The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-05-15
BISHOP GALLOWAY DEAD.

at his home in Jackson on Wednes-
,Iday morning at $50, with pneu-
mona as the immediate cause.
For three years his health failed.
until his strong vitality could no
longer Withstand the insidious in
roads upon it and so he died.
The funeral services were con-
Quoted on Thursday afternoon at
the First Methodist Episcopal
church by Bishop Gambler. of Allan
TIA; Bishop Hendrix, of Kansas
ICitya DR.. Murrah, president Of
lMillshps College; DR.. LaPrade. DR..
tGarpsnter and DIR. DuBose. and the
lsongs rendered were those old and
familiar hymns the Bishop was
known to love best.
SKETCH OF HIS CAREER.
Charles Belts Galloway was born
lat Kosciusko. Attala county, on
the 1st of September, 1849, being
in his sixtieth year at the time of
death. His father was a member
of the medical profession, and
shortly prior to the civil war, NOV
ed to- Canton, where he became the.
foremost physician of the commun-
ity, and it was at the Madison
county capital that the youth who
was destined to become Mississip-
pi's best beloved divine and fore
most pnblicist grew to manhood.
During the year 1866, being then
a boy of seventeen, he united with
the Methodist church at Canton,
then under the pastorate of DR.. G.
g. Andrews.
Two years later he consecrated
himself to the ministry.
In 1882 he was sent by his church
to the general conference and was
the youngest member of that body.
At that conference he was elected
editor for the New Orleans Chris
tian Advocate, the place having
been made vacant by DR.. Linus
Parker's promotion to the bishop
ric, and it was in this position that
he first showed the literary genius
that became so marked in later
life. During the same year, 1882,
the title of Doctor of Divinity was
conferred upon him by his alma
mater, the University of Mississip-
pi.
For four years he remained in
charge of the Christian Advocate,
and the briIliancy of his work
made him a recognized leader of
the church. Four years later, or
in 1886, the general conference
elected him to the bishopric, being
the youngest man ever elevated by
the Methodist church to that posi-
Ition.
Immediately after his election as
bishop he took up his residence in
jackson. and continuously resided
here until the hour of his death.
He was universally known as
1.-The Mission Bishop OF Metho-
dlsm, = having been sent by his
church on many visits to the for
eign mission fields. His first for
eign trip was a mission tour of the
world, and within the past twelve
years he has made trips to China,
Japan, Corea, Brazil. Cuba and
Mexico, two of his journeys being
to the Orient, the last one in 1905.
Bishop Galloway was not only
eminent as minister, but as a
publicist. He was leader in Mis-.
sissippi's sixteen-year fight against
the open saloon, and to an extent
greater than any other one man,
having been the acknowledged lead
er in every battle Waged in behalf
of that cause.
Bishop Galloway's writings COW
cred wider range perhaps than
those of any other person connected
with the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, and he travelled ex-
tensively.
Hand Book of Prohibition,
and open Letters on Prohlpi-
ton, - which latter embraced a
controversy with Jefferson Davis,
were among his writings along the
line Of prohibition.
Bishop Galloway was also author
of The Life of Bishop Linus Park
Ter. " Methodism, Child of Prov
idence,' "A Circuit of the Globe"
Modern Missions; Their Evident
Value. : Christianity and the
American Commonwealth. -
On three different occasions
Bishop Galloway officially visited
missions in Japan, China and
Corea. and attended the Brazil
mission conference twice. He was
a member of the Ecumenical Meth
oidst Conference at Washington in
1891, and the following. year was
fraternal delegate to the Wesleyan
Conference in England. He preach
ed the opening sermon at the
EcumenicaI Conference in London
in 1901, and was prominent in the
deliberations OF that body.
He was president of the Board of |
Education of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church South; president Of the
Board of Trustees of MiIlsaps Col
lege and Vanderbilt University,
and was member of the Board of |
Trustees of the John f. Slater Fund.