Smyrna times., 1882-07-19
Bishop Scott's Death.

BISHOP Levi Scott died suddenly at
his home, near Odessa, Thursday morn
ing at 9.35.
bishop Scott was born October nth.
loO2 upon the farm upon which ba
passed away. He was admitted to the
Philadelphia Conference on trial in
1926, ordained as deacon in 1928 and os
elder in 1880. At the same time tbo
Revs. George D. Cookman. father of
the lamented pastor of the Grace NJ +
Church, of Wilmington, Thomas J.
Thompson, James Dandy, Robert Gerry
and Joseph Tiff were also admitted to
the ministry. All these have preceded
Bishop Scott to their eternal home.
The deceased spent % years in the
ministry before becoming bishop. They
were years of arduous toll amid sur-
roundings very different from those Of
the ministers of the present dav.
In 1925 he was ordained to preach
and the next year he was admitted
INTO the Philadelphia VI. +. Conference
which then embraced PENNSYLVANIA
and the Peninsula. From this time
forth his mental development was
rapid, and his promotions in the church
were constant and important.
He was successively appointed TO
stations in the circuits of Talbot, Dover.
st. Georges, of Philadelphia and West
Chester. In 1884 he was elected pre-
siding elder of the Delaware district
In 1886 he was appointed to the Frank
lin Street Church in Newark. New
Jersey; i'll 1887 to the Ebenezer Church
OF Philadelphia, and in 1899 to the St.
PauPs Church of the same city. Tn
1910 he was elected to the principalship
OF the Dickinson College grammar
school. Thus the man who at twenty
could not read English intelligentlv
became at thirty-eight the honorcd
master of the first preparatory school
IN the Methodist Church, and 50 assid-
uously had he pursued the secular
studies since his admission into the
conference that at this time he was
considered the best Greek scholar in
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
lie was elected bishop in 1852. being
at the time of his election one Of
the agents of the Methodist Book Con-
Germ. During the later years of his
life he was the Senior Bishop of the
Methodist church in the United States
position to which the venerable
BISHOP Simpson now succeeds.
Bishop Scott married in early life
Two children who survive him. the
Rev, Alfred L. Scott, of Wilmington
ana Mrs. George L. Townsend. with
whom his declining years were spent
were the fruits of this marriage. His
wife died in 1879.
After his election as Bishop. the de-
ceased removed from New York TO
Wilmington where he lived for some
years. Somewhere about 1862 he ra-
moved to his old home near Odessa
where he has since lived, universally
beloved by the whole community
For the past three years he had been
living in retirement; his long life of
active Christian warfare being closed
by the infirmities of advancing old age.
Like sheaf fully ripe he waited here
the summons of the Great Reaper.
He was unable to attend the confer
ence held at Middletown last Spring
but was visited at his home bv many
OF the ministers gathered there. He
was present, however, at the general
Nj. +. conference held in Cincinnati in
1880; since his return from which he !
has been Il sufferer from paralysis
which, combined with his extreme age {
had confined him to the house for
months before his death.