page_title: Robert Kennon Hargrove
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Kennon Hargrove
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: christianheralds18unse (find matches) Title: Christian herald and signs of our times Year: 1895 (1890s) Authors: Subjects: Publisher: (New York, The Christian Herald) Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association Digitizing Sponsor: Tisch Library, Tufts University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: work. He served in the University of Alabama as Professor of Mathematics, and was for sometime President of Centenary Institute, and of Tennessee Female College. He was elected Bishop in 1882. He has won the admiration of his section by his stalwart Christian principles, his unswerving integrity, and his large liberality in supporting the various enterprises of the church. Rev. Samuel Augustus Steel, D.D., is one of the best-known ministers of the Southern Church. His visit to New York in 1888 as a representative of his branch of the church to the General Conference will not soon be forgotten. His address on that occasion thrilled his critical audience by its commanding eloquence and the sterling good sense which it showed. Th eNorthern church perceived that the South had a man of might in its ranks whom any section might be proud to number among its leaders. Dr. Steel is in the prime of life, having just entered his forty-seventh year. He comes of ministerial stock, his father having been a trav- Text Appearing After Image: BISHOP R. K. HARGROVE. (President of Epworth League of M. B. Church, South.) / ones are in the midst of the severities of a Western winter, without food and fuel, and with nothing but rags to cover them. We are sure that their condition will appeal to the heart of every follower of Him who bade us feed the hungrv and clothe the naked.* TIIK S&lt;HTIIEI(\ I.KADKRS. Members of the Epworth League in all parts of the country will be glad to see the two portraits which adorn this page. They are the portraits of the chief officers of the Epworth League of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. In this, as in every organization of its kind, while the main reliance must always be on the local and church company, the success of the organization as a whole depends very much on the men at the head of it. Inspiration and stimulus and direction must come fromt hem. They are its leaders, and as the soldier looks to his general for the plan of the campaign, while doing his humble duty in the ranks, so the E Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Robert Kennon Hargrove was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1882.
context_section_description: Robert Kennon Hargrove (1829–1905) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1882.
caption: Robert Kennon Hargrove (left) as published in Christian herald and signs of our times (1895)
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