Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-15
|DR. DUFFEYS LAST YEAR KONORING HIGH PRIEST
Resolutions Expressing Regret That
t!.c Popular Pastor is 10 be Trans
fcrred TO Another Field.

The last quarterly conference of
the year, Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South was held last night.
The several officers of the church
submitted their reports for the year,
and all departments of the church
were shown to be in f!ourishing con-
dition. Rev. B. w. Bond, presiding
elder of the Alexandria District, pre-
sided
J. Frank Myers was reelected Su-
perintendcnt of the Sunday School,
and n. S. Greenaway and Ernest n.
Pittman were reelected Assistants.
The following were elected stew
ards: Henry X. Field, J. E. Alexan-
der, George W, Keys, E. c. Granam,
J. B. Watkins, John G. .Cockey, James
G. Graham, Alvin Powell, John w.
Monroe, N. S. Greenaway, J. Frank
Myers, J. Z. w. Timberman, George
R. Smith, ". c. Baggett, T. M-..ley
Erwin, c. E. Outcalt, Charles e. Dare,
William 7. wilkins; John G. Graham,
o. b. Pierpoint and w. S. Nicklin.
Under the laws of the church, DR..
j. W. Duffey who has so acceptably
served the church for the past four
years, will retire to another field of
labor, much to the regret of the en-
tire membership. Dr. Duffey is be-
loved by one and all, and his pasto-
rate has been eminently successful.
The following were unanimously
passed by a rising vote:
The law of our Mcthodism has
brought lis as a congregation to the
quadrennial limit of the pastorate,
and we are confronted with conlpui-
sory parting with our Pastor Rev. }.
W. Duffey, d. D.
His four years of consecratea min
istry and service to US as a congrega-
ton, and his personal association
with US individually has been a bene-
diction. To old and young alike, he
has won his way, into our hearts and
lives, to Il place of permanent intlu-
ence peculiarly his on. In his pas
rorate no demand has been too exact
ing for prompt and ready response.
1v his presence. sympathy. and Greer,
he has Enlightened the corners" III
the homes of the 'shut in and in
valid and strengthened the faith
where sorrow and death have entered
Ry preached word, counsel and eX-
ample, the Master has become a more
real personality. Some have learned
to wall, with Him." and "Talk with
Him unit! they are conscious. Fe
tells them they are His own and by
all accepted Indications. not few
among us are Giving on the noun
tains." drinking at the fountains anu
Teasing on the Mamma of Beu!ah
Land. Thus our pastor leaves us in
green pastures" and "beside still
waters" We face the parting as
sore trial, frcehted with keenest re-
prct. hut we give him the assurance
that his ministry for us will live and
bear fruit, when his personal presence
shall have become memory.
Our city and community have also
felt the power of the Gospel he
preached and lived in our midst ana
on every hand he is accorded the
highest place among those who
''bringeth glad tidings' and pub
l:shcti peace"
50. in severing our relations. as
we must, our hearts go out to him
with sincerest love, and with the earn
est prayer, that wherever his appoint
ment ard duty calls him, his min.
jstrv for his Lord and his personal!
life may be more and more potential
and day by day grow sweeter as the
years go bye.
Dr.. Duffey feelingly responded,
stating that the separation was mu-
tually painful. but that he looked TO
the future with no misgivings.
Over one hundred new members
have been received in the past year.
The Sunday School numbers seven
hundred ard th!rty-fve in all depart
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