The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-30
TABLETS UNVEILED
CLOSING FEATURES OF BI-CENTEN-
AIRY CELEBRATION.
ADDRESS BY DR.. J. F. GoUCHER
DELIVERED BEFORE LARGE AS
sEMBLAGE IN TRINITY.

Tablets on Three Buildings Were
Unveiled in Presence of Large
Gatherings-Interes Exercises
Brought the Celebration to
CIose-LOng, Meter DOxOlOgy Sung
| i'm the street Near Place Where
Wesley Had Lived.
With fitting ceremonies, the three
bronze tablets that mark the locations
where John Wesley lived, worked ana
| preached, during his stay in america,
were unveiled yesterday IN the pres
ence of large and int CRESTED gatherings.
The exercises of the lay closed the
Wesley Bi-Centenary celebration,
which begun last Thursday, and which
has brought together a great number
of people who honor and revere the
memory of the great and good man
Wesley.
! The programme included the deliv-
cry of very able and interesting ad-
dress, at Trinity Church, by Rev. DR..
j. F. Goucher of Baltimore. and this
was followed by the actual unwilling
of the bronzes. The occasion brought
out large number of people, and the
part of the programme carried out at
the Postoffice. Custom House and at
Drayton and Congress streets was nat
urally of a nature to attract a crowd
| from the business people and others.
The exercises were all of a simple
nature and easily understood, even by
the passer who had no previous knowI-
edge of the event.
The address by DR.. Goucher was
scholarly and instructive. 1t contain
ed much that was of great value his
toricaIly. and was put into such sue
cinct and portable form as to be ap-
preciated by everyone without effort.
The argument seemed conclusive and
| incontest table. 1t first traced the par
allef course of .Methodism and Anglo
Saxon advance, and then averred
| fearlessly that it was no mere coin
cidence. but cause and effect. That
one may owe as much to the other was
not denied. but that the advance of the
Anglo Saxon might not have been so
strong and wonderful, without Wesley,
was at least suggested.
The service in the church began at
IL o'clock. At that hour the church
was filled with interested people, and
upon the platform, and in the chancel
We're noted, Bishop w A Gambler,
Bishop Galloway, Rev. DR.. Thos D.
S. &. Adams, Hon. j. c. c. Black,
Hon. DUPONT Guerry, Rev. DIR. John
d. Jordan, Rev. DR.. McCorkle, Rev.
| DIR. j. Y. Fair, Rev. DIR. w. c. Schaef-
fer, Rev. j. A. Smith. Rev. G.. N. Nc
| Donnell, Rev. DR.. j. w. Heidi, Rev
| Or. Thirkield. Col. ]. R. Saussy Rev.
DIR. Fullwood, Rev. G. A. Jackson and
/ others.
Bishop Gambler announced that the
service would open with the singing
of hymn No. ABS. This was one of the
hymns by John Wesley. Rev. DIR.
| Fullwood then led in prayer and Bish-
op Galloway read a portion of the
Scriptures from the first chapter of st.
John.
Rev. DR.. 7oucher was then intro
duced by Bishop Gambler and delivered
his address.
Tablets Unveiled.
| At the close of the address the min
| listers, speakers and members of spec
ial committees entered carriages as
| follows:
First carriage-Dr. j. F. Goucher.
Rev. Thos. D. Ellis, Judge S. D. Adams
and Mr. Williams
! Second Carriage-Bishop w. A.
Gambler, Rev. ]. A. Smith, Col ]. R.
Saussy, and Mr.. W. H. Fifer.
Third Carriage-Bishop C. B. Gallo
way. Rev. C. A. Jackson, Mr. r. j.
Travis and Mr.. H. A. Cordson.
| Fourth Carriage-Hon. J. c. C. Black.
Rev. H. c. Christian. Mr.. ]. H. Shup-
trine and Mr.. R; R. Reppard.
Fifth Carriage-Rev. DR.. w. w. Pin
/ son Row XNiIlioy nc NJ, IT
j. Airline and Mr.. Stone.
Sixth Carriage-Hon. DUPONT Guer-
ry, Senator A. o. Bacon, Congressman
r. E. Lester, and Rev. G. N. DcDon-
nell.
At the PostOmce.
The carriages started off slowly and
the great majority of the people who
had been in Trinity Church followed
to the United States postoffice Here
on the west end. facing Whitaker
! street, the first of the tablets was
seen. covered with the combined folds
of the flags of England and the United
| States.
Rev. j. A. Smith pastor of Ep-
worth Church stepped out on the side
walk and near the tablet; his little
daughter Beulah Louise took the cords
that held the flags together, and Mr..
Smith said: at is fitting and proper
that this city of monuments and tab
| lets erected to commemorate the lives
of great men who have made rich this
city in the things which perish not.
that we mark a few of the places of
| a man whose memory lives in the
love and veneration of the millions
| who follow him as he followed Christ.
| We unveil to-day on this spot of
ground, on which once stood the
preaching place of Mr. Wesley, this
tablet May his life and the lives of
millions of his followers continue to he
as precious ointment poured forth in
| all the earth"
The cords were then drawn and the
bronze was revealed with its inscrip-
ton.
At the Custom House.
The procession then moved to the
United States Custom House. at the
corner Of Bull and Bay streets, and on
the west, facing Bull street, a second
tablet was unveiled. Here Rev
Charles A. Jackson, pastor Of Grace
Church. said 1T is indeed appropriate
that the government Of these United
States honor a citizen like John Wes-
ley by authorizing a tablet on this pub
lie building. IL was during the early
days OF the colony. when pirates snug
gled IN goods. that the man whom we
honor taught In private and preached
IN public against such practices and
Impressed upon his hearers the neces-
sity for obeyng the laws" As his
remnrkg were concluded the flags were
Withdrawn by little Apphia Jackson.
his daughter
Parsonage Site.