The Tupelo journal., 1909-05-21

The transcendent powers of the bishop,
az afterwards displayed before great au-
diences in both the Old and the New
World, showed that his early p%receptor
had not underestimated the possibilities
of his career. As a public leader he
would nave gone to the highest civic sta
tions as easily as he achieved distinction
in the ranks of the Christian ministry.
In 1868, soon after his graduation, he
entered the Mississippi conference, in
which utilization he remained until ele-
waited to the higher office of the episco-
pacy. His devotion to his native state
was a passion, and yet he was perhaps
the most cosmopolitan and national spir-
tied man to be found in all the South.
He was the close friend and counsellor
of many public men in his own state and
the nation, and also of all parties. Ex-
President Roosevelt was a great ad-
mirer of the bishop, and sought his adj
vice in more than one instance where his
policies affected the well-being OF the
people of the South.
Bishop Galloway's home life was hap
DIV and beautiful. He was married in
1865 to Miss Hattie +. Willis, of Vicks-
burg. Miss, whose devotion to him
through life has been a song of full
notes, and the husband has been no
less a lover thar a great preacher and
teacher of men. Three daughters and
two sons blessed their welded life, OF
whom all survive, except the eldest son,
who contracted in childhood an illness
| from which he suffered until young
manhood. The youngest son is DIR. E..
H. Galloway, now city physician OF
jackson, Miss.
As a member of the Mississippi con-
ference Bishop Galloway served a num-
Der of appointments, including Port Glib
son, Yazoo City, jackson and Vicksburg.
While pastor at the last named place
he was exposed, in 1878, to the great ep-
demic of yellow fever, which in that year
! ravaged the entire Mississippi valley. He
was himself stricken, after weeks of Wis
itation among the sick and dying, but he
rallied miraculously to live thirty won
derful and active years.
In 1882 he was elected editor Of the
New Orleans Christian Advocate, then
a paper of wide and influential circula-
ton. For four years he sat on the tri-
pod, and during these years his fame ex-
tended TO every part of the church. When
the general conference of 1886 came on
he was elected bishop by a remarkable
vote, being but 81 years OF age, the
youngest man ever elected to that of
flee in the Southern church.
Was Foreign Minister.
Bishop Galloway fairly won the dis
tinction, worn by DIR. Coke, the bishop
of the church, that of being styled "The
Foreign Minister of Methodism." He
was sent more frequently abroad than
any other bishop of the church, and
served in all these capacities with such
effectiveness and ability as to make him
not only the best known, but also the
most influential personality in Universal
Methodism. In Canada, in England, in
Ireland, in the Orient repeatedly, and in
South America he visited officially as
the bishop and head of the church, and
everywhere left the impression of his
great personality and the memory OF his
Incompatible power as a preacher and
public teacher.
He opened the great ecumenical con
ference in the City Road Chapel, in Lon
don, in 1901, with a sermon, the power
and ~eloquence Of which was achoed to all
lands where Methodism had adherents.
1t is still q pulpit classic among the peo'
pie called Methodists.
The great civic and reform move