rev. r. III. MahOn, the brilliant
and popular pastor of the First
Church in Memphis, just turned of
forty, and universally gifted, may
be brought into the field.
Rev. w. H. Potter, of the North |
Georgia Conference, st. Paul sort
of a man, fervid and jealous, and !
heroic in his courage, devotion and |
piety, may be one of the coming
men. There are many Methodists |
who predict that DR.. w. n. Rush,
of Missouri, will be one Of the five.
There is a gOodly company of
young men coming on behind,
among whom there moves many a
future prelate. There is John w.
Heidi, of the Lagrange, Ga, Female
College, than whom there is no
stronger man in Georgia MetEo-
1ism there is w. III. LaPrade, at
Trinity, an acute intel
ect, an able theologian, and zeal
)us orator; Warren Gambler, at
the most brilliant
preacher of his age in the South,
moulded after the Haywood type,
md just as certain to wear the bish-
)p cap, if he lives, as DIR. Wilson is
% wear it now; John d. Ham
nond, at Forsyth, whose sincere
md earnest eloquence has made
him a power for good throughout
he State; Wadsworth, at La
Grange, Smith, at Gainesville,
and Lewises-all available
nen for the future and in Florida,
90, there is the stuff of future
bishop in Charles Il. bowman, now
elder of the Tallahassee
Ircuit, in G. A. Fullwood, of the
Jacksonville circuit, or in Il. b.
Johnson, of Cedar Key.
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