The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1910-10-14
From Lookout Mountain.

In Pilgram S Progress John Bun
yam speaks Of the "Dolectable Noun
tains = The range is in Immanual S
Land and ovcrlooks The Celestial
City The English tinker never based
his descriptiyes upon the scenery that
unfolds before the vision on Lookout
Mountain overlooking Chattanooga but
it might well have inspired them The
panorama affords and suggests every
conceivable demand for natural beauty,
romantic adventure, delightful tradi-
tons, stirring history, prosperous in
dustrialism and teeming life For
whichever of these, as a mild diversion.
the sightseer seeks, he will find ample
regalement
The Holston Conference Of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, South, con-
yenes next Wednesday in historic and
picturesque Chattanooga That annual
gathering will attract hundreds of
preachers, laymen and visitors Many
of these will find their way to Lookout
Mountains summit to feast their eyes
and as their varying tastes lead, In
the immediate foreground as well as on
the distant ridge there will be much to
suggest the divinity whom the great Sc
cession orator, William L. Yancy, was
pleased to refer TO so often as the God
Of Battles I"
There are valleys and sites, near at
hand or in the dim distance, not so ia
milar and renowned as the battle
fields of Chickamauga and Missionary
Ridge, but hardly less deserving of no
tice as fields whereon the soldiers Of the
cross fought with valor and achieved
victories. As the sympathetic eye be-
holds the towering and glittering mon
uments that speak Of cannon 5 roar and
musketry's rattle it will probably scan
in vain landscape and horizon for spots
that mark the heroic and unselfSh la
bors Of men who fought to beat back
The forces Of evil and to advance the in
terests Of Immanue's kingdom. In
more enduring form than ON monu-
ments Of granite or tablets of bronze,
their names are recorded in the skies.
As he fingered about or stood on
Point Lookout, a visitor one day in the
past August had occasion to seek out
some places of sacred flavor and inter
est Tramping along the winding road
that leads down the mountain, he won
dered where the precise spot was on
which Bishop Holland n. McTyeire and
Dr. John B. McFerrin stood when, as
cending the mountain, the latter point
ed out in vivid reminiscence some scenes
OF his labors as a missionary among the
Cherokee Indians in 1929. Across
the valley lay Rossville the ancient
home Of the celebrated chief, John
Ross. whom the young McFerrin had |
baptized and received into the church.
To have had such a trophy to his min
stry gave him as much JOY and salts
faction as when in after years, in the |
Of his powers and influence,
ne received ex-P President James X. Polk /
INTO the church.
Those were days Of heroic endeayor
md distinct hardships. McFerrin's cir
,uit embraced four hundred miles, over
which he made his rounds once every
our weeks. Beginning at what is now
in Alabama, the way led H
,ver Sand Mountain plateau to the val
ey of WHIPS Greek and to its mouth in
he Coosa River, near Gadsden thence
o the junction of the Etowah and Cos
anaula rivers where Rome, Ga, now
lands; thence over Pigeon Mountain TO
Ross 5 Landing, now Chattanooga. and
hen up Lookout Greek Valley over
Iaccoon Mountain Creek to the Ten
essee River landing Of the Scotch
indian, Edward Gunter, with whom he
oarded. II the modern Methodist
reacher, who rides in a palace car and
yes in comparative luxury, would I'M
erstand the labors and privations Of
nose who laid the foundation for such
ase and comforts as he enjoys, let him
sad Bishop Fizgerald's life OF Meier