The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1886-06-03
THE NEW BISHOPS

ference Of the Methodist e. Church,
South.
The General Conference of the NJ.
E. Church, South, in session at Rich
mond, Va, elected as the four new
bishops, on the 18th ult., Rev. Drs.
w. W. Duncan, of South Carolina, G.
B. Galloway, of Mississippi, E. r.
Hendrix, of Missouri, and j. G.. Key,
of Georgia. The new bishops are
sketched as follows:
REV. WILLIAM W. DUNCAN, D. D.,
was born at Randolph Macon College
Mecklenburg county. Va, December
27, 1889; graduated at Woford Col
lege, Spartanburg, South Carolina,
1858, during the presidency of the
late Bishop Wightman joined the
Virginia Conference in 1859; elected
to the chair of Mental and Moral
Science in Wofford College, 1875, and
that year transferred to the South Car
olina Conference is new professor of
Greek in Wofford College, and its finan-
cial secretary; member of the General
Conference since 1878, and delegate to
Ecumenical Council.
REV. CHARLES B. GALLOWAY, D. D.,
was born in Kosciusko, Miss, Septem-
Der /, 1849, and was reared in the
Methodist Church converted in 1866
while a student at the University of
Mississippi, and joined the church at
Canton, Miss, under the ministry of
Rev. C. 6. Andrews; was licensed to
preach by Rev. r. Abbey, and entered
the Mississippi Conference in Decem-
Der, 1868 /; has been uninterrupted in
PASTORAL work. In 1874 he edited the
| Temperance Bonner, and for several
years has been chairman of the State
| Prohibition Executive Committee in
1882 was appointed by the Governor
one of the University of Mississippi,
and the same year was elected trustee
otssthe Centenary College; is the au.
thor of several published sermons and
addresses, a pamphlet on Method
ism," another on Prohibition, and a
volume entitled "The Editor-Bishop--
Linus Parker; His Life and Writ
ings." He was member of the Gen
eral Conference of 1884, and a dele
gate to the Centennial Conference at
Baltimore at Baltimore in 1884; was
elected editor of the New Orleans
Christian Advocate June 1, 1882; has
been member of the Board of Mis-
sions of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, since 1878. Dr. Gal
loway is of the Mississippi delegation
REV. EUG. R. HENDRIX, D. D.,
was born in Fayette, Mo, May II
1847 reared by Methodist parents
his father, Adam Hendrix, was for 2C
| years curator and treasurer of the
Board of Curators of Central College
converted and joined the church in
1859; graduated at Wesleyan Uni
versity in 1867, and at Union Theolog
ical Seminary, New York, in 1869
joined the Missouri Conference in '69
served on missions, stations and in the
presidency of Central College, holding
the latter position since 1878; dele
gate to the General Conference of 80
author of "Around the World beins
an account of the missionary tour tax
en- with Bishop Marvin in 1876-'77
chairman of the Centenaey Committee
appointed by authority of the las
General Conference. Member of th
Missouri Conference.
REV. JOS. sTAUNTON KEY, D. D.,
was born July IS, 1929; descende
from long line of Methodists; fathe
, being an itinerant and grandfather
local preacher converted in 1841
graduated from Emory and Henr
College 184S; entered Georgia Con
ference 1919; regularly in the fel
ever since, filling missions, station
and districts; at division of Georgi
Conference, in 1866, adhered to Sout
Georgia Conference; appointed dele
gate to Ecumenical Conference il
London, and Centennial in Baltimore
but providentially hindered from al
tending either.
Straining at q Gnat.
From The Wilson Adrancs.