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A. RELIGIOUS WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE, CHURCH, HOME ANDSGHOOL.

 

 

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Organ of the Louisville, Kentucky, and Western Virginia
Annual Conferences M. E. Church, South.

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The New Anti-Saloon League Superintendent
For Kentucky

Ilev. N. A. I’almer, the Supe1intendent of
the Anti—Saloon League of Kentucky, was
in Lexington a few days ago and spoke in two
of the churches. He is a gentleman of pleasing
appearance and manner and has had large ex—

perience in temperance work. He was for
many years a Methodist preacher in Ohio. His

task is a hard 011e, to re—organize the work in
Kentucky and reform the scattered ranks of the
temperance forces. Bev. T. B. Buckingham
and President W. B. Beauchamp have held
things together for several months past the best
they could, but still the forces are badly dis—
organized. Then there is the unprovoked op~
position of the Prohibition leaders to the Anti—
Saloon League organization. But the redeem—
ing feature. of it all is that a large majority of
the Stat’c s citi71111s is in favor of the destruction
of the saloon. The leaders 111ay‘blun1lei‘ and
stumble occasionally, but the work will go on
till this blighting curse has been wiped from
the State.

The Central Methodist—Advocate loves
temperance workers,
per'ance and the complete
saloon.

all the
and shall stand for tem-
overthrow of the

Revival at First Church, Lexington

One week of our meeting is now past, and.
we are already in the midst of a real revival.
No member of this church can recollect a meet—
ing that has had such attendance, at any period.
of its program, as this one has already had.
Even 'the day meetings during the week have
been largely attended, and the large auditorium
has been well filled every evening. Last S1111—
day brought the greatest crowds that have ever
been 111 the church since the dedication day, last
January 10th. All. the pews. 11010 crowded,
even in the balcony, and the chairs were used in
every conceivable nook and corner of the room.
Besides that, the head usher said: “One l11111~
dred and fifty persons 111'11e turned away, who
could not find seats.” Mr. W. .I. Ilamsay, of
Chattanooga, is proving to be 2 great leader of
sono'. Heb lias Gotten together a laige choius
1hoir of splendid 1oices, and he also secures suc—
cessful congiegational singing He is, best of
all, a man of: faith and play 01, and knows how
to do effective personal work among the 1111-
saved. people. _

Bev. Frank Y. Jackson, the preacher, has
completely captivated the congregation of First,
Church, and is attracting wide attention in the
whole city. He is preaching twice every day.
with spiritual power and great earnestness. God
is with him. Ivory sermon has been impress-
iv,c but the one 011 Sunday 1110111111g, from Dan—
iel . “The people who know God shall be strong,
and do exploits,” was of such an unusual. charac—
ter that its impression will be remarked 011 for
ye are to come by those who were privileged to
hear it. It was clear and cumulative from the

beginning to the end, and gripped and held the
people as if by a magic spell. It was more than
the power of eloquence, more than the mastery
of personal earnestness and. enthusiasm, it was
the power of the Spirit of God. Wave after
wave of emotion swept over the throng of peo—
ple, who hung 011 the thrilling message of the
desperately earnest preacher, so much that
above the death stillness could be heard sobs
and crying of men who were simply overcome
by the mighty message which God had sent by
His consecrated servant. The first sign of vic-
tory came 1111 last Friday evening, when the
first invitation of the meeting was given, and
eight persons stood. 11p for prayer. An after
service was held, at which three of the eight
persons were brightly converted. We are still
praying for the conversion of the other five. On
Sunday evening eight 111' ton others asked for
prayer and two were converted. IV'e are hold—
ing the meeting in the old fashioned way of
inviting seekers forward to the altar of prayer,
and urging them to pray for personal salvation.
Many are uniting with the church by letter and
on pi oJ ession but the main point of the meeting
is the bringing of the people to God. Manv
members of {the church are acknowledging that
‘lit1ey9-11‘ere never truly 1:1'1111'111'led and. are pray—
ing, and many others who have grown cold are

renewing their covenants with the Lord. We
have begun this campaign. for victory! It will

be a Titanic struggle to obtain a sweeping
spiritual revival in this city of so much world—
liness and sin, and. where so many superficial
meetings have been held in different churches.
But God is able to give 11s the victory, and our
faith hasvclaimed it of Him. A great meeting
here means the kindling ofa fire that will
spread triumphant throughout Central Ken—
tuckv, and we t1ust,througl1out the State.
Friends in many places outside of Lexington,
have sent 11s tidings of their deep interest and
promises of their prayers. IL'ill our readers
please to all remember 11s in this our deep strug—
gle to see an awakened church, and a. wide
spread. revival? Many of 0111' people in Ken-
tucky do not realize how far short we have
fallen of our mission as a church in this great
section 11f the State. It has come to the point.
of a deep heart-cry with the writer, but he has
sighted. the dawn of a brighter day. We hope
by another week to make this editorial page
'parkle with the glowing account of a great
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First Meeting Held by the Kentucky Conference
Evangelist

The first meeting of Ilcv.I1'l K. I’ike, held
with Rev. A. Redd. ol Mt. IIope charge, was
quite a success, as mav be seen by theb ieport
in this week" s issue of the papei. It looks like
God] is putting the stamp of His approval 1111
the a1ti11n ot (’onlcieme and the Boaid ot IIis—
sions in puttim1 au evangelist in the field. \\c
p10bablys should have cput two or more men into
that 11011. The Oklahoma Conference had an
evangelist in every presiding eldc1"s district
last year, and the enterprise was a conspicuous
success. They not only had great: revivals, but
raised a surplus for the Mission Board above
their salaries and expenses. The entire C011—

feience 1epmted ten thousand conversions :1'111
the past (‘onfeience year.

Ilolston Confeience reported fourteen thou-
sand conversions for the. year and eight thou—
sand. additions to the church. 0111' one evan—
gelist can not do all the work of that kind in
our territory this year, so the pastors will have
to turn themselves into evangelists and try to
awaken some of our sleeping and dead churches
into storm—centers of power and spiritual ac-
tivity.

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Saloonists on Chain-Gang

BY REV. C. F. Evan's, D. D.

I11 Shreveport, La, 011 October 27, thirty
near—beer dealers recently convicted of violating
the prohibition law were sentenced by District
ludge T. F. Bell.

The total fines 011 sinty— —one charges amounted
to $8,300, while the imprisonment amounted to.
fifty months. The punishment varied, showing
that the judge carefully investigated circum-
stances surrounding each case.

Some were sentenced to as much as four
months 011 the public roads, while the least sen—
tence was thirty days, which was received by
about half the number. In two instances, those
oI’JlS. IV. Barber and .I. 3.,St1-ickland, cripples,
only a fine was assessed. i1‘ilith only one or two
1_1.vceptions all of the offenders were sentenced
to the good roads, and. will be transferred from
jail right away. .

Before passing sentences, Judge Bell
stated that notwithstanding convictions before
Judge Murff several months ago the offenses
have been more numerous than before, and the
situation was such as to convince him there was
a combination here for the purpose of absolutely
defying the prohibition law.

He also declared that the City Council‘was
partially responsible for the conviction 11f the
offenders because of the adoption of an ordi-~
nance licensing the sale of near-beer. He also
held the brewers responsible, saying that they
used the near—beer dealers simply as their tools
and dupes.

In this State we are familiar with, such con-
spiracies of liquor men and even public officials
to nullity the “local option law. ” But only in
a iew instances ha1e we seen judges with the.
energetic purpose of this Louisiana Judge—who
is one of the ablest. lawyers and judges in that
State. He knows how to vindicate the law as
well. ast the dignity of the office he holds. It. is
a pit1 we have no chain-gang g, as in Louisiana,
to which convicts might be assigned, for worl:
on the country roads, or city streets. With such
a penaltv more effectual than the highest fine
and greatly more dieadlul than the minimum

limit. usually assessed. (There would. be no
“blind tigers,” either).
There would be no “blind tigers,’ either

vulgar or genteel if the courts had even com-
111011 self—respect. Their lack of moral courage
and their love of office more than repute for
fidelity, brings the judiciary into contempt
from which they vainly attempt. to extricate
themselves by an occasional fine or jail sentence.
In those counties where the typical judge
realizesihis responsibility and obligations the
saloon men with their smvpathizers p1omptlv

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The wide diffusion of lawlessness in this and
other States is not due to a general evolution
of appetites or passions, but to the general feel—
ing that it is an easy matter to evade the penalties
of the law, and that the judge himself is not
in sympathy with its mandates and does not
scruple to set it aside. For this some pretext
is always plausible and some method always
feasible.

There is no need to charge witnesses with
perjury, nor Grand Juries, Sheriffs and pros-
ecuting attorneys with graft or nonfeasance or
malfeasance. At the least, the responsibility
rests with the court which has authority to pro—
tect itself from contempt, and chiefly and first
of all in proving itself not contemptible.

If a court constitutes an unworthy Grand
Jury or allows it done—or going further back.

appoints Jury Commissions of men who are vio-_

lators of the law, and whose first thought it is to
protect themselves, they but invite lawlessness,
and obligate themselves to protect law—breakers,
but they expose inevitably their own corruption
to the best men in_ the community and invite
their loathing and contempt.

Lexington, Ky.

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Louisville Conference Delegates to the General
Conference

In this issue we give the pictures of the dele-
gates elected by the Louisville Conference to
the coming General Conference, excepting that
of Mr. James W. Clay, of Henderson, Ky. He
has promised us a photograph of himself, but
so far it has not been received. We are quite
sure this delegation of ministers and laymen
'will be one of the best in the General Confer-
ence and will be heard from in the councils of
that great body. -

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Announcement of Rev. Frank Jackson

Rev. Frank Jackson, of Knoxville, Tenn., who
is at present doing the preaching in a meeting
at First Church, L xington, requests us to stay,
editorially, that he ‘ n not make any more en-
gagements any where this year ; that he has
already promised all the time that he can devote
to that kind of work. He makes this announce-
ment through the paper to save the labor of
answering so many letters. He has a heavy pas-
torate and is so ever worked that he really has
not time to answer in person the numerous calls.
New Superintendent of the Kentucky Anti-Saloon

League

(From American Issue.)

Rev. Norman A. Palmer, who has just re-
cently been elected Superintendent of the Ken—
tucky Anti-Saloon League, was for four years
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REV. R. W. BROWDER, D. D.
Bowling Green, Ky.

A clerical delegate to the General Conference,
May, 1910, from the' Louisville Conference.
He is now presiding elder of the Bowling Green
District of that Conference.

 

REVLF. M. THOMAS, D. D.
Morganfield, Ky.
. ’ ,Clerical delegatefrom Louisville Conference
to the coming Genéfiial Conference M. E.
Church, South, May,‘,‘1i~910. Elected to head
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Minnesota. He took up the work in that State
when the Anti-Saloon League movement was at
low ebb. He thoroughly reorganized the
League, placed it upon a substantial financial
footing, and was responsible, more than any
other man, for making it the political and moral
force in Minnesota which it has become. Mr.
Palmer resigned the superintendency 0f the
Minnesota League last spring on account of
poor health, brought on by the strenuous local
option campaign through which he had led the
moral forces. After a few months of recupera—
tion, during which he has completely regained

his health, .he hasconsentednto.acceptth e per.- .1...

intendency of the, Kentucky League anc. lead
the fight in that State for county local option
and ultimate State-wide prohibition. The Anti—
Saloon forces of the Blue Grass State are for-
tunate in having secured the services of a man
like Superintendent Palmer. No more con—
scientious, Godfearing, persistent and deter-
mined foe of the liquor traffic was ever enlisted
in the cause of saloon annihilation than the new
Superintendent of Kentucky. The American
Issue bespeaks for him the enthusiastic and
hearty support of all Kentuckians who are in—
terested in the fight against the saloon, and the
degree of success which heretofore has crowned
his efforts.

Personal Mention

Reij. W. Robertson, P. E., of the Danville
District, has moved his residence from George-
town to Shelbyville, Ky. ‘

Dr. Gross Alexander, who has been living
some years at Louisville, Ky., has removed to
Oklahoma City, Okla. The Doctor himself,
however, we suppose, will spend much of his
time at Nashville, Tenn, as heretofore, he being
the Book Editor and editor of the Review of our
Church.

We are credibly informed that our scholarly
young pastor at Woodlawn, Ky., Rev. J. E.
Moss, has been handsomely treated by the
friends of his charge, with a donation of many
needful things, and that his Board of Stewards
has cheerfully added $100 to his salary for the
new Conference year. This is a token of the
general appreciation in which he is held.

Dr. Carlisle, whose severe illness, we men-
tioned last week, died at his home at Spartan-
burg, S. C., October 21. There is no layman in
our Church whose death will call out more uni-
versal or more eulogistic notice of his life and
work. A fuller notice is given in another col—
umn from the N. C. Advocate.

Thanks to the Jessamine News

Under the heading, “A Splendid Paper,” the
Jessamine News, of Nicholasville, Ky, has the
following kind words to say of us:

“The News does not know of as great inprove— ,
ment in either a secular or religious paper, as
in that of the Central Methodist—Advocate,
edited and owned by Rev. E. G. B. Mann. It
is full of live, up-to—date reading, and in every.
department there is a marked improvement. If
anything, we like it better than the Nashville
Christian Advocate, the organ of the Southern
Methodist church. Every Methodist should
subscribe for the Central Methodist—Advocate.”

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Death of Dr. Carlisle

Dr. James H. Carlisle died at his home in
Spartanburg, S. C., on Thursday October 21,
in his 85th year, and when he passed away the
church militant lost one of its greatest men and
the country one of its formost citizens and edu—
cators. ,

He was a son of Dr. Wm. Carlisle, who came
from Ireland in 1818 and settled in Winnsboro,
S. C., where James H. Carlisle was born May
4, 1825. He graduated from S. C. College in
1844 and entered at once upon his life work as
a teacher. When Wofford College opened in
1854 he was chosen professor of mathematics.
From that time he has served that institution
and in 1875 was chosen President, which po-
sitionhe held until 1902, when he resigned and
became President Emeritus.

Dr. Carlisle was a great scholar, a great
hearted and consecrated saint and a great
teacher who drew to him the student body of
the College and molded the character of so
many of the young men who went to Wofford.

His Sunday School class at Central church,
Spartanburg, was always large and his lectures
on the lessons were always impressive and con-
vincing. For many years h}! contributed every

"Week" t‘6"thE~Siii1tlayr School Magazine and thus

reached our whole connection. He was a great
layman and withal a great theologian for few
among us possessed so wide and accurate a
knowledge of the Scriptures Llld of church his—
tory.

South Carolina has furnished to the world no
citizen who measured up to this great teacher
and his influence lives in the thousands who
came under his influence and will go through
the eternities‘.

We thank God for the life of a man so wise,
so good, so useful, and since he has gene we feel
that a mighty man, a prince in Israel has
fallen—~yea rather has been exalted to a place
near to the Throne of Him whom he so faith—
fully served here below.—North Carolina Ad-
vocate.

 

News Notes

John D. Rockefeller gives a million dollars
for fighting the hook worm in the South, and
Bishop Chandler at once advises the people not
to be taken in by the “hook worm commission,”
adding that the South can get along well
nough without “Rockefellcr’s million dollar
dose of vermifuge.”

Prince Ito, of Japan, in charge of affairs in
Korea, has been assassinated recently by a-
Korean. The Korean Patriotic League has gone
so far as to commend the act, which may lead to
further complications. One thing appears cer-
tain, the Japanese are determined to com—
pletely subjugate Korea to their own interests.
They are also making inroads on China as far
as they dare and not arouse the opposition of
other nations.

Saturday last, in a foot ball game between
West Point and Harvard, a West Point cadet,
named Byrne, received injuries from which he
died soon afterward. The same day, a student
named Burke, aged 21, at Philadelphia, in a
football game was injured and died on the field.

  

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At Buckner, Mo., also, a young Indian, a mem—
ber of a football team, engaged in a match
game, had a vertebra fractured and died in the
hospital that night. Another player at Komo-
mo, Ind._, was kicked on the head in Saturday’s
game and is thought to be dying. A whole team
at St. Louis was so badly hurt that they have
called off all other games for the season. The
reader may draw his own conclusion.

Bishop Ward, whose recent death, in China,
the entire Church mourns, though not a Col—
lege graduate himself, was greatlv interested in
the Southwestern University, Texas, especially
the Theological Department. He had planned
to raise $100,000 for the endowment of that
department, had. raised $25,000, and on his
return from China was going to complete it.
3711?] University suffered a great loss in his

car.

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An Opening for Some of our Friends

“I e are in ieceipt of information that a drug—

gist, a butcher, and a music teacher are wanted'

in a good county seat in Western Kentucky.
Southern Methodists preferred. .

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A Tribute to Kentucky Women

The late Governor Johnson, of Minnesota
paid a beautiful tribute to the women of Ken:
tucky at a banquet in Louisville, last vear,
when, in speaking of the various delegations of
women he had met at a convntion in Boston a
short time before, he said: “There are three
delegations that I remember most particularly
and with greatest pleasure. They are the Bos—
ton women, because of their brilliant minds ; the
l‘exas women, because of their beauty, and the
Kentucky women, because of both their beauty
and mental capabilities.” V

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..11...-1'.._w_$§-I~Ir‘thedname‘0‘f*$i§€‘C‘l‘lul'Cl1 and in the. inter—
est of the Christian manhood and womanhood

ot the future, I beg my brethren in the pastor-
ate ,to consider the claims of the ~ Epworth
League. For the time, labor, and money ex-
pended upon it nothing has ever paid! the
church so well. It is the church’s open door
for its children.”

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it on some worthy purpose.”

 

 

REV. A. P. LYON.
EliZabethtown, Ky. - . -_
Clerical delegate from the Louisville Confer-

ence to the General Conference at Asheville,.

May, 1910. Presiding Elder of the Elizabeth-
town District. " ” ‘ " ‘ ' ' '

 

CENTRAL. METHODIST-ADVOCATE

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Bev. Gross Alexandeer. D., Editor of Quarterly Review, M. E. Church, South. Minis—

terial delegate from Louisville Conference to

the General Conference, May, 1910.

 

Orphans’ Home Notes \

We trust that the offerings from the fifth
Sunday this time will be above the average, and
we are expecting to hear from a great many
schools this week.

‘ The Home Mission Society of the Pleasant
Run church, on the Bussellville circuit, sent us
a coop of 33 nice chickens, and. we hereby thank
them most heartily for this splendid donation.

This Society never forgets us. Could we not-

hear from several Secieties the same way? -

A nice quilt sent by Mrs. G. G.“ Wilson, of
Beech Grove church, is from the Ladies’ Aid
Society of that church, and represents many
hours of work on their part, and was greatly

. appreciated by us, especially by our matrons,
' Miss Laura and Miss Emma, as well as by our

ladies’ board.

Our Orphans” Home )ommittee at Pine
Grove church, College Hill circuit, sent us a
large box well packed with everything good,
and brought much joy'and happiness to our
little ones. So you see we are already enjoying

.,'.l‘.hanksgiving and. Christmas well. We. are

ready, let them come on. Who’ll be the next?

A few more schools have reported on the fifth
Sunday offering of last quarter. They are Sal—
visa, Main Street, Owingsville, Salt Well and
Virginia Avenue, this city.

This closes the reports for this quarter and
the schools reporting number 275, which is a
real good shmving. Let us not be satisfied with
“well doing,” but do even better next time.
Average per school $2.32.

Mrs. Smuck, of Loretto, made a visit to the
home this week.

' Another" one of our nice girls placed in a good
home this week. Sincerely,
E. S. BOSWELL, Agent.

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American Problems Confronting the American
Church ‘
BY Rev CHARLES STELZLE.

A Publicity Campaign, varied in its methods,
but continent—wide in its reach, is about to be
inaugurated by the Home Missions Council.
which is composed of the Home Mission and
other Boards of practically every Protestant
Church in America interested in missionary ac-
tivity in the United States. .

The most. pressing problems confronting the
American Church, such as immigration, the in—
dustrial situation, the race problem, the. prob—

lems of the city and the country church, besides
other important questions, will be discussed
by experts in the daily and weekly newspapers,
and in the religious press. The Council,
through its Publicity Committee, will seek to
unify the general literature issued by the
various Boards, using, in some instances, the
same leaflets. In this way, only the best mater—
ial will be employed.

Early in January a series lot one day public—
ity meetings will be held in at least fifteen

cities, the mornings and afternoons to be de- .

voted to a presentation of practical questions
which apply to the district in which the meet-
ings are being held. It is planned to make these
discussions specifically suggestive to the minis-
ters and other workers who shall attend, so that
they may more easily carry on aggressive work
in their own communities. The men of the
churches of all denominations will be invited
to a supper for a full discussion of methods
among those in whom they are particularly in—
terested. While no money is to be raised at any
of the meetings, excepting for the purpose of
defraying local expenses, experts on financial
matters will present their methods of raising
funds for home mission wark. Popular mass
metings will be held in the evening in one of
the leading churches of the city, which will be
addressed by an authority on some specialized
American problem, and by one of the Board
Secretaries, who will speak on the home mission
enterprise in its brozulestraspects. Speakers of
national reputation and men who are authori-
ties on the subjects to he presented, will lead
in the discussions.

This campaign is to mark the beginning of a
series of movements which will have for their
object the acquainting of the Church at large,
as well as those outside of the Church, with the
importance and the immensity of the modern
home mission situation—a situation which
should enlist the support of every Christian
patriot.

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Quick laundering 'of napkins is accomplished
by preparing a basin of warm suds in which
there is one teaspoonful javelle water to one gal-
lon of hot water. Rinse napkins in cold water
first, allow them to soak in the suds while wash-
ing dishes. Wash them out on a 10—cent wash
board, rinse and hang up to dry. Iron them
while yet damp, saving the time of sprinkling.
This process is quick work i Ii an emergency,

 

 

 

 Robert Kennon Hargrove

. BY JOHN WILSON TOWNSEND. .

Kentucky has most excellent claims on five
bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South: Henry B. Bascom, H. H. Kavanaugh,
Robert K. Hargrove, Henry Clay Morrison,
and John J. Tigert.
were natives of Kentucky; three may be con—
sidered as adopted sons. And of the three who
became citizens of this State, Hargrove holds
a prominent place. j

Born in Pick'ens county, Alabama, September
17, 1829, Robert Kennon Hargrove was the
son of Daniel and Laodicea Hargrove, who
were natives of North Carolina. Robert was
reared on a large cotton plantation. He was
prepared for college at a district school and
a county academy. Entering the University
of Alabama he was graduated there in 1852.
Immediately upon graduation he married Har—
riet C. Scott, of Tuscaloosa, and he was shortly
thereafter elected professor of mathematics in
the University. He occupied the chair for five
years. _

In 1857 Hargrove quit the classroom for the
pulpit, joining the Alabama Conference of the
M. E. Church, South, in December of that
year. His first two years in the ministry were
spent as a circuit rider, from which he went to
a small station. He was a chaplain in the Con-
federate army. Soon after the close of the
war Hargrove was elected president of Cen-
tenary Institute in Alabama, and he served
the struggling school until 1867, when he gave
up the work to come to Kentucky to again
enter pastoral work.

Robert K. Hargrove arrived in Lexington,
Kentucky, early in December, 1867, and suc—
ceeded the Rev. B. M. Messick as pastor of the
old Hill Street church. He preached his first
sermon in his new charge on Sunday morn—
ing, December 22, and, of course, it was
a Christmas sermon. While he was pastor of
the Hill Street shock, the Sabbath services were
held at eleven o’clock in the morning and
seven—thirty o’clock in the evening. The lVed-
nesday night prayer-meetings were also con-
ducted at seven-thirty o’clock. Hargrove
preached his last sermon in the Hill Street
church on Sunday, June 13, 1869. He was
pastor of the church for almost eighteen
months, and notfor nine months, as tradition
has it. He was succeeded by Rev: S. X. Hall.

Leaving Lexington Hargrove went to Ten—
nessee, where he again became a college presi—
dent, serving as head of the Tennessee Female

 

 

 

A. C. TAYLOR.
Central City, Ky.
A‘1ay delegate'from 'the Louisville Confer—
ence, to the next General Conference at Ashe-
ville, May, 1910.

Of these five men, two -

CENTRAL METHODIST-ADVOCATE

 

R. HOLBERT.
Elizabethtown, Ky.
Lay delegate to the General Conference at

Asheville, May, 1910, from the Louisville Con—
ference.

 

College at Franklin. This position he held
for about five years. ' The year 1873 saw him as
pastor of a TennesSee congregation, and he now
continued as pastor and presiding elder until
1882, when he was elected a bishop of his
church.

Bishop Hargrove rendered magnificent ser-
vice to the Church. He wasthe first to think
of the bond-scheme that liquidated a debt of

some three-hundred- thousand..dollars,from.the .. a

publishing house of the M. E. Church, South;
he was the real founder of the VVoman’s Par—
sonage and Home Mission Society. In 1885
he was made secretary of the college of bishops.
When the great Bishop Holland Nimmons Mc—
Tyeire, first president of the board of trust
of Vanderbilt University, died on February
15, 1889, Bishop Hargrove was chosen as his
successor. In 1894 he was made chairman of
the Epworth League board of management.
He was also a member of a half dozen other
important church committees. He died, full of
age and honors, in 1905. ‘
Lexington, Ky. '

n

The Laymen’s Missionary Movement in the South

BY REV. W. G. CRAM.

The first of the Laymen’s Missionary Con-
ventions to be held in the South during the
closing months of this year and the opening
months of 1910 was held in Bristol, Tennessee,
October 19—21. These meetings are held under
the auspices of the National Committee of the
Laymen’s Missionary Movement. This
National Committee has planned a schedule of
conventions which are to be held in the princi-
pal cities of the North and South, ending with
a National Missionary Congress which is to be
held in Chicago, May 3-6. The meeting at
Bristol was characterized by a deep interest in

the great missionary movement coupled with'

strong expressions of personal faith in the final
triumph of the Kingdom of Christ. Personal

loyalty to Christ and hearty co—operation with '

him in his program of world—conquest was the
keynote of the convention. Truly the laymen
of the different denominations are coming to
their own in the affairs of the Kingdom. It
was a matter of thanksgiving to See 'men of
vast business interests lay aside for three days
their business enterprises to discuss the question
of world—wide evangelization.

Not only do these meetings give a larger
vision of the importance of giving the truths
of our faith to the wOrld at large but the'bless-

Ag‘fi‘ée’it‘ivb‘i'k' of the Church of Christ.

November 4, 1909.

ings received by each individual are such as to
give new views of life and new experiences of
a spiritual character which are destined to
change the whole tenor of thought and faith
and practice. After attending one of these
meetings men go away with an increased sense

of the responsibility of stewardship; foreign

missions is no longer viewed as a bug—bear,
robbing the church of her legitimate fruits and
offerings, but is seen as a stepping stone to
higher and more unselfish service for the
Master ; the enthusiastic purpose, undaunted
faith and lofty motives of the Church of Christ,
as set forth by lecture and round-table confer-
ence, become healthful tonics to the thought-
life and faith—life of the enervated Christian
who may be in attendance. .

Several of these meetings will be held in
cities lying in close proximity to the borders
of Kentucky Methodism. Therefore no layman
or minister should miss the opportunity of at—
tending at least one of these meetings. The
dates and places of the meetings which are
close to us are as follows: Huntington, W. Va,
January 27-28 ; Cincinnati, Ohio, January
28-30; Louisville, Ky., February 1-3.

The Laymen’s Missionary Conference of our
Southern Methodism will be held in Dallas,
Texas from February 22—24. A strong dele-
gation ought to go from Kentucky. It is com—
monly reported, and I believe falsely, that Ken-
tucky Methodists are not interes