The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-04-18
IN HONOR GREAT PREACHER.
Proposed to Erect Tablet to Memory Of Bishop Capers
News and Courier.

The Rev. William Capers, u. D.,
was Bishop Of the Methodist Church
in South Carolina. lie died more
than fifty years ago. At his death q
mural tablet was erected to his men,
o.y in the Washington Street Church,
Columbia. When Sherman's army
passed through that city in 1865, the
church was destroyed and With it tho
tablet in honor of Bishop Capers. A
very thoughtful and generous-spirited
citizen of this State, not member OF
the Methodist Church, but man who
would perpetuate the good name Of
all those who serve the State aud the
Church faithfully, proposes tha. new
bronzs tablet shall be placed in the
Washington Street Methodist Church
in Columbia in honor Of Bishop Co.
psrs. One hundred subscribers, each
contributing s., would enable the
work to be done in thoroughly ar
tistic manner, and these subscriptions
are now called for. If tho Methodists
Of the State do not care to subscribe
the necessary amount for the accom-
plishment Of this worthy object sub.
scriptions will be received from the
numbers of all other denominations
in the State to the end that the mem
ory of this great preacher shall be
preserved for all time.
The following is taken from an in
teresting private letter in which some
charming "reminiscences of Bishop
Caper's life are given:
"reminiscences Of the First Bishop
William Capers.
Some kind friend has sent me q
copy of the Alabama Christian Advo-
este. I wish ny kind friend had put
his name somewhere on the margin.
If he had done 80 I would have been
under an obligation of gratitude, and
would have thanked him in private
letter for his thoughtfulness and real
goodness in remembering an old man,
left almost alone with his memories,
as the years and decades Of almost a
century go by him.
cannot thank my friend for the
great pleasure he gave me other than
by sending my grateful aoknowledg.
nents him through the dear old Advo.
cate that has given me 80 much pleas
urable entertainment. Tbs number I
have is the one containing, among
other articles most Interesting to me,
q sketch Of Bishops Soule, Andrew
and Capers. What sweet memories
this article awoke in my mind. What
O rush Of events come when I associate
these historic names with American
Ee.hea:s::. !: =es my privilege 70
know this great triumvirate Of the M.
e. Church, South; and to the latter
OF the three do owe debt of graft
tude which no time or material bene-
fits could possibly repay. It may in
terest your readers, and it. certainly
gives my soul real Joy, 10 tell the
story of my first knowledge of and my
my first contact with Bishop VIM.
Capers, whom ! honored in his life
with the highest respect, and whom
: now that near forty. years bas passed
since I went from Tennessee to join
with the thousands who mourued his
death, and we're at bis burial in. Co.
iumbia, s. G., regard as the purest,
the best and noblsst man I was ever
permitted to know in my long life-
time.
Iswaa 10 1s4a, when I was farmer
lin old Green County," Ga, and the
junior partuer of my brother in thu
mercantile business at Parker's Ferry,
on the Oconee River, aud the month
OF November, that I left the many
wagons that made old Hamburg; s.
c., wonderful business centre, and
rode to Aiken TO take the cars for
Charleston, then. the great Atlantic
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