The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-05-24
NASHVILLE LETTTR.
TIE GENERAL COMPETENCE

NE U1N l4A<1L OO81 A4AL1Af O11.
NASHVILLE, TENN, May 20, 1882.
To the Editor of The Morristown Gazette:
The Conference is now we'll advanced
in its work and will adjourn about the
middle Of next week. The body has
been occasionally a little breezy, but
nothing has occurred of an unpleasant
nature.
We have elected five bishops, and
consecrat' d four The first, DIR. 4. w.
Wilson, of the Baltimore Conference,
late Missionary Secretary, is forty-eight
years of age, and one of the grandest
preachers on the continent. DR.. Linus
Parker, of the Louisiana Conference,
comes next. He is fifty-three years old,
strong man intellectually and phvsi
cally, and has been for many years the
very able editor of the New Orleans
CHTIStidH Allocate. The third is DIR. j.
9. Cranberry, of the Virginia Confer
ence, an able AMI eloquent preacher,
and popular professor in the theolog-
ical department of Vanderbilt Universi-
ty since its organization. Last comes
DR.. Il. f. Hargrove, an Albanian by
birth, but not a member of the Tennes-
see Conference, and the peer If any
man in the Episcopal College. BY a
strange coincidence the last two are of
the same age as Ri hop Parker. DR.. A.
G. Haygood, of the North Georgia Con-
ference and President of Emory College,
declined ordination owing to his Pc
culiar Ie'ations to the College and his
great interest in Christian education.
All honor 10 The man who sacrifices
preFermcnt to duty. Through the ages
he will be kindly remembered, and his
moral heroism embalmed in the hearts
OF The good.
The conservation took place Oh the
evening Of the 18th, at four o'clock, in
McKcndree ChGlch. The Urge au-
ditorium was literally damned from pull
pit to vcsIibule. Not less than twelve
hundred persons witnessed Tia impress
i've ceremonies. Many went away I'M
able to obtain even standing room.
As we sat an unused upon the scene,
we said, "tho theatre may at ruct the
giddy and the gay, / Z circus may
sometimes bring together its thousand +,
but nothing, absolutely nothing, Ia s
sue. hold upon the hearts and .affe, =
tions Of [, people Of this age as tie
religion Of the lowly Nazarere
Nashville is great city. In men of
energy and business tact, in education
al facilities and in religious opportunI-
lies, we doubt If it has TO its size a SUI
periOr in our great and growing coun-
try. During the session of lis Confer.
ence it is crowded with visitors, male
and female, from every S ate from the
lakes to the gulf, and from the Atlantic
| to the Pacific.
No better time could have fallen to
the lot of an humble East Tonneaseap to
have spent a Month in his capital city
than the month of May, in the year of
grace, 1882.
On adjournment to-day, the Confer
ence in q body paid VISIT to Mrs. Polk.
The venerable DR. McFerrin acted as
master of ceremonies, and introduce
every member Of the body t. this grand
woman. The noble representative OF
her sex said She considered the compli-
mcnt thus paid her the greatest she had
ever received during her life.
Monday sfternOoa has cen fixed fOI
the election of Conference officers for
the next quadrennium.
| As ever, yours, II. p. S.