The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-28

among them three of the greatest bishops.
Capers Andrew and Pierce. Also Igna-
thus Few, the first president of Emory;
Elijah Sinclair the founder of Wesleyan
Female College. the first chartered fe-
male college in the world; Daniel Curry,
the editor of the greatest periodicals of
the Northern Methodist church; James
Sewell, and Lovick Pierce, father of the
bishop and one of the most original men.
Biographies have been prepared of some
of these men. The autobiography of Bish-
op Capers is especially entertaining as 1t
abounds in personal "reminiscences.
Among the most attractive is his account
of DR.. Kolock, the distinguished pastor
of the Independent Presbyterian church,
whose funeral sermon he preached He
speaks of him as follows: REV. DIR. Henry
Kollock, a name l have ever loved to
honor. The people knew him and
loved him and honored him as they never
he was man for any people
to be proud of in the first de-
gree. He called to see me; and l saw, l
thought, in his countenance, the grace of
his blended dignity and meekness, and his
eloquent conversati ton, how the people had
been taken by the man. He attended my
MINISTRY, and that 1 could not so readily
account for. But he had been there be-
fore; had frequently been at the Methodist
church, and had several times preached
there. The poorest of my people knew
him, and loved him as a benefactor; and
go where l might among the novels of
poverty, his tracks had been there, and
great as everybody knew him to be. these
poor people never called him great but
good Dear, good, DR.. Kollock" The
beautiful harmony always characterzing
the ministry in Savannah is shown in the
kindly relations of these two great men.
One experence of the great Gamers ir,
hrat J,
He writes: 1--WE had scarcely been made
comfortable in our new quarters, before
l found our infant church was heavily
in debt" The preachers sent TO some of
the Methodist churches for 1898 may have
the same surprise in store for them as
their distinguished predecessor of 1919. Is
church indebtedness a chronic disease in
Savannah?
Another bishop-to-be, J. o. Andrew
served the church in 1S22-23. Savannah
at that time he writes although the chief
city of the state and It's most important
seaport, was quite limited both in extent
of its boundaries and the number of its
population The parsonage was located
on the South common and was almost on
the verge of the city population. While
in Savannah Andrew established
the church at Goshen that
brought the Saussy's and other prominent
Methodists into the church. In 1922 the
South Carolina conference of which GeOr-
gia was a part, held its session in Savan-
nah. Bishop Roberts presided and stopped
at the parsonage with the young Andrew
1t was al this conference that Andrew
made his first short and timid speech on
the conference floor.
Ten years later, in 1888, the eloquent and
magnificent Pierce, also to become bish-
op, served the little wooden church on
Oglethorpe avenue and Lincoln streets. IT
was here that he met Miss Ann Maria
Waldron. She was a member of the family
of Mr.. Il. Snider, well known by the old
er citizens. Bishop Pierce said a few years
ago with reference to his marriage to this
most excellent lady 81 used to tell NV
mother and sisters that when / found an
orphan girl with few or no kin, and no
property that if she suited in other res
poets, / would marry 1 was poor. but
proud and Independent, and was firmly
resolved that would never wed a wealthy
girl l was afraid that she might in some
of the irritations of life, taunt me with
the fact that | was living on her money.
that she supported me, had lifted me from
the ashes and given me position in the
world. Anything like this from the lips of
the woman l loved, ! felt, would be an i'm
medicable wound 1 did not mean to risk