Evening star., 1927-11-12
BISHOP HENDRIX. 3d..
DIES IN KANSAS CITY.
Senior PreIate Of Southern
Methodist Church Retired
After so Years Service.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, November L.
Rishop Eugene Russell Hendrix, So
retired senior bishop of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South. who was
forced to terminate more than oV
wears of service in 1922 because of III
health. died at his home here last
night.
He is survived by three daughters
Mrs George Waring, Grand Rap1ds'
Mich: Mrs. Mastin Simpson and MRS.
Paul Mohr, and son. Nathan Scarrltt
Hendrix, all of Kansas City.
Bishop Hendrix was leader IN
Sirtually every great movement under
taken hv his, denomination for more
than half a century.
Led Missionary Work.
Bishop H en- drix's s outstanding
achievement was recognized as MS
leadership in the missionary interests
Of the church. In his early ministry
he accompanied Bishop Marvin on his
Episcopal visit to China. He paid
official visits later to the mission neldS
of Japan, Mexico. Korea and Brazil,
and is considered to have been largely
instrumental in establishing missions
of the Southern Methodist Church in
those centers. He is credited with
being the founder of the Methodist
Mission in Korea.
Bishop Hendrix was a leading advo-
cate OF establishing the Scarritt Bible
and Ira ming School where the question
~ opening a school to train workers
for the home and the foreign field was
agitated in the church in 1SS9-90. He
was made president of the board of
, trust of the school. established at
, Kansas City. and held this position
, until reorganization of the college and
its removal to Nashville in 1924. He
then was made president emeritus of
, the board.
. In June. 1922, Bishop and Mrs. Hen
hrix celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary at their home in Kansas
SCity. One of the most noteworthy
Gtfts they received was loving cup
0ent by the bishops of the church.
Became Bishop in 1886.
Bishop Hendrix was elevated to the
episcopacy by the general conference
. meeting at Richmond. Va, in 1886
He served as member of the ecu
menical conferences of 1891 and 1911.
and was fraternal messenger to the
bishop conference in 1900.
In 1908 Bishop Hendrix was made
first president of the Federal Council
OF Churches of Christ in America. con-
.sidered one of the highest offices in
-the gift Of the combined Protestant
6enomina tons of America. He filled
SAis position until 1912.
His counsel on the matter of unifica-
zion of the Northern and Southern
bra nches of the Methodist Church.
which he advocated. was recognized as
authoritative by both branches. of the
oh NJ
times to solve the overlapping of ac-
tivities of the two jurisdictions in their
episcopal areas. The deadliest foe in
religious controversy he considered to
BE- prejudice.
Bishop Hendrix wrote several books
that have been widely read in religious
circles. His best known publications
are around the World" published in
1878; Skilled Labor for the Master"
1901: Personality of the Holy Spirit"
1908; Religion of the Incarnation" ;"
1908, and IF Had Not Come" 1916.
Born i'm Missouri.
Bishop Hendrix, the son Of Adam
and Isabel Murray Hendrix. was born
at Fayette, Mo. May II. 1S47. He was
graduated from the Union Theological
Seminary in 1859, later taking his
bachelors and masters degrees at
wesleyan University. The following
honorary degrees were conferred upon
Dim:
d. D., Emory College, 1873; IL. D..
University Of Missouri, 1888: LII D.,
University OF North Carolina. 1888;
LII. D.. Washington and Lee Univer.
eity. 1902: d. D., Wesleyan Un!ver.
sity, 1903.
He entered the ministry in 1869 and
was ordained to preach in 1870. About
two years later be married Miss Annie
E. Scarritt. whose father, Rev. Nathan
Scarritt, was a prominent Methodist
minister in Missouri and Kansas.
Besides filling some important pas
toeRtes in Kansas and Missouri, Bishop
aendrix was president of Central Col
leGe in Missouri for many years. He
reagned that position when elevated
to the episcopacy.
When made a bishop in the Metho-
dist Church. Bishop Hendrix and his
wife made their home in Kansas City.
Mrs. Hendrix died in November. 1922.