The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-22
CHURCH MATTERS.
Southern NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Sketches
of the Newly Elected Bishops.

Southern Observation-Disclosures Sketches
of the Newly-Elected Bishops
RICHMOND Va, May 2L-In the Methodist
Episcopal Conference, to-day, the report of the
special committee on the hymn book was re-
committed, and two papers on the same subject
were ordered printed The conference pro-
ceeded to the election of correctional officers.
DR.. j. B. McFerrin, of Tennessee. was reelected
book agent, receiving 107 out of POI votes l. G.
Ferns, of Texas was elected secretary of the
board of missions. IN the place of r. A. Young,
of Tennessee. the former secretary. Mr.. David
Morton, of Louisville, was reelected secretary
of the board of church extension.
Appended are biographical sketches of the
newly chosen bishops: Bishop Key is Meth
being local preacher, and his father an timer
ant. He was born July l8 1929, and was con-
verified at the age of eighteen, year before his
graduation from Emery College, Virginia. In
l649 he entered the Georgia Conference, to
which he has adhered ever SINCE filling mis-.
sons, stations and districts. He was appointed
delegate to the Centennial Conference in Bal
timore, and to the Ecumenical Council in Lon
don, but WAS prevented from attending either.
He was elected on the third ballot.
Bishop Hendrix was thirty nine years old the
day before his election. He was born in Fay
cite, Mo-. of Methodist parents, his father hay
ing been for twenty years the treasurer of the
board of curators of Central College Bishop
Hendrix united himself with the church at the
age of twelve years. and graduated from the
Wesleyan University year before he attained
his majority. In 1869 he received his degree
from the Union Theological Seminary, of New
York and joined the Missouri Conference in the
same year. He served in Missouri and stations
until 1878 when he was elected to the presidency
of Central College, position which ne has held
ever since He has been a member of the
Board OF Missions for eight years. was delega tie
to the General Conference in 1882, and chair
man of the centenary committee appointed by
authority of the last General Conference
Bishop Duncan. Virginian by birth, is scion
of one Of the most scholarly families in the
State. Next to Bishop Key, he is the oldest OF
the newly elected bishops. having been born Dec.
81, 1889, in Mecklanberg county, Virginia AT
the age of nineteen he graduated from Waford
College, South Carolina, and became member
of the Virginia Conference the following year.
In 1875 he was elected to the chair of mental
and moral science in Wafford College. He WAS
delegate to the Ecumencal Council of 1878.
and has been member OF every General Con-
ference since 1878
Bishop Galloway. the youngest bishop in tho
church. was born in Koscusko. Miss. Sept. i.
1849 and reared in the Methodist faith He was
converted while a student at tho University OF
Mississippi in 1866 and entered the Mississippi
Conference in 1868, tho year prior to his gradua-
ton. Iu 1874 he assumed editorial control OF
the Temperance Banner. and for several years
has been chairman of the State prohibition ex-
ecutive committee of Mississippi. He is also n
trustee of the University of Mississippi, trus-
tee of Centenary College, and the author of a
volume entitled. 1.-The Editor Bishop Linus
Parker-Hs Life and Writings He has also
been one of the editors of the New Orleans
Christian Advocate. and member Of the Board
of Missions