The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-12-08
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BISHOP HENDRIX,
A Biographical Sketch of This Dis
tinguished Divine

tiIsuisucu DIVINE.
Bishop Hendrix is about forty-fye
years of age, having been elected in
May, 1856, at the session of our Gener-
al Conference held in Richmond. when
exception Of Bishop Galloway, wi o
was younger still, he was probably
the youngest man upon whom the Of
flee was ever conferred in American
Methodism.
He is native of Missouri, born at
Fayette in that State. HIS father, a
banker of considerable means, gave
him first-rate education After
preparation in his native State he was
sent to Wesleyan University, at Mid
dletoWn, Connecticut. of which Will
bur Fish and Stephen Olin were the
first Presidents, and of which our own
DIR. Leo. Rosser was an alumnus
There Bishop Hendrix graduated and
| afterward pursued theological studies
at Drew Seminary. He was the
travelling companion of Bishop Marvin
in his Episcopal tour to China, and
''the East by way of the West" and
on the death of John c. Wills was
chosen President of Central College,
L Cbbc. NlO-, lIlc
College for men in that State. In
that position he was serving when
elevated to the Episcopacy. He mar
ried daughter of the late Rev.
Nathan Scarritt, of Kansas City, and
has resided in that place since his ele-
vation to the EpiscOpacy.
He has the advantages of financial
ease, high education and cultivation,
travel, and the society of men of polish
and distinction throughout his life;
to which is now added the experience
Of six years in the exercise of his
Episcopal office.
He is man of fine presence; large
without cOEpulency, and not very tall:
dark eyes and hair and brunette COM
pleXiOn; deep. rOtund voice of great
power and compass and richness of
tone: having a pleasant, atfable man
nef with something of the brisk move
ment and air of decision characteris-
tic of Northern and Western men. Ia
accent and pronunciation he is rather
Northern, showing the effect of edu-
cation at Northern institutions; but
intensely Southern in tastes, senti-
mentS and opinions. None of our
people are more decided IN their pre-
ference for our organization as the
Methodist Episcopal church, South,
than the great majority of our Mis-
souri, preachers, and none of them
| have surpassed Bishop Hendrix in his
devotion to the church of his ,choice.
| He is a genuine successor, in this re-
| spect, Of Marvin, Caplcs and Monroe
| He is not deceived or ibewildered by
| the mirage Of Organic Union"
He is an attractive and powerful
| preacher. In style, elegant and clear:
| in sermonic analysis, profound and
thorough; in spirituality and practi-
cal application, marked and pointed
his delivery is pleasant and impres.
sive. He preached in Richmond and
| Norfolk during the General Confer
ence of 1886, and besides some briei
visits GAcluding speech at Ran.
| dolph-Macon summer before last), was
at several of our District Conferences
| in the hot spell Of this year.
| He has presided over the Baltimore
| Conference March, 1881, but this il
his first appearance in our synod. He
will receive cordial greeting, anC
will doubtless give satisfaction. The
younger men are apt to be careful, tC
| take greater pains and move more
cautiously. May the Divine Spirit
guide him Let prayer be made fOl
him in all our homes. His is no com
| mon responsibility.