Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-05-14
BISHOP CHARLES B. GALLOWAY

JACKSON. Miss, May 12.-Bishop
Charles G. Galloway. of the Methodist
Episcopal church, Mississippi's most dis
tinguished divine and best known publ
cist, VIII ofor the past twenty years mas
held rank among the greatest pulpit ora
tors of America. died at his residence In
this city at 5 o'clock this morning a1ter-
an illness of several days with mild
form of pneumonia, complicated with
heart trouble.
THE end was not unexpected. Bishop
Galloway had been in a dying condition
for Is hours and the end was momentarl-
" expected He survived longer than
the attending physicians expected and
despite the fact that he was In an un-
conscious state, showed. wonderful vital
ity almost to the end. 81 !. "a
The distinguished divine was taken ia
last Friday while en- route from Nash
vile. where he had attended the annual
session of the college of bishops Al
though his sickness caused apprehension
among the family, owing to the Iact
that he had been in an enfeebled condl-
ton for nearly three years, no mmeolals
alarm was felt until Monday night, Wnen
hyposthetic pneumonia developed IN one
lung, and the patient commenced to grow
worse rapidly, passing into an uncon-
scious state from which he rallied only
at brief intervals and during the hnal u
hours was totally unconscious.
On several occasions during the past
three years Bishop Galloway suffered
severe attacks due to enfeebled heart ac-
ton. and hardening of the arteries. Al
though only in his ~6Oth year, the prodi-
eious volume of work he performed as
the mission bishop of Methodism had
greatly weakened his once powerful
1bysio,ie and he was in no condition
TO Withstand the lung congestion that
caused his death.
Bishop Galloway was possibly the most
prominent of the bishops of the Method
ist Episcapal church south. His articles
in southern newspapers during his visit
TO the Holy Land as well as other OF his
writings were widely read.
Charles Belts Galloway was born at
I<osciusko. Miss. Sept. 1919, and was in
his sixtieth year. He graduated IN 1868
from the University of Mississippi from
which institution he received the degree
of Doctor Of Divinity in 1882. The degree
of Doctor of Laws was later conferred
upon him by the Northwestern University
and by the Tulane University.
He entered the ministry in 1853 as a
member of the Mississippi conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church. south,
serving numerous churches in that state.
He was editor of the New Orleans Chris
tan Advocate from 1925. when he was
OT0dlneu
tinuously in that capacity until the day
of his death. ~
Writings of Wide Range
Bishop Galloway's writings covered
wider range perhaps than those of any
other person connected with the Methodist
EpicopaI church, south, and he travelled
extensively. For number OF years ne
took an active interest in the campaigns
waged in Mississippi and other southern
states for rrohibition Handbook OF Pro-
hibition" and open Letters on Prohloi-
ton" which latter embraced controVer-
sy with Jefferson Davis, were among MS
writings along this line.
Bishop Galloway was also author OF
.,Fhk Life of Bishop Linus Parker"
sNethodism, a Child of Providence" "A
circuit of the Globe Modern. Missions
Their Evidential Value.''s christianity
and the, American Commonwealth.
On three different occasions Bishop Gal
Ion-av officially visited missions in Japan,
= china and Korea and attended the Bra<
zif~,nfssion- conference twice He was a
member Of the ecumenical Methodist con-
ference at Washington in 1891. and the
following year was fraternal delegate to
the wesleyan conference, in England. He
preached the opening sermon at the ecu
menicaI conference in London in 1901 and
was prominent in the deliberations Of that
body. Pig g.
He was president Of the board of edu-
cation of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South; president OF the board of trustees
of Ailsaps college ana Vanderbilt uni
versity, and was a member of the board
of trustees of the John F. Slater fund.
The year following his graduation, Sep
TENDER /, 1863, he married Miss f. Z.
Wills, of Vicksburg, Miss.