{"1": {"fulltext": "il^\\nm\\nW", "height": "2980", "width": "1971", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "V\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0o-\\no 0\\n,0^\\n.,i\\no 0-\\n8 1\\n^.,0^\\n^.f^.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2C\\n^0 C\\n-\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J -Of\\no^\\n,0-\\no c\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0-4\\n^^x.\\n-i.^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2A V. i \\\\v\\nrv C-\\n-N^\\n.(v- c^\\ny:^^\\nxO\\nf", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "O 0^\\n,0o.\\no 0\\n.0-\\nr. i-.\\ny j-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0r.\\nP\\nvO o.\\n^^\\\\s\\nV\\n-t^\\n.0 o^\\n.0-\\nc\\nV,\\n-0\\n.S -T-w.\\nW X\\nV\\n.V\\nv-^\\nvO o.\\nx\\n,xv^-\\no.\\nJ w u\\nc^.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "The Anjstals\\nOF\\nCHEIST OHUKCH PARISH\\nOP\\nLITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS,\\nFROM\\nA. D. 1839 TO A. D. 1899.\\nCOMPILED B\\nELLEN HARRELL CANTRELL.\\nIf there be no nobility of descent, all the more indispensable is it, that there\\nshould be nobility of ascent\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a character, in them that bear rule, so fine and high\\nand pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily\\npay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the royalty of virtue.\\nBishop Henry C. Potter.\\nPRESS OF\\nArkansas Democrat Co.\\nlittle rock,\\n1900.\\nV.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "53735\\niLibnxx y of Concir\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00abe\\nSEP 29 1900\\nCopyngM entry\\nStCt^Nr COPY.\\nUti*vut\u00c2\u00ab to\\nOHOtK DIVISION,\\nOCT 15 1900\\nCopyright, 1900,\\nBy ELLEN HARRELL CANTRELL.\\n^4 1^", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "TO\\nMY MOTHER,\\nWHO BEING DEAD, YET SPEAKETH.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREKACE.\\nThe burning of the First Episcopal Church in Little\\nRock, together with all the church records, on Sunday, Sep-\\ntember 28, 1873, has been felt by the congregation to be an\\never recurring calamity, as incidents and dates connected with\\nits history have faded almost into irreclaimable obscurity. It\\nhas been the aim of the writer to restore the main facts con-\\nnected with the birth and progress of the church by means\\nof oral and epistolary tradition, and in this manner, however\\ninadequate, to fill the hiatus caused by the missing data, and\\ntlien, with the help of the new register, to continue with the\\nannals of the church to the present time.\\nThis has necessarily been a slow process, especially as\\nthe work has been designed, from the beginning, to occupy\\nonly such legitimate leisure Imurs as the demands of a large\\nfamily have left unclaimed.\\nThe profits of the work, if any, will be devoted to the\\nmissions of the Diocese of Arkansas.\\nELLEN HARRELL (WXTRELL.\\n(no Scott street. Little Rock, Ark., Mav IT. 1899.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPART FIRST.\\nPortrait of Rt. Rev. Leonidas Polk, D. D., Bishop of Arkansas and\\nthe Southwest, later first Bishop of Louisiana He makes a visi-\\ntation and sends the Rev. William Henry Christopher Yeager\\nas Missionary Minister, to organize a parish of the Protestant\\nEpiscopal Church, in Little Rock Biography of Bishop Polk\\nPhotograph of St. John s Church, Ashwood, Tenn., which was\\nbuilt by Bishop Leonidas Polk and his brothers.\\nPortrait of First Senior Warden, John H. Crease Biographies of\\nWardens and members of the first Vestry and choir.\\nBiographies of some heads of families connected with the first\\nChurch.\\nPortrait of Rt. Rev. James Hervey Otey, D. D., LL. D., first Bishop\\nof Tennessee and Provisional Missionary Bishop of Arkansas\\nand the Southwest Biography, with pocket diaries and letters,\\ncarefully transcribed The building of the Church Its consecra-\\ntion by Bishop Otey Appointed Bishop of Arkansas to succeed\\nBishop Freeman in 18.58 Accepted, but died in 1863. before\\nmaking another visitation.\\nBiographies of second and third missionary ministers, Rev. James\\nYoung, December, 1843 A. D., and Rev. W. T. Saunders.\\nPortrait of Rt. Rev. George Washington Freeman, D. D.. second\\nMissionary Bishop of Arkansas and the Southwest, with biog-\\nraphy.\\nPortrait of Rev. Andrew Field Freeman, first Rector of Christ\\nChurch, with biography Biographies of Wardens List of\\nVestrymen and choir members.\\nOrdination John Henry Ducachet Wingfield to the Diaconate by\\nBishop Freeman and attending Presbyters.\\nPortrait of Rt. Rev. Henry Ducachet Wingfield, D. D., LL. D., first\\nMissionary Bishop of Northern California\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Autobiography, with\\naccount of ordination as given in a Little Rock paper, and\\nletters.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "viii CONTENTS.\\nPortrait of Rev. John Thomas Wheat, D. D., second Rector of Christ\\nChurch, with biography and poems written at eighty years of\\nage Biographies of Wardens, with list of Vestrymen and choir,\\nwith letters Biography of Acting Rector, Rev. Wm. C. Stout.\\nPortrait of Rt. Rev. Henry Champlin Lay, D. D., LL. D., third Mis-\\nsionary Bishop of Arkansas and Indian Territory; translated\\nto Easton, Md., as first Bishop, with biography, letters, and ser-\\nmon Portrait of the third Rector of Christ Church, Rev. P. G.\\nRobert, with biography Biographies of Wardens and list of\\nVestrymen and choir members.\\nPortrait of Rt. Rev. Henry Niles Pierce, D. D., LL. D., fourth Mission-\\nary Bishop of Arkansas and Indian Territory, and first Diocesan,\\nhaving served twenty-eight years, in this jurisdiction Portrait\\nof Rev. Thomas Booth Lee, fourth Rector of Christ Church, with\\nbiography Biographies of Wardens and list of Vestrymen and\\nchoir members The burning of the Church.\\nPART SECOND.\\nPoem Photograph of the second church Portrait of the fifth Rector\\nof Christ Church, Rev. Tullius C. Tupper, with biography Biog-\\nraphies of Wardens and list of Vestrymen and choir members\\nChurch building in progress Services held in opera house. Cham-\\nber of Commerce, Supreme Court room, in Statehouse, and later,\\nin Christ Church Chapel, cov ring a period of fifteen years.\\nPortrait of the sixth Rector of Christ Church, Rev. Wallace Carna-\\nhan, with extracts from the parish paper, which he edited for\\nthree years Christ Church Rectory Church Described\u00e2\u0080\u0094 First\\nservice in the new Church, with names of organist and members\\nof the choir Biographies of Wardens, with funeral orations on\\nSenior Wa den. Judge W. W. Smith, carefully transcribed from\\nSupreme Court record Portrait of first Assistant Rector, Rev.\\nJohnE. H. Galbraith, with biography Brotherhood of St. Andrew.\\nPortrait of Rev. John Gass, seventh Rector of Christ Church, with\\nbiography and sermon; account of memorial services^ trans-\\ncribed from Little Rock paper Biographies of Wardens A list\\nof Vestrymen, and first vested choir Biography of Rev. James\\nNoble, second Assistant Rector of Christ Church.\\nBiography of Acting Rector, Rev. C. C. Kramer, of New Iberia. La.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS. ix\\nPortrait of Rev. George Gordon Smeade. eighth Rector of Christ\\nChurch, with biography and parochial report, also report for\\nthe committee, as chairman, on the State of the Church in\\nArkansas, as given in the Diocesan Journal of 1900 Biographies\\nof Wardens and list of Vestrymen and members of choir.\\nMissions of Christ Church St. Paul s, St. John s, St. Luke s War-\\ndens of Christ Church Treasurers of Christ Church Organists\\nand singers of Christ Church Officers of Ladies Aid Society\\nOfficers of the Chancel Society Officers of Daughters of the\\nKing Officers of Christ Church Branch of the Woman s Auxili-\\nary to the Board of Missions Officers of St. Cecilia s Guild.\\nPortrait of Rt. Rev. William Montgomery Brown, D. D., with biog-\\nraphy and summary of his work in Arkansas as given in Journal\\nof Twenty -eighth Annual Council.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF\\nChrist Church Parish,\\nLITTLE KOCK, ARKANSAS.\\nPART FIRST.\\nLittle l\\\\ock was a Held for missionaries of the Christian\\nreligion before it became a military post. The dove, emblem\\nof the Holy Spirit, had borne the olive branch with its message\\nof peace to the heathen of the trans-Mississippi forests, before\\ncannon and other equipments of war had been transported\\nto enforce it.\\nA. D. 1779-1825. The Koman Catholic missions at\\nArkansas Post and Pine Bluff were organized in 1779. ^Next\\ncame the disciples of John the Baptist to proclaim the Gospel\\nin this wilderness and to organize a mission, in 1824. The\\nChristian Church, which was an offshoot of the Baptist, was\\nestablished here in 1825, by the Rev. John T. Johnson, of\\nKentucky, who represented the Society of the Disciples of\\nChrist. Their church was seated on Scott street, between\\nMulberry and Walnut streets, now Third and Fourth.\\nA. D. 1 827. The Presbyterians came next, and, in\\n1827, built a wooden church near the corner of ]\\\\rain and\\nCherry (now Second) streets.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "2 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nA. D. 1 830. Tlic Tioinan Catholic priests planted a\\nmission here in 1830^ and hnilt a elmrch on the northwest\\ncorner of Louisiana and C^hestnnt (now Seventh) streets,\\nwhich was afterwards converted into a convent and school\\nfor girls.\\nA. D. 1833-1840. The Methodists came next, and, in\\n1833, hnilt a brick clinrch west of Main on (Mierrv, or Second\\nstreet. Seven vears later, in 1840, as the following letters\\nwill show, the Episcopal C hnrch was established in Little\\nRock.\\nCopy of a letter written bv Bishop Leonidas Polk, first\\nMissionary Bishop of the Episcopal C-hurch in Arkansas, to\\nMr. John H. Crease, of Little Rock\\n(Columbia, Tenn., Jnne 2(5, 1840.\\nTo Jolin II. Crcdse, Esquire:\\nDear Sir This will be handed you by my reverend\\nbrother Wni. II. C. Yeager, of the Episcopal Church, who\\ngoes to Little Rock, under the appointment of the Church,\\nwith a view of laboring among you as a minister. Your\\ninterest in all that appertains to our church in which you\\nhave been sealed will insure, I am confident, a welcome recep-\\ntion to him as its messenger, and all the aid of which you\\nare capable of furthering the object of his mission. He is\\nkindly commended to your affections and attention. I had\\nhoped long since to have been able to write such a letter as\\nthis to you by the hands of an individual, who goes to break\\nto you the bread of life, but although diligent efforts have\\nbeen made to secure the services of a competent person to go\\nto you, I have found it impossible to succeed in anywise to\\nmy wishes. It is vastly easier to make ap])lications for\\nlaborers than to secure their services. Indeed the time has\\nnever been, in all the history of our church, when there was\\n*By courtesy of the dauarhters of Mr. .T. H. Crease.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 3\\nsuch a demand for ministers service and when the suj)ply of\\nministers was so scant. The gentleman who goes to you,\\ngoes, I am sure, with the full purpose of giving himself to the\\nwork, and I trust that under God, he may be effectively and\\neminently useful. I perceive by the papers that the hand\\nof affliction has been heavily laid on you and yours, since I\\nsaw you, in the removal of both your estiuuible son, who was\\ntaken from you in the very buddings of his youthful })romise,\\nand your son-in-law^ the Kev. Mr. Nelson. The latter 1 had\\nhoped might have consented to go to Little Rock, but was\\nassured, when in Virginia, that he could not be induced to\\nleave Bishop J\\\\leade, between whom and himself I knew there\\nwas a very tender attachment. In the late address of the\\nBishop to his convention, I see he numbers him, not only as\\na brother by marriage, but also, and much nearer, as one\\nwhom he much loved in the Gospel. I hope they are both\\nat rest, and that their early retirement from the engagements\\nand anxieties of life may warn those whom they leave behind\\nof the utter uncertainty of all human hopes. God, I trust,\\nmy dear sir, has not left your familv comfortless, but has\\nnumifested himself to you in the bringing about of a more\\ndevout and constant consideration for the things of Eternity.\\nI shall, if God will, hope to see vou and your friends\\ngenerally in Little Bock this winter. With my kind regards\\nto your family,\\nI remain vour friend,\\nLEONIDAS BOLK.\\nBEY. WrLLIA]\\\\r irENBY CIIBISTOBIIEB YEAGEB.\\nA. D. 1839-1843. llcv. WilHam Henry Christopher\\nYcncjcr was the first Missionary Rector of Christ hurch. He\\nwas ordained Deacon December 21, L ^SO, by Bishop Leonidas\\nBolk. The date of his ordination as Briest is not known,\\nbut it is inferred that Bishop Bolk ordained him, as he was\\nassigned to duty in Little Bock in June, 1840, by Bishop\\nBolk. The coni rei ation had no buihlinii in which to", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "4 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nworship, l)nt tlie Wardens and otlicr Vestrymen were making\\nsuccessfnl efiorts to accumulate funds for the purpose of\\nbuilding. The letters appended to this meagre sketch will\\nshow that efforts were being made to secure help from with-\\nout, while the subscription list wdiich the tirst Senior Warden\\nkept shows the zeal of Rev. ]\\\\lr. Yeager and his congregation\\nto accomplish that object. ]\\\\[r. and ]\\\\lrs. Yeager conducted\\na school, Mrs. Yeager taking the musical department. She\\nw^as an accomplished musician and presided at the organ to\\nconduct services. The choir was composed of Mr. John H.\\nCrease, choir master Mr. William E. Ashley, Mr. Gordon\\nPeay, Mr. John E. Reardon, Mr. D. C. Fulton, Mr. ^J\\\\ D.\\nMerrick, ]\\\\lrs. Helen Scott, ]\\\\Iiss Lavinia Reardon, Miss\\nHarriet Grafton, Miss Lizzie Shall, and Mrs. Yeager. Mr.\\nand Mrs. Yeager had one little daughter, Clara Ophelia, at\\nthat time. Mr. Yeager resigned his position as Rector in\\n1843. It is not known uoav where he removed to.\\nOn the resignation of Dr. Yeager from the office of\\nRector at Christ Church, the vestry adopted the following\\nresolutions:\\nResolved, That in accepting the resignation of the\\nRev. Wm. H. C. Yeager, as Itector of Christ Churcl), w^e\\ndeeply regret the necessity that constrains a separation that\\nwe tender him, in the name of the congregation, our most\\ngrateful thanks for the zeal and fidelity with which he has\\nlabored to build up the Protestant Episcopal Church in this\\ncity, and has watched over the spiritual interests of the flock\\ncommitted to his care; that he carries wdth him our fervent\\nprayers for his prosperity and happiness and continued use-\\nfulness in spreading the Gospel of our Lord.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 5\\n^opy Ji letter of Lambert Keardoii to the llev. JJr.\\nWyatt, Baltimore, Md.\\nLittle Koek, Ark., May IS, 1841.\\nDear arid lievereud Sir On ordinary occasions I should\\nscarcely deem my acquaintance with you sufficient to author-\\nize my addressing yoti, having been but a few years a parish-\\nioner of yours, and during that time 1 was not fortunate\\nenough to be very intimate with you and a lapse of years may\\nhave -passed from your mind a recollection of me; but as the\\nobject of the present communication is the promotion of the\\nChurch, it must be my apology for thus obtruding on you.\\nDr. J. P. Xorman, the gentleman who will hand you this,\\nI take great pleasure in introducing to you. He is one of the\\nfew pioneers in this country in the cause of the Church, and\\nan active member of the Vestry in this place, where we are\\nmaking an effort to raise the first Episcopal Church in Ar-\\nkansas. He visits his friends in the East and goes author-\\nized to ask and receive such aid toward our undertaking as\\nour friends and those of the Church may feel willing to give\\nus. There are in this place about twenty familieSj^ Episco-\\njialians, who, from their slender means, have raised sufficient\\nto purchase ground, put up the Avails and inclose a Church,\\nwhich we propose doing this summer, and the object of our\\nsolicitations is to obtain something towards finishing the\\ninside of the house, and, if possible, to procure an organ.\\nI am perfectly aware of the frequent calls on our East-\\nern friends for the support of the Church in various ways, but\\nM e think that few applications for assistance are made that\\n])resent stronger claims on our more favored friends than\\nours. The first attempt to raise the standard of our Savior\\nby the Episcopalians in this State must, when known, be an\\n])ject of great interest by our brethren everywhere, and, as\\nwe are sure, on our own success in this place, the prosperity\\nof the Church mainly depends in this State, perhaps for many\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Courtesy of Mrs. Priscilla Buckner Reardon, widow of Lambert J. Reardon, and\\ndaughter-in-law of Lambert Reardon, Sr.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00942\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "6 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nyears. Your known zeal in the cause of the Church and the\\nliberality of your parishioners towards the cause of truth,\\ngives assurances of your kind othces in our behalf.\\nOur friend, Dr. Xorman, will be absent some months,\\nand should it not be convenient to do anvthine- for us while\\nhe is in Baltimore, perhaps on his return home it will be. He\\nwill take a letter to Dr. Henshaw from my son-in-law, ]\\\\[r.\\nScott.\\nWith great respect, your friend and humble servant,\\nLAMBERT REARDO^^.\\nA. D. 1842, MARCH 31.\\nLittle Rock, Ark., March 31, 1842.\\nTo the Right Rev. IFm. Meade, I). D., Bishop of Virginia:\\nMy Dear Sir I am perfectly aware of the continued\\nclaim upon your time and attention to administer to the wants\\nof Churches more immediately under your own Bishopric, yet\\nI am nevertheless constrained by a knowledge of your great\\nzeal and liberality in such cases, and by the personal regard\\nwhich you have ever manifested toward the writer, to solicit\\nyour influence in obtaining pecuniary assistance for our\\ninfant association of Episcopalians now struggling for exist-\\nence in this city.\\nWe have but a limited population in this city and the\\nChurch-going portion of that number was previously enlisted\\nby the Presbyterian, Methodist, and Baptist societies, which\\nhave been long since established. These have each collected\\ntheir owm adherents, and doubtless proselyted those who would\\nhave given Hhe Church a preference had one been then in\\nexistence. But with all these disadvantages a very small\\nband of persons attached to the service of the Protestant Epis-\\ncopal Church, have associated themselves together for the ]iur-\\npose of procuring a ministei and erecting a building, wherein\\nwe, and all those similarly disposed, might have an oppor-\\ntunity of worshiping our heavenly Father in the mode prac-\\nticed and taught to us by our earthly j)ai Pnts, and in which", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 7\\nservice all our early associations and best feelings are strongly\\nenlisted.\\nThe Missionary Society have (^out of their limited\\nmeans) very liberally assisted us by contributing $400 per\\nannum towards the support of a minister, but the expense of\\nliving at this place being very great and our present minister\\nhaving a family, it is incumbent on us to contribute at least\\n$600 more for that object, besides which we have contracted\\nfor (exclusive of the ground) and nearly linished a brick\\nChurch at a cost of upwards of $4,000, and, when our means\\nand strength are somewhat enriched, wish to j^ut up a parson-\\nage house to avoid the excessive charge of rent. We are also\\ndesirous of procuring an organ, not, as I think you will readily\\nbelieve me, from any desire of ostentatious display, but in\\norder that the praises of God (in chants and hymns) may be\\nperformed with uniform propriety and devotion, and as our\\nminister s wife is a perfect proficient in music, we are the\\nmore desirous of giving all the aid in our power towards ren-\\ndering that portion of the service as perfect as our feeble\\ncapacities are able to make it.\\nThe society in whose cause I am now pleading is the first,\\nand at the date of its commencement, was the only association\\nof Protestant Episcopalians within the w^hole State The\\nmonied obligations to carry out the objects in contemplation\\nare too heavy to be sustained by the few persons engaged in it,\\nand we call earnestly on our Episcopal brethren to assist us\\nin making the first start and by God s help on our endeavors,\\nwe trust hereafter not only to support our own Church and\\nminister, but to pay back into the general treasury, for the\\nbenefit of other needy churches, the sums which are now-\\nbestowed on us. I am the more earnest in taxing the exertion\\nof my personal friends, from the circumstance of having luit\\nrecently awakened to a sense of the impropriety of my own\\nconduct in suffering a month of personal feeling to withdraw\\nme (for a reason) from my duty toward the Church. That\\nstumbling block is now removed, and T thank God that He\\nhas shown me the error of my course. The chano-e of times", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "8 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nand great reduction of salary has, however, materially lessened\\nmy own ability to contribute to the work and likewise prevents\\nothers from snbscribing thereto, under which consideration, I\\nam impressed witli a deep sense of the duty imposed on me\\nto use the greater diligence and exertion in repairing (to the\\nutmost of my ability) the injury which I have done the cause,\\nby withdrawing from its support. If the occasion will not\\ngive warrant for my public appeals within your diocese, suffer\\nme to request that you will personally apply to some few\\nfriends of the Church, whom the Providence of God has ren-\\ndered abundantly able, and whose uniform benevolence has\\nproved them to be ever ready to conti-ibute towards any proper\\ncause.\\nOur own resources are exhausted, leaving us in debt,\\nwith the Church unfinished, and donations, however small,\\nwill be most thankfully received and acknowledged.\\nBefore I close, permit me, dear sir, to tender my grateful\\nacknowledgments for your kindness and protecting care of\\nmy much beloved and bereaved daughter, Jane I^elson, the\\nrecollection of which is indelibly imprinted on all of our\\nhearts, and the prayer of the widow and fatherless will daily\\nascend to the Giver of every good and perfect gift, that His\\nrichest blessing may descend on you and 3 ours. Mrs. Crease\\ndesires to join in affectionate regards to every member of your\\nown family, and to our worthy frieiuls at Long Branch, and\\nkind remembrance to all others Avho have any recollection of\\nor regard for us, and with sentiments of the highest respect\\nand regard.\\nI remain most truly yours,\\nT. TI. CREASE.*\\nLetter from Tiishop Meade, of Virginia, respecting col-\\nlections for church\\n*Courtesy of the daughters of John H. Crease.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 9\\nStuunton, Va., May 19, iS-t^.\\nTo Mr. J. II. Crease, Little Roch, Ark.:\\nMy Dear Friend Lest yon should for a moment sup-\\npose that I neglect your letter, I seize a moment of leisure\\nin the midst of convention, and with a bad pen and paper\\nwrite to say that I have just received your -kind communi-\\ncation.\\nWould that I were able to enclose you something or knew\\nwho were both able and willing to do it. My dear friend,\\nif you knew all we have to do in Virginia, how many A\\\\ish to\\nbeg for new Cliurches, plain ones, without organs, but dare\\nnot, and how liard the times are with us, you would not be\\nsurprised at my doing nothing.\\nT hope in a few weeks to see Jane and her chihlren. They\\nare well, I hear. I trust God will bless them.\\nBusiness calls me away. Love to all yours.\\nYour sincere friend,\\nWILLIAM MEADE.\\nThere is a list of the subscribers to the building fund of\\nthe first Episcopal Church, carefully entered in a little\\naccount book, by J. II. Crease, and his successor as treasurer\\nof the fund, Lambert Reardon. The names are liere given,\\nai. will be read with interest\\nBishop Polk s check, $800, sold for $970. The cost of\\nthe lots was $900, which was paid from this check. The list\\nis headed with the names of those who made the collections\\nfrom the citizens generally Dr. Yeager, John H. Crease,\\nWm. C. Scott, and Jos. Grubl). The list continues with the\\nnames of Wm. S. Fulton, Wm. E. Woodruff, Edward Dunn,\\nJ. Mitchell, John Adamson, Wm. Prather, Jas. De Baum,\\nWhite Le Part, Archibald Yell, Richard F. Dunn, Jas. C.\\nAnthony, S. M. Weaver, Jno. Humphries, Charles Bapley,\\nW. W. Adams, Julian Imbeau, Jno. Brown, E. Y. Baker,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "10 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nJoseph Feiiiio, James B. Keatts, Chas. B. Magnider, Elias X.\\nConway, Bichard C. Hawkins, Alexander Boileau, Sam H.\\nWebb, C. A. Harris, Wm. Vance, Jr., H. Mitchell, S. C.\\nFanlkner, B. B. Sutton, J. A. JIutchings, Johnson and Lewis,\\nMartin George, Sr., Arthur Whitfield, L. D. Evans, Young\\nStephenson, Wm. CHimmins, B. T. Bedman, Wm. Pelham,\\nSamuel Fasmacht, Philip L. Anthony, M. C. Sale, J. W.\\nTappe, J. Both, J. B. Badgett, Wm. Brown, Jacob Tute-\\nweiler, Ebenezer Cummins, H. Haberman^ Geo. A. Worthen,\\nJos. Grubb, Stephen S. Tucker, Mr. McGowan, Geo. W.\\nJohnston, John Henderson, Josiah Gould, H. E. Blanck,\\nJ. Wilberwomen, D. F. Shall, G. X. Peay, cash of Haroldson,\\nJohn Bobins, F. W. Trapnall, D. J. ilaldwin, B. F. Duval,\\nAlbert Pike, E. H. Boane, Mary E. Dickinson, M. Killian,\\nB. A. Watkins, Bishop Otey, B. C. Byrd, Judge Bingo, B. W.\\nJohnson, M. Schelthom, Anthony H. Davis, General Hillj\\nWitter, Silas Craig, W. H. Gaines, Simeon Jaseph, Thomas\\nThorn, David Bender, S. P. Buckner, W. B. Buckner, AV.\\nBoardman, A. Cunningham, J as. Lawson, Sr., Lambert\\nBeardon, L. J. Beardon, John Hutt, Jas. S. Conway, Major\\nButler, Jno. W. Johnson, L. E. Barber, W. B. Dunn, M. P.\\nStewart, Dr. J. P. Xorman, Jno. L. Berg, John W. Cocke,\\nISTathaniel Clifton, George N. Causine, Thos. Butterworth,\\nN. T. Gaines, Thos. W. :^rewton, Geo. C. Watkins, M. G.\\nDaven})ort, A. Whitfield.\\nThere was an additional list of donations made by non-\\nresidents of Little Bock to the Vestry of Christ Church for\\nthe purpose of completing their building. These gentlemen\\nlived on plantations on the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers,\\nand in the interior of the State, viz: Simeon Buckner, Wm. B.\\nWait, Wm. S. Fulton, Jas. S. Conway, Wm. P. Beyburn,\\nYoung Ste])heiison, S. C. Faulkner, David Walker, Anthony", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 11\\n11. Davis, G. Hill, and 1). Twitten, Silas Craig, Wm. H.\\nGaines and Tlios. Thoni.\\nLittle Rock, May 20, 1843.\\nTo the Wardens and Vestry of Christ Church, Little Bock:\\nGentlemen The undersigned members of the congrega-\\ntion of Christ Church, with the assistance of other ladies of\\nLittle Rock, held a fair in December last to raise funds for\\nthe benefit of the CJhurch.\\nIt was our intention to appropriate the profits of the fair\\nto the purchase of an organ but in consideration of the embar-\\nrassment under which jou labor in consequence of the debts\\nof the Church and the difficulty in raising money to pay that\\ndebt, which we are informed is large, when compared with the\\nmeans of the congregation, we have thought that the interest\\nof the Church would be better promoted by diverting the fair\\nmoney from the original object to the debts of the church.\\nFor these considerations we are willing to forego our\\nindividual wishes for an organ, and now tender to the Church\\nthe money in our hands, amounting to $1,10G.50, to be applied\\nby you to the payment of her debts. Trusting that you will\\napprove of our views and accept our contribution, and that it\\nmay relieve you of embarrassment, and tend to promote the\\ninterests and })rosperity of the Church, we remain\\nYours very respectfully,\\nThis list of names was signed individually, the last two\\nin pencil\\nJane P. Crease, Mary C. Watkins, Frances M. Trapnall,\\n]\\\\rildred Field, Ann Reardon, S. F. Johnson, P. A. Reardon,\\nL. L. Butler, M. M. Johnston, Jane J. Holt, Mrs. Cocke, Mrs.\\nCook.\\nCost of Christ Church, from treasurer s book, $4:, 2-13. 17.\\nCost of the lots donated by Bishop Polk, $900.\\nAcknowledgment from Vestry of Christ CUiurch to\\nJ.ady Managers of Fair, for amount of $1,106.50:", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "12 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nTo. Mrs. Crease, Wa fir ins. Etc.\\nThe Vestry of Christ Church, Little Rock, acknowledge\\nthe receipt of your letter of the 20th of May, tendering to the\\ncliurch, to be applied in payment of her debts, the sum of\\n$1,106.50, being the profits of a fair held by you for the pur-\\npose of purchasing an organ.\\nWe thank you for ourselves, and, as the guardians of the\\ntemporal interests of the Church, we thank you in her name\\nfor your kindly relief in removing the heavy pecuniary respon-\\nsibilities inider which she labors. And in accepting your con-\\ntribution, we cannot but admire the generous self-denial of\\nwhich you have given evidence by this disregard of private\\nwishes when the necessities of the Church have called u})on\\nyour sympathies. We trust that you may always remember\\nwith pleasure and an approving conscience this act of generous\\nself-denial that you may continue to grow more and more in\\nevery Christian grace, and become worthy members of the\\nbody, by whatever name called, of many of which He is the\\nHead.\\nFollowing these faithful records of the planting of the\\nChurch in Arkansas, the annalist will place the biographies of\\nthe first Bishop and the first Wardens and Vestry, that of the\\nfirst Missionary Rector having been given.\\nNote. Bishop Tolk left Little Rock March, 1830, and on the 2Cth of\\nJune, 1840. sent Dr. Yeager. first minister to Christ Church. The fair, held\\nDecember, 1842, net proceeds. .$1.106.50. J. 11. Crease.\\nNote. Rev. .Tames Young arrived on steamer Governor Morehead, De-\\ncember. 184.3. John Robins contracted for the brick work, plastering, etc.\\n(ieo. S. Morrison conti acted for carpenters work. J. H. Crease.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "KT. HEV. LEONIDAS FOLK, S. T. D.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 13\\nRT. KEY. LEOA IDAS POLK, D. I).,\\nl-IRST MlSSilOXAKY ISI; 1101 OF AKKAXSAS AND THE SOUTHWEST.\\nA. D. 1838. On September IG, 1S38, the Rev. Leonidas\\nPolk, Rector of St. Peter s Church, Columbia, Temi., was\\nelected missionary bishop of xVrkansas, Indian Territory, and\\nthe Soutlnvest.\\nA. D. 1 806-1 841 He was born in 1806, in orth Caro-\\nlina; graduated at West Point Military Academy in 1S27,\\nand was appointed brevet second lieutenant of artillery. Re-\\nsigning this position, he entered the Episcopal Theological\\nSeminary at Alexandria, Va. Soon after his marriage, in\\n1830, to Miss Frances Devereux, of Raleigh, X. C, he was\\nordained deacon and priest in the Protestant Episcopal\\nChurch, and entered upon the duties as assistant to Bishop\\nMoore, in the Cure of the ]\\\\[onumental Church at that place.\\nEight years afterward, December 9, 1838, he was consecrated\\nbishop and appointed missionary of the Southwest, Avliich\\nincluded Texas, Indian Territory, Arkansas, Louisiana,\\nMississippi, and Alabama too large a field, it seems, for\\nthe jurisdiction of one man. In 1839 he made his first visita-\\ntion to Arkansas. Bringing to his work exalted piety, enthusi-\\nasm and energy his labors so multiplied that he was com-\\npelled to restrict the arena and, on May 20, 1811, Avas elected\\nbishop of the separate Diocese of Louisiana.\\nA. D. 1839. During Bishop Polk s first visitation to\\nLittle Rock, in March, 1839, he was the guest of Hon. Chester\\nAshley, who had previously made his acquaintance, during a\\njourney, either to or from ^ew Haven, Conn., where young\\nWilliam Ashley matriculated at Yale College. ]\\\\[rs. Chester\\nAshley on that occasion had emphasized the fact to hiui that", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "14 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nall the prominent Christian denominations were represented\\nin Little Keck except the Episcopalian. On this, his lirst\\nofficial visit to the diocese, Bishop Polk was also entertained\\nat the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Jared Xewton Causine and Mr.\\nand Mrs. John H. Crease. Besides these, there were but few\\nfamilies familiar with the Prayer Book at that time, and\\nthese were the families of Mr. Lambert Keardon, Mr. 1). W.\\nGallowav, Mr. Lnke E. Barber, Senator William S. Fulton\\n(former territorial governor). Judge Daniel Bingo, Hon.\\nFrederick W. Trapnall, Mr. John Wassell, ]\\\\Ir. Abner S.\\nWashbui ii, iiiid ]\\\\rr. Xicholas Peav. The Presbyterians\\nkindly granted the use of their Church for Bishop Polk s first\\nservice. This was on ]\\\\rain street, near the corner of Cherry\\n(now Second), and, as there was no vestry room, the bishop\\nrobed at the residence of his host, Mr. Causine, on the corner\\nof ]\\\\Iain and ]\\\\Inlberrv (Third street), and walked along the\\nsquare in his official vestments to the hurch. This occasioned\\nopen-mouthed sjieculation on the part of the uninitiated vil-\\nlagers and may have heljK^d to collect the bishop s first\\naudience. ITe afterwards gathered together the little band\\nof Episcopalians and organized a ))arish with the folloAving\\ngentlemen as wardens and vestrymen\\nJohn IL rease. Senior Wai den.\\nLuke E. Barber, Junior Warden.\\nkanibert Beai-don.\\nharles Jvai)ley.\\nJohn Ilntt.\\nJ. 1*. Xoi nian.\\nJohn Aihimson.\\n*It was tlio ilesiro of tlip annalist to jrivo liiiof hiojiraphies of each of\\nthpsp trentlpmen, bnt in four instances, after iniuh .oiiespondence failed to\\nprocure the neces.sarv information.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 15\\nLambert J. licardoii.\\nF. W. Trapiiall.\\nD. Butler.\\nJohn Wasscll.\\nWilliam Pratlier.\\nBishop Polk selected the site for the Church building on\\nthe southeast corner of Orange (Fifth) and Scott streets, and\\ndonated nine hundred ($900) dollars for the purchase of the\\nlots, the deed to Avhich is here copied from the records of the\\nclerk of the circuit court and ex-ofjicio recorder made two years\\nafterwards.\\nA. D. 1841. Thomas W. Xewton aud wife to John\\nWassell and .Vbner S. Washburn, wardens of Christ Church,\\ndated February 1, 184-1. Consideration of the sum $900\\nconveying lots 2, 3, and -t, block 29, city of Little Rock.\\nAnother deed is also recorded, eight years later, for an\\nadditional lot on the south side:\\nA. D. 1849. ^Joshua F. Green and wife to Daniel\\nItingo and John Wassell, wardens of the Protestant Episcopal\\nChurch, dated May 1, 1849. Consideration $250, lot 1,\\nblock 29, city of Little Rock.\\nA. D. 1841-1863. It is thought that Bishop Polk did\\nnot visit this mission after he was made bishop of the Diocese\\nof Louisiana in 1841; but his memory has been reverently\\ncherished in the traditions of those who survive, and, in the\\nhistory of this, his first Episcopal chai-ge, he will ever figure\\nas the beloved Apostle who planted the Episcopal Church in\\nArkansas. J^ater, he belonged to the South, where, as the\\nbishop-general, the embodiment of Christian chivalry, his\\nmemory has been perpetuated by a nation. In 1861 he took\\nup ai ius against the L^nion was ajipointc^d nuijor-general of", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "16 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nthe Confederates; occupied (Jolumbus, Kj., September, 1861,\\nand evacuated it March, l.^G2; commanded a division at the\\nbattle of Shiloh in April, 1802, also at Murfreesboro, Chatta-\\nnooga and Chickamauga served as lieutenant-general at the\\nbattle of Stone River in 18Go.\\nA. D. 1864. He ^vas killed June 15, 18G4, near Kene-\\nsaw or Pine. Mountain, Ga., where, as he was reconnoitering\\nthe enemy in company with some comrades, a cannon ball,\\nwell aimed, released him from further duty,\\nGreater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down\\nhi life for his friends.*\\nnow BISHOP POLK DIED.\\nTin-; -VUVK STOKV Ol- HIS KILLING XOW FIRST :MADE Pl P.fJC-\\nA T1IRILLIX(; XARRATIVE FROM THE PEX OF CAPTAIX\\nIxtVLE, WHO WITNESSED THE FIRING OF THE\\nFATAL SHELL GENERAL HOWARd s\\nTRIBl TE TO HIS ANTAGONIST.\\n[Copyright l).v American Press Association.]\\nCaptain .1. E. I Doyle, wlio died some time ago. left among his unpub-\\nlished manuscripts the following article, which is of great historic value, as\\nit is the first authentic account made public of Bishop Polk s death. Editoii.\\nThe writer at various times has read many alleged\\naccurate narratives of the manner in which Lientenant-Gen-\\neral and Bishop Polk met his death on Pine Mountain, Ga.,\\nJune 15, 1864; but not one has at all approached the true\\nfacts. Even Dr. Lossing, in his Civil War in America/\\nvolume 3, page 378, in a foot note, says that Polk, Johnston,\\nand Hardee were upon the summit of Pine ^Mountain when\\nthe cannonade commenced reconnoitering. Seeing the group.\\nGeneral Thomas, it is said, ordered a shot to be fired at them\\nfrom Knap]) s battei-y. This caused them to retreat to a\\nplace of safety. Polk soon reajipeared, when another shell\\nwas fired which exploded near him and killed him instantlv.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 17\\nThe two shells were fired bv a young man named William\\nAtwell, of Alleghany City, Pa., attached to Knapp s battery.\\nI have generally found Dr. Lossing s accounts of military\\noj^erations that came under my personal observations correct,\\nbut in this case he has most certainly been imposed upon. I\\npropose noAV to tell the incident just as it occurred, and I\\nbelieve its accuracy will not be questioned by General O. O.\\nHoward or any other witness living who that morning formed\\na group of which I was one. I was at that time attached to\\nthe headquarters of General Howard, then commanding the\\nFourth Corps. On the night of the 14th the corps bivouacked\\nabout tAvo miles north of the mountain, with General Stanley s\\ndivision under orders to lead the advance on the morrow.\\nAbout sunrise General Howard, with his staff, rode to the\\nfront. We found that Stanley had broken camp, and his\\ncommand were waiting on the road with stacked arms for\\norders to advance. When we joined General Stanley and\\nhis staff at the extreme front, after the usual exchange of\\nmorning salutations between the two generals, Stanley\\nremarked to General Howard\\nGeneral, direct your glass to that mountain pointing\\nwith his hand to its summit and see if you can make out\\nthat group. I think there is a woman in the party.\\nWe all whipped out our glasses in a moment and looked\\nat the point indicated. Sure enough there was a group of\\nabout twenty in full view. In the fore were three persons\\nstanding up, the one in the center being dressed in what\\nappeared to be a long dressing gown, and behind a number\\nof men apparently seated. After a careful survey througli\\nJUS glass General Howard said It does look like a woman,\\nGeneral. I think probably it is Bishop Polk. He is in the\\nhabit of wearing a morning gown sometimes. They are\\nevidently there to reconnoiter.\\nWell, suppose we give the bishop a shot or two before\\nwe advance, said General Dave Stanley, just to disturb his\\nmorning meditations.\\nGeneral Howard interposed no objections. Stanley then\\nturned to Ca]itain Sampson, his chief of artillery, and", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "18 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nremarked, Saiiipsuii, snpjxise voii order up a section, iiulini-\\nbcr and stir up the bishop I\\nAA\\\\-ay rode Sampson. At that time I sat on my horse\\nbetween General Howard and Captain Leonard, his chief\\nsignal officer, on the right of our party. The Captain, Captain\\nliowgate, Captain Taylor, Captain Messenger and. other signal\\nofficers during the winter previous, while we lay in garrison at\\nChattanooga, had inter})reted the whole signal cipher code of\\nthe Confederates, and during the entire Atlanta campaign all\\ndispatches signaled over the mountains were almost instantly\\ntranslated by the Union signal corps. Presently Sampson\\narrived with two field pieces of some Indiana battery, I\\nbelieve, under a lieutenant. One gun was placed in position\\non the right of Signal Officer Leonard, and about twelve feet\\ndistant. The lieutenant, after the gun was loaded, took the\\nelevations, the gun was lired and the shell exploded, as far as\\nwe could tell by our field glasses, a little to the rear, over and\\non the right of the grou] on the mountain. When the gun\\nwas reloaded Sampson threw himself from the saddle of his\\nhorse, whose flanks touched those of Captain Leonard s horse,\\nand rushing to the gun remarked\\nLet me sight her, lieutenant, I think I can do better than\\nthat.\\nDown on his knees he fell, sighted the gun, it was dis-\\ncharged, and as the shell burst on the mountain we noticed a\\nsudden scattering of the group. The gun had been recharged\\nand Sampson was on his knees sighting it for a third messen-\\nger of death, when Signal Officer Leonard exclaimed Tliat\\nshot killed General Polk!\\nAVhat exclaimed several. ^Bishop Polk killed V\\nYes, was T^eonard s answer; they are signaling it over\\nthe mountains.\\nWhat s tluit f exclaimed Sam]ison, still ou his knees\\nsighting the gun.\\nCaptain Leonard told hiui the news.\\nLor a moment Sami)son s head dropped forward and his\\nhaiids rested ou the breech of the piece. Then looking up\\nlie rciiiai kcd Tliaidc God Thev killed mv brother the", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 19\\nother Jay only a lieutenant. 1 have killed a lieutenant-\\ngeneral.\\nThe third shot was not tired, Sampson rising and\\nremounting his horse. All of our party were visibly attected\\nby the incident, no one more so than General Howard, who,\\nafter recovering from the effects of the news, solemnly\\nremarked: Bishop Polk killed! Then we have killed a\\nChristian gentleman.\\nShortly after the signal officer reported that the enemy\\nwas evacuating the mountain, and an advance was ordered.\\nI went up the mountain with the lirst troojJS to the spot where\\nthe C^onfederate group had been stationed, and there found a\\nfallen tree, about thirty feet long, before which Bishop Polk\\nand his associates had stood, and upon which their staff officers\\nhad been seated. On the fallen timber I found what colored\\nguides told us was the blood of General Polk.\\nThus did General Polk fall at Pine Mountain. Xeither\\nThomas nor Sherman was near us at the time, as they did not\\nroach the front until later.\\nJ. E. P. DOYLE.\\nLTXEAGE.\\nA. D. 1777-1659. ir^jhi Rec. Leonidas Polk, 1). D.,\\nwas the seventh son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Polk, of\\nMecklenburg County, X. C., and Sarah Hawkins, his second\\nwife, wdio was a daughter of Colonel Philemon Hawkins, Jr.,\\none of the heroes of the Revolutionary War. Lieutenant-\\nColonel William Polk was with General Washington at\\nBrandywine (September, 1TT7, and Germantown October -t,\\n1777) where he was wounded. He was then ordered South and\\nwas with General Gates in the battle of Camden (August,\\n1780), and with General Greene at Guilford (March 15,\\n1781), and the hard fought battle of Eutaw Springs (Sep-\\ntember 8, 1781), at which battle he received a severe wound,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "20 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\ntlie etfceTs of wliit-li lie carried to his grave. Grandson of\\nJ lioiuas Polk, Sr., and Susan Spratt, his wife. Thos. Polk\\nwas a signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence,\\ndeclared at Charlotte May 20, 1775, and colonel of the second\\nbattalion of minute men in 1775, and afterwards colonel of\\ntlie Foui-th Regiment of the Continental Army in 1776 great\\ngrandson of William Polk and Priscilla Roberts, his wife;\\ngreat great grandson of John Polk and Joanna Knox, his\\nwife; great great great grandson of Robert Pollock (the\\noriginal name) and Magdalen Tasker, his wife (widow of\\nColonel Porter, Chancellor of Ireland), who emigrated to\\n]\\\\raryland, United States, in 1050; and great great great\\ngreat grandson of John Pollock, of Lanarkshire, Scotland,\\nsituated not fai- from the Cathedral City of Glasgow.\\nThe children of Bishop Polk and Frances Devereux, his\\nwife, were\\nAlexander Jlamilton, deceased.\\nFrances Devereux (Polk) Skipwith (Mrs. P. H. Skip-\\nwith), of Oxford, Miss.\\nKatherine (Polk) Gale (::\\\\rrs. AYilliam D. Gale), of\\nXashville, Tenn.\\nSarah Hawkins (Polk) Blake (Mrs. Francis D. Blake),\\nof 2\\\\ew Orleans, La.\\nSusan Rayner (I olk) Jones (Mrs. Joseph Jones), of\\noliiinbia, Tenii.\\nKli/.abeth Devereux (Polk) Tluger (Mrs. AVm. II.\\nlinger), of Xew Orleans, La,\\nDr. William A[. Polk, who married Miss Ida Lyon, Xew\\nYork City.\\nRebecca Lucia (Polk) Chapnnin (Mv^. Edward Chap-\\nman), of Chestnut Hill Seminary, Philadelphia, Pa.\\n1. See Whpdcr s History of North Carolina.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "ST. JOHNS CHURCH, ASHWOOD, TENNESSEE.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "JOHN H. CREASE,\\nFIRST SENIOR WARDEN.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 21\\nA numerous posterity are descendauts of these worthy\\nancestors.^\\nAs Bishop Polk s tirst coniuiuuicatiou relating to the\\nChurch in Arkansas was addressed to Mr. John H. Crease,\\nwho became Senior Warden, the annalist places his biography\\nin the first place among those of the laity.\\nJOIIX H. CREASE,\\nFIKST SEMOK WARDEN OF CHKIST OJIURCU, LITTLE ROCK.\\nA. D. 1780-1789. Tn Bishop Meade s interesting work,\\n^^Old Cliurches, Ministers and Families of Virginia/ the\\nreader is especially attracted to the account of the Church at\\nAlexandria, Va., where, in 1780, the Rev. David Griffith\\nofficiated. Among his congregation was George Washington,\\nwho, though having just been engaged in the erection of\\nMount Vernon Church, which was finished the same year and\\nin which he had a pew, gives the highest price for one in\\nChrist Church, Alexandria, Fairfax Parish. This pew was\\noccupied by him and his family during his life, and has been\\nby some of his name and family ever since. In the list of\\nVestrymen of this parish of Fairfax in 1789 (George Taylor\\nand Edmund J. Lee being named as Church Wardens), occur\\nthe names of John H. Crease and his brother, Anthony\\nCrease.\\nA, D. 1851-1872. John H. Crease was called from\\nAlexandria to Little Rock to fill the position of cashier of the\\nState Bank. He was afterwards made treasurer of the bank,\\nand served in that capacity from 1851 to 1855 and from 1856\\n2. For account of Bishop Polk s ancestors, see American Archires, vol.\\n11 fourth series, pages r)o-Sr)8, May 20-31, 1775 and vol. 1. fifth series,\\npages 11. 489, 1343.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00943\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "22 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nto 1859. He came in advance of Lis family, a wife and six\\nchildren, in 1839, and took up liis residence in the State Bank\\nbuilding, corner of Markham and Center streets, which had\\nbeen arranged with a suit of living rooms with a view to his\\noccupation. Mr. Crease was a man of slight stature, with\\nnervous, energetic action, cheerful, affable and courteous to all.\\nIn character he was inflexibly honest, almost to stern exact-\\nness, incapable of deceit or treachery. His rigid sense of\\njustice cost him his place twice in his life, but with him a\\ngood name was rather to be chosen than great riches, and he\\ncarried one unspotted to his grave. He and his wife were\\nearnest and devoted Church people. John H. Crease and\\nlAike E. Barber were AYardens of the first Episcopal C hurch.\\nThe new building was consecrated by Bishop Otey in 1842.\\nMrs. Crease s maiden name was Jane ISTewton. In West-\\nmoreland County, Va., the Newton family was one of note\\nand the name occurs frequently on the Vestry list of the\\nChurch. At Wilmington, the family seat of the INTewtons,\\nan inscription on a grave arrests attention. It is this:\\nBeneath this stone are deposited the remains of Mrs. Sarah\\nNewton, daughter of George Eskridge, and late wife of Cap-\\ntain Willowby Newton, of Westmoreland County, who, after\\nhaving justly established the character of a dutiful child,\\na faithful friend, an affectionate mother and sincere Chris-\\ntian, departed this life on the 2d of September, 1Y53, in the\\nforty-sixth year of her age. This was an ancestress of Mrs.\\nCrease, who perpetuated her virtues. Mrs. Crease died on\\nGood Friday, March, 1872. As she was passing away, she\\nturned to her husl)aud and said, We have journeyed long\\ntogotlier, to which he replied, I shall not be long in follow-\\ning you. She was buried on Easter Sunday by Rt. Rev.\\nH. N. Pierce. The chancel had been beautifullv decorated", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 23\\nwith flowers for the Easter service. These were draped with\\nblack crepe for the funeral, which was attended bv a large\\nccnconrse of relatives and friends. Her husband did not long\\nsurvive. He died nine months later in the following Decem-\\nber of the same year. They were both buried from the\\nChurch they had helped to build and sleep together in Mount\\nHolly Cemetery, having left a numerous posterity.\\nThe children of John H. and Jane l^ewton Crease are\\n1. Jane Crease. Married first Rev. George W. Xelson,\\nof Virginia. Children: George W. Jr., Jane Crease, and\\nThomas Crease Keelson. After his death she married Philip\\nI^elson. Children Frank, William, and Caroline Peyton\\nISTelson. George W. Xelson, now Episcopal minister of\\nWarrenton, Va., married Mary iSTelson Scollay, of Virginia.\\nChildren Page, Thomas C, Harry Lee, George W.,\\nPhilip, Charlotte, Carrie P., Scollay, and Mary I^elson.\\nPage Nelson married Hugh ISTelson, of Virginia. Children:\\nISTancy and Hugh. Thomas ISTelson married Miss Withers,\\nof Virginia. The rest unmarried. Jane Crease ISTelson,\\nunmarried principal of Episcopal Female Seminary, of\\nChatham, Va. Thomas Crease I^elson, dead. Frank Nel-\\nson married Miss Withers, of Virginia. Children: Page,\\nBlanche, Frank, and Caroline. William NelsoUj M. D., of\\nDanville, Va., married Miss Moorehead, of jSTorth Carolina\\none child, William. Caroline Nelson, dead.\\n2. Louisa Crease. Married Thomas Johnson, Chief\\nJustice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas from 1836 to 1844,\\neight years. Children: Anthony, John and Thomas (twins),\\nand Benjamin Johnson.\\n3. Anthony Crease. Died unmarried.\\n4. Mary Crease. Married George C. Watkins, Chief\\nJustice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas from 1844 to 1852,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "24 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\neio-lit years, wlicn lie resii-iied otHce and resumed the practice\\nof law. Their children are (1) Anderson Watkins, killed in\\nCivil War; (-2) Dr. Claiborne Watjyins, who married Mildred\\nParley, and had Annie, Mary, :\\\\iildred, and Gertrude Wat-\\nkins; (3) ]Vallon Wallans, who married Sue Trezevant, and\\nhad Anderson and Ueyward Watkins; (4) Louisa Watkins,\\nwho married \\\\Km. Fulton Wright, and had Moorhead, May,\\nWatkins Fulton, and Louise Wright; May Wright married\\n8. F. Iloge, of Kentucky. They have three children, Virginia\\nBriggs, Fulton Wright, and Charles Eugene Iloge. (5)\\nMary Watkins who died in the hloom of early womanhood\\nimniarried, a heautiful and accomplished member of society.\\nr Caroline Crease. Married Dr. Craven Peyton, a\\ndistinguished and beloved physician of Little Rock, who\\ndied in LS72. His widow still survives, and, as a\\nsincere and juous (Miristiau, has wielded a silent, but power-\\nful influence in the Church of which she is a beloved member.\\nThe nunisoleum in ]\\\\Iount Holl}^ Cemetery, the most promi-\\nnent one there, which she caused to be erected to the memory\\nof her idolized husbaiul, is but one evidence of her fidelity\\nas a wife and widow. On the massive marble pedestal, a life-\\nsize marblf Imst of the deceased arrests the attention of all\\nvisitoi s.\\nJlenrt/ Crease. JJied unmarried.\\n7. t o})hia Crease. Unmarried. Secretary of the\\nJ)o;ird of (hianlians of I he Old Ladies Home.\\n8. Susan Crease. Married Gordon IST. Peay, Captain\\nof Sixth Arkansas l^egiment, C. S. A., afterwards colonel, and\\niiiayor of kittle Kock before the act of secession, and for many\\nyears clei-k of Pulaski Chancery Court. lie died in 1876.\\nHi- widow survives and has been twice president of The\\nI.adi\u00c2\u00ab s Aid Society of Christ Church. There is a window", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 25\\non tlie north side of the new C hnreh phiced by his widow in\\nloving memory of Gordon X. Peay. There are two fignres,\\nChrist and St. John, holding a chalice with a serpent in it.\\nThe cup with the ser])ent is designed to illustrate the sacred\\nlegend that poison was once offered to Christ in a cu] from\\nwhich He expelled the venom in the form of a serpent, l\\\\v mak-\\ning the sign of the cross. The children of Colonel Gordon JNT.\\nPeay and Susan Crease, his wife, were: Jane (Mrs. W. W.\\n]\\\\rorrison), Mary (Mrs. W. Booker Worthen), John,\\ndeceased, Sue, deceased, Nicholas, married Leicester Ilorni-\\nbrook, Elizabeth (Mrs. Antoine Bohlinger), Gordon Xeil,\\nmarried Zilla Cole, and Caroline.\\nU. La urn Crease. ]\\\\Iarried ]\\\\Iajor John Lewis, of\\nVirginia. Their children are Laura Lewis (Mrs. Tighlman\\nHoward Bunch), and Sue Peay Lewis, unmarried. l\\\\lr. and\\nAirs. Bunch have one son, T. LI. Bunch, -Ir.\\nA. D. 1897. ]\\\\Iiss Sojiliia Crease has l)een a ])Owerful\\nfactor in most of the philanthropic work of the parish. In\\nthe Arhansas Gazette of date May 2, 1897, appeared, as\\nquoted here, a brief sketch of the Jane Kellogg Llome, more\\nfrequently called The Old Ladies Home, which is under\\nthe su]iervision of a Ijoard of Gentlemen ]\\\\fanagers and Lady\\nGuardians, representing every C^hristian denomination in the\\ncity, of which board Miss Ch ease is the secretary.\\nJANE KELLOGG HO:\\\\IE.\\nAX INSTITUTION OF LOVE AXD MERCY KEPOUT OF MISS\\nCREASE, TITE SECRETARY.\\nThe following very interesting annual report was filed on\\nEriday last by Miss Sophia Crease, secretary of the Board of\\nGuardians:", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "26 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nTo (he Board of Maiiaycrs and Lady Guardians:\\n1 must confess to a feeling of timidity, or, I should say,\\na full sense of incapacity, in ai)pearing before you in the role\\nof reporter. I am most assuredly cognizant of the still\\nsmall voice, which tells of more good I might have done, than\\nThe little amount accomplished, had it not been for the well-\\nknown stumbling block, pleasure before duty. The big\\nl and little you fighting for the mastery resulting, as full\\nmany a time and oft it does to vulnerable humanity, in favor\\nof the big 1.\\nCraving your leniency for the rather egotistical prelude\\nto this report, I will say: The Jane Kellogg Home is now\\nin its fifteenth year. From a venture cast upon the waves\\nof ])ublic o])inion and Little Rock charity in the year 1883, it\\nlias grown until now the State at large recognizes it as an\\ninstitution of love and mercy, which a Divine Providence\\nseems truly to have smiled upon, so wonderful has been its\\nsupport. It is true, there have been times when a very small\\nexchequer would present itself to your view to cai-ry on the\\nhome s necessary existence, yet, through the over-shadowing\\nclouds, there has evei- penetrated the sunshine of help in\\nthe time of need, i})ibuing the trusting heart with a full\\nsense of relief in the Father s watchful care.\\nThe past year seems to have glided onward not unlike its\\npi-edecessors. We have much to be thankful for, and but\\nlittle to complain of. The health of the household has on an\\naverage been most excellent, especially when considering the\\nadvanced age of most of the inmates. There has been one\\nadmission into the home and one death. Of course, the regu-\\nl.ii- monthly rejiort of the secretary embraces each month s\\nl;;i| p( niiigs, and is duly inscribed upon the record. The main-\\nfciijiiicc of the home during the year has been accomplished\\npretty nnich in the usual way. The annual donation week,\\nwhich cuts quite a large figure in the running of the home,\\nv:as well cared for by the generous-hearted ones of our city,\\nan.l the guardians felt very grateful for the liberal responses\\ngiven to their a])peal. The renting of rooms in the building,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 27\\ndonations of various kinds, with the very material help\\nafforded by the board of managers the institution presents a\\nhomelike and comfortable condition. The present matron,\\nMrs. Emory, has been with us for two years past, and we have\\nno cause of complaint regarding her supervision of the house-\\nhold affairs.* We deem her faithful in the discharge of her\\nduties, and sympathetic in regard to the old ladies M ants,\\nthereby establishing the peace of the home.\\nIn June last the board of guardians convened for its an-\\nnual election of officers. Mrs. R. A. Edgerton was duly\\nelected president, Mrs. James Pollock, first vice president\\nMrs. E. Longley, second vice president; Miss Crease, secre-\\ntary, and Mrs. E. A. Van Etten, who has for so long and faith-\\nfully served the board, re-elected treasurer. Our board has\\nbeen pleasantly augmented during the present year by the\\nboard of managers placing thereon Mrs. Pauline Reichardt,\\nMrs. B. J. Brown, Mrs. I). L. Gray, Mrs. John Moore, Mrs.\\nP. K. Roots, and Mrs. C. M. Taylor. The board has ever\\nbeen a most harmonious one, as certainly it should be, in this\\nwork of charity, and surely there is no greater charity than the\\ncare of the old and helpless. There are now in the home\\nthose who will very shortly cross the silent river, having\\nlong since passed their three score and ten years. A refuge\\nin the time of trouble has the institution been to them, and\\nthat it may continue to be a haven of rest for the unfortunate\\nand wayworn pilgrims, surely should be the wish of each\\nChristian heart.\\nI cannot close this report without mention of the home s\\ngood and kind physician, I)r. Christian, who, from its organi-\\nzation, has been the ever faithful friend, answering promptly\\ncalls at all hours, sympathizing and administering to the sick,\\nwithout money and without price, ]U oving indeed the Good\\nSamaritan to the Jane Kellogg Homo.\\nA. S. CREASE,\\nSecretary Board of Guardians.\\n*Mrg. Elizabeth Upliam Reeve is her efficient snecessor.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "28\\nTHE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nIn the southeast corner of the new Church may be seen\\na stained glass window, bearing the inscription, In loving\\nmemory of John and Jane P. Crease, which represents\\nZacharias bearing the child, who was to be the prophet of the\\nhijilu^st, to the temple for circumcision, with Elizabeth ac-\\ncompanying him. Among the numerous posterity of John\\nand Jane Crease this custom of taking the children to be\\nbaptized in Christ has been religiously preserved, and the\\nblessing of God has followed them.\\nLAl\\\\rBFJlT REARDOX, SR.\\nA. D. 1841-1860. Mr. Lamhcrt Reardon, Si:, was a\\nniend)er of the first Vestry of Christ Church. In May, 1841,\\nhe made the contract with ]\\\\Iessrs. Robins and Wassell for\\nbuilding the first Church, Avhich Mr. Crease desired to be\\nnamed Christ Church, after the Church of his former devo-\\ntion in Alexandria, Va. Mr. Reardon was a man of large\\nexperience. He was born in Virginia and married Ann Jef-\\nfrey, a native of Wilmington, Del. He came to Little Rock\\nin 1830 and lived with his family in 1837 on West Markham\\nstreet, on the summit of a hill, where his home, a commodious\\nbrick building, was seated. A deep dell or wooded ravine\\nseparated this hill from Broadway on the east. It was a\\nfavorite walk in 1849 for young people to descend into the\\nvalley and clind) to the op]X)sitc eminence for a visit to the\\nwidow Reardon, whose fine, intelligent countenance and portly\\nfigure would have arrested attention anywhere. The ravine\\nwas filled up and bridged and a street railway track now lies\\nacross it, all ni which has ruthlessly shorn the locality of its\\nnatural beauty and charm, while the little stream at the bottom\\ntliat oiice made music slipping over the stones, is hushed into\\nsilence like many wlio once passed over it. Bishop Polk and", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 29\\nBishop Otey were entertained by Mr. and ]\\\\lrs. Iteardon at\\nthis home, whose chiklren and grand children were baptized\\nand coniirnied bj those holy apostles. Mr. Reardon died\\nXoveniber 10^ 184!). His widow snrvived him eleven years\\nand died in IS GO. The residence became the property of\\nColonel Gordon X. Peay, whose children Avere bronght up\\nthere and is still the residence of his widow. The children of\\nMr. and ^frs. Land)ert lieardon, Sr., were:\\n1. Helen Eeai-don who married Wm. Scott, in Mary-\\nland, lie was district attorney for the Western District of\\nArkansas in 1S46. Mr. and Mrs. Scott had one daughter,\\nBlanche, who became the wife of Captain Sokolski, United\\nStates Army. She was the first person baptized in the tirst\\nEpisco])al Church, and was when a woman, a brilliant\\nmusician.\\n2. L lrhiia Rearclun. who married William B. Wait.\\nThey had Land)ert, William, Herbert, and diaries Edmund.\\nOnly the last mentioned survived the parents. Charles E.\\nWait married first Miss Leila Beasley; had one daughter,\\nFanny, and second, Miss Hattie Morrilton, of Virginia, and\\nhad one son, Charles Edmund, Jr.\\n.3. Lamheii Jeffrey Reardon, who married Priscilla\\nAylett Buckner and had Simeon Buckner, who died unmar-\\nried Anne Lavinia, who married Patrick Raleigh, broker\\nand real estate agent, and had nine sons, of whom seven sur-\\nvive Richard, Lambert, Edwin, Frederick, Joseph, Robert,\\nand James; Lambert Walter, who died unmarried, and Lallie,\\nwho married Dr. James A. Dibrell, a distinguished physician\\nand surgeon of Little Rock, and had two sons who survive\\nher John Raleigh and James Lambert.\\n4. John E. Reardon who died unmarried. He was\\nfor a lone time bookseller and stationer on northeast corner of", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "30 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nScott and Markliaiii streets. He was liiglilj esteemed, espe-\\ncially in musical circles, where he, with his guitar, was in\\nConstant ro(iuisitiou.\\nl.AMBERT JEFFREY REARDOX.\\nA. D. 1837-1847. Lambert Jeffrey Rearclon, son of\\nI.ambert Reardon, was also a member of the first Vestry of\\nthe Church, in the building of which his father had had so\\nprominent a position. He was a man of marked ability and\\nculture, for a long while editor of the Arhansas Banner, and\\nwas mayor of the city, 1845-1847. In social life he was a\\nman of elegant manners and graceful as a conversationalist.\\nHe married Priscilla Aylett Buckner, who Avas, and has\\nalways been, a model of refinement and amiability. Her\\n]:\u00c2\u00bbarents were C^aptain Simeon Buckner, of Kentucky, who\\nmarried his cousin, Nancy Watson, of Virginia. In 1837\\nCaptain Simeon Buckner received a commission from the\\ngoveruiiient to remove the Florida Indians from Vicksburg to\\nFort Gibson. He bought six or eight steamboats or their\\ntransi)ortation and finished his work in about a year, making\\na small fortune out of it. In the fall of 1837 he removed with\\nhis family to Little Rock, where they remained until 1839,\\n\\\\\\\\-hcu h(^ went to Clark County and purchased the Richwoods\\ny\u00c2\u00bbUintation, near Arkadelphia, one of the richest of the State.\\nHis son, William Perry Buckner, who had remained at school\\nin Kentucky, came to Arkansas in 183s and attended school\\nin Springfield, Hempstead County, boarding Avith ex-Governor\\n(iarhuurs mother. ITe then went to Alexandria, Va., and\\nwhile There attending the university was ap])ointed to the\\niiavy from Arkansas, and served on tlie Marion, the Bain-\\nbridge, the Macedonian, the historic Constitution and other\\n~liij)s. He was the first midshijiman ever a])pointed from", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 31\\nArkansas. He went through the war a member of the Federal\\nnavy, and in 1866, after twenty-six years active service in\\nthe navy of the United States, was placed on the retired list\\ndied July 10, 1869. Wife and one son died soon after; one\\nson, William, still living. Captain Buckner, in his Pacific\\ncruises, has unconsciously become a connecting link between\\nthe Manila of 1845 and the Manila of 1898. The log book\\nkept b}^ him when a midshipman supplies an interesting\\ndescription, quoted here from a copy i]i Arkansas Democrat of\\ndate May 19, 1898:\\nFROM AN OLD LOG BOOK.\\nDESCRIPTION OF A NOTED PLACE AND PEOPLE BY A MIDSHIP-\\nMAN ON THE CONSTITUTION PKOPIIECY OF FIFTY\\nYEARS AGO THAT THE ENSLAVED POPULACE\\nWOULD SOMETIME RISE IN REBELLION^.\\n[Arhmsas Democrat, May 19, 1898.]\\nThe historic man-o -war, Constitution, which bore an\\nactive and valiant part in the early naval warfare of our coun-\\ntry, visited the city Manila over fifty years ago on a peaceful\\nmission, in command of Captain John Percival. The log of\\nits Pacific cruise records that the ship entered Manila Bay\\nSeptember 12, 184.5, and that the Spanish captain of the port\\nvisited the ship, also a French officer from the French frigate\\nSabine saluted the Spanish flag witli twenty-one guns, which\\nwas returned ])y the fort on shore.\\nThe log book of that cruise was kept by Midshipman\\nW^. P. Buckner, and is now a precious relic in the possession\\nof Mrs. Priscilla A. Reardon, one of Little Rock s oldest and\\nmost esteemed residents, and a sister of ^lidshipman Buckner.\\nFrom the log is taken the following interesting descrip-\\ntion of the bay and city of Manila, which will be especially\\niijteresting now on account of the great victory^ won there but\\nrecently by American arms:", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "32 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nThe city of iMaiiila is situated on the southwest side of\\nthe island of Luzon or Luconia. It is said to contain about\\n90,000 inhabitants, most of whom are Indians and half-breeds.\\nThe city is built on an extensive flat and is surrounded by rice\\nfields. The European city is on the south side of the river,\\nand is walled in with a strong wall and encompassed on every\\nside by a ditch about forty feet wide. The walls have many\\nembrasures already filled with guns. Xo doid)t numy more\\nare stored away in the arsenals. A river about 200 yards\\nwide runs through the town; it has been walled up on each\\nside for many miles a beautiful and well built bridge crosses\\nthe river about one mile from its mouth. The Euro]:)ean city\\nis well built and clean. Its houses are usually about two\\nstories high, and are built of either stone or brick. The city\\nis full of churches. Some of tliem have a very old look, and\\none or two were truly s])lendid, or rather grand, inside. A\\nstranger would be (as I was) surprised at the number of\\npriests who meet him in the streets. T is said and not much\\ndoubt of it either) that they are the smartest and most influ-\\nential men in the place. They certainly are very polite men,\\nand have a sort of bon-vivant look about them that speaks of\\nsomething else but spiritual food. The town north of the\\nriver is not walled. It is very well built and is the business\\npart of Manila. The streets are quite regular. The town\\nis cut up in tw o or three directions by wide canals. These\\ncanals were no doubt dug to facilitate commerce, and also for\\ndefense. They are all crossed in many places by excellent\\nsi one bridges.\\nThere are many diinese in Manila. They all keep\\nlittle shops or stores in the principal streets. The cigar man-\\nufactories are well worth seeing. There are emploved in\\nManila under one roof ujnvards of 7,000 girls it is a beauti-\\nful sight\u00e2\u0080\u0094 all l)usv, but still they find enough time to smile\\non a young stranger, to say Buenos dias, sen or/ to a young\\ninan, or }fiichas (jrarias to a eomjdiment. Some of these\\ngirls are (piite beautiful, and si)eak so softlv that I for one\\ndelighted to listen to their voices. The Manila cheroots are\\nnearly as good as the Havana segars. Some persons like them", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 33\\nbetter. For my part I had rather smoke a cheroot made\\nby the pretty Maiiihi girls than the Havana made by African\\nnegroes, though the Havana may be the best.\\n^lanihx Bay is surrounded by high mountains. Many\\nof them appear to be the craters of volcanoes. Shocks of\\ntvirthquakes are sometimes felt in ^lanila. The bay is quite\\n(.pen and almost entirely free from dangers. There is good\\nanchorage about three miles from the town, on muddy bottom.\\nIt does not require a pilot to enter the bay. Near the city\\nare e.s tensive fields of rice. The roads are in line order and\\nthe views pretty and pleasant. Part of the Indian town is\\nbuilt of bamboo. The Indians appear to be a very ingen-\\nious race. They weave a kind of cloth from the fibers of\\nthe pineapple which is nmch finer than any silk. Everyone\\nin Manila is a Christian. The Spaniards establish their\\nreligion as they conquer. The sword is of great use to some\\nnations, for it is only by tlie sword that they can be civilized.\\nThe sword has converted more nations to a religion than\\npersuasion. But still, though these people have been con-\\nverted by force, anyone can see the improvement of their\\ncountry. T is said the population has doubled itself several\\nlimes since the conquest, I have heard a great many per-\\nsons speak against the Catholics for their intrigues with sav-\\nage nations, but in this instance 1 must say that, though they\\nJiave enslaved the country, yet they have enriched it. I\\nbelieve that this slavery of the people will break forth one day\\nso that they will enjoy a free and perfect liberty, and by being\\ncivilized they Avill know how to appreciate it. There are in\\nManila about 3,000 troops, mostly natives. Manila is ex-\\ntremely well fortified and could make a stout defense, if stout\\nhearts held it. But the Spaniards now have a saying that it\\ntakes a Spaniard to build, a Frenchman to take, and an Eng-\\nlishman to keep their forts. The ditch is nearly filled up\\non the south side of the town. The ruins of the wall would\\nenable a storming party to cross it. T is said, though, that\\na golden kev would unlock all the gates of Manila. There\\nare two long moles built out into the sea on one of them is a\\nlighthouse; the otlier has a battery of long brass guns. Of", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "34 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nail evening it is a pretty sight on the paphao. All the pretty\\nSpanish girls can be seen about sundown there in their\\nvalantes. The band of the garrison (a splendid one) usually\\nattends; in fact, from 4 p. m. till 10 at night is the stirring-\\ntime of day, when everybody wishes to see and be seen.\\nManila city was founded in 1640. About fifteen\\nmiles above the city is a lake thirty miles across. It is sur-\\nrounded by high mountains and bordered with Indian villages.\\nThe dress of the Indian girls is about half savage, half civi-\\nlized. The skirts are worn loose from the body, and some-\\ntimes rather low for our modest notions. The men dress\\nmuch like the Europeans. They wear hats, while the women\\nnever wear anything more than a handkerchief or veil over\\ntheir heads. The island of Luzon is about 360 miles long.\\nIt is a rich and fertile island, producing for exportation to-\\nbacco, segars, hemp, sugar and rice.\\nSimeon Buckner, of Iventucky, native of Virginia, father\\nof Captain Buckner, F. S. X., married Miss Xancy Watson,\\nof Virginia, and had three children\\n1. PvisclUa Aijlctt who inarricd Lambert Jeffrey\\nBear don.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a22. Win. Perry Bucloicr. U. S. X., who married Miss\\n^Lary ^lez/Ack, of Maryland. Their children were Mezzick\\nAylett, Joseph, and William the last only survives.\\no. Josephine Preston Buckner, who married Bobert\\nleiiients and had one daughter, Irene Bebecca, who survived\\ntlic mother but three months.\\nThe next most distinguished member of this band of\\nlii Istiaii pioneers was", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 35\\nJARED XEWTO]N^ CAUSI:NE,\\nwho was one of the most pious and devoted churchmen on the\\nlist of memhers of Christ Church. lie was a native of\\nLeonardtown, St. Mary (bounty, ]Md., and there married\\nEleanor Douglas Marshall, and afterwards moved to Arkan-\\nsas. They had fifteen children, of whom five only reached\\nmaturity, viz: John, Jane P., William, and Mary Susan\\nCausine.\\nJohn Causine, a lawyer, on his return to Maryland, after\\na visit to liis family at Little Rock, died at Cairo, 111., from\\na stroke of apoplexy. lie was a man of hrilliant attainments\\nand the pride of his widowed mother. The news of his\\ndeath put a period to her life. The remains were brought\\nback to Little Rock and mother and son were buried in one\\ngrave at Mount Holly Cemetery. He was never married.\\nJane P. Causme married at Leonardtown, Md., Luke E.\\nBarber, of Charles County, Md.\\nWilliam Causine died unmarried.\\nMary Susan Causine married Robert Clements in 18G2,\\nand had four children^ of whom two survive, John Causine\\nClements and Jenny Barber Clements.\\nA. D. 1 836. Mr. Jared ^N^ewton Causine and ]Mr. Luke\\nE. Barber came with their families to Arkansas in 1836, the\\nyear of its admission into the L^nion^ and settled on a farm\\nin Jefferson County, near Pine Bluif. This farm was after-\\nwards sold to Mr. G. ]\\\\I. D. Cantrell, a banker of Xashville,\\nTenn., and brother of Dr. W. A. Cantrell, of Little Rock.\\nA. D. 1838-1886. Lul-e E. Barber, the son-in-law of\\nMr. Causine, had practiced law in Maryland, was a member\\nof the Arkansas State Legislature from Jefferson County in", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "36 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\n1838, and moved to Little Koek in 1841, bringing a number\\nof slaves with him. In 1845 he was appointed clerk of the\\nSupreme Court of Arkansas, Avliich position he held until his\\ndeath (with the excej^tion of one interval, when X. W. Gox\\nheld the office), on June 13, 188(5, being 80 years of age. He\\nwas a ^lason of high degree, and was buried from C^hrist\\nChurch Chapel by the Order of Knights Templars. Dr. T. C.\\nTupper, Rector of Christ Church, who had preached his fare-\\nwell sermon to the congregation from the text John xv. 12\\nLove one another, had left for Leavenworth, Kan., his new\\npoint of service. He w^as telegraphed to return and officiated\\nat the burial. He, also a Mason, entered the Church, leading\\nthe funeral procession with a crosier or staff of Masonic im-\\nport. On his breast was a large scarlet Maltese cross and an\\nunder robe of azure was just visible down the front line of\\nhis white surplice. The Knights Templars, the members of\\nthe Su])reme Court, and the Church Yestry supplied pall\\nbearers from their several orders. After the pall, followed a\\nbody of Knights Templars and Masons, then the family, then\\nthe mendx rs of the bar, all of whom occupied the transepts,\\nthe nave being filled with citizens. Dr. Tupper made some\\nappropriate remarks and the procession followed the remains\\nof this good man to his grave. A Avindow of staijied glass in\\nthe northwest end of the new Church, re])resenting the Good\\nSanuiritan, friend to the man who fell among thieves, was\\njilaced to his memory by his widow. Xothing could more\\nti.itlifully illustrate his character,\\nA. D. 1897. Mrfi. Jane P. Barber, his widow, survived\\nhim eleven years. She had always been the spiritual ]u-op\\nand stay of her family. Trained in piety from childhood,\\nshe had flourished under tlu apju-oving smile of her Maker\\nfirst the blade, llicu the ear, and after that the full corn in", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 37\\nthe ear/ and when the angel Death thrust in his sickle,\\nthe harvest was ripe. A childless wife, she was yet a Mother\\nin Israel to the little ones of the Hock. Sunday after Suu-\\nclaA for years, she was the only female teacher in the Sunday\\nschool godmother to a score of children, and the adopted\\nmother of one, Mott Wehl), whose tragic murder at the age of\\n10, almost killed her with grief. The silver cross which\\nadorned the chancel of the old Church was the memorial of\\nthe unfortunate youth. Her slight figure and placid face,\\nvdiieh hecame more and more serene as deafness gradually\\nclosed the outward portals of life, and shut up her thoughts\\nv. ith the triune God, never failed to be seen in her pew, until\\nactual weakness prevented, although she could not hear the\\npreacher s voice or a sound of the organ near her. She was a\\nmistress such as all slaves would delight to serve, who rejoiced\\nv\\\\-ith them when they were manumitted. She was a friend,\\nwlioni it is a privilege to bemoan. She was a marvel of gen-\\ntleness in her family intercourse, in which her slightest wish\\nwas law. She died December 2, 1897, and was buried from\\nthe new Church by the Rector, Rev. John Gass, in Mount\\nHolly Cemetery, aged 83 years, nearly the whole of which\\nhad been spent in the service of God and the Church. She\\nleft request that her name should never be taken oif the roll\\nof the Ladies Aid Society, to which she bequeathed a fund for\\nthe annual dues.\\nA. D. 1833-1891. Mrs. Sarah Ann Ally, a cherished\\nfriend of Mrs. Barber, and a devout member of the Church\\nin Little Rock, was confirmed in St. Paul s Chapel, ISTashville,\\nTenn., by Rt. Rev. James II. Otey, on May 12, 1850, just\\nafter her marriage. She was the daughter of John and\\nMary Woodhead, and was born in the city of New York,\\nAugust 18, 1833. The family moved to Xew Orleans, La.,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00944", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "38 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nby sea, in 18oU; left Kew Orleans in IS-il, and went to\\nXasliville, Tenn., where the father died in 1849. Sarah Ann\\nWoodhead was married at Xashville, Tenn., to K. C. Ally in\\n1850. They had eight children. Granville and Maggie, the\\ntwo elder, were born in ^Xashville, Tenn., the other six are\\nnatives of Little Eock. Mr. and Mrs. Ally and the widow\\nWoodhead came to Little Eock in 1860, where the mother\\ndied in 1862. ]\\\\lrs. Ally has been heard to say that the first\\npersons to call on her in Little Eock were Mrs. Jane Barber,\\nMrs. Louisa Brown, and Dr. William A. Cantrell. She was\\na constant member of the Ladies Aid Society, and at her\\ndeath, December 29, 1891, resolutions of respect and regret\\nwere drawn uj) by a committee appointed for the purpose.\\neTOHX WASSELL,\\nSENIOR WARDEN.\\nA. D. 1813-1895. As shown by the deed, recorded in\\ntlie office of the circuit clerk at Little Eock, John Wassell and\\nAbner S. Washburn were wardens of Christ Church in 1841.\\nJohn Wassell was born in Kidderminster, Worcester County,\\nEngland, February 10, 181-3, and emigrated to Cincinnati,\\nHamilton County, Ohio, alone, hoping there to join an uncle.\\nFailing in this, he a])i)renticed himself to a carpenter and soon\\nattained to excellence in the trade. He obtained the contract\\nfor a building in Grand Gulf, Miss., through advertising\\nmedium, and afterwards he secured in the same manner, the\\ncontract for building the Statehouse at Little Eock, Ark. Li\\n1837 he married Miss Margaret Spotts, a resident of Louis-\\nville, Ky., though a native of Delaware, and brought his bride", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 39\\nto the scene of his labor. They went to housekeeping in a\\nportion of the State buikling, and remained there until it\\nwas finished. Since that time he was successively a house\\nbuilder, a farmer, an editor, and a lawyer; one of the origi-\\nnators of the ]\\\\Iemphis and Little Rock Railroad; founder\\nand first president of the Deaf Mute Institute, to which he\\ndonated several scholarships first president of the Home\\nWater Company; was af)pointed mayor of the city by Presi-\\ndent Andrew Johnson, U. S. A., during the reconstruction,\\nand was vice president of the First National Bank. In a\\nv^ord, Mr. Wassell was recognized by his fellow-citizens as\\na philanthropist as well as an expert financier. Back of these\\nbenevolent characteristics was tlie chief motive power his\\nallegiance to the Church, from which his loyalty never waned.\\nHe was a liberal member of the first Vestry of Christ Epis-\\ncopal Church, contributing to the maintenance of the Church\\nand. the clergy, and so continued until the time of his death,\\nJuly 29, 1881. When the first Church was burned he was\\ngreatly interested in the building of another on the same site.\\nHe donated the stone water table that surmounted the stone\\nfoundation. He died before it was finished, January 29,\\n1881, and was buried from the Chapel, built for temporary\\nuse on the lot adjoining. The Rev. T. C. Tupper, who was\\nat that time in charge, ofiiciated at his funeral. He was 68\\nyears old when he died, and left a comfortable maintenance\\nfor his widow and children. Mrs. Wassell donated the\\ncostly stained glass window in the northeast corner of the new\\nChurch, to his memory. It represents the three ]\\\\Iarys at\\nthe sepulchre seeking their Lord, and their interview with\\nthe angels. Mrs. Wassell was a faithful helpmeet and\\ndevoted Christian, tenderly beloved by her children and\\nfriends. In the south side of the chancel of the new Church,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "40 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\na Credence Table has been erected to her memorv. It is\\nmade of beautifully carved brass, with an open circular center,\\nfilled with the mysterious monogram of the cross, being the\\ninitial Greek letters of the name of Christ (i. e., X for Ch.\\nand P for r.) A cross of brass, encircled with a crown sur-\\ninounts this monogram and a rim of brass encases a plane of\\nwalnut wood, on which the vessels of the Holy Eucharist rest\\nduring the Ante-Communion ser\\\\ ice. On this plane is a plate\\nof brass inscribed Avith these words\\nTo the service of God,\\nAnd in memory of our Mother,\\nMargaret Wassell,\\nEntered into rest September 6, 1895.\\nThe children of John Wassell and Margaret Spotts, his\\nwife, who survive them, are\\n1. Rehecca E., wife of William ]\\\\r. Randolph, a prom-\\ninent attorney of Memphis, Tenn.\\n2. Albert Wassell, who married Miss Leona McAlmont^\\ndaughter of Dr. Corydon McAlmont.\\n3. Samuel S. Wassell, who married Miss Elizabeth\\nMcConaughey, daughter of J. W. ]\\\\rcConaugliey.\\n4. Ilerhert Wassell, unmarried.\\nTlie children of Mr. and Mrs. Randolph are Mrs. Laura\\nRandolph Norton; George Randolph, who married Miss\\nBirdie Randolph, of Xew York Edward Randolph, who mar-\\nried :Miss Julia Ralbach, of New York; Amy Randolph, un-\\nmarried, and Wassell Randolph, student at Knoxville, Tenn.\\nThe children of ^fr. and Mrs. Albert Wassell are Ruth\\nTIclcii. Cni-ydou AlcAliiK.iit, and John Randolph.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH 41\\nThe children of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Wasseli are\\nFrancis John, James Bracev (deceased), Samuel ]\\\\IcCon-\\naughey, and Herbert I^ynn, all minors.\\nNote It has been in vain that the annalist has sought in various channels for\\naccounts of AVmer S. Washburn, who served as Junior Warden with Mr. John Was-\\nseli. He removed from Little Rock at an early date and no record of him can be\\ntraced. Charles Rapley was a prominent citizen here, alarere owner in real estate,\\nbut no answei s were obtained to several letters of inquiry addressed to his children.\\nOf Dr. J. P. Norman nothing has been obtained, except the inscription found on his\\nwife s tomb, which still may be seen in the yard of the Peabody School. It is this:\\nSarah H. Samuel, wife of J. P. Norman, Vwm April 13, 1,H18; died Augvist 28, 1840.\\nShe believed that her God would be merciful. Of D.Butler and William Prather\\nno reliable information has been obtained.\\nPIOX. DAXIEL RIXGO.\\nA. D. 1828-1854. Hon. Daniel lllncjo was Senior\\nWarden of hrist Church in 1849^ as shown by the record\\nof the purchase of an additional lot, lying adjacent to the\\nthree already owned by the Church\\nJoshua F. Green and wife to Daniel Kingo and John\\nWasseli, Wardens of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Dated\\nMay 1, 18-1:9. Consideratiou, $2. Lot 1, block 29, city\\nof Little Eock.\\nDaniel Eingo, a native of Kentucky, born in 1800, was\\nidentified with the history of Arkansas at an early date. He\\nis mentioned in the archives of the State as clerk of the Ter-\\nritorial Legislature, which was in session in October, 1828,\\nhaving been a resident of the county he represented, Clark,\\nsince 1825, where he was postmaster. Before that time, from\\n1820 to 1836, Avhen Arkansas was admitted into the Laiion,\\nhe practiced law.* He was then elected Chief Justice of the\\nSupreme Court, and in 1849 was appointed United States\\nDistrict Judge, which position he held until the War of Seces-\\nsion displaced the civil authorities. He married Miss Mary\\n*See Hempstead s History of Arkansas.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "42 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nCocke, of K(nit.ucky. Her sister became the wife of Hon.\\nFrederick W. Trai^iiall, who was the law partner of John W.\\nCocke (as well as brother-in-law). These gentlemen, also\\nfrom Kentncky, were brilliant lights in the legal galaxy, and\\nwere regular attendants of the Episcopal Church. Judge\\nRingo was a grav(^, stately man, who had a lovely wife and\\nseveral children. These were:\\nJ. Piohert Watl-ins, or Wat, as he was familiarly\\ncalled. He enlisted as a Confederate soldier and died in a\\nhosj)ital during the war.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a02. Daniel, Jr., associated himself with a young man,\\nJohn Xewbern, in the first literary enterprise of the city. The\\nArl.-diisas Magazine was issued by them in 1854, and lived a\\nsliort wliilc. Ydung Uingo exchanged the pen for the sword,\\nAvas wounded in an engagement in Virginia and also died in\\na hospital.\\n3. Marl/ Frances, a beautiful young woman, on the\\nevo of licr nujitials with ]\\\\Ir. Harrison, died suddenly, and the\\nbroken hearted mother soon followed her. Judge Eingo sur-\\nvived all these family shocks, but fell at last, like a well sea-\\nsoned oak, leaving two orphans, Frank and Lily (fourth and\\nfifth). Frank also died not numy years afterwards and Lily\\ndied unmarried in 1800, in San Antonio. The entire family\\nhas thus passed away.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 43\\nI J OX. FKEDERICK W. TRAP:N^ALL.\\nHon. F rede rich IF. TnipnaU, whose name is on the first\\nlist of Vestrymen of Christ C^hurch, and who stands among\\nthe first in the h st of distinguished lawyers of the Little Rock\\nbar, married Miss Frances Cocke, the sister of his law partner,\\nJohn W. Cocke. They owned and occui^ied the spacious,\\ncolonial brick residence, at the head of Commerce street, on\\nFifth, which then stood alone in the center of the block, sur-\\nrounded by trees of native growth and sloping greensward.\\nThey had one daughter, JMary, who survived both her parents\\nand died an orphan at 13 years of age. Ben. C. Trap-\\nnail, brother of F. W. Trapnall, was unmarried. Philip\\nl^rapnall, younger brother of Frederick, became a junior\\npartner of the firm of Tra2)nall \u00c2\u00ab!S: CVcke, and married Sallie,\\neldest daughter of Colonel Sandy Faulkner, who was the\\nacknoAvledged beauty and belle of the city. Bettie, the second\\ndaughter, became the first wife of Major John C. Peay, who\\nserved in the Mexican War, as well as later in the Civil War as\\nquartermaster. Mattie, the third daughter, married Mr. Buch-\\nanan. The two oldest sons of Colonel Faulkner have passed\\naway, as w*ell as the children of his old age, Philip and Minnie.\\nAll have paid the debt of nature, and what once formed the\\nmost hospitable circle anywhere to be found, is remembered\\nas a flash of brilliant sunshine, extinguished in gloom.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "44 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nJOHN IIUTT.\\nA. D. 1 835-1 878. John Ilutt, Judge of the City Court\\nof Little Rock, in the then Territory of Arkansas, 1835, was\\na member of the first Vestry of the first Episcopal Church,\\nand his name appears often on the list of subscribers to the\\nbuilding. He was elected treasurer of the State of Arkan-\\nsas in 1S38, and again in 1843. He was the son of William\\nSpence Hutt, Sr., and Constance Eugenie Etienne Yillard,\\nhis wife, who, with her family, had been exiled from Paris,\\nErance, at the time of the French Revolution. Judge Hutt\\nand Peter T. Crutchfield, receiver of public moneys at Little\\nRock for many years, married sisters. Misses Harriet and\\nElizabeth Field, daughters of William Field. John Hutt,\\nWilliam and Andre were brothers. William Hutt married\\nElizabeth Findley and Andre Hutt married Erancissa Gaines,\\nwidow of Benjamin Linebeangh, and niece of Peter Crutch-\\nfield. Her two daughters by her first marriage were Ellen,\\nwho dietl in early womanh.ood, deeply lamented, and Laura,\\nwho married Captain Lucian B. Xash, now of Spokane, Wash.\\nHer other children arc rhe ordy persons left of the name of\\nJfntt in Little Rock. These are William S. Hutt and Mollie,\\nwife of Edward C. Xewton. Her grand children, all bap-\\ntized members of the Episcopal Church, are Edward Sevier\\nAndre Hutt, Frankie (Mrs. William Frederick Bracy) Mary\\nLizzie and Cornell Randol])h. The accompanying tribute to\\n]\\\\[rs. Elizal)eth A. Crutchfield, died December 11, 1878, who\\nwas a devoted Church member, will be read with interest for\\niier sake, as well as for that of the distinguished writer. Chief\\n-Instice Elbert H. English, and the wife of his youth, Julia\\nI isher i", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 45\\nTliliUTK OF liESPECT.\\nMRS. ELIZAIJETII A. CRUTCIIFIELD.\\nThe justly merited tribute to tlie memory of the himented\\nMrs. Savage, published a few days since, reminded me that\\nno one had written an obituary of her contemporary, the most\\nestimable lady whose name heads this article.\\nElizabeth Ann Field first saw the light on the 29th of\\nJuly, IS 13, in Dinwiddie County, Va. She was of a good\\nfamily, and a niece of General Winlield Scott, famous as a\\nmilitarv commander in the American wars. Like the daugh-\\nters of all of the irginians of means, she was well educated,\\nand grew to womanhood accomplished and beautiful. In\\n1833, she came to Little llock, then a small village, clustered\\nabout the point of rock which juts into the Arkansas river,\\nand from which the town took its name. It was called by the\\nearly navigators of the river Little Rock to distinguish it from\\nBig Rock, a mile or more above. Just below the point of\\nrock, the early keel adventurers landed their trading boats\\nand carried on a commerce with the Quapaw Indians, then\\nmonarchs of the forest and the game. In after years it became\\nand is now known as the steamboat landing. There are but\\nfew persons living now who remember Miss Field when she\\nfirst came to Little Rock, and she was for a time the belle of\\nthe village. She was one of its early roses. How many,\\nalike beautiful in tlie spring time, summer and even autumn\\nof life, like her have bloomed and faded She intermarried\\nwith Peter Tinslcy Crutchfield, Esquire, at the residence of\\nMajor Prior, Spring Hill, Hempstead County, in 1834.\\nMajor Prior, a Red River planter, and fine specimen of the\\nold Virginia gentleman, was a friend and acquaintance of\\nMiss Field and her parents, and invited her to be married at\\nhis house. Major Crutchfield, as he was afterward called,\\nwas then a young member of the territorial bar, and became\\nir after years a prominent lawyer here and on the circuit. Lie,\\nwith Pike. Ashley, Ringo, Fowler. Walker. Royston and\\nothers, pioneer lawyers, strong men and learned in the old\\nbooks (Do (^-)de fledu linas) swam the bnvons, and at nio ht", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "46 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nspread tlu ir blankets under the shelter of the oaks and read\\ntlieir destinies among the stars. Major Crutchfiehl filled\\nseveral places of pnblie trnst, and was noted for his tidelity of\\ncharacter. lie was receiver of public moneys for the United\\nStates for some years before, and at the time of the outburst\\nof the Civil War between the States and when armed soldiers\\nwent, under a military order, to seize the j)ublic moneys in his\\nkeeping, though a Southern man, he refused to surrender\\nthem, believing it to be his duty to preserve them, and he stood\\nfearlessly guarding them until they were forced from him by\\nsuperior numbers. He died not long after. Mrs. Crutch-\\nfield, at the time of the death of her husband, was well pre-\\nserved and a line looking woman, but remained a Avidow,\\ndevoted to his memory, until liev own sudden death, wdiich\\noccurred December 11, 1878, at the family homestead. She\\nraised but one child, a daughter, now Mrs. Burrow. Many\\nof the old citizens v/ill remember the brilliant wedding of Miss\\n.luliet Crutchfield, beautiful and accomplished like her\\nmother, and General Xapoleon B. Burrow, then the oily-\\ntongued orator of Arkansas, and the peer of Yancey, of Ala-\\nbama now. having abandoned very much public life, he\\nholds the |)low as it turns to the sun the solemn soil. All\\ni-emember the hospitality of the Crutchiield mansion, and the\\npleasant, graceful and lady-like manner in which its mistress\\npresided. Xow she has followed her husband to the tomb,\\nand be it hoped to the better land, and others occupy the old\\nhomestead. IVIy acquaintance commenced with Mrs. C^-utch-\\nfield, at the ])oint of rock, on a Sabbath morning early in June,\\n1844. Fhe river was at its flood, the June rise ujwn the\\nrain rise, and a group were there assembled looking at the\\ngreat cottonwoods that had been rifted from the shores and\\nwere floating on the foaming tide. jNfrs. Crutchfield was\\nthere, holding Juliet, a little girl, by the hand. The child\\ncast a flower on the flood, and bade it take her compliments to\\ntlie sea. The flower may never have reached the sea, but the\\ngrou]) of spectators Avere on another stream, which has borne\\nmost of them to another, a deeper and a wider sea a shoreless\\nsea", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 47\\n]\\\\Iary Melbourne, the canarv-tliroated songstress, after-\\nward wife of Senator Borland, was there, and the strings of\\nher harp have been for years broken and her sweet tones\\nhushed in the silence of the tomb. Chief Justice Ringo and\\nwife, kSani li. Hempstead, a prominent lawyer, and wife;\\nCharles P. Bertrand and Thomas D. Merrick, who were of\\nthe group, all sleep. One iras aniunrj them, (who need not be\\nnamed) Avhose bright black eyes, bewitching face, and merry,\\nringing laugh, all who survive will remember, for none who\\nknew can forget her. She rests near hei friend and neighbor,\\n]\\\\Irs. rutchfield. Mrs. Dr. Adams (sister of William and\\nEbenezer Cummins) still lives and looks but little changed.\\nShe is one of the roses that defies the winters, and in this\\nresi)ect is like Mrs. Crutchfield, who M as unusually well pre-\\nserved to the time of her death. .Tohn Karns and Dr. Dodge\\nwere of the group, and appear now about as they did then,\\nand look like they might live as long as the Wandering Jew.\\nSo was Wm. B. Wait, then a mature man, and yet one of our\\nmost active and reliable business men.\\nPeace to the memory of our de]iarted friend, INfrs.\\nrutchlield, and may roses bloom upon her tomb\\nE. H. E.\\nJOHN ADAMSOX, SR.\\nA. D. 1836-1876. John Adamson, Sr., mentioned in\\nthe list of iirst Vestry of Christ (liurch, married Rebecca\\nPrather in ^Montgomery County, Md., and came to Arkansas\\nin 1886. ]Ie had served as an officer in the War of the Revo-\\nlution. He died ii! Little Rock, Ark., July 10, 1861.\\n]\\\\Iention is made of him in the diaries of Bishop Otey.\\nWlUia7n Adainson, son of John Adamson and Rebecca\\nPrather, his wife, was born in ]\\\\[aryland, and came to Little\\nRock with his father in 1S;}6, and mai-ried Louisa Petit, Sep-\\ntomltcr 16, IS.^l. Tfe served in tlio AFexican War.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "48 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nJohn Adamson, son of William Adamson and Louisa\\nPetit, his wife, was born in Little Eock, Ark., ]Sroveml)er 19,\\n1852, and married Bettie Hendren, of Pine Bluff, Ark., JSTo-\\nvember 2, 1871.\\nWilliam Custis Adamson, son of John Adamson (2d)\\nand Bettie Hendren, his wife, was born at Willowdale, Ark.,\\nPebruarj 11, 1873. L nmarried.\\nJoh7i Selden Adamson, son of John Adamson (2d) and\\nBettie Hendren, his wife, was born at Willowdale, Ark.,\\nJanuary 17, 1876.\\nNICHOLAS PEAY.\\nA. D. 1829. Among the very earliest citizens of Little\\nPock was Nicholas Peay. He was one of eleven children.\\nTwo of his brothers are mentioned as members of the House\\nof Commons from Rockingham County, in the General\\nAssembly of North Carolina, George Peay, in the years 1793,\\n1791, and 1795, and John Peay in 1797. Nicholas Peay\\nwent to Kentucky and there married Miss Juliet Neill. From\\nthere he came to Arkansas with his family in 1825 and\\nbecame proprietor of the first liotel in the city of Little Eock.\\nTheir children were eleven in number. Those who survived\\nto adult age were:\\nL Mary Peai/. who married William F. Pope, relative\\nand i)ri\\\\ ate secretary of Governor John Pope, w^ho was the\\nthird governor of the Territory of Arkansas in 1829, and the\\nbrother-in-law of John Quincey Adams, president of LTnited\\nStates; Willaim F. Poj.e was the author of Earlij Days in\\nn^JJ^l^ cqofle the list of mpmhers r,f the first Vestrv of Christ Church. Bishop\\nOtey s diary will supply such information as may be lacking.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 49\\nArkansas. The cliilclren of ]Marv Poay and Win. F. Pope,\\nlive ill number, all died in infancy.\\n2. Gordon Neill Peay, avIio married Sue Nelson Crease,\\nsixth daughter of John H. and Jane Xelson Crease, had Jane\\nFeay, who married W. \\\\V. Morrison. Thev had Gordon,\\nWilliam, Jane, Xorman Crease, C^aroline, Xelson, and Mary\\nMorrison Mary Peay, who married W. B. Worthen, and had\\nSue, George, Elizabeth, Louisa, and Mary Worthen. Eliza-\\nbeth Peay married Antoine Bohlinger, and had Fred, ISTeill,\\nElizabeth, Eaura Lewis, Mary Sue, and Caroline Bohlinger.\\nNicholas Peay married Leicester Hornibrook, and had James,\\nLeicester, Elizabeth, and Nicholas Peay. Gordon N. Peay\\nmarried Zilla Cole, and had Gordon and Helen Peay.\\nCaroline Peyton Peay, unmarried.\\n3. JoJin Coleman Peay, who married first, Bettie,\\nsecond daughter of Colonel Sandy Faulkner, and last, Mar-\\ngaret Elizabeth Peyburn, third daughter of Samuel W. Rey-\\nburn. They had Reyburn, ^Yilliam, Ashley, Juliet Mildred\\n(died in early womanhood), and John Coleman Peay. Major\\nPeay died August 29, 1898, deeply lamented by relatives and\\nfriends.\\n4. William Nicholas Peay, who married Nannie Nantz,\\norphan niece of Mrs. Frederick AV. Trapnall, and had one\\ndaughter, Katie. Both deceased, but the daughter survives.\\n5. Juliet Elizahetlh Peay, who married first. Dr. Wil-\\nliam Hammond, and had Fanny G. (Mrs. Jesse Blocker),\\nxVlice P., and William H. Hammond, and second, William\\nEasley, and had one daughter, Sue C. (Mrs. Barclay), one\\ngrandson, Hugh. William Blocher is also a grandson.\\n0. Sophronia Peay, who married Dr. George Golder,\\ndeceased. Their children are Mary Alice Golder and Hen-", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "50 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nriotta Viola Gokler, who married June C. Browne, manager\\nof Iron ]\\\\I(\u00c2\u00bbuntain Telegraph Company.\\nThe family of Mr. Samnel W. JReybiirn were also devoted\\nChnroh members of the first Church.\\nJ. William Eeyburn. the eldest son, married Mary\\nFisher, who was the sister of Jnlia Fisher, first wife of CUiief\\nJustice Elbert IT. English. They had one son, Elbert Wood-\\nward, who died.\\nMrs. Eeyburn after\\\\vards became the wife of J. V. Zim-\\nmerman, and had three children. Two are living Mrs. Julia\\nliced and Jesse F. Zimmerman.\\n2. Joseph 1T\\\\ Rcyhurn married Arkansas Lawson.\\nTheir children are Mrs. Caroline (Reyburn) Dutton, Mrs.\\nFrances (Reyburn) Van Etten, Miss ISTellie Reyburn, and\\nSamuel Woodward Reyburn.\\nCordelia ir 7^e/- married William Scull. Children:\\nReylmrn (deceased), Samuel Christian, Zoe de Villemont,\\nWilliam Riddle, and Melanie.\\n4. ]\\\\Ianj Jane, or Jamie, who married Dr. Benj.\\nScull, a distinguished musician, and for a long time organist\\nof Christ Church. I lieir only daughter, Eleanor Therese, or\\niSTona, married William Joseph Dunklin. They had\\nJamie Barnes, Anderson, Prudilla, and Joseph Dibrell. Jamie\\nBarnes married George Coit Davis, of Austin, Chicago, 111.\\nThe only son of Dr. and Mrs. Benj. Scull is Miles Scull,\\nimman icd.\\n5. Margaret Elizaheth, wlio married John Coleman\\nI cay. I\\\\vo younger sisters, Annie and Fanny Reyburn, died\\nin early womanluxxl.\\nThe siirviviug nifuilKTs of these families are steadfast in\\ntlK ir devotion to the Church, and their names should, and will\\nbe, ])erjx tuated in the annals of the Church.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 51\\nWILLIAM B. WAIT.\\nThis iiaine, so familiar to the members of the congrega-\\ntion of Christ Church, as the guardian of her financial interest\\nfrom the time of Bishop Otey s first visitation till very nearly\\nthe time of his death, must have full space here as a trusted\\nChurch ofiicial and highly esteemed citizen. From Tlie\\nEncyclopedia of tJie New West/ published by the United\\nStates Biographical Publishing Company, at Marshall, Texas,\\nin 1881, is quoted the subjoined accurate sketch of Mr. Wait s\\nlife:\\nA. D. 1808. WilUam B. Wait was born in Groton,\\nMass., January 10, 1808. His father, Levi Wait, a Scotch-\\nman, a farmer, a Mason, and an eventempered kind of man,\\nmoved to Albany, X. Y., in 1817, and died there in 1822.\\nMr. Wait s mother was Elizabeth Jones, born at Acton, Mass.\\nHer mother was married three times. First to CajDtain Isaac\\nDavis, who was the first ofticer killed in the Revolution, near\\nConcord Bridge, Mass., who is named in one of Webster s\\norations, delivered at Acton, on the occasion of the erection of\\nthe monument at that place.\\nA. D. 1881. ]\\\\Ir. Wait s mother raised eight children,\\nof wdiom the subject of this sketch is the oldest, and six are\\nliving. (1881.) There has never been a stain or scandal\\nheard of any one of these children, and there is not an office-\\nholder among all the kith or kin.\\nA. D. 1824. IMr. Wait, leaving his home in Albany in\\n1824, went to Boston and remained five years, as a clerk, at\\n$75 a year and his board, the first four years, and $100 for\\nthe last year, in a grocery store.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "52 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nA. D. 1829. In July, lS: y, he left Boston and went to\\nCincinnati to better his prospects. lie was in and about Cin-\\ncinnati and Louisville two years, as a clerk in a store and on\\nsteamboats. Up to this time he had saved no money. After\\nreaching Cincinnati and paying his second week s board in\\nadvance, he had 124^ cents left, and has never inherited any-\\nthing since.\\nA. D. 1830-1843. On the 28th of December, 1830, he\\nlanded in Arkansas, and, being previously engaged, took the\\nposition of clerk in the store of Frederick ^STotrebe, a general\\ntrader at Arkansas Post. He remained with him till May,\\n1834, then went to Little Rock and went into business with\\nEdward Dunn, under the firm name of Wait Dunn, general\\ntraders. Mr. Dunn dying in 183G, Mr. Wait continued the\\nbusiness until 1838, when he went back to Arkansas Post, and\\nwent into business with Charles F. Xotrebe, under the firm\\nname of Xotrebe Wait, successors of Frederick N^otrebe.\\nlie remained there till tlie fall of 1843, when (Mr. :NTotrebe\\nliaving died in 1841) he brought the stock to Little Rock in\\nSeptember, 1843. From that time till 1854 he was actively\\nengaged in selling goods, and all kinds of mercantile trans-\\nactions.\\nA. D. 1854 1861. In February, 1854, he was burned\\nout, and, from that time, went into the collection and exchange\\nbusiness, and so continued in that business until 1801, when\\nthe Civil War caused him to close np all business, as near as\\nhe could. During the war he remained in Little Eock with\\nhis family all the time, taking no part in it, except what is\\nmentioned furtlioi- on. Since the Avar Mr. Wait has been\\nretired, ddiug no regular business, beyond taking care of his\\ncity and country real estate and other ]n 0])erty. During the\\n-ar liis princii)al business was trying to take care of what he", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 53\\nhad. For about a year prior to General Steele s takinii; pos-\\nsession of Little lioek, lie was acting for Edward Cross, deposi-\\ntary of the Confederate States, and handled and paid out\\n$;5;;, 000,000.\\nA. D. 1S43-1863. :Mr. Wait^s practice through life has\\nbeen to deal fairly- with everybody. With the exception of\\nfive 3 ears at the Arkansas Post, he endeavored to do a cash\\nbusiness in selling goods. He never had trouble in buying\\ngoods on a credit from the beginning to the end of his mer-\\ncantile career. From 1843 to 1854 he never sued but one\\nman on a bill of goods sold. There was never a judgment\\nrendered against him in any court in the State on an action\\nof debt. Fie always paid his bills. Looking on all the busi-\\nness he has handled his long and varied business career\\nthis is a remarkable feature in his history. Xor was he ever\\nforced into chancery that he did not beat the plaintiff. His\\nnote was never protested for nonpayment. He has not, as a\\nrule, invested in public or general enterprises. He is presi-\\ndent of the Little Rock Building Association, numbers three\\nand four is director and vice president of the Merchants\\nl^ational Bank, of Little Rock, and was among the first direc-\\ntors of the Cairo and F^ulton Railroad, and treasurer of that\\ncompany from its organization till 1803, and was a director\\nof the Bank of the State of Arkansas from its organization till\\nL838. Fie never belonged to any secret society or military\\ncompany. He seldom kept more than one clerk kept his\\nown books; never hired a bookkeeper, and his success is to be\\nlai-ge!y attributed to his handling his money himself, and to\\ntlie close attention paid to his own business. He was never\\nashamed to sweep out his store, or to do anything necessary\\nabout his establishment. Expenses and bad debts did not\\nswallow up his profits. This record is valuable as suggesting\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00945\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "54 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nthe pathway to tinancial success. Our voung readers who\\nwould be wise, wall be admonished hy the perusal of these\\nstatements.\\nA. D. 1838-1869. Though :\\\\lr. Wait has been a Demo-\\ncrat, he has occasionally voted for candidates on the other\\nside. lie was against secession, but when his State went out\\nhe determined to remain at home and operate with the Con-\\nfederacy. For many years prior to IS 03 he served as an\\nalderman in Little liock. He has been twice married. His\\nfirst wdfe, to whom he was married in Little Rock, December\\n11, 1838, died there December 31, 1863. Her name was\\nMartha Lavinia Reardon, sister of John Reardon, the book-\\nsdler at Little Rock. She was born in Easton, Md., in 1800,\\nthe daughter of Lambert Reardon, a merchant in Maryland,\\nfirst, and afterward in Little Rock. He was a man universally\\nrespected for his honest and correct character and gentle-\\nmanly manners, and was of Irish descent. By this marriage\\nMr. Wait had four chihlren, only one of whom is living, viz:\\nCharles Edmoud, born in Little Rock, jSTovember 3, 1849;\\ngraduated at the University of Virginia married in August,\\n1879, Miss Leila Reasley, of Petersburg, Va., and by her had\\none child, William Beasley Wait, December 24, 1880.\\nCharles is professor of chemistry and metallurgv and manager\\nof the school of mines at Rolla, J\\\\Io., a rising man, of whom\\nany father might be proud.* Mr. Wait s second marriage,\\nwhich occurred at Pittsburg, Pa., May 20, 1867, was with\\nMrs. Fannie Fast in Lyler, widow of William H. Tyler, lieu-\\ntenant in the Fnitcd States armv. She was born and educated\\n*w Charles E. Wait lost his wife and was married a second time to Miss Har-\\nriet Morrison. By this marriage are two children. Chas. E. Wait, Jr., and Fanny.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 55\\nin Alabama. By this marriage Mr. Wait has one child, Kobert\\nEastin, born at Pittsburg, Pa., July 24, 1869.*\\nMrs. Wait belongs to the Episcopal Church. She is a\\nsister of Mrs. W. W. Spotswood, formerly of the United States\\nnavy. Her sister, Matilda, was the wife of Colonel Alexander\\nMontgomery, of the United States army. Mrs. Eannie Wait s\\nfather, Thomas Eastin, edited the first newspaper published\\nat Key W st, Florida. He was on General Jackson s staff\\nal the battle of ISTew Orleans was navy agent at Pensacola,\\nunder Van Buren s administration^ and died in Florida in\\n1863. His wife (Mrs. Wait s mother) was Lucinda Gayle,\\nsister of Governor John Gayle, of Alabama. She died at\\nMobile, Ala., in 1870.\\nMrs. Wait s first liusl)and, William H. Tyler, a relation\\nof President Tyler, graduated at West Point. Her sister,\\nHelen, is the wife of R. P. Pulliam, a lawyer at Fort Smith.\\nHer sister, Lucinda, died the wife of Dr. Rossell, of the\\nUnited States army. She left a son, William Trent Rossell,\\na graduate of West Point, who now belongs to the corps of\\ncivil engineers of the United States army. One of Mrs.\\nWait s cousins, Miss Mary Eastin, presided in the White\\nHouse during part of General Jackson s administration, and\\nwas married there to Lucius J. Polk, the first marriage, it is\\nbelieved, that ever occurred in the White House. Mr. Wait\\nowns the finest residence in the State of Arkansas, f built\\nby Alexander McDonald, ex-United States Senator, at a\\ncost of $40,000. He owns and rents several storehouses,\\nseveral blocks and lots in town, a small stock in the Merchants\\nNational Bank, has $17,000 stock in the two Little Rock\\n*Robert Eastin Wait married Miss Isahelle Evans Smart, daughter of Rev. Rich-\\nard Davis Smart, a distinguished divine of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They\\nhave one daughter, Alice St. Clair Wait.\\nfNow owned and occupied by Colonel Thomas W. Newton and family.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "5(i THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nJ3iiikliiig Associations, and owns 4,000 or 5,000 acres of land\\nin Lincoln, Arkansas, Lonoke, Clark, and Pulaski counties.\\nHis height is 5 feet 4 inches; weight, 125 pounds; eyes,\\nblue and of very amiable expression.\\nHe has been treasurer of the Episcopal Church of Little\\nEock for about thirty years, since 1843, and was chairman\\nof the street committee in the city for several years before\\nthe war.\\n.M] Wait was hrst vice president of the First JSTational\\nBank in this city. Upon his resignation, at the meeting of\\nthe board of directors, the following resolutions were adopted\\nResolved, That although we cannot expect our words\\nto add to the honorable reputation of a man who commenced\\nactive business in this city more than half a century ago, and\\nhas been known of all men as a gentleman of business integ-\\nrity, whose entire career has been without spot or blemish, yet\\nwe would violate our feelings and be recreant to our duty if\\nwe permitted our fellow-director, William B. Wait, to retire\\nfrom the first vice presidency of this First Xational Bank\\nof Little Rock, Ark., without some official acknowledgment\\n(it our admiration for his many excellencies,\\nJie.solred, That we desire to bear cheerful testimony to\\nthe fact that during our years of association with William B.\\nWait, his n])rightness of action, his steadfastness of purpose\\nand never failing kindness of consideration of all with whom\\nhe has ])een associated fills each of us with a sincere admira-\\ntion foi- liiiii that will be as lasting as our memories.\\nJietiolced, That X. Kupferle, P. K. Roots, and M. M.\\nColin be ap])ointed a committee to present this expression of\\nsf ntiments to Mr. Wait in such a manner and with such a\\nsonvchiir as their tastes may dictate.\\nThe chiklrcn of ^Mr. Wni. B. Wait now living are:\\nL Charles luhnond, of Knoxvilie, Tenn., who married\\ntiiNf Lcihi iJcash-y, and had one daughter, Fanny. Both", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 57\\nluother and child dietl. Second wife was Harriet Murrisuii,\\nof irginia, who had one son, Charles Edniond, Jr.\\n2. Robert Eastin, who married Isabelle Evans Smart,\\ndanghter of Rev. Dr. liichard Davis Smart, of St. Louis\\nMethodist Conference, and Julia Isabelle Evans, his first\\nwife. A daughter, Alice St. Clair, was l)orn to them.\\nWILLIAM S. EULTON.\\nA. D. 1835-1844. ^yUnam S. Fulton, whose name\\nheads the list of subscribers to the first Episcopal Church, in\\nLittle Rock (coming after the names of the collectors. Rev.\\nDr. Yeager, John II. Crease, Wm. C. Scott, and Jos. Grubb),\\nserved as fourth governor of the Territory of Arkansas in\\n1835. He was afterwards elected for the short term to the\\nUnited States Senate in 1836, and died in 1844. His family\\nattended the services of the Church. His father was Judge\\nDavid Fulton, of Baltimore, Md., who married Miss Elizabeth\\nSavin. Two sons and a daughter of this marriage were well-\\nknown citizens here, viz\\n1. Hon. Wm. Savin F niton, who married ^fatilda\\nISTowdand.\\n2. Dr. John Fulton, who married C^aroline Scull.\\n3. Jane Fulton who married, first, Mr. Shall, and\\nsecond. Dr. Holt.\\nThe children of ex-Governor Eulton and ^Litilda Xow-\\nland, his wife, were\\nElizaheth Fu.lton, who married Moorhead Wright, and\\nhad William Eulton, Elizabeth Moorhead, Imogene, Amelia,\\nand Isaac Wright.\\nWilliam Fulton Wi-i ilit. married Louisa Watkins, eldest", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "58 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\ndangliter of Chief Justice Geo. (J. Watkiiis and Mary, daugh-\\nter of John H. and Jane P. Crease. Their children are Moor-\\nhead (Watkins, died), Mary and Louisa Wright.\\nMay Wright married S. Frencli Hoge, of Kentucky, and\\nJiad Virginia Briggs, William Fulton, and Charles Eugene\\nWright.\\nElizaheth Moorlicad married Dr. Putnam Dickinson, and\\n]jad Elise and Wright (both died), Putnam, Imogene, and\\nAuuette J)ickinson.\\nImogene married Ambrose Hundley Sevier, and had\\n]\\\\laude, Easter (died), Ambrose Hundley, Amelie, Imogene\\n(died), Juliet Sevier.\\nAinelle married Dean Adams, and had one sou, John D.\\nAdams.\\nIsaac died, a minor.\\nSophia Fulton married, first, James M. Curran, a distin-\\nguished young la\\\\vyer, and had William S., Matilda F., and\\nAlice -liniova urran, and, second, Chief Justice Geo. C.\\nWatkins, and had Maria Louise, Elizabeth Wright (died),\\nGeorgie Claiborne, and Ida Watkins.\\nWilliam S. Curran married Jennie Goodfellow, and had\\nJames Moore and Ilattie Curran.\\nMatilda F. married Francis Johnson, and had Alice,\\nAda May, and Pobert W. Johnson.\\nMirr married Celsus P. Perrie, and have one daughter,\\n^lay nn-an Perrie.\\nMice Jimora married Frederick Elias Conway, and liad\\nFrederick Nelson, May Fulton, Alice Elise, James Curran,\\nand Clai])orne Watkins Conway.\\nMarin Louise mai i-ied Wni. ,1. Tnrn( r, and had George\\nWatkins (died), William d., and Helen A. Turner.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 59\\nGeorgie Claiborne married Pope Yeatman; no children.\\nIda married Marshall Shirk they have one daughter,\\nAnne Bell Shirk.\\nIn the north wall of the new Church is a window with\\nsix lifesize figures representing Dorcas, ^Svho was full of good\\nworks and almsdeeds, which slie did, and inscribed with\\nthese words\\nSacred to the memory of Sophia Watkins.\\nBlessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth.\\nThis window was donated by the two younger daughters\\nof the deceased, Georgie and Ida.\\nIdd Fulton, youngest daughter of ex-Governor Fulton,\\nmarried William Hunter, aud had two children. All the\\nfamily are dead.\\n2. Dr. John Fid ton removed from Little Rock at an\\nearly date.\\n3. Jane Fulton, sister of William Savin and Dr. John\\nFulton, married, first, Mr. Shall, and had three children\\nDavid Fulton Shall, who married ^lary Stout, and had one\\ndaughter, Mary Lizzie (parents and daughter, all dead)\\nj\\\\largaret Ann, who married James Galloway, and had several\\nchildren only one of the name, David Fulton Shall Galloway,\\nwlio married ]\\\\lay Wesson, represents the family in this\\nparish; Elizabeth Savin Shall, lives unmarried in this city.\\nJane Fulton s second husband was Dr. Holt, surgeon of the\\nexpedition sent out by the government under command of\\nai)tain B. L. E. Bonneville, IT. S. A., to make a reconnois-\\nsance of the plain.* Xo children.\\nThe following biograjihy of James Ilervey Otey, whose\\nname is a household word in Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas,\\n*See Early Days in Atkansas, by Wm. F. Pope, p. 152.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "6U\\nTHE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nMississippi, and Florida, and his pocket diaries, which have\\nbeen transcribed, will be read with especial interest, as they\\ndevelop the life of the Church and its founders\\nRT. EEV. JAMES HERVEY OTEY, D. D.\\nA. D. 1800. The Bt. Rev. James Hervey Otey, D. D.,\\nthe first Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church for the\\nDiocese of Tennessee, was born on the 27th of January, 1800,\\nnear the Peaks of Otter, in Bedford County, Va. He was\\na great lover of mountain scenery and cherished a special affec-\\ntion for his native Peaks. He had, after he became a Bishop,\\nan oil painting of them executed and presented by a friend, a\\nlocal artist. His eyes sometimes filled with tears as he gazed\\nujxtn this picture and thought of all the scenes which it re-\\nc;dk d. Here he grew up on his father s farm and rendered\\nsome assistance in its work. But he early exhibited an inclin-\\nation for study. He was sent to what was generally termed\\nan old field school but some of those neighborhood insti-\\ntutions were very good ones. Afterwards he entered the\\nAcademy at jSTew London, in the same county, which has gen-\\n(\u00e2\u0096\u00a0i-;illy Ik cii a place of education of an excellent grade from\\nthat day to the ])resent. There he made preparation for\\ncollege and was matriculated in the University of Ts orth\\nai-oliiia in his sixteenth year. He was well grown and\\nathletic and was fond of outdoor sports, and especially of\\nangling, for which he retained his love all his life, and was\\na great admirer of Sir Tsaak Walton. He was also attached\\nto his violin, on which he became quite an expert performer.\\nThus he had an abundance of recreation, though, during his\\nvacations, he cheerfully assisted his parents. He gave up his\\nviolin, but his son. Mercer, still has it.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "RT. REV. JAMES HERVEY OTEY. D. D., LL. D.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 61\\nLINEAGE.\\nBisliop Otey was one of the younger of twelve sons and\\ndaughters of Isaac Otey and Elizabeth Mathews. Isaac Otey\\nwas a well-to-do farmer, of sterling qualities of mind and\\nheart, and a stern regard for moral principle, which he was\\ncareful to instil into his children. He was the representative\\nof his people in the Legislature of Virginia for about thirty\\nyears, and as a State Senator, was so attentive to all appro-\\npriations of the public treasure that he was called the Cer-\\nberus of the Treasury. His wife was of a high and strong\\ncharacter also, and his worthy helpmeet.\\nA. D. 1601-1613. Isaac was the son of John Otey and\\nMary Hopkins. The Oteys were, on both sides, of good old\\nEnglish stock and settled first in Xcw Kent County. John\\nOtey was a valiant soldier in the war of 7G. There is a\\ncredited tradition that he, when the British had obtained pos-\\nsession of the Pamunky River, raised a company at his ow^i\\nexpense and captured one of their boats. The Hopkinses go\\nl)ack to Sir John Fetters, Knight, member of the British Par-\\nliament for jSTorwich, A. D. 1601 and IGO-t-lOll, benefactor\\nof Norwich Cathedral and subscriber of \u00c2\u00a325 (two shares) to\\nthe Colony of Virginia, of which he was one of the founders.\\nHe died April 19, Kn. J.\\nA. D. 1840. Colonel Thomas Sellers, one of his descen-\\ndants, settled in Virginia in 1S40. His daughter, Elizabeth,\\nmarried T)r. Arthur Hopkins, and it was their daughter,\\nMary, who married John Otey. Hopkins became a Chris-\\n*William Mathews, father of Elizabeth Mathews, Bishop Otey s mother, was one\\nof the seven brothers and partakers of the wars of that period (Indian. Colonial,\\nand Revolutionary His wife was named Frances Crowe. She left a little prayer\\nbook to her children with the words, Keep steadfast to this faith once delivered to\\nthe saints.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "62 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\ntian name in the Otey family and John Hopkins Otey, of\\nFranklin, Tenn., married one of Bishop Otey s sisters.\\nOne of James Hervey Otey s intimates at the University\\nof North Carolina was William Mercer Green, who became an\\nEpisco])al clergyman, a j)rofessor in his Alma Mater and the\\n13isli( of Mississippi. He has published a memoir of his\\nvery dcai- friend, Otey, in which he says: He had a keen,\\ndark eye, a com})lexion made nj) of the ruddy and the brown,\\nwith straight, coal black hair, and the striding gait of the true\\nson of the forest. Xo wonder then that he was soon dubbed\\nwith the nickname of the Cherokee. But there was nothing\\nvulgar about him. This Cherokee developed into an ex-\\nceedingly fine looking and connnanding person, in stature\\nover G feet. One of his lady friends was once pressing him\\n1.0 avow whether he was High or Low Church. He arose,\\nerected himself and said: 1 am G feet 2 inches without\\nshoes. He never would admit that he belonged to any\\n])arty in the hiirch, but only claimed to be a Churclnnan.\\nA. D. 1820. His career at Cliai)el Hill University was\\nbright and lionoralde, and he was graduated with high honor\\nin JS2(), receiving the title of Bachelor of Belles Lettres,\\nthe first time it was conferred by that institution, an evidence\\nof his taste and culture. Bislioj) Green remarks: Here\\n)nay be seen tlic foundation of tliat clear, vigorous and correct\\nstyle wliicli marks his writings. lie nuist have paid s])ecial\\nattention to the precious classics, for he was appointed tutor\\nof i,;itin and (ireek in ihc universitv.\\nA. D. 1800-1821. Till- l:;tli ..f October, 1S21, he was\\niiiarrie.l t.. Kli/.;i Davis rannill, born :\\\\rarch 27, ISOO, very\\nnear bis own age. She was the blooming daughter of William\\nPannill and his wife, witli wlioni lie had boarded whilst he\\nwas a snidcnt. llcr fatbcr and ni ilhci were Viruinians, and", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 63\\nprosperous, but owing to reverses of fortune, removed to\\nNorth Carolina. He was the third William Pannill, of Vir-\\nginia, and was related to the Strothers, Mortons, Bankes. and\\nBruces. Mrs. Otey was related to the two great generals,\\nZaehary Taylor, the twelfth president of the United States,\\nand J. E. B. Stuart, of Confederate fame. The Pannills\\ncan go back to the Roll of Battle Abbey. At the University,\\nMr. Otey, as a tutor, had to lead the morning religious exer-\\ncises, and to offer prayer, in which he had had no practice,\\nwas embarrassing. A lady friend presented to him an Epis-\\ncopal Prayer Book, which not only relieved his embarrass-\\nment, but enlisted his admiration and was instrumental in\\nshaping his life. Soon after his marriage he removed to\\nTennessee and was about to open a school at Franklin, Wil-\\nliamson County, when he was induced to return to Xorth Caro-\\nlina to take charge at Warrenton of an academy, which was\\njust passing out of the hands of the Rev. G. W. Freeman, who\\nafterwards became Missionary Bishop of Arkansas. There\\nhe was baptized by his warm friend. Rev. William Mercer\\nGreen, Rector of that parish, and confirmed by Bishop\\nRav^enscroft.\\nA. D. 1825-1827. Whilst engaged in teaching, he pur-\\nsued his theological studies, and was on the 10th of October,\\n1S25, ordained a Deacon, and on June 7, 1827, a Priest, by\\nBishop Ravenscroft, for whom he always cherished great\\naffection and veneration. He returned to Franklin, Tenn.,\\ntook charge of Ilarpeth Academy and preached in the\\nMasonic Hall. He was a Mason and had attained a high\\ndegree in that order. In Warrenton he had under his in-\\nstruction Gen. Braxton Bragg and his brother, the judge, and\\nin Franklin, the world reno^vned Matthew Fontaine Maury.\\nFor ight years he led a hard and laborious life, as teacher.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "64 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nminister and missionary. There was only one clergyman to\\naid him Rev. John Davis, a Deacon, sent out by a Mission-\\nary Society in the North.\\nA. D. 1829-1831. In 1S29 he had the pleasure and\\nencouragement of a visit from Bishop Ravenscroft. The\\nDiocese of Tennessee was organized in liashville, July 1,\\n1829, and in 1830 Bishop Meade, of Virginia, held a conven-\\ntion there. In 1831 Bishop Ives, of North Carolina, visited\\nthe Diocese, and in that year the Rev. J. H. Otey was called\\nto weep over the death of his oldest son, Reginald Heber.\\nA. D. 1833-1834. In 1833 there were five Presbyters\\nand one Deacon in the Diocese. The necessity for a Bishop\\nwas seriously felt, and a convention was held, partly for the\\npurpose of electing one, in Franklin, June 27, 1833, and\\nRev. J. II. Otey was chosen. He was consecrated in Christ\\nChurch, Philadelphia, on the l-tth of January, 1834. The\\nVenerable Bishop White was the Consecrator and was assisted\\nby the brotliers Onderdonk and Bishop Doanc, who preached\\nthe sermon. Bishop Otey was then just 34 years old and\\nproved to be one of the great and commanding members of\\nthe American Episcopate. About this time he was greatly\\nreinforced by the arrival of the Rev. Leonidas Polk, who\\nbecame Rector of St. Peter s Church, Columbia, Maury\\nCounty, Tcnn.\\nA. D. 1834-1836. Bishop Otey had long been prac-\\ntically, as well as theoretically, a friend of education and had\\ncommenced advocating it publicly as early as 1832. One of\\nthe first acts of his Episcopate was to urge it before his con-\\nvention in Columbia, June, 1834. His plan always was to\\nestablish good schools for both sexes, and to have a college,\\n^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2hi(\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ll would ciiiIir.KT. the |)rcparation of ministers of the", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 65\\ngospel. He was strongly in favor of a native ministry so far\\nas it could be obtained. It was not long before he conceived\\nthe idea of the Female Institute in Columbia, which was\\nopened in 1836. In this he was warndy aided by Rev.\\n1-eonidas Polk, and his brothers, who were men of wealth and\\nliberality. It w^as, however, a difficult task to raise all the\\nfunds which such an institution needed, but he stood firndy\\nby it, and by his own efforts obtained, outside of the Diocese,\\nfrom Boston and Xew Orleans, a large, if not the larger part\\noi the means necessary for its erection and continuance. Be-\\nsides being its visitor, he was one of its instructors. He also\\nestablished Mercer Hall at his residence near Columbia\\nand tried to establish Ravenscroft College, and induced the\\nRev. John Thomas Wheat, D. D., to resign the Rectorship of\\nhis Church in Xashville to take charge of that college, but\\nthis enterprise did not succeed.\\nA. D. 1837-1860. Bishop Otey was also the originator\\nof the germ of The University of the South, now in opera-\\ntion at Sewanee, Tenn. The views which he had so often\\nand earnestly presented to his Church friends, both in Ten-\\nnessee and Mississippi, were at last embodied in a charter,\\nwhich he obtained in 1837, for Madison University, to be\\nsituated at Jackson, Tenn., but to be for the three States of\\nTennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. His warm friend\\nand colaborer, Rev. Leonidas Polk, was one of the corporators,\\nand undertook to visit the South for the purpose of obtaining\\nfunds for that university, but was prevented from carrying\\nout his plans by the financial crisis of that year. Bishop\\nOtey made various addresses in different parts of the Dio-\\ncese and obtained some liberal subscriptions, but his hopes\\nwere again disappointed. Years afterwards, under more\\nfavorable circumstances and in a verv different condition of", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "66 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\naffairs, in both the nmreh and the country, from 18o7 to\\n18(50, Bishop Polk very naturally and properly expanded the\\nformer plan, so as to make it embrace all the Southern Dio-\\nceses. An autograph letter qf Rev. James H. Otey to Thomas\\nAdams, Esquire, of New Orleans, explains this plan\\nMemphis, January (i, 18(52.\\nThomas Adams. Esquire, New Orleans:\\nDear Sir The following resolution was passed unani-\\nmously by the Board of Trustees of the University of the\\nSouth, at the late meeting at Charleston, S. C, to-wit\\nResolved, That the president of the board be requested\\nto inform Thos. Adams, Esquire, that the trustees accede to\\nhis pro]:)osal to raise $25,000 by subscription for building pur-\\nposes, and duly appreciate the interest expressed by him in\\nbehalf of the University.\\nI need not say how much the friends of education gen-\\nerally and the favorers of our enterprise in particular will be\\ngratified l)v the successful accomplishment of the plan sug-\\ngested by yon. That plan, if I understood it correctly, was\\nfor the citizens of ach of the States concerned in the Uni-\\nversity to [U ovide each a building at Sewanee by contributions\\nin their States respectively, as Louisiana one, Mississippi\\none, etc. We shall be truly thankful to you if you can in-\\naugurate a scheme which promises such happy results by suc-\\ncessful application in Louisiana. If you are asked for any\\nauthority to raise funds in behalf of the University, the above\\nresolution will be regarded as furnishing ample power.\\nWith the salutation of the season to yourself and Mrs,\\nAdams and the expressicm of the hope of seeing you on the\\nmountain next summer, I remain, very respectfully,\\nYour friend and obedient servant,\\nJAS. H. OTEY.*\\nCopied from the original bv the annalist.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 67\\nA. D. 1835-1844. In December, 1835, Bishop Otej\\nremoved from I ranklin to the vicinity of Columbia, so as to\\nbe nearer the Female Institute, that he might watch over it\\nand place liis daughters in it. lie afterwards removed into\\nthe town and again, a little out of it, to Mercer Hall, which\\nhe opened for students. He had the pleasure of preparing\\nfor the ministry of the Church several promising young men.\\nIn 1838 Rev. Leonidas Polk was elected j\\\\Iissionary\\nBishop of Arkansas, and Bishoi) Otey succeeded him as\\nRector of St. Peter s. This only increased his Herculean\\ntask, but he felt constrained to accept the proffered position.\\nThe resources of the Diocese were then very meagre. In\\n1841 Bishop Polk was elected Bishop of Louisiana, and the\\nmissionary work in Arkansas was, by the General Conven-\\ntion, assigned to Bishop Otey, who was, most probably, the\\ngrandest missionary in spirit, zeal and actual labors, that the\\nChurch has ever had. His own Diocese was but a missionary\\nfield, a good part of his life. Shortly after his consecration\\nthe friends of the Church in Mississippi besought his assist-\\nance, and he afterwards became their provisional Bishop. At\\nthe request of the General Convention, he made a visitation\\nof Florida. His efforts in Arkansas and the Indian Ter-\\nritory wera the more difficult and trying on account of roads\\nand the means of locomotion, wherever steamboats could not\\nbe used. How he had to get along is shown by a letter from\\nhim to his friend, Mr. Wm. C. Hopkins, of N orth Carolina,\\nwhich is to be found in Bishop Green s memoir. He made\\nfull reports to the members of the Board of Missions, who\\npublished them in their organ, T/ie Spirit of Missions. In\\n1844 he was compelled to resign this jurisdiction. One result\\nof his services to the Church in Mississippi was the close\\nfriendship of Dr. William ISTewton Mercer. This estimable", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "68 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nand elegant gentleman was a wealthy and cultured planter\\nnear Xatcliez, but had a fine winter residence in Xew Orleans,\\nwhere also the Bishop was his honored and welcome guest.\\nDr. ]\\\\Iercer was also a great friend of the Hon. Henrj Clay,\\nand on one occasion he entertained Mr. Clay and the Bishop\\nat the same time. When Mr. Clay s son and namesake w^as\\nkilled in the Mexican war, and the sad intelligence reached\\nNew Orleans Bishop Otey happened to be there, at Dr. Mer-\\ncer s, and was requested to write to Mr. Clay on the heart-\\nrending subject. The Bishop put his own heart in that\\nmournful epistle and it is thought that it had some instru-\\nmentality in bringing the great orator and statesman into the\\nChurch. Bishop Otey named for Dr. Mercer his residence\\nand school, near Columbia, and also his youngest child, who\\nis still living at Oakland, Cal., and doing business in San\\nFrancisco. Dr. Mercer was very liberal and took him to\\nEurope. The Bishop had an earnest desire to explore the\\nHoly Land of Palestine and would have gratified it, but Dr.\\nMercer was afflicted with the death, in Paris, of his idolized\\ndaughter, an only child, and the Bishop gave up all idea of\\nany furthei- travel and returned with his friend and his\\nprecious remains to the United States.\\nA. D. 1851-1863. Bishop Otey s constitution and gen-\\neral physi(]ue wci c strong and vigorous, but at last gave Avay\\nunder the character and extent of his devoted labors and he\\nwent to Europe in 1S51 for health and recreation and made\\ntrial of the water cure at Malvern, in England. The Rev.\\nArthur Cleveland Coxe, D. D., since Bishop of the Diocese of\\nBuffalo, in New York, met with him in his travels and gives\\nan interesting account of him. lie attached Mr. Coxe to him-\\nself, as he (lid everyone else. ]\\\\Ir. Coxe says that the Bishop s\\nhealth maiiifcslly improved from the time that he took with", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. (39\\n]iini an early morning bath in the Baltic Sea. They sang\\ntogether at the Bishop s suggestion Old Iljmdred in Fin-\\ngaTs Cave. The Bishop made a stirring missionary speech\\nbefore a ineeting over which the Prince Consort of England\\n2)resided. This interesting and appreciative sketch by the\\nllev. Mr. C^)xe is in the appendix to Bishop Green s Memoir.\\nWhatever of Bishop Otey s views of the Southern Confeder-\\nate war were, at its commencement, and his letter to Hon.\\nW. 11. Seward shows how he deprecated it, he became a warm\\nsympathizer with the South and one of the late acts of his\\nnoble life was the writing of that encouraging letter to Gen-\\neral Leonidas Polk, whose mind was disturbed about his posi-\\ntion in the Confederate Army. Bishop Otey remained at\\nhis home in Memphis during the war and died there, before\\nGeneral Polk was killed, April 23, 18G3, aged over 63 years.\\nHis two sons were in the (Vjufederate army. Two of his\\ndaughters were with him, and his eldest daughter and her\\nhusband tried to get there from olumbia, Mo., but were too\\nlate. His remains had already been consigned to the vault\\nof a friend. They have since been interred at Ashwood,\\nnear Columbia, Tenn., where there are an Episcopal Church\\nj.nd a cemetery.*\\nThe foregoing sketch of Et. Eev. James Hervey Otey,\\nD. I)., first Bishop of the Diocese of Tennessee, and provis-\\nional Missionary Bishop of Arkansas after Bishop Polk s\\nresignation, was kindly furnished at the request of the\\nannalist, by B. B. Minor, M. T). LL. I)., of Kichmond, Va.f\\nwho, at the time of writing, is beyond three score and ten\\nyears, but whose pen has lost none of the polish of the\\nformer distinguished lawyer, professor and journalist, nor\\ntlie reverent grace of the Churchman. As it is, without\\n*St. John s Church, Ashwood.\\ntSon-in-law of Bishop Otey.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "70 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nquestion, a faithful, trustworthy, though brief abstract of the\\nlife of the great num, who, throughout the South and South-\\nwest, bore the title of the good Bishop, and thus furnishes\\na valuable introduction to his work as a missionary in Arkan-\\nsas, it is here given intact. There are yet many in the Diocese\\nwho will read the sketch with personal and affectionate\\nin teres?.\\nA. D. 1 842. After Bishop Otey s death there was found\\namong his papers a written request to him to consecrate the\\ntivh^t Episcopal Church of Little Rock, Ark., dated Novem-\\nber 27, 1842. This paper bears the signatures of John H.\\nCrease, Luke E. Barber, Wardens, and the following Vestry-\\nmen: Lambert Reardon, Sr., Charles Rapley, John Ilutt,\\nJ. P. Xorman, John Adamson, L. J. Reardon, F. W. Trap-\\nnail, D. Butler, John Wassell, Wm. Prather.\\nA. D. 1841-1842. The Bishop s first visitation was\\nmade in 1841, and the services were held in the same old\\nPresbyterian Church, on Main and Second (or Cherry)\\nstreets, that had been j)roffered to Bishoj^ Polk, where he\\nbaptized and confirmed the members of the first congregation.\\nAt Bishop Otey s visitation in 1842 he confirmed a large class,\\namong whom were Mrs. Reardon, Sr., and her deaughters.\\nAmong the first infants baptized were Lambert Wait, Ben\\nField, and Buckner Reardon. A contract for the building\\nof the Church was made by Mr. Lambert Reardon, Sr., with\\nMessrs. Robins and Morrison. Bishop Otey s zeal was infec-\\ntious. The Senior Warden and his wife, Mr. and Mrs.\\nCrease, nobly sustained him. Mrs. Crease collected the ladies\\nof the infant parish together and there was earnest discus-\\nsion of ways and means for erecting the house of worship. It\\nwas resolved to hold a fair and thereafter all worked with\\none consent to supply articles for merchandise. How happy", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 71\\nthej \u00e2\u0096\u00a0s\\\\ ere in their hallowed undertaking What germs of\\nholy friendship were then sown, whose harvest is being\\nrea]3ed to-day This fair was held in a large hall over the\\nmarket house at the foot of Main street, near the river, and\\nproved a great success, yielding $1,500 with, net profits of\\n$1,106.50. The Church building was begun and completed.\\nBishop Otey s memory is indelibly connected with its progress\\nby the old Church people. These were Judge William\\nHume Field s family, who had known him in Tennessee, the\\nWaits, Popes, Hutts, Adamses, Weavers, Merricks, and Pikes,\\nin addition to those already mentioned.\\nTo Mrs. Donna Otey Compton, of Washington, D. C,\\nthe youngest surviving daughter of Bishop Otey, the annalist\\nis indebted for the loan of his pocket diaries, giving accounts\\nof his tour through the missionary district of Arkansas, from\\nthe leaves of which a faithful transcript is here given. Being\\nherself an accomplished writer as well as a profoundly rever-\\nent and loving daughter, Mrs. Compton has also submitted for\\nprivate inspection a graceful personal sketch of the Bishop, to-\\ngether with other letters and papers concerning him, of great\\ninterest to the Church and the annalist, but nothing can so\\nwell put the heroic missionary before the ecclesiastical world\\nas his own earnest, single-hearted chronicle of his daily effort\\nand })rogress in the cause of Christ. While the opening\\ncampaign of the war with Spain for the independence of\\nCuba was in startling progress,^ and the glowing details were\\npassing under the eager eyes of interested nations, the writer\\nturned from the newspaper columns to the brief pages of this\\nlittle diary with the consciousness that, glorious and thrilling\\nas w^ere the deeds of our sailors and soldiers and their gallant\\n1. Diaries received from Mrs. Compton, July 13, 1898.\\n2. War declared April 21 May 1, opening engagement of the two fleets\\nIn Manila Bay.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "T2 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\neoininaiiders in the cause of war for humanity s sake, here\\nwas a hero greater than they, who, in the cause of peace and\\nrighteousness, had left behind these footsteps, which\\nIteniind us\\nWe can make our lives sublime;\\nand when it is remembered that Tennessee, Mississippi, and\\nFlorida can bear similar witness to his zeal, it is in solemn\\nchoral that we of the South unite in doing honor to the great\\nmissionary. In the words of the prophets How beautiful\\nupon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good\\ntidings, that publisheth peace that bringeth good tidings of\\ngood that publisheth salvation that saith unto Zion, thy\\nGod reign eth.\\nA. D. 1842. Fehvuary 22, Tuesday. Montgomery s\\nPoint, Mississippi River. The Eialto is here this morning\\nfor Little Kock. Settle m\\\\ tavern bill, which for three days\\nis $6. Eialto arrived at dark. Go aboard and\\nfind Colonel Jos. W. Clay and family going up Arkansas.\\nThe Rialto leaves Montgomery Point about 11\\nm. passes over to Victoria and leaves immediately for\\nWhite River and the Arkansas.\\nWednesday, 23. Awake this morning ascending the\\nArkansas. Land on each side low and liable to overflow.\\nArrive at ]\\\\lr. Clay s, about seventeen miles above the Post of\\nArkansas. The farm or cotton plantation is a beautiful one,\\nreminding me much of the coast of the Mississippi, below\\nXatchez. p^gg gome fine looking plantations on\\nthe river, ])articnlarly ]\\\\rcLean s, Harrison Douglass s, Dye s,\\nand L. C. Taylor s. Reach Pine Bluff at -S o clock a. m.\\nThursday, 24. Arrived at Little Rock, Y :30 p. m., and\\nwent to the Anthony House. Pound there Mr. C. A. Harris\\nand family. Mr. Harris sick abed, but convalescent. Paid\\npassage on Rialto, $10. Paid for trunk to hotel, 25 cents.-.\\nExtracts from (iiaries shf)uld lie read with an atlap", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "TriE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 73\\nFriday, 25. Slept comfortably last night.\\nAt breakfast find that Mr. Anthony, the proprietor, is from\\nBedford, Va. Sent last night by Mr. Meigs two Prayer\\nBooks to the little Miss Nairs in the Indian Nation. Went\\nout to see Rev. Mr. Yeager, whom I found at home. Went\\nwith him and visited the Church, a brick edifice with organ\\ngallery, floors laid, pews yet to be made, pulpit and the walls\\nto be plastered and house painted; will accommodate, when\\nfinished, 300 or 400 people. Called on Mr. Trapnell and\\ndelivered Dr. Greenfield s letter and take his receipt for three\\nnotes left with him for collection. Meet with Mr. Jeffreys\\nand Mr. Haraldson. Go to Mr. Reardon s and take up my\\nquarters there by his invitation. Many persons call in the\\nafternoon Colonel Ashley and lady, Slv. Grubb, Mrs. Kear-\\ndon, Jr., and Lawyer W. O. Perkins.\\nFehraanj 2G. At night Mr. Yeager read prayers, after\\nwhich I preached to a large and apparently intei-ested congre-\\ngation. Returned to lodgings, the night being beautiful and\\nbright with moonlight. Many persons called this\\nforenoon and among them a Mr. Stewart, a Methodist\\npreacher, holding letters or orders from Dr. Thos. Coke. He\\nis seeking orders in the Episcopal Church and had applied\\nto Bishop Kemper, to whom I referred him, Avith the assur-\\nance that I could do nothing for him. Called on Mr. Sutton,\\nwho is very ill communed and ]u-ayed with him. Called at\\nDr. Yeager s. Went to steamboat landing and engaged\\npassage on the Corvette for next Tuesday. Called at Colonel\\nAshley s, at Mr. Anthony s, at J\\\\lr. Jeffrey s, and at Dr. Nor-\\nman s. At night, after prayers by Dr. Yeager, I preached\\nto a full house very attentive congregation throughout.\\nSunday, February 27. After prayer this morning I\\nbaptized Lambert Reardon. son of Wm. B. Wait and Lavinia\\nWait Simeon Buckner, son of Lambert and Priscilla Rear-\\ndon rfolrn Henry, sou of Jno. W. and Margaret Johnston,\\nand Clara Ophelia, daughter of Rev. Mr. Yeager and his\\nwife. Preached to a large congregation. At night, not-\\nwithstanding the Aveather was inclement, after prayers by", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "74 THE ANNALS OP CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nMr. Yeager, 1 preached to a good congregation\u00e2\u0080\u0094 very hoarse,\\nand breast oppressed. This afternoon became acquainted\\nwith Dr. Desha and wife. Dr. Desha is a son of the former\\ngovernor of Kentucky.\\nMonday, 28. Weather warm and cloudy, threatening\\nrain lioarseness increased. Write letters to Rev. Mr. Scull\\nand Rev. Mr. Carder. Called on Mr. Sutton with Dr. Yea-\\nger, and again prayed with him. Dined at Judge Casseen s.*\\nCalled at hotel to see Mr. Harris, at Mr. Jeffrey s, and took\\ntea at Mrs. Crise s.f At night, after prayers by Mr. Yeager,\\npreached to a large congregation.\\nTuesday, March 1. Weather warm and cloudy.\\nReport in town that the government Moorehead steamboat\\nhas been blown u]) and several citizens of this place on her\\nkilled Dined at Mr. Anthony s and at 4 o clock went to\\nDr. Norman s to meet the Vest^w, only three of whom. Dr.\\nNorman, Mr. Grubb, and Mr. Reardon, with Rev. Mr. Yea-\\nger, were present, in consequence^ probably, of a storm of\\nrain, thunder and lightning. I advised the Vestry by all\\nmeans to recommend a reduction of their present number\\n(twelve) to seven at their next election. I told them further-\\nmore, that tlie subscriptions made for the support of the\\nminister ought and must be collected by the Vestry and not\\nby the minister that care must be taken to have money mat-\\nters between them and minister, especially, entirely straight\\nand easy that thej^ might do much themselves by reminding\\nothers of their duty that religious services were a public\\nbenefit, etc.\\nWednesday. 1 stayed at house nearly all day.\\nThursday, March 3. The Corvette steamer\\ncame down tlio river this morning and I go on board of her\\non my return.\\nThe diary then notes the course of the Bishoj) through\\nMississip])i and again, in November, of 1842, we find him\\nin Arkansas and Indian Territorv.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Cansine s.\\ntCrease s.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 75\\nA. D. 1842. Wednesday, November 16. Left Kev.\\nMr. iSciiirs (Fajetteville) this morning. Very misty and\\nraining. Pass through some fine farming land prairie coun-\\nti y. Saw a fine deer, nnmeroiis partridges, larks without\\nnumber. Arrived at General Campbell s, on Canehill, in\\ncompany with Dr. Yeager and Mr. Paradise, about 2 p. m.\\nVery cold and covered with mud.\\nMonday, November 21. Left Evansville this morning\\nand rode to Van Buren, thirty-three miles. Some good arable\\nland natural dam on Lee Creek fine mountain scenery.\\nStop at Mr. Duval s. Put up at Colonel Drennen s. Meet\\nMrs. Clemm, just from Tennessee. Dr. Yeager reads prayer\\nand I preach. Congregation good.\\nTuesday, November 22. Breakfast and dine at Major\\nDillard s. Leave and ride fifteen miles to Major B. Moore s,\\nwhich we reach long after dark. Buy buffalo robe at Van\\nBuren for $4.50. Very disagreeable ride through woods, fol-\\nlowing small trail. Much company. ]\\\\Ir. Gregg and family\\nand others at Major Moore s.\\nWednesday, November 23. Left Major Moore s late\\ntliis morning and ride to Mrs. McLeland s, twenty-five miles.\\nWeather again excessively cold weary\\nThursday, November 24. Left Mrs. McLeland s this\\nmorning before sunrise. Very heavy frost and weather dis-\\ntressingly severe. Mr. Hintsen keeps house for Mrs. Mc-\\nLeland, whose daughter he married. Mrs. McLeland is a\\nsister of Colonel Geo. Sevier, near !N ashville. We rode\\nrapidly to-day and crossed the Arkansas at Dardanelle before\\nsundown, and came on to Ewing s early. Bill, $1 apiece, $3.\\nSaw four deer near the road also a flock of turkeys. Arrived\\nat Allen s, near Cadron, before sundown, thirty-six miles.\\nFerriage at Dardanelle, 7. 3 cents; at Point Pemove, 37^\\ncents\u00e2\u0080\u0094 $1.1 2|.\\nSaturday, November 20. Left Cadron before sunrise.\\nBill, etc., $3. Rain in the morning. Saw a fine deer.\\nReacii Little Rock thirty-eight minutes before sundown, and\\nstop at Mr. Trapnall s.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "76 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nSunday, Novonher 27. Morning prayer by Mr. Scull\\nlessons by Dr. Yeager. Consecrated Christ Churcli and\\npreach congregation large. At night prayers by Scull les-\\nsons by Yeager; sermon by myself. Weather very cold.\\nLetter last evening from Dr. Anthon.\\nMonday, November 28. Wrote letters to-day to Dr.\\nMitchell, Dr. Freeman, Dr. Anthon, Mr. Goodman and to\\nwife. Paid Mr. Scull for traveling expenses- $10. Was\\nwaited upon by a committee of the Legislature with a request\\nto deliver an address on education, which I agreed to do. At\\nnight Dr. Yeager read prayers and Rev. Mr. Scull preached.\\nTuesday November 29. Wrote to the legislative com-\\nmittee, appointing 11 o clock to-morrow to deliver an address.\\neather gloomy and lowering. Dined at Major Butler s.\\nGovernor Yell, (^aptain Xorman and others present. At\\nnight, after prayers by Dr. Yeager, I preached.\\nWednesday, November 30. Dined to-day at Mr. Rear-\\ndon s. Called at Mr. Dunn s and at Mr. Crease s. At\\nnight Dr. Yeager read prayers and I preached. Congrega-\\ntion pretty large. Weather is clear and cool.\\nllinrsday, December 1. Went to the Hall of Represen-\\ntatives to-day and delivered an address on education. Well\\nreceived. Dr. Powel muttered and mouthed and finally got\\nup and left the room. Dined at Judge Causine s. Called\\nat Mr. Rapley s, Colonel Ashley s and took tea at Mr. Dunn s.\\nAt night Dr. Yeager read prayers and I preached on the\\nApostolical Succession.\\nFriday, December 2. Weut to Hall of Representatives\\nand Senate Chand)er, called on General Conway. Our Dr.\\nYeager very sick. Met Vestry. Adjourned to to-morrow\\nat 10 a. m. At night read ))rayers and baptized the follow-\\ning flr/?///.s: (1) Ann Reardon, (2) Priscilla Reardon, (3)\\nMartha Lavinia Wait, (4) Helen Jane Scott, (5) Jno. Ed-\\nmund Reardon, and (G) Judith Ellen Field; and the follow-\\ning children: (I) Daniel Walter Ringo, (2) Richard Wat-\\nkina Ringo, Mary Frances Ringo, (4) William Field\\nl^iplcy. Liuira Lotitin Raidey, (0) Ron Johnson Field,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 77\\n(7) Laura Virginia Adanison, and (8) Laura Crease; after\\nwhich I addressed the congregation, which was large, on con-\\nfirmation.\\nSatufday, December o. Met the Vestry tliis morning.\\nThey passed a resohition. granting Dr. Yeager leave of\\nabsence three months after the 1st of April, 1843. Appointed\\na committee to j^rovide Dr. Yeager and family boarding and\\npay his servant hire till next April, and the eight present\\nagreed to lend $25 apiece to the Church to pay Mr. Crease s\\ndebt. Dined at Mr. Crease s. At night read prayers and\\npreached.\\nSunday, December 4. Read Morning Prayer and Ante-\\nCommunion preached and confirmed thirteen persons: (1)\\nCaptain J. A. L. TsTorman, (2) Wm. C. Scott, (3) Mrs. M. L.\\nWait, (4) Mrs. H. J. Scott, (5) Mrs. Ann Reardon, (6) Mrs.\\nJohn Adamson, (7) Mrs. Priscilla Reardon, (8) Mrs. Mary\\nWatkins, (9) Miss C. Crease, (10) Mrs. Judge Hutt, (11)\\nJudge Hutt, (12) Colonel Williamson Oldhani, (13) Robert\\nClements. At night read prayers and preached to a large\\ncongregation. Weather warm.\\nMonday, December 5. Grant connnission as lay reader\\nto Mr. Jno. A. L. jSTorman. At night read prayers, baptized\\nJohn Field and Mary Elizabeth, children of Judge Jno. Hutt\\nand wife; preached and confirmed five persons: (1) Phili])\\nL. Anthony, (2) Mrs. Mary Ann Ringo, (3) Mrs. David\\nButler, (4) Mrs. Jane Crease, and (5) Miss Harriet Dickin-\\nson. Tea at L. Reardon s.\\nTuesday. December G. Staid all night at Anthony\\nHouse. Mr. Crease called early and gave me a packet of\\nletters to nuiil at Memphis. Left in the stage at 8 o clock\\na. m., it raining hard, which continued all day; nine passen-\\ngers in company. Captain Rogers, of Cherokee ]^ation,\\nbeing one, a very large helpless man. Stage came near\\nupsetting at the river in entering ferryboat; driver was\\nthrown off. Paid for fare on the road to-day, $1.50.\\nReached Rock Row at 9 p. m. Stage leaked badly and we\\nwore all uucnmfortnlilc and wet. Found sovfM nl aroat rowdies", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "78 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nat Kock Row, blasphemous and profane wretches. Retired to\\nbed and young Rogers, the Indian, presently turned in with\\nme. Before we were composed for sleep w^e were aroused\\nby the arrival of the mail boat Avalked to the river, a quarter\\nof a mile off, in the rain and mud up to the legs, went aboard\\nand got to bed.\\nWednesday, December 7. Very heavy rain all night;\\nthunder and lightning. Boat started a little after light;\\nstill raining, which continued nearly^ all day. Long after\\nnight we approached the mouth of ^Vhite River, which, for\\nhalf a mile from the Mississippi, is full of snags. By the\\nmerciful guidance of Providence we steered clear of them\\nand at length entered the father of Waters. It had been\\nlightning for some time and the storm burst upon us. Neither\\nshore was visible and for a little time the pilot knew not\\nwhich way to steer. At length we reached Montgomery s\\nPoint in safety, for which mercy God s holy name be praised.\\nI never felt in greater peril. At the landing the Xarragansett\\nwas just ready to depart and the majority of our passengers,\\neight or nine in number, went aboard of her. It seemed to\\nme like a tempting of Providence to go on the river, so dark,\\nfoggy and stormy a night. I was invited by Mr. Greenwood\\nto his house and accepted the invitation. Saw^ Captain\\nStevenson here.\\nThursday, December S. Slept well last night, and be-\\nfore breakfast was ended the Josiah Nichol/ a Nashville\\nboat, liove in sight. I w^ent aboard and took a berth and\\nnow, at 3 :30 p. m., we are lying to for wood. The day has\\nbeen cool, somewhat cloudy and windy and the river rather\\nrough. At night al)()ut 7 p. m. ran upon a sandbar. After\\nstruggling for an hour, we at length backed off and ran the\\nremainder of the night without accident.*\\nA. D. 1843. March IH. Our only prospect of getting\\non now seems to ho to reach Fulton and take horses, 110 miles\\nThere is another jiccount in the diary of a visitation of Bishop Otev to Arkansas\\nhy a rtififere^nt route Prom Memphis to New Orleans, fr. m thence up tlie Red River\\nvia Alexandria, Natchitoches, etc.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 79\\nto Fort Towson. It is doubtful Avhether our captain will\\ngo beyond the bayou.\\nMarch 17. This morning met a rise in the river (Red\\nRiver) and our captain resolved to take his cotton from the\\nhead of the bayou and return to the raft. Thus another whole\\nday is lost. About sundown started down the river to the\\nraft. Heard Lieutenant Armistead was on the Hunter\\nin the bayou.\\nMarch 18. Wrote letters this morning to Dr. Mercer\\nand to Wm. C. Hopkins and sent by the Belle of Red River.\\nWhite frost on ground this morning day clear and fine. Left\\nHurricane Bluffs second time at 3 :30 o clock and proceeded\\nup the river, expecting to land at Fulton. Our captain, after\\nlosing three days in going up and down the river to remove\\nhis cotton, is at length fairly under press of steam for Fulton.\\nMarch 19. Weather clear and pleasant; river rising\\nand drift wood running; banks higher and river wider; land\\ngood. Some fine plantations, particularly Garland s place,\\nwhich is a prairie, also Bob Hamilton s plantation, called\\n^Little Prairie. We reach Fulton on the night of March\\n19. In the morning hire a horse and a guide for Washing-\\nton, which place we reach at 12 m. and stop at Mr. Britt s\\nhotel. LTe hires us two horses to ride to Fort Towson, for\\n5. Road for six miles bad. See Captain l^orman, Mr.\\nSanders, Dr. Isaac Jones, and Mr. Trimble. Tea at Mr.\\nSanders. Mr. Sanders reads prayers and I baptize five\\nchildren and preach. (Children of Benjamin Pendleton\\nJett and Hester Lett B. P. J. Sponsor.) (1) Edward\\nDavenport Lett, (2) Benjamin Pendleton Jett, (3) Rosinia\\nVirginia Jett, (5) Emma Jett. Washington is a poor look-\\ning town of 300 or 400 people.\\n:March 21. Leave Washington at 8:30 a. m. Mr.\\nI rimble rides with us several miles to show us a good road\\nvery kind in him. He married Miss Xeal, of Franklin,\\nTenn. Have a lonely ride with Mr. II. Country very poor\\nand thinly settled. Cross Mine Creek and the Saline, and\\nreach Stallcup s at 4:30 j). m. Saw to-day five or six deer,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "80 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\neight wild geese, two turkeys, and two ducks. Distance from\\nAVasliington to Stallcup s, forty miles.\\nMarch 22. Leave Stallcup s at 7:15 a. m. arrive at\\nL ltinia Tliule, over an exceedingly poor country; pine ridges\\nand forests timber dead, on lire wind high swamps terrible\\nmany deer. To-day entered the Choctaw jSfation. First act\\nto l)aptize a child, Lucy Ellen, daughter of Lorenzo T. and\\nElizabeth Harris. Ride to Rev. Mr. Byington s, accom-\\npanied by Mr. Harris and his nephew. The Harrises (uncle\\nand nephew) married sisters of Colonel P. P. Pitchlym.\\nRev. j\\\\Ir. Byington is a teacher and preacher in Choctaw\\njSTation. School under the control of B. C. F. M. Choctaws\\ngive seven-eighth or six-seventh for support of establishment.\\nEverything seemed neat, cleanly, and in good order. Chil-\\ndren appear happy and contented. Suggested to Mr. Bying-\\nton and ]\\\\rr. Wright the importance of a ^Liturgy, which\\nthey received kindly. Stop at Colonel Pitchlym s. Lost his\\nAvife. Reach Towson at 7 o clock p. m. Weary! weary!\\nweary!\\nMdich 24. ^lorning prayer Avas read by Rev. Mr.\\nHarris. Sermon by myself. Afternoon prayer was read\\nby myself and sermon by Mr. Harris, who also preached at\\nnight at Doakville. Saw Rev. ]\\\\Ir. Kingsberry, missionary.\\nAt night visited Mvi. Bacon, a sick lady.\\nMatxli 25. Very unwell for a week past with dyspepsia,\\nworse to-day. Wrote this morning to Colonel A. M. M. Fp-\\nshaw, at Fort Washita, dominate Mr. Wm. Johnson and\\n]\\\\Ir. Gay for chaplain at this post. Mr. Gay unanimously\\ncliosen. Rode to Doakville and to Mr. Kiiigsberry s with\\n^fajor Andrews, Dr. Baily and Mr. Harris. Visited Mr.\\nKingsberry s school (female). It has thirty girls in charge\\nwith two teachers ]\\\\riss Arms and Miss Dickinson. Tlie\\neliildren do not look si)rig]itly, Imt dull, and their exhibitions\\nshow mucli stupidity. Mr. Kingsberry and family appear\\nto be amial)le and devoted to their work. Had a long con-\\nversation with him about introducing a liturgv. He pro-\\nfessed to tliiidx well of the i rojoet. Have experienced many", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 81\\nand marked attentions from the officers of the garrison. The\\ncommandant has every day detailed an orderly for my nse.\\nJiarch US. Ilain this morning. Write to Messrs. Gay\\nand Johnson, of Ch. Hill, Ala. Lieutenant Armistead and\\nlady arrived hy steamboat. Heavy rain. ]\\\\Ir. Kingsberry\\ncalls. Write to Mr. Ch. Tomes and send draft on T. at\\nHarford, X. Y., for $500. At night prayers by Mr. Harris\\nand sermon by myself.\\nMarch 27. Left Fort Towson. liain. Lieutenant Wet-\\nmore, three ])rivates and wagon. Dr. Baily, to Spencer\\nAcademy. Fifty boarders, under Rev. McHenny, ]\\\\rr. Wil-\\nson, and Mr. Dwight (Mr. U wight, Choctaw) $0,000 amount\\nof allowance. Rode throngh a Avell watered and good coun-\\ntry at lirst, then very poor and rough. Stop and pitch tents\\nabout 5 p. m.\\nMarch 28. Camp I ecose. Slept comfortably under a\\ntent. Fished last night. Lieutenant Wetmore and I caught\\na mess for supper. ]\\\\Lirch at 6 :3(\\\\ O, the mountains the\\nblue mountains! how they remind me of my own I my native\\nland! Prairies; Kimishi River, thunder cloud. Hi camp\\nby m.\\nMarch, 29. In a prairie (Camp Pluviose). Thunder,\\nlightning; high wind and heavy rain all night; propose fire;\\nva u\\\\ and muddy in the morning; water courses all up. Left\\nour camp at 8 a. m. Rains all day till at night it changes\\ninto snow. Reach Pursley s Creek; find it high, 10 or\\nfeet of water. Pitch our tent. Cold, wet and muddy high\\nwind, etc.\\nMarch, 30. Camp Moose. Snow half inch deep clear\\nand cold light clouds flying. Slept with little comfort.\\nCross the dividing ridge l)etween the Red and Arkansas\\nrivers. Waited eighteen hours to cross Pursley s Creek.\\nBroke the king bolt roads very deep in places extensive\\npine barrens prairies mountains on mountains\\nMarcl) 3L Sanday. Camp Terrill. Hay of vest.\\nReached Terrill s (Hidian) at sundown. The Poteau im-", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "82 THE ANNALS OF CHRlST CHURCH PARISH.\\npassable. Slept in TerriU s house last night the hardest\\nfloor I ever felt! Went to top of mountain and again dedi-\\ncated myself and all that I have in solemn prayer to God.\\nThis is the anniversary of my wife s birth. Fervently have I\\npi ayed for her\\nApril 1. Poteau still too high to cross, aud we have to\\nwait here to-day, perhaps to-morrow. Went afishing and\\ncaught nothing. Passed the remainder of the day in read-\\ning. Mr. Harris went with DeWit into the country to find\\nsome Indian families. Saw one family in a comfortable\\ncondition, etc.\\nApril 2. Clear. T cross the Poteau this morning. Road\\npasses to-day through some good land and some of the most\\nbeautiful prairies I ever saw. Mountains on our right, the\\nSugar Loaf; on our left, the Caviniole called by the\\nIndians, Grumbling Mountain, an extinct volcano. Fine\\nstreams grouse, deer large mounds.\\nApril 3. Left camp early this morning and reached\\nFort Smith about 9 a. m. Was invited by General Zachary\\nTaylor to his quarters. After dinner rode with ]\\\\Iajor Hun-\\nter to see Mrs. Nowland. Saw Mrs. Berryhill, Mrs. Bates,\\nMrs. Pease, Mrs. Magee, and returned. Mr. McManus is,\\nT hoar. sick.\\nApril 4. Kodc with General Taylor this morning and\\nviewed the new fortifications. Bought cigars, belting, bags,\\n$6. Saw Colonel Loomis and lady, Mrs. Hunton, Houghman\\nand daughter. Dined with General Taylor, then rode to\\nVan Buren. Saw Mr. McManus, who read prayers at night,\\nr preached in C. IL Congregation large and attentive.\\nApril ,5. Good Friday. Very unwell this morning.\\nMr. Harris came down and left on steamboat Roller for\\nFort Gibson. Wrote to Bishop Whittingham and clergy in\\nBaltimore. ]\\\\iet with the Masons in lodge; walked in pro-\\ncession and laid the ronicr stone of Trinity Church, Van\\nBuren. I hen drh rcd an address after appropriate religious\\nexercises, etc.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 83\\nApril G. Boat eaiiu^ last nijziit at 11 p. ni., went aboard.\\nLeft an Buren about U :oO a. in. Scenery on the xVrkansas\\ngrand and imposing; liigli, beetling cliffs on the banks, espe-\\ncially on the right side. Heavy storm of rain, thunder and\\nlightning.\\nApril 7. Easter. Compelled to pass this blessed and\\nlioly day on a steamboat. Rain, thunder and lightning this\\nmorning. Bev. Mr. Foreman (Cherokee) left the boat last\\nnight at Spadra, making it a matter of conscience not to\\ntravel on Sunday. Mountains approach very near the river\\nat times sublime cliffs Bead prayers and preached in the\\nafternoon.\\nAp) il 0. Saw Mr. Brearly last night at Dardanelle.\\nBassed the wreck of the Arkansas this morning; afterwards\\ncame to the mouth of Fourche La Fevre, where a dead man\\n(droAvned) was picked up from the Arkansas, the captain\\nof which engaged a man to bury him from Green County,\\nOhio. Breach at Little Bock and confirm thirteen. Letters\\nfrom home. Write to Charles Tomes.\\nApril 9. Left Little Bock last night.\\nA. D. 1 844. Bishop Otoy made another visitation to\\nArkansas in 1S44-. Bev. James Young, Missionary Rector.\\nA list of those confirmed by him on April 8, 1844, thirteen\\nin number, is here given\\n(1) Harriet Grafton, (2) Mrs. Samuel F. Johnson, (3)\\nMrs. Clarissa Beebe, (4) Miss Caroline Elliott, (5) Miss\\nS. S. D Estimanville, (G) Mrs. Martha F. Trapnell, (7) Dr.\\nSkinner, (8) Mrs. Merrick, (9) Mrs. Miller, (10) Mrs.\\nField, (11) Miss Frances Field, (12) Miss Ellen Field, (13)\\nMrs. Charles Rapley.\\nCopy of letter from Bishop James H. Otey to Rev. Otis\\nPTackett, of Helena, Ark., which relates the appointment to\\njurisdiction of Arkansas, after the death of Bishop Freeman.\\nCourtesy of Dr. B. B. Minor, son-in-law of Bishop Otey:", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "84 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nMeiupliis, Tc im., June 1, 1858.\\nJicv. and Dear Sir 1 have just received a letter from\\nthe Kt. Rev. Senior Bishop T. C. Brownell, D. 1)., etc., ap-\\npointing nie to the office of Missionary Bishop of Arkansas,\\nrendered vacant by the lamented Bishop Freeman s death.\\nAs I know not what clergymen or laymen compose the stand-\\ning committee, nor where to address the committee, I write to\\nyou and ask of you the favor to communicate to the com-\\nmittee my acceptance of the charge, and furthermore to ask\\nof the connuittee to communicate to me as speedily as possible\\nthe names of the standing committee, president and secretary,\\nwhere it may be addressed, the names and residences of the\\nclergymen belonging to the jurisdiction of the late Missionary\\nBishop, the organized parishes, missionary stations, and any\\nother information necessary for me to have in order to the\\nadministration of the aifairs of the late Bishop s jurisdiction.\\nI cannot probably make a visitation of the State before the\\nfall, though I may find it in my ])0wer to do something in\\nthat way during the sunnner for the congregations near the\\nMississippi River. I remain, very truly.\\nYour faithful friend and l)rother,\\nJAS. II. OTEY.\\nJvev. Otis Ilackett, Helena, Ark.\\nFroui a sermon prepared by the Rev. John A. Harrison\\nfor a service licld at Eastertide, on the tenth anniversary of\\nhis decease, during the session of a Diocesan Convention, the\\nfollowing beautiful trilmte is taken:\\nJ1ie aged Saiiu i-eceived his release in the sixty-third\\nyear of his age, in the thirtieth of his Episcopate, and the\\ntliirty-eighth of his ministry. As he lay in the former\\ncliancol of this Church (at Memphis) in his robes, pre-\\n])are(l foi- his burial, the long, large frame, with a cross\\nclasj.ed in his hand, he looked as he was, the Christian warrior\\nm repose. His dear remains are interred in the sweet God s\\nacre of Sr. John s, Aslnvood* We have the comfort of a\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6See picture near tluit of Bishop Polk, who witl) his brotJiers erected it.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 85\\nI luisonablo, religions and holy hope that he now rests from\\nliis labors, blessed in the Lord, in company with his wife\\nand the children who had preceded him, in commnnion with\\nthe Stephens, Father and Son, and with Lytton, with Allston,\\nand Tomes, and Fagg; with Ravenscroft, and Ilobart, and\\nWhite with Cranmer, and Latimer, and liidley with\\nAngnstine, and Chrysostom, and Pol^^carp with St. Panl,\\nand St. John, and St. Peter, and with the faithfnl departed\\nof all ages. J heii dnst is gold! If we believe that tTesus\\nlied and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus\\nwill God bring with Him. The memory of the just is\\nblessed. The good husbandman waited long for the precious\\nfruit of the seed he had sown. It never fully came. It\\nshall come finally. Tennessee shall honor the name of her\\nfirst Bisho]), and the Southwest the character of its great mis-\\nsionary. The young men and maidens he taught, the scores\\nhe ordained, the hundreds he confirmed, the congregations to\\nwhom he ministered, and all that knew him shall call him\\nblessed. And the wilderness and the solitary places shall,\\nafter the early and the latter rain, blossom as the rose and\\nblessing shall be upon the head of him, who, for more than a\\nquarter of a century, planted in and watered it. We will\\nthank God for the good example of this. His servant. We\\nwill seek for grace to walk as he did in the footsteps of (^hrist.\\nWe will pray God_, that with all those who are departed\\nhence in the true faith of his holy name, we may have our per-\\nfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul in His\\neternal and everlasting glory.\\nHis own chosen epitaph was giveii on his death-bed.\\nWrite me, he said, the first Bishop of the Catholic Church\\nof Tennessee. Say in my behalf, The blood of Jesus Christ\\ncleanseth from all sin.\\nThere are three portraits of him. One hangs in the Epis-\\ncopal residence at Memphis, the second is at the University\\nof the South at Sewanee, and the third is at the Historical\\nSociety rooms, at Nashville, Tenn.\\nr\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "86 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nJjisLoj) Otej published a uuiiibtT of charges, sermons,\\nspeeches and addresses^ The Unity of the Church/ The\\nMinistry, ^The Apostolical Succession, and three dis-\\ncourses in 1852, viz Doctrine, Discipline, and ^Yor-\\nsliip of the American Branch of the Catholic Church, Ex-\\nplained and Unfolded. His work in Tennessee lost nothing it\\nseems, by the generous distribution of his time in the interest\\nand welfare of the mission in Arkansas. He died revered\\nand lamented in both States. In the new Church at Little\\nRock a memorial has been placed to his memory an eagle\\nlecturn, with outspread wings, carved in walnut wood, bearing\\nthe reading desk. This is supported by a colunm with tri-\\nangular base, having, three feet, each foot a carved lion, the\\nwhole decorated with fenr de lis. It bears this inscription:\\nIn memoriam, Rt. Rev. James Hervey Otey, D. D.,\\nConsecrated January 4, 1831; died April 23, 1863.\\nThe children of Rt. Rev. James H. Otey, D. D., and\\nUliza Davis Parnell, his wife, were:\\n1. Virginia Maury. Married May 26, 1842, in St.\\nPeter s Church, Columbia, Tenn., Benjamin Blake Minor, a\\nlawyer of Richmond, Ya. They are now living in that city,\\nboth over three score and ten years. Dr. Minor has been\\neditor and proprietoi- of the South.eni Litcranj Messenger;\\ncorresponding secretary of the Virginia Bible Society secre-\\ntary of the Virginia Colonization Society; president of the\\nRichmond Tract Societv director of the Virginia Historical\\nSociety; Vestryman, Warden, Register and Delegate of St.\\nJames s Church, Richmond, Va. principal of the Virginia\\nFemale Institute (Episcoi)al), at Staunton, Va. delegate and\\nvice president of the Connnercial Convention, at Memphis\\npresident of the State University at Missouri, which conferred\\nI li i Ik honorary degree of LL. D. principal of Minor s", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 87\\nSciiiinary for Young Ladies, in St. Louis, Mo. Ilo is now\\nthe secretary of the Virginia Society of the Sons of the Ameri-\\ncan Revolution. Mrs. Minor was promoter of the Mount\\nVernon Association, and of other laudable enterprises, and\\nhas been the author of numerous highly creditable produc-\\ntions in prose and in verse, besides excelling in vocal and\\ninstrumental music on the piano, harp and guitar. They\\nhave had eight sons and three daughters.*\\n2. Henrietta Coleman. Married the Rev. Charles\\nTomes, who died in IsTashville^ whilst he was Rector of a\\nChurch there. She has recently died in Washington, D. C.\\nThey have left two children, Margie (unmarried), George, in\\nl\\\\ew York (married and has children). Mr. Tomes was an\\nEnglishman, a widower with children and a member of a\\nlarge hardware house in jS^ew York. He there became ac-\\nquainted with Bishop Otey and went to Tennessee to pursue\\nhis studies for the ministry under the Bishop. After he\\nbecame his son-in-law he took charge of a Church in Sing\\nSing, N. Y., but was called to l^ashville, where he proved to\\nbe an efficient and successful Rector, and was instrumental\\nin having built a new and handsome Church.\\n3. Brr/inald Heher. Died in his tenth year at Franklin,\\nTenn.\\n4. Paul Hooker. Died in jMcmphis of the last yellow\\nfever there. In that visitation and the previous one, he ren-\\n*The accompanying notice from a Richmond paper announces the distressing\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2death of one of these sons\\nMR. MINOR S BODY HERE.\\nKILLED NOVEMBER 4, 1898 HIS REMAINS INTERRED YESTERDAY.\\nThe body of Mr. Washington Minor, who was killed at Wiekford Junction, R. I.,\\nlast Friday, arrived here at 8:40 o clock yesterday morning, and was conveyed to the\\nhome of his father, Mr. B. B. Minor, No. r)20 West Grace street, whence at 3:30\\no clock, it was taken to All Saints Church, where funeral services were held. Rev.\\nJ. Yates Downman conducted the services, and the interment was in Hollywood.\\nThe family have not yet received the particulars of the youner man s death, though\\nthey have been advised by the railroad authorities that a letter of particulars lias\\nl een mailed.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "88 THE ANNALS OP^ CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\ndercd valuable service. lie attended Kenyon College, Ohio,\\nbut was educated medically in Richmond, and in Philadel-\\n])hia, under the celebrated Dr. Muter. He married Mary\\nAnn Bowles, of Holly Springs, :Miss., and became a planter\\nnear :\\\\Iarianna, Ark. was a surgeon in the Confederate army\\nlost his wife about the close of the war, and settled in Mem-\\nj)his for the practice of his profession. They had no\\nchildren, but adoi)ted an orphan girl, Avhom they reared to be\\nii fine woman, who survived them and married well.\\n5. Sarah McGavock. Died just as she finished her\\ncourse at the Columbia Female Institute, and her eighteenth\\nyear. She was richly endowed in every respect. She was\\nso beloved hy her father that her death was a crushing blow\\nto him.\\n0. Mary Fogg. Married Daniel C. Govan, of Missis-\\nsippi. He became a ])lanter near Marianna, Ark. During\\nthe struggle of the Southern Confederacy, he was the colonel\\nof the Second Arkansas was promoted to the rank of briga-\\ndier general was wounded and taken prisoner in the battle\\nof Franklin. After the war he resumed his planting in\\nArkansas. ]]y the administration of President Cleveland\\nhe was a])])ointed superintendent of Indian affairs in Wash-\\nington State, wdiere he is noAv. His wife was, not very long-\\nago, killed by an accident on the street car in Seattle. They\\nliave sons and daughters, several of whom are married.\\n7. Eliza Pilplcy {called Donna). ]^Iarried Robert\\nCom])ton, of Lexington, Va. He Avas a student of the Vir-\\nginia ^Military Institute and a member of the famous Stone-\\nwnll Hrigade. Since the war he and his wife lived several\\nyears in Missouri, where he was a teacher. He died several\\nyears ago in Xorfolk, Va. She has lived for years in Wash-\\nington City, wliere she has some employment under the gov-", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 89\\neminent. She has four interesting daughters, three of\\nwhom are married, and she is a grandmother.\\n8. Frances Jane Brctneij. Died in her verv promis-\\ning girlhood.\\n9. WiUiani Newton Mercev. Xamed for the Bishop s\\nvery dear friend, Dr. Mercer, of ISTew Orleans, La. Is now\\nliving at Oakland, Cal., and doing business in San Francisco.\\nHas his second wife, Geraldine Gager, with three sons and\\ntwo daughters. He left the Virginia Military Institute to\\ngo into the onfederate ami} where he was engaged mostly\\nii, the signal service with General Polk s corps. After the\\nwar he married Patsy Compton (sister of Robert, who married\\nhis own sister Donna), and she and her first infant were\\nburied at the same time.\\nFrom the Richmond Dispatch, of date April 24, 11)00.\\nwe copy the notice of [Mrs. B. B. ]\\\\Liiior s death\\nMRS. B. B. MIXOR DEAD.\\nSlIK PASSES AWAY AI-TKlf A BRIEF ILLXESS.\\nMrs. Virginia ]\\\\[aury Otey [Minor, wife of Dr. Benjamin\\nBlake Minor, died at her home, jSTo. 520 West Grace street,\\nlast night, after an illness of short duration of pneumonia.\\nDeceased was in the seventy-eighth year of her age. She\\nwas the eldest child of the Right Rev. James H. Otev, I). D.,\\nthe Bishop of Tennessee, but a native of Bedford County, Va.\\nJust after the completion of her education at the Columbia\\nFemale Institute, of which her father was the founder, he\\nbrought her to Virginia for the purpose of restoring, at the\\nGreenbrier White Sulphur Springs, her health, impaired by\\nearnest study, and of her visiting his and her mother s\\nbrothers, in Lynchburg and Petersburg. It was in the latter\\ncity that she first met the young lawyer who became her life\\ncompanion for fifty-eight years. At the time of their enuage-", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "90 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nDieiit he removed to the city of Kichmond, and pursued his\\nl)rofession here for one year before marriage.\\nWhen she, a beautiful and brilliant bride, arrived here,\\nin the summer of 1842, she was most cordially received by\\nthe very best people of Richmond. She was a fine musician\\nand an exquisite vocalist, and played upon and sang to the\\nharp and guitar as well as the piano. She was also a spirited\\nand pleasing writer in prose and verse.\\nBefore her graduation she was a contributor to the\\nmagazine of the Columbia Institute, called The Guardian.\\nShe was a contributor to the Southern Literary Messenger,\\nand gave some assistance in the editorial department during\\nsome absences of her husband. She was the author of the\\nPrize-Tale, Stephano Oolonna, and several others. She\\nassisted her husband in his educational work in Staunton,\\nJiichmond, and St. Louis, Mo.\\nBefore her removal to the University of Missouri she\\ntook an active part in whatever interested the ladies of Rich-\\nmond, and particularly in the efforts of the Mount Vernon\\nAssociation, to purchase the home of ^Yashington. She, with\\na part of her children, returned to Richmond in 1S84, and\\nliad resided here ever since.\\nOn the 26th of May, 1S92, she celebrated her golden\\nwechling, which was largely attended by the friends of herself\\nand family.\\nFor several years past she had been an invalid, but her\\nmalady only endeared her the more to her family and friends,\\njind yet it was an unexpected attack of pneumonia which\\nrloscd licr long and interesting life.\\n]\\\\or husband, B. B. Minor, and five children Dr. B. B.\\nMinor, Jr., of Texas; William P. .Minor, of Michigan;\\nMisses Viohi, Jane, and Zelle Minor, of Richmond survive\\nher. togetlier with jMrs. G. R. Frost, B. L. ]\\\\rinor. and Vir-\\nii inia S. l\\\\Iinor, her grandchildren, and (me sister, Mrs. Comp-\\nton. of Washington.\\nTlio Inncral arraniicnients have not been made.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 91\\nREV. JAMES YOUXG.\\nA. D. 1844-1846. Rev. James Young succeeded Rev.\\n]VJr. Yeager in 1844^ bringing with liim a wife and several\\nchildren, the youngest of whom, if not born here, was bap-\\ntized here, for there is a tradition that when the name of\\nGeoro-e Washinjiton was sue, a ested to Mr. Youne;, he demur-\\nred, on the plea that too many George Washingtons had\\nbeen hanged. In further evidence of his character, a letter\\nwritten by him to one of his former parishioners has been\\nkindly granted for use in these pages. It was written to the\\nlate Colonel Wm. E. Ashley on the occasion of his marriage\\nwith the beautiful Miss Fanny Grafton, and is here\\ntranscribed\\nBerlin, Worcester County, Md., December 7, 1846.\\nDear Will I was truly gratified by the intelligence of\\nyour marriage, communicated by my cherished friend, Mr.\\nBeebe, in a letter received from him a few days ago. I trust\\nthat both yourself and Mrs. Ashley will allow me to offer my\\nheartfelt congratulations on this happy consummation, and\\nassure you of my prayers and desires for the continued hap-\\npiness and prosperity of both in your new relationship. May\\nGod, our Heavenly Father, bless your union, and make it\\ntributary to the temporal and eternal welfare of both. For\\nthe dear girls, to whom you stand in the relation of husband\\nand brother,- I have ever entertained the affection also of a\\nbrother. Their happiness secured would add to mine, however\\ndistant I might be from them, and the consciousness that in\\nthis union the happiness of one of the little band was made\\n1. The late Roswell Beebe. who married Miss Eliot, half-sister of the bride.\\nMr. Beebe lived in a large, handsome brick residence fronting on Markham\\n.afreet, on the ground now occmiied by the post office. Oazi tti building,\\nand H. t,. Rp-Trners insurance building. It was p.ainted white, and surrounded\\non all sides by trees of forest growth.\\n2. Fanny and Harriet Grafton, afterwards Mrs. Richard Fatherly.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "92 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nsure, so far as happiness belongs to this life, afforded nie and\\nmy wife the sincerest and most lively pleasure and satisfac-\\ntion. It would have added greatly to my gratification had\\nI been present to officiate on the occasion^, and still more to\\nhave enrolled you both as meinbers of the body of Christ our\\nLord. This, I trust, will be done for you by some other in\\ngood time, and that you and yours will ever be found on the\\nside of righteousness and truth. Do not leave the Church\\nto which your hearty preference hitherto has led you but\\nlet that preference only give wav to princij^le, which shall\\ndraw the bond of connection closer until you become fully\\nincorporated with the great body of the elect from every\\ntongue and kindred under the whole heaven. And may every\\nblessing in the gift of Him, from whom cometli every good\\nand perfect gift, descend u]) )n you and abide with you always.\\nMy wife joins me in love and congratulations, and sends her\\nwarmest love to you and the dear girls, your sisters,^ and to\\nMrs. Beebe^ and in affectionate remembrance to your\\nesteemed mother and sister, to whose kindness during the\\nillness of our little boy, we owe so much. I assure you that\\nwhen we look back upon our residence in Little Rock, now\\nthat all the asperities of a ])ortion of my experience there are\\nworn off, we discover man\\\\ bright and cheering pages of its\\nhistory that will ever keep o])en a warm place in our hearts\\nfor the wilds of Arkansas, or rather, the warm hearts that\\nexist there, and if ever it pleases God to put me in possession\\nof the means I shall see you all again before 1 die, God will-\\ning. I find pretty much the same effect following my efforts\\nto make known the gos])el in the C-hurch everywhere it has\\nbeen my privilege to ])reach. 1 have a small parish of about\\nfifty comnuinicants, composed of farmers, traders and ])ro-\\nfessional men, with their families, and am getting to be quite\\na lion among them. My rough-hewn, straightforward, back-\\nwoods style seems to tell powerfidly upon them all. the most\\n.3. Miss Carrie Eliott, afterwards Mrs. D. C. Fulton, and Miss Harriet Grafton,\\nafterwards Mrs. Richard Fatherly.\\n4. Formerly Miss Eliott.\\n5. Mrs. Chi ster Ashley, and Miss F.nnnv Aslilev. aflorwarrts Mrs A F.\\nI lM-inan.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 93\\nintelligent and the most illiterate alike, and 1 hope for good,\\nboth to the people and the Church, from the divine blessing\\nupon my eiforts in this pleasant, but secluded nook. Re-\\nmember me affectionately to Mrs. Henderson and to your\\ngrandpa and ma, to Mrs. Ringo and Mrs. Trapnall, and to\\nall our friends in the Rock, and believe me, dear Will,\\nYours aifectionately,\\nJAS. YOUXG.\\nGENERAL AXD ^[RS. WILLIAM ELIOT ASHLEY.\\n(leiiernl und Mrs. Willitdn Eliot Ashley were the first\\nciti/ens uiiited in marriage in the first Episcopal Church,\\nOct iber 1S4(;, althougli one other couple is reported to\\nhave l)een wedded there, in passing through the city.\\n(leTieral .Vshley was the eldest son of Hon. Chester\\n-Ashley, United States Senator from Arkansas, and Mary W.\\nEliot, his V7ife, of Missouri. He married Frances Grafton,\\n(l. ingliter of Joseph Dana Grafton, of St. Genevieve, Mo.,\\nand Marv Lewis Eliot, his wife. The bride and groom\\nwere of a common ancestry and were distantly related.\\nThe name of William xVshley was the synonym of kind-\\nness, courtesy and culture. His genial temperament and\\nquick sympathy caused his friends to be legion. In beauty\\nof feature and symmetry of form Fanny Grafton, his wife,\\nwas acknowledged to be peerless. She had fine literary taste,\\nand as a conversationalist was es])eeially attractive. As she\\nadvanced in years her graces of spirit crowned and sanctified\\nall other charms, and disclosed to her friends the most endear-\\ning aspects of her character. Both have passed beyond the\\nsilent river, leavinc a memorv that will h^nti hf cherished bv\\n6. Sister of Mrs. Chester Ashley.\\n7. Mr. and Mrs. Eliott.\\nBy courtesy of the late Mrs. Wm. E. Ashley.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "94 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nall who knew thorn. Of the live children born to theni^ only\\none danghter, Frances Ann, afterwards Mrs. Clifton S. Gray,\\nsnrvives.\\nTHE FIRST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.\\nA. D. 1843-1873. The bnilding was a simple parallelo-\\ngram. Imilt in brick, withont transepts or vestry. There\\nwere two aisles and two entrances from the west. The win-\\ndows wer(^ made with the pointed arch, pertaining to the\\ngothic style of architectnre. In the eastern part was the\\nchancel, as is customary with all Episcopal Churches. This\\nwas enclosed with a circular railing, where a pulpit, placed\\nwithin it, was reached by a short flight of steps. A reredos,\\ncarved in walnut, also of gothic design, was placed against\\nthe eastern wall, with the creed and commandments inscribed\\non a blue ground. On December, 3 843, Rev. Mr. Paradise,\\nof Philadel])liiii, j)r(^8ented the silver communion service. On\\neither side of the chancel were two wide pews. Those on\\nthe south side were occupied by the treasurer and secretary of\\nState, :\\\\lr. J. H. Crease and Mr. S. M. Weaver, with their\\nfamilies. Hon. Samuel M. Weaver, of JSTcav Orleans, La.,\\ncame to Little Rock in 1840 and was Secretary of the State\\nof Arkansas in ISGO. He M-as not a Church official, but his\\nfamily attended the services regularly in the first Church.\\nHe married ]\\\\Lary Eliza Rose, of Roseville, Ark. They had\\nfive children (1 Omer R. Weaver, who lost his life at the\\nbattle of Springfield, Mo., August 10, 1861. The Confed-\\nerate Camp of United Veterans perpetuates his name. 2)\\nHorace Boardman, deceased. (3) George Vance, married\\nAlice Com])ton, now deceased. Their son, George, married\\nM;iud Samstag. (4) Samuel :\\\\Iontoomerv, married Effie", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 95\\nColeman, deceased. (5) Mary, married Benjamin Johnson\\nField, deceased. Two of their children, Marj and Mildred,\\ndied in infancy. Four survive their father: Benjamin\\nJohnson, Omer Weaver, Leila, and Samuel Weaver Field.\\nAs the Rector was compelled to robe in the presence of the\\ncon ;Tegation, after about eight years passed, there was\\nl)uilt, during the incumbency of Bev. Andrew F. Free-\\nman, a Avooden tower on the western front. A Vestry\\nroom was arranged on the first floor, where the Bector robed\\nand entered the Church from the outside, from which a nar-\\nrow staircase led up to the second floor. This opened on the\\norgan loft, which was sustained by two large columns rising\\nfi om the nave, and from it the staircase led up higher to the\\nIx lfry in the tower, from which a fine view of the city was\\nhad. ^Vn organ and bell were placed in the loft and tower\\nlater. This Church was located in the center of three lots,\\nwhich were enclosed with a wooden fence. One magnificent\\noak of indigenous growth stood on the west, in comj^any with\\nthe tower, which it overlooked as a loving guardian. In\\nthe heart of the tree about six feet from the ground was a\\nsmall natural hollow, which served as a depository for the\\nChurcli keys. .Vs none but liahitucs and the sexton were in\\n])ossession of the secret a bank could not have been safer.\\nOne of the succeeding rectors. Dr. J. T. Wheat, conceived and\\nperfected a plan of supplying the Churchyard with shade,\\nAvhicli was that the head of each family should ])lant an ever-\\ngreen for each child in the family within the enclosure and an\\nelm or maple on the outside as a border for the pavement.\\nAll these trees which had grown into the afi^ections of the\\nhurch people, including the tower oak, were burned along\\nwith the Church on Sunday night, September 2S, 1S73. ^Tot\\nuntil lS!)o wore these trees replaced l\u00c2\u00bby Bev. Wallace", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "96 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nC ariirthaii. Later Dr. Caiitrellj Senior Warden, had tlieni\\nboxed for preservation and iron hitching j)osts established.\\n])ur this is anticipating.\\nKEV. WILLIAM T. SAUXDEKS.\\nA. D. 1824-1857. licr. William T. Saunders succeeded\\nthe Ivev. James Yonng as missionary minister at Christ\\nChurch, which oitice he tilled not longer than two years. lie\\nis described by those Avho remember him as a grave, taciturn,\\nshy man, though an interesting talker and intelligent preacher\\nwhen the barrier of his constitutional diffidence was overcome.\\nHe went from here to Apalachicola, Ela., where he was Rec-\\ntor of Trinity Church for seventeen years. He married\\nwhile there Eliza ]\\\\Iorton, who was born January 24, 1^24,\\nin Xew York V\\\\X\\\\. In the year l^iCT he published a snuill\\nvolume called The Fasloi- s Wife. or Memoirs of E. M.\\nS., whom he had the misfortune to lose after prolonged suf-\\nferiiig, boi-ne with the heroism of a Christian martyr. Their\\nchildren were John Alorton, William Lawi-ence, Walter\\nBurns, Robert Duncan, and Jane Morton. The last was\\nnamed for his deceased wife s devoted sister, whom he after-\\nwards nuirried.\\nAt that time the family of Judge William Iluine Field\\nwas conspicuous in the early Church here. Judge Field was\\na native of Brunswick County, a., and canu^ from Tennessee\\nto Arkansas in Ai)ril of 1S43. His wife was Mary Amanda\\nFlournoy, of Giles County, Tenn. He was twenty years\\njudge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, which included Pulaski\\nCounty, Ark. Mary FJiza Field was their second child\\nand eldest daughter. On February 3, 184G, she was mar-\\nried t(. Wni. V. OHm-ci-. by Bishop Freeman, at the family", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 97\\nresidence, on the corner of Holly (Eighth street) and Scott\\nstreets, where the eldest son, Wni. IJnnie Field (:^d), with\\nhis family, still resides.\\nOne son, Enstis Field Officer, was the only child of this\\nmarriage. Air. Officer died ahout live years afterwards. In\\n1857 Mrs. Othcer was married to ]\\\\Ir. Gilbert Knap]), in\\nChrist Clinrch, by Kev. Andrew F. Freeman. This Avorthy\\nand highly esteemed pair has for years resided at their com-\\nmodions home, bnilt in colonial style, on corner of Rector\\navenue and Chestnut (Seventh) street, where the propliet s\\nchamber was usually occupied. Bishop Lay, Bishop Pierce,\\nwith their families, and the Rev. T. 1 Lee, all knew Mr. and\\nMrs. Knapp as the incomparable host and hostess. They\\nnow reside at their farm, Toltec station, a place celebrated for\\nthe Indian antiquities that have been obtained from the In-\\ndian mounds on the place. A lovely little daughter, Myra\\nFlournoy, was born to them, who became a feature of interest\\nto the towii with her quaint sayings and earnest questions,\\nand was lamented by all when the angel of death came to take\\nher from the life she adorned. There was always a dainti-\\nness of fancy and speech, an exquisite delicacy of thought,\\nthat caused Mrs. Knapp to be called aesthetic and this was her\\npatronymic for the first ladies literary club of this citv, of\\nwhich she was the sponsor, so to s})eak, and Mrs. Rufus T.\\nPolk, the founder. This mantle of refinement that was better\\nproof against assault than a coat of mail, Mrs. Knapp has\\ntransferred to the club she named, which is acknowledged to\\nbe the most refined in the city, during the seventeen years of\\nits existence. Her sisters, Mrs. Caldwell and Mrs. Lennox,\\nboth dead, and her nieces, Mrs. Crockett, Mrs. Andrew\\nHunter, Misses Xannie, Jenny, Zaida, and Ernest, Afiss\\nAdelina Lennox and brother have all been devoted mend)ers\\nof Christ Church from infancv.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "98 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nA. D. 1900. On May 20, 1000, the death of Mrs.\\nKnapp s son, Mr. Eustis Field Officer, was announced as the\\nresult of injuries received ]\\\\Iay 1-1, by falling from the\\nChoctaw bridge in East Little Rock. From the Arkansas\\nDemocrat of 30th, is transferred the following notice:\\nINTELLECTUALLY STROIs^G.\\nTRIBUTE TO EUSTIS F. OFFICER. WHOSE FUNERAL OCCURS\\nTO-DAY.\\nThe funeral of the late Eustis F. Officer will occur at\\n4 o clock this afternoon from Christ Churchy llev. G. Gordon\\nSnicade officiating.\\nMr. Officer was born in Little Rock April 0, 1840. He\\nwas a man of high intellectual attainments, a graduate of the\\nWashington and Lee University of Virginia, where he gradu-\\nated with the highest honors, receiving the Robertson prize\\nmedal. He was j)articularly proficient in mathematics and\\nattained a high rank in civil engineering. He was employed\\nin this capacity with the Iron Mountain and Cotton Belt\\nroads, and in the river works of the United States govern-\\nment in the Arkansas and White rivers, and was in charge\\nof the government works in Pine Bluff. Lie also taught in\\nthe public schools of this city and was at one time principal\\nof the Peabody Lligh School. Of late he has been associated\\nwith his stepfather, Gilbert Knapp, in cotton planting and\\nmerchandising at Toltee. His death was a particularly sad\\none, and is a great blow to his bereaved parents, to whom he\\nwas most affectionately devoted. Mr. Officer was a man of\\nmany noble qualities, a kind and affectionate son, and a gen-\\nerous and faithful friend. The members of his family have\\ntlie sincere sympathy of a large circle of friends in their sad\\nbereavement.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "RT. REV. GEORGE WASHINGTON FREEMAN, D. D.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 99\\nET. REV. GEORGE WASHINGTON FREEMAN, D. D.\\nA. D. 1635-1789. Ui. Rev. George Washington Free-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0man. D. D., Second Missionary Bishop of Texas, Arkansas\\nand the Indian Territory of the SouthAvest, was a descendant\\nof Edmond Freeman, who arrived in the ship Abigail from\\nLondon in 1635, and located at Sandwich, Mass. In 17^29 he\\nremoved to the State of Connecticut and settled in Mansfield.\\nGeorge Washington Freeman was born in Sandwich, Mass., on\\nthe l;3tli of Jnne, 17^9. He was the twelfth child of Dr.\\nNathaniel Freeman and Tryphosa Cotton, of Killingly,\\nConn., who were married May 5, 1763. The wife died July\\n11, 1796, aged 53. Dr. Freeman was twice married, and\\nthe subject of this memoir was the youngest child of his first\\nwife. From The Life of Bishop Freeman, of Arkansas,\\nby the Rev. John N. Norton, D. I)., is quoted the following\\nrecord found in his father s commonplace book: George\\nhad read the Bible throagli, wlien between six and seven\\nyears of age. j)^ YyeQuy^n l^ad a very large\\nfamily and he had little to bequeath his children beyond the\\nprecious example of his own useful, honored, patriotic. Chris-\\ntian life. Our little hero was remarkable from his earliest\\nyears, for his amiable disposition, obedience to his parents,\\nrespect for the aged, a generous heart and a scrupulous regard\\nfor the truth and right. During one of the Bishop s latest\\nvisits to his native place, he expressed a desire to call upon\\nsome of the elders of the place, and among them was an excel-\\nlent Quaker lady, whose memory was now most active, as.\\nis often the case with the aged, in recalling the scenes and\\nincidents of early life. On entering the room where she sat,\\nthe Bishop approached and gave her his hand. She not\\ni.\u00c2\u00abrc", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "100 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nap]u ;irii)g to recollect liiiii, lie said: Don t you know me?\\nSlie looked intently for a moment, when, her face brighten-\\ning, she replied anst thou be he he, that good little\\nGeorge C The Bishop was evidently both amus,ed and\\niiratitied. She recollected him from a natural mark of a\\nrasj^berry upon one of his eyelids. She remembered very\\nwell that, whilst other boys of his age visited her father s cele-\\nbrated orchard uninvited, George was a good boy, and\\nalways asked permission.\\nIt was not JBishop Freeman s privilege to be trained\\nup in the bosom of the Church at whose altars he so faithfully\\nministered, his parents being rigid Congregationalists. Hi\\nPuritan descent will account for some of his peculiarities of\\nopinion, especially his very strict notions in regard to worldly\\namusements. It seems, however, that althouoh Geor2;e Avas\\nthus breathing an atmosphere most unfriendly to the growth\\nof Episcopacy, he early formed an acquaintance with the\\nPrayer Book, and learned to love it.\\nThis Prayer Book and Bishop Ravenscroft, of Xorth\\nCarolina, converted him from alvinism to Episcopacy. He\\nbecame a most zealous and devoted Churchman, although he\\nwas associated in teaching in Xorth Carolina with his brother,\\na Presbyterian minister, during his early manhood.\\nA. D. 1818. in ISIS he married, while yet a layman,\\na most excellent and accomplished woman Mrs. Ann Yates\\nGholsoii, of ii-giiiia.\\nA. D. 1826 1827. On the Sth of October, 1820, Mr.\\nFreeman was ordained Deacon by Bishop Ravenscroft, in\\nthe E])iscopal Chai)el, at Raleigh, in the thirty-seventh year\\nof his age, and alxMit eight months afterward was admitted to\\nthe Priesthood by Bishoj) Ravenscroft, on the 20th of May,\\n1S27. The service was held in Christ Church, Xcwbern,,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 101\\niST. C. When Bishop Ravenscroft died at Raleigh, N. C,\\nDr. Freeman ministered at his bedside and, by the Bishop s\\nspecial reqnest, read the bnrial service over his remains. Dr.\\nFreeman s first field of labor embraced Washington, Dur-\\nham s Creek, and Zion Chapel, North Carolina. At the time\\nof his marriage, before he became a member of any Christian\\nbody, his wife was a pious and consistent member of the\\nMethodist connnunion, to which she adhered, after he\\nobtained Baptism, Confirmation and Communion in the\\nChurch. But in a year or two, of her ow^n accord, after a\\ndiligent examination of the claims of the Church, she was\\nconfirmed by Bishop Moore, of Virginia, and was thence-\\nforward a devoted Churchwoman.\\nA. D. 1839-1841. Dr. Freeman labored eleven years at\\nChrist Church, Raleigh, N. C, wdiere he left a host of loving\\nand appreciative friends.* From there he removed to Colum-\\nbia, Tenn., Avhere he officiated more than a year, when the\\nfeeble health of his wife obliged him to make a change. He\\nnext labored at Trinity Church, Swedesborough, N^. J.,\\nwhich place he held from April to ISTovember, 1841. He\\nthen accepted a call to Immanuel Church, ZSTew Castle, Del.\\nAt the General Convention of 1844 it was determined that\\na Bishop should be appointed for tlie Southwest, and Dr.\\nFreeman having been nominated, he was chosen, almost by\\nacclamation. A delegate to that convention who sat in the\\nsame seat with him, thus graphically describes the eft ect pro-\\nduced upon the good man when his name was announced by\\nthe secretary as having been sent down from the House of\\nBishops for the action of tlie Lower House:\\nDr. Freeman, Avliose hearing was a little impaired.\\n*He received the honorary degree of D. D. from Chapel Hill, the Uni-\\nversity of North Carolina, in 18. ?9.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "102 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH,\\nloaned forward, witli liis hand behind his ear. His head\\nbegan to sink as his Christian name was uttered; and bj the\\ntime that the secretary iiad spoken his surname, it had\\n(h-ooped below the top of the pew, and v/hen the message was\\nInlly concluded, he had grasped his hat and was passing out\\nof the Church. On reaching his boarding house, he was seized\\nwith a chill, which was succeeded by high fever, and he was\\nnot able to leave his room for several days.\\nHere the exalted piety of his wife took effect, as the fol-\\nlowing incident, related by Rev. Dr. Xorton, illustrates:\\nMrs. Freeman s claim to distinction among the many\\nexcellent clergymen s wives in tlie Church rests mainly upon\\nher missionary zeal. She was not only ready to give, ac-\\ncording to her ability, to the support of missions, but was will-\\ning to sacrifice (and she did actually sacrifice) her health,\\nand the most of her worldly comforts for the supposed good\\nof the cause. When her husband was called to the Mission-\\nary Episcopate of the Southwest, they were delightfully and\\nmost happily situated in a parish that perhaps both would\\nhave preferred to almost any other in the (Jhurch, and they\\nhad just completed their arrangements for, as they fondly\\nho])ed, a lifelong residence among agreeable and most aft ec-\\ntionate parishioners. The call came upon him like a clap\\nof thunder, and he felt that he could not accept it and, after\\ntwenty-four hours deliberation with ])rayer, he had made up\\nl:is mind that he must decline it. The distressed look with\\nwhich the announcement of his purpose was received by her,\\nand the alarming inquiry which she made, Are you sure you\\nwill not be found fighting against God if you decline?\\nlirought him to a pause and, aided by the remonstrance and\\npersuasion of others, led him ultimately to suffer himself to\\nl nt on the niitr( although he knew it to be crowned with\\nthoi ns.\\nA. D. 1844. He was consecrated as the IMissionary\\nBii^liop (.f Arkansas, Texas and the Indian Territory of the\\nSouthwest in St. Peter s Churcli. Philadelphia, on Saturday,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "THE AKIn ALS of CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 103\\nOctober 20, 184-4. The venerable Bishop Chase acted as\\ncoiisecrator, being assisted by Bishops Doane, Otey, Hen-\\nshaw, Kemper, Polk, Lee, Whittingham, Elliott and Johns.\\nAn able and appropriate sermon was preached by the Bishop\\nof Georgia, from Isaiah liv. 2, 3.\\nA. D. 1875. It may be remarked that during the four-\\nteen years of his Episcopate, his duties caused him to traverse\\na territorial region that is now (1875) served by five bishops,\\nwho, all, no doubt with good cause, complain of the vast\\nextent of their several Dioceses. Bishop Freeman traveled\\non horseback, over the territorial extent of all these five Dio-\\nceses, after he was three score years old, the hearty and robust\\nyoung clergymen who attempted to travel with him, breaking\\ndown by their efforts. Thus much may be said for Bishop\\nFreeman s sturdy New England stock, and it may be added\\nfor his old England stock.\\nThe best account of his Episcopal labors is given by the\\nBishop himself, a portion of which is here appended\\nHaving yielded to the solicitation of Bishop Otey, that\\nI would undertake a visitation to the Churches in Mississippi,\\non my way from Texas to Arkansas, I was obliged to confine\\nmy labors in Arkansas to those portions of the State in which\\nour missionary operations have hitherto been conducted.\\nThis, however, was nearly all that I expected, from the late-\\nness of the season wdien I set out, to be able to accomplish on\\nmy first visitation. The points visited were Little Rock,\\nVan Buren, Fort Smithj Fayetteville, Cane Hill, and the\\nheadwaters of White River. At Little Rock I found our\\nmissionary laborino- under a slight and temporary discour-\\nagement, owing to the late strenuous, and but too successful\\nefforts of one of the many modern sect s. And, regarding this\\naf the most important station in the State, Little Rock being,\\nas yet, the largest town, and, at the same time, the seat of\\ngovernment, I yielded to the entreaties of the Rev. Mr.\\nYoung, the missionary, and many of the principal members", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "104 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nof the congregation, and remained with them ten or twelve\\ndays, preaching ten times, and confirming, on two separate\\noccasions, nine pei sons.\\nNotwithstanding the discouraging circumstances just\\nalluded to, however, the Church is growing here steadily, and\\nin a highly satisfactory ratio of progression. The services\\nare well attended the congregation, embracing a fair pro-\\nportion of the principal citizens, is large for the place, and\\nincreasing, and the missionary commands the respect and\\nesteem of his parishioners and were the worldly circum-\\nstances of the community at all prosperous, we might expect\\nthis soon to be stricken from the list of missionary stations.\\nBut, unfortunately, the people are poor and unable to do\\nmuch for the su])port of a minister, and the probability is\\nthat for some time to come a full missionary appropriation\\nwill be necessary. From Little Rock I was compelled, from\\nthe loAv stage of water in tlie river, to make the journey to\\nVan Buren and the other points visited, on horseback, a dis-\\ntance, going and returning, of 450 miles so that much time\\nv\\\\ as necessarily occupied in traveling. To Van Buren I was\\naccompanied by the Rev. Mr. Young, and was there met by\\nthe Rev. Mr. Scull, from Fayetteville. I found here no\\ncommunicants, no candidates for confirmation, and, I may\\nadd, no congregation proper. The missionary has oificiated\\nat this point, on alternate Sundays, in a house of worship\\ncommon to all religious bodies, but to a mixed assemblage, of\\nwlidui it is difficult to say what number, if any, consider\\nthemselves as Episcopalians. We held services here five\\ntimes. I preached thrice, and, at the request of the mission-\\nary, baptized one adult and six children. At Fort Smith,\\nwhere the missionary also officiates^ as I understand, on\\nalternate Sundays, I found the same state of things existing\\nas at Van Buren. To that place I Avas accompanied by the Rev.\\nMessrs. Young, MclManus, and Scull, and we held two ser-\\nvices, which vjvro well attended, particularly by the officers\\nof the T ^nited States army, many of whom were present in\\nattr iidanco upon a court-martial. T preached on both occa-\\n^ions. and have reason to believe^ that our services left a o-ood", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 105\\nimpression. From Van Buren I proceeded, attended by the\\nKev. Mr, Scull, to Favetteville, Washington County. At\\nthis place I remained, with the exception of two days at Cane\\nHill, enjoying the hospitality of Mr. Scull ten days, including\\ntwo Sundays, having been prevented by high waters from\\ngetting to the headwaters of White River (as I intended) to\\npass the latter of them. I preached in Fayetteville, in a\\nschoolroom, six times, and administered the Holy Eucharist\\nto ten persons, of whom only six or seven belong to our com-\\nmunion. At Cane Hill, in a small storeroom, hastily fitted up\\nfor the occasion by the personal labor of General Campbell\\nand Captain Chew, I preached twice and confirmed three\\npersons, viz Captain Chew, his wife, and their oldest son\\n(originally from Fredericksburg, Va.). The Church at this\\npoint consists at present of but two families, General Camp-\\nbell s and Captain Chew s; but more devoted, warndiearted\\nChurch people I have seldom met with. The services liere\\nwere well attended, and it was evident that a good, I hope, a\\nlasting, impression was made upon the plain people, of whom\\nthe congregation was composed, and I felt encouraged to\\nbelieve that the regular ministrations of one who could give\\nhimself to the work would be eminently fruitful in this inter-\\nesting neighborhood. To insure the keeping alive, in some\\nmeasure, of the flame which has been here enkindled by the\\noccasional visits of the Rev. Mr. Scull, T licensed Captain\\nChew as Lay Reader, who has promised to officiate every Sun-\\nday in their little hired room until their loo- Church, which\\nthey are about to commence, is finished. There are now in\\nthis neighborhood five communicants.\\nAt the lieadAvaters of White River (Madison C\\\\3unty,\\nthirty-five miles southeast of Fayetteville), where I only spent\\nthe night, I confirmed, in his own house, at the family altar,\\nWilliam McElroy. He and his wife are both communicants,\\nand I was pleased to observe, are scrupulous in the daily per-\\nformance of family devotion. In this neighborhood there\\nare three or four communicants. Among them is Colonel\\nSumner, a patriarch of more than four score years, an emi-\\ngrant from Vermont. The prospects for the establishment", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "106 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nand spread of the Church in this Northwestern and moun-\\ntainous region of Arkansas appear, confessedly, not to be\\nflattering. Yet, it would, I think, scarcely become us to\\nabandon the field, and give up those few sheep in the wilder-\\nness which liave heretofore been folded^ with so much care,\\nto the mercy of the wolves of the mountain, scattered though\\nthey be. Though the progress of the Church in that region\\nmust, from the nature of things, be very slow for some time\\nto come, yet I doubt not that the labors of an able and prudent\\nmissionary, self-denying and capable of enduring hardness\\nas a good soldier of Jesus Christ, would in a few years be\\nfound productive of much fruit to the honor and praise of\\nGod s holy name, and the edification of His Church. I\\nhave, as yet, visited no part of the Indian Territory, but pur-\\npose visiting some portions of it in the fall.\\nA. D. 1847. At the General Convention of 1S4T the\\nBisliop s first triennial report shows how he had improved the\\nthree years that had elapsed since his consecration. Besides\\nvisiting all the Churches and missionary stations within his\\njurisdiction thrice, he lias visited Columbia and Brazoria, in\\nBrazoria County, Texas, twice; Richmond and Velasco, in\\nthe same State, once Cane Hill, Fayetteville, and Batesville,\\nin Arkansas, twice; Washington, Spring Hill, Louisville,\\nilclciu!, Colund)ia, and Xapoleon, in the same State, once;\\nand Fort Gibson, in the Indian Territory, twice. That in\\nm. st of these places he has held confirmation, and in all of\\nthem })erf()rmed divine service, and preached at each visita-\\ntion that ho has confirmed 1()() persons, baptized seventy-\\neight cliihli cii and ten adults, consecrated one Church, and\\npreached more than 200 sermons. To this, he would add\\nthat in the performance of this amount of duty, he has been\\ncompelled to travel more than 1 S,000 miles. The number of\\nc ininiunu-ants within his jurisdiction he reports to be, as", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 107\\nnearly as lie has been ablj to ascertain, 200 in Texas, and\\nseventy in Arkansas whole number 270.\\nThere is another incident related by Rev. Dr. Norton,\\nwhich reveals one striking characteristic of this upright man.\\nAt the General Convention of ]856, a meeting of the Sunday\\nSchool Union and Church Book Society was held in St.\\nAndrew s Church, Philadelphia, during which matters of\\nvital importance to the interests of the Sunday School Union\\nv/ere discussed.\\nAfter several hours debate the practical part began\\nwith the contribution of money for its relief and benefit. The\\nBishop of Maryland was instantly on his feet and stated what\\nhe would give nay, more, with the energetic promptness\\npeculiar to himself, he laid down the money then and there.\\nBishop de Laneey and the two Bishops Potter, and others,\\nfollowed in his wake. Then a portly, dignified clergyman,\\nabout 6 feet in height, of robust and vigorous appearance,\\nthough evidently advancing in years, went to the secretary s\\ntable and put his name down for $100. It was Bishop Free-\\nman. ^AMien this was done, he took his hat and cane (the\\ncane which Bishop Ravenscroft had carried in his day) and\\nquietly passed out through the Vestry door.\\nBishop Freeman was greatly sustained in his mission-\\nary labors by his excellent wife, whom the annalist affection-\\nately remembers as a punctilious Churchwoman, a stately,\\nrefined, and cultivated woman and worthy helpmeet for a\\nBishop. When Bishop Freeman first located at Little Rock\\nhe took a suite of rooms in one of the handsome brick build-\\nings erected by Charles Rapley, merchant, whose name is on\\nthe first Vestry list, on the north side of Markham street,\\nbetween Scott and Main streets. The first floors of these\\nbuildings were occupied by dry goods merchants, the second", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "108 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nand tliird floors were arranged with spacious parlors and\\nchambers in suites, with galleries surrounding the inner\\ncourts. The staircases to these stories opened from hallways\\non the street, with hahistrades of mahogany, obtained from\\nCuba, where Mr. Rapley s father had amassed a fortune.\\nThese buildings were destroyed by fire several years later.\\nCharles Rapley was a member of the first Vestry of Christ\\nChurch, but afterwards became a leading member of the\\nnewly organized congregation of the Disciples of Christ,\\n\\\\vhieh the BishojD denominates one of the modern sects.\\nI lis wife^ who was Ann Bailor Field^ also seceded from the\\nEpiscopal Churchy and their children were brought up in\\nthe new faith. The Bishop, his wife, and son occupied a\\nsuite of rooms on the third floor of the eastern building, and\\nwere greatly appreciated by the other occupants of the build-\\ning, all of whom took board with the landlady, the widow\\nBurnett. Mrs. Freeman was the widow of Hon. Thomas\\nGholson, of Gholsonville, Brunswick County, Va. She was\\nthe daughter of Colonel William Yates and granddaughter\\nof Rev. Bartholomew Yates.\\nA. D. 1817. Tlon. Thomas Gholson, son of Thomas\\nGholson, Sr., was born at Gholsonville, Va., and educated at\\nWilliam and Mary College, Virginia. He married Miss Ann\\nYates and was a member of Congress from 1812 to 1 8 IG. He\\ndied in 1817 or 1818, four or five years after the receipt of\\ntlie injury from a gunshot wound of the chest, in the war of\\n1812, so-called. He was acting, during a recess of the Con-\\ngress, as volunteer aid, on the staff of some general, whose\\nname escapes mo. He left a wife, two sons and a daughter\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nmy father, William Yates Gholson, Thomas, and Gary Ann.\\nMy gran(hn..th( r, Mrs. Ann Yates Gholson, moved to\\nRnlcigh, X. C, after the death of her husband, and there met", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 109\\nand married George Washington Freeman, who was Rector\\nof a parish in that city. He was afterward made Bishop of\\nArkansas and Texas. Soon after his consecration he\\nremoved his residence to Little Rock, Ark., where my grand-\\nmother and he died.\\nThe children of Hon. Thomas Gholson and Ann Yates,\\nhis wife, were\\nHon. ^ym. Yates Gholson, late member of the Supreme\\nbench of Mississippi Hon. Thomas Gholson, member of the\\nTennessee bar, and Cavy Ann, who married her cousin, a very\\npromising lawyer of Petersburg, Va., and had two daughters,\\nGeorgie and Cary Ann Gholson.\\nThe children of Bishop Freeman and Ann Abates Ghol-\\nson, his wife, were\\nA. D. 1819-1895. l. George Russell Freeman. Born\\nDecember O, 1810, in Raleigh, X. C. married to Kate Wal-\\nthall, of Holly Springs, Miss. She was the daughter of the\\nlate J. B. Walthall^ and sister of Edward Cary Walthall,\\nthe lately deceased United States Senator from Mississippi,\\nwho sat continuously in the Senate from January, 1894:, to\\nMarch, 1895. He served in Confederate army in the Civil\\nWar as major-general.\\n2. Andrew Field Freeman, afterwards Rector of\\ndirist Church, Little Rock.\\nA. D. 1826. 3. Charles Edward Freeman. Born\\nOctober, 1826, in I^ewberne, !N^. C, of whom no further\\naccounts have been obtained.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Extract from a letter of response to a request of the annalist by Dr. S. C.\\nGholson, of Holly Springs, Miss.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "110 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nREV. ANDREW FIELD FREEMAN.\\nA. D. 1822-1849. Her. Andrew Field Freeman suc-\\nceeded Rev. William T. Saunders in charge of Christ Church,\\nin 1 S40, and served as the first elected Rector for nine years.\\n]le was horn in Warrenton, N. i\\\\, December 3, 1822, and was\\na graduate of the General Theological Seminary of New\\nYork, in 1845. Mr. Freeman was ordained Deacon and\\nPriest by the Rt. Rev. Alfred Lee, D. D., of Delaware. The\\nlast ordination occurred in 1 845. He accompanied his parents\\nto Little Rock, where^ on December 4, 1850, he married\\nFrances Ann Ashley, only daughter of Hon. Chester Ashley,\\nI nited States Senator from Arkansas. This was an ideal\\nunion, and, Avhile it lasted, a blissful one. The Bishop and\\nhis son built a handsome residence on lots belonging to the\\nbride on Holly (Eighth) and Cumberland streets, now owned\\nby the widow of the late Hon. George H. Van Etten, a former\\nniendx i- of Christ Church Vestry. They furnished it com-\\nfortably and tastefully for her occupation. She did not live\\nto appropriate it, but died within the year, universally\\nlamented, leaving a daughtei\\nI oth families Avere prostrated with grief at this sudden\\nsinking of their ship of life, freighted with all that made life\\nbeautiful. Mrs. Bishop Freeman did not long survive. She\\nliad been in failing health after exposures in a tour of visita-\\ntion through Texas with her husband, and this great sorrow\\nAvas too much for her strength. On the 2Gtli of ]\\\\rarch, 1856,\\nthe Rishoj) Ipft her, Avith hesitation and great reluctance, for\\na visitation of Texas, Avhich circumstances rendered liighly\\nimportant, if not absolutely necessai-y. He shortened his\\nx isitation as niuch as ])ossible on her account; and after an", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "REV. ANDREW FIELD FREEMAN.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. Ill\\nabsence of two months and tifteen Jays, returned, to find her\\non that sick bed from which she never arose.\\nA. D. 1856. He arrived on Monday, 11th of June, and\\nin a week from that day, June IS, her spirit took its flight\\nfrom earth to brighter worlds on high. She died in the\\nserene faith of a holy immortality. Her funeral took place\\non Wednesday morning, June 26, 1856, from the Church, the\\nservices being conducted by her husband and son, according\\nto her own request. The scene was most pathetic.\\nBoth father and son being thus bereaved, the property\\non Eighth street was sold and a house on Fifth and Scott\\nstreets was purchased. Here the Bishop died April 29, 1S5S,\\nin the seventieth year of his age.\\nThe beautiful tribute which the Kev. Dr. Norton quotes\\nfrom Bishop Hawks s address to the Convention of Missouri\\nin May, 1858, forms a most fitting conclusion to the memoir\\nof this distinguished Bishop, who conferred upon the annalist\\nthe holy rite of confirmation, and claimed her highest\\nreverence.\\nAs a subject of deep interest to the Protestant Episco-\\nj)al Church in these United States, and one which has called\\nup very tender emotions in my bosom, I may now mention\\nthe recent departure from this life of the Rt. Rev. George\\nWashington Freeman, D. D., our Missionary Bishop in the\\nSouthwest. At an advanced age, though not aged in his\\nEpiscopate, after thirteen years of hard and unceasing\\nstruggle for the Church in the desolate region assigned to\\nhim, a Christian Bishop has gone to rest. But to me, the\\ndeparted was something more than a Christian Bishop. In\\nmy native town in North Carolina, he was one of the pre-\\nceptors of my early youth, before my entrance upon collegiate\\nduties as a student of the University. Boys do not always\\nremember with tenderness the teachers who have had the\\ncharge of their youth yet Vv ill I say that the manliness, truth-", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "112 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nfulness, and consistency of this good man claimed tlie love of\\nnij boyhood that manhood, with me, only mellowed that\\nlove into softer and yet deeper hues, until j)rofessional asso-\\nciation and sympathy fully proved to me that the affections\\nof my boyhood had not been misplaced. There are those\\ncompanions of my schoolboy days still living to whose bosoms\\nthe tidings of his death will bring like feelings to my own;\\nfor his fearless honesty, his hearty sincerity, his ceaseless\\nfidelity, his Christian firmness^ and his unbending principle,\\nwere proverbial with us all. Well do I remember when T last\\nmet him at the time of our late General Convention in Phila-\\ndelphia. In company with another of his former pupils, I\\ncalled upon him. We talked of former days. Among other\\nthings he showed us the staff upon which the godly and gifted\\nEavenscroft used to lean as he walked, and which had been\\ngiven to him by one of his proselytes. What son of the\\nChurch does not reverence the name of Ravenscroft, the first\\nBishop of Xorth Carolina Yet, as we came away, we felt\\nand rejoiced that the staff was still carried by one as honest\\nand as true as Ravenscroft. Of the late good Bishop of the\\nSouthwest we may all say, he has fought a good fight, he has\\nfinished his course, he has kept the faith, henceforth there is\\nlaid up for him a crown of righteousness.\\nOn the day following his decease, the remains of Bishop\\nFreeman were deposited in the same grave with those of his\\nbeloved wife.\\nJlis son, Rev. A. F. Freeman had marble tablets placed\\nill the north and south walls of the chancel of the first Church\\nill memory of his parents, which perished with the Church.\\nIn the new Church a Prayer Desk was contributed to the\\nchancel furniture, of handsomely carved walnut, having a\\nsilver plate with this inscription\\nIn memory of Rt. Rev. George Washington Freeman,\\nconsecrated October 2(1, 1S44, died A])ril 20, 1S58.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 113\\nA. D. 1858. Four months after the death of his father,\\nJuly 8, ISSJS, Rev. A. F. Freeman was married a second time\\nto Susan E. Dunlop, daughter of James Dunlop, Esquire, of\\nPetersburg, Va.\\nPrevious to this, he had resigned the Rectorship of\\nChrist Church, Little Rock. His letter of resignation is\\nhere given\\nLittle Rock, Ark., May 3, 185S.\\nTo the ^Yardens and Vestry of Christ Church, Little Rock:\\nGentlemen Impelled by the state of my health to relin-\\nquish all Parochial duty for a season, I do hereby resign the\\nRectorship of Christ Church, to take effect from the 1st\\ninstant, which completes the hrst half of the ninth year of my\\nRectorship.\\nRespectfully,\\nANDREW F. FREEMA:^.\\nThe reply of the Wardens and Vestry was as follows\\nLittle Rock, May 5, 1858.\\nReverend and Dear Sir Having seen your letter of the\\n3d instant, addressed to the AVardens and Vestry of Christ\\nChurch, of Little Rock, the undersigned beg leave to state,\\nthat while they sincerely sympathize with you in your pres-\\nent deep affliction, and acknowledge the propriety of your\\nwithdrawing for a season from the cares and labors incident\\nto the Rectorship of said Church, yet having an abiding confi-\\ndence in your ability to perform the duties of the charge\\nadvantageously to the cause of Christ and acceptably to the\\ncongregation when the remembrance of the afflicting dispen-\\nsation shall have been softened by time and your health fully\\nrestored, which we hope may be the case at no distant period.\\n*Thp annalist is indelited to tlip daughters of AA arden John H. Crease for\\nthis letter.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "114 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nWO trust you will then find it agreeable to resume your pas-\\ntoral duties among us, and in the meantime retain your\\nposition as Rector of our Church.\\nVery truly, your friends, etc.,\\nLUKE E. BARBER,\\nJOHN II. CREASE,\\nWardens.\\nDAlsHEL RliS^GO,\\nTHOMAS CHURCHILL,\\nJOHN WASSELL,\\nH. X. CASE,\\nWM. B. WAIT,\\nS. H. HEMPSTEAD,\\nC^ F. M. POLAND,\\nROBERT CLEMENTS,\\nWM. A. CANTRELL.\\nA. D. 1862. Rev. Mr. Freeman went from here to\\nAtlanta, Ga., from which place the annalist received a letter\\nfrom him, dated April IS, 1S(]2, concluding with fhese\\nwords\\nI should like above all things to look in upon you all\\nouce more. My own father and mother lie buried in your\\ngraveyard, and my child is amongst yon. You may be sure\\nfor these reasons, if for no other, my mind often fondly and\\nsadly turns to Little Rock. You will have heard of our\\ngreat victories before this reaches you. J\\\\Iay God soon restore\\npeace to our distracted land. With my kindest regards to\\n3 our liusband and to your mother and sister, I remain,\\nYours fMithfully,\\nA. F. FREEMAN.\\nLater he went to Shell)yville, Ky., then to Vincennes,\\nLid., ;nid finally settled at Louisville, Ky., where he died in\\nJune, ISDC. rii(. daughtoi referi-ed to in this letter was\\nMary Ashley Freeman, who married the Hon. Sterlint!; R.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 115\\nCockrill, afterwards Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of\\nArkansas. Their chiklren are:\\n1. Ashley. Married Jennie, fourth daughter of Pro-\\nfessor and Mrs. James Mitchelh\\n2. Annie McDonald- Married Maxwell Coffin, presi-\\ndent of the Bank of Little Ilock.\\n3. Sterling R. CockriU. Xot married.\\n4. Etnmett, (5) Onrland, (6) Freeman, minors. One\\ninfant daughter, Mary. died. There are two grandchildren,\\nJames Mitchell Cock rill and Margaret Coffin, who died\\nearly.\\nOf the second marriage, a daughter also was born,\\nFanny Ashley, named for the first wife, who married Mr.\\nCarothers, of Bardstown, Ky.\\nMr. Freeman was a person of studious habits and\\nreserved manner, with a countenance of purity, which ob-\\ntained for him the title of St. John by his admirers. His\\nsimplicity and truth of character were often misconstrued\\ninto austerity, but with those who understood him, there was\\nabsolute confidence in the gentleness of his nature and kind-\\nness of purpose. The Church flourished greatly during his\\nincumbency.\\nThe organist at this time was Dr. Ben F. Scull, who\\nwas a musician of first rank. His choir was composed of\\nMiss Blanche Scott (afterwards Sokolski), Miss Laura\\nCrease (Lewis), Miss Eliza Tucker (Beebe), Miss Mary\\nEllen Tucker (Ives-Strong), Miss Maggie Keyburn (Peay),\\nand Miss Arbadoo Gibson (Farelly), Messrs. Wm. E. Ashley,\\nD. C. Fulton, Henry Ashley, Arlow Farmin, and John\\nWassell. Dr. Scull afterwards married Jamie, the\\nsecond of the five beautiful blisses Revburn.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "116 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nA. D. 1858. The last ofilcial act of Et. Kev. G. W,\\nFroenuni, as ^Missionary Bishop of Arkansas, occurred in\\nJannary, 1858, and is descrihed in a daily ])aper at Little\\nKock by an eyewitness, a copy of which lias been furnished\\nthe annalist, and apj^ears in the account given later in the life\\nof Bishop Winglield.*\\nA. D. 1 858. As has been related, Bishop Otey was ap-\\npointed to the office made vacant by the death of Bishop\\nFreeman, by the Senior Bishop of the Church, Thomas\\nhurch Brownell, D. D., LL. D., Bishop of Connecticut, in\\n1858. In his visitation as BishojD of Arkansas during that\\nyeai his last jjerformance of the rite of confirmation took\\nplace. Mrs. Elvira Cuiirniins Adams was the last person\\nconfirmed in the first Episcopal Church.\\nA. D. 1840-1842. She was the widow of Dr. W. W.\\nAdams, a graduate of the medical college at Amherst, Mass.,\\nto whom she was married in 1842. He was for many years\\na practicing physician in Little Hock. She was born in\\nJefferson County, Ky., near Louisville, in 1820, and came to\\nArkansas in 1840. She had four distinguished brothers,\\nWilliam and Ebenezcr, shining lights at the bar of Little\\nRock before the war; Dr. David Cummins, a distinguished\\nphysician of Louisville, Ky., and John Cummins, who lost\\nhis life Avhile fighting for the independence of Texas.\\nHer devotion to the Episcopal faith never wavered. She\\nwas a regular and generous contributor to the cause of the\\nCliurch. With refined grace of manner and well-stored\\nmind, she was at all times an ornament to society. In the\\nsouth wall of the new Church is a window, donated by her,\\nrepresenting our Lord as tlie great physician, healing the sick\\nof the palsy, groujX d with three other figures, in Loving\\n:Memory of W. W. Adams. Slie was a childless wife, but\\n\u00c2\u00bbPage 121.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 117\\nseveral nieces and nephews snrvive, who will cherish her\\nmemory as an example of rare virtue. She died December\\n31, 18i)8, and on Sunday afternoon was laid beside her hus-\\nband in Mount Holly Cemetery, sincerely mourned by a legion\\nof friends.\\nMRS. ELIZABETH-RECTOR (BEALL) HEMPSTEAD.\\nA. D. 1841-1858. Among the first accpiaintanees of the\\nwriter in Little Rock, in 1849, was Mrs. Elizabeth-Rector\\n(Beall) Hempstead, wife of General S. LI. Hempstead, who\\nlived on lower Markham street, then the fashionable residence\\nstreet of the capital. She became the wife of General Samuel\\nH. Hempstead at Little Rock in 1841, having formerly lived\\nat Bardstown, Ky. General Hempstead was distinct in the\\ngalaxy of legal lights, that has been claimed to be the most\\nbrilliant in the records of the State. He was a Vestryman of\\nthe Church in 1858, during the Rectorship of Rev. A. F. Free-\\nman. His beautiful wife was an acknowledged leader in\\nsociety, where her influence for sincerity, kindliness, loyalty\\nto her friends, and generous hospitality, which was nobly pro-\\nmoted by her husband, has been felt to this day. Later they\\npurchased and occupied the large two-story brick house, built\\nin colonial style, which crowned the hill on Walnut street\\n(Fourth) in the eastern i)art of the city. This had been\\nerected by Richard C. Byrd, president of Arkansas Senate in\\n1848-1849, and acting governor of the State in the brief inter-\\nregnum after the resignation of Governor Thomas S. Drew\\nand the inauguration of his successor, John Selden Roane.\\nHaving renovated and embellished this home. General and\\nMrs. Hempstead made it one of the most elegant and attractive\\nin the city. Not a vestige of it remains, except the site, a part\\n9\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "118 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nof which is now occupied by the Forest Grove SchooL General\\nHempstead died in 1862. His wife survived him several\\nyears, and the memory of this noble woman, whose deeds of\\ncharity were seldom known to other than her God, still lingers,\\nto embellish that of the husband, whom she so sincerely\\nmourned. To the emigrant camps, so frequently set like a\\nwhite village in the valley below her home, she appeared as\\nan angel of mercy, as she passed in and out, accompanied by\\nher servant, bearing delicacies for the sick. A family of inter-\\nesting children was born to this worthy pair Beall, Carl,\\nAlbert, Fay, Roy, Lena, Lee, and Shelby, all of whom were\\nbaptized members of the Church. Of the three brothers who\\nsurvive, Messrs. Beall, Fay, and Roy, Mr. Fay Hempstead,\\npoet and historian, is the only one married. His wife was\\n]\\\\[iss Gertrude O jSTeale, of Virginia. Their children are\\nCarrie, Samuel, Lindsay, Evelyn, Janet, Beall, and Robert\\nO ISreal. Mrs. S. H. Hempstead s niece, Miss Ada Beall Coch-\\nrane, became the wife of Rev. T. B. Lee, former Rector of\\nChrist Church, and nov\\\\ Rector of St. David s Church, Austin,\\nTexas, whose biography appears in these annals.\\nA. D. 1858. Bishop Freeman was the connecting link\\nbetween Christ Church and the JN orthern District of Cali-\\nfornia, in 1858, by the Episcopal act of ordination, of one\\nwho is affectionatelv remembered bv the old citizens.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "RT. REV. JOHN HENRY DUCACHET WINGFIELD, D. D., LL. D., D. C. L.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 119\\nET. KEY. JOH^ HEXRY DUCACHET WIXGEIELD,\\nD. D., LL. D., D. C. L.,\\nMISSIONARY BISHOP OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.\\nConsecrated December 2, 1874, in St. Paul Church,\\nPetersburg, Va. Died July 27, 1898, at his home, St. Augus-\\ntine College, Benicia, Cal.\\nOn Friday, June 3, 1808, the annalist addressed a letter\\nto Bishop Wingfield, asking for some notes of his residence in\\nLittle Rock, and his connection with Christ Church, where he\\nwas ordained Deacon by Rt. Rev. G. W. Freeman, in 1858.\\nIn the issue, August 4, 1898, of the Southern Churchman of\\nRichmond, Va., under the article liorthern California, I\\nread the announcement of his death with grieved surprise.\\nOn August 16 a letter was received from his widow, ]\\\\Irs.\\nAnne M. D. Wingfield, enclosing notices of his death, with his\\npicture and the following postal card\\nSt. Augustine College,\\nBenicia, Cal., August 11, 1898.\\nI send you by this mail a photograph and some papers,\\nand as soon as I can find cuttings from old Little Rock papers,\\nwill copy and send them, together with a letter written to you\\nby Bishop Wingfield in answer to yours. Pardon this long\\ndelay.\\nANNE M. D. W.\\nOn August 17, 1898, Mrs. Wingfield again wrote, enclos-\\ning his letter and a copy of the newspaper clipping from a\\nLittle Rock paper.*\\n*The letter and clipping from newspaper are here appended.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "120 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nSt. Augustine College^\\nBeiiicia, Cal., August 17, 1898.\\nMy Dear Mrs. Canlrell:\\nSome days ago I sent you a photograph of my husband^\\nalso newspapers containing notices of his death, which\\noccurred July 27. The enclosed letter was written by him\\nto you on June 27. I have not sent it to you because he asked\\nme to copy whatever I could find in the form of a newspaper\\nclipping, taken from an old Little Rock paper. His letter\\nmay be difficult to read, but I am very sure you will prize it,\\nand more especially as his dear body is now laid to rest in\\nBlandford Cemetei-y, at Petersburg, Va. I have a long letter\\nfrom my sister, telling me of his burial.\\nWhen he fell on the floor, stricken wdtli paralysis, on May\\n23, 1896, I made desperate efforts to help him, thinking he\\nhad fainted. I soon found that both my hands were sprained\\nand heli)less. Rheumatism settled in them, and 1 have not\\nbeen able to use them for even writing, without suffering very\\nmuch. Otherwise I should Avrite more at length and give the\\nparticulars of his last hour. His death was unexpected after\\nall his long, patient, weary time of suffering. His mind was\\nderanged for a year lacking two days, and was fully restored.\\nYou can see from his letter how his memory has clung to him.\\nHe has always said he believed his body would be restored\\nsuddenly, and for some weeks past had seemed so well and so\\nhoi)eful that I really believed he would get well. But, with-\\nout any ]iremonitary symtoms, his heart suddenly failed he\\ndid not suffer, but died quietly, like as of one going off in\\nsleep.\\nA young clei-gyiuan is a member of my household, and I\\nhave gotten him to copy the new^spaper clipping. I found it\\npasted in a blank Imok, and it was the only one from a Little\\nRnck |\u00c2\u00bb;i|)er the title was not giveu.\\nLet uie know, please, wlictliei- the ])hotogra])h and news-", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 121\\npapers reached you. And now, I must close, my dear Mrs.\\nCantrell, with all good wishes for you.\\nFaithfully yours,\\nAX^^E M. DAXDPtlDGE WI^tgFIELD.\\nopied from a newspaper clipping from a blank book\\ncontaining scraps, belonging to Bishop Wingfield. Annte\\n]\\\\r. 1). Wingfield.\\nLittle Eock, January 18, 185S.\\n]\\\\ressrs. Editors\u00e2\u0080\u0094 It l)ecomes my pleasing duty to inform\\nyou of an ordination in Arkansas. This event was of singu-\\nlar interest^ from the fact that it Avas the first in the State,\\nexcept one, and the first ordination of a Deacon belonging to\\nthis ecclesiastical jurisdiction. On the second Sunday after\\nEpiphany, the Rt. Rev. Missionary Bishop of the Southwest\\nadmitted to the order of Deacons Mr. J. H. D. Wingfield,\\nprincipal of the Ashley Institute. There were present the\\nRev. A. F. Freeman, Rector of the Parish; the Rev. Otis\\nHackett, Missionary at Ilelenaj and the Rev. W. C Stout, of\\nthe Diocese of Mississippi. The morning service was read\\nby the Rector, assisted by Mr. Stout. The ordination sermon\\nwas preached by Mr. Hackett, from Acts xxviii. 22. It was\\nan able argument in behalf of the Church, and a strong defense\\nagainst numerous popular prejudices. A painful interest\\nwas given to the occasion by the feebleness of the Bishop, who\\nwas conducted from his room, in his robes, during the sermon,\\nhis health and strength not being sufficient to sustain him\\nthrough the whole service. The venerable Bishoj), after thir-\\nteen years of hard service in this State, leaving his sick room\\nto ordain the first Deacon, is a picture to look on. Should he\\nnot have the sympathy and prayers of his brethren No one\\nout of this field of labor knows what hardness the Bishop has\\nhad to endure. And now that he is broken in health and\\nop})ressed by his heavy charge, shall he not have help He\\nhas, at no time, had laborers to fill the places that were crying\\nto him for the services of the Church. Fields have been ripe\\nto the harvest, but there was no one to reap.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "122 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nIn the afternoon the Rev. ]\\\\Ir. Wingfield, the newmade\\nDeacon, put on his harness, and after service by Mr. Hackett,\\nassisted by Mr. Stout, preached from Acts xvi. 34, a discourse\\ngiving much promise of future usefulness. Mr. Wingfield is\\nthe son of the Eev. John Wingiield, Rector of Trinity Church,\\nPortsmouth, Ya. He was admitted a candidate in Virginia,\\nand after pursuing his studies some time, was transferred to\\nthis jurisdiction. We trust that a field of great usefulness is\\nbefore him, and that he is the pioneer of the many that shall\\nfollow in his steps.\\nAt night, after service by Mr. Wingfield, Mr. Stout\\npreached from Luke xvi. 23, 24, on the certainty of future\\n|)unishments and warning men against the seductions of\\nscience, falsel}^ so-called. The day was altogether a joyful\\none to those who pray for the prosperity of our Zion in these\\nparts.\\nFrom some unaccountable reason, Arkansas has been ap-\\nparently avoided by clergy seeking locations in the Southwest.\\nThe State is healthy. (See the census report on this matter.)\\nSociety is as good as it can be without the Church. The peo-\\n])le are kind and cordial, and no one can be here long without\\nforming strong attachments. There are many places where\\nthe services of a minister are greatly desired, and a competent\\nsupport can be had. Brethren, come over and help us\\nVIATOR.\\nSt. Augustine College,\\nBenicia, Cal., Monday, June 27, 1898.\\nTo Mrs. W. A. Cantrell, care Dr. ^Y. A. Cantrell. Little Rock,\\nArk.\\n^ly Dear Old Friend Your much esteemed letter is at\\nhand aiul I take advantage of the ojjportunity to write a brief\\nre])ly. I am delighted to receive it and to know that I still\\nlive in the memory of my old Little Rock friends, who are\\nkind enough to remember mc when I have been separated\\nfrom them for fortv years. Yours is tlie first letter T have\\ni-ccoivod from tliat city since 1 left there, with the exception", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 123\\nof one from my old friend, Langstroutli, with whom I lived,\\nyon may recollect, over the hank, and one from the Rev. Mr.\\nCarnahan, when he was Rector of Christ Church. Strange\\nto say, I have never met with any people from your city except\\nGeneral Albert Pike and Bishop Pierce, both of whom were\\nso full of their -own business that I could never learn anything\\nof my old friends and acquaintances. My what a flood of\\nrecollections is let loose by your valuable letter. It seems\\nlike a dream that T ever went to Little Rock and the two years\\nI spent there were two of the happiest of my life. But to\\nbusiness You ask me foi a history of myself. I will try\\nnot to weary you.\\nA. D. 1856-1897. In 1858 I was a student of Divinity\\nin the Theological School, near Alexandria, Va., and in the\\nsummer vacation went on a trip to i^iagara Falls. From\\nsome imprudence I took a violent cold which left me with a\\nwretched cough and this was followed by slight hemorrhages.\\nJust at this juncture Colonel Wm. Ashley was looking for\\nsome one to take charge of liis school for his son Chester, called\\nthe Ashley Institute. His brother Henry, who was a class-\\nmate of mine at St. Timothy s College, near Baltimore, where\\nwe had graduated together, recommended me to the place of\\nprincipal. I accepted and took charge in October, 1856, and\\ncontinued to pursue my theological studies under the Rev.\\nAndrew Freeman. On the 16th of January, later, 1858, the\\nRev. Otis Hackett, of Helena, Ark., and the Rev. Wm. C.\\nStout, of the Diocese of Mississippi, arrived at Little Rock\\nand I was examined for Deacon s orders, and the next day\\nBishop Freeman came across the street from his residence to\\n^)rdain me. In the afternoon I preached my first sermon and\\ncontinued to assist the Rector until Jime, 1858, when I re-\\nturned to Virginia, reaching Portsmouth, Va., July 4, and\\ngoing at once into the pulpit to assist my father, the Rector\\nof Trinity Church in that city.\\nThe following summer, 1859, I passed my examinations\\nfor Priest s orders and was married to Miss Mary Imogene\\nChandler, the youngest daughter of Surgeon John Chandler,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "124 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nUnited States navy. Her sister is now the wife of Rev. Dr.\\nBeard, of Birmingham, Ala. I remained Associate Rector in\\nPortsmouth, Va., until 1863, when I fell into the hands of\\nI-]oast Butler, who condemned me to three months imprison-\\nment in the penitentiary and to wear ball and chain and sweep\\nthe streets of Norfolk, Va, As soon as I was released from\\nl)rison I went with my wife and babe to a country parish,\\nnear Bel Air, Harford County, Md. On September 17,\\n1864, the mother died of galloping consumption, leaving me\\nwith a lovely boy of four months. If he were alive to-day he\\n^vould be 35 years old, but alas! he was spared to me only to\\nl)( murdered on the streets of Benicia, July 8, 1889\\nThree of my brothers were in the army of Confederate\\nStates, one a colonel on General Blanchard s staif, the second\\non General R. E. Lee s staff as inspector general of all his\\nhospitals, and the third, my youngest brother, was a lieuten-\\nant in one of the Norfolk companies. I was enlisted in a\\ncompany but drilled only once, while I served as chaplain on\\ntwo occasions to the soldiers in camp. All the rest of the\\ntime I was not confined in prison, I held continuous services\\nin Portsmouth, Va., and in Harford County, ]\\\\Id.\\nIn January, 1866, I returned to assist my father as\\nAssociate Rector of Trinity Church, Portsmouth, Va., and\\nremained with him two years, when, in 1868, I accepted a call\\nto Petersburg, Va. In 1866 I married Miss Lee, of Bel Air,\\nl\\\\Id. We were very happy in Petersburg and St. Paul s con-\\ngregation of that city, but alas death entered my home and\\nrobbed me of my wife, in August, 1872. I received several\\ncalls while there. One in New York City, one in New Orleans,\\none in Galveston, and one in Savannah, but finally a call from\\nTrinity Church, San Prancisco, came and it seemed that I\\nmust go. So I married a widow Mrs. Anne Garland, of\\nMecklenburg County, Va., and went, on June 18, 1874, to\\ntake charge of my new field ou the Pacific Coast. In the\\nfall of that year I was elected Bishop of Northern California,\\nand in April, 1875, began my work here.\\nr ])resume you have been wondering ivhy I should write\\nto yon witli a poncil. Well, niv dear old friend, I will tell", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 125\\nyou. All my life I Lave enjoyed most excellent health in\\nfact, I fancied that nothing could break me down. My nerves\\nseemed to be made of steel, and my muscles of adament so I\\ngave myself up to hard and continuous work, until at last, on\\nthe 23d of May, 1896, I fell on the floor, stricken with\\nparalysis. My whole left side was suddenly rendered utterly\\nhelpless. I was in a condition of entire unconsciousness.\\nThe doctor said I was paralyzed from overwork. I had on\\nthat day performed my fifteen thousandth service and do\\nyou wonder that I was paralyzed I I remained unconscious\\nuntil May 21, 1897, on the morning of which day I woke from\\nmy sleep once more myself. Thus, nearly a whole year I\\nknew nothing and recognized nobody. Still my imagination\\nwas active, for I thought I was traveling all over the world\\nand reviewing my life. My wife says I talked of all my old\\nf]-iends who had lived in the various places where I had spent\\nmy early life. She says I talked of yoii and all my other\\nLittle Rock friends. It all seemed as real as though T had\\nactually talked with them in the flesh.\\nOn the 7th of June, 1897, I was brought down stairs and\\nhave ever since occupied my parlor for a chamber. I sup]iose\\nI must be getting better, but my progress has been slow-\\nscarcely perceptible. My appetite is very good, and I have\\ndischarged my doctor, retaining only the continuous services\\nof a trained nurse. ^\\\\y wife watched me with constant care,\\nand I expect to ]udl through in the course of time. It requires\\nof me much patience, l)ut I am hopeful and cheerful. Bishop\\nGraves, of the Platte, has been sent to relieve me and jierform\\nall Episcopal offices, so that my jurisdiction has not suffered\\nvery much. If the good Lord should be pleased to restore\\nme soon to health and permit me to go to Washington City\\nnext October to attend the meeting of General Convention,\\nI ll promise to go by way of Little Rock and stop off a day\\nto see my old friends. At present it looks dubious, however,\\nand I can scarcely hope to be able to accomplish my fond\\ndesire, but I am well enough to travel I ll surely make the\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Caused bv cerebral hemorrliage.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "126 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\neffort to go. My only child, my daughter, j\\\\Irs. Jas. Hamil-\\nton Scott, who lives in Hichmond, has exacted of me a promise\\nto that effect.\\nI am very sorry to learn that Christ Church was burned\\nin 1873. If you have a j)liotograph of the old Church and\\nits successor, may 1 take the liberty of asking you to send me\\na copy i My wife promises to send you copies of some clip-\\npings of newspapers which I preserved. I think they will\\ninterest you in making youi book. Bishop Pierce has a book\\ncalled the Episcopate of America. Ask him to let you\\nsee it. Bishop Perry, of loAva, got it up a few years ago, and\\nI am sure you will be pleased with it. Ask him if he has\\nanother book by Rev. Mr. Patterson called The American\\nEpiscopate, also. My wife says I must stop, but I cannot\\nclose without asking after all the people of Little Rock, in\\nw]iom you may think I am interested. Is General Churchill\\nalive and his wife If so please tell him, I still prize a fine\\nPiayer Book, which he gave me on my ordination day. I\\nM ould like to inquire after Dr. Hooper. I saw his name as\\na member of the Medical Society which met in San Francisco\\na few years ago, and intended to hunt him up, but was pre-\\nvented doing so. I wonder sometimes if my old friends are\\nstill living the Ashleys, the Waits, the Reardons, and many\\nothers T cannot recall now. Please write to me, and believe\\nme, with love to everybody that remembers me.\\nonr affectionate friend,\\nJ. H. D. WI^TGFIELD.\\nGONE TO HIS REWARD.\\nBIJ^lIOP J. n. 1). WTNGFIELD IS NO MORE THE HEAD OF TITE\\nEPISCOI AL CIirKCTI O I THE NORTIIEKX DISTRICT\\nOE CALlKOItNIA SUCCUMBS TO PARALYSIS.\\nThis coiimnmity was startled on hearing the sad news of\\nthe death of the Pa. Rev. J. H. I). Wingfield, which occurred\\nWednesday aftci-iiocn at 4:4.5 oV-lock.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH 127\\nNotwitlistandinii, the fact that he had been sick for the\\npast two years, caused by a stroke of paralysis, it was generally\\nsupposed that he was in a fair way to recovery.\\nThe death of Bishop Wingfield is a great loss to the\\nChurch, of which he has been a prominent member since 1853.\\nHe had filled the position up to the time of his death Mis-\\nsionary Bishop of the Northern District of California hav-\\ning been elected to this position in 1874. A short resume of\\nhis life will be of interest to his many friends on this Coast\\nBishop Wingfield was a native of Portsmouth, Va.,\\nwhere he was born September 24, 1833, and educated at first\\nprivately and then at St. Timothy s, Maryland, at which in-\\nstitution he was for two ve^^i S an instructor. lie was gradu-\\nated at William and Mary C^ollege in 1853. lie pursued the\\nvocation of a teacher until 1855, when he spent a year at the\\nTheological Seminary of Virginia, and then resumed his pro-\\nfessional work as the head of the Ashley Institute, in Little\\nRock, Ark. He was ordained Deacon in Christ Church,\\nLittle Rock, January 17, 1858, by Bishop Freeman, and ad-\\nvanced to the Priesthood by Bishop Johns, in the Chapel of\\nthe Virginia Seminary, July 1, 1859.\\nAfter serving as a curate to the Rector of CUirist Church,\\nLittle Rock, he assisted his venerable father, the Rev. John\\nII. Wingfield, in Trinity Church, Portsmouth, Va., and sub-\\nsequently served in Maryland at Christ Church, Rock Spring,\\nreturning to Trinity, Portsmouth, 1866. Lie served at St,\\nPaul s, Petersburg, Va., 1868, where, in 1871, he founded\\nSt. .Paul s School for Girls; and in 1874 became Rector of\\nTrinity Church, San Francisco, Cal. The College of William\\nand Mary conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity\\nin 1869, and that of Doctor of Laws in 1874.\\nThe Missionary District of jSTorthern California having\\nbeen created at the General Convention of 1874, Dr. W^ing-\\nfield was chosen as the first Bishop, and was consecrated in\\nSt. Paul s, Petersburg, Va., December 2, of the same year,\\nby Bishops Johns, Atkinson, Lay, Pinkeney, and Lyman.\\nOn removing to his Missionary See he became president\\nof the Missionary College of St. Augustine, at Benicia.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "128 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nLater lie assumed the lieadsliip of St. Mary s of the Pacific,\\nin Benicia, and also became Rector of St. Paul s Church,\\nBenicia. During a laborious and devoted administration.\\nBishop Wingfield has declined four opportunities for transla-\\ntion in 1S79, the Bishopric of Louisiana; in 1882, the As-\\nsistant Bishopric of Mississippi; and in 1886 and ]8S7, the\\nSee of Easton.\\nHis administration, under many untoward circumstances\\nimpeding his work, and with a tragic episode in which all\\nhearts were won to him in sympathy and marked respect, has\\nl een earnest, acceptable and successful. His eloquence, zeal,\\ndevotion and energy commended the Bishop and his work to\\nall men.\\nIlis })ul)lis]icd works are ^The Sacrament of Wa)-riurs\\nAnswers to the Charge of Uncharitahleness; The C liiireJi-\\nman s Gratitude; Sermons, Pastorals, etc.\\nBishop Wingfield, as a mend)er of this community, was\\nrespected and loved by all who knew him. The mombci s of\\nhis ccmgregation of St. Paul s Church worshipped liim. His\\ncharity was unbounded and his hand was always open to the\\nneedy. All who were educated under him at St. Augustine s\\nCollege will hear with regret of his demise. He always had\\na kind and hearty greeting for all, and to those who had gained\\nhis friendsliip he was a frind indeed, and his loss will be felt\\nby many who had always looked to him for advice and counsel.\\nHe leaves a widow, Anne M. H., and one daughter, Mrs.\\n]\\\\rary Scott, who now resides in Richmond, Va.\\nTHE FUNERAL.\\nThe funeral services were held on Friday at G :30 p. m.\\nat St. Paul s Episcopal Church. The remains were taken\\nfrom his late residence to the Church, where the Rt. Rev.\\nWm. Ford ^Tjcliols. H. D., Bishop of California, in the full\\nrobe of his high office, and assisted by the Rev. J. T. Shirtleff,\\nof Auburn; Rev. John Partridge, of Petaluma; Rev. James\\nCope, of Santa Rosa Rev. Chas. L. Miel, of Sacramento Rev.\\nWm. A. George, of Chico; Rev. A. A. McAllister, Chaplain\\nr. S. A\\\\, Valleio: Rov. Caleb Ben-Ham, of Napa, and Rev.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OP CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 129\\nJ. II. Waterman, of Beiiicia, met the funeral cortege at the\\nouter door of the Church and escorted it to the Chancel,\\nBishop Nichols chanting a prayer. It was a most solemn\\nand impressive scene, and one never to be forgotten by those\\nwho attended. When the words, I am the resurrection and\\nthe life, saith the Lord were spoken by Bishop Nichols there\\nwas hardly a dry eye in the congregation. The singing by\\nthe choir, which was especially chosen for the occasion, was\\nbeautiful. At the end of the burial service the remains were\\ntaken to the evening train for transmission to Petersburg, W.\\nVa., where the remains will be interred in the family plot.\\nThe Church was handsomely draped in the Royal Purple,\\ninterwoven with white carnations and roses, and branches of\\nthe triumphal palm helped to make it a beautiful and impres-\\nsive scene. The following gentlemen acted as pall bearers\\nColonel W. W. Lyman, of St. Helena W. W. Armstrong, of\\nSan Francisco; l)r. W. A. Moore, of Benicia; Judge J. M.\\nGregory, of Suisun F. W. Gabriel, of Suisun F. P. Wein-\\nmann, of Benicia. The honorary pall bearers were as follows\\nCaptain Geo. White, of Oakland W. R. Porter, of Watson-\\nville; Elliot McAllister, of Oakland; Jas. A. Nowdand, of\\nSan Francisco Geo. H. Andruss, of Oakland Major Wm. B.\\nHooper, of San Francisco Dr. T. M. Todd, of Auburn John\\nA. Walker, of Benicia; Dr. S. A. Deuel, of Benicia; Herbert\\nJ. Show^, of Sutter Creek; Dr. R. P. Smith, of Santa Rosa;.\\nP. Torelli, of Benicia.\\nThe world hath lost a man. His path he strewed\\nAVith gentle kindnesses and words of grace.\\nFrom all degrees of men his open face\\nWon high regard or earnest gratitude.\\nW^ith sturdy honesty and truth endued,\\nHis soul was w^ritten on his countenance.\\nAnd all might read him at a casual glance,\\nAs on a world-wide pedestal he stood.\\nBy unclean pelf his hand and lieart unstained.\\nStrong for ihe right, and turning not aside\\nWhene er the public weal was in debate,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "130 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nlie justitied the honor he had gained.\\nIf specks in marble envious eyes espied,\\nHis faith in God was his sure armor-plate.\\nThe will of the late Bishop Wingtield was filed for pro-\\nbate in the Superior Court of Solano County August 15. The\\nestate consists of money in the savings bank, investments and\\npromissory notes, amounting to $57,086, and real estate valued\\nat $22,420; total $79,500. The will was dated January 16,\\n1893, and the entire estate was bequeathed to the widow, Mrs.\\nAnne M. Wingfield, for her sole use during the term of her\\nnatural life, after the expiration of which it passes to the\\ndaughter, Mary Wingfield. The Pacific Churchman, San\\nFrancisco, Cab, volume xxxiv. number 111, September 1,\\n1898.\\nREV. WILLIAM C. STOUT.\\nA. D. 1824-1858. Ber. ^yilllnm C. Stout, who assisted\\nat the ordination of Mr. J. H. D. Wingfield, principal of the\\nAshley Institute, was the son of John G. and Mary Kirby\\nStout. He was born near Greenville, Tenn., February 18,\\n1824; ordained Deacon in Alexandria, Ya., by Rt. Rev.\\nLeonidas Polk, of Louisiana, in 1847 ordained Priest\\nin Faycttevillc, Ark., by Rt. Rev. Dr. G. W. Freeman, in\\nJ 848. In 1851 Mr. Stout was married to Miss Mary Jor-\\ndan, of Marshall County, Miss. In 1852-53 he officiated at\\nCalvary Church, Memphis, Tenn., and in 1858, moved to\\nLittle Reck, Ark.\\nA. D. 1860-1886. During the interval between his mar-\\nriage and that date, Mr. Stout was almost always employed in\\nthe care of his wif( s possessions, consisting of slaves and\\nli1nntnti(tns, of which she was the ori)lian heiress. The care", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 131\\nof these souls he felt to be imperative a trust from the\\nCreator, as well as a trust from his wife. She was left\\nentirely alone on the death of her father and was very de-\\npendent on her husband. But whenever an opportunity for\\nmission work offered that he could combine with his first, im-\\nmediate charge, he embraced it gladly and wrought faithfully\\nin the Master s vineyard, without compensation other than\\nthat bestowed in the blessing on his labors by the just house-\\nholder. In the summer of 18G0 Rev. Mr. Stout took charge\\nof Christ Church, as Acting Rector, during the absence of\\nBishop Lay and Dr. Wheat, the Rector in charge. He had\\nmany friends in the parish. The bulk of his wealth dis-\\nsolved during the Civil War, but in adversity as in prosperity\\nhe did not forfeit his allegiance to Him he vowed to serve.\\nHe died at Morrilton, Ark., on the 11th of December, 1S86,\\ndeeply mourned by his bereaved family and at peace with\\nGod. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Stout were:\\n1. WiUicDu Jordan Stout. Who married Miss Fannie\\nFarrish, of Jackson, Miss., and died in 1883.\\n2. James Jordan Stout. Unmarried; died in 1885.\\n3. Arthur Path Stout. Unmarried; died in 1883.\\n4. Thomas Percy Stout. ^Married Miss Ida Wendel,\\nof Brownsville, Tenn.\\n5. Wlary Irene Stout. Married Mr. G. P. Lane, of\\nMississippi. They have a son, De Lisle, and a daughter.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "132 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nREV. JOIIX T110.MAS WHEAT, D. D.\\nA. D. 1801-1867. Ber. John Thomas Wheat, D. D.,\\nwho succeeded Rev. xVndrew F. Freeman as the second Rector\\nof Christ Chnrchj was born l^ovember 15, 1801, in Washing-\\nton City, Avhere he lived until he became of age. He then re-\\nmoved to Alexandria, Va., where he studied for the ministry\\nunder Rev. Dr. Wilmer, of that city. While studying he also,\\nat the age of 21, instructed thirty youths in the higher\\nbranches of learning. Under his good instruction and dis-\\ncipline this school increased to eighty or ninety pupils, requir-\\ning two assistants. Mr. Wheat was then, in 1825, admitted to\\nthe Diaconate of the Episcopal Church by Bishop Moore, of\\nVirginia, in Christ Churchy Alexandria, and in 182(3 he was\\nordained Presbyter by Bishop Kemp, of Maryland, in St.\\nPaul s Church, Baltimore. The next year he took charge\\nof a Church in Wheeling, Va. From 1835 to 1838 he was\\nRector of St. PauFs Church, Xew Orleans, La. In 1839-49\\nhe was Rector of Christ (Jhurch in Xashville, Tenn., leaving\\nthere to accept the chair of professor of logic in the University\\nof Xorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he remained until\\n1859. He then became Rector of Christ Church, Little Rock,\\nArk. During the war, in 1863, while cut off by the fall of\\nVicksburg, from his parish in Little Rock, he was chaplain m\\nthe Confederate army. From July, 1867, until he retired\\nfrom active service in the ministry he was Rector of the Monu-\\nmental Church of St. Lazarus, at Memphis, Tenn., which he\\nresigned after nearly half a century of clerical labor. The\\nfarewell services, on his taking leave of his congregation, were\\nvery impressive. Previous to the opening of the regular ser-\\nvices. Dr. Carmicliel, of a iieioh])orin Church, nuide an", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "REV. JOHN THOMAS WHEAT, D. D.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 133\\naddress, in which he paid a just tribute to Dr. Wheat s high\\nstanding and abilities, showing the effect of his eloquence\\nupon his hearers. The MempJiis Appeal in quoting from\\nthe address, says\\nSixteen years ago, when the speaker was a young lawyer\\nin Fredericksburg, Va., Dr. Wheat delivered an address to\\nthe young men of that town. The fervid eloquence, the lofty\\npiety of the minister, and the great and glorious truths he re-\\nvealed that day were not without their effect upon everyone\\nthere, and at once decided him to resolve to study for the min-\\nistry. This resolve was carried into effect, and it was owing\\nto the earnest efforts of Dr. Wheat that day that he, the\\nspeaker, became a minister. His gratitude, his ai: precia-\\ntion for the good man who had induced him to espouse the\\ncause of the Lord Avcre deep and lasting.\\nA. D. 1838-1866. Besides his local clerical labors. Dr.\\nWheat has filled the honorable position of Delegate to the\\nGeneral Convention of the Episcopal Church, during the\\ntriennial meetings of 1838, 1841, 1844, 1847, 18.68, and 1871.\\nIn 1846 Dr. Wlieat received the degree of D. D. from the\\nUniversity of Xasliville, Tenn. In 1866 he published a\\nPreparation for the Holy Communion. On March 10,\\n1825, in the city of Alexandria, Ya., Dr. Wheat married\\nSelina Blair Patten Roberdeau. In 1875 he celebrated his\\ngolden wedding. For that occasion he wrote and published\\na poem, dedicated to his wife, entitled Reminiscences of My\\nPrc-Nuptial Life, containing the mention of many interest-\\ning incidents. Their children were:\\nA. D. 1826-1862. l. Chatham Eohercleau. Born in\\nAlexandria, Va., April 9, 1826. He fought under General\\nWinfield Scott in the IMexican War. After peace was de-\\nclared, fought under j\\\\fexican generals for the State against\\nthe Church, going twice into the City of Mexico with a con-", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "134 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nquering army; first with General Scott, and afterwards w ith\\nGeneral Alvarez, He went to the rescue of General Walker\\nin Central America tried to liberate the Cubans under Lopez\\nwent to offer his sword to Garibaldi in Italy, and was there\\nstyled the Murat of America/ because of his fearlessness on\\nthe battlefield; returned to America at the beginning of the\\nCivil War and commanded the celebrated Louisiana Tiger\\nRifles. He fell at the head of his command while carrying\\nthe colors that had five times been shot down in almost as\\nmany minutes, at the battle of Gaines s Mill, June 27, 1862.\\nA. D. 1827-1872. 2. Sdina Patten. Born June 12,\\n1827. Married Dr. John Seay, of jSTashville, Tenn. Died\\nNovember S, 1872.\\nA. D. 1830-1862. -3. John Thomas. Born Decem-\\nber S, 1830. Was killed in the Civil War at the battle of\\nShiloh, Tenn., April 6, 1862.\\nA. D. 1833-1853. 4. Josephine May. Born Febru-\\nary 22, 1833. Married Hon. Frances E. Shober, secretary\\nof United States Senate, July 11, 1853.\\n5. Reginald Heher. Born January 5, 1837. Died\\nJune 7, 1839.\\nA. D. 1841. 6. Leonidas Polh. Born May 5, 1841.\\nA. D. 1888-1896. Dr. Wheat lived to be 87 years old,\\nspending the last few years of his life among his children. He\\ntntercd into the Life Eternal February 2, 1888, from the\\nh(\u00c2\u00bbine of his iimch hn-ed granddaughter, Mrs. May Shober\\nBoyden, at Salisbury, N. C, ministered to in his last illness\\nby his faithful and devoted wife, his daughter, Josephine\\n!May, his granddaughter, May, and her husband Archibald\\nBoyden. He was buried from St. Luke s Church, Salis-\\nbury, X. C, Sundav morning, Februarv 5, and interred in", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 135\\nthe old English graveyard near the Church. Dr. Wlieat s\\nold parishioners of St. Lazarus, Memphis, sent, as a memorial\\nto their beloved pastor, a communion service of gold, enclosed\\nin a brass bound oak casket, to St. Luke s Church, Salisbury.\\nSt. Mark s Church, Berkley, Cal., which he established while\\nsojourning there in 1876, has placed on the altar a handsome\\nbrass cross and vases as a memorial to the founder of the\\nparish. All Saints Church, Concord, N. C, erected a hand-\\nsome chancel window to Dr. Wheat, who organized that parish\\nand was the first Rector. This was his last work on earth.\\nliis wife survived him nearly ten years. She fell asleep\\non the eve of Christmas, 1896, in the ninety-second year of\\nher life, and was buried from St. Luke s Church, Salisbury,\\nN. C, and laid to rest by the side of her beloved husband,\\nthere to await the resurrection morn.\\nThe Richmond Times (Virginia), of date December 2,\\n1896, published the appended special dispatch:\\nMRS. SELINA ROBERDEAU WHEAT.\\nSALISBURY, K C, December 20,.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 {Special)\\nMrs. Selina Roberdeau Wheat died night before last and was\\nburied here to-day by the side of her husband, from St. Luke s\\nEpiscopal Church. She was the daughter of General Rober-\\ndeau, of Revolutionary War fame, and was born in Alexan-\\ndria, Va., in 1805, and married Rev. John Thomas Wheat in\\n1825. She was the mother of Ma.|or Roberdeau Wheat, of\\nthe Louisiana Tigers; Captain John Thomas Wheat, Mrs.\\nSelina Seay, of Nashville; Professor Leo Wheat, and Mrs.\\nColonel Shober, of this city, at whose home Mrs. Wheat died.\\nShe was a noble and illustrious woman and lived an\\nhonored and useful life of over ninety-one years. It is said\\nher husband was the first child born in the city of Washing-\\nton, D. C, after its settlement, the family on Iwth sides lioing\\nof illustrious blood.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "136 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nAs an unconscious witness to the unselfish heart and\\nChristian graces of this remarkable woman, the annalist feels\\nit a jjrivilege to transcribe one of Mrs. Wheat s letters taken\\nfrom a treasured collection, premising that Mrs. Wheat had\\nknown her correspondent in childhood in Nashville, Tenn.\\nThe letter was addressed to her at Grape Leaf plantation,\\nwhere she was visiting her mother and sister, and brother,\\nColonel John M. Harrell:\\nLittle Kock, Ark., February 27, 1860.\\nMrs. Dr. CanireU\\nMy Dear Young Friend You are doubtless wondering\\nwhy I have not replied to your very kind letter, which came\\nwhile I was nursing a very sore eye but I was thinking you\\nwould be the gainer, as the doctor fully intended replying for\\nme. He has been taking care of my correspondence, prin-\\ncipally to our children, he confesses to the utter neglect of\\nall others. So I come to assure you that we, neither of us,\\nhave forgotten you or the doctor indeed, we begin to look for\\nyou soon, for we have missed you terribly. Say to the doctor,\\nI have been a j^atient of Dr. Peyton, and have taken my first\\ndose of quinine, which I had dreaded so much. I seldom\\ngo near your shutup house without wishing you were there.\\nT ever miss your sweet children, with their answering notes\\n\u00c2\u00bbf little drops of water. Will you not come back in time\\nfor the Easter festival It is then the rewards are to be\\ngiven. I do hope Lilly and May will be in the ranks. They\\ndo deserve their prizes. I will send them the Easter hymn\\nand you will teach it to them. Bishop Lay sent it to the\\nSunday School. He was so delighted with our little Chris-\\ntians. I was truly sorry I did not see your mother at her\\nlate visit. Wo exchanged calls without seeing each other. I\\nhave met your brother at several of the bridal parties. T hope\\nyon saw tlie account of the dual wedding which took place in", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 137\\nour Churcli.* ^N^ever was there so beautiful a tableau iu\\nour Church, and seldom could you find so quiet and well-\\nbehaved an audience. You might have heard a pin fall.\\nYet the crowd filled the aisles to the very horns of the altar,\\nNo levity, no whispering, and not a movement was made to\\nleave till the wedded pairs were out. The night was lovely,\\nand the entrance street filled, as was the Church, to its utmost\\ncapacity. Judge Rector is to take a pew in our Church,\\nwhich he says, his wife shall ahvays attend if she chooses.\\nBy the way, there is such a demand for pews that I have\\ngiven up mine to Mrs. Bertrand, who needed two and could\\nnot get one near to the one she still retains. The doctor is\\nbeautifying the Churchyard, which, you know, needed atten-\\ntion. You wall find us with imj^erial ways jLeo has not\\nyet come he was taken possession of by my friends in Rich-\\nmond, who write if you succeed in keeping Leo, you will\\nhave to come for him. My daughter Selina:|: has been in\\ngreat trouble. Her loveliest child, 10 years old, has been laid in\\nthe tomb, or rather has gone to live in heaven, which is\\nher more devout expression. I was too unwell to go to her,\\nand she is hoping to see me in the spring. We talk of visit-\\ning New Orleans after Easter, when Mr. Stout will l)e at\\nhome to take the doctor s place, who will need some rest about\\nthat time.\\nPlease excuse my poor return for your most kind letter\\nand be assured I have not willingly neglected you. The\\ndoctor has a great antipathy, as most gentlemen have, to\\nletters, except on business, wdiicli have accumulated on him\\nsince the Bishop s visit indeed, it seems that much of the duty\\nof the Episcopate, that is not wholly official, has to devolve\\non the oldest Presbyter. The Bishop is to live at Eort\\n*Jndg e Henry M. Rect ^r, widower, afterwards Governor of Arkansas, was mar-\\nried to Miss Ernestine Linde, and Major Brown to Mrs. Sallie Trapnall, widow, nee\\nFaulkner, by the same marriage service.\\ntLeonidas Polk Wheat, youngest child of Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Wheat, and organist\\nof Christ Church.\\ntMrs. John Seay.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "138 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nSmith. The secretary of war has given him permission to\\noccupy a part of the public building. He is to remove his\\nfamily in May.\\nWith love to Dr. Cantrell and a kiss to the children, I am\\nYours truly,\\nSELINA WHEAT.\\nA. D. 1859-1886. Dr. Wheat s first object, when he\\ntook charge of Christ Church as Rector, was to feed the\\nlambs. The Sunday School was the field where he sowed\\ngood seed, looking for the harvest in the distant future. The\\nchildren were gathered together, and before his encouraging\\neye and winning courtliness of manner, shyness vanished and\\nenthusiasm spread through the ranks. A sketch of the first\\nEaster festival held under his direction in 1860, referred to\\nin the letter quoted in the Arlcansas Gazette of Wednesday,\\nApril 7, 1886, twenty-six years afterwards, was printed as a\\nreminiscence, from which the subjoined extract is taken\\n^The Church, which was much enlarged and improved\\nunder the direction of the former Rector, Rev. A. F. Free-\\nman, has been further embellished by the good taste of the\\npresent Rector, Dr. J. T. Wheat. The Churchyard, spacious,\\ngrassy and shaded by fine trees, has been enclosed with a\\nfence of appropriate design, paved from the gate to the two\\nentrances and planted with evergreens on each side of the\\nChurch. Directly in front of the tower (which had been\\nadded by Rev. A. F. Freeman), and overlooking it, is a\\nstately oak, whose branches extend in kindly guardianship,\\nforming a group more striking and pleasing than the finest\\nsculpture; and the whole, colored Avith a springday sun, the\\ngreen foliage of the trees and the brighter green of the turf,\\nand animated with groups of worshippers entering the holy\\ntemple, presented a scene worthy of poet s pen and painter s\\nbrush. A flight of steps in the tower led to the gallery of\\nthe Church, Avlierc the pipe organ and choir were stationed.\\n^\\\\r. Leo P. Wheat, son of the Rector, was the organist. His", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 139\\nie])utation as a skilled musician is a public one. On this\\nEaster Sunday his voluntary was a transport of harmony,\\nwhich merged into the anthem The Lord is Risen To-Day^\\nsung triumphantly by his well trained choir,* as the prelude\\nto the morning service. This was conducted by Rev. Dr.\\nWheat, assisted by Rev. Wm. C. Stout. The sermon, on the\\ntext from Colossians iii. 1-3, was a continuation of a series\\ndelivered during Lent, and was one of the ablest efforts of\\nthe gifted Rector. It has not been quite a year since the con-\\ngregation welcomed him, and, at the altar, at the bedside of\\nthe sick and dying, in his constant round of parochial visits\\namong the rich and poor, his daily life and conversation have\\nbeen so effective, that, like sheep straying from the fold, the\\nmembers have assembled at his call, and through green past-\\ntures and by still waters have been refreshed at his hands, as\\nthe Master enjoined. The evening service, like that of the\\nmorning, was largely attended, and the series of sermons was\\nconcluded with one on the text, I John iii. 2, 3.\\nOn Easter ]\\\\Ionday a parish festival was held at the\\nChurch. After morning prayer was said, the Rector made\\nan address on the spiritual condition of the parish and the\\nbest means of promoting its prosperity. The secretary read\\nhis report of the finances. An interesting memoir of the parish\\nwas then read and commented upon^ after which the new\\nVestry was chosen. The members of the Vestry used the\\noccasion for the presentation of a testimonial from the con-\\ngregation to the Rev. W. C. Stout in appreciation of his ser-\\nvices in the pai-ish as acting Rector. On Monday evening\\nwas celebrated the festival of the Sunday School. This sup-\\nplied the crowning evidence of the Rector s zeal and success.\\nUnder his administration, supported by the superintendent,\\n^[r. jMatthews, a gentleman of rare culture and Christian ex-\\ncellence, the original little band of fifteen or twenty scholars\\nhas increased to ninety, and thirteen teachers now perform\\nthe duty which formerly fell to two or three, oftener to one\\nMrs. Luke E. Barber. The celebration in the evening Avill\\n*It is a subject for re^et that the names of those who formed this splendid choir\\ncannot be procured.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "140 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nlong be remembered bj our citizens. It was a brilliant and\\nlovely scene without btemish, complete and graceful in every\\ndetail. The scholars, with their teachers, occupied the front\\npews, the girls on the right, the boys on the left. The bap-\\ntismal font (the gift of Mrs. Frederick W. Trapnall) was\\ntilled and wreathed with flowers. The Chancel platform was\\nunoccupied except at the extreme right, where a small table\\nsupported a collection of premium books handsomely bound.\\nJS^ear the table sat Mr. Matthews, the superintendent of the\\nSunday School, and C^olonel Thompson, president of St.\\nJohn s College, the teacher of the young men s Bible class.\\nThe altar was lighted brilliantly and embellished with vases\\nof flowers. Dr. Wheat, in vestments, was seated on the\\nnorth side of the altar, the Rev. Mr. Stout on the south side.\\nNear the Chancel at the head of the south aisle was placed a\\nparlor organ. Mr. Leo Wheat presided, and to the magic\\ninspiration of his strains must be attributed the especial\\ncharm of the exercises. These were opened with the usual\\noffices of devotion of the Sunday School, conducted by the\\nRector. A hynm, Glory to the Father Give, was sung by\\nthe school. Mr. Matthews then delivered an able address to\\nthe })arents. Tlie hymn, Savior, Who Thy Flock Art Feed-\\ning, led by the marvellously sweet voice of IMrs. Thompson,\\nfollowed this. The rules were then given in order, first by a\\nlittle girl of 5 years, who stood on the Chancel floor, and re-\\ncited them without any prompting, and then by the classes\\nwho recited in concert after her. These were\\n1. Regular and punctual attendance.\\n2. Cleanliness of person and apparel.\\n3. Careful preparation of lessons.\\n4. Quiet and order in and about the Church.\\n5. Kindness and courtesy to each other.\\n6. Cordial respect to teachers.\\nProni])t and cliecrful obedience.\\n8. Strict trutlifulness in all things,\\nn. A jtlace for cverytliing, and everything in its place.\\n10. A time for all things, and everything at the proper\\ntime.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 141\\n11. Business for everybody, and everybody to mind his\\nown business.\\nAfter this the Rector catechised the children. The\\nhymn, Youth, When Devoted to the Lord, was then sung,\\nafter which the chisses were called in succession for their\\nEaster offerings. These w^ere voluntary, had been collected\\nin the previous half year and had been kept separate by the\\nteachers to be devoted at Easter to missions in the Diocese\\nof Arkansas.\\nThe classes responded to their names, descriptive of the\\nChristian life, wdiich were\\n1. Angels Charge (little tots).\\n2. Lambs of the Good Shepherd.\\n3. Buds of Promise.\\n4. Crown Jewels.\\n5. Early Seekers.\\n6. Lleirs of the Kingdom.\\n7. Children in the Temple.\\n8. Little Missionaries.\\n9. Christian Brotherhood.\\n10. Young Pilgrims.\\n11. Soldiers of Christ.\\n12. Heavenly Racers.\\nEach class, as it was called, advanced in succession, step-\\nping to the music, the tallest going first, bearing a banner of\\nwhite silk with a cross of gold painted on it. As each class\\napproached the Chancel rail, one of the number presented the\\noffering in a basket of flowers or in the heart of a bouquet,\\nwhich was received by the Rector, who announced the amount\\nand then placed it on the altar. The circle then turned\\ntowai d the audience, one member recited a few^ selected verses\\nof Scripture appropriate to the class title, another a hymn\\nand then all returned to their seats. When all the classes had\\nperformed a similar exercise, the hymn, Little Drops of\\nWater, was sung with great unction. Colonel Thompson\\nthen made an address to the children, in which he introduced\\nan original, instructive, and most beautiful alleoorv. Then", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "142 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nwas Sling tlic most aniiiiating of all the hymns, Awake My\\nSoul, Stretch Every Xerve.\\nThe premiums were next awarded, the teachers having\\ngiven previously the names of those pupils who had received\\nthe greatest number of merit cards. An address to the teach-\\ners was then made by Kev. W. C. Stout. His commendations\\nmust have gratified both teachers and scholars, and it is hoped\\nthat hi? inspiring appeal may be long remembered to incite\\nthem to rencAved effort. An Easter hymn, sent to the chil-\\ndren by our good Bishop Lay, concluded the exercises.\\nDr. Wheat pronounced the benediction, and from many\\nhearts went up the silent prayer, God bless the Church God\\nbless the clergy.\\nA. D. 1886. This Reminiscence was sent to Dr.\\nV. heat, wliich he acknowledged most cordially at Barrytown,\\nN y., April 13, ISSG, referring to the little tots who had\\nbecome matrons, in conclusion\\nHow very glad I should be to see them now! Your\\ngood husband and your children all God bless them And\\n1 should like mucli to see your new Church and worship with\\nyou in it. But, wife and I are too old (80| and S4^) to think\\nof journeying so far again indeed,\\nI do not ask to see\\nThe distant scene: one step enough for me.\\nI wish you would write me a real gossiping letter about\\nyou all, and my old beloved friends and parishioners gen-\\nerally. Wife sends you the accompanying wedding song,\\nAvith her kindest regards.\\nT^nto God s most gracious favor and protection I com-\\nmit you all, and am, my dear daughter,\\nYours truly,\\nJ. T. WHEAT.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 143\\nEPITHALAMIUM TO MY DEAR WIFE\\nON THE SIXTIETH ANNIVEKSAKY OF OUK WEDDING DAY,\\nMARCH 10, 1885.\\nWould you know, dear wife, the meaning\\nOf the singular gradation\\nIII the value of the Weddings\\nWood, Tin, Silver, Golden, Diamond\\nWhich, by wide-prevailing custom.\\nAre to Married Life accorded\\nT is the sole consideration\\nOf the rareness of the fortune\\nAVhich befalls the Happy Couple\\nShould both lives bo long continued.\\nHalf a century Golden Weddings\\nAre so distant and uncertain\\nThat the cunning Twenty-fivers,\\nUnder plea of Carpe diem,\\nIntroduced the Silver Wedding,\\nNot so rare, therefore, less costly.\\nGoing down from Tin to Wooden,\\nAs the years were less in number,\\nLess the value of the wedding.\\nWhen we had, dear Wife, our Golden,\\nFar too distant and too precious\\nFor our fondest hopes aspiring\\nSeem d the grand climact ric Diamond.\\nScientists, you know, have told us\\nThat the basis of the diamond\\nIs, in truth, but common charcoal.\\nCould there be a greater contrast\\nSee this black, coarse, soiling substance\\nSee the diamond pure and brilliant,\\nSo between ourselves, beloved,\\nVile and miserable sinners.\\nAnd the Christ-like saints in Heaven\\nMade illustrious Avith His glory,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "144 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nStill more striking is the contrast.\\nOil what power in earth or heaven\\nCan effect such wondrous changes\\nOnly that of the Almighty.\\njSTot with human observatioUj\\nBut in secrecy and silence,\\nThis mysterious new creation.\\nAs in Matter, so in Spirit,\\nOut of death the new life issues.\\nThat of matter, of course, painless\\nOurs by sanctified affliction.\\nAnd most gladly should we suffer\\nIf thereby we may attain to\\nMeetness for the bliss of Heaven,\\nHoly, pure, and undetiled,\\nChrist-like, sharing in His glory.\\nWelcome then the fiery furnace,\\nIf from dross it purify us.\\nWelcome wheel of lapidary\\nWith unsparing, sharp abrasion,\\nIf it make the gem more lustrous.\\nWelcome knife, if skillful pruning\\nGive the vine still richer clusters.\\nWelcome the strong hand uprooting\\nFrom its habitat congenial.\\nKeed, so delicate and slender,\\nStripping it of grace and beauty,\\nMutilating, scarring, notching,\\nPressing out its very life-] ith.\\nIf, thereby, it may be fitted\\nTo breathe strains of heavenly music,\\nWhen the anguish of the singer\\nGives the song its touching pathos.\\nAs our Heavenly Fsither orders\\nAll things lovingly and wisely.\\nThere must be a special fitness\\nIn His various disj ensations", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIbT CHURCH PARISH. 145\\nTo work out our soul s salvation\\nThis, dear Wife, has been His purpose\\nIn our married life s extension.\\nLet us be devoutly thankful\\nAnd go forward with fresh courage\\nHe that hath begun the good work\\nWill assuredly complete it.\\nBut the question now arises\\nYears of Married Life how many\\nMust precede the Diamond Wedding?\\nSome say Seventy-live, some Sixty,\\nWe have reached this latter period,\\nBut as we could not ask diamonds\\nE en from those who love us dearlv,\\nWhile, alas Ave nmst confess it.\\nAll our charcoal s not transmuted\\nThat, in Paradise, we hope for.\\nTill then we must be contented\\nWith our Sixty years attainment.\\nWhat, dear Wife, shall be its symbol\\nPearl, I think, will be a2:)propriate\\nBoth have had a like formation.\\nLet us note the wondrtius process.\\nA grain of sand, or other substance\\nForeign to it, uncongenial,\\nFinds a lodgment in the Oyster,\\nSorely hurts its sens tive body,\\nAnd the sufferer has no power\\nTo expel the mischief-maker.\\nBut, behold a nuirv lous instinct\\nCovers over the intruder\\nWith a formative secretion\\nThat by slow degrees gives roundness\\nTo the sharp, aggressive angles\\nMoulds it to a sphere, whose surface,\\nFinished to a polished smoothness,\\nCauses no more irritation.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "146 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nMeekly, patiently accepting\\nThe inevitable presence\\nAs a part of its existence,\\nAnd when dying, as its life-work,\\nYields a perfect Gem, all lovely\\nWith the sky-tint s soft reflections\\nLovelier far beyond the suif ring,\\nAnd of value, too, transcending\\nThe great cost of its production.\\nSo, dear Wife, it sometimes happens\\nThat in Married Life, the sweetest,\\nThere unfortunately enters\\nSome discordant, most unwelcome,\\nForeign element of suff ring\\nAnd unrest what the Apostle\\nCalls a thorn from which he vainly\\nPrayed the Lord to be delivered,\\nOr perhaps it is a burden\\nOr a cross which must he carried.\\nSome thus dealt with chafe against it,\\nTill their feelings lacerated\\nBy its hard and cruel edges\\nBecome morbid and embittered,\\nAnd thus make its very presence\\nA perpetual pain and poison.\\nOthers, wisely recognizing\\nThe high purpose for which trials\\nAnd afflictions are appointed\\nIn the training of God s children,\\n]\\\\reekly take this dispensation\\nThough it press them hard and sharply.\\nStill they wear it with sweet patience,\\n]\\\\raking it thei-eliy more easy.\\nDay-by-day, to bear the burden,\\nTill at length, tis seen to issue\\nTn their spiritual improvement\\nAnd the growth of Christian G,races.\\nTims the character s developed.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 147\\nAnd tlirough suft riiig is made perfect\\nFully rounded out and radiant\\nWith the beauty of Christ-likeness\\nAs the Dew-drop with the Sunbeam.\\nI^ote, dear Wife, that I m referring\\nIn these diif rent illustrations\\nISTot to you nor me exclusive,\\nBut to our Married Life, distinctly,\\nAnd for that I may claim fairly\\nThat these Sixty years experience\\nHas a Union formed between us\\nI^either giv n nor tak n in Marriage\\nBut in nature like the Angels\\nWhich our Blessed Lord has promised,\\nWhere no flesh nor blood can enter\\nWith earth s appetites and passions.\\nThis new life the old transfigured\\nPearl-like, full-orb d, radiant, heavenly.\\nIs to us, of great price, goodly,\\n(In the Gospel nomenclature,)\\nTherefore, with devout thanksgiving.\\nWe will take the cup of Blessing,\\nWith glad hearts and voices singing,\\nHere we ll raise our Ebenezer\\nHitherto the Lord has help d us\\nSurely all our past experience\\nShould with Hope and Trust inspire us\\nThat His grace will be sufficient\\nIn the future. Let us, therefore,\\nKeep the feast of our Pearl wedding,\\nPlighting troth, and vows renewing.\\nIn the strength of an affection\\nHolier, stronger, than our First-love\\nWhat has here this blest beginning\\nMust endure in heaven forever.\\nJ. T. WHEAT.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "148 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nFollowing this there caiiic^ some months afterwards, a\\nbrief note from the subject of the pearl wedding poem, accom-\\npanying a second poem, from Salisbury, Ji. C.\\nMrs. Dr. CantreJl\\nDear Ellen I hope 1 replied to yours. J\\nhave been nursing my dear husband for three months, and he\\nhas, only within a iew weeks been convalescing, after a severe\\nattack of pneumonia. I am thankful to say he is much\\nbetter. I send you my lovely poem, yet hoping you saw the\\none I sent to Major Adams, as I hoped. Do write me soon\\nand tell me of your dear self and family also.\\nLove to all you love, from your old Pastor and his wife,\\nSELINA WHEAT.\\nDo tell me of Mrs. Churchill does she live in Little\\nRock Mr. Crease hopes still to visit your city.\\n(This was Mr. Orlando Crease, of w^honi Mrs. Wheat\\nhad written in a former letter.)\\nThe wedding song is here given\\nTRIBUTAEY VERSES TO MY DEAR WIFE\\nON THE EIGHTY-FIRST ANXIVERSARY OF HER BIRTHDAY,\\nSEPTE]\\\\[BER 12, 1886.\\nEighty-one years, you have numbered\\nIn Life s pilgrimage, my darling\\nYet you keep your youthful spirits\\nWhat a marvel of endurance\\nIn your character s formation\\nMany elements, and varied,\\nAre harmoniously blended.\\nFrance and Scotland, severally.\\nHuguenot and Cath lic mingling;\\nMassachusetts and Virginia,\\nThrift and Chiv lry, met together,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 149\\nNorth and South have kissed each other.\\nWhat a charming combination\\nUseful and the Ornamental\\nFor the Wife of a poor Parson\\nEnergetic, sympathizing\\nWith whatever is occurring\\nAll you read of in the papers,\\nAll you hear of friends and kinsfolk.\\nKeeping up a correspondence\\nWith them all their common center\\nBinding scattered ones together;\\nAlways some sage plan contriving,\\nOften Airy-Castles building,\\nChiefly for the good of others.\\nOld Virginny never tire\\nYour endeavor to help others\\nShows itself on all occasions.\\nAnd embraces all creation\\nDid kind Providence permit it,\\nYou would outvie Queen Victoria\\nEmpress of more num rous subjects.\\nAnd far greater benefactions.\\nMy good wife is truly pious\\nA Churchwoman, staunch and zealous.\\nYet, in Christian love, embraces\\nAll who, being God s dear children.\\nShow it by their Christ-like spirit\\nBy Avhatever name distinguished.\\nDiligently reads her Bible,\\nAnd her favorite Bogatsky\\nLoves to go to Church, whatever\\nSpecial service or occasion\\n]\\\\ray call worshippers together\\nLikes to roam through Cemeteries,\\nTracing on old, time-worn tomb-stones,\\nQuaint devices and inscriptions.\\nShe s a lineal descendant.\\nAs, en hadinage, I tell her,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "150 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nOf that cjiieer man in Scott s novel,\\nOld Mortality, the Sculptor.\\nWife s most striking characteristic\\nIs her faithful, ardent, clinging\\nTo her family and kinsfolk,\\nWhether gone to Paradise, or\\nStill living all are bound up\\nIn her heart of hearts, forever.\\nShe s the wonderfulest woman,\\nOf whom I have an}- knowledge\\nSui gen vis, no one like her\\nCalmly brooding, as the Halcyon,\\nIn the smiling, summer weather\\nBuoyant as the Petrel, riding\\nOn the crest of stormy billows.\\nWife s resiliency s a blessing\\nFor which I am very thankful.\\nWhat if she had been despondent\\nIn the dark days of affliction\\nOr an invalid, requiring\\nConstant care, and whim-indulgence\\nOh, how diff rent my experience\\nSaved from cares injiumerable,\\nBy a Helpmeet, self-reliant.\\nBent on all domestic duties,\\nAnd yet thoughtful of her neighbors\\nSeeking out the poor and needy.\\nHelping them in want or sickness,\\nNot alone with worldly comforts.\\nBut with sjuritual consolations.\\nYes, dear Wife, I sing your virtues\\nOthers, if they will, may fault you\\nBut your husband, quoting Shakespeare,\\nTells you, In your commendation\\nI am fed a perfect Love Feast\\nLike that of the early Christians.\\nPaying you my Annual Tribute\\nOr connneniorative verses.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 151\\nI would give congratulations,\\nNot in customary phrases,\\nWishing this day s oft recurrence\\nThus implying that a limit\\nMay be put to your existence,\\nWhen Earth s Birthdays shall have ended.\\nDear Wife, I would have you, rather,\\nRest on Christ s distinct assurance,\\nHe that liveth and believeth\\nMe, shall never die. Now, dearest,\\nYou are liting and believing\\nIn Christ, only, for Salvation,\\nTherefore, You shall live forever!\\nKnow God, and His Son Christ Jesus\\nThis, He says, is Life Eternal.\\nCannot we, without presumption,\\nSay we know our God and Saviour\\nThough it be as little children\\nReally know an earthly parent\\nLittle do they know about him\\nWhence he came, or what his business\\nBut they know full well his person\\nFearless run each day to meet him\\nClimb into his arms exulting;\\nGive and take love s fond caresses;\\nTell him all their joys and sorrows;\\nAll their numerous wants and wishes;\\nOft olfending, oft repenting,\\nLiving in a state of pardon;\\nNever for a moment doubting\\nThat he loves them, and will, always.\\nWho s your father asks a stranger,\\nDon t you know him? says the children,\\nWond ring much at such a question\\nWhy, ive know him just as easy!\\nJust as easy, does the Christian\\nKnow and love his Heavenl}^ Father.\\nConstant intercourse assures us", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "152 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nThat He is, and the Eewarder\\nOf all those that seek Him, truly,\\nGiving thanks, and praying, always\\nWith all prayer and supplication,\\nIn the Sjiirit, and communing\\nWith the ever-present Saviour,\\nA peculiar freshness, vigor.\\nAnd reality, is given\\nTo the new life we have in Him:\\nAnd His face, divinely tender,\\nSeems, almost, an open vision.\\nKot from overwrought excitement,\\nOr fanatical delusion,\\nAlways short-lived, and unreal\\nBut in constant, close comnmnion,\\nIn the stillness of the closet\\nAnd, sometimes, beneath the shadow\\nOf some overwhelming Sorrow,\\nWhich has wrought its special purpose,\\nChastened and subdued the spirit,\\nTill, not only dwelling ^vith Him,\\nBut completely hiding in Him,\\nWith a sense, unutterable.\\nOf security forever\\nFaith and Hope and Love made perfect.\\nMultitudes of simple Christians,\\nIgnorant of Controversy,\\nThrough the witness of God s Spirit,\\nIn their own hearts, have discovered\\nThat, in truth, the Blessed Bible\\nIs the voice of God, there speaking\\nIn this Age of Skepticism.\\nFaith grows strong by Contemplation,\\nNot of abstract truth, or dogma.\\nBut of Christ, Himself, in Person\\nAll that He has done and suffered;\\nDeath and Hell for us o ercoming;\\nAt His Father s riirht hand seated.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 153\\nIn the fulness of His power,\\nBringing many souls to Glorj.\\nPresently, another Birthday\\nBoth of us, dear Wife, will welcome\\nWhen we know not, neither ivhich, first,\\nOr, if God please, both together\\nHis good pleasure we re awaiting.\\nThe same Wisdom, Power, and Goodness,\\nWhich, when we were born, the First time,\\nMade provision for our coming\\nInto a new mode of being.\\nWill do so, at our next Birthday,\\nWhat more absolutely helpless\\nThan the newborn, human infant\\nLeft uncared for, it would perish.\\nBut the Merciful Creator\\nBrings it safely through all dangers.\\nSo, dear Wife, when God s ood Angels\\nTo a higher life transport us.\\nWe shall be, again, as helpless,\\nBut as absolutely safe, too.\\nHe who did so wisely order\\nThis life s opening, will as surely\\nTo that nobler one exalt us.\\nNothing shocking, nothing monstrous,\\nOr unnatural, shall happen\\nLeft alone, for not one moment.\\nUnder convoy of good Angels,\\n(As was Lazarus, Christ tells us,)\\nInto Paradise emerging,\\nWe shall not be among strangers\\nTh older members of the fam ly\\nInto loving arms will take us,\\nWith unutterable gladness\\nFriends and kinsfolk will come, eager\\nTo congratulate and welcome.\\nWe can, now, form no conception\\nOf the mode of that existence:", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "154 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nBut both Moses and Elias^\\nThough, then, disembodied spirits,\\nSeen at Christ s transfiguration.\\nWere both recognized by Peter.\\nAnd those Spirits, in safe keeping,\\nWhom our Saviour went and preached to,\\nMust have known and understood Him.\\nIf St. Paul thought it far better,\\nFrom the body to be absent,\\nThat he might with Christ be present,\\nSurely, then, he must have thought of\\nA Communion, far more perfect,\\nThan is possible in this world.\\nWhen, at parting, Christ Avould comfort\\nHis disconsolate disciples,\\nWas it not with the assurance,\\nThat He d come again, in Person,\\nAnd unto Himself receive them.\\nWhen a place was ready for them.\\nIn His Father s many mansions\\nYes, dear Wife, our Elder Brother,\\n(Oh, what wondrous condescension!\\nHe, Himself, claims that relation.)\\nGone to a far-distant country.\\nTo prej)are a new home for us\\nThere to dwell with Him forever\\nGives this comforting assurance,\\nWhen we come to the last Station,\\nWe shall find Him there to welcome:\\nHe the ])atli of life will show us:\\nFullest joy is in his presence;\\nAt His right hand pleasures endless,\\nMade like Him I To share His glory!\\nWhat a destiny awaits us\\nTake, dear Wife, love s benediction:\\nMay your Birthdays, all, be tending\\nToward the glorious consummation.\\nWhich my poor muse has, so feebly,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 155\\nStriven now to set before yon.\\nMay onr loving Heavenly Father\\nDo more for yon, and far better,\\nThan your hnsband can conceive of,\\nOr find words wherewith to ntter.\\nJ. T. WHEAT.\\nMrs. Chnrchill, referred to in the letter of Mrs. Selina\\nWheat, is the wife of ex-Governor Thomas J. Churchill, who\\nwas lieutenant in the Avar with Mexico, and brigadier general\\nin the Civil War; the daughter of Senator Ambrose H.\\nSevier, and granddaughter of Judge and Mrs. Benjamin\\nJohnson. These grandparents were prominent members of\\nthe Christian Church, but their daughter, Mrs. Jordan, and\\ngranddaughters, Mrs. Churchill, Mrs. Shelby Williams, and\\nMrs. J. Cabell Breckinridge, Mrs. L. P. Gibson, Miss Matilda\\nJordan, Mrs. John McClintock, and great grandson, John C\\nBreckinridge, Jr., are all baptized Episcopalians. General\\nChurchill was a member of the Yestry during the incumbency\\nof Eev. A, r. Freeman.\\nThe name of E. W. Jolinsoti, United States Senator from\\nArkansas for six years, and Confederate States Senator for\\nfour years, occurs on the list of subscribers to the first Episco-\\npal Church. He was the eldest son of Judge Benjamin John-\\nson and Matilda Williams, his wife, who were among the\\nfounders of the sect called The Disciples of Christ, in\\nTittle Eock. Robert W. Johnson married Sarah Smith, and\\ntheir children were Ben. S., Robert (deceased), Francis and\\nSarah.\\nBcnj. S. Johnson was baj)tized in infancy in the Epis-\\ncopal Church. He married Lina Vandergrift. Their\\nchildren were Adele (deceased) and James Vandergrift, who\\nall became members of the PresbvteriaTi Church.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "156 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nFrancis Johnson, who married May Fulton Curran.\\nTheir children are mentioned in his wife s line, Fulton.\\nSarah, daughter of R. W. Johnson, married J. Cabell\\nBreckinridge. Their children were Jolm C, Laura, who\\nmarried John C. Ten Evck, and had Breckinridge, Julia,\\nail John, Eobert (deceased), and Benjamin.*\\nIrene, daughter of Judge Benj. Johnson and Matilda\\nWilliams, his wife, married, first. Dr. John A. Jordan. Their\\nchildren were Matilda Johnson, Robert W., who married\\nEffie Williford, one child, Irene Effie Mary, Avho married\\nL. P. Gibson their children are Irene, Louise, and Helen\\nand Irene Jordan (deceased). Mrs. Jordan was married a\\nsecond time to Dr. C. M. Taylor. Their daughter Maude\\nmarried John McOlintock Children, Alexander, Robert\\nJohnson, Laura Breckinridge, and John.\\nAnnie Sevier, daughter of Juliette Johnson and A. H.\\nSevier, granddaughter of Judge Benj. Johnson and Matilda\\nWilliams, his wife, married T. J. Churchill. Their children\\nwere Abby (deceased), Sevier (deceased), Samuel J., who\\nmarried Katie Hooper; children, Thomas J., Marie, and\\nHooper; Juliette married R. L. Goodrich; Emily married\\nJohn Calef; Mattie married Edmund Langhorne; children,\\nAnnie Sevier, Churchill, and Agnes.\\nMattie Sevier, daughter of Juliette Johnson and Am-\\nbrose H. Sevier, married Shelby W^illiams. Their children\\nxu C. Breckinridge, here named as a baptized member of Christ Church, was\\nin the skirmish which preceded the taking of Coamo, Porto Rico, August 11, 1898, by\\nthe Sixteenth PeiniHylvania, General Wilson in command. Ten of the Sixteenth were\\nwounded. Richard Harding Davis, special correspondent of the Herald, made a\\ngraphic report of the incident. General Wilson s two aids. Captain Breckinridge\\nand Lieutenant Titus, with Captain Paget, the British naval attache, and four cor-\\nrespondents (one of whom was the narrator) entered the town in full speed amid\\nsnouts and white flags, to find it empty of American troops and that unwittingly and\\nunwillingly we had been offered its .surrender! Captain Breckinridge and Lieutenant\\nntus looked at eacb oth(^r\\\\s shoulder strat)s and Lieutenant Titus congratulated his\\nsuperior oftcer on having taken a town of five thousand inhabitants with six men.\\ninen they borrowed a flag of truce and wigwagged to the Sixteenth that it was safe\\nto come m.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "1:T. i;KV. HENRY CHAMPLIN LAY, D. D.. LL. D,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 157\\n\\\\vere Shelby, who married Mrs. Frazee Maud, who married\\nRobert Bonnie; children, Mattie Sevier, Shelby, ISTannie\\nFassman, married Wentworth Johnston; children, Shelby\\nand Sevier, a minor.\\nAmbrose Hundley Sevier, who married Imogene Wright,\\nwas at one time treasurer of Christ Church. Children already\\nmimed in his wife s line (Fulton).\\nRT. REV. HENRY CHAMPLIN LAY, S. T. D.,\\nD. D., LL. D.\\nA. D. 1823-1860. Ri. Rev. Henry Champlin Lay, S.\\nT. D., D. D., LL. D., was born at Richmond, Va., December\\n6, 1823. He was the second son of John Olmsted Lay and\\nLucy (May) Lay, his wife. He went to school in Richmond\\nand New York City entered the University of Virginia Oc-\\ntober, 1839 received the degree of Master of Arts July, 1842.\\nWhile at the university he was confirmed in Christ Church,\\nCharlottesville, Va., by Bishop Moore; studied theology at\\nthe Virginia Theological Seminary, near Alexandria. While\\nat the Seminary he taught Greek at the Episcopal High\\nSchool near by, for some months was made a Deacon July,\\n1846, bj^ Bishop Meade and sent to take charge of the\\nChurches in Lynnhaven Parish, Princess Anne County, Va.\\nHe remained there for six months. He became greatly\\nattached to some of the people, especially to the family with\\nwhom he lodged, and they were much devoted to him, but\\nBishop Cobbs, whom he had known and loved for seven years,\\nurged him to come to his help. He wanted him to take\\ncharge of the congregation in Huntsville, Ala., and said,\\nHenry, if you could see the field you would not dare to\\nrefuse. He was married to Elizabeth Withers Atkinson,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "158 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nMay 13, 1847, and arrived in Huntsville on June 10. The\\nnearest Church or clergyman southward was 150 miles\\naway; westward, 70 miles; northward the nearest was about\\n50 miles in the Diocese of Tennessee. Far away to the\\neast, one might be reached in Georgia. For four or live\\nmonths he held services in the courthouse, until a very attrac-\\ntive, but small Church begun before he came was finished.\\nThere was but one male communicant, who had been a fellow-\\nstudent at the University of Virginia. In this Church of\\nthe Nativity in Huntsville. Ala., he was ordained Priest, by\\nBishop Cobbs, July, 1848. In a few years the little Church\\nbecame far too small and a new and beautiful one was built.\\nThough not entirely complete, the first service was held in it\\non Easter Sunday, April 24, 1859. This he had to leave,\\nfor at the General Convention in Richmond, Va., on October\\n23 of that year, he was consecrated Missionary Bishop of the\\nSouthwest by Bishops Meade, Mcllvaine, Otey, Polk, Whit-\\ntingham, Stephen Elliott, C^obbs, and Atkinson. The juris-\\ndiction assigned to him consisted of Arkansas, Indian Ter-\\nritory, New Mexico, and Arizona. He began his first visi-\\ntation in December, 1859. In April, 1860, he set out with\\nhis family for Fort Smith, Ark., but owing to low water in\\nthe Arkansas Bivcr, did not reach there till June 24.\\nA. D. 1862-1885. In March, 1862, he set oif to take\\nhis family to Huntsville, Ala., intending to return to Arkan-\\nsas immediately, but on the third morning after his arrival\\ntb.ere, the Federal troops entered the town and for several\\nmonths he was not permitted to leave. Once, he was a close\\nprisoner for two Vv^eeks, guarded day and night by two sol-\\ndiers, one on each side. No sort of charge was brought\\nagainst him, but he was arrested, solely, as being a citizen of\\ninfluence, in syui])atliy witli tlio South. It was hoped that", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 159\\nlie miglit be induced to take the oath of allegiance to the\\nUnited States, and that thereby others might be induced to\\ntake it also. He never took it. In the autumn^ as soon as\\nhe could, he returned to his jurisdiction. Most of that win-\\nter was spent in Little Rock, holding services and doing all\\nin his power to help and comfort the people. By request of\\nBishop Polk, who had been made a general in the Confederate\\narmy, he made a visitation in Louisiana. Early in 1864,\\nhaving been asked by Bishop Elliott to hold confirmation\\nservice in the Confederate army in Georgia, he was for some\\nmonths with General Joseph E. Johnston s corps, and after-\\nwards was with it, when it was under General Hood s com-\\nmand. When the war ended he, with Bishop Atkinson, of\\nXortli Carolina, determined to attend the General Conven-\\ntion of 1865, which met in Philadelphia, Penn. How much\\ninconsiderate action their presence averted, it is needless to\\ninquire how much good it did, can scarcely be estimated\\nHe returned to Arkansas as soon thereafter as he could, but\\nit was not till late in October, 1866, that he brought his\\nfamily to Little Rock. In the summer of 1867 he attended\\nthe first Lambeth Conference at London.* After his return\\nto the United States, at Cambridge, he received the degree\\nof LL. T). He had previously, while still in Huntsville, re-\\nceived the degree of S. T. D. from Hobart College, and after-\\nwards that of D. D., from William and Marv College in Vir-\\nginia. In 1869 he was translated from the Missionary field\\nof the Southwest to the Diocese of Easton, in Maryland. He\\nwas one of the committee on the lectionary and spent much\\ntime and thought on the work. He also spent much time in the\\nwork of the committee on the enrichment of the Prayer Book,\\n*Ijainbeth Palace has been the official residence of the archbishops of Canterbury\\nfor several centuries.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "160 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nbut did ]iot live to see the book authorized and printed. He\\ndied in Baltimore on 17th of September, 1885, after an ill-\\nness of six months, and was buried in Easton on St. Matthew s\\nDay. Among his published writings are Letters to a Man,\\nBewildered Among Many Counselors, Studies in the\\nChurch, Keady and Desirous, The Mysteries of Provi-\\ndence, The Church in the Nation, being the Paddock Lec-\\ntures for 1885. It was while delivering these that he was\\ntaken ill, and the last lecture had to be read by another.\\nThey were his last work. Besides these, there were a good\\nmany sermons and articles in TAc Churchman^ from his pen.\\nBishop Lay s wife was Elizabeth Withers Atkijison,\\ndaughter of Roger B. Atkinson, who was the brother of\\nBishop Atkinson, of Virginia, and grandson of Mr. Roger\\nAtkinson, of Mannsfield, near Petersburg. He was the first\\nAtkinson of this family who came to this country, and was\\nan old ^estryman and staunch friend of the Church in that\\nplace. In Bishop Meade s book Old Cliurches and\\nFamilies of Virginia, volume 1, article XVII, page 220,\\nthere is an extract from a letter of his to his brother-in-law,\\nMr. Samuel Pleasants, of Philadelphia. In this letter,\\nwritten before the Revolutionary War, he draws the portraits\\nof the members sent to the first congress from Virginia, before\\nthe men he wrote of had made themselves famous.\\nOf Patrick Henry he says lie is a real half-Quaker\\nyour brother s man moderate and mild, and in religious mat-\\nters a saint but the very d 1 in politics a son of thunder.\\nHe will shake tlie Sejiate. Some years ago he had liked to\\nhave talked treason into the House. Of Peyton Randolph\\nhe says: A veneral)le man, whom I well know and love;\\nan honest man has knowledge, temper, experience, judg-\\nment al)ove all, integrity: a true Roman spirit. He, I\\nfind, is chairman. The clioico will do honor to the judges.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 161\\nand the chainnan will do lionor to the choice. Of Richard\\nHenry Lee he says I think I know the man, and I like\\nhim need I say more i He was the second choice, and he\\nwas my second choice. Of .George Washington he says:\\nHe is a soldier a warrior; he is a modest man; sensible;\\nspeaks little; in action, cool, like a Bishop at his prayers.\\nOf Colonel Bland he says A wary, old experienced veteran\\nat the bar, and in the Senate has something of the look of\\nold musty parchments, which he handleth and studieth much.\\nHe formerly wrote a treatise against the Quakers on water-\\nbaptism. Of Benjamin Harrison he says: He is your\\nneighbor and brotlier-in-law to the Speaker (Peyton Ran-\\ndolph) I need not describe him. Of Mr. Pendleton he\\nsays: The last and best, though all good. The last shall\\nbe first says the Scripture. He is an humble and religious\\nman and must be exalted. He is a smooth-tongued speaker,\\nand, though not so old, may be compared to old ISTestor\\nExperienced Xestor, in persuasion skill d\\nWords sweet as honey from his lips distill d\\nA. D. 1 658. Mrs. Lay is also eighth in direct lineal\\ndescent from Richard Bennett, one of the Colonial Commis-\\nsioners, who was elected governor of Virginia, to succeed Sir\\nWm. Berkeley, and who retired from office March 13, 1G58,\\nhaving been succeeded by Edward Digges. She is also\\nsixtli in lineal descent from Richard Bland, who married\\nElizal)etli, daughter of Colonel William Randolph. The\\nBennetts, Randolphs, and Blands were her paternal ancestors.\\nOn her mother s side she ascends through her grandmother,\\nElizabeth Withers, to Mr. and Mrs. Grammar, whom Bishoj)\\nMeade describes as saintly people, on whom, for a consid-\\nerable time, by general consent, the very existence of the Epis-\\ncopal Church in Petersburg seemed to hang. I need not\\nspeak, or seek for any epitaph. They live in the hearts of\\nchildren and children s children vet alive, and in the", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "162 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nmemories of manv others who revere their characters and en-\\ndeavor to follow their example. The social prayer meetings\\nheld at their lionse, when the old ladv was nnable any longer\\nto go to the House of God, were refreshing seasons to minis-\\nters and i)eople. Vol. 1, art. XL., page 447.\\n^[v. Thomas Withers li\\\\ ed hard by the Old Saponey\\nChurch, and ]\\\\[rs. Withers taught a Sunday School there\\nfor many years, often entirely unaided. After Henry\\nC hamplin Lay, when a youth of eighteen, was graduated at\\nihe University of Virginia as master of arts, he taught for\\ntwo years before he entered the Theological Seminary. Dur-\\ning these two years he was a regular teacher in the Sunday\\nSchool at Old Saponey, and in this way gave help to the old\\nlady, who continued to teach there, furnishing all the books,\\ntickets, prizes, etc., that were needed. She and her husband\\nhad the Church cleaned, fires made, etc., for fifty years.\\nInto this atmosphere of piety and brotherly love came\\nthe young university student, and for his reverence and zeal\\nwas rewarded by Providence with the blessing of a wife\\ntrained under the same spirit and influences, for he after-\\nwards married the granddaughter and namechild of this\\nsaintly old lady. That this influence was the predominat-\\ning one of hei- life, is shown by her reply to the question,\\nWhy are you not an associate member of the Society of\\nColonial Dames of America? Because that takes time\\nand money.\\nThe children of Bislio]) Henry C. Lay and Elizabeth\\nW ithers Atkinson^ his wife, were nine. Five died young.\\nOf these, Thomas Atkinson died in Fort Smith, Ark., and\\nKlizabeth Withers in Little Kock.\\nJ/riirj/ the oldest living child, is a civil and mining\\nrngiiiecr, and superintendent of pid)lic schools in San ^liguel", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 163\\nCounty, Colo. Resides in Telluride, Colo. He is un-\\nmarried.\\nGeorge is a Priest of the Church and a Master at St.\\nPaul s School, Concord, X. H., of which Rev. Dr. Joseph\\nCoit is Rector. He was married in Baltimore in June,\\n1894, to Anna Balch, a daughter of Rear Admiral Balch, who\\nwas retired and lives there. They have two children, George\\nBalch and Elizabeth Atkinson.\\nBeirne is a Master at St. Paul s School. Both George\\nand Beirne went to St. Paul s School and afterwards gradu-\\nated at Yale. Beirne Lay is unmarried.\\nLouisa Lay was born in Little Rock.\\nOUR LORD, THE PATTERN TO THE BISHOPS OF\\nHIS CHURCH:\\nA sermon preached in Grace Church, in the City of New\\nYork, on the occasion of the consecration of the Rev. Charles\\nFranklin Robertson, S. T. D., as Bishop of Missouri, by\\nHenry Champlin ].ay, D. D., LL. D., Missionary Bishop of\\nthe Southwest\\nThe consecration of the Rev. Charles Franklin Robert-\\nson, D. I)., to the Ejnscopate of Missouri^ took place on the\\nmorning of the twentieth Sunday after Trinity, October 25,\\nA. D. l!sOy, at Grace Church, in the city of New York.\\nPrayers were read by the Rev. Josiah P. Tustin^i D. D., of the\\nDiocese of Michigan, assisted by the Rev. Sidney Corbett, of\\nthe Diocese of Illinois, and the Rev. John C. IMiddleton of\\nthe Diocese of Connecticut.\\nThe testimonials of the Bishop elect were read by the\\nRev. William Stevens Perry, Secretary of the House of Cler-\\nical and Lay Deputies, and the Rev. Henrv C. Potter, D. D.,\\nSeeretarv of the House of Bishops. The clergy in attendance", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "164 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nfrom tlie Diocese of Missouri were the Rev. Edward F. Berk-\\nley, D. D., of St. Louis, and the Rev. William B. Corbjn,\\nD. D., of Palmyra. The presiding Bishop was assisted in the\\nservices by the Bishops of Michigan, Virginia, Iowa and ISTew\\nYork. The sermon was preached by the Missionary Bishop\\nof Arkansas. A large attendance of the clerical and lay\\ndeputies of the General Convention, together wath a congre-\\ngation tilling every portion of the spacious Church chosen\\nfor this interesting ceremony, attested a widespread interest\\nin these services, which were to add another to the number\\nof our Bishojjs, and give to a bereaved Diocese its chosen\\nhead. The Holy Communion was administered to a large num-\\nber of the clergy and laity.\\nAt the close of services, the presiding Bishop having\\ncalled the Bishops and clergy together, on motion of the Rev.\\nWilliam Stevens Perry, the thanks of the Bishops and clergy\\nin attendance were unaniniouslv tendered to the Rio-lit Rev,\\nDr. Lay, for the vliscourse just delivered, and a copy of the\\nsame respectfully requested for publication.\\nSERMON.\\nWhen the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a\\ncrown of glonj that fadetJi not away. 1 Peter v. 4.\\nThe names and titles of our Blessed Lord have ever\\nfuniished to devout minds themes of pleasant meditation.\\nNo one epithet can adequately describe Him; and thus\\nprophet and psalmist, apostle and evangelist, and angel of the\\nannunciation and the Exile of Patmos, have united to ransack\\nthe stores of language, to draw from them its sublimest\\nwords and its most endearing epithets, thus accumulating\\naround the person of our Lord every title of worth and dignity\\nuntil His name, in itself secret and incommunicable, is\\nponred forth as ointment and diffused throus hout His", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 165\\nC liiircli in the liundreJ varying titles Avliicli express His\\nmajesty and His mercy.\\nSeldom, indeed, does the Church make mention of her\\nLord without adding some words expressive of her reverence\\nand affection. She has no sympathy with the unseeming\\nfamiliarity which utters commonly the name of Jesus with no\\nadded word of honor she invokes Him ever by some sacred\\ntitle she speaks to us of Him with some reverent description\\nof His person or of His work; she varies that description\\nwith the occasion of her speech. At the bedside of the suf-\\nferer, Christ is the Saviour of the world, who, by His cross\\nand passion has redeemed us. Beside the open grave, He\\nis The Resurrection and the Life and yet again in the In-\\nstitution office and in the Ordinal, she adopts the language\\nfavorite with St. Peter; she pleads Thy merits, O Blessed\\nJesus, Thou gracious Bishop and Shepherd of our souls!\\nShe encourages her newly-consecrated Bishop with the prayer\\nthat When the Chief Shepherd shall appear, he may\\nreceive the never-fading crown of glory.\\nTimes there are, my brethren, in the experience of life,\\nwhen one or another of our Lord s titles falls upon the ear with\\nsingular sweetness. Times there are of new trial and added\\nresponsibility, when there flashes upon us the true force and\\nmeaning of some word that has been familiar to the ear and\\noften upon the lips. Thus is it with the name before us.\\nWhile every Christian delights to say The Lord is my\\nShepherd, Avho can, as the Shepherd and the Bishop of\\nChrist s flock, realize the comfort and the awfulness of the\\nthought, that there is One who is himself Bishop and Chief\\nShepherd One who has exercised in person the ministry and\\noversight entrusted to us One in whose steps we tread, and\\nat whose feet each pastoral staff is presently to be laid. Our\\nLord s life on earth is the fair pattern, wdiich none of us\\nindeed can equal, but Avhicli men in eveiw station must strive\\nto copy and reproduce. Woe is unto us, if Ave accept as our\\nideal anything below His sinless example and His finished\\nAvork Our little children find in Him the example of filial\\nduty to Him we are wont to direct the eyes of the worker\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009412\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "166 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nand the siitl erer. And is tliero no special lesson in that life\\nfor those to whom chiefly He has confided the interests dearest\\nto His heart i As man, we present Him as the example for\\nall men to follow as Bishoj) and chief Pastor well may we\\npresent Him to ourselves. Well may the Church, in form-\\ning her estimate of the Episcopal otRce, and in determining\\nthe qualifications which should belong to the chief Pastors,\\nkeep ever in her view the Holy One, her Chief Shepherd and\\nthe Bishop of our souls.\\nOuit Lord, the Pattern to the Bishops of His\\nChukch. Such is the lesson which we attempt to unfold to-\\nday a theme so sacred and so beautiful that we approach it\\ntremblingly and with awe. Far be it from us, like the un-\\nbelievers or half-believers of the day, to criticise the sacred\\nstory, and self-complacently to express our approbation of the\\nwords and methods of the Master no we stand in the pres-\\nence of an incarnate wisdom too vast for us to judge and\\nupon bended knee we follow the traces of its march on earth,\\nhappy if we may unquestioning tread where Christ s sacred\\nfeet have left their impress.\\nIn our Lord s work as in His person, the human and the\\ndivine so shade into each other that we can draw no absolute\\nline of demarcation. Without pretending to divide, we may\\nyet distinguish two elements in the office He discharged to-\\nwards His infant Church. He was its Bishop and its Para-\\nclete. Wlien He went away to Heaven, the divine function\\nwas assumed by that other Comforter, that ever-blessed Crea-\\ntor-Spirit, whose living presence in the Church gives to the\\nconsecration in wdiich we are presently to engage all its energy\\nand truth and the human function, the earthly Episcopate,\\nwas conferred upon the College of the Apostles and their suc-\\ncessors in oflice until the end of the world.\\nWe may not even for a moment leave out of mind that\\ndivinity which separates by so vast an interval the Chief Shep-\\nherd from those who are noAv set to feed His flock; but we\\nmay yet, I trust, without irreverence, fasten our thoughts upon\\nthe Inniian as])ect of our Lord s work on earth, and analvze the", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 18 T\\ncharacter of His Episco})ate, as furnishing that true ideal\\nwhich the Church should ever seek to realize.\\nLet us then recall our Lord s Episcopate in His inter-\\ncourse with His Pastors, in the guidance of the Laity, and yet\\nagain in its personal characteristics. We are to consider,\\nI, The jiiEF SiiEPiiEiiu Amoxo His Pastoiis.\\nAnd here we are reminded at once, what unceasing care,\\nand labor, and diligence, our Master expended upon His sub-\\nordinates in the sacred ministry a care almost disproportion-\\nate, one might say, in view of the multitudes who thronged\\nHis path and hung upon His words. Careful He was to\\nselect from among the believers such as He deemed competent\\nto this sacred function. How imperatively He summoned\\nthe fisherman from his net and the publican from his engage-\\nments and how distinctly He repelled the proifered service\\nof such as would volunteer in IHs cause, without realizing its\\nresponsibilities and trials I\\nTo say that He was accessible to His clergy would be a\\nweak statement. He kept them habitually about His per-\\nson, He was seldom separated from them and this, although\\nHe was doid)tless often weary of company, and longed for\\nthe repose of solitude and the society of His uninterrupted\\nthought. He did not merely instruct them in the duties of\\ntheir oliice He carried them with Him He showed them by\\nexani])le how ignorance should be enlightened, how suffering\\nshould be relieved^ how favor should be borne, how agony\\nshould be endiired.\\nWith what marvellous skill did He train and strengthen\\nthem for usefulness as they made progress in Christian\\nvirtue, detaching them from His person, yet even then only\\nfor brief periods, and in little companies, so that one might\\nstrengthen another; leading them from one responsibility to\\nanother, from lesser trials to greater, now exposing them to\\ndanger with PHmself in the bark, and presently dismissing\\nthem to buffet the storm alone, unknowing that He upon the\\nmountain top watched for their safety, thus leading them on", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "lt)8 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nStep by step until -that sorrowful moment when His visible\\npresence was altogether withdrawn.\\nWonderfully considerate was the Chief Shepherd of His\\ncolaborers. He would not overwork them. Come ye\\nyourselves apart into a desert place^ and rest awhile; for\\nthere were many coming and going, and they had no leisure\\nso much as to eat. Wonderfully patient was He with their\\ndefects of understanding and their infirmities of spirit. How\\ndid He bear with the unintelligence of Philip, the melancholy\\nof Thomas, the impetuosity of Peter and then what mingled\\nfamiliarity and dignity in His intercourse with them all He\\ntreated them as friends rather than as subordinates and yet\\nthere was a line of reverence which they might not overpass.\\nIf Peter, overzealous for BLis Master s reputation, under-\\ntakes that He shall pay His quota towards sustaining the ser-\\nvices of the Temple, He rebukes him for the concession of the\\nclaim, while yet He works a miracle rather than expose His.\\ndisciple to the mortification of failing to meet the engagement.\\n.A lid then, how beautiful the picture of John leaning on the\\nChief Shepherd s bosom In that holy familiarity, how mar-\\nvellously do we see the profoundest reverence reconciled with\\nthe most genial friendship.\\nIn view of these things, we do not fear to affirm that\\nevery Christian Bisliop should regard himself first and chiefly\\nas the Pastor of Pastors and among his varied responsibili-\\nties and duties should set in the foremost place, those which\\nappertain to the calling of men to sacred ministries, prepar-\\ning them for their work, directing them in its prosecution, sus-\\ntaining them under its trials, i^ot content to accept such as\\ncome to him, to ]H esi(le over their deliberations, to interpose\\nwhen some great mischief impends, he wdio patterns after\\nthat erfect example will identify himself with those in holy\\norders, and ex])end upon them the chief of his strength and\\nthe wealth of his affections.\\nThere is much complaint in these days of the deficiency\\nof clergymen. We have need to exhort parents to consecrate\\ntheir c]iildr( n to the service of the altar, and the laitv in", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 169\\ngeneral to facilitate the theological education and to sustain\\nthe clergy. But we must not forget that ordaining, sending\\nand laying hands upon others is peculiarly the function of the\\nBishop. It is his special duty to make choice of lit persons to\\nserve in the sacred ministry to suggest its claims to young-\\nmen before their profession is chosen, to call into its\\nranks such as seem adapted for its holy employments. What\\nif it seem cruel to separate the sons of Zebedee from an aged\\nparent what though the world may deem it extravagant to\\nsummon men from lucrative employments to comparative\\npoverty The Gospel must be preached, and we must send\\nthe men to preach it. Surely we do not err, if, following our\\nLord s example, we break in upon men s repose now demand-\\ning, authoritatively, Go thou and preach the Gospel now\\nentreating, lovingly, Come with us, and be with us fishers of\\nmen.\\nThe Bishop should be the friend and father of his clergy,\\nextending to them a larger measure of confidence and sym-\\npathy than it is possible to give to all the members of the flock.\\n]^or is this any disadvantage to the flock for each instruction\\nand consolation afforded the clergymen, is diffused through\\nhim to hundreds within his care. How much do pastors need\\na Pastor How instinctively does the Priest or the Deacon in\\nhis doubts and anxieties, in distress and need, look to his\\nBishop How little does the Avorld know of the filial confi-\\ndence and the fatherly benignit} the touching story of morti-\\nfications and trials told Avithout reserve, the gentle pity and\\nmanly encouragement, which have often characterized the\\ncorrespondence between the Bishops and their clergy Oh,\\nhow wondrous is the power of a Bishop who is a true father\\nto his clergy! How does he mould the opinions of the lielp-\\ners, and impart to them his motliods, and infuse his own great\\nthought into the minds of others\\nThe Chief Shepherd had ever patience with His apostles.\\nHe explained things to them when they were alone togetlier.\\nHe rebuked them, and sharply too, sometimes, but never, that\\nI can recollect, in the presence of the people, where their credit\\nmight be impaired. He wrung the very soul of Peter once", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "170 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nwith His rebuke, and yet while lie rebuked, renewed the\\nexpression of His coniidence and uttered no harsher word\\nthan Simon, son of JonaSj lovest thou Me? And oh,\\nbrethren, a Bishop after this pattern who stands in the\\ncenter of the sacred order; not afraid to take responsibility,\\nbut serene and firm, teaching men of less experience and\\nmore timid nature the Bishop who under no conceivable cir-\\ncumstances will admit that any competition of interests can\\nexist between himself and his brethren^ and in the midst of\\nfrowardness thinks only how to bring about a better mind\\nthe Bishop who can enlighten ignorance without wounding\\nself-respect, who can direct energies witliout fettering them\\nby undue interference, whose ready sympathy never wearies,\\nwhose cordial affection sustains his clergy in all their\\ntroubles such a Bishop may be after all but an earthen vessel,\\nbut in that poor earth men will recognize the outline and the\\nlikeness of Him in whom dwelt all the fulness of the God-\\nhead bodily, the Chief Shepherd and Bishop of our souls.\\nHow can Ave fail to obserA e the persistence with which\\nour Lord sought to elevate His chosen ones in their self-\\nestimate and in the esteem of the people When He fed\\nmultitudes, did He not give them an important share in that\\nwork of love Did He not advise with them wlien He him-\\nself knew what He w^ould do Did He not leave it to them\\nto baptize the converts to the faith? Did He not within\\nlimits admit them into the mystery of IDs own griefs and\\ntroubles? With such an example well may the Bishop learn\\nto make much of his clergy studiously to honor them before\\nthe people to choose from among them his confidants, and\\nto invite the same sympatln which he is so often called upon\\nto extend. But, brethren, all this is impracticable unless\\nthere be something of dignified reserve, some recognitions of\\nofficial superiority. We dare not claim for ourselves such\\nreverence, such obedience, as the sinless One did rightly claim.\\nBut as rulers in God s family, and in the following of Christ s\\nexample, the Bishop should know how to assert the dignity of\\nIns office, how to re])el unwarrantable freedoms, and~how to", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 171\\nkeep easy and confidential friendsliip from slipping down\\ninto unseemly familiarity.\\nBut I may not dwell further upon this theme which has\\nrather heen suggested than expounded. Let us consider,\\nII. The Chief Shepherd among His People.\\nIf we regard our Lord as a Bishop among His people, we\\ni^ecognize at once the fact that He was the chief preacher\\nAvithin His self-appointed diocese of Judea. If we think of\\nHim as the Missionary Bishop (for such He truly was), how\\ngreat the activity of His personal ministry The sermons\\nand the labors which are recorded are but specimens of his\\ntoil. Had the wliole been written, St. John intimates that\\nthe volumes of that record Avould have been innumerable. In\\npublic and in private, by the seaside and on the mount, at\\nthe rich man s table, in the synagogue and in the porches of\\nthe temple, He ceased not to teach and to preach. He drove\\nback His sorrows resolutely into His own breast, and taught\\nstill in His trouble. In the very presence of death He kept\\nnot silence but spake still of the Comforter.\\nThink of the long journeys, the villages visited in succes-\\nsion, the long continued speech to attentive crowds, the\\npatient dealing with an individual soul, the pause to bless the\\nlittle babes, the thoughtfulness that encouraged Zaccheus to\\nstand forth and speak out his religious purpose. Brethren,\\nhow plain is this instruction Make all allowance necessary\\nto be made for a religion in its infancy which could be spread\\nonly by the living voice grant that in our day the Bishop\\nmust often sit alone and think must plan and organize and\\nshape work for other hands and still there stands plain\\nbefore us the lesson that the Bishop must go about doing\\ngood, and as he goes must preach. He cannot do all the\\nwork ])iniself it were vain to attempt it; but he can lead the\\nAvay; he can show. his willingness to share in whatever toils\\nand hardships belong to the clergy he can by his example\\nteach others hoAv to recognize an opportunity and then how\\nto use it; l)v his dealinii- with an individual soul he can", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "172 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\ninstruct the unexperienced man of God, as books would never\\nteach him, how to silence the disputations, to cheer the\\npenitent, to comfort the mourner.\\nAnd this reminds us of that wondrous prudence which\\ncharacterized our Master s ministrations among the people.\\nWhat contradiction of sinners ag;ainst Himself did He en-\\ndure What a throng of captious, prejudiced, unreasonable\\nmen surrounded Him. But He aroused no unnecessary pre-\\njudice; again and again he stayed His speech or withdrew\\nHis person to avoid tumult. If men addressed Him with\\nartful words intending to entrap Him, He did not hesitate to\\navoid the false issue, and to retort upon them the sharp ques-\\ntion. How often did He make men who pretended ignor-\\nance, answer themselves, and turn away self-condenmed by\\nthe exposure of their insincerity How varied his teaching\\naccording to circumstances and persons In his example we\\nfind no warrant for that narrowness which utters ever the\\nsame formula and the same doctrine to all sorts of people. To\\nthe self-complacent Pharisee Pie held up the better example\\nof the half-heathen Samaritan, wdiile presently conversing\\nwith the Samaritan He identifies Himself with the Jews, and\\naffirms the authority of the Jewish Church. He taught the\\ndoctrine of the new birth of man s nature to one half-hearted\\nand secret inquirer while to Xathanael He uttered words\\nof commendation only. I need not multiply illustrations.\\nThese things assure us that the Christian Bishop should,\\nwhile valiant for the truth, be wise enough to avoid useless\\ncontroversy while doing good to others, be careful to protect\\nhimself from needless animadversion. They tell us that the\\nBishoj:) should be large-minded in his work not going out\\nfurnished with a few set phrases or favorite dogmas, thrown\\nout without discrimination but richly stored with all true\\ndoctrine and all right words, rightly dividing the blessed\\ntruth giving to each man his portion urging repentance\\nupon one, confession upon another now persuading a man to\\nbelieve and now to do some act of self-sacrifice now rising in\\nindignation at the profanation of holy things, and now pro-\\ntesting against the lading of unnecessary burdens upon the", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 173\\nconscience of the faithful. Tliere is nothing in our Lord s\\nlife and example to encourage a narrow partjisni. How won-\\ndrously different, some might say almost contradictory, were\\nHis utterances according to the occasion that prompted His\\nspeech Persistently did He press the deep and spiritual\\ntruths of religion, yet did He not hesitate to give His testi-\\nmony to the value of things external. There is a singular\\nbunumness in our Lord s hovering around the temple during\\nthat sad week of expectancy which preceded His death. We\\nknow how a certain restlessness conies over men when death\\nis near, and who, though they have wandered far, they come\\nhome to die. And as we read the story of the brief road so\\noften traversed between Bethany and Jerusalem, the lingering\\nin the temple, the pause in the twilight, and the musing eye\\nfixed still on Zion, we recognize the truth that our Lord not\\nonly loved His Father, but held also in affection His Father s\\nhouse.\\nThe Bishop, least of all men, should be the slave of party\\nor of prejudices. Sobriety of judgment, love of truth,\\nshould characterize all his ministrations. Xo ridicule\\nsliould avail to make him ashamed of the system which he ad-\\nministers, to hide its true features, or to explain it away to\\nmeet the demands of miscalled charity; while no admiration\\nof a system or a method should restrain him from keeping\\nalways in the foreground the great essential truths destined\\nto survive when all systems shall have passed away.\\nff we analyze in its human aspects that influence which\\nour Lord wielded over the masses, we cannot fail to observe\\nthat it was largely due to the commingling of gentleness with\\nseverity oftenest He was gentle most full of pity, affable and\\nready to make allowance oftenest but not always. He was\\nthe Lamb of God, but when occasion demanded He showed\\nHimself in the majesty of holy wrath, the Lion of the tribe\\nof Judah. Strange that a speech so full of gentleness should\\nrise at times into so fearful an invective. But who save the\\nhabitually gentle can rightly be severe what wrath can so\\nterrify the evildoer as the wrath of the Lamb Listen to that\\nfearful denunciation Woe unto vou Scribes and Pliari-", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "174 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nsees, lijpocrites Woe folloAvs upon woe, anathema upon\\nanathema, straining our hearts as He approaches the climax,\\nand ahnost alarming us lest when it be reached He shall\\nremand them all into the hands of inexorable justice. But\\nwhen all that torrent of burning words has been uttered, and\\nwhile the threat of the damnation of hell rings into our ears\\nand thrills the inmost soul, there succeeds by most abrupt\\nli ansition the wail of pity, a cry of anguish such as defiance\\nitself can scarce resist: O Jerusalem! O Jerusalem! The\\nworld has enough of stern critics, and bitter censors but, oh,\\nsweet pity angel of healing and of consolation If thou hast\\nn home on earthy it should be in the breast of a Christian\\nBishop, causing liim,^ like his Master, as he looks upon the\\nguilty city, to weep over it, teaching him where men discover\\nonly the sin, to recognize the sorrow, where men condemn, to\\nutter words of absolution. Gentle pity be thou in our\\nhearts, and how tenderly shall we bind up the spiritual wound,\\nand how patiently will the sufferer endure the pains of heal-\\ning and then in the presence of wrong and outragOj of veiled\\nhypocrisy and shameless effrontery, who can as the pitiful\\n;ind the gentle abash the scorner and terrify the wrongdoer,\\nwliile he denounces against them the judgments of the ]\\\\rost\\nHigli! Such is the example afforded by this Chief Bishop\\namong His flock ruling His people prudently, with all His\\npower, yet gentle among them even as a nurse cherisheth her\\nchildren.\\nI pass on to consider\\nIII- The Chief Shepherd, with Kevere.xce be it\\nSpoken, iisr the Personal Characteristics of\\nHis Episcopate.\\nHow overwhelming is the thought that He, the sinless\\none, used self-discipline; the discipline of fastings, watchings\\nand voluntary retirement; that He, the all-wise, chose not the\\ntwelve, but after a night spent in prayer! that He illustrated\\nby His example what He taught iis in precept, of certain", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 175\\nfierce professions, this kind can come forth by nothing but\\nby prayer and fasting.\\nliow single minded was lie in Ilis work What cared\\nHe for on earth save the welfare of His infant Chnrch\\nWhat were meat and drink to Him save as they strengthened\\nHim for this gracious task and yet how void was He of all\\nasceticism Pie came eating and drinking like other men\\nHe dined with the rich man on the Sabbath day Pie was\\nknown as the friend of publicans and sinners He disregarded\\nthe ablutions and artificial tests of piety, of which the religion-\\nists of that day made so much. We are not left without\\nnumerous intimations of a constant regard to the welfare of\\nHis flock in His life and conduct. Recall such passages as\\nthese: For their sakes I sanctify Myself; Notwithstand-\\ning lest we offend them, do thus and so. The good shep-\\nherd (He seems here as in soliloquy, to utter the secret of\\nHis own pastorate), Svhen he putteth forth his own sheep,\\ngoeth before them. While I was with them in the world,\\nI kept them in Thy name. These and the like utterances\\nassure us how deeply the chief Pastor realized the respon-\\nsibility laid upon Him in the guidance of the flock, and how\\nHe ordered all His life with reference to that responsibility.\\nThus, brethren beloved in the Lord, have I attempted to\\nspeak to you of a theme which I am not able to expound. But\\nthus much, perchance, our poor words may have impressed\\nupon you for a moment, that the blessed Jesus, King, and\\nPriest_; and Prophet, is our Bishop, too One who has borne\\nthe pastoral staff on earth, and who did thus bear it, not only\\nin love for the flock, but for the guidance of such as He\\nshould set over them in the latter days. Well may we study\\nthis pattern and well may the Church seek to put in her chief\\nplaces Bishops eminent for those qualities which makes them\\nmost like the Chief Bishop men of lofty self-consecration,\\nmen of gentle hearts, men of prudence and discretion men\\nAvho will take heed to themselves and to all the flock over\\nwhich the Holy Ghost hath made them overseers.\\nInto this company of Pastors, my brother-elect, it is now\\nmy privilege to welcome you. We have diligently inquired", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "176 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nconcerning von and however severe may be the ordeal, let\\nnone complain that the Church should be jealous in behalf of\\nher Episcopate, and should carefully scrutinize the qualifica-\\ntions of such as are jDresented to her for so holy a trust.\\nI am bold to say to you that the results of this inquiry\\nhave been satisfactory. God has not left you destitute of His\\nmanifold gifts, nor yet of grace to use them for His honor and\\nglory in your ministry heretofore. Well may we, in view\\nof the past, anticipate for you an Episcopate of solid merit\\nand of steadily increasing usefulness.\\nYou go forth to a new country, an untried office, among\\na stranger flock. You are to diffuse abroad that Gospel\\nwhich teaches as its sublimest truth that there is sympathy in\\nheaven for man. Let that same word be your comfort in\\nevery trouble Henceforth there is to be another bond of\\nsympathy between you and your blessed Lord. He himself\\nwas Bishop upon earth He knows the trial and the burden\\nof the office. In becoming a Bishop, you pass in some things\\nbeyond the limits of ordinary sympathies, but you go up into\\na nearer and closer intimacy and communion with Him\\nwho gathered first the flock and guided them a little way\\nwith His own hand before He resigned them to our care.\\nIt is not presumptuous to affirm that He has a special tender-\\nness for His faithful copartners in this work, and that when\\nwe reach the farther shore He will stand ready to greet us\\nwith peculiar rewards of grace.\\nLean then upon the Chief Shepherd, and take His Epis-\\ncopate in its great features as the pattern of your own. No\\nhuman art can make a good and efficient Bishop. That man\\nwill most excel who, with childlike simplicity, copies the one\\nperfect exemplar.\\nOh, my Brother! take good heed to the three things\\nwhicli stand forth so ])lainly in the chief ministry of tlio\\nSon of God. Cherish your clergy. Be the chief mission-\\nary within your Diocese. Show yourself a pattern of good\\nworks, and you will not live in vain. The erring shall be\\nbrought into the fold of Christ. Brethren shall dwell\\nfogf tlicr in nnitv. Your Diocese shall increase in strenjjth", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 177\\nand saintliness, and at the last when the Chief Shepherd shall\\nappear receive a crown of glory that f adetli not away\\nPerhaps the domestic side of Bishop Lay s life could\\nnot be more simply or more attractively given than in the\\nletters to one of his parishioners, which are here transcribed.*\\nA. D. 18661869.\\nHuntsville, Ala., July 23, 1866.\\nMy Dear Mrs. Cantrell\\nI have been here some ten days with my little flock\\naround me. I find Mrs. Lay quite well and the little girl\\nhas gotten quite fat. She has no muscle to speak of, but\\nshe is content to lie on her back and kick for an hour at a\\ntime. This change from complete emaciation, and within\\nabout three weeks, we feel to be a great blessing. Henry\\ncomes back to us in good health, and has, I hope, done well\\nat school. I am considering what to do with him next year.\\nOh that we could have good schools in Arkansas\\nThe unexpected summons to Helena has deranged my\\nplans for the summer. I became sick and found it would\\nnot do to travel on steamboat in July. I hardly know what\\nmy arrangements will be, only, if cholera does not prevent, I\\nshall have to go north before I return to Arkansas. T long\\nfor the time when I shall have a home and be able to concen-\\ntrate my efforts. Our parish is in good hands and I hope\\n]\\\\Ir. Robertf will find much encouragement in his labors. I\\nam anxious to make it a model parish in spirituality and in\\nmissionary zeal. The Church music here is at present\\nmainly performed by the children and is very SAveet. They\\nchant the Psalter very well. I will bring back all the good\\nideas I can pick up. I have always a vei\\\\y affectionate recol-\\n*Bishop Tjay s first parish was in Princess Anne County Virginia, the birth-place\\nof the Annalist.\\ntAccented on the last .syllable.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "178 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nlection of your hospitable home. Remember me most kindly\\nto the Doctor, to Miss Mary,* and all the girls, especially\\nkiss the baby for me.\\nWe have lately heard of the death of two saints very\\ndear to us. The first was Mrs. Shipp, of Lincolnton, IST. C,\\none of the loveliest women I ever knew. We were perfect\\nstrangers to her; but she could not have been kinder if Mrs.\\nLay had been her own sister. The other is Mrs. Lay s great\\naunt, Mrs. Walker, of Petersbi-sj-g, with whom she lived for\\nsome nine years while at school. She was a woman of re-\\nmarkable judgment and strong will. A widow of 55 years,\\nshe gave all her thoughts and efforts to the Church. She\\nkept open house for the clergy and was known everywhere as\\nGood Aunt Walker. The day of judgment alone will reveal\\nhow much good that quiet, sickly woman did in this wicked\\nworld. She was so giad to be released from sickness and\\npain. It is a comfort to know that there are such good\\npeople passing away into rest. May many such grow up in\\nArkansas\\nMost truly your friend,\\nHENRY C. LAY.\\nMrs. Cantrell, Little Rock.\\nThere is another extract from a letter w^-itten three\\nyears later, after he had arrived at his new Diocese, dated\\nEaston, Md., April 28, 1S69.\\nMy Dear Mrs. Cantrell\\nOur journey was a very fatiguing one, the more so,\\nfor the many friends and acquaintances who occupied us at\\nour halting places. We were taken possession of immedi-\\nately on our arrival by Mr. and Mrs. Golsborough, and car-\\nried to a hospitable home, where we shall spend some weeks.\\nThey have thrown themselves very heartily into our\\naffairs, and will relieve us of much care and trouble in set-\\ntling ourselves. The town of Easton is about a mile from\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Miss Mary E. Harrell.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS Of CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 179\\nthe water. The steamboat runs in about five hours from\\nBaltimore to Easton Point, the landing for the town. Just\\nacross a creek from Easton Point is a large farm of Dr.\\nAdkins. He has just removed into town and rents us his\\nfarm home, with the garden, grounds and stables. The\\nview is beautiful, looking out upon the salt water. Plenty\\nof green grass and shady trees. The house is handsome,\\nwith six large rooms and a tower of three stories, each story\\ngiving a nicely finished room 16 x 16. There are porches\\nand blinds enough to make it cool in summer. We expect\\nto warm the main part of the house, five rooms and passages,\\nwith two stoves, burning hard coal. They have here what\\nthey call self-feeders. The fire burns only at the bottom\\nand the coal settles down as it is consumed, so that the stove\\nburns straight ahead for twenty-four hours.\\nWe have an icehouse besides, and buy milk from a\\ndairy on the farm. ]\\\\ly little boys are amusing themselves\\nto-day cutting asparagus, which grows wild along the water s\\nedge.\\nSo we shall be comfortable, you see. We shall have\\ntroubles and trials I doubt not. I see enough to know^ that\\nit will require energy and prudence to develop the Diocese.,\\nBut we trust to be guided aright. With much love to the\\nDoctor, the girls, and the baby, and all friends,\\nYours affectionately,\\nHENRY C. LAY.\\nA. D. 1 859-1 866. About the time Dr. J. T. Wheat was\\ninstalled as Bector of Christ Church, Little Bock, or not long\\nafter, Bev. Henry C. Lay, of The Church of the Nativity,\\nin Huntsville, Ala., was consecrated Missionary Bishop of the\\nSouthwest, which included Arkansas. He made a visitation\\nin the spring of 1S59, but having chosen Fort Smith as a place\\nof residence, he did not remove his family to Little Bock\\nuntil 1866. Dr. Wheat joined the Confederate army as\\nchaplain in 1863. After his resignation, Bishop Lay was", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "180 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nelected Rector of Christ Churchy and for a time performed\\nthe duties of both offices Bishop and Presbyter. He made\\nhis lodging in the Vestry room of the Church and took his\\nmeals at the homes of his parishioners, successively. In this\\nway his flock came to know him intimately and to love him.\\nDignity, combined with gentleness, gave to his manner an\\nunusual charm which was heightened by a voice of singular\\nsweetness. This, with the friendly humor and sympathy\\nthat marked his intercourse with children, caused them to\\nbecome his loyal subjects. When he, with his family, arrived\\nfrom Alabama after peace had been established, Mr. and Mrs.\\nGilbert Knapp received them at their hospitable home on\\nSeventh street and Rector avenue. Afterwards they began\\nhousekeeping in the cottage on southeast corner of Sixth and\\nSherman streets. The eldest son, Henry, had been left behind\\nat school, and two sturdy boys, George and Bierne, with baby\\nBettie, formed tlu? household. When the Bishop returned\\nfrom the Pan-Anglican Conference of Bishops at London,\\nwhich was held at Lambeth Palace, he occasionally indulged\\nin a jocose reference to the Bishop s Palace, at Little Rock.\\nHe afterwards bought the property now owned by Colonel\\nJames Mitchell, on Fifteenth and Spring. To the original\\nbuilding he added, on the southwest corner, a commodious\\nstudy. This was well equipped with books and I doubt\\nwhctlier he would have exchanged with the Archbishop of\\nCanterbury, when once established. On one occasion the\\nwriter was entertained in this study. After discussing the\\nnew books and magazines, he said Here is a charming\\npoem, that I will read to you, if I may. Of course there\\nwas but one reply. Witli tones that made music to the Avords,\\nhe read", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 181\\nCHRIST AND THE LITTLE ONES.\\nThe ]\\\\Iaster has come over Jordan,\\nSaid Hannah, the mother, one day\\nHe is healing the people who throng Him,\\nWith a touch of his finger, they say.\\nAnd now I shall carry the children,\\nLittle Rachel, and Samuel, and John,\\nI shall carry the baby, Esther,\\nFor the Lord to look upon.\\nThe father looked at her kindly.\\nBut he shook his head and smiled\\nNow who but a doting mother\\nWould think of a thing so wild\\nIf the children were tortured by demons.\\nOr dying of fever, twere well\\nOr had they the taint of the leper.\\nLike many in Israel.\\nNay, do not hinder me, Nathan,\\nI feel such a burden of care\\nIf I carry it to the Master,\\nPerhaps I shall leave it there.\\nIf he la} His hand on the children\\nlly heart will be lighter I know.\\nFor a blessing forever and ever\\nWill follow them as they go.\\nSo over the hills of Judah,\\nAlono bv the vine rows sreen,\\nW^ith Esther asleep on her bosom\\nAnd Rachel, her brothers between.\\nMid the people who hung on His teaching\\nOr waited His touch and His word,\\nThrough the row of proud Pharisees listening.\\nShe j)ressed to the feet of the Lord.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "182 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nXow wliv sliouklst thou hinder the Master?\\nSaid Peter, with children like these\\nSeest not how from morning to evening\\nHe teacheth and healeth disease f\\nThen Christ said, Forbid not the children,\\nPermit them to come unto Me I\\nAnd he took in His arms little Esther,\\nAnd Rachel he set on his knee;\\nAnd the heavy heart of the mother\\nWas lifted all earthcare above,\\nAs he laid His hand on the brothers\\nAnd blest them with tenderest love;\\nAs he said of the babes in His bosom^\\nOf such are the kingdom of heaven,\\nAnd strength for all duty and trial\\nThat hour to her spirit was given.\\nJulia Gill.\\nIt is a comfort to think that the mothers were objects of\\nsympathy, to one v/hose beautiful utterances and persuasive\\neloquence had moved the reverend assembly of Bishops\\nSurely a shepherd after the pattern of his Master As his\\nEpiscopal duties crowded in upon him. Bishop Lay called to\\nhis assistance, with the consent of the congregation, the Rev.\\nP. G. Robert, of Virginia, late chaplain in the Southern\\narmy, who, in the course of a year, was elected Rector of\\nChrist Church, the Bishop resigning all duty except that of\\nhis Episcopate. The Bishop was not robust in physique,\\nand as he would set out in his ambulance to scale the moun-\\ntains of Arkansas, his physician, Dr. Cantrell, would add\\nmany little comforts, that he foresaw would be needed to\\nstrengthen him on the route. He was better adapted to wield\\na pen whose influence would be felt through the confines of\\nthe Anglican Church than to carry the Gospel in person as a", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 183\\nmissionary. So that he was translated to the Diocese of\\nEaston in 1869, and Christ Church lost her most beautiful\\nlecturer and sermonizer. One Good Friday sermon, Alone\\nYet I am iSTot Alone, Because the Father is With Me, and\\nanother Easter sermon, Who Shall Roll us Away the Stone\\nfrom the Door of the Sepulchre V will never be forgotten\\nhere.\\nAfter Little Rock was occupied by the Federal army the\\nhurch was appropriated for a hospital for the sick soldiers.\\nBishop Lay was the guest of Judge Ringo at that time and\\ninaugurated home services, which were conducted by lay\\nreaders at private houses, principally at the homes of Judge\\nRingo and Mrs. Judge Watkins, the Sunday School organ\\nhaving been moved from house to house to lead the singing.\\nWhen the Church was cleared of the sick, the Rev. E, Steele\\nPeek, chaplain of General Steele s division, held the usual\\nSunday services there. A few of the Sunday School teachers\\ni-eturned to their charge. Mr. Peek inquired for the Sun-\\nday School organ. LeaT ning that it was at the house of\\nJudge W^atkins, he requested one of the teachers to ask that\\nit be returned to the Church. At that time such a request\\nwas felt to equal a command. Still Mrs. Watkins hesitated\\nto comply, without advice from the Vestrymen of the Church.\\nAnother request was forwarded to her from Mr. Peek and the\\norgan was delivered up and placed at the head of the aisle,\\nnear the chancel in the Church. For several Sundays the\\nservices went on peacefully. Mr. Peek was an upright,\\nhumane. Christian minister, bent on doing his duty. None\\nfelt the premonition of the explosion which soon followed.\\nOne Sunday morning at Sunday School, Mr. Peek was\\nobserved to go from class lo class interviewing each teacher.\\nAt length he announced in deprecating tones, to the consterna-", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "184 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\ntion of all, that the organ had been taken from the Church!\\nFor some time subsequently a vain search was made for the\\nmissing instrument. After many months it was traced to a\\nChurch in one of the Xorthwestern States, where it had been\\nsent by the Federal soldiers, probablv those who had been\\nsheltered there in sickness, as confiscated property It was\\nnever returned, to Mr. Peek s undying chagrin. He did\\neverything in his power to show his sympathy to a conquered\\nfoe, and won the love and gratitude of the community by his\\ndaily ministrations until death to the heroic martyr^ David\\nO. Dodd, who was executed as a spy, January 8, 1864.\\nREV. P. G. ROBERT.*\\nRev. P. G. Robert was first called from Virginia as as-\\nsistant to Bishop Lay in the duties of Rector, but soon suc-\\nceeded to the full charge as Rector. From The Church News,\\nthe official paper of the Diocese of Missouri, Rt. Rev. D. S.\\nJ uttle, D. D., Bishop, volume 26, St. Louis, June 15, 1895,\\nthe following corrected abstract of his life has been taken\\nA. D. 1827. Mr. Robert was born in Richmond, Va.,\\nDecember 16, 1827. He is the son of John Gibson Robert, of\\na Picard family, which traces back to the twelfth century;\\nand of Amanda P. McRae, a lineal descendant of the Lord of\\nthe Isles. Ho received his preparatory education in the\\nRichmond Academy, in the private school of Rev. Geo. A.\\nSmith, at Clarens, near Alexandria. It was said of Mr.\\nSmith that he was as near to saintship as men ever get on\\ntliis earth. Mr. Robert informs our interviewer that since\\nthen he has pulled through by main force and stupidity.\\nHo was for a time clerk in Colonel Walter D. Blair s grocery\\nin Richmond, and subsequently in the counting room of John\\nD. Mayben, a large dealer in Virginia and Kentuckv tobacco.\\n*Acc \u00c2\u00abnted on the second syHaT)le.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "REV. P. G. ROBERT.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 185\\nId 1846 his attention was turned toward the ministry, and he\\nwent to Clarens to brush up his Latin and Grreek, and entered\\nthe Theological Seminary, Alexandria, the next year. He\\npassed his examinations under such men as Drs. Sparrow,\\nMay, and Packard; which examinations, Mr. Robert insists\\nto doubting ears were far more rigid and severe than those\\nhe inflicts upon the candidates who fall into his hands now\\nas examining chaplain and was ordained to the Diaconate by\\nBishop Meade, July 12, 1850, at Christ Church, Alexandria.\\nHe was advanced to the Priesthood by Bishop Johns, Decem-\\nber 18, 1851, at Christ Church, Bruton Parish, Williams-\\nburgh, Kev. Chas. Minnegerode and Rev. Edmund Withers,\\nexaminers. His first duty was assistant to the Rector of St.\\nJames Church, Richmond, then he was ordered by Bishop\\nMeade to Meherrin Parish, Greensville County, and took\\ncharge as Rector-elect, October 6, 1850, where he remained\\nfor eight years. He married while there Elizabeth Scott,\\nOctober 5, 1854. Erom 1858 to 1861 he was Rector of\\nChrist Church, Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, and St.\\nAndrew s, Southwark Parish, Surrey County, a Parish of\\nwhich liis great grandfather. Rev. Christopher McRae, was\\nRector in Colonial times. On the breaking out of the Civil\\nWar, Mr. Robert was commissioned chaplain in the Confed-\\nerate States army, and served in the Second Louisiana,\\nThirty-fourth Virginia Regiments, Second Corps, A. IST. V.,\\nuntil he was surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse, April 9,\\n1865. He was in nine general engagements, many skirm-\\nishes, and several affairs and tells his friends that he is en-\\ntitled to write P. P. after his name, which means Paroled\\nPrisoner, or Parish Priest, whichever you like. x\\\\.fter the\\nwar, he tauglit school and jdoughed for a year, when Bishop\\nLay invited him to Little Rock, Ark. He was assistant for\\none year and Rector for two years of Christ Church, Little\\nRock, and in 1869 came to St. Louis, and began to build up\\nthe Parish of the Holy Communion, preaching his first ser-\\nmon as Rector July 6 of that year. Mr. Robert has made\\nhis impress upon the Church life of St. Louis, and always\\nheld important trusts in the counsels of the Church, and has", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "186 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nalso kept an interest, and been an influence in the welfare of\\nsociety and the citv, outside of his immediate work.\\nKev. ^fr. Tvobert is a rare type of a Christian Apostle.\\nHe presents a combination of virtues courage, steadfastness,\\nunswerving faith, unquestioning obedience, together with a\\ngreat underlying tenderness. He is a man among men, even\\nthough consecrated to the life of isolation, usually assigned to\\nministers of the Gospel a man who holds the key to man s\\nnature and knows how to adapt it who, while honoring the\\nfemale sex as a great throng of handmaidens of the Lord by\\nelection, seeks to reach and strengthen those of his own as\\nbeing in more deadly danger from the assaults of the enemy\\nwho holds a visible, though perhaps unspoken, scorn for a\\nAvillful villian, but a heart full of great compassion for a\\nrepentant prodigal a man, who, being the type of a soldier-\\napostle, has left an impression, large, chivalrous and indelible\\non all the people of Little Eock, irrespective of sect, and an\\ninfluence which will be undying.\\nBetween Bishop Lay and his assistant, afterwards his\\nsuccessor as Parish Rector, there was an abiding friendship,\\nsealed perhaps by their experiences as prisoners of war. In\\nthe wide divergence of paths which separated them after four\\nyears of comradeship and apostolic companionship, this affec-\\ntion never failed. Each pressed on to the same goal, the one\\nas the faithful Shepherd of the sheep, during twenty-six years\\nof leadership, reaching it first; the other scouring the outposts\\nfoi- wandering sinners, viewiiiii the end from a calvary of\\nsuffering, but still sounding the cheerful call of invitation,\\nrather than icarninr/. Come and seer\\nAfter Mr. Bobert had completed that portion of the\\nChurch ot the Holy Cumnmnion designed for the chapel, in", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 187\\nSt. Louis, to which place he had been called from Little Rock,\\nhe made a journey to the Holy Land and shared the pleasures\\nof the Oriental visit with his parishioners in weekly letters to\\nhis parish paper. These were graphic and interesting and\\nmuch enjoyed. Mr. Robert Avas a power in the Sunday\\nSchool. The festivals at Easter were conducted with enthusi-\\nasm. He also prepared for the Sunday School of the Holy\\nCommunion Questions on the Llarmony of the Gospels, the\\nCatechism and the Theme of Each Sunday. He is now an\\ninvalid with some heart trouble, but his trustful, loving words\\nstill warm the hearts and poiiit the hopes of his legions of\\nfriends. A scheme for an Orphanage in Little Rock origin-\\nated with him. The sum of $340 or $350 had been loaned\\nto the Vestry in the first year of Rev. P. G. Robert s Rector-\\nship, M hich was a sum collected by him towards starting an\\norphanage, says a correspondent. I remember the circum-\\nstance well, she continues, because Mr. Robert told me at\\nthe time that everything was contributed, even brooms for the\\nhouse. Then he looked for the orphans and could find none\\nto put in it Therefore the money was loaned to the Vestry\\na long loan, for when I left Little Rock, I suppose not less\\nthan ten years afterward, no account of it had been given.\\nIn reference to this orphanage scheme, Mr. Robert writes\\nThe loan to the Vestry and the failure to find orphans\\nis correct. My Lutheran communicants used to adopt every\\norphan child they could find, according to their loving custom,\\nGod bless them\\nBut the scheme was revived when orphans became more\\nplentiful, and at this date, October, 1898, there is an Orphans\\nHome established on Fifth and Connnerce streets, under the\\nguardianship of Mrs. James Mitchell, president Mrs. J. W.\\nBeidelman, vice president; Mrs. John Fletcher, secretary;", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "188 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nMrs. John Levering Matthews, assistant secretary, and Mrs.\\nHelen Norton, treasurer. There are twenty-eight inmates.\\nOf these five are babies.\\nThe children of Rev. P. G. and Elizabeth Scott Robert\\nare:\\n1. John Gihson. who married Miss Mary Thweatt Wil-\\nson, of Richmond, Va. They have one child, John Gibson\\nRobert, Jr.\\n2. Edward Scott, unmarried. Born in Virginia.\\n3. Dent Hayes, unmarried. Born in Virginia.\\n4. Douglas Wilkens. Born in Little Rock. Married\\nEliza Clendenin.\\n5. Lee Edward Roljert (Robert E. Lee reversed), un-\\nmarried. Born in St. Louis, Mo.\\nTwo daughters have gone before, Amanda and Bessie.\\nThe members of the Vestry during the incumbency of\\nRev. P. G. Robert were L. E. Barber, Senior ^Yarden John\\nWassell, Junior Warden; Wm. B. Wait, Treasurer; S. L.\\nGriffith, Gw^mn Barber, W. A. Cantrell, Daniel Ringo, U. M.\\nRose, T. J. Churchill, B. C. Trapnall, Gordon N. Peay.\\nThe organist was Dr. J. W. Beidelman. The choir was\\ncomposed of Mrs. Mary Ellen Ives, nee Tucker, afterwards\\nMrs. Strong, Miss Laura Tucker, afterwards Mrs. Hardy,\\nMiss Annie Reardon, afterwards Mrs. P. Raleigh, Miss\\nEmma Scott, aftei-wai-ds Mrs. James Lawson, Miss Johnanna\\nScott, afterwards JMrs. Clay Ro Bards, Miss Johanna Krause,\\nafterwards Mrs. Peter Hotze, Miss Alice Compton, afterwards\\n^Irs. George Weaver, General Albert Bishop, Major Smith,\\nIT. S. A., Lieutenant Post, U. S. A., Lieutenant Gregory,\\nU. S. A.. T. W. Bankes.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 189\\nFORMER CHRIST CHURCH RECTOR.\\n[ArkcDisas Democrat^ December 15, 1898.]\\nRev. P. G. Robert, who will be remembered by old citi-\\nzens as Rector of Christ Church in the sixties, has tendered\\nhis resignation as Rector of the Ej)iscopal Church of the Holy\\nCommunion, St. Louis, after nearly thirty years continuous\\nservice. Dr. Robert s determination to resign was reached\\nafter much consideration of the subject, and at the earnest\\nsolicitation of his physician. The reverend gentleman is suf-\\nfering from an affection of the heart, which causes serious\\nillness whenever he exerts himself too vigorously.\\nDr. Robert was the founder of the Church from which\\nhe proposes to resign. He has been its only Rector. He\\nhas also been for many vears the examining chaplain of the\\nDiocese. His resignation as Rector carries with it the resig-\\nnation fi-om this office.\\nFrom the Hot Springs (Ark.) Commercial, of date\\nDecember 10, 1898, we transfer the following notice of the\\nwife of the former Rector of Christ Church\\nSOMETHING ABOUT A DISTINGUISHED LADY\\nDELEGATE\\nTO THE ATIOXAL UNITED DAl CillTEliS OF THE COXFEDEKACY\\nCIIAPTEK, WHICH COX VEXED HERE LAST WEEK.\\nMrs. P. G. Robert, a delegate representing the Daugh-\\nters of the Confederacy, of St. Louis, Mo., at the convention\\nor chapter which met in this city on the 9th ult., was a Miss\\nBettie Scott, of Henrico County, Va. (in which is the city of\\nRichmond), having spent portions of her early life in Louis-\\niana at her father s sugar plantation. She is a niece of the\\ndistinguished officer who commanded the armies of the United\\nStates in the war with Mexico, and still the ranking officer at\\nthe beginning of the Civil War. ]\\\\[ajor-General Wintield Scott.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "190 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nMiss Scott married in Kicliiiiond an Episcopal minister,\\nwho served during the war as chaplain in Stonewall Jackson s\\nfoot cavalry; carried a rifle^ and sometimes shot it, as he\\nsavs, in self-defense. He went on Jackson s long marches\\nas often on foot as mounted and was near him when he met\\nhis calamitous death most calamitous for the cause of the\\nSouth as it proved for had Jackson been with Lee, who called\\nhim his right arm, the latter had not lost the battle of\\nGettysburg and with it the Southern cause, as Great Britain\\nwas ready to intervene if Lee had won that battle.\\n^Irs. Robert, thoueh the mother of five 2;rown sons, two\\nof whom are lawyers, one an editor, and one a doctor, in St.\\nLouis, is a comely lady, who does not appear to have passed\\nthe vigor of her prime for, though somewhat fleshy, her\\nluxuriant tresses do not indicate the rapid advance of age.\\nShe is jovial and kind, but of marked decision of character,\\nand possessed of the power of exercising an influence over\\nothers. Her husband is Rector of the Church of the Holy\\nCommunion in St. Louis, able, zealous and greatly esteemed.\\nSlie has been so long an Episco])al Rector s wife and made it\\na duty to her Cluircdi and her husband to learn human nature,\\nthat she is tactful and confident in her intercourse with ladies\\nin all social I elations. She made her impress upon the con-\\nvention in many ways, as it was to that end she was urged by\\nlicr associates in St. Louis to attend the convention. IS ot\\ngiven to any disposition to shine in oratory, or to any\\nfondness for display of hatever character, she was keenly\\nalive to every detail of the proceedings, and promptly sliared\\nin debate when she deemed it appropriate.\\nDuring one of the sittings a point of order was endeav-\\nored to be settled upon the authority of a ruling of Speaker\\nR( (1, of the laiited States House of Representatives. l\\\\[rs.\\nRobert was quickly on her feet and asked:\\nIs his, the speaker s, course to be reasonably thought\\nto furnish so high a standard of parliamentary law? Is he\\nnot rather distinguished as a violator of parliamentary rules;\\na ])arlianientary despot, whom one of the members of Con-\\ngress of this State has called a counterfeit of the Czar V Let", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 191\\nUS not coiidnet our proceedings n})on the practices of Tliomas\\nBracket Reed, who is chiefly distinguished, like another ^ton\\nof a man, for Svrenching the true cause the false way. She\\nthen ex])lained her idea of the unfairness of enforcing the rule\\nproposed in her genial and matronly vcRj- Czar Reed s\\nj)recedent was ignored.\\nMrs. Robert attended through the entire session, was\\npresent at all excursions and festivities. There was none\\nwho became acquainted with her who did not instantly\\nadmire her and even love her. She was but one of this gather-\\ning of many splendid women who met t honor the memory\\nof the Southern soldier.\\nREV. IIEismY HOB ART :\\\\10RRELL.\\nA. D. 1827-1889. Bee. Hennj llohaH Morrell suc-\\nceeded the Rev. P. G. Robert as Rector of Christ Church. He\\nw^as born May 17, 1827; ordained Priest by Bishop Mcll-\\nvaine in Trinity Church, Columbus, Ohio, March 14, 1856,\\nand married October 21 of the same year to [Mary Elizabeth\\nBadger, and was in charge of the Church at Dayton, Ohio,\\nat the time he was ordained Priest. In 1809 he accepted a\\ncall to Christ Church, Avhere his work was especially good\\namong the poor and needy, his legacy to his successor having\\nbeen a huge hamper basketful of clothing that he had col-\\nlected from the congregation for distribution among convales-\\ncent small-pox patients. He resigned the position during the\\nfall of 1870. Six years after the death of his wife, in 1875,\\nhe married a widow, Mrs. Annie Ramage Smith, of Knox-\\nville, Tenn., where he had assumed charge of St. John s\\nChurch from April, 1881, to February, 1886. Following\\nthis he was engaged in missionary work in Georgia and\\nFlorida and West Virginia. He died at Wheeling, W. Va.,\\nJanuarv 2, 18S1). There were six children:", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "192 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nEmma J., unmarried.\\nMary J., married Charles Henry Waring, of Knoxville,\\nTennessee.\\nLeonard Mcllvaine, who died June 17, 1877, aged 15\\nyears.\\nCharles K., unmarried.\\nNorman Blake, unmarried.\\nJohn Hampton, unmarried.\\nThe consecration of Henry jSTiles Pierce to the Bishopric\\noccurred at this time, who succeeded Mr. Morrell for a limited\\ntime as Rector of Christ Church as well as Bishop of the\\njurisdiction of Arkansas and Indian Territory.\\nFrom The Little Roch Churchman February, 1888, the\\nfollowing reference to this Rector is taken\\nThe Rev. Mr. Degen s paper, The Diocese of Arkan-\\nsas, has reappeared, after a suspension of six months. The\\ncontents evince conscientious industry.\\nThe leading article is a historical sketch of Christ\\nChurch, Little Rock, illustrated by a beautiful engraving of\\nthe edifice. The materials at the command of the writer\\nwere evidently meager, e. g., no mention is made of the Rec-\\ntorship of the Rev. Dr. Morrell (1869-70), whose ministry\\namidst great difficulties was most faithful.\\nThe history of this parish remains to be written.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "RT. REV. HENRY NILES PIERCE, D. D., LL. D.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 193\\nRT. REV. HENRY NILES PIERCE, D. D., LL. D.\\nA. D. 1 820-1 869. Bt. Rev. Henry Nilcs Pierce, D. D.\\nLL. D., fourth Missionary Bishop of Arkansas and Indian\\nTerritory, was born in Pawtucket, R. I., on the 19th day of\\nOctober, 1820. He was the son of Benjamin Bentley\\nPierce, a Deacon in the Baptist Church at Pawtucket, R. L,\\nwho was born in East Greenwieli, R. I., in 1786, and died in\\n1839. His mother was Susan Walker, born in Pawtucket,\\nR. I., March 21, 1784, and died July 30, 1869. The history\\nof the Walker family, of the old Plymouth colony, fills a\\nvolume of 450 pages. His grandfather was Moses Pierce, a\\nship captain, who died at sea about the year 1791, when his\\nson, Benjamin Bentley Pierce, was only 5 years old. He was\\nthe great great grandson of John. Pierce of East Greenwich,\\nR. I., who had removed from Newport.\\nA. D. 1842-1854. The parents of Rt. Rev. Henry N.\\nPierce were both members of the Baptist Church, and at the\\nage of 16 he was baptized into and remained a communicant\\nof the same Church for five years. He left the Baptist\\nChurch because he found to his satisfaction that that Cluirch\\noriginated in the sixteenth century, and liad no descent from\\napostolic times. He became a communicant of the Episcopal\\nChurch when about 21 years old. On joining it he was\\nhypothetieally baptized. He gvraduated at Brown University,\\nProvidence, R. I., in 1842; was ordained Deacon at Christ\\nChurch, Matagorda, Texas, April 23, 1848, by the Rt. Rev.\\nGeorge Washington Freeman, D. D. ordered Priest in the\\nsame Church on January 3, 1849, by the same prelate. From\\nMay, 1848, to May, 1852, four years, he labored as Mission-\\nary at Bre7iham, Washington, Independence and Chapel Hill,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "194 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nin Washington County, Texas was the first minister of the\\nEpiscopal Church that ever settled there. From 1852 to\\nthe spring of 1851 he was Rector of Christ Church, Mata-\\ngorda, Texas. At that place he married, April 18, 1854,\\nMiss Nannie Haywood Sheppard, who was born near Selma,\\nAla., March 6, 1830, the daughter of Ahram Sheppard, a\\nsugar planter and slaveholder, who was a native of North\\nCarolina. Her mother was Eleanor Wallace, of Scotch,\\nIrish, and Swiss descent.\\nMrs. Pierce Is the niece of the wife of William Henry\\nHaywood, a leading lawyer at Raleigh, and, for a time. United\\nStates Senator from Xorth Carolina. She was educated at\\nSt. Marv s School, Raleigh, X. C.\\nA. D. 1854 1880. In June, 1S54, Rev. H. X. Pierce\\ntook temporary charge of Trinity Church, New Orleans, but\\nleft there in December following. In the spring of 1855\\nhe became Rector of St. Paul s Church, Rahway, jST. -J.,\\nand continued in charge until 1857. In October of 1857,\\nhe became Rector of St. John s Free Church, in ^Mobile, Ala.,\\nwhere his income, dependent upon the offering alone,\\namounted to $3,000 per annum until 1868. He established\\nthere the Church Home for Orphans. While residing there\\nin 18C1-G2, he translated Muhlbach s Henry VIII. He re-\\nceived the degree of D. D. from the University of Alabama,\\nat Tuscaloosa, in 1862, and that of LL, D. from the college\\nof William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., in 1869. From\\nMobile, Dr. Pierce went to Springfield, 111., where he was\\nRector and Dean of Springfield from November, 1865, to\\nJanuary 1, 1870. On January 25, 1870, he was consecrated\\nBisho]) of Arkansas and Indian Territory, in Chi-ist Church,\\nMobile, Ala., by Rt. Rev. William Mercer Green, D. D.,\\nBishop of Mississippi, assisted by Rt. Rev. Henry John", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 195\\nWliitc4iouse, D. D., LL. D., Oxon; D. C. L., Bishop of\\nIllinois Rt. Rev. Richard Hooker Wilmer, D. D., Bishop of\\nAlabama Rt. Rev. Charles Todd Quintard, S. T. D., LL. D.,\\nBishop of Tennessee; Rt. Rev. Josej^h P. B. Wilmer, I). D.,\\nBishop of Louisiana^ and Rt. Rev. John Freeman Young,\\nS. T. D., Bishop of Florida.\\nIn March, 1870, lie settled in Little Rock, where he now\\nresides in his own home, on Seventeenth and Center streets.\\nHe is a great student and has a library of more than 3,000\\nvolumes. He also owns 3,000 acres of rich, wild lands in\\nMatagorda County, Texas. The children of Bishop and\\nMrs. H. IST. Pierce are as follows\\nAhrdluim Wallace, born in Rahway, X. J. grad-\\nuated at Sewanee TTiiiversity, August, 1877 studied for\\nthe ministry has been Rector of Grace Church, Wash-\\nington, and the C^hurch of Our Redeemer, J^ashville;\\nRocky Comfort mission, Arkansas, and is now the successor\\nof Rev. D. I. Hobbs, at Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock. He\\nis unmarried.\\nHenry WalJicr born in Rahway, N. J.; educated at\\nSewanee; married May 4, 1880, Marie Moffat, of English\\nbirth died of rapid consumption, September, at Mobile, Ala.,\\nwhere, accompanied by his brother, Wallace, he had gone to\\nrecruit his waning strength. He was buried at Little Rock\\nfrom Trinity Cathedral, September 4, 1886, by his father,\\nthe Bishop, assisted by his brother. Rev. A. W. Pierce, of\\nMobile, Ala.\\nElizahelli Powell born in Mobile, Ala. educated at home\\nbv her father, and is ranked in the first class of musicians as\\nan artiste by the musicians of ]N ew York^ where she studied\\nmusic several vears. She M as married at Trinitv Cathedral", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "196 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nto Gerry Austin Lyiiiau, of Boston. Her father performed\\nthe eeremonj\\nSusan Sheppard, the youngest child, was born in Mobile,\\nand educated under the parental roof. She was married to\\nMr. William C. Stevens, son of Bishop Stevens, of Pennsyl-\\nvania. Over the non de plume of Sheppard Stevens, she has\\npublished two novels, I am the King, and Tlie Sword of\\nJustice, both issued previous to the death of her father.\\nBishop Pierce has written sermons, essays, addresses,\\nbesides a volume of verse entitled The Agnostic, with other\\npoems, issued by Thomas Whittaker, New York, in 1884.\\nAt the seventeenth annual Council of the Diocese of Ar-\\nkansas, which was held at Christ Church, Little Rock, May\\n3, 1889, Bishop Pierce formally accepted the office of Dio-\\ncesan, in lieu of ]\\\\Iissionarv Bishop.*\\nFrom The Daily Press Little Rock, of date January 24,\\n1895, the following sketch of the life and services of Bishop\\nPierce is reprinted. It was written on the occasion of the\\ntwenty-fifth anniversary of his consecration as Bishop\\nRT. REV. HENRY NILES PIERCE, D. D., LL. D.\\nTWENTY-KIKTU ANXIVERSARY OF HIS CONSECRATION AS\\nBISHOP- A VERY HAPPY SIIA ER JUBILEE SKETCH\\nOK THE LIFE AND SERVICES OF A MAN WHOM\\nALL ARKANSAS LOVES THE GROWTH OF\\nTHE EPISCOPAL CHURCH,\\nTo-morrow, January 25, will witness an event of more\\nthan ordinary interest, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the\\nconsecration of the Rt. Rev. Henry Niles Pierce, D. D., LL.\\nD., as Bishop in the Church of God. The silver jubilee of\\nthe pastorate of a simple flock, is an event of great interest and\\nof congratulations, l)ut tlie silver jubilee of a Bishop, is a far\\n*Abstrnct from the hiography of Bishop Pierce in The Encyclopedia of the New\\nWest. 18Sl.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 197\\nmore notable event in that the Episcopate is one of the greatest\\nmonumental evidences of the truth of Jesus and the resurrec-\\ntion. Indeed, the Ej^iscopate was raised up for this very\\npurpose, that it should be a witness to the resurrection unto\\nthe end of the world. That one should be spared for a quar-\\nter of a century to participate in this monumental witnessing,\\nis an event that must command the attention of all thoughtful\\nand earnest men.\\nThe Kt. Rev. Henry iles Pierce, D. D., LL. D., the\\nfourth Bishop of the Missionary jurisdiction of Arkansas,\\nand the first Bisliop of the Diocese, Avas born in Pawtucket,\\nP. I., October 19, 1820. He was graduated at Brown Uni-\\nversity in 1842. After passing his theological examination,\\nhe was ordained Deacon April 2o, 184o, so that he has been\\nin the ministry for fifty-two years. On January 3, 1849, he\\nwas advanced to the Priesthood, and was successively Rector\\nof St. John s Church, Mobile, Ala., and St. Paul s Church,\\nSpringfield, 111., his Rectorship of the two parishes covering\\na period of twenty years, or from 1850 to 1870. It Avas\\nwhile he was Rector of St. Paul s Church that he was elected\\nby the House of Bishops to be the Missionary Bishop of the\\njurisdiction of Arkansas and Indian Territory. His conse-\\ncration to the Episcopate took place at Mobile, Ala., on the\\nfeast of the conversion of St. Paul, January 25, 1870, the\\nconsecrating Bishops being Bishops Green, of Mississippi,\\nAVhitehouse, of Illinois R. II. Wilmer, of Alabama Quin-\\ntard, of Tennessee J. P. B. Wilmer, of Louisiana, and\\nYoung, of Florida.\\nIt may not be uninteresting to note that Bishop Pierce\\nwas the ninety-fifth Bishop consecrated in the American line\\nof the Episcopate. Of the Bishops then living there were\\nfifty-one, there being thus fifty Bishops ranking as his seniors\\nin ofiice. During these twenty-five years seventy-nine Bishops\\nhave been consecrated, making 174 in all. Of these eighty-\\ntwo are still living, and Bishop Pierce ranks fifteenth in the\\norder of consecration, thus showing what manifold changes\\nand chances have characterized the history of the House of\\nBishops.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009414\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "198 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nWhen the Bishop took charge of the jurisdiction to\\nwhich he was assigned he entered upon a life of hardship,\\nsacrifice and unreniitting toiL The field he had entered was\\npurely a missionary field, with a few scattered congregations,\\n\\\\-ery feeble, both in means and numbers, and far removed\\nfrom one another. The Episcopal visitations involved great\\nlabor, fatigue and exposure. Only a very strong man physic-\\nally could undertake such work. The only railroad at that\\ntime in the State was the Memphis and Little Rock, and per-\\nhaps some portions of other lines. The great Iron Mountain\\nsystem had not yet been completed. The railroad bridge at\\nLittle Rock was not built until 187:2-73. Traveling in the\\nState was mostly by stages, private conveyances and by boat.\\nErom the Bishop s first published record of visitations the\\nfollowing extracts are given. Lamenting the small attend-\\nance of the clergy and laity at the council, he says\\nT know better than most, it may be, the difficulties of\\ntravel in a State so ill supplied with means of communica-\\ntion as Arkansas is, and therein 1 find a partial excuse for the\\nmany vacancies in this body.\\nMay 2, 1871 Started for Lewisville, but the roads\\nbeing so bad and the carriage out of order, we were obliged\\nto return.\\nMay 8 At 2 o clock in the morning started for Little\\nRock, arriving the next evening.\\nJuly 21 At night took a boat for Fort Smith the boat\\nsmall and very greatly crowded.\\nAugust 18 At 4 a. m. took stage for Camden, and,\\nriding all night, reached my destination next day at 2 p. m.\\nThe above extracts are simply taken at random and give\\nsome idea of the missionary field and work upon which the\\nBishop had entered. The old journals, as well as the later\\nones, show that he traveled as many as 8,000 and 9,000 miles\\neach year, which is a remarkable record of endurance and\\nfaithfulness of purpose.\\nShortly after the Bishop s arrival in the State steps were\\ntaken towards the organizing of the missionary jurisdiction\\nof Arkansas into i Diocese. To this end a convocation was", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 199\\nheld on Ascension Day, ]\\\\lay IS, 1871, at which tlicre were\\npresent seven clergymen and three lay delegates from three\\nparishes. At this meeting a full Diocesan organization was\\ndecided upon and the Bishop was asked to call the primary\\ncouncil of the Diocese of Arkansas to be lield on St. Bartholo-\\nmew s Day, August 24, 1871. This primary council met in\\nChrist Church, Little Eock, on the day appointed, and set\\nforth a constitution and canons, and elected Bishop Pierce as\\nDiocesan. The first annual council was likewise held in\\nChrist Church, Little Rock, on May 9, 1872.\\nOf these early days of the Bishop s Episcopate, very\\nlittle can be found in the way of statistics, showing the condi-\\ntion of the Episcopal Church in the State of Arkansas. But\\nChurch life w^as very feeble, the communicants few in num-\\nber and greatly scattered, and what parishes there were were\\nsimply at the beginning of things. Long years of patient\\ntoil, many discouragements and drawbacks, but withal an\\nabiding hopefulness must be experienced before anything like\\nan assured and confident life could be realized. The Bishop s\\nwork and that of his clergy was foundation work, and with\\nbut small means to carry on even that. But already there\\nare many evidences of life and strength manifested in this\\nstill small Diocese that are an earnest of the future. When\\nBishop Pierce took charge there were but five church build-\\nings, one parsonage_, and G05 communicants, as reported by\\nBishop Lay, who was translated to the Diocese of Easton, in\\n1869. To-day there are twenty-six church buildings, six-\\nteen parsonages, or rectories, one guild hall, one hospital,\\nnearly 3,000 communicants, and a Church membership of\\nabout 15,000. The Diocese has property valued at some-\\nthing over $225,000 and the offerings for religious purposes\\naverage about $30^000 a year. The Episcopal endowment\\nfund has gradually grown, and without any special effort for\\nits increase, until it now amounts to $13,000.\\nOne work in this enumeration must not be omitted.\\nBishop Pierce is to be congratulated that the twenty-fifth an-\\nniversary of his consecration witnesses the completion of his\\nCathedral and its entire freedom from debt. It has been", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "200 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\na marvel to us who were mere onlookers how the Bishop ever\\nmanaged to accomplish so much. Year after year witnessed\\nsome addition until to-day it stands forth as a fine specimen\\nof old English Church architecture and as a monument to the\\nBishop s unfailing faith, business management and of the\\nhigh purpose he has in mind. For several years a burden of\\ndebt rested upon it which it was thought would take many\\nyears to lift, but through the large-hearted liberality of a\\nmember of the Cathedral congregation the debt was paid and\\nthe Cathedral is now free and ready for consecration.\\nBesides building Trinity Cathedral, the Bishop also\\nbuilt St. PhilijD s Church and parsonage for the use of the\\ncolored people of this city. This property is also free from\\ndebt through the Bishop s own efforts, and the Church is\\nready for consecration. It is used every Sunday by a con-\\ngregation of colored people, a minister of their own race, Rev.\\nIsaiah Daniels, officiating.*\\nBut the life of a Bishop is not simply Diocesan it\\nbelongs to the Church Universal it touches the throbbing,\\npulsating life of the Church throughout the world. And\\nwhat great events and mighty achievements and advances has\\nthe venerable Bisliop of Arkansas witnessed during these\\ntwenty-five years of his Episcopate Want of space forbids\\nthe happy enumeration, but for a moment let us turn our eyes\\non the growth of his own branch of the Church in the United\\nStates. On the consecration of Bishop Pierce in 1870 the\\nEpiscopal Church had thirty-nine Dioceses and nine mis-\\nsionary jurisdictions, fifty-one Bishops and 2,786 other\\nclergy. The number of communicants reported was 170,000.\\nIn 1895 we find that the number of Dioceses has increased\\nfrom thirty-nine to fifty-three, the missionary jurisdictions\\nfrom nine to eighteen, besides eight missionary jurisdictions\\nin foreign lands, and tlie number of Bishops has increased\\nfrom fifty-one to eighty-two, wdiile the number of other clergy\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6In the Journal of the Twenty- seventh Annual Council of the Diocese of Arkan-\\nSm /J5. J ^^^fu^^ii^ th* val e of this church huildinff is eiven as\\nl^m,(HK) hy the Rector, Rev. Douglas T. Hobbs: Rectorv .$i^,IIIIO. In the parochial report\\not Rev, Isaiah P. Daniels, tlic colored Rector of St. Philip s Church for colored\\npeople, Its value is given as Sl.Oiin and Rectory SiOd.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 201\\nis now nearly 5,000. To-day the Episcopal Church has\\nabout 600,000 communicants, and a Church membership of\\nmore than 2,000,000. The proportion of communicants to\\nthe population twenty-five years ago was one in every 225\\ntoday there is one communicant for every 103 of the popula-\\ntion. Or perhaps a more interesting statement will be to\\nstate that in 1820, the year in which Bishop Pierce was born,\\nthe proportion of communicants to the population was 1 in\\n416. To-day, as already stated, there is one communicant\\nfor every 103 of the population. In 1850, when Bishop\\nPierce was just beginning his ministry, the population of\\nthe United States was 23,847,884 and there were only 79,987\\ncommunicants in the Episcopal Church. To-day the State\\nof Xew York alone, with only 5,997,853 population, has 240,-\\n000 communicants. These are remarkable figures and it is\\nnot surprising that they attract attention. The Roman\\nCatholic News said recently: The gain of the Episcopalians\\nin this country, steady, onward, undeniable and that at the\\nexi^ense of the denominations called evangelical, is one of the\\nremarkable characteristics of our times. The New York\\nEvening Post and Public Opinion have devoted much space\\nto the consideration of this growth, the latter remarking:\\nThe general growth of the Episcopal Church far exceeds,\\nproportionately, that of the population at large, or of any\\nother religious section of it in particular. Tt looks like the\\nChurch of the future.\\nAll this remarkable growth and advance the Bishop of\\nArkansas has witnessed. To-day he sees that there is not a\\nState or Territory which is not under the pastoral care of a\\nBishop, many of the States having several Dioceses, each with\\nits Bishop at its head. To-day he realizes and thanks God\\nfor it, that the quiet, persistent loyalty to the truth as this\\nChurch has received the same, the missionary zeal and enter-\\nprise, the practical work enlisting so largely the labors and\\nco-operation of the laity, the far-reaching influence on the\\nreligious thought of the day, the proposal of terms for Chris-\\ntian unity, the multiplying of services and the more frequent\\ncommunions, all manifest the inner and outward UTowth of", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "202 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nthe Church of which he is an honored Bishop, and demon-\\nstrate the reality and high purpose of her mission.\\nW. J. M.\\nA. D. 1899. As the Journal of the Twenty-seventh\\nAnnual Council of the Diocese of Arkansas^ 1899/ relates\\nin detail the last Diocesan work of the lamented Bishop while\\non earth, it is transferred to these pages intact\\nBISHOP S ADDRESS.\\nDear Brethren of the Clergy and of the Laity:\\nAlmighty God has spared me to meet you once more in\\nCouncil, and it is with unusual peace of mind and freedom\\nfrom care, that I welcome you to your seats in this, the\\nTwenty-seventh Annual Session of this body. For I now\\nknow, so far as we are able to see the future, and estimate the\\nprobabilities thereof, that in case I meet you here no more,\\nthere will be one who has already won your confidence and\\ntaken from my shoulders a large portion of the burden, to\\nassume the remainder of it when I lay that dowm, or am\\nunable to bear it. Until that time I have the satisfaction of\\nfeeling that peace has been restored to the Diocese and left\\nit free, and, as I trust, resolved to work for Christ and His\\none holy Catholic and Apostolic Cliurch, which is His Body\\nmystical, as it has never yet worked in its long years of\\nstruggles, sometimes severe struggles, for existence. To one\\nand all, I say, let bygones be bygones indeed, and let us hope-\\nfully look forward to and pray and work for a grand and a\\nglorious future for the Church in Arkansas.\\nIn reviewing the events of the past conciliar Diocesan\\nyear, I find the most important, of course, to be the consecra-\\ntion of our beloved Coadjutor-Bishop. Of that and of his Avork\\nsince his consecration I need say little, for you are all fully\\ninformed on that subject. I add merely tliis: Much good\\nseed has been sown and some of it in wholly new ground, and\\neven now first fruits by no means scant have been gathered,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 203\\nand the promised full harvest in Hue time is hopefully and\\njoyfully anticipated in a not remote hereafter.\\nThe number of Clerical changes in the Diocese during\\nthe past year has been unusually large. I have given letters\\ndimissory as follows\\nThe Rev. John Gass, transferring him to the Diocese of\\nGeorgia.\\nThe Rev. E. J. P. B. Williams, transferring him to the\\nDiocese of Springfield, 111.\\nRev. W. T. Allen, transferring him to the Diocese of\\nWest Missouri.\\nThe Rev. Douglas I. Hobbs, transferring him to the\\nDiocese of Nebraska.\\nI have accepted letters dimissory presented by the Rev.\\nW. D. Buckner, from the Diocese of Southern Virginia the\\nRev. Caleb B. K. Weed^ from the Diocese of Newark, N. J.\\nthe Rev. R. W. Rhames, from the Diocese of Missouri.\\nThe Rev. George Gordon Smeade has resigned the Rec-\\ntorship of Trinity Church, Pine Bluff, and accepted the Rec-\\ntorship of Christ Church, Little Rock. The Rev. W. D.\\nBuckner has succeeded to the vacancy at Pine Bluff. The\\nRev. William Cross resigned the Rectorship of St. Luke s\\nChurch, Hot Springs was chaplain for some months in the\\nUnited States army, and is now out of the State, but still\\nCanonically resident in the Diocese of Arkansas. The Rev.\\nG. W. Flowers has recently resigned the Rectorship of\\nTrinity Church, Van Buren, and is beyond the bounds of this\\nDiocese at present, though Canonically resident here. The\\nRev. Mr. Weed has become Rector of St. Paul s Church,\\nBatesville. The Rev. Mr. Rhames has become Rector of\\nSt. Paul s Church, Newport. The Rev. W. G. Coote, of the\\nDiocese of Kansas, is officiating at St. Luke s Church, Hot\\nSprings, and I have hopes of his becoming the Rector of that\\nimportant parish. The Rev. I. M. Merlinjones, of the Dio-\\ncese of Los Angeles, Cal., is officiating at St. Agnes s Church,\\nMorrilton, very acceptably. The Rev. P. P. Boland, of the\\nDiocese of Mississippi, is officiating at the parish of St.\\nJohnson s, Fort Smith. Trinitv, Van Buren; St. Andrew s,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "204 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nMarianna The Church of the Good Shepherd, Forrest City,\\nand the mission points vacated by the removal of the Kev. Mr.\\nWilliams, are still without stated clerical services. But I\\nfeel assured that the most important of these vacancies will\\nbe soon filled. I do not si^eak of a vacancy at Trinity Cathe-\\ndral, because no absolute vacancy can occur there as long as\\nthe Bishop is in residence, though additional workers are\\nneeded, and will, I hope, be soon secured.\\nI consecrated the beautiful new St. John s Church, at\\nHelena, on Septuagesima Sunday last. Further particulars\\nconcerning this consecration will be found in the abstract of\\nmy journal under the date of January 29, 1899. On the\\n22d day of May, 1898, I laid the corner stone of the new St.\\nJohn s Church, at Fort Smith. When I saw this fine stone\\nedifice in December last, the workmen were finishing off the\\ninterior. Whether it was made ready for Easter services, as\\nwas then intended, I have not been informed. As there is\\non the building some debt, though not a large one, considering\\nits beauty and substantial character, it may not be ready for\\nconsecration very soon.\\nGreat progress has been made in paying off Church debts\\nduring the year. A grand Easter offering very largely re-\\nduced that of Christ Church, Little Kock. That of St.^ Luke s\\nChurch, Hot Springs, has been much cut do^vn. The debt\\non St. Andrew s Church Rectory, at Marianna, is being\\nsteadily lessened. A mere fragment is left of the debt once\\nresting on the Deanery of Trinity Cathedral. Except the\\nfive mentioned, I believe none of the parishes of Arkansas are\\nencumbored with debt. Few, if any, of the Dioceses of the\\nAmerican Church can show a better record than Arkansas in\\nthis respect.\\nSpiritually, I have reason to believe the Diocese has\\nadvanced no little during the past twelve months. This is\\nmy conviction, though the small number of confirmations may\\nseem to indicate the contrary. The past year has been, to a\\ngreat degree, a broken one. ]\\\\ren s minds have been deeply\\nstirred by discords discords international, political, and\\necclesiastical both in our countrv and in other lands. But", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 205\\nthe grace of God has heeii, and is,, bringing harmony out of\\ndiscord. That it has so far prevailed under circumstances\\nso opposing and obstructive shows a decided advancement in\\nthe Spiritual life of the world, the nation, and the Church\\nof Grod. I look for much greater and much richer fruits in\\nthe more peaceful years to conie.\\nOf the missionary work in the Diocese and in the world\\nI shall say nothing here. I leave that to our dear Bishop-\\nCoadjutor, and to others. They will tell vou more fully than\\nI am pre])arcd to do, what has been done, what needs to be\\ndone, what can be done, and what is required of all of us in\\norder to accomplish it. And may the Spirit Divine stir up\\nevery soul to perform its duty to God and to man.\\nOn the Festival of the Annunciation of the Blessed Vir-\\ngin Mary the Rev. Caleb B. K. Weed, Deacon, was ordered\\nPriest by the I\\\\t. Rev. Dr. Starkey, in Grace Church, Orange,\\nN. J. T mention the fact as certified to me by the Bishop of\\nNewark, because he, in this case, sim])ly acted instead of my-\\nself, and at my written request. This ordination will be re-\\nported by Arkansas at the next session of the General Conven-\\ntion, as a matter of course.\\nAs nothing further occurs to me which seems to require\\nsaying in this connection on the present occasion, I here add\\nan abstract of my Journal for the year forever ended, that\\nyou may, in some small part, see what your Bishop has been\\nofficially doing during the past twelve months\\nMay 8, Sunday. The fourth after Easter. At 11 a. m.\\nin Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, Dean Hobbs said morning\\nprayer the Rev. A. W. Pierce read the lessons I said the\\nAnte-Communion the Rev. J. J. Vaulx reading the Epistle.\\nThe Rev. R. S. James, D. D., preached, and T closed the ser-\\nvice. At 4 p. m. I attended a funeral in Trinity Cathedral.\\nMay 15, Sunday: The fifth after Easter. At 11 a. m.\\nin Woodmen s Hall, Baring Cross, after a special service, said\\nby Mr. J. Huntley, I baptized two children, made a brief\\naddress and preached.\\nMav 19, Thursdav: Ascension Da v. AtlOt.^Oa. m.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "206 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nir St. John s Cliurcli, Fort Smith, I jji-eached and received\\nthe Holy Communion.\\nMay 22, Sunday: After Ascension. At 11 a. m. in\\nSt. John s Church, Fort Smith, I preached, confirmed one\\nperson (1 female), and made an address. At 4 p. m. I made\\nan address and laid the corner stone of the new St. John s\\nChurch, assisted by the Rev. W. T. Allen, the Rector, and\\nniembers of the Masonic Lodge.\\nMay 25, Wednesday: I this day gave my Canonical\\nconsent to the consecration of the Venerable William Mont-\\ngomery Brown to be Bishop-Coadjutor of the Diocese of Ar-\\nkansas. At 11 a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I\\nconfirmed three persons (2 males, 1 female) and addressed\\nthe class. These candidates were presented by the Rev. A.\\nW. Pierce, and are registered as parishioners of the Church\\nof the Redeemer, iSTashville. Ark.\\nMay 29, Sunday: Whitsunday. At 11 a. m. in Trinity\\nCathedral, Little Rock, the Rev. A. W. Pierce said the Lit-\\nany I said the Communion ofiice Dean Ilobbs read the\\nEpistle and preached, and I celebrated the Holy Eucharist,\\nassisted by the Rev. A. W. Pierce.\\nJune 5, Sunday: Trinity Sunday. At 11 a. m. in\\nTrinity Cathedral, Little Rock, Dean Hobbs said morning\\nprayer, read the Epistle, preached, and assisted me. T cele-\\nbrated the Holy Eucharist.\\nJune 12, Sunday: The first after Trinity. At 11 a. m.\\n1 assisted in saying morning services in Trinitv Cathedral,\\nLittle Rock.\\nJune 14, Tuesday: I this day gave to the Rev. John\\nGass letters dimissory, transferring him to the Diocese of\\nGeorgia.\\nJune 19, Sunday: The second after Trinity. At 10:30\\na. m. in Woodmen s Hall, Baring Cross (St. Barnabas s Mis-\\nsion), I preached, confirmed two persons (1 male, 1 fenuile),\\nand addressed the class.\\nJune 24, Friday: Nativity of St. John the Baptist.\\nAt 1 1 a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I received the\\nHoly Connuunion.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 207\\nJune 26, Sunday: The third after Trinity. At 11\\na. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I assisted in the\\nservice and received the Holy Communion. The Rev.\\nWillard H. Roots preached, and the Rev. A. W. Pierce was\\ncelebrant.\\nJune 29, Wednesday: St. Peter s Day. In St. Paul s\\nChurch, ]^^ewport, at 8 :30 p. m., I joined in holy matrimony\\nThomas Jackson Gregg and Miss Lucy Lester Watson.\\nJuly 3, Sunday: The fourth after Trinity. At 11\\na. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, the Rev. W. H. Roots\\nsaid morning prayer, Bishop Brown read the lessons, I said\\nthe Communion office, Bishop Brown read the Gospel, and\\nIhe Rev. Mr. Roots the Epistle. Bishop Brown preached\\nand I celebrated the Holy Eucharist, assisted by the Bishop.\\nJuly 10, Sunday: The fifth after Trinity. At 11 a. m.\\nin Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, T assisted in saying the\\nmxOrning service.\\nJuly 17, Sunday: The, sixth after Trinity. At 11 a. m.\\nin Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I assisted at the morning-\\nservice, and received the Holy Communion.\\nJuly 20, Wednesday The Diocesan Board of Missions,\\nAt 5 p. m. Bishop Brown was present, and at my request\\npresided.\\nJuly 24, Sunday: The seventh after Trinity. My\\nhealth did not allow me to attend services.\\nJuly 31, Sunday: The eighth after Trinity. Crippled\\nup by rhemuatism and unable to attend services.\\nAugust 7, Sunday The ninth after Trinity. At 1 1\\na. m. in St. Peter s Church, Columbia, Tenn., I preached and\\nreceived the Holy Communion.\\nAugust 14, Sunday The tenth after Trinity. Too un-\\nwell to attend services.\\nAugust 21, Sunday: The eleventh after Trinity. At\\n11a. m. in St. Peter s Church, Columbia, Tenn., I i^reached.\\nAugust 28, Sunday: The twelfth after Trinity. At\\n11a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, T received the\\nHoly Communion.\\nSeptember 4, Sunday The thirteenth after Trinity.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "208 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nAt 11 a. m. I received the Holj Communion in the Cathedral,\\nLittle Rock.\\nSeptember 11, Smiday. The fourteenth after Trinity.\\nAt 11 a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I assisted in\\nsaying morning service and received the Holy Communion.\\nThe Bishop said the rest of the service, ^^reached and cele-\\nbrated the Holy Eucharist.\\nSeptember 18, Sunday: The fifteenth after Trinity,\\nAt 11 a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I received the\\nHoly Communion. The Rev. A. W. Pierce ofiiciated.\\nSeptember 19, Monday: I this day gave letters dimis-\\nsory to the Rev. Edward J. P. B. Williams, transferring him\\nto the Diocese of Springfield, 111.\\nSeptember 25, Sunday: The sixteenth after Trinity. At\\n11 a. m. in Trinity C^athedral, Little Rock, I received the\\nLloly Communion. The Rev. A. W. Pierce ofiiciated.\\nOctober 2, Sunday: The seventeenth after Trinity.\\nOwing to heavy rains and my rheumatism, I Avas housed all\\nday.\\nOctober 6, Thursday At the House of Bishops, Gen-\\neral Convention, Washington City, D. C, all day.\\nOctober 7, Friday: At the House of Bishops all day.\\nOctober 8, Saturday: At the House of Bishops all\\nmorning.\\nOctober 0, Sunday: The eighteenth after Trinity. At\\n1 1 a. m. I attended service in the Church of the Epiphany,\\nWashington, D. C.\\nOctober 10, Monday: The House of Bishops.\\nOctober 11, Tuesday: House of Bishops and the Board\\nof Missions.\\nOctober 13, Thursday: House of Bishops.\\nOctober 14, Friday: House of Bishops.\\nOctober If), Sunday: The nineteenth after Trinity. At\\n10:4. a. m. T preached in Christ Church, Poughkeepsie,\\nN. At 7 )0 m. I preached again.\\nOctober 23, Sunday: The twentieth after Trinity.\\nSpent in the coimtry. tliree miles from Metuchen, X. T., want", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 209\\nof conveyance, added to bitter cold weather, prevented my\\nattending services.\\nOctober 25, Tuesday: At the House of Bishops again.\\nOctober 30, Sunday The twenty-first after Trinity.\\nThe weather too cold for me to attend services in the Cathe-\\ndral.\\nNovember 6, Sunday The twenty-second after Trinity.\\nAt 11 a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Kock, I celebrated\\nthe Holy Eucharist.\\niSTovember 13, Sunday: The twenty-third after Trinity.\\nAt 11 a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I read the\\npastoral letters of the House of Bishops.\\nNovember 20, Sunday: Xext before Advent. At 11 a. m.\\nin Trinity Cathedral, Little Bock, I received the Holy\\nCommunion.\\nNovember 23, Wednesday I this day accepted the\\nletters dimissory presented by the Bev. W. I). Buckner, from\\nthe Diocese of Southern Virginia.\\nNovember 24, Thursday National Thanksgiving. The\\ncold weather forbade my attending services.\\nNovember 27, Sunday The first in Advent. Again\\nmy state of health and the cold weather prevented me from\\nattending services.\\nDecember 4, Sunday The second in Advent. A\\nsnowstorm last night kept me housed all day, the furnace in\\nthe Cathedral not being in working order.\\nDecember 11, Sunday: The third in Advent. At 11\\na. m. in St. Baul s Church, Fayetteville, I preached and cele-\\nbrated the Holy Eucharist, assisted by the Bector, the Bev. J.\\nJ. Vaulx. At 7 :30 I preached and confirmed two persons\\n(2 males), and addressed the class. These confirmations\\nwere administered at the request of Bishop Brown.\\nDecember IS, Sunday: The fourth in Advent. At\\n11 a. m. in St. John s Church, Fort Smith, I preached, con-\\nfirmed six persons (5 males, 1 female), addressed the class\\nand celebrated the Holy Eucharist.\\nDecember 25, Sunday: Christmas Day. At 11 a. m.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "210 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nin Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I celebrated the Holy Eu-\\ncharist, assisted by Dean Hobbs.\\nJanuary 1, Sunday: The Circumcision. At 11 a. m.\\nin Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I receiyed the Holy Com-\\nmunion.\\nJanuary S, Sunday: The first after Epiphany. I\\npreached in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, at the morning-\\nservice.\\nJanuary 14-, Saturday: At 3 p. m. in Trinity Cathe-\\ndral, Little Rock, I otHciated at a funeral assisted by Dean\\nHobbs.\\nJanuary 15, Sunday: The second after Epiphany. At\\n11 a. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I celebrated the\\nHoly Eucharist, assisted by Dean Hobbs.\\nJanuary 22, Sunday: The third after Epiphany. I\\nattended mornipg service in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock.\\nJanuary 25, Wednesday: St. Paul s Day. The an-\\nniversary of my consecration to the Episcopate. I celebrated\\nthe Holy Eucharist in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, at 10\\na. m. The Venerable Dr. Webber was gospeler and preached.\\nDean Hobbs was epistoler.\\nJanuary 29, Sunday: Septuagesima. At 11 a. m. I\\nconsecrated to the service and worship of Almighty God the\\nsubstantial and beautiful new St. John s Church, at Llelena.\\nTn this service I had the pleasure and honor of being assisted\\nby the Rt. Rev. Dr. Dudley, Bishop of Kentucky, and the\\nRt. Rev. Dr. Brown, Bishop-Coadjutor of Arkansas. Judge\\nThweatt read the instrument of donation and Bishop Brown\\nread the sentence of consecration. Bishop Dudley preached\\nthe sermon. I said the Communion office, the Bishop of\\nKentucky being gospeler, and Bishop Brown being epistoler.\\nI celebrated the Holy Eucharist, assisted by Bishop Dudley\\nand Bishop Brown.\\nJanuary 30, Monday T conducted the examination of\\nthe Rev. Caleb B. K. Weed, Deacon, for the Priesthood, aided\\nby the Rev. A. W. Pierce, and the Rev. William Cross. The\\nRev. Mr. Weed has recenty presented letters dimissory from\\nthe Diocese of Xewark, X. J.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 211\\nFebruary 4 I this day gave letters dimissory to the\\nRev. W. T. Allen, transferring him to the Diocese of West\\nMissouri. I was very reluctant to part with so able and\\nfaithful a Priest.\\nFebruary 5, Sunday: Sexagesinui. The ground being\\na glare of ice and the temperature much below the freezing-\\npoint, I necessarily remained at home.\\nFebruary 12, Sunday. Quinquagesima. The ther-\\nmometer this morning was 12^ degrees below zero, the coldest\\nweather 1 have known in Arkansas. I could not attend the\\nservices.\\nFebruary 15, Wednesday: Ash Wednesday. Crippled\\nup by rheumatism and at home all day.\\nFebruary ID, Sunday: The first in Lent. Attended\\nmorning service, and received the Holy Communion.\\nFebruary 26, Sunday: The second in Lent. Attended\\nmorning services in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock.\\nMarch 5, Sunday: The third in Lent. I preached\\nand received the Holy Communion in St. Peter s Church,\\nColumbia, Tenn., at the morning service.\\nMarch 10, Friday: In St. Peter s Church, Columl)ia,\\nTenn., I preached at the night service.\\nMarch 12, Sunday The fourth in Lent. In the morn-\\ning I ba])tized an infant and preached in St. Peter s Church,\\nColumbia, Tenn.\\nMarch 10, Thursday: I confirmed in my parlor one\\nperson (1 female), registered for Trinity Cathedral, Little\\nRock.\\nMarch 19, Sunday: The fifth in Lent. At 11 a. m.\\nin St. Luke s Church, Hot Springs, Ark., I preached and\\ncelebrated the Holy Eucharist, assisted by the Rev. W. G.\\nCoote, minister in charge. At 7 :30 p. m. I preached again,\\nconfirmed seven persons (2 males, 5 females), and addressed\\nthe class.\\nMarch 26, Sunday: T^ext before Easter. At 11 a. m.\\nin Christ Church, Little Rock, the Rev. G. G. Smeade, Rec-\\ntor, said the Ante-Communion. I preached, confirmed nine\\npersons (2 males, 7 females), addressed the class, and cele-", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "212 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nbrated the Holy Eucharist. At 4 p. m. I assisted in saying\\nevening- service in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock.\\nJ\\\\iarcli 30, Thursday I this day accepted the letters\\ndimissory presented by the Rev. R. W. Rhames, from the\\nDiocese of Missouri, and sent Canonical notice of said accept-\\nance. At 4 p. m. I attended services in Trinity Cathedral.\\nMarch 31, Friday: Good Friday. I attended morn-\\nine- service in Trinity Cathedral.\\nApril 2, Sunday: Easter Day. At 11 a. m. I cele-\\nbrated the Holy Eucharist in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock,\\nassisted by Dean Hobbs, and the Rev. A. W. Pierce. At 4\\np. m. I preached, confirmed eight persons (2 males, 6\\nfemales), and addressed the class.\\nApril 6, Thursday: At 5 p. m. I officiated at a funeral\\nin Little Rock.\\nApril 9, Sunday: The first after Easter. At 11 a. m.\\nin St. John s Church, Helena, I preached, confirmed fifteen\\npersons (5 males, 10 females), addressed the class, and cele-\\nbrated the Holy Eucharist, assisted by Dean Lockwood. At\\n8 p. m. I assisted in saying evening service and preached in\\nSt. Andrew s Church, Marianna.\\nApril 10, Monday: At S p. m. I said the evening service\\nand ]u-eached in the Church of the Good Shepherd, Forrest\\nCity.\\nApril 14, Friday: This day I accepted the resignation\\nof tlie Rev. Douglas I. Hobbs as Dean of Trinity Cathedral,\\nthe same to take effect on the 1st day of May, 1899.\\nApril 10, Sunday: The second after Easter. At 11 a. m.\\nin Trinity Church, Pine Blufi I preached, confirmed\\neleven persons fG males, 5 females), addressed the class, and\\ncelebrated the Holy Eucharist, assisted by the Rector, the\\nRev. W. D. Buckner. At niglit I preached again.\\nApril 23, Sunday: The third after Easter. I assisted\\nat morniug service in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock.\\nA])ril 30, Sunday: TJie fourth after Easter. At 11.\\na. m. in Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, I celebrated the Holy\\nEucharist. At 4 p. m. T said evening prayer and lectured.\\nMay 1, Alonday: T this day gave letters dimissory to", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 213\\nthe Rev. Douglas I. Ilobbs, transferring him to the Diocese\\nof jS^ebraska.\\nSUMMARY.\\nSermons preached 24\\nAddresses made 17\\nEucharists celebrated 17\\nNumber confirmed 65\\nOrdinations, Priest 1\\nLetters Dimissorj accepted 3\\nLetters Dimissory given -1\\nChurches consecrated 1\\nC^orner stones laid 1\\nMarriages 1\\nBaptisms (infants) 3\\nFunerals 2\\nMiles traveled 7,145\\nThe marriages, baptisms, and funerals referred to here\\nare registered in the parishes Avhere they took place, and will\\nbe included in their reports.\\nCO^v^FIRMATIONS.\\nFor St. John s Church, Helena 15\\nFor Trinity Church, Pine Bluif 11\\nFor Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock\\nFor Christ Church, Little Rock 9\\nFor St. John s Church, Fort Smith 7\\nFor St. Luke s Church, Hot Springs 7\\nFor Church of the Redeemer, Xashville 3\\nFor St. Paul s Church, Fayetteville 2\\nFor St. Barnabas Mission, Baring Cross 2\\n65\\nThe Bishop-Coadjutor will report the confirmations\\nmade bv him.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "214 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nCOLLECTIONS FOR THE CPIURCH DEBT AT\\nDARDAXELLE.\\nHot Springs $22.00\\nChrist Church, Little Rock 17.12\\nPine Bluff 16.00\\nTrinity Cathedral 3.26\\nHelena 6.50\\nMarianna 2.50\\nForrest City 2.11\\n$69.4fy\\nBefore closing, I have one suggestion to make. I think\\nthat we have all found that in some few points our excellent\\nCode of Canons are too indefinite, and, it may be, in some\\nother points defective. I think it would be wise to create a\\nsmall committee to carefully examine the matter and report\\nto the next Annual Council what changes are absolutely\\nrequired. The committee should be small and it should\\ninvite the clergy and laity of this Diocese to express their\\nviews to them concerning what they may deem necessary\\nchanges.\\nWith this suggestion, I leave you to prosecute the work\\nbefore you. May the Holy Ghost be with you to guide you\\nin all of your proceedings, and in all of your utterances.\\nHENRY NILES PIERCE,\\nBishop of Arlcansas.\\nABSTRACT OF JOURNAL BISHOP PIERCE.\\nMay 2, 1809. I presided at a meeting of the Board of\\nMissions at Bishop Brown s. We got through about mid-\\nnight.\\nMay 3. I said the Communion office. Bishop Brown\\nreading the Gospel, and ]\\\\Ir. Vaulx the Epistle. I read my", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 215\\nannual address, and assisted by Bishop Brown, celebrated the\\nHoly Eucharist. Then called the Council to order and\\npresided all day.\\nMay 4. Presided in the Council till 1-J :30 p. m., when\\nthe Council adjourned sine die.\\nMay 7. I celebrated the Holy Eucharist at Trinity\\nCathedral.\\nMay 11. Ascension Day. Attended celebration in the\\nCathedral and received the Holy Communion.\\nMay 14. I said morning jorayer in the Cathedral and\\nreceived. At 4 p. m. 1 closed the services.\\nMay 21. Mr. Coote said the services and I celebrated\\nthe Holy Communion at St. Luke s, Hot Springs, and\\njjreached both morning and night.\\nMay 28. Preached a sermon and received the Holy\\nCommunion at the Cathedral and closed the afternoon service.\\nJ une 4. Attended service at St. Peter s Church, Colum-\\nbia, Tenn., and at night preached the baccalaureate sermon.\\nJune 7. Commencement exercises at the Institute, Co-\\nlumbia, Tenn. I made an address and delivered the diplomas\\nand certificates.\\nJune 11. At 11 a. m., at St. Peter s Church, Columbia,\\nTenn., I preached the sermon and received the Holy Com-\\nmunion.\\nJune IS. At 11 a. m., in the Cathedral, I said morn-\\ning prayer and received the Holy Communion. At evening\\nprayer I closed the service.\\nJune 21. At 9 a. m. I presided at a meeting of the\\nBoard of Missions, held at tlie (.Uipital Hotel.\\nJune 24. St. John Baptist Hay. I attended celebra-\\ntion at the Cathedral and received the Holy Communion.\\nJune 25. I said morning prayer at Trinity Cathedral\\nand received the Holy Communion. At evening prayer I\\nclosed the service.\\nt\\nJune 27. Wrote llev. J. X. Perkins, chairman Church\\nBuilding Fund Committee, Xew York, and inclosed a draft\\nfor $69.40 for Dardanolle Church debt, leaving a balance of\\n$G0.27.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "216 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nJune 29. St. Peter s Day. Tleceived the Holy Com-\\nijiunion in the CathedraL\\nI this day accepted letters diniissory from the Diocese of\\nKentucky, and sent canonical notice of acceptance of Rev.\\nW. G. Coote. Bishop Brown called and I handed over to\\nhim the statement concerning the Dardanelle Church debt,\\nand have his promise to pay the balance, $60.27, out of funds\\ncollected by him from my field.\\nJune 30.- At 2:15 p. m., at Trinity Cathedral, Rev,\\nA. W. Pierce presented and I confirmed three persons and\\nmade a short address.\\nJuly 2. At 11 a. m., at the Cathedral, I preached and\\nreceived the Holy Communion. In the afternoon I began a\\nsermon on the Catholic Oranda. At 5 p. m. I closed the\\nChoral Evensong.\\nJuly 9. xVt 1 1 a. m. I said morning prayer and received\\nthe Holy Communion. At Evensong I closed the service.\\nJuly 12. At 8 p. m. I j^reached in St. John s Church,\\nHelena, The Spirit and the Bride Say Come. Confirmed\\neighteen persons and addressed the class.\\nJuly 16. At 11 a. m., in the Cathedral, I said the\\nBishop s part in the celebration and received the Holy Com-\\nmunion.\\nJuly 19. The Standing Committee of the Diocese met\\nin my study at 10 a. m., I being present at their request.\\nJuly 23. In the Cathedral, at 11 a. ni., I took the\\nBishop s part in the celebration and received the Holy Com-\\nmunion, after which Rev. A. W. Pierce baptized William\\nStarr Mitchell, of Little Rock, and I confirmed him. At\\n5 ]i. m. I closed the Choral Evensong with benediction.\\nJuly 24. I gave my Canonical consent to the conse-\\ncration of Rev. Joseph Marshall Erancis, Bishop-elect of\\nTjidiana.\\nJuly 30. At n a. m., in the Cathedral, I said the\\nBishop s ])art and received. In the evening I finished writ-\\ning sermon on the Catholic Oranda.\\n*Thi\u00c2\u00ab was the Bishop s last confirmation.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 217\\nAugust 1. At 9:10 I took the train for Fayetteville via\\nVan Bureii. Rev. J. J. Vaulx met riic at the ears at Fayette-\\nville and I became his guest.\\nAugust 6. At 11 a. m., in St. Paul s Church, Fayette-\\nville, I preached the Catholic Oranda said the Bishop s\\npart in the celebration and received the Holy Communion.\\nKev. J. J. Vaulx celebrated.\\nThe next note found in the Bishop s diary is that on\\nAugust 8 Mr. Vaulx started for Colorado Springs at S a. m.\\nThe last entry, August 9, is of letters written to Dr.\\nJames at Eureka Springs, to his wife at Little Rock, and to\\nG. W. Millard at Poughkeepsie, J^. Y., which was the last\\nletter written by him so far as known.\\nOn the next day he was seized with the illness which\\nfinally resulted in death. Having gone to Fayetteville for\\nthe express purpose of relieving ]\\\\Ir. Vaulx so that he might\\nhave a month s vacation, the Bishop, notwithstanding his ill-\\nness, felt reluctant to omit a service, and on Sunday, August\\n13, he officiated for the last time l)y a celebration of the Holy\\nConnnunion, without sermon, at St. Paul s, Favetteville.\\nA. D. 1899. At Trinity Cathedral, Little Rock, on\\nWednesday, May 3, 1899, at 11 o clock a. m. tlie foregoing\\naddress was read by Bishop Pierce before the members of the\\nTwenty-seventh Annual Council of the Diocese of Arkansas,\\nwhich adjourned sine die on May 5. Hoping and trusting\\nthat, propped by the vigorous strength of the youthful Co-\\nadjutor, and relieved of care that had burdened his infirm\\nshoulders, his clergy parted from him, predicting a long sea-\\nson of repose before he should be called to buckle on his armor\\nto meet the conqueror Death. But this was not to be. On\\nthe 5th day of September of the same year, after the short\\ninterval of four months, he was summoned to the eternal", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "218 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nSabbath of his rest. The morning issue of the Arkansas\\nGazette, of the 6th, carried a shock to the hearts of its readers\\nin the announcement of his death, which occurred at Fayette-\\nville, Ark., at 10 a, m. the previous day. Bishop Pierce died\\nthere at the residence of Rev. J. J. Vaulx, Rector of St.\\nPaul s Church at that place. For many years he had been\\naccustomed to spend a three weeks vacation with this stead-\\nfast friend and favorite brother in Christ. On this occasion\\nhe was there to conduct the services of the Church, while the\\nRector, who had been ill, went to the mountains of Colorado\\nfor some rest. When it became evident that the Bishop s\\nillness would be fatal, his family was summoned to his bed-\\nside. His wife was ill and could not leave her bed, and Mrs.\\nLyman was in Paris, France, but his son. Rev. Wallace\\nPierce, and his daughter, Mrs. W. C. Stevens, were with him\\nto the end, which occurred September 5, and accompanied the\\nremains to his late residence in Little Rock. Rev. J. J. Yaulx\\nand wife also were in the number of this funeral pilgrimage.\\nFrom the Southern Churchman, of September 14, 1899,\\nthe account of his burial is reprinted\\nThe funeral services were celebrated at Trinity Cathe-\\ndral, Little Rock, Thursday, the 7th instant, and according to\\ncompact between father and son, the Rev. A. Wallace Pierce\\nofficiated. The services were very solemn and deeply im-\\npressive, as well as instructive to those who are unfamiliar\\nwith the best usages of the Church.\\nAt 10 o clock the Holy Eucharist was celebrated, the Rev.\\nMr. Pierce, celebrant, the Rev. J. J. Yaulx and the Rev. D. B.\\nRamsay (two oldest priests in point of residence, and bosom\\nfriends of the Bishop) being Gospeler and Epistler, respec-\\ntively. Nearly all the clergy of the Diocese, together with\\nthe Rt. Rev. Drs. Brown, Arkansas; Tuttle, Missouri, and\\nGarrett, Dallas, wei-c present. On the casket were six candles\\nlighted.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 219\\nAt 5 o clock, on account of the heat, the regular burial\\nservice was said. At this service all the clergy, and also the\\nchoir, were robed. The large building was crowded to its\\nutmost capacity, the people thus bearing silently their testi-\\nmony of love to their beloved Bishop, venerable in years, patri-\\narchal in appearance, and venerated by hundreds and thous-\\nands of hearts throughout the State of Arkansas, where he\\ngave the best years of his life in the service of the Master and\\nhumanity.\\nAt a meeting of the clergy of the Diocese of Arkansas,\\nheld at Little Rock on the 7th instant, the following minute\\nwas unanimously adopted\\n^To-day the clergy of the Diocese, here assembled, bear\\nwitness to their grief at the death of our beloved Diocesan,\\nthe Rt. Rev. Henry Niles Pierce, D. D., LL. D.\\nAs our chief in holy orders his scholarship and spiritu-\\nality were constant inspiration and guide. As our father in\\nGod he was essentially judicial-minded, in no case ever listen-\\ning to an ex parte statement, no matter from whatever source\\nit came.\\nHis sympatliy always responded to our experience of\\nlife. He listened with a patient ear to the story of all our\\ntrials and sorrows, and left the narrator cheered and com-\\nforted.\\nHis mind was particularly that of an instructor, and it\\nwas a liberal education to listen to and appropriate his views\\non any subject.\\nHis hospitality was limited only by the circumstances\\nof his habitation.\\nHis works were manifold and will live after him. They\\nwere beset with the difficulties and hardships of an early Epis-\\ncopate successes and disappointments which are matters of\\nhistory, and will be discussed elsewhere.\\nThese are some of the prominent characteristics of the\\nBishop and the man whioli endear his memory, sanctify his", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "220 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nintliienee, and impress the nobility of Bishop Pierce upon ns.\\nWhile we mourn our loss on earth, we are not unmind-\\nful of the admonition not to sorrow as men without hope for\\nthose who die in the Lord. Our Bishop s clear thought,\\nfirm faith, and childlike trust have been a blessing from our\\nLord and Master.\\nJ. J. VAULX,\\nD. B. KAMSAY,\\nC. H. LOCKWOOD,\\nR. W. RHAMES.\\nThe Bishops testimonial to their departed brother is as\\nfollows\\nThe brethren of the House of Bishops gathered at the\\nfuneral of the late Bishop of Arkansas lay his sacred body\\nwith the offices of honor and reverence belonging to a soldier\\nbrother, with deep and aifectionate sympathy extended to his\\nfamily and friends, desire to leave on record this tribute to\\nhis memory.\\nThe late Bishop of Arkansas was a man of unusual\\nmental energy. Lie was a constant student, and delighted in\\nkeeping perpetually fresh the university attainments of his\\nearly years. He was a graduate of Brown, and also professor\\nof higher mathematics there.\\nThe young people of Little Rock know well how often\\nthey brought their mathematical problems and other puzzling\\nquestions to liini for solutions, always iinding a cordial wel-\\ncome and ready solution of their difficulties.\\nTo the great force of natural ability the late Bishop\\nunited marked persistence of character, Avorking with un-\\nabated courage towards the attainment of purpose. The\\nbuilding of the Cathedral illustrates these characteristics in\\nan impressive manner. Almost single-handed he undertook\\nthe task of raising the necessary funds. The Cathedral was\\nto express in the concrete certain ideals which were dear to", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 221\\nthe Bishop s mind, but hicked anv exeiiiplitication in the Dio-\\ncese. The buihling- in which the hist soknnn rites liave just\\ntaken place over his remains stands as at once the monument\\nand memorial of liis oai^nestness and C^atholicitv of mind and\\nfeeling.\\nAs a man, his scholarship and superior ability gave liim\\ninfluence and authority as a Bishop, he ruled his large and\\ndithcult held with courage and constancy. Everyone knew\\nhis views. PTis trumpet gave no uncertain sound.\\nConsecrated missionary Bishop of Arkansas and Indian\\nTerritory January 25, 1870, and dying at Fayetteville, Ark.,\\nSeptember 5, 1899, while supplying the services of a faithful\\npastor, wdio was taking a little time of needed rest, the lit.\\nRev. Henry JSTiles Pierce, D. D., LL. D., was for nearly\\nthirty years a leader of missionary work in one of the most\\neminently missionary regions of our domestic field. Obstacles\\nwere plentiful. Resources and help were meagre. But loy-\\nalty to the Church and his Master kept him unyieldingly\\nsteadfast t^ his aim of standing in his lot and doing duty to\\nthe end.\\nHis counsel given in the House of Bishops was of great\\nworth to his brethren, as was his leadership in the field of\\nvalue to the Church at large. The Church militant mourns\\nhis loss, while grateful to the loving mercy of Almighty God\\nthat his faithful servant was spared to do service to the last\\nof his days and up to the seventy-ninth year of his earthly life.\\nDAN^ S. TUTTLE,\\nBishop of Missouri\\nALEXA^^DER C. GARRETT,\\nBisJiop of Dallas.\\nWILLIA^r :\\\\I. BROWN,\\nBisJioj) of Arl dii ^dS.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "222 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nTRIJ3UTE TO BISHOP PIERCE\\nFROM REV. T. B. LEE, RECTOR OF ST. DAVId s CHURCH,\\nAUSTIN, TEXAS.\\nRev. T. B. Lee^ Rector of St. David s Churchy xViistin,\\nTexas, paid the following tribute to the late Bishop Pierce\\nlast Sunday\\nT have kept the faith. Beloved, last Sunday I took\\nthese words for my text, not knowing then that a Prince in\\nIsrael was on the point of departure from sharing his Mas-\\nter s cross to the radiance of his Master s crown. Of no one\\ncould these words l)e more fittingly said, I have fought a\\ngood fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith,\\nthan of Henry Niles Pierce, D. D., first Bishop of Arkansas.\\nNothing was nearer his heart than the Catholic faith. Some\\nof you may remember his definition, given from this pulpit.\\nCatholic, according to the whole Church. That held from\\nthe beginning everywhere and by all as distinguished from\\nthe accretions which have gathered upon it, from the opinions\\nof diiferent schools of thought. Bishop Pierce was so well\\nknown for his learning and his extraordinary gift of language,\\nbeing a master in seven or more languages, that he was one\\nof the several appointed by the late Archbishop of Canterbury\\nto serve on a committee to confer with the Greek Church in\\nregard to the disputed translation of a word in the Nicene\\ncreed, on which the eastern and western branches of the\\nChurch Catholic disagree. The Greeks say from the\\nFather through the Son, and we from the Eather and the\\nSon. Bishop Pierce held with the eastern Church. When\\nthe Bishop held the Rectorship of Christ Church, Little Rock,\\nI was his assistant and chaplain, and part of the time was\\nan inmate of his family. I knew him as intimately as one\\ncan know another, and w^e loved one the other as father and\\nson. I was taken into his great heart, and revered his com-\\nmanding intellect and wide learning. Withal he was gentle\\nas a child and his sympathies embraced all of God s creatures.\\nHe never felt it condescension to put himself on a level with", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 223\\nthe least of his flock. It was said of him by one leaving the\\nDiocese, Bishop, I will miss the great rock which you are\\nto your people. This describes his character a rock im-\\nmovable of firmness, of truth, of sincerity, of courage and\\n1 say without hesitation that on the bench of Bishops he had\\nnot a peer. Bishop, doctor, shepherd, friend, weighed in the\\nbalance over against the high ideal of Thine own faith, thou\\nart not found wanting. Therefore, we thank God on his\\nbehalf for the grace of God which was given him by Jesus\\nChrist, that in everything he was enriched by Him, in all\\nutterances, and in all knowledge, and may his strength be\\ngiven us that w-e may so live through the days of this earthly\\nlife that we and all God s faithful ones may have our perfect\\nconsummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in His etei nal\\nand everlasting glory through Jesus Christ our Lord.\\nIK LOVING MEMOKY.\\nKESOLUTIOi^S ON BISHOP PIERCERS DEATH BY THE LADIES OF\\nTHE CHURCH.\\n[^Arlrinsos Democnit, Sei)tember 23.]\\nAt a joint meeting of the Woman s Guild, the Woman s\\nAuxiliary and the Daughters of the King, held in Trinity\\nCathedral September 18, 1809, the following resolutions were\\npassed\\nOur beloved Bishop having entered into the Cliurch\\nExpectant, therefore be it\\nResolved, That our heartfelt sym})athy be extended\\nhis family in their deep sorrow. May God in His great mercy\\ncomfort them.\\nWe of the Cathedral parish are indeed thankful that it\\nhas been our great privilege to see him often and to know\\nhim well. Those of us who have felt his dear, gentle hands\\non our heads and the words, Defend, O Lord, this tliy chihl,\\nfrom his lips, will as long as life lasts remember him with\\nlove and veneration.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "224 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nResolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent his\\nfamily and spread upon our books.\\n[SiG^-ED.] MRS. S. M. APPERSOiS^,\\nPresident Woman s Guild.\\nMRS. P. K. ROOTS,\\nPresident Woman s Auxiliary.\\nMISS EMILY ROOTS,\\nDirectress Daughters of the King.\\nREV. THOMAS BOOTH LEE, M. A.\\nA. D. 1861-1872. Per. Thomas Booth Lee, M. A., of\\nOxford, England, was born in Brynderwjn, Flintshire,\\nEngland. The name Lee was originally spelled Legli, being\\nWelsh, but was changed in spelling with the inheritance of\\nsome property. His mother was Miss Ann Uenett Booth,\\nwho, with her daughters, was heiress to a large property. At\\nthe time of her decease, a few years since, an English paper\\npublished the fact that in her youth she and a sister under-\\ntook the maintenance and education of forty poor children.\\nRev. Thomas Booth Lee was ordained Deacon in 1861, and\\ntwo years later, 1863, Avas ordained Priest. In 1869 he was\\ninduced to come to this country and act as Chaplain to Bishop\\nQuintard, on the return of the Bishop from England. (Meet-\\ning Bishop Quintard in England he was induced to come.)\\nAfter attending the consecration of Bishop Pierce at Mobile,\\nAla., with Bishop Quintard, wlio was one of the consecrating\\nBishops, he accompanied the former to Little Rock, Ark.,\\nJanuary, 1870, where he was induced to remain, and served\\nthe Bishop as assistant in the office of Rector of Christ Church.\\nIn the following year the Bishop resigned the office of Rector\\nand Rev. Mr. Lee was elected to fill the vacancy. He was\\nthe incumbent Rector for nearly four years. On July 18,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "REV. THOMAS BOOTH LEE.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 225\\n1872, he was married to ]Miss Ada Beall Cochrane. Her\\nfather, Richard Ellis Cochrane, lieutenant in the United\\nStates army, fell at the head of his company* at the battle of\\nResaca de la Palma. He was a descendant of the Cochrane\\nfamily of England, and one of his maternal ancestors, Colonel\\nCooch, was a colonel in the French and Indian war. Another,\\nthe Rev. Evan Evans, was first Rector of Christ Church, Phil-\\nadelphia. Mrs. Lee s mother was a Miss Beall, of Kentucky,\\nwhose family was from Viri inia, her grandmother, a Miss\\nRector. The governors Rector and (Jonway, of Arkansas,\\nAvere cousins germane.\\nThe treasurer s books of the Ladies Aid Society at that\\ntime show a loan to the Building Association of $1,000,\\nwhich the Vestry appropriated at one time, but could not\\ncollect, as it was in Bishop Pierce s name, as trustee.\\nAt this time came the great calamity of the burning of\\nthe Church. Tlirough tlic kindness of Mr. Louis M. Samuel,\\nwho copied the account fr ^)m the files of the newspaper of that\\ndate for the annalist, a description is here subjoined:\\nEPISCOPAL CHURCH BURNED.\\nBATTLE OF TJIK ELEMENTS FIRE AND WATER LOSS ABOUT\\n$10,000, INSURED FOR $5,000.\\n(From the Daily Arkansas Gazette, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 1873.)\\nSunday evening and night a continual storm of rain and\\nwind, accompanied by lightning, prevailed, which increased\\nto almost a tornado between 1 and 2 o clock. About 1 o clock,\\nwhile the rain was falling in torrents, the alarm of fire was\\nsounded at the Pulaski and Torrent engine houses, and in a\\n*Acting Captain.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "226 THE ANNALS OP CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nvery short time it was discovered that the Episcopal Church,\\non the corner of Scott and Fifth streets, was on fire.\\nOwing to the storm, comparatively few persons turned\\nout, but the fire laddies responded nobly, and were by far the\\nlargest portion of those present.\\nColonel Page, chief of the fire department, was promptly\\non the ground. The Torrent hand engine, with a good force\\nof men, was the first at the fire, but owing to the small amount\\nof hose, was unable to do any service, no cistern being nearer\\nthan Fourth and Main streets. The steam engine Cleburne\\nthrew the first water, of wliicli a limited supply was obtained\\nat the corner of Scott and Third streets, two squares from the\\nfire. Engineer Dale had steam up some time before men\\narrived to move the engine. Shortly after the Cleburne\\ndropped the water a noble stream came from the hose of the\\nPulaski steamer, at the corner of Main and Fourth streets.\\nEngineer Ives worked the engine handsomely, amidst the\\nstorm, about an hour, when the water gave out.\\nThe hook and ladder was pulled to the corner of Scott and\\nSecond streets, when the men gave out, and no one came to\\ntheir assistance. The members who responded to the call\\nAvere Bob Bruce, Bob Xewell, John Cowpland, Harry Thomas,\\nand Geo. Wehr, who deserved to be set down as always ready.\\nShortly after the fire broke out a few men forced an\\nentrance into the window of the churchy and removed the\\nlarger portion of the valuable furniture, which, however, was\\nbadly damaged by the rain. The organ was removed by Louis\\nBernays and Henry Brodkins, among the first on the grounds.\\nAt 1:20 tlio wliole tower was a mass of flames, burning\\nlike tinder, and the rain, which fell in volumes, seemed not\\nto have the slightest eftect.\\nAt 1 :25 the bell, with a terrible crash, fell to the ground\\nand two of the corner posts fell out.\\nAt 1 :45 the roof caught fire from the inside, and the\\nfront wall fell out like a crash of thunder.\\nAt 2 the whole building was a raging mass of flames,\\nwhich no amount of water could subdue.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 227\\nPoliceman Wolf, who was on the night watch, was the\\nfirst to see the fire, which was burning in the lower portion of\\nthe tower. He sounded the alarm and deserves credit for his\\nwatchfvilness and prompt action.\\nAfter the roof was burned, the rain, in a great measure,\\nsubdued the fire, and at 9 o clock yesterday morning the three\\nstanding walls and a few burned and charred timber were all\\nthat remained of what a few hours before was a handsome\\nhouse of worship.\\nThe cause of the fire is a mystery, but the general opinion\\nis that it was occasioned by lightning. Assistant Kector Lee\\nknows of but two ways in which it could have been fired by\\nlightning, or that some man went to sleep in the tower with a\\nlighted cigar or pipe. The loss is about $10,000, and the\\ninsurance $5,000; $2,500 in the Franklin, of Philadelphia;\\n$2,500 in the Peoples, of Arkansas.\\nThere was to have been confirmation in the Church Sun-\\nday evening, but the storm prevented the service.\\nThis Church was of brick, and erected in 1841, by Mr.\\nGeo. S. Morrison. Bishop H. IST. Pierce is the Rector and\\nRev. T, B. Lee, assistanl, and the communicants number\\nabout 300. The lot on which the Church was erected was\\nconveyed to Judge John Wassell, who laid out the lots, made\\nthe plans, and had the edifice built. The successive pastors\\nwere Rev. W. H. C. Yeager, Rev. Jas. Young, Rev. Wm. San-\\nders, Rev. A. r. Freeman. During the two years, commenc-\\ning September, 1870, Rev. E. S. Peake, a Federal chaplain,\\noccupied the position. Then came Rev. P. G. Robert, fol-\\nlowed by Rev. H. H. Morrell, and then the present occupants.\\nThe Vestry of the Church desires to express their thanks\\nto the firemen and other gentlemen who so gallantly aided in\\nrescuing from the flames numerous articles of furniture,\\nwhich, but for their timely assistance and presence of mind,\\nwould have been destroyed.\\nThe Vestry also desires to state that a temporary place of\\nworship will be provided in time for the services of next Sab-\\nbath, notice of which will be duly given.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "228 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nEPISCOrAL CllUKOH.\\n(From the Dally Arkansas Gazette, Thursday, Oct. 2, 1873.)\\nThe services Sunday will be held in the Opera House, on\\nMain street^ at 11 o clock in the morning, and 7:30 in the\\nevening. Every member of the congregation is earnestly\\nrequested to attend.\\nThe Holy Communion will be celebrated at the Rectory,\\nat the residence of Bishop Pierce, at 9 o clock in the morning.\\nAt the time of the fire the old Church was scarcely large\\nenough for the regular congregation. The plans for the\\nsecond Church were accepted and the foundation laid during\\nthe incumbency of Rev. Mr. Lee. The members of the Vestry\\nwere Mr. Luke E. Barber, Mr. John Wassell, Judge Ringo,\\nMr. W, B. Wait, and others. The organist was Miss Mary\\nE. Harrell. The quartette choir was composed of sopranos\\nat successive times, Mrs. Helen Ames, Miss Edwards] the alto,\\nMrs. Wm. G. Whipple tenor. Judge W. I. Warwick bass,\\nColonel W. G. Whipple. The president of the Ladies Aid\\nSociety at this time was Mrs. H. 1^. Pierce and Miss Ada\\nBeall Cochrane, treasurer Miss Georgie Woodruff, secretary.\\nThe organist was Mrs. Kerr; the choir was composed of Miss\\nLily Wright and Miss Lillian Cantrell, sopranos Mrs. W. G.\\nWhipple, alto; Major Smith, tenor, and Colonel W. G.\\nWlii])ple, basso.\\nEor four years the Rev. T. B. Lee administered the ser-\\nvices of the Church in the Opera House and Chamber of C Oni-\\nmerce. He was then transferred to the Diocese of IsTorthern\\nTexas, and became Rector of St. David s (^hurcli, at Austin,\\nof which he now has charge.\\nEei\\\\ Tidlius C. Tapper, D. D., was called to fill the\\nvacancy, and for eleven years he ofliciated in the Supreme\\nCourt room, and in the Chapel, which the congregation had\\ncaused to be erected, watching the upbuilding of the temple\\nwhich grew to be the ornament of the city. He resigned his\\noffice to acce])t a call at Leavenworth, Kan., jnst before the\\nnew Clnii-cli was com]ileted.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "CHRIST CHURCH, LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.\\nOCCUPIED EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 10, 1887.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OP CHRIST CHURCH PARISH 229\\nPART SECOND.\\nTHE BUILDIXG OF THE CHUKCH.\\nMAKE TIIOU MINE EARTHLY HABITATION GLORIOUS.\\nBY FAY HEMPSTEAD.\\nTall tower that risest fair and liigli,\\nToward the vault of yonder sky,\\nAnd beamest o er a prospect wide,\\nOf city waste and country side\\nLook down in grace and grandeur more.\\nAnd stateliness than e er before;\\nLook on us drawn through many ways\\nTo lift the voice of grateful praise,\\nFor this the end of all the toil,\\nThe delving hand, the ceaseless moil\\nOf all the labor and the care,\\nThat marked thy growth from year to year\\nAnd brought thee on by slow degree,\\nTo this full strength that crowneth thee\\nFair house, ye long in building rose;\\nAnd now thy far-drawn labors close,\\nThou standest clad in splendid guise.\\nAll rich in tint and fair in dyes.\\nLike the King s daughter art thou made\\nIn vesture glorious arrayed.\\nO er aisle and chancel, nave and beam.\\nThe sunrays, many-tinted, stream,\\nAs clear thy blazoned windows shine,\\nThrough vaulted arches roofed with pine.\\nAnd holier seeming shalt thou make,\\nYon organ s rolling thunders shake\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009416\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "230 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nOr loud thy towered steeple clang,\\nWhen some deej) clarion there shall hang,\\nAnd scatter through the smitten air.\\nThe wide repeated call to prayer\\nOr yet o er dirges sad and low,\\nShall toll a deeper note of woe.\\nAnd what were all the past regret\\nSo slowly wert thou forward set\\nDoth not this day for all atone\\nThe triumph of this day alone?\\nNot this enough Doth not the end\\nFor all the past make fit amend\\nYea, should we rather honor those,\\nWho from the dawning to the close,\\nThe zealous few, the willing hand,\\nWho wrought watli ready heart and hand,\\nThrough hours of censure and dispraise;\\nThrough weary seasons, cheerless days\\nThrough days of failure, times of doubt,\\nTill thus the end is brought about.\\nAnd long mayest thou, O house of prayer.\\nStand in thy shining presence there\\nLong may the years go by ere thou\\nShalt lightly show on breast or brow.\\nThe earlier traces of decay.\\nOr that thy beauty fade away\\nLong may ye stand to be indeed\\nThe center of thy people s need,\\nAnd be for them the force that stays,\\nTheir footsteps through life s winding ways\\nTo thee oft come the trusting bride\\nAnd pledge to him who stands beside.\\nHer life entire with his entwined.\\nOne equal blend of heart and mind.\\nTo thee for long the child be brought.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nAnd in thy holy lessons tanght,\\nTo lisp the prayer, to hymn the praise,\\nThrough numberless succeeding days.\\nIn thee through time eternal be,\\nThe infant pledged to purity _\\nThe cross be signed up(jn the front.\\nBeside the waters of thv Font.\\nAnd as the future time unfolds,\\nFull many be the zealous souls.\\nTo dedicate their lives anew,\\nTo worship of the Pure and True\\nFull many at thy sacred board,\\nBy faith feed on the risen Lord,\\nAnd take through grace of Love Divine,\\nAs sacred types, the bread and wine\\nAnd more: when past thy portal go,\\nThe feet that moving sad and slow,\\nBear lowly forth the bier and pall,\\nTo that low house that waiteth all,\\nOh, may the word from out thy place,\\nDrv off the tear from many a face,\\nO/ those who mourn the spirit fled.\\nTo those fair lands where rest the dead\\nAnd be the well-springs of relief.\\nTo quell the rising pangs of grief.\\nAnd thou, O servant of His grace.\\nThat speakest from the Holy place.\\nWhat Minister soe er shall prove\\nInterpreter to speak His love.\\nBe blessings showered on thy ways.\\nAnd peacebe on thy forward days\\nMay all thy walk be whole and good.\\nThy labors crowned with plentitude;\\nThv pravers be voices of the heart,\\nInwhieii thy inner self hath part!\\n231", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "232 TE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nBe purity in alb and stole,\\nBut typical of cleanly soul,\\nAnd through the voice of fervor hurled,\\nPreach thou the Christ to all the world\\nFay Hempstead.\\nEEPOKT OF COMMITTEE\\nox THE COST OF BUILDING CHRIST CHURCH^ ACCOMPANIED BY\\nAN ITEMIZED STATEMENT.\\nLittle Ptock, Ark., 1887.\\nTo the Rector and Vestry of Christ Church:\\nGentlemen Your committee have examined the books,\\nand papers of the building committee of Christ Church, and\\nafter a thorough investigation, beg leave to submit the enclosed\\nitemized statement of receipts and expenditures. This state-\\nment includes the names of subscribers and the amounts sub-\\nscribed the cost of windows donated, and the names of the\\ndonors and the amounts paid for pews, and the names of the\\npurchasers, and shows that\\nThe foundation cost $10,719.14:\\nThe superstructure cost 45,799.01\\n$56,518.15\\nAmount received from subscribers,\\nwindows and pews $38,945.58\\nAmount received from sale of\\nRectory 3,361.75\\nAmount received from insurance on\\nold church and interest 5,211.49\\nAmount received fi-om sale of ma-\\nterial, etc 1,999.33\\n$49,518.15 $49,518.15\\nLeaving a debt of 7,000.00", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 233\\nIt is but justice to the building committee to sav in this\\nreport, what is well known to every member of this congrega-\\ntion, that they have built for us a most suitable and beautiful\\nchurch at a remarkably low price, and the thanks of every\\nmember of Christ Church are due to them as a committee and\\nindividually.\\nColonel S. L. Griffith rendered a service in soliciting con-\\ntributions, witli a degree of success that no one with h^ss than\\nhis great zeal and urbanity could have achieved.\\nMr. W. B. Wait has for years given to us the benefit of a\\nripe financial wisdom, that has guided the committee through\\ndifficulties that must otherwise have materially postponed the\\ncompletion of the building. Such services could not be pro-\\ncured for money.\\nMr. J. H. Haney for five years has superintended the\\nwork on the building; seen that everything was done in\\naccordance with contracts and specifications rendering ser-\\nvices that have certainly lessened the cost of the building 10\\nper cent, with faithfulness and love of the work which it would\\nbe impossible to hire.\\nMr. G. H. Van Etten has given the conunittee the benefit\\nof his extensive acquaintance with the market price of build-\\ning material, enabling them to buy with rare judgmeut, and\\nat the right time and place.\\nMr. Logan H. Roots has ever stood ready to furnish the\\nmeans for the steady continiuTuce of the work, which but for\\nIlls timely pecuniary assistance must have stopped many times.\\nThis willingness to advance money to a struggling Church is\\none of the rarest of virtues.\\nMr. W. G. Whipple, though not a mend)er of the com-\\nmittee, yet eager to aid in the completion of the building, has\\ntaken upon himself the most disagreeable duty of soliciting\\nsubscriptions, and has performed the work in a manner that\\ncan only be appreciated when the large amount ])aid in is\\nconsidered. L. K. STAEK,\\nR. L. GOODRICH,\\nF. D. CLARKE,\\nCommittee.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "234 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nP. S. It is only honest to state that the immense amount\\nof clerical work and investigation imposed by you upon this\\ncommittee, has been performed entirely by Mr. Ralph L.\\nGoodrich, the other two members only verifying his results.\\nl. e. stark,\\nf. d. clarke.\\nitemized statement.\\nLIST OF SUBSCRIBERS AND AMOUNTS SUBSCRIBED TO CHRIST\\nCHURCH.\\nAugspath, Mrs. Aldence 20.00\\nArkansas Pump and Pipe Co 2.43\\nAnderson, Mrs 5.00\\nAdams, Sam B 68.75\\nAdams, Mrs. E. C. (window $300, cash $475) 775.00\\nAdams, W. W 105.00\\nAllis, H. B 10.00\\nAdams, Mrs. K. and Mrs. Woodruti (col. by) 56.25\\nAbeles Co., C. T 25.00\\nAbeles, Cook Co 66.59\\nAlexander, J. C 10.00\\nAllis, H. G 90.00\\nAdams, A. F 6.75\\nAustin, J. W 1 5.00\\nAdams, Jno. D. (window $800, pew $2,000,\\ncash $500) 3,300.00\\nAdams, Mrs. John D. (rugs) 11.00\\nAdams, J. Dudley 133.75\\nBarber, L. E. (window $300, cash $400) 700.00\\nBarber, Gwinn 25.00\\nBay, J. L 7.00\\nBlass, Jacob 1.00\\nButler, CM 100.00\\nBenjamin, M. W 25.00\\nBrower, K A 50.00\\nBlass Co., Gus 20.00\\nBaird, J. W 25.00", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 235\\nBrevsacher, Mrs. and Little May 6.00\\nBreysacher, A. L 125.00\\nBernays, L. C 100.00\\nBein, H. H 5.00\\nBeach, A. D 5.00\\nBrack, G. S 180.00\\nBunch, T. H 10.00\\nBankes, T. W 175.00\\nBelding, A 5.00\\nBrown, Geo. Euss 25.00\\nBartlett, B. J 32.00\\nButler, Robert 5.00\\nOc-hrane, Mrs. H. K 5.00\\nClements, Miss Jennie B 20.00\\nCribbs, Miss Lee 5.00\\nCaldwell, H. C 10.00\\nCarnes, P. H 10.00\\nCarroll, Mrs. Rachel 25.00\\nCarroll, Miss Fannie 5.00\\nCrease, Miss (col. by) 10.00\\nChrist Church Sunday School 83.00\\nChrist Church S. S. (Easter col. at Church) 174.35\\nCalef Deshon 20.00\\nColburn Co., J. M 10.00\\nCohen, Albert 10.25\\nClark, Sol F 10.00\\nCohn, M. M 15.00\\nConrad, C. H 17-50\\n^ole, C. H 100.00\\nCockrill, S. R 250.00\\nClements, Jno. B 2.10\\nCurran, W. S 8.75\\nClark, F. D 25.00\\nCantrell, W. A 30.00\\nCherry, L. W 5.00\\nCarroll, C. S -l-OO\\nCarroll, S. C 2.00\\nCassenelli, L. D 2.00", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "236 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nDeshon, A. G. (window $200, cash $100) 300.00\\nDuiigan, Jno 5.00\\nDibrell, Mrs. Dr 10.00\\nDarragh, T. J 10.00\\nDavis, Oscar 10.00\\nDonations by ladies (col. bv Mrs. Haney) 9.00\\nDeuell, E. V 100.00\\nDooley, P. C 85.00\\nDougfass, E. E 25.00\\nDean, C. C 10.00\\nEletclier, John G 200.00\\nFatherly, W. A 7.00\\nEones ]3ros 84.80\\nErolich, Mrs 25.00\\nEaber, H 1.00\\nEeeton, Jno 15.00\\nEarrell, Wm 50.00\\nGibson, L. P 10.00\\nGoodwin, John W 100.00\\nGodbold, A 5.00\\nGross Leigh 35.00\\nGoodrich, Ralph L. (window $250, cash $370) 620.00\\nGriffith, S. L 205.00\\nGarland, A. H 35.00\\nHooper, P. 50.00\\nHaney, J. H 200.00\\nHutt, A. J 8.75\\nHntt, W. S 33.75\\nHughes, Geo. A 10.00\\nHornibrook, Jas. A 10.00\\nHempstead, E 5.00\\nHall, Mr 5.00\\nHoman, Mrs 1 0.00\\nHalliburton, W. H 50.00\\nJabine, John N 110.00\\nJabine, Mrs. Harry 5.00\\nJones, D. E. 15.00\\nJordan, Miss Matilda 5.00", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 237\\nH. C. Jones lU.UU\\nJennings, K. G 100.00\\nIvirkwood, J. B 1 7.50\\nKirkwood, T. C 17.50\\nKirkwood, Geo. F 12.50\\nKramer, Fred 20.00\\nKutner, Wm 1.00\\nKirten, Wm 92.50\\nKendrick, J. T 40.00\\nKnapp, Gilbert 0.00\\nKrause, ]\\\\Iiss Lou 50.00\\nLawson, Miss Nellie 5.00\\nLadies Aid Society 5,G14.00\\nLadies Aid Society (carpets) 1,170.00\\nLadies Aid Society (upholstery) 125.00\\nLadies Aid Society (wardrobe) 25.50\\nLandeau, Alex 50\\nI^awson, Mrs. James (col. by) 4.50\\nLewis, Mrs. L. (wiudoAv $300, with Peyton, Peay,\\nand Crease) 1 5.00\\nLincoln, C. J 100.00\\nLenow, Mrs. J. 11 85.00\\nMartin, Mrs. A. E 100.00\\nMeade, Geo. H 325.00\\nMiller, Jas. E 200.00\\nMortimer, H 1.00\\n:McCarthv, J. H 100.00\\nMcNair, Willis 2.00\\nMcSwine, G. R 10.00\\nMarye, Travers 5.00\\nMaxwell, Mrs. Mary J 1 7.50\\nMurphy, Will J. 8.75\\nMatthews, E. J 50.00\\nMatthews, Jno. L 100.00\\nMandlebaum, J. J 3.50\\nMartin, Fred 5.00\\nMitchell, Jno. A 10.00\\nMiller, D 30.00", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "238 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nMiller, Wiley B 297.00\\nMivelaz, P. L 1.00\\nMaxwell, Family 100.00\\nMatthews, Miss Annie 5.00\\nMitchell, John 10.00\\nMartin, R. W 10.00\\nMast, J. W 2.50\\nMartin, Geo. W 5.00\\nMcSwine, Mrs. P. A 5.00\\nMivelaz, P 2.00\\nMorrell, Miss Lottie (Bible book mark) 25.00\\nXewton, E. C 40.00\\nNewton, T. W 5.00\\nISTavra, Sam 5.00\\nPeay, Mrs. Sue (window $300, cash $17) 317.00\\nPeaV, G. N. 145.84\\nPowell, T. C 5.00\\nPercival, J. M 20.00\\nParker, Ed W 17.50\\nPercival, J. C 10.00\\nPollock, A 2.50\\nPettefer, Ambrose 30.00\\nPettefer, H 30.00\\nPolk, R. J 75.00\\nPeyton, Mrs. C. (window $300, cash $40, Crease,\\nPeay, etc.) 340.00\\nPhillips, Philip (concert) 42.75\\nPollock, J. S 25.00\\nPabodie, Mrs 5.00\\nParkins, Mrs. S 10.00\\nPenzel, C. F 25.00\\n(^linn Gray 25.00\\nPaiiland, Mr. 10.00\\nRudolph, C 1.00\\nRuley, A. G 30.00\\nReeves, W. L 15.00\\nReeves, E. T 10.00\\nRvan Co., A. TT 1.00", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 239\\nEoots, Mrs. E. M 50.00\\nKees, S. P 5.00\\nEector, H. M 10.00\\nEose, U. M 233.33\\nEoberts, W. L 6.25\\nEeed, F. C 1 0.00\\nEeiley, T. G 10.00\\nEoots, P. K 300.00\\nEoots, P. K. (altar) 135.00\\nEather, H. C 5.00\\nEoots, L. H. (window $1,200, two pews $4,000,\\ncash $4,014.54) 9,214.54\\nSmothers, L. P 35.00\\nShadinger, J. H 5.00\\nSevier, a. H 175.00\\nStanus, W. N 5.00\\nShuio-hter, J. A S7.50\\nStark, Dr. L. E 20.00\\nSmith, Sam 100.00\\nStewart, Bavlor E 1 7.50\\nSmith, Mrs. E. S 4.00\\nShaw, M. W 5.00\\nStiflft, C. S 5.00\\nSterling, Mrs. B. B 1 0.00\\nStratman, G. II 50.00\\nScott, Mrs. E. L 25.00\\nSeward, S. B 10.00\\nSappington, Mrs. Colonel 10.00\\nSkipwith, Mrs 10.00\\nSannoner, J. H 05.00\\nSmith, W. W 250.00\\nSmith, J. W 1 5.00\\nSell, Mrs. H 5.00\\nScott, Miss Fanny (by subs., altar cross) 52.50\\nShall, Miss Mary and others (Com. service) 500.00\\nTurner, W. J. 62.50\\nTrezzare, Miss A. E 2.00\\nTrezevant, J. T., Jr 142.73", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "240 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nTownsley, H. S 10.00\\nTownslej, E. G 10.00\\nTerry, F. A 6.25\\nTupper, T. C 75.00\\nTrumpler, J. F 1.00\\nThompson, W. J 10.00\\nTobey, W. E 10.00\\nTaylor, Dr. C. M. (col. by Miss Crease) 100.00\\nUrquhart, E. (pew $2,000) 500.00\\nUpham, Mrs. Lizzie (window $250, cash $25) 275.00\\nVan Etten, G. H. (pew $2,000) 2,000.00\\nVickers, H. L 10.00\\nWilson, W. T 5.00\\nWoodruff, Wm. E., Jr 50.00\\nWoodruff, Mrs. W. E., Jr 20.00\\nWoodruff, dies. A 8.75\\nWoodruff, Miss Willie 5.00\\nWoodruff Miss Georgia and ]\\\\[rs. Jno. Jabine\\n(Bishop s chair) T 75.00\\nWaters, CO 50.00\\nWhipple, Wm. G 150.00\\nWhipple, Wm. G. (C. C. concert) 44.30\\nWright, W. F 300.00\\nWebster, Geo 10.00\\nWatkins, Miss Ida $105.00\\nWatkins, Miss Georgia C 100.00\\nWindow 300.00 505.00\\nWright, W. H 25.00\\nWest, Henry C 8.75\\nWilson Webb 1 5.00\\nWatkins, Dr. Claiborne 475.00\\nWells Dungan 17.27\\nWoodsmall, W. H 20.00\\nWilliams, Ham 5.00\\nWilliams Co., by Slaughter 100.00\\nWaters, D. S. 45.00\\nWorthen, W. B 00.00\\nWait, W. B 1,203.00", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 241\\nWassell, John (window $350, cash $510) SdO.OO\\nYoung Ladies Guild (font) 205.00\\nYoung Ladies Guild (Bible) 50.00\\nZinmiernian, J. V 70.00\\nAmount individual subscriptions $38,945.58\\nKectory, sale of 3,301.75\\njMaterials sold by Captain Haney 1.00\\nProceeds of pressed brick 121.25\\nM. L. E. K. E. overcharges J3.33\\nM. L. E. E. E. overcharges 0.00\\nOverfreight 2 1 .00\\nOverwork 5.00\\nInsurance on old church 5,211.49\\nFrom sale of old material on foundation, etc 1,751.75\\nAmount derived from other sources than indi-\\nvidual subscriptions $10,572.57\\nForward individual subscriptions 38.945.58\\n$49,518.15\\nDebt 7,000.00\\nTotal cost $50,518.15\\nLIST OF WINDOW SUBSCRIBERS.\\nAdams, John I) 800.00\\nAdams, Mrs. E. C 300.00\\nBarber, Mrs. L. E 300.00\\nDeshon, Mrs. A. G 200.00\\nGoodrich, E. L 250.00\\nPeay, Mrs. Sue ,00.00\\nPeyton, Mrs. C. (Crease, Peay, Lewis) ;500.00\\nITpham, Mrs. Lizzie 250.00\\nWassell, Mrs. J 350.00\\nWarkins, Misses Ida and Georgia C 300.00\\nEoots, L. H 1,200.00\\n4,550.00", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "242 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nActual cost of foundation as per\\nbooks $10,719.14\\nActual cost of superstructure as per\\nbooks $35,704.67\\nAccount paid 188.09\\nAccount paid 180.00\\nChoir pews 74.00\\nVentilating apparatus 105.00\\nInsurance 500.00\\nAltar cross 52.50\\nAltar 135.00\\nBishop s chair 75.00\\nBible 50.00\\nFont 265.00\\nCredence 20.00\\nCarpets 1,170.00\\nStools 125.00\\nWardrobe 25.00\\nBible mark 25.00\\nMoving organ 75.00\\nCommunion service 500.00\\nBugs 11.00\\nSafe and furniture 130.00\\n$39,410.26 $39,410.26\\n$50,129.40\\nLess amounts not chargeable to cost\\nof church as advances returned. 880.00\\nRepairs on rectory 281.25\\nBorrowed money now included in\\nitem debt 4,000.00\\n5,161.25 5,161.25\\n$44,968.15\\nDebt 7,000.00\\nWindows 4,550.00\\nTotal cost $56,518.15", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "REV. T. C. TUPPER, D. D.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 243\\nCOST OF FOUXDATION.\\nReceived. Expended.\\nTrezevant 8,983.08 8,906.34\\nWait 810.32 772.45\\nAVait 130.00 184.61\\nWassell 795.74 795.74\\n$10,719.14 $10,719.14\\nCOST OF SUPERSTRUCTURE.\\nTotal amt. received as per books, etc. $34,249.01\\nTotal amt. expended as per books, etc. $34,249.01\\nDebt 7,000.00 7,000.00\\nWindows 4,550.00 4,550.00\\n$56,518.15 $56,518.15\\nWhole amt. subscribed to church, individuals and\\nwindows, etc $38,945.58\\noale of rectory 3,361.75\\nInsurance on old church 5,211.49\\nSale of materials, etc 1,999.33\\nDebt 7,000.00\\n$56,518.15\\nREV. TULLIUS C. TUPPER, D. D.\\nA. D. 1846-1895. Bev. TuUlus C. Tapper, D. D., was\\nborn in Canton, Miss., December 6, 1846. His parents were\\nof the old Southern patrician stock. His father, General\\nT. C. Tupper, whose name was a household word in Missis-\\nsippi, was a very eminent lawyer and one of the most polished\\nand courtly men of his State. He was appointed by Gov-\\nernor Pettus and commissioned major general of the Missis-\\nsippi State troops during the Civil War. His wife, Mrs.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "244 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nMary Harding Draiie Tupper, was a descendant of a leading\\nfamily in Sontliern Kentncky. Their son, Eev. Dr. Tnpper,\\nwas educated at the University of Mississippi, and afterwards\\nfor the law, and was admitted to the bar soon after his father s\\ndeath, in 1867. In 1868-69 he served as clerk of the Circuit\\nCourt of Madison County, and in the following year resumed\\nthe practice of law, forming a partnership with W. C. Cal-\\nlioon, brother of the Hon. S. S. Calhoon, late of the Supreme\\nCourt of Mississipi^i. In the latter part of 1871 Dr. Tup-\\nl)er, having fully decided to prepare himself for the sacred\\nministry, was admitted a candidate for orders in that Diocese,\\nand then entered and j)ursued his theological studies at the\\nXashotali Theological Seminary in Wisconsin. In 1873,\\nsoon after the death of his mother, he was ordained Deacon,\\nand in July, 1874, admitted to the sacred order of Priests by\\nBishop Green, and assigned to an extensive field of missionary\\nwork in xsTorth Mississippi, from which point he was called to\\nthe pastorate of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Memphis,\\nTenn., and in the following year to the charge of Christ\\nChurch, Little Rock, Ark., where he served eleven years. A\\ndistinguished journalist, now of Atlanta, Ga., said of him:\\nHe was not only a pastor of Christ Church but a citizen in\\nevery sense of the word. He was honored by the State with\\npositions of trust connected with State institutions, and was\\nr. potent factor in all works of charity in the city of Little\\nItock. Everybody loved and honored him there, if we may\\njudge from the encomiums heaped upon him by the press of\\nthe State on his dejtarture. He is a classical scholar, and in\\nevidence of the aj)preciation of him, both within the fold and\\noutside of his Church, the Board of Trustees of the State\\nUniversity of Arkansas conferred upon him honoris causa in\\n1884, the degree of doctor of divinity. Since leaving Little", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 245\\nRock, Dr. Tupper lias held important charges, both in paro-\\nchial and missionary work, in the Diocese of Kansas, Georgia,\\nand Alabama. In Jnly, 1874, he was married to Miss\\nImogen Hicks, of Sardis, Miss., a niece of Colonel John R.\\nDickens, who w^as a colonel in the Confederate army. From\\nthis union there were born six sons and four daughters, all of\\nwhom are now living. The eldest child. Miss Mary Dickens\\nTupper, was married in 1895 to Professor Philip Dudley\\nYoungblood, of Atlanta, Ga., of fine family lineage, a distin-\\nguished young teacher and chemist, both in the public schools\\nand colleges of that city. Miss Viola Tupper, the second\\ndaughter, was married ISTovember 17, 1898, to Mr. Robert\\nS. Barnett, a journalist, of Mexico City. Tullius C, the\\neldest son, is engaged in railroad business with the superin-\\ntendent of the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad\\nVernon 8., the second son, has just entered the University of\\nthe South to study for the ministry. The other children,\\nClifton Haywood, Imogen, Walter Vivian, Rosalind, La-\\nmonte, and Noland, are living with their parents.\\nThe following named gentlemen, most of whom have\\ngone to their reward, were the Wardens and Vestrymen dur-\\ning the Rectorship of Dr. Tupper\\nLuke E. Barber, Senior Warden.\\nR. H. Parham, Junior Warden.\\nWilliam B. Wait.\\nW. W. Smith.\\nJ. H. Haney.\\nRobert J. Matthews.\\nWilliam G. Whipple.\\nLogan H. Roots.\\nGeo. H. Van Etten.\\nSamuel L. Griffith.\\nP. K. Roots.\\nir", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "246 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nJudge Joliu Wassell was Junior Warden up to the time\\nof his death, when he was succeeded by Major R. H. Parham.\\nWilliam B. Wait, Albert O Neal, xVlbert Wassell, and\\nE. H. Parham were respectively treasurers of the parish dur-\\ning this Rectorship. Mrs. Logan H. Roots and Miss Geor-\\ngie Woodruff were president and treasurer of the Ladies\\nAid Society. Mrs. Kerr was organist. Mrs. Whipple, Mrs.\\nIvatzenberg (Mandlebaum), Mrs. Williams, Miss May Can-\\ntrell, Miss iS^ellie Clark, Major Smith, Colonel W. G.\\nWhipple were members of the choir, the greater part of the\\ntime also Miss Daisy Cantrell and Miss Isadore Cantrell,\\nsuccessively. Colonel and Mrs. W^hipple were connected\\nwith the choir for the entire eleven years. During this time\\nthe Sunday School was increased from forty children to 250\\nwith a good corps of teachers, with Colonel L. H. Roots, suc-\\nceeded by Major P. K. Roots as superintendent, and Mrs.\\nP. K. Roots as organist. During Dr. Tupper s incumbency\\nthe Cha2:)el was built and the new Church edifice was\\nbrought nearly to completion. He had held services in\\nthe Supreme C^ourtroom and in the Chamber of Com-\\nmerce, while the Chapel was in course of construction.\\nAll the energy and enthusiasm of the congregation were\\nbrought to bear towards the accomplishment of this object.\\nBazaars were held, and concerts and cantatas were given for\\nthe purpose. This Chapel was completed and used for wor-\\nship for nine years. The new Church gradually rose beside\\nit. and the last touches were being added in the Avay of Avin-\\ndcws, and furniture, when Dr. Tupper resigned. Besides\\nthe windows already described, there were three in the north\\nwall of the nave and one in the Chancel. This was a beau-\\ntiful representation of Christ blessing the little ones, with\\nfifteen life-sized figures. The inscription is To the glory", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 247\\nof God and inemory of our sons, by Logan H. and Emily\\nKoots. The window in the nave near the south transept^^ rep-\\nresents the resurrection, with three figures, Christ, the Angel,\\nand Roman soldier. The inscription is In memory of\\nDaniel Phillips Upliam, Xovember 18, 1882. It was\\ndonated by his widow. The next is In memory of Hugh\\nHogart Bein, died April 18, 1884. This represents Apol-\\nlos, an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures, with\\nthe angel- two figures. Donated by the widow. The next\\nwindow, representing two female figures, is inscribed In\\nloving memory of Albert Gallatin Dcshon, February 28,\\n1884. Donated by the widow. In the front of the C-hurcli\\nand above what was intended to be used as an organ loft, is\\na beautiful rose window, with the Holy Dove on the wing.\\nThe light coming through this window is intercepted by an\\norgan loft, which is reached by a staircase going up in the\\nnorth side of the vestibule entrance. Neither the staircase\\nnor the loft was in the original design of the architect, wlio\\nleft the sj^ace on the south side of the altar for the organ, as\\nis usual in all Episcopal Churches of size. This space had\\nbeen walled up for a room by the building committee, and\\nthe organ, when taken from the Chapel, was set up in the\\norgan loft. The Rector, Rev. Wallace Carnahan, did not\\napprove of this, and, on the Easter Sunday marked by the\\nfirst service in the Church, a cabinet organ, placed tem] o-\\nrtirily near the chancel, was used. The next week, witli con-\\nsent of the congregation, the room was torn away and the\\norgan conveyed from the loft to the place thus made vacant,\\nwhere it has since remained. In the wall of the north\\ntransept is a large window, representing tlie four evangelists,\\nlifesize, Matthew, JMark, Luke, and John, witli their sym-\\nbolic figures, the ]\\\\Ian, the Lion, tlie Ox, and tlie Eagle, at", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "248 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\ntheir feet. This beautiful window was donated bj Major\\nJohn D. Adams. It bears no inscription. The window\\nopposite, of the same size^ has been reserved for the portraits\\nof the four Missionary Bishops, Polk, Otey, Freeman, and\\nLay, but the funds collected by Mrs. Sappington, president\\nof the Chancel Guild, for that purpose, not proving to be suf-\\nficient for that object, were devoted to a handsome eagle\\nlectern in memory of Bishop Otey and two prayer desks in\\nmemory of Bishop Freeman, and Bishop Polk, and a pulpit\\nin memory of Bishop Lay. It is earnestly hoped that the\\noriginal idea may be developed and the window completed,\\nwhich is now merely stained in solid, light green. One other\\nwindow in the northwest wall is still unappropriated. The\\nChancel walls to north and south are pierced with two rectang-\\nular windows in each^ while in the clere-story of the nave\\nare eight trefoil windows. The altar table of carved walnut\\nwas donated by Major P. K. Roots as a Thank Offering.\\nThe Bishop s chair was donated by Mrs. John 1^. Jabine and\\nher sister. Miss Georgine Woodruff. The Rector s chair was\\ndonated by the Chancel Guild. The font and Bible were\\ndonated by the Young Ladies Guild. The handsome vesti-\\nbule is lighted from the south by two rectangular windows,\\nthe staircase closing the north Avail, originally designed for\\ntwo similar ones.\\nDr. Tupper did not remain to enjoy the fruition of his\\neleven years labor. His conservatism had been a rock of\\nrefuge in this age of radicalism. Secure in the affections and\\napprobation of his congregation, which was uncompromisingly\\nof Low Church principles, he had pursued the even tenor of\\nhis way, making a sermon of his life. The ceremonial of pomp\\nand display of vestments was not acceptable to the mass of\\nEpiscopalians in the State. Church history may bear witness", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 249\\nto the usage of this ehiborate ceremonial, but the testimony of\\nthe four evangelists and the apostles does not show it to have\\nbeen established hy the Divine Head of the Church on earth.\\nHe wore a distinctive dress, it is true, described by St. John\\nas without seam, woven from the top throughout, but there\\nis no mention of albs, stoles, cassocks, chasubels, copes, and\\nmitres in the accounts of His priestly wardrobe. The\\nbreastplate and ephod, the robe and broidered coat, a mitre\\nand girdle made of gold, of blue, of purple, of scarlet, and\\nfine twined linen may be the right things to wear in a Jew-\\nish tabernacle, but are they anywhere prescribed for the\\nministers of Christ\\nDr. Tupper decided to accept a call to Leavenworth,\\nKan., which seemed to come to him providentially in\\na painful crisis of mental doubt. He announced his inten-\\ntion of leaving for that place and that he would preach his\\nfarewell sermon to his Little Rock parishioners on June 6.\\nHis resignation took eifect June 1. The farewell sermon\\nwas preached on the first Sunday after Ascension from the\\ntext Love one another, John xv. 12. He left for Kansas\\nwithout his family, but was recalled to conduct the burial ser-\\nvices of the Senior Warden, Luke E. Barber, who died on\\nSunday morning, the 13th of June. On the 16th Dr. Tup-\\nper took his departure for Kansas, accompanied by his\\nfamily. The Church, which was begun when he took charge\\nof the parish, was finished outwardly, but he did not see the\\ncompletion of the work he had so long overlooked.\\nSo then neither is he that planteth anything, neither\\nhe that watereth but God that giveth the increase.\\nAt this Avriting, Dr. Tupper is in charge of Christ\\nChurch, Portsmouth, Ohio, where he is most highly esteemed.\\nAn extract from a Portsmouth paper says", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "250 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nDr. Tupper gave two excellent sermons at All Saints\\nCliurch. The morning discourse was of the nature of a\\nbeautiful lecture upon the thought As he thinketh in his\\nheart so he is.\\nThe illustration used was Hawthorne s Intelligence\\nOffice and the Book of Wishes.\\nFor the evening sermon the text was St. Luke xix. 12-13.\\nA certain nobleman went into a far country, and he called\\nhis ten servants and delivered them ten pounds and said unto\\nthem, occupy till I come.\\nThis sermon was a helpful, earnest talk.\\nDr. Tupper s dignity and polished diction and forcible\\ngestures add much to the strength of his really fine sermons.\\nThe outlook for the Episcopal Churches in Portsmouth\\nis exceeding promising.\\nDr. Tui^per comes to us when the w^eather is almost un-\\nbearable, yet he has gone about among his people unceasingly\\nand serenely as if the mercury registered at the most delight-\\nful point. There is hardly a member of his congregation\\nwho feels that Dr. Tupper is a stranger, his sympathies are\\nso quick and his manner so cordial.\\nA. D. 1833-1871. The Junior Warden who succeeded\\nLuke E. Barber as Senior Warden, during Dr. Tupj^er s in-\\ncumbency was Richard Henry Parham, son of Richard Hill\\nand Henrietta Elizabeth Parham, who was born in Sussex\\nCounty, Va., December 18, 1833. His ancestors have been\\nresidents of Virginia from early colonial days. His grand-\\nparents on his father s side have been Methodist preachers\\nin Virginia for more than a hundred years. Mr. Parham s\\nancestors on his father s side were Parhams and Hills on\\nhis mother s side, they were Parhams, Booths, and Blands.\\nIn 1843 his family moved overland from Virginia to Mar-\\nshall County, Miss. So difficult then were means of travel\\nthat it took two weeks to make the trip of fifty miles from", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 251\\ntheir Mississippi home to Memphis. The only raih oad in\\nthe South was the Petersburg and Weldon Kailroad. Mv.\\nParham s earliest recollections are associated with the cutting\\nof timbers by his father s negroes for the construction of this\\nrailway.\\nMr. Parham was educated in the elements of learning in\\nan old field school, as such schools were called in those days.\\nIn his seventeenth year he entered the freshman class in the\\nUniversity of Mississippi at Oxford, and graduated in 1854.\\nAfter leaving the uni^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ersity, Mr. Parham taught school\\noccasionally, but he spent the greater part of his time on his\\nfather s plantation pursuing his favorite studies. In those\\ndays he was strongly inclined to the ministry. Theology was\\nhis favorite study. In 1858 he was married to Ora C. Treze-\\nvant, daughter of Brooks Robards Trezevant and Rachel\\nGodwin Trezevant, in Memphis, Tenn. Rt. Rev. Bishop\\nOtey performed the marriage ceremony. Since marriage,\\nMr. Parham has lived the greater part of the time in Little\\nRock, having moved to that city June 28, 1871. Since he\\ncame to Little Rock, except the first year, he has been con-\\ntinuously engaged in teaching. He has two daughters\\nliving, Godwin, wife of ]\\\\Ir. Gray Carroll, and Ora, wife of\\nMr. Powell Clayton, both of Little Rock. There are two\\ngranddaughters, Godwin and Courtney Carroll, and one\\ngrandson, John Middleton Clayton.\\n]\\\\rajor Parham has been a valuable and highly esteemed\\nmember of Christ Church for many years, having served in\\nthe capacity of Secretary, Junior and Senior Warden. As\\nhe passes along the decline of life, his path is embellished\\nwith the tempered sunshine of an approving conscience and\\nthe flowers of good deeds done. He resigned the office of\\nJunior Warden to", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "252 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nCOLO^TEL S. L. GRIFFITH.\\nA. D. 1818-1866. Colonel S. L. Griffith was born in\\nHarford County, Md., in 1818, and on attaining his majority\\nmoved to Fort Smith, Ark., in 1839. He married Elizabeth\\nK^icks in 1844. Of this marriage there were two sons, John\\nJSTicks and George Nicks Griffith, w^ho both died in infancy.\\nColonel and Mrs. Griffith moved to Little Rock in 1866 and\\nbecame members of Christ Church. He was for some years\\na member of the Vestry and was chosen Junior Warden in\\n1885. He died in Little Rock January, 1893, after a long\\nand successful career as a leading dry goods merchant. He\\nwas a thoroughly refined gentleman, and is affectionately\\nremembered by his early friends. He was buried in Mount\\nHolly Cemetery.\\nCHRIST CHURCH RECTORY.\\nA. D. 1849-1866. During the incumbency of Rev.\\nAndrew F. Freeman as Rector of Christ Church there was no\\ndemand for a Rectory, as he, with his father and mother,\\nlived in their own residence but when Bishop Lay succeeded\\nto the jurisdiction of Arkansas and also to the office of Rector\\nof Christ Church, he saw the need of one, and urged his par-\\nishioners to enter upon some plan for erecting a home for\\nfuture ministers. The Ladies Aid Society, which was\\norganized at that time, with Mrs. Sim Bostick president, and\\nMrs. Charles G. Scott as vice president, began to devise ways\\nand means for collecting funds with this object in view.\\nA. D. 1868-1875. The (\\\\u onation of the Rose as\\nQueen uf Flowers, a cantata, was ])resented at the city hall\\nbv fiftv eliildren and vouna liirls, in tliree successive vears.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 253\\nThe net proceeds of the first presentation was $250j^ the\\nsecond $500, the third $400, whole amount $1,150, the\\nreceipts for which were placed in the hands of the treasurer\\nof the Church, Mr. Wm. B. Wait. About three years later\\nThe Twin Sisters, an operetta, was presented twice at\\nthe first the sum of $180 was netted, and at the second\\nrepresentation $77.15. In 1881 another operetta^ The\\nMiracle of the Roses, was presented by children and\\ngirls and yielded a profit of $80. To this amount, $1,437.15,\\na handsome sum was added l)v the i: roceeds of two or three\\nconcerts one, combined with a strawberry festival, was given\\nat the Dutch Garden (situated in the block bounded by Third\\nand Fourth streets and Commerce and Sherman), which\\nyielded a clear profit of one thousand (1,000) dollars.\\nBazaars and suppers were also given and the proceeds added\\nto this $1,437.15, with which the ground for the Tlectory\\nwas bought. This was located on the corner of Seventh and\\nCumberland streets. Mr. John E. Reardon gave to Christ\\nChurch a bond for title on February 5, 1867, and on August\\n11, 1874, executed the deed for lots 7, 8, and 9, block 28, in\\nthe city of Little Rock, consideration $1,866.66. On this\\nsite the Rectory was built, fronting south, with four rooms,\\ntwo on each side of a hall, at the end of which was a fifth room.\\nA back porch with a storeroom taken off the east end, with a\\nkitchen and servant s room in the backyard, completed what\\nwas thought to be a comfortable cottage. The Rev. P. G.\\nRobert, with his wife, four sons and a daughter, was the first\\nRector to occupy it. He had been residing at the Crutchfield\\nhome, on Sixth and Cumberland streets, which has since given\\nplace to two new buildings.\\nWhen Bishop H. ]S[. Pierce assumed the jurisdiction of\\nArkansas and Indian Territorv, he was the cuest of Islr. and", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "254 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nMrs. Gilbert Ivnapp, on the corner of Seventh and Kector\\navenue.\\nAfter Mr. Kobert resigned the Rectorship of Christ\\nC hnrch for that of the Holy Communion, in St. Louis, Mo.,\\nthe Bishoj) asked that a second story be added for his use,\\nwhich was accordingly done by the congregation, and he moved\\ninto it with his wife, two sons and two daughters. To this\\nbuilding of eight rooms Avas afterwards added on the west a\\nlong music room, opening by folding doors from the parlor,\\nto be used for the study, exercise, and advancement of the\\nscience of music, to which the Bishop s family were devotees.\\nThe expense incurred by the building of this room was covered\\nby the proceeds of concerts given by the young people. It\\nwas afterwards moved to the rear. Bishop Pierce and family\\noccupied the Bectory for eight years. When they removed\\nto the Bishop s own residence, southwest corner of Seventeenth\\nand Spring streets. Rev. T. C. Tupper and family, who had,\\nfor about three or four years, occupied a cottage on Rock\\nstreet, near Sixth, took up their abode at the Rectory. When\\nDr. Tupper removed to Leavenworth, Kan., the property was\\nsold by the Vestry before mentioned, to Mr. Henry M. Cooper,\\nrecorded as follows: Lot E 110, and lots 7, 8, 9, block 28,\\nin the city of Little Rock, $3,361.75. This hardly\\ncovered the original outlay. The amount was added to\\nthe building fund of the new Church, while the next Rector,\\nRev. Wallace Carnahan, was obliged to rent a dwelling house\\nuntil the Chapel, vdiich had been in use during the last nine\\nyears of Dr. Tupper s ministry, while the Church was being\\nerected, was conveited into a Rectorv.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "REV. WALLACE CARNAHAN.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 255\\nREV. WALLACE CARKAHAN.\\nA. D. 1886. Rev. ^Wallace Carnalian, who succeeded\\nRev. Dr. T. C. Tupj)er as Rector of Christ Church, at Little\\nRock, September 1, 1886,* is a native of the Old Dominion,\\nwhere his birth occurred April 18, 1843. His father dying\\nwhcii he was 8 years old, his mother moved with him to ]Srew-\\nport, Ky., and there he received his literary education. He\\nstudied law and was admitted to the bar^ and afterward prac-\\nticed for about three years in jiartnership with the late Hon.\\nThomas L. Jones, member of Congress. At this period of\\nhis life ]\\\\[r. Carnahan s attention was drawn to the ministry\\nof the Episcopal Church. He abandoned the bar and entered\\nupon the study of theology, which he pursued under Bishop\\nSmith and the Rev. John IST. Norton, D. D. He was ordained\\nto the Diaconate by Bishop Smith, June 9, 1869, and ordained\\nto the Priesthood by Bishop Green in 1870. He spent the\\nfirst four years of his ministry in the Diocese of Mississippi,\\nand the seven years that followed in Western Texas as a mis-\\nsionary. From Texas he was called to Grace Church, Annis-\\nton, Ala., and that parish was the field of his labors for six\\nyears. From Alabama he was called to Christ Church, Little\\nRock, September 1, 1886. In this Church Mr. Carnahan s\\nwork has been greatly blessed, and he is recognized as an able\\nand eloquent preacher.\\nRev. Wallace Carnahan was married in Mississippi to\\nMiss Mary S. Hart, a daughter of Captain John D. Hart, a\\nplanter of Madison County, Miss. He is the son of James\\nand Caroline (Smith) Carnahan, natives of Virginia. The\\ngrandfather was liorn in County Antrim, Ireland, and was a\\n*See Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Central Arkansas, published in 1889,\\nby the Goodspeed Publishing Co., Chicago, Nashville and St. Louis.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "256 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nnoted Orangeman. The mother was a daughter of Major\\nHenry Smithy a native of Maryland^ and one of the original\\nsettlers of Wheeling, Va. Mr. Carnahan s maternal grand-\\nfather was a eaj^tain of artillery in the Revolutionary war,\\nand his services were acknowledged by an act of Congress.\\nMr. Carnahan resigned the Rectorship of Christ Church\\non account of failing health after eight years of service, so\\nunremitting, so far-reaching in the purification of the\\nChurch in Arkansas, so helpful to the cause of missions, so\\nunprecedented in the financial prosperity of the Chruch at\\nhome and throughout the Diocese, so uplifting in the standard\\nof holiness in the parish, that the unanimous verdict of the\\npublic has been that he stands unequalled in spiritual fervor\\nand eloquence, in culture and executive ability and the\\ndevoted allegiance of his parishioners, by any Rector of\\nChrist Church Parish.\\nA. D. 1887. In the second year of Mr. Carnahan s\\nministry he began editing a Church paper, which was pub-\\nlished by the contributions of The Young Ladies Guild,\\nand was entitled successively according to the expansion of\\nthe subscription list, The Little Roch Churchman, The\\nArkansas Churchman, and The Anglo-Saxon Churchman\\nthe last issue completing its third year in December, 1890,\\nafter three years of steady progress in journalism.\\nA. D. 1891. We quote from the May issue of The\\nAnglo-Saxon Churchman^ of ISOl, the following:", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 257\\nCHKIST OHUECH, LITTLE ROCK.\\nAnticipating the iniblication of the Year Book of\\nChrist Church, Little Rock, we give an epitome of the statis-\\ntics of the parish for the five years ending April 30, 1891.\\nBaptisms 205\\nConfirmations 172\\nMarriages 37\\nBurials 103\\nCONTKIBUTIONS.\\nFor Parochial objects $55,218.24\\nFor Diocesan objects 953.60\\nFor Domestic Missions 836.33\\nFor Foreign Missions 210.18\\nFor other objects beyond the Diocese 403.60\\nTotal $57,651.95\\nPRESENT STATUS.\\nFamilies 356\\nSouls (about) 1,700\\nCommunicants 620\\nSunday School teachers, 36, pupils (about) 400. 436\\nVALUE OF CHURCH PROPERTY.\\nChurch edifice and grounds $60,000.00\\nRectory and grounds 8,500.00\\nMission Chapel and lot 1,500.00\\nTotal $70,000.00\\nOFFICERS OF THE PARISH.\\nRev. Wallace Carnahan Rector.\\nRev. J. E. IT. Galbraith Assistant Minister.\\nMajor John D. Adams Senior Warden.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "258 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nDr. W. A. Cantrell Junior Warden.\\nMajor R. H. Parliam Secretary.\\n]Mr, John W. Goodwin Treasurer.\\nIt is i^roper to state that the Rectorship of the Rev. T. C.\\nTupper, D. D., extended over a few months of the first of the\\nabove mentioned years, and that the following are to be\\ncredited to his ministry\\nBaptisms 13\\n]\\\\Iarriages 2\\nBurials 2\\nContributions (about) $900.00\\nDr. Tupper left the parish with 329 communicants, and\\nthe new Church edifice nearly completed.\\nAs nothing could be so acceptable for accuracy and so\\ninteresting as an exponent of the zeal and influence of this\\nmagnetic preacher, some selections from his paper are here\\ngiven\\nTHE LITTLE ROCK CHURCIIMAX\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Vol. 1, Xo. 1.\\nJanuary^ 1888.\\nThis little paper is published by the Young Ladies\\nGuild of Christ Church, Little Rock. It is edited by the\\nRector and the Assistant Minister, Rev. John Galbraith. Its\\nobject is the stimulation of parish work. To that end the\\ndoings of the various parish societies will be published, to-\\ngether with the Diocesan news and items of general Church\\ninterest. Suggestions for the extension and advancement of\\nthe work will be ofl^ered and, above all things, true principles\\nand right methods of work will be inculcated. Although\\nit is expected that the circulation of the paper will be chiefly\\namongst the Churchmen of Little Rock, yet we shall be\\npleased to receive subscriptions from other parts of the\\nDiocese, and even from regions beyond. We shall be", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 259\\ngrateful to our brethren, clerical and lay, for items of local\\nCliurcli news. This paper is not published to make money.\\nIf there should be a surplus after paying expenses it will be\\nfiiven to missions.\\nSome of the congregation will be glad to know that the\\ntemporary window in the south transept is to be tinted, so\\nas to soften the light that comes through the opalescent glass.\\nBetter still, before many months a stained glass window,\\nmemorial of the four Bishops deceased, who have exercised\\njurisdiction in Arkansas, will take the place of the temporary\\nwindow.\\nThe old parish Sunday School, now known as the Cliapel\\nSunday School, is advancing in every element of healthy\\ngrowth. The Chapel is almost as full as it will hold, and\\nthe instruction of the excellent teachers is more and more ap-\\npreciated l)y the scholars.\\nThe teachers in all three of our Sunday Schools are\\nremarkably capable and faithful. The Sunday School chil-\\ndren have just sent $88 for domestic missions, making $26-2\\nthe Sundav School contributed to missions during the year\\n1887.\\nThe success of St. Paul s Sunday School is most cheer-\\ning. It was placed where it Avas supposed a Sunday Scliool\\nwas most needed. The only available room that could be\\nfound was a vacated barroom. All signs of the evil spirits\\nwere removed and the work was begun the first Sunday in\\nNovember. Over eighty scholars have been enrolled, and the\\nattendance averages sixty. The only trouble is to find room\\nfor the constant increase. After awhile, God willing, we shall\\nhave a Chapel in West End.\\nSt. John s Sunday School (East End) was begun last\\nSunday, January 8, in Forest Grove schoolhouse, the use of", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "260 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nwhich is kindly allowed us by the city school board. Five\\nteachers and thirty scholars were in attendance. This is a\\ngrand field for loving, persistent work. In God s good time\\nwe look for the building of St. John s Chapel.\\nThere has been a marked improvement in the Church\\nmusic of late. It is simple, devotional and Churchly, and\\nwell rendered. The congregation join in singing more and\\nmore, as they learn the music. The organist is a master of\\nthe instrument, and the choir is evidently in practice.\\nThe Christmas offerings amounted to $187.80. The\\nlargest the parish ever made.\\nThe Ladies Aid Society, the most ancient organization\\nin the parish, holds its own steadily. Besides keeping up its\\nbuilding association stock, this society has charge of the parish\\nsociables, arranging, through committees^ for the musical and\\nliterary features of these delightful gatherings. For fear\\nsome reader outside Little Kock may suppose that our\\nsociables are entertainments for raising money, we must\\nexplain that they are monthly meetings of the adult members\\nof the parish for social intercourse and the refining influence\\nof music and literary exercises. No admission is charged,\\nand no collections are made. And we may add that in this\\nparish no money is ever raised by fairs, suppers, concerts or\\nr.uy other means, except direct giving.\\nTHE LITTLE ROCK CHURCHMAK\\nFebkuary, 1888.\\nEASTER OFFERIISTGS.\\nOne of the gems in the crown of the Queen of Festivals\\nis the Easter offering The ideal offering for this great day\\nis the devotion to God of the money value of all our self-\\ndenials of Lent. Another ennobling motive finds expression", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 261\\nill a thank offering at Easter. If you have received a signal\\ntoken of God s goodness during the past year, ask yourself\\nhow thankful you are what per cent of your capital i What\\nper cent of your income\\nIn this Diocese there is canonical offering on Easter day\\nfor the endowment of the Episcopate. This will be observed\\nof course but another offering will be called for to pay the\\nChurch debt. The two objects will be separately designated\\nin the check of the contributor, or in envelopes to be used for\\nthat purpose. When the present Yestry came into office, last\\nspring, they found a debt of $7,000 on the parish $4,000 of\\nit secured by mortgage, and paying 10 per cent interest, $3,-\\n000 payable on demand. The Vestry borrowed $7,000 at\\n8 per cent and paid off all other debts. This loan w^as made\\non four years time; $1,000 due next April, and $2,000 each\\nsucceeding year until paid. The Vestry took the loan on\\nthis time out of abundant caution but with the prosperous\\nyear we have had, and the bright outlook for the State, the\\ncity, and the parish, there is no need of this delay. W^e can\\npay off the whole $7,000 this spring and be done with the in-\\ncubus. This debt stands in the way of so many things that\\nwe ought to do that it ought to be sw^ept out of the way. This\\nparish is on the march, and ought not to tolerate any impedi-\\nment. After the debt is paid w^e must buy back those pews\\nthat were sold, and then all the seats in Christ Church will\\nbe made free. Then will follow the establishment of the\\nparish hospital, the building of St. PauFs and St. John s\\nChapels, the Boys Academy, the enlargement of the Sunday\\nSchool room, the Rectory and the chime of bells; after that,\\nwe shall contribute two or three thousand dollars a year to\\nthe fund for the endowment of the Episcopate.\\n]^ow, we can t have all that good work hindered by this\\npitiful debt of $7,000. It is less than $15 apiece for the com-\\nmunicants of the parish. There are, to be sure, some who\\ncan t pay $15, but there are twice as many who can each pay\\nmore than that. Let us pay off the debt, have the Church\\nconsecrated, and sing an ardent Te Deum.\\n18", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "262 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nREPORT OF CHRIST CHURCH, LITTLE ROCK,\\nTO THE SIXTEENTH COUNCIL OF THE\\nDIOCESE OF ARKANSAS.\\nFrom April 19, 1887, to April 11, 1888\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nNumber of families 331\\nNumber of communicants 508\\nNumber of souls 1,628\\nBajDtisms\\nInfants 40\\nAdults 17\\nTotal\\nbi\\nConfirmations 38\\nMarriages 7\\nBurials 18\\nSunday Schools\\nTeachers 41\\nPupils 365\\nTotal 405\\nOFFERINGS.\\nPAROCHIAL.\\nSalary of Rector 2,332.90\\nRent of Rectory 587.50\\nSalary of assistant minister (seven months) 493.35\\nCommunion alms 333.20\\nChurch carpet and furniture 1,318.00\\nChurch building and debt 3,804.79\\nInsurance on Church 498.15\\nOther parish expenses 1,402.32\\nTotal $10,770.21", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 263\\nDIOCESAN.\\nCouncil assessment 160.00\\nEpiscopate fund 72.49\\nDiocesan missions 82. i 3\\nFund for widows and orphans of deceased clergy 10.70\\nTotal 325.92\\nBEYOND THE DIOCESE.\\nDomestic Missions Missionary box, $160; cash,\\n$109.09 269.09\\nForeign Missions 100.78\\nSociety for Conversion of the Jews 13.50\\nAmerican Church Building Fund 12.60\\nNew York Bible and Prayer Book Society 10.00\\nUniversity of the South 50.00\\nTotal 455.9\\nAggregate $11,552.45\\nValue of Church property $60,000.00\\nA RETROSPECT.\\nThis first day of September closes the second year of the\\npresent Rector s charge of Christ Church, Little Rock. It\\nmay be profitable for us to reflect upon the outcome of these\\ntwo years of work and prayer.\\nWhat have we minister and laymen done and what\\nremains to be done The former is very little indeed, com-\\npared to the latter. Still there is no occasion for discourage-\\nment. We think all feel that these have been eventful years.\\nPerhaps no parish and no Rector ever had the extraordinary\\nexperience we passed through during the winter and spring\\nof 1887. But we do not wish to recall anything painful. On", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "264 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nEaster Monday^ 1887, the Hector s administration was sus-\\ntained by an overwlielming majority of the parishioners, and\\nwas again indorsed on Easter Monday last by a practically\\nunanimous expression of approval and affection. We believe\\nthat this is now one of the most united and harmonious\\nparishes in the country.\\nWithin these two years our magnificent Church edifice\\nhas been completed, including the finishing of the basement\\nfor Sunday School rooms. The old Chapel has been recon-\\nstructed for a Rectory, making it one of the most desirable\\nresidences in the city. A valuable property the Camp-\\nbell ite Chapel has been purchased for our West End Mis-\\nsion. So much for the material increase, not stopj)ing to\\nmention things of minor value, like Chancel furniture., the\\norgan for St. Paul s, the bank safe for the parish office, etc.\\nBut we must add to things material the total of money raised\\nin the parish for C^hurch work, building and debt, amounting\\nto over $23,000.\\nFar more important than the above mentioned signs of\\nprogress, is the record of living increase. During this same\\ntime eighty persons have been baptized and sixty-four con-\\nfirmed the list of communicants has increased from 329\\nto 532, the average attendance at the Sunday services has\\ndoul:)led, and the number of Sunday School ])upils has nearly\\nquadrupled; in the way of increased organizations, two mis-\\nsion Sunday Schools have been started, and one of them has\\nproved remarkably successful. The Young Ladies Guild\\nhas been reorganized for the special work of supporting the\\nassistant minister, and conducting the Little Each Church-\\nman a chapter of St. Andrew s Brotherhood has been formed\\nfor work amongst young men a missionary society, composed\\nof the communicants of the Church, has been made the very\\nheart of the parish; and monthly sociables are held for social\\nintercourse and the enjoyment of music and literature. Be\\nit noted that these sociables are not used to raise money, the\\nwhole system of fairs, suppers, concerts, et id om.ne genus for\\nbribing people to serve God, having been religiously abandoned\\ntwo vears affo.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 265\\nBut after all, these signs of iniprovenient that can be put\\ninto figures and minutes of meetings, are not the most signifi-\\ncant elements of parochial prosperity; the spirituality of a\\nparish is not susceptible of statistical statement, but for all\\nthat it is the real life of a parish, without which, all other\\nsigns of vitality are as the contortions of a galvanized corpse.\\nWe are almost afraid to speak of improvement in this regard,\\nyet we think it not wrong to say that there has been a marked\\nelevation of the religious tone of the parish.\\nWe know there was a strong element of spirituality in\\nthe parish two years ago, but we know also that the predomi-\\nnant character of the parish at that time was a rejiroach to\\nChristianity. But let all that pass, it makes one heartsick\\nto remember it. Thank God, it is no longer prima facie evi-\\ndence that a person has no religion to belong to Christ Church,\\nLittle Rock. We do not boast of these things we allude to\\nthese tokens of God s blessing on the labors of minister and\\npeople onh^ to thank Ilim for His mercy and goodness, and as\\nan incentive to better work in the future. What is that work\\nfor the future First of all duties^ we must raise our stan-\\ndard of personal holiness still higher, and as a part of the\\nmeans to that blessed end, as well as a regard for the direct\\nobjects of Christian duty, we must pay off the balance of that\\nwretched debt; we must build a Chapel for St. John s Mis-\\nsion we must organize a Sunday School in Argenta we must\\nestablish a Church school to prepare boys for college we must\\nbuild and endow a hospital, and avc must raise $10,000 as\\nour share of the Episco])ate fund.\\nAfter that we shall find plenty more to do. In the mean-\\ntime let us thank God that we are a united band, full of hope\\nand courage.\\nThe Chancel Society is doing its sacred work diligently\\nand with reverence and good taste. The arrangements for\\nthe celebration of the Holy Communion and the care of the\\nvestments show that this society deserves the injunction, Let\\nall tilings be done decentlv and in order.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "266 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nThe sociables suspended during Lent will be resumed.\\nThe next will be held on Thursday night, 19th of April.\\nThere were nearly 100 in attendance at the last sociable, but\\nwe hope to see three times that many after all our members\\nlearn how delightful these gatherings are.\\nThe Vestry have had several interesting meetings during\\nthe past month. They are doing their part nobly in the\\nmatter of the Church debt, and if the whole $7,000 is not paid\\noff at Easter it will not be their fault. The Rector takes this\\noccasion to thank the Vestry for their cordial and generous\\nsupport during the past year.\\nThe choir has laid the congregation under obligations for\\ngood Church music. We do not mean to say that it tickles\\nthe ears of the groundlings, nor do we claim that it is equal\\nto a show. We say it is good Church music; that is to say,\\nthe congregation is led in devout praise, skillfully and\\nreverently.\\nThe Young Ladies Guild are doing good, solid work.\\nBesides doing all the clerk work of the Little Rock Church-\\nman, they raise over $500 a year towards the current expenses\\nof the parish, not counting such little things as the $45 cliair\\nwhich they have just bought for the Chancel. The Rector\\nhopes that the young ladies may not work themselves to death.\\nThe Vestry of Christ Church is certainly one of varied\\nelements amongst the eleven Vestrymen, eight vocations,\\nboth political parties and three shades of Churchmanship are\\nrepresented. !N otwithstanding these differences, they are\\na unit in their love of the Church, their devotion to the in-\\nterests of the parish, and their cordial support of the Rector.\\nThe Ladies Aid Society, at their last meeting, resolved\\nto use the funds now in hand, some $150, to pay for the cover-\\ning and cushioning of the kneeling stools, as soon as the work\\ni completed. The missionary box which they are preparing", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 267\\nfor a missionary in Western Texas is coming on finely. This\\nvenerable society lias taken on new life. We feared at one\\ntime that their purchasing the carpet (it cost $1,125) had\\nexhausted the Ladies Aid Society.\\nThe Missionary Society is a thoroughly organized, com-\\npact body; there is a steady advance all along the line.\\nThrough the labors of the members of this society objects of\\ncharity are relieved, new Church families are found and\\nvisited, and strangers haying no ecclesiastical belonging are\\nbrought under religious influence. Besides an interest in\\nDiocesan, Domestic and Foreign Missions is constantly culti-\\nvated. The monthly dues are 50 cents for men, 20 cents for\\nmarried ladies, and 10 cents for single ladies, which are\\ndevoted to missions. Every communicant of the parish ought\\nto belong to this society.\\nThe Sunday Schools are doing remarkably well. The\\nKector catechises each in turn St. John s on the second Sun-\\nday in the month, the Chapel Simday School on the third\\nSunday, and St. Paul s on the fourth. The last catechising\\nelicited unmistakable evidence of good work on the part of the\\nofficers and teachers. The three Sunday Schools will have\\ntheir annual festival at Christ Church on Easter evening at\\n4 o clock. St. Paul s will occupy the north transept, St.\\nJohn s the south transept, and the Chapel Sunday School the\\nfront of the nave. The congregation will be welcome to the\\nrear of the nave. We think the exercises will be interesting\\nto vounff and old.\\nMay, 1888.\\nPARISH DOIXGS.\\nThe Easter offerings amounted to $2,259, wdiich is pretty\\ngood; but next Easter we shall more than double that.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "268 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nThe Chancel Society deserves great credit for its ex-\\nquisite decoration of the Church for Easter; and the regu-\\nlarity with which all its work is done, all the more acceptable\\nbecause not overdone.\\nA few weeks ago the parish had the honor of a visit from\\nArchdeacon Eortin, of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Rector\\nbegged him to occupy the pulpit whilst here, but his health\\nwould not permit.\\nThe Guild is as busy as a bee-hive it is making a suc-\\ncess of the Little Bock ChurcJiman, and is preparing to do a\\nlarger work than ever, of which many will hear very soon.\\nNo work in the parish has borne better fruit than that of the\\nYoung Ladies Guild.\\nThe Ladies Aid Society paid off the debt for the kneel-\\ning stools, about $150, and finished and shipped the box\\nfor the missionary in Texas. We verily believe the prepara-\\ntion of that box did our ladies as much good as the contents\\nof the box will do the missionary and his family.\\nThe choir is constantly improving. Our music on\\nEasfer day was most appro])riate and edifying. We have\\nnever heard music in Church that so thoroughly fulfilled the\\npurpose of Church music to lift up the heart in gratitude to\\nGod. The show feature was severely absent. Of the 800\\nor 900 souls that crowded the Church, we hope not one came\\nto be entertained.\\nThe organist at the first service held in the new Church\\non Easter day, 1887, was Professor Brebegh. The choir\\nv/as composed of ]\\\\riss ]\\\\rarve Rumbough, Miss Bessie Can-\\ntrell, ]\\\\riss Sophie Field (Mrs. Andrew Hunter), Miss Susie\\nCarroll, so])ranos Miss Hallie Jabine (Mrs. Sayle), Miss\\nGeorgie Woodruff and Miss ]S annie Field, altos; Messrs.\\nGeorge Martin, D. H. Cantrell and Dunbar Pope, tenors\\nMessrs. Llenrv ]\\\\r:ix\\\\v( ll. and Otev Clark, bassos.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 269\\nWe congTatulate the parish upon the re-election of the\\nVestry on Easter Monday. It is evident that the congrega-\\ntion is practically unanimous in the opinion that the affairs\\nof the parish are in good hands. Certainly it is a good spec-\\ntacle a V^estry of eleven devout Christians, exemplary citi-\\nzens, and everyone the warm, personal friend of the Rector.\\nHappy is the parish and happy is the Rector thus situated.\\nBy far the most successful sociable we have yet had was\\nthat of the 19th. We never saw a large company (there were\\nabout 100 present) seem to enjoy rational and wholesome\\npleasure more thoroughly. When these sociables were pro-\\nposed some predicted their failure. Who ever heard, some\\nsaid, of a Church sociable not intended for raising money?\\nOthers remarked, The idea of a party without either danc-\\ning or refreshments Well, strange things do happen.\\nSt. Andrew s Brotherhood is steadily growing in mem-\\nbership and interest. The formation of another chapter of\\nolder young men is talked of. This society meets every\\nTuesday night in the parish office. A passage of Scripture\\nis studied, a portion of some literary work is read and dis-\\ncussed, and then the members engage in conversation about\\nthe work of the society that is, inducing young men to come\\nto Church. There is no cant, no humbug, no axe-grinding\\nabout the Brotherhood.\\nThe Sunday School festival on Easter evening was pro-\\nnounced a success. There were nearly 400 children. When\\nthe Mission Sunday Schools marched in, 150 strong, there\\nwas some surprise and much joy amongst some of the old\\nfolks, who didn t know that this work amounted to much.\\nAs each class came up and planted its banner and pre-\\nsented its offerings, all felt that this work had been blessed.\\nEach banner had a letter on it, these letters, when placed,\\nmaking the sentence, Children of God, being children of the\\nresurrection.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "270 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nThe Rector is very grateful to the officers and teachers\\nfor their faithful year s work.\\nThe building of those Chapels is now in order. We think\\nwe know the names of the two men who are going to give us\\nlots to build them on.\\nMakch, 1888.\\nTHE BROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW.\\nThe society known as the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, is\\nmaking rapid advances in the increase of its numbers and in\\nthe good work accomplished. This is an organization of young\\nmen in the Church for the purpose of inducing young men to\\nattend Church, and for the mutual improvement of the mem-\\nbers. The assistant minister of Christ Church proposes to\\norganize a chapter of this society in Little Rock. We\\nheartily commend the movement.\\nTHE VESTRY ELECTIOK\\nOn Easter Monday, April 2, the annual election for\\nVestrymen of Christ Church will be held. The present efficient\\nVestry ought to be re-elected. They are all good men and\\nfaithful to their trust. There is perfect harmony between all\\nthe members of the Vestry and the Rector. Mutual confi-\\ndence and mutual support have characterized every meeting\\nand every act, and as a consequence the parish has enjoyed\\nunprecedented prosperity, temporal and spiritual.\\nThe income of the parish since this Vestry came into\\noffice last Easter Monday has been $5^087. This does not\\ninclude $1,125 paid by the Ladies Aid Society for the carpet,\\nabout $400 raised by the Young Ladies Guild, about $50 con-\\ntributed by the Missionary Society, and the Sunday School\\nofferings, amounting to over $200. The Easter offerings will\\nadd several thousand dollars to the year s income. Of the", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OP CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 271\\n$5,087 already received, parish expenses consumed $3,557\\nthe balance, $1,530, was expended on the Church edifice and\\ngrounds, the interest on the debt.\\nThe financial success of the parish is largely due to the\\nefficiency of the treasurer, Major John D. Adams.\\nIf the congregation want this Vestry to serve another year\\nthey ought to come out Easter Monday and say so. We give\\nthe names of the Vestry beltnv\\nR. H. Parham, Jr.\\nW. W. Smith.\\nJohn D. Adams.\\nDr. W. A. Cantrell.\\nTv. L. Goodrich.\\nDr. L. R. Stark.\\nR. J. Polk.\\nG. S. Brack.\\nC. H. Dolbeer.\\nF. D. Clark.\\nJ. H. Haney.\\nHOA^OR TO WHOM HOXOR IS DUE.\\nThe parish owes a debt of gratitude to Major John D.\\nAdams and Mr. R. L. Goodrich for liberal contributions to\\nobjects outside the regular expenses of the parish. Their\\nofferings are always made with the characteristic modesty of\\ngentlemen. ]^o parade, no trumpeting, no bargaining for\\nadulation and advertisement.\\nThe Rectory rapidly approaches completion the Rector\\nexpects to move into it the 1st of October. In the next num-\\nber of the ChurchmoM we shall give a description of the house.\\nThe parish is under obligations to IMajor R. IT. Parham\\nfor his faithful services as lay reader, especially during the\\nRector s vacation. Only an experienced clergyman knows\\nhow to appreciate a character like jVPajor Parham s.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "272 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nMay, 1888.\\nThe assistant minister of Christ Churchy Rev. John E.\\nH. Galbraith, has organized a chapter of St. Andrew s\\nBrotherhood. The study of the Bible, mutual improvement,\\nand a Christian influence amongst young men are the objects\\nof this societv. Most commendable.\\nAucxUST, 1888.\\nCHRIST CHURCHj LITTLE ROCK.\\nAn assistant minister has been called, but has not yet\\naccepted. It will be hard to fill Mr. Galbraith s place.\\nThe sociables and the meetings of the Ladies Aid Society\\nand St. Andrew s Brotherhood are suspended until October,\\nbut the Missionary Society, the Vestry, the Guild, and Chan-\\ncel Society are like Tennyson s brook.\\nThe basement of the Church being finished, was occupied\\nby the Parish Sunday School for the first time on the 22d of\\nJuly. There is one large comfortable room opening into the\\ncosy i)arish ofllce, which will be used for the infant class.\\nThese rooms are a solid improvement upon the old Chapel.\\nDuring the past few weeks there has been quite an exodus\\nof Christ Church people to the mountains and the sea shore.\\nThe attendance at the services has consequently fallen off.\\nThe largest congregation in July numbered only about four\\nhundred.\\nThe construction of the Rectory is going forward satis-\\nfactorily. When completed it will be one of the most com-\\nmodious and pleasant residences in the city.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 273\\nST. PAUL S MISSION.\\nOur West End Mission has now a local habitation, as\\nwell as a name. The building once used by the Disciples of\\nChrist (commonly called Campbellites) as a house of worship\\nhas been bought and is now St. Paul s Mission Chapel. The\\ntitle of the property is vested in the Vestry of Christ Church,\\nbut will be conveyed to the future Vestry of St. Paul s when\\nthe mission becomes a parish, which evolution the Rector and\\nVestry will cordially encourage. The situation of this\\nchapel is admirabl_y adapted for the work it is designed to do.\\nIt is removed about as far as possible from any other house\\nof worship, and begins its work on this spot with a good\\nnucleus carried there from the old temporary quarters of the\\nmission. Those quarters had been a barroom one of those\\nterrors to the neighborhood it now becomes a drug store.\\nSo we have converted this building as well, we trust, as some\\nof those who came to our ministrations.\\nSeptember. 1889.\\nTHE ARKANSAS CHURCHMAN.\\nThe anniversary of the beginning of a minister s work\\nseems to be a favorite time for review of the past. The\\npresent Rector of Christ Church took charge of the parish\\nSeptember 1, 1886. During these three years the Church\\nedifice has been finished, the Sunday School room made ready\\nfor use, and the Rectory constructed; 113 persons have been\\nbaptized, and 120 have been confirmed; the net increase of\\ncommunicants is 228, the average congregation has trebled,\\nand the offerings have amounted to over $35,000. The parish\\nis united, active and growing.\\nHow different the outcome of these three years of the\\nnew regime has been from what was predicted by some\\npeople who did not JiHOii ih ii ihe Episcopal Church faur/Jif\\nreligion.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "274 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nWhat a storm was raised when the new Rector did away\\nwith the fantastic show business in the choir, put a stop to\\nsuppers, lotteries and fandangoes as means of raising money\\nfor the Church, and preached the necessity of piety in Church\\nmembers. Many people predicted that if the Rector went\\non with these novelties he would soon be preaching to empty\\npews, and have no salary.\\nThank God, that horrid nightmare of irreligion in Christ\\nChurch is past. No one now speaks of this j^arish as a\\nsocial club for Sunday amusement.\\nARKANSAS CHURCHMAN.\\nOctober, 1888.\\nThe hour for the meetings of the Guild, the Ladies Aid\\nSociety and the Sunday School Officers and Teachers, is\\nchanged from 5 p. m. to -1:30 p. m., and the meetings of the\\nChancel Society from 4:30 p. m. to 4 p. m. See list of\\nmeetings.\\nOn Sunday, September 16, St. John s Mission was re-\\nopened in the new quarters, on the corner of Tenth and Welch\\nstreets. The following Sunday there were seven teachers\\nand forty-five pupils present and a most cheering interest\\nwas luanifested.\\nMr. E. M. Humphreys has become assistant to the Rec-\\ntor of Christ Church. Mr. Humphreys is a Sewanee man,\\nand was a postulant for holy orders in the Diocese of Tennes-\\nsee, but has been transferred to this Diocese, and hopes soon\\nto be oi;dained.* Our young brother gives promise of great\\nusefulness in the mission work, of which he has already taken\\nvigorous hold. The man who fills John Galbraith s place\\nhas no sinecure.\\n*Mr. Humphreys health compelled him to resign the office. He died not long\\nafter.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 275\\nThe Rector wishes 16 express his grateful appreciation\\nof the consideration and liberality of the Vestry in the con-\\nstruction of the new Rectory. They have faithfully carried\\nout the loving wishes of the congregation. Particular thanks\\nare due the building committee Major J. D. Adams, Mr.\\nC. H. Dolbeer, and Captain J. H. Haney and more espe-\\ncially Captain Haney, who has given his time and skill to\\nthe planning and supervision of the work.\\nThe Sociables will hereafter be held on the same night\\nupon which the Missionary Society meets.\\nAllusion to the gratuitous services of Captain J. H.\\nHaney, in the building of the new Rectory, recalls the testi-\\nmony of the building committee of the Church edifice in these\\nwords\\nMr. J. H. Haney for five years has superintended the\\nwork on the building; seen that everything was done in\\naccordance with contract and specifications rendering ser-\\nvices that have certainly lessened the cost of the building 10\\nper cent with a faithfulness and love of the work which it\\nwould be impossible to hire.\\nCaptain Haney has given to the Church during the past\\nseven years at least $5,000 worth of services as civil engineer\\nand architect, which is more than any one cash contribution\\nto our Church buildings, and in ratio to his financial ability,\\nten times as much as anyone else has given.\\nThe most beautiful feature of all of Captain Haney s\\nvaluable service is the fact that it has all been rendered with\\nthe utmost modesty and delicacy, as if it were all quite a\\nmatter of course and called for no praise.\\nChrist Church, Little Rock, has now a home for its\\nRector, the new Rectory being completed. The outside ap-\\npearance is quaint and unpretentious, giving very little idea\\nof the beautiful and commodious interior. Passino- a wide", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "276 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\ngallery, running the whole length of the front, one enters\\nthrough a heavy panelled door, the reception room, whicli is\\nlighted by two windows of ground glass, bordered with tinted\\ncathedral glass, and separated from the stairway hall by an\\narch suj^ported by corbels.\\nTo the right is the beautiful drawing-room, having\\ndouble sliding doors opening from the reception-room, and\\nlikewise into the study, which comes next. The study is a\\nroom to suggest sermons on Paradise the door opening from\\nthe hall intimates that it is meant to be easily accessible.\\nBehind the study is the pretty guest room, which the Rector\\nhopes to have frequently occupied. Beyond this point the\\nhouse widens, and the hall, turning to the right, runs between\\nthe elegantly finished dining-room and a large, well-lighted\\nchamber, behind which is the bathroom, with hot and cold\\nwater attachments. Across a back hall are two more com-\\nfortable bedrooms, surrounded by wide latticed galleries,\\nupon which the dining-room also opens, and connecting with\\nstoreroom, kitchen and servants room, below which are rooms\\nfor fuel. Returning to the main hall, we ascend by an artis-\\ntic stairway to the second floor. Here we find two pleasant\\nrooms, well lighted and ventilated. A china closet, a linen\\ncloset, and numerous wardrobes complete this model par-\\nsonage.\\nHere is a general quotation from the Diocesan paper\\ncalled The Diocese of Arlcansas, edited by Rev. Mr. Degen,\\nRector of St. John s Church, Fort Smith, Ark., 1888:\\nCHRISTMAS IX ARKANSAS.\\nThe glorious Feast of the Nativity was celebrated in all\\nthe parishes and missions of the Diocese with even more than\\nusual care and elaborate preparations.\\nAt (Christ Church, Little Rock, the usual Sunday ser-\\nvices were held, the Chancel being a]:)propriately dressed. The\\nSunday School festival was held in the Chapel on the Feast of\\nthe Holy Innocents. We clip the following account of it\\nfrom the Arl-anms Life:", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 277\\nAt the Chapel of Christ Church last Wednesday, at 6\\np. m. there was a threefold feast presented for eye, ear and\\npalate. A large number of spectators with the children and\\nteachers were seated in the jDart of the room near the entrance.\\nAn open space beyond was reserved for games, and at the\\nextreme end on a low platform were arranged four tables ex-\\ntending the entire width of the room, from north to south.\\nThese tables were tastefully laid out with dainty napery,\\nchina and glass, and bountifully supplied with cakes, jellies,\\ncreams, fruits and nuts. The happy faces, the sheen of light\\non the crimson carpet and the warmth aroused a pleasant sen-\\nsation among the assembly. The exercises opened with a\\nChristmas hymn, Miss Harrell presiding at the organ, after\\nwhich the Rev. Mr. Galbraith, superintendent, made a happy\\nextempore address. The Rector, the Rev. Mr. Carnahan,\\nthen read a poem from the Rev. Phillips Brooks, sent to him\\nby an absent teacher. The classes were called in order by\\nthe Rector and conducted to the tables for the feast, the infant\\nclasses first who afforded a charming picture as their cherub\\nfaces a})peared just above the surface of the tables. A staff\\nof teachers. Miss Georgie Woodruff Miss Merrick, Misses\\nMatthews, Misses Carroll, Misses Field, and Mrs. Hayman,\\nserved in dainty white aprons, supplying 150 children with a\\ndelicious supper. After these were all satisfied the adults\\nwere invited by the Rector to partake. Afterwards the\\nbasketsfull were set aside to be distributed to the sick and\\ndestitute the next day. Games followed, and, though there\\nwas an exuberance of glee, there was no breach of decorum.\\nAt 9 o clock all dispersed, feeling that the festival had been\\nno misnomer, but a joyful anniversary to all in attendance.\\nJanuary^ 1889.\\nDIOCESAN NEWS.\\nCHRIST CHURCH, LITTLE ROCK.\\nChristmas and Christmas week were filled with joy and\\nbrightness in this parish. The service on Christmas morning\\n19", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "278 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nwas well attended by deV Out worshippers, attracted not by\\nadvertisements, nor by shows, nor by any shifty vanities, but\\nby the manifest desire to worship God and hear His word\\npreached.\\nThursday the children of the three Sunday Schools had\\ntheir festival in the basement of the C hurch, and they had a\\ngrand time.\\nOn Friday St. John s Mission had their Christmas tree,\\nwhich proved to be wonderfully fruitful of presents, sweet-\\nmeats and delight.\\nSt. Paul s Mission Sunday School had their festival on\\nSaturday, and matched St. John s in all manner of innocent\\npleasure for the children.\\nThe Rev. Mr. Galbraith and the devoted officers and\\nteachers of the three schools deserve much praise for their\\nfaithful labors in these nurseries of the Church.\\nBesides the parish and mission work, Mr. Carnahan and\\nMr. Galbraith laid the foundation for a Church school for\\nboys, called Christ Church Academy, January, 1889, corner\\nof Fifth and Scott streets. Prepares boys for college or\\nbusiness. Rev. Wallace Carnahan, principal Rev. J. E. H.\\nGalbraith, teacher of Latin and Greek; Mr. Palin Saxby,\\nteacher of English and the sciences. The school work begun\\nby the Rev. Mr. Galbraith last September is now to be en-\\nlarged and strengthened. The purpose is to build up an\\nacademic institution in Little Rock upon the model of the\\nEpiscopal High School at Alexandria, Va., which Pi-ofessor\\nL. M. Blackford has made so famous. Tuition, $15 per\\nquarter (three calendar months). For admission apply at\\nthe Rectory, No. 509 Scott street, Little Rock, Ark.\\nARKANSAS CHURCHMAN.\\nApril, 1889.\\nApropos of the offerings on Easter day being devoted to\\nthe Church debt, a few words of exi)lanation may not be amiss.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH 279\\nespecially as efforts seem to have been made to misrepresent\\nthe facts. We understand that it has been intimated bj ene-\\nmies of the parish that the j)resent Vestrj are not good\\nfinanciers that the revenue of the parish is not equal to the\\nexpenses, and that the parish is getting deeper into debt. The\\nsimple facts are these: The revenue of the parish not only\\ncovers the regular exjjenses of the parish, including the mis-\\nsion work of St. Paul s and St. John s Chapels, but pays the\\ninterest on the old debt over $400 a year and $700 a year\\non the building association loan, which was negotiated to con-\\nstruct the Rectory an arrangement which stopped the pay-\\nment of $600 a year for Rectory rent. So we see that so far\\nfrom the revenue of the jjarish falling short of its expenses,\\nthe revenue meets the regular expenses, the interest on the\\n.old debt and is paying for the Rectory.\\nAs to the debt, let it be remembered that when the present\\nVestry came into office Easter Monday, 1887, there was sup-\\nposed to be a debt of $7,000 on the Church, i. e., a mortgage\\ndebt of $4,000, drawing 10 per cent interest, and floating\\ndebts amounting to $3,000. The new Vestry at once took up\\nthat amount Avitli a new loan at 8 per cent interest. No\\nsooner had they done so than bills began to pour in that had\\nnot been taken account of, because there was no record of\\nthem which unexpected bills amounted to nearly $2,000. In\\nMay, 1888, an installment of the new loan $1,000 fell due.\\nThe Easter offerings, amounting to $2,400, was used to pay\\nthat installment, and the balance was used together with a\\npart of the parish revenue to pay off the aforementioned unex-\\npected bills, namely, $2,000. The loan negotiated to build\\nthe Rectory proved to be insufficient by nearly $1,000, and\\nfinishing the basement for the Sunday School cost nearly\\n$1,000; this amount, about $2,000, was borrowed on short\\ntime, and is to be paid the 1st of May; at that time another\\ninstallment of the 8 per cent loan falls due $2,000\u00e2\u0080\u0094 so that\\nthe amount we ought to raise from the Easter offerings this\\nyear is $4,000. Every dollar that has been borrowed by the\\npresent Vestry has substantial im])rovements to show for it,\\nor receipts for payment of parish debts contracted before the", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "280 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\npresent Vestry caiue into office. If the whole debt were paid,\\nincludino- the Rectory loan, the present annual revenue of the\\nparish (exclusive of Easter offerings J^, would exceed its ex-\\npenses by more than $1,000. The administration of the\\npresent Vestry has been characterized by diligence, wisdom\\nand integrity. The Rector, Vestry and congregation are in\\nperfect harmony, and the parish is enjoying unprecedented\\nprosperity.\\nMR. CARXAHAX S VIEWS O^ HIGH AXD LOW\\nCHURCH.\\nARKAXSAS CIIUi?CHMA?s^ APRIL, 1889.\\nPerhaps there is no question relating to the Church that\\nclergymen are asked more frequently than this What is\\nthe difference between High Church and Low Church views\\nand occasionally the inquiry extends to Broad Church.\\nIt is no wonder that the average lajmian has hazy notions\\nabout these different shades of C^hurchmanship, for some of\\ntheir theological guides use these terms very loosely. The\\nnames of the different schools of thought in the Church ought\\nto be accurately descriptive loose nomenclature is at once a\\ncause and a sign of loose thinking.\\nIt is admitted by the great body of our clergy and edu-\\ncated laity that there is a place in the Church for three pretty\\ndistinct schools of thought, with innumerable intermediate\\nshades of opinion and we believe that it is also the conviction\\nof most Churchmen that there is an extreme wing of each of\\nthese ecclesiastical parties that has not a legitimate place in\\nour Church.\\nThe essential difference between the old-fashioned High\\nChurchman and the loyal Low Churchman can be marked by\\nemphasizing different parts of the same statement of the truth.\\nThe reii ular Low Churchman (who prefers to be called\\nEvangelical Churchman) accepts all that the protestant High\\nChurchman claims as essential, but would lay his emphasis", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0326.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 281\\nupon the necessity of a truly converted heart and the import-\\nance of a personal relation of the individual soul to God he\\nwould also lay stress upon justification by faith, as the great\\ncentral doctrine of religion.\\nThe High Churchman proper, would accept all this that\\nthe Low Churchman makes so much of, but he would empha-\\nsize the value of the sacraments as means of grace and set a\\nhigher value upon the Apostolic ministry than his Low\\nChurch brother.\\nThe orthodox Broad Churchman accepts all that both the\\nHigh Churchman and the Low Churchman hold though he\\ndoes not emphasize any of it, but seeks to strengthen Chris-\\ntianity by the aid of science and philosophy. He is very\\nlenient to all heterodoxy, and dogmatic about nothing.\\n]^ow, we repeat, that the great body of Churchmen, cleric\\nand lay, readily acknowledge that these are legitimate differ-\\nences of opinion that Episcopalians may hold being different\\naspects of the same truth; concerning which men may differ,\\nand yet be all loyal Churchmen. But there is, as already\\nsaid, an ultra wing of each of these schools of thought. The\\nextreme Broad Churchman eliminates entirely the super-\\nnatural from religion in a word, he is a rationalist. The\\nultra Low Churchmen nearly all followed the late Bishop\\nCummins into his little schism the very few that are left in\\nour Church differ in no particular, in doctrine or practice,\\nfrom the Cumminsites. The ultra Low Churchman thinks\\nthere are Romanizing germs in the Prayer Book the con-\\nservative Low Churchman considers the Prayer Book the bul-\\nwark of ]irotestantism. The ultra High Churchmen, com-\\nmonly called Eitualists, affect the name of Catholic Church-\\nmen, or Advanced Churchmen, which is lucus a non\\nJucendo, for this faction is the most un-Catholic and the most\\nreactionary of all Churclimen. If we were an authority in\\nphilology we should call them Romoids.\\nThe Ritualists fto use their commonest designation) be-\\nlieve in private confession to a priest, in order to personal,\\njudicial absolution, M^hich they say is necessary for the edify-\\ning reception of the Holv Communion, and for the production", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0327.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "282 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nof a highly spiritual life. Thej teach a theory of the\\nLord s Supper which is distinguishable from the Roman doc-\\ntrine of transubstantiation onl}^ by expert metaphysicians;\\nindeed, some Ritualists candidly accept that doctrine fully.\\nThey call the Holy Communion Mass/ claiming that the\\nofSciating Priest offers a real sacrifice in that sacrament.\\nThey have requiem masses for the repose of souls, they believe\\nin prayers for the dead. Some few Ritualists believe in the\\ncelibacy of the clergy (without practicing it). Indeed most\\nof them seem to accept every doctrine of the CUiurch of Rome\\nexcept the Immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary, and\\nthe Infallibility of the Pope, whose rightful supremacy,\\nhowever, they sweetly concede, to the great amusement of\\nRomanists.\\nIt is needless to say that old-fashioned, protestant High\\nChurchmen repudiate the Ritualists as having no relation\\nwhatever to their position. The Ritualists return the compli-\\nment by rejecting the name of High Churchman, except when\\nthey want to deceive some one as to their real views, then they\\nare apt to wear a High Church mask, doubtless with a wry\\nface.\\nHow any honest man, especially a clergyman, can hold\\nthe views of any of these extremists, and remain in the Protest-\\nant Episcopal Church, in peace of mind, is an ethical mystery.\\nIt is to be feared that many of these men have paltered with\\nthe truth as taught by our Church until a false casuistry has\\ndestroyed their honesty.\\nAXGLO-SAXTOA^ CHURCHMAK\\n1890.\\nSACERDOTAL CASTE.\\nIt is a bad sign of the times that the clergy are so impa-\\ntient of the influence of the laity in the Church.\\nIt is not merely dislike of the lay pope in the parish\\nthat is too small a factor to account for such a general feeling.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0328.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 283\\nIt is not, in all cases, a righteous zeal for the missionary duty\\nof the (Jhurch, which chafes under the parochial narrowness\\nof many laymen. If this were all, the drift we speak of would\\nbe occasion for rejoicing.\\nIt is the growing caste feeling amongst the clergy that\\nlies at the bottom of impatience with lay influence. It is the\\ndisposition on the part of some of the clergy to assert preroga-\\ntive for the sake of prerogative, a feeling which may be ex-\\npressed in clerical language like this You laymen must\\ndo as I say, because I am ordained.\\nNow this seems to us a false and pernicious attitude for\\nthe clergy. Truly, the ministry is a chieftainship, a chief-\\ntainship in things spiritual but a position that can be held\\nand exercised to the edilication of the Church only by the\\npersonal power and moral worth of tlie clergyman. The\\narmy oflicer s commission gives him the right to command,\\nbut no officer can command successfully unless his courage\\nand skill command the confidence of the troops.\\nThe worst feature of the revival of priestcraft and priest\\ncaste in the Church is the decay of those qualities amongst\\nthe clergy that command the following of the laitj- without\\nsacerdotal self-assertion.\\nThe clergyman who lacks personal qualities of leadership\\nfalls back upon prerogative. This, we say, is the worst of it.\\nThe prevalent clerical jealousy of lay power is a sign of decay-\\ning manhood and natural chieftainship amongst the clergy.\\nThe cure for a blacksmith s waning muscle is not a heavier\\nhammer, but the toning up of his health.\\nClergymen of brains, will and piety have no need to\\nenqihasize clerical prerogative, and clerical weaklings shall\\nemphasize it in vain. This is the nineteenth, not the thir-\\nteenth centurv.\\nThe children of Rev. Wallace Carnahan and Mary S.\\nHart, his wife, are Mary r^imline. Hart, Emelyn Louise,\\nAnnie Sue, Wallace, Jr., and Barron. The last named was\\nborn in Alabama, and died there when thirteen months old.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0329.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "284 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nFrom the foregoing extracts from the Church Journal\\nit will be seen that Mr. Carnahan was a model of execu-\\ntive strength. His eye kept guard over every department\\nof parochial duty. He believed in the influence of the\\nSunday School. The men and women who were to con-\\nduet human intelligence to its full splendor there obtained\\ntheir inspiration, he thought, and the infant soul was there\\nawakened to the sense of divine things. At the great fes-\\ntivals of the Advent and the Resurrection he spared no effort\\nto impress the signal truths of Christianity on the minds of\\nthe children. With texts committed and banners, bearing holy\\nlegends, that stamped themselves on eye and brain, he led the\\nyouthful soldiers onward in the footsteps of the Great Captain\\nof Salvation. One beautiful design on an Easter festival\\nwas a huge butterfly, six feet in height and seven feet from\\ntip to tip of the wings when expanded. It was made in adjus-\\ntable sections of woven wire into a frame. Each teacher took\\na section and her scholars provided the flowers with which to\\ndeck it; these were shaded in all the rich colors of a natural\\nbutterfly, which was closely imitated. At the festival each\\nclass was called to the Chancel to deposit its mite box. A\\nmember carried the floral section, which was received by the\\nsuperintendent and put in place on the skeleton frame. The\\nspectators watched intently as the butterfly expanded in form\\nand beauty, until at length it stood complete, a lovely emblem\\nof the resurrection. The Eector then made a lecture, explain,\\ning the process of growth from the larval state of the cater-\\npillar to the glorious perfection of the winged butterfly a\\nmiracle of T^ature, which signified to us the great miracle of\\nthe resurrection of the 1)0(U to the life immortal.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0330.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 285\\nREPOKT OF CHRIST CHURCH, LITTLE ROCK,\\nTO THE SIXTEENTH COUisXTL OF THE\\nDIOCESE OF ARKANSAS.\\nFrom April 19, 1887, to April 11, 1888\\nNumber of families 331\\nNumber of communicants 508\\nNumber of souls 1,628\\nBaptisms\\nInfants 40\\nAdults IT\\nTotal 57\\nConfirmations 38\\nMarriages 7\\nBurials 18\\nSunday Schools\\nTeachers 41\\nPupils 365\\n1 otal 405\\nOFFERINGS.\\nPAROCHIAL.\\nSalary of Rector 2,332.90\\nRent of Rectory 587.50\\nSalary of assistant minister (seven months) 493.35\\nCommunion alms 333.20\\nChurch carpet and furniture 1,318.00\\nChurch building and debt 3,804.79\\nInsurance on Church 498.15\\nOther parish expenses 1,402.32\\nTotal $10,770.21", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0331.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "286 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nDIOCESAN.\\nCouncil assessment 160.00\\nEpiscopate fund 72.49\\nDiocesan missions 82.73\\nFund for widows and orphans of deceased clergy. 10.70\\nTotal 325.92\\nBEYOND THE DIOCESE.\\nDomestic Missions Missionary box, $160; cash\\n$109.09 269.09\\nForeign Missions 100.78\\nSociety for Conversion of the Jews 13.50\\nAmerican Church Building Fund 12.60\\nNew York Bible and Prayer Book Society 10.00\\nUniversity of the South 50.00\\nTotal 455.97\\nAggregate $11,552.45\\nValue of Church property $60,000.00\\nThe name of our faithful Senior Warden, Major R. H,\\nParham, has been suggested by some of the secular press for\\nthe office of State Superintendent of Education. We do not\\nsuppose he would accept it upon the pitiful salary attached to\\nthe office, but the State would indeed be fortunate to secure\\nhis services. A ripe scholar, a practical educator and an in-\\ncorruptible citizen, he is eminently qualified for the position.\\nWe should prefer to see Major Parham President of the State\\nUniversity, but that his election to that post would take him\\nout of this parish.\\nOur estimable Junior Warden, the Hon. W. W. Smith,\\nhas gone with his family to Florida to fortify his health,\\nwhich has become somewhat impaired. We wish him speedy", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0332.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 287\\nrestoration and return, Christ Church can t spare Judge\\nSmith.\\nOne of the most powerful sermons delivered by Rev. Mr.\\nCarnahan during his incumbency was that on the text The\\nblind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are\\ncleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up and the\\npoor have the gospel prxached to them. Matthew xi. 5.\\nIn this grand climax of priestly functions, laid down\\nby the Master himself to John s disciples, Dr. Carnahan found\\nthe keynote of his ministerial work. The poor had his un-\\nfailing attention. As punctually as the Holy Communion\\nwas celebrated on the first Sunday of each month, he an-\\nnounced in direct, ringing tones from the Chancel, the alms\\nare for the poor. The offering was always the largest\\nduring the month, for the members of the congregation who\\nwere unable to go out in search of the poor, felt that their\\nalms were sure to be distributed where most needed. ISTo\\ndemand of the Church was ever allowed to divert this fund\\nand when a fifth Sunday occurred in the month, the offering\\nwas invariably set aside for some charitable purpose and so\\nannounced. Did not the regular expenses of the Church\\nsuffer by this plan J^ever. They were increased by it.\\nOf that Mr. Carnahan never harbored a doubt. Among those\\nwho so deeply lamented his withdrawal from Christ Church\\nParish the poor formed the most sincere band of mourners.\\nLIST OF CONTRIBUTORS TOWARD THE PAY-\\nMENT OF THE DEBT ON CHRIST CHURCH,\\nLITTLE ROCK, ARK., 1802.\\nThe Vestry of Christ Church, Little Rock, issue an an-\\nnual statement of the Easter offerings for the Church debt.\\nThe following sums were given on Easter, 1892. When the\\nwhole debt shall have been paid, a statement will be printed", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0333.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "288 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nshowing the total amount received from each contributor\\ntoward the building of the Church and the payment of the\\ndebt.\\nAdams, John D 10.00\\nAdams, Sam B 50.00\\nAdams, Mrs. S. B 10.00\\nAdams, Mrs. Elvira 50.00\\nAlley, Miss Fannie 1.00\\nAmsbary, D. H 2.00\\nBarber, Mrs. L. E 50.00\\nBerkley, Mrs. H. F 10.00\\nBillings, Mrs. A. D 5.00\\nBillings, C. H 5.00\\nBohlinger, A 10.00\\nBond, J. B., Jr 2.00\\nBoyle, John F 10.00\\nBrack, G. S 25.00\\nBrack, Miss M. E 20.00\\nBrevsacher, Dr. and Mrs. A. L 10.00\\nBrooks, F. S 2.50\\nBurchard, George F 3.00\\nCantrell, Mrs. G. M. D 5.00\\nOantrell, W. A 10.00\\nCarroll, Gray 15.00\\narnahan. Rev. Wallace 25.00\\nOarnahan, Mrs. W 10.00\\nC arnahan, Miss Lina 1.00\\nClierry, L. W 5.00\\nClarke, F. D 15.00\\nCochran, Mrs. H. K 20.00\\noehran, Harry, Jr 2.00\\nCochran, Sam 2.00\\nCockrill, Mrs. S. R 20.00\\nCrease, Miss A. S 5.00\\nCrowe, Mrs. T. B 1.00\\nCowpland, John B 5.00\\nConway, Mrs. Alice 5.00\\nDnrraiih, T. J 100.00", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0334.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 289\\nDeshon, Mrs. E. A 5.00\\nDibrell, Mrs. J. A 10.00\\nDavis, Mrs. W. D 50\\nDunlap, G. W 5.00\\nEllis, Mrs. E. E 1.00\\nEmerson, Mrs. A 5.00\\nEggleston, Mr. and Mrs. J. S 10.00\\nErb, Jacob 10.00\\nFletcher, John G 100.00\\nEortson, Mrs. E. S 1.00\\nFox, Mrs. Emma 5.00\\nFrolich, Mrs. J 1.00\\nGear, Mrs. P. A 1.00\\nGoodrich, Ealph L 25.00\\nGoodwin, Mr. and Mrs. J. W 35.00\\nGoodwin, John B 5.00\\nGoodwin, Willie 5.00\\nGoodwin, Bessie 5.00\\nGress, Mrs. K. B 15.00\\nGriffith, S. L 25.00\\nGriffith, Mrs. E. P 10.00\\nGriffith, Maude 2.50\\nHaile, B. M 2.50\\nllanej, J. H 15.00\\nHanev, Mrs. Mary C 5.00\\nHanej, Will 1.00\\nHarnwell, Mrs 5.00\\nHarrell, Miss M. E 2.00\\nHodges, Mrs. C. T 3.00\\nHollenberg, Mrs. H. G 5.00\\nHollenberg, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. T 10.00\\nHopkins, E. 5.00\\nHorrocks, Mrs. M. S 4.00\\nHutt, Mrs. F. E 10.00\\nHutton, W. P 5.00\\nJabine, Mrs. J. K 5.00\\nJennings, P. G 10.00\\nJohnson, Mrs. Frances 5.00", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0335.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "290 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nJolmston, M. H 15.00\\nJordan, Miss Matilda 10.00\\nKendrick, Joseph 10.00\\nKirkwood, Jolm W 4.00\\nKirkwood, T. C 5.00\\nKlingel, Mrs. Henry 5.00\\nKramer, C. J. 5.00\\nKramer, Miss Emma 25.00\\nLange, Mrs. W 1.00\\nLangdon, Clias. A 5.00\\nLangdon, H 1.50\\nLawson, Miss IsTellie 3.00\\nLee, George H 3.00\\nLenow, Mrs. J. H 5.00\\nLeslie, Mrs. E 1.00\\nLewis, Charles H 5.00\\nLewis, Misses Lollie and Sue 5.00\\nMarguth, Mrs. E. H 1.50\\nMartin, Mrs. K. W 10.00\\nMatthews, Mrs. J. L 3.00\\nMiller, Mrs. J. K 10.00\\nMiller, Miss Rosa 5.00\\nMitchell, Jolm A 10.00\\nMjers, B. S 1.00\\nMiller, W. H 15.00\\nIs^ewton, Mrs. E. C 10.00\\nPeay, Gordon I^ 10.00\\nPeay, Mrs. Sue C 10.00\\nPercival, Mrs. J. M 10.00\\nPeyton, Mrs. Caroline 25.00\\nPowell, T. C 25.00\\nRather, Mrs. H. C 5.00\\nRagland, W. II 15.00\\nRitchie, J. E 1.00\\nRoberts, C. P 2.50\\nRutland, Mrs. A. A 5.00\\nRumbough, Mrs. G. P. C 5.00\\nSannonor, J. H 10.00", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0336.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 291\\nSappingtotn, G. W 10.00\\nSayle, Mrs. Claude PI 5.00\\nScott, Mrs. E. L 10.00\\nScott, Miss Fannie 5.00\\nShall, Miss L. S 20.00\\nSkirving, William 5.00\\nSimmons, Mrs. J. W 5.00\\nSimmons, M. C 1.00\\nSmith, Mrs. K. E 2.50\\nSmith, Jim 25\\nSmothers, L. S 5.00\\nSpeed, Mrs. J. S 5.00\\nSpinner, Mrs. G. V 2.00\\nSonthall, Mrs. J. H 10.00\\nStark, L. K 10.00\\nSterling, Mrs. B. B 2.50\\nStratman, G. H 5.00\\nSnndholm, August 10.00\\nTimmis, T. J 1.00\\nTucker, Miss Jennie 2.50\\nWatkins, Claiborne 25.00\\nWatkins, Mrs. Susie 5.00\\nWhittemore, C. H 10.00\\nWorthen, W. B 50.00\\nWright, W. F 20.00\\nWright, Mrs. E. K 15.00\\nZimmerman, J. V 10.00\\nZimmerman, Mrs. J. V 5.00\\nAnonymous 100.96\\nTotal $1,55 1.21\\nAugust 21, 1894.\\nA PLEASA^^T CHURCH EPISODE.\\nSunday was the occasion of a significant event in the\\nannals of Christ Church, Episcopal, of this city. Rev. Wal-", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0337.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "292 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nlace Carnahan, having resigned the charge of this parish to\\naccept the position of principal in the Church school at San\\nAntonio, Texas, expects to leave with his family for the new\\nfield of labor on the latter part of the month.\\nThe Ladies Aid Society, which has for so many years\\nbeen the bulwark of the Church here, and which has, during\\ntlie last eight years done such effective work under his super-\\nvision, having the desire to make some expression of appre-\\nciation of his inspiration, guidance and example, united with\\nother friends in an offering which was presented to him yes-\\nterday. This was composed of four dozen and a half pieces\\nof sterling silver for table use, each piece inscribed with the\\nname Carnahan, to include both him and his lovely wife,\\nwho has endeared herself to the parish by her many virtues.\\nThe prayers and best wishes of the congregation will\\naccomjDany Mr. Carnahan and his family to their new home.\\nlArl-ansas Gazette, August 28, 1894.]\\nBIDS THEM FAKEWELL.\\nKEV. WALLACE CARXAHAX^ THEIR CHAPLAIN^ TALKS TO THE\\nMACKS OWING TO ILLNESS HE IS UNABLE TO PREACH\\nHIS LAST LITTLE ROCK SERMON.\\nThe McCarthy Light Guards attended Christ Church\\nlast Sunday morning in a body in fatigue uniform, to hear\\na few farewell Avords delivered to them by their Chaplain,\\nEev. Wallace C^irnahan, who leaves for San Antonio next\\nFriday morning. Owing to illness he was unable to preach\\nhis regular sermon, however. He complimented the com-\\npany on its manliness and courage as displayed during the\\nrecent strike and urged them all to be soldiers of Christ.\\nHe has been Chaplain of the company for some years,\\nand they will regret his departure exceedingly. He an-\\nnounced that on Thursday evening, this week, he would\\npreach his farewell sermon to his congregation, and other", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0338.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 293\\nfriends. After his departure and until the arrival on Oc-\\nto[)er 1, of the new Rector, Eev. Gass, of Charleston, S. C,\\ntJie Church Avill be closed for repairs.\\nREV. WALLACE CARNAHAN.\\nTHE POPULAR CHRIST CHURCH RECTOR SAYS FAREWELL TO-\\nNIGHT HIS RESIGNATION TO HIS VESTRY AND THE\\nACCEPTANCE AN EIGHT YEARs PASTORATE.\\nRev. Wallace Carnahan, the able and beloved Rector of\\nChrist Church, who has served his congregation for eight\\nyears faithfully, on account of failing healthy has been com-\\npelled to resign his pastorate, and to-night preaches his fare-\\nwell sermon to his congregation and friends, leaving to-mor-\\nrow morning for San Antonio to accept the principalship of\\na ladies seminary.\\nHis resignation was tendered some months ago. He\\nwrote his Vestrj^ as follows\\nTo the Vestry of Christ Church\\nDear Brethren It gives me more pain than I can ex-\\npress to write this, my resignation, of the RectorshiiD of\\nChrist Church.\\nMy work in this parish has been so blessed, the Vestry\\nhas been so kind and true to me, and the congregation has\\nbeen so appreciative and devoted that it seems almost like\\na father leaving his family for ine to separate from you.\\nNothing, I am sure, but death or the exigencies of health\\ncould sever the sacred bond that has bound us together in such\\nclose and loving relation for these seven and half years. I\\nfeel constrained to lay down this precious charge and accept\\nwork where the climate may possibly improve my impaired\\nhealth and prolong my life.\\nI expect to enter upon that work early next autumn,\\nand, therefore, beg that you will accept my resignation, to\\ntake effect the 31st of next August. If God spares my life\\n20", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0339.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "294 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nSO long, I shall on that dav complete eight years of ministry\\nwith you an imperfect ministry I sincerely confess, but I\\ntrust an honest and earnest ministry.\\nThanking you from the bottom of my heart for your\\nloyal support as a Vestry, and for your innumerable personal\\nkindnesses, I am faithfully your brother in Christ,\\nWALLACE CARNAHAN.\\nThe Vestry accepted the resignation some weeks later in\\ntli(^ following letter\\nAt a meeting of the Vestry of Christ Church, Little\\nEoek, Ark., the following resolutions were unanimously\\nadopted\\nResolved, That the Vestry of Christ Church have\\nreceived, with profound regret, the voluntary resignation of\\nRev. Wallace Carnahan, as Rector of this parish, which office\\nhe has filled for nearly eight years, to the building up and\\nstrengthening of pure religion and the welfare of many souls,\\nduring which time his influence has been felt in countless\\navenues for the good of mankind and which it was their belief\\nand hope would continue many jnore.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Resolved, That while considering his withdrawal\\nfrom the parish as a public and private misfortune, in consid-\\neration of the benefit to be secured by a change of climate, we\\ndo reluctantly accept his resignation with a full conscious-\\nness of our loss, which is only balanced by the hope of the\\nbenefit that may accrue to him in change of duties.\\nResolved, That these resolutions be spread on the\\nrecord book of the Vestry, and that a copy of them be sent to\\nRev, Wallace Carnahan and to the press.\\nAttest W. H. RAGLAND,\\nSecretary.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0340.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 295\\nKEY. WxVLLACE CARNAHAN.\\nTHE BELOVED PASTOR OF CIIKIST CHURCH PREACHES HIS FARE-\\nWELL AN AFFECTING SCENE AT WHICH DEVOTED\\nWOMEN AND BRAVE MEN SHED TEARS\\nOF PARTING.\\nLooking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith\\nwho for the joy that was set before hini endured the cross,\\ndespising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the\\nthrone of God. Hehrews xii. 2.\\nRev. Wallace Carnahan has bidden farewell to Christ\\nChurch and the City of Little Rock, leaving for San Antonio\\nthis morning with his charming family to seek the restoration\\nof shattered health in the balmy breezes of the Spanish- Ameri-\\ncan city, and to take charge of a ladies seminary.\\nAs Chaplain of the McCarthy Light Guards, he bade\\nfarewell to them last Sunday morning, announcino that on\\nlast night he would bid farewell to his congregation and\\nfriends.\\nUnder ordinary circumstances this, in many respects re-\\nmarkable preacher of Christ s gospel, attracts a large audi-\\nence, not only from his own communicants, but from the public\\nat large, without regard to creed, sect or schism. The fact\\nthat he would preach a farewell sermon last night filled the\\nsacred edifice of Christ Church at Fifth and Scott streets to\\nits fullest capacity, representative citizens of all denomina-\\ntions being among his auditors.\\nDuring an eight years ministry in Christ Church Parish\\nit is not unnatural that a man of such intellectuality, such\\nlu-eadth of imagination, such marked individuality and\\nwithal such spirituality and honesty of purpose should bind\\nliiniself with hooks of steel to his parishioners. j^o man in\\nor out of the pulpit in Little Rock has impressed himself to\\nsuch a marked degree upon the community at large. His\\npositivism, his strict adherence to a line of action, which,\\nif not approved by others, had the approval of his own", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0341.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "296 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nconscience, has often been the signal battle in the Church\\nniilitajit, and no minister has received a stronger cross-fire\\nof criticism than he. He possessed all the qualities of leader-\\nship, and of a pugnacious race, as he admitted in his sermon\\nlast night, with many imperfections, in every fight for what\\nhe believed to be right, he thought himself faithful to his\\nMaster.\\nThe sermon was interlarded in the usual place in the\\nbeautiful and impressive service of the Church, Professor R.\\nJefferson Hall presiding at the organ.\\nHe read as the evening lesson the 21st chapter of the\\nActs of the Apostles, choosing for his text Hebrews xii. 2,\\nwhich appears at the beginning of this notice.\\nHe spoke for half an hour, his auditors drinking deep\\nof the words of devotion, admonition and parting of the\\nbeloved pastor. He likened the Church to the home, the\\nfamily circle, of which the Rector is the fostering parent. He\\nbelieved he had done his duty to his congregation that he\\ncould say this without affectation. He had won the love and\\naffection of his parishioners by his leadership. He over-\\ncame, at times, what had seemed insuperable obstacles, and\\nhad triumphed.\\nHe would not have his hearers believe that this was due\\nto his own personality, however. He would not presume so\\nmuch. His success had been due to the Spirit of Christ\\nbehind him, to whom he had been ever faithful. To his suc-\\ncess, a loving and devoted parish, Vestry, choir and parish-\\nioners, and Mr. Huntley in the mission field, he had been\\ndeeply indebted for the results attained. With upturned face\\nand closed eyes, in prayerful attitude, he breathed a benedic-\\ntion upon his parish. He then turned from the past to the\\nfuture, admonishing his congregation as to its obligations to\\nthe new Rector, Rev. John Gass, a man of God, who would\\nbe in every way worthy of their love, affection, and support.\\nHe would need no apologies. A minister, who needed any\\napologies for his manhood, should be banished from the pulpit.\\nIt should not be expected that Mr. Gass should be like him-\\nself; li! hopcil he woidd not be. Every strong man has liis", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0342.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 297\\nown individualities and works, if a true minister of God, by\\ndifferent means to the same grand ends. He would not have\\nhis successor a bastard Romanist, and his parish would not\\nfind Rev. Gass of such. He admonished his parishioners that\\nif any should tease the new Rector with requests for a quar-\\ntette or any other form of show in the Church that they should\\ngo to their Rector kindly and assure him of their support in\\nhis opposition.\\nHe would like to see the spiritualitv of the Church pre-\\nserved. He knew his parish w(Mdd receive the new Rector\\nwith proper respect for himself as well as his opinions. The\\nspirit of Christ had harmonized the differences between him-\\nself and his parishioners. It would do the same under any\\nnew conditions that might arise.\\nHis closing words were uttered with deep pathos, he\\nbeing at times almost overcome with emotion, and followed\\nwith a prayer for the new Rector, which will linger long in\\nthe hearts of those who heard it.\\nAt the close of the service, the vast audience came to the\\naltar, and one by one bade the departing minister of God a\\ntearful farewell. It was an affecting scene, which moved\\nstrong men to tears.\\nA PRESEXTATIOX.\\nThe last farewell had not been said when Mr. C. T.\\nCoffman, on behalf of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, in a\\nfew appropriate and well chosen words presented the retiring-\\nRector with a large sized photograph of Christ Church, as a\\nreminder of his eight years of service and his faithful flock.\\nThe Rector was deeply moved, accepting the appropriate gift\\nwith deepest expression of gratitude.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0343.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "298 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nCHRIST CHURCH, LITTLE ROCK, ARK., 1894.\\nREPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING APRIL 2-1, 1894.\\njSTumber of Families 366\\nNumber of Communicants 661\\nNumber of Sunday School Teachers 40\\nNumber of Sunday School Pupils 300\\nNumber of Baptisms 26\\nNumber of Confirmations 45\\nNumber of Marriages 11\\nNumber of Burials 23\\nOFFERINGS.\\nCommunion Alms 147.70\\nRector s Salary 2,400.00\\nGifts to the Rector 315.00\\nChurch Debt 1,491.60\\nParish Expenses 1,475.60\\nDiocesan Missions 116.20\\nDomestic Missions 227.00\\nJewish Missions 23.55\\nDeaf Mute Mission 10.00\\nWidows and Orphans of Clergymen 21.00\\nUniversitv of the South 30.00\\nTotal $6,257.65\\nVALUE OF CHURCH PROPERTY.\\nChurch Edifice and Grounds $60,000.00\\nRectory and Grounds 8,500.00\\nSt. Paul s Chapel 1,500.00\\nTotal $70,000.00", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0344.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 299\\nTHE FAMOUS EECTOR OF CHRIST EPISCOPAL\\nCHURCH, IX THE CITY OF ROSES.\\nCOMPELLED TO MOVE TO SAN ANTONIO ON ACCOUNT OF\\nFAILING HEALTH.\\nLITTLE ROCK, ARK., May 27, 1894.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rev. Wallace\\nC^ariialian, for the past eight years Rector of Christ Episcopal\\nChurch, this city, and one of the foremost clergymen of the\\nSouth, will shortly give up his pastorate here and remove to\\nSan Antonio, Texas, where he will assume charge of St.\\nMarj s Hall, an institution of learning for young ladies, con-\\nducted under the auspices of the Episcopal Church.\\nWhen Mr. Carnahan s resignation was first laid before\\ntlie Vestry of Christ Church, its acceptance was declined by a\\nunanimous vote but when he appeared before the Parochial\\nxissembly and stated his real reasons for desiring a change,\\nwhich was on account of his health, the resignation was ac-\\ncepted. He, accompanied by his charming family, will leave\\nLittle Rock in July, and immediately enter upon his duties as\\nincipal of St. Marv s Hall, succeeding the Rev. John G.\\n^lulliolland, D. D.\\nThis school was established by Bishop Elliott in 1877, in\\na building given by Mr. John Wollfe, of Xew York, in mem-\\nory of a daughter who had died. Miss Phillipe Stevenson\\nAvas the first principal, and continued in that position for\\nnine years, Avhen failing health compelled her to resign.\\nUnder her guidance the school grew rapidly, and at the time\\nthat the present Bishop, Bishop Johnston, came to take up the\\nwork of Bishop Elliott in 1888, it had outgrown its quarters.\\nOne of the first enterprises of Bishop Johnston was to build\\na boarding department to the school, and in 1890 the front\\nportion of the new buildinfi:, known as Elliott Hall, was erected\\nand occupied, and the next year it Avas completed as it now\\nstands.\\nThe departure of Mr. Carnalian from Little Rock is uni-\\nversallv recretted bv all who know bim and are familiar with", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0345.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "300 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nhis work in this State. He has done more for Christ Church\\nthan all his predecessors combined, and his successors will\\nfind one of the best organized parishes in the entire country.\\nThat grand and noble man, the lamented Major John D.\\nAdams, who was Senior Warden of Christ Church up to the\\nday of his death, looked upon Mr. Carnahan as the peer of\\nthe Southern clergy. The writer well remembers a conver-\\nsation he had with Major Adams, about two years ago, when\\nthe subject of this sketch was being discussed. To know\\nMr. Carnahan, said Major Adams, is to love him. He is\\nno ordinary man, by any means in fact, I look upon him as\\nthe peer of any man in our Church. A casual acquaintance\\ndoes not give you a correct insight of the man but when you\\nlearn to know him, and know him well, all earth and its pos-\\nsessions cannot sever the ties of friendship which bind you\\nto him. This expression voices the sentiment of the entire\\nparish.\\nLIST OF CONTRIBUTORS TO EASTER OFFERITs^GS.\\nThe Vestry of Christ Church, Little Rock, issue an an-\\nnual statement of the Easter offerings for the Church debt.\\nThe folloAving sums were given on Easter, 1894.\\nWhen the whole debt shall have been paid, a statement\\nwill be printed showing the total amount received from each\\ncontributor toward the building of the Church and the pay-\\nment of the debt.\\nE. N. Conwav 5.00\\nMrs. J. Erb 5.00\\nJ. S. Speed 5.00\\nS. B. Stafford 5.00\\nS. R. Coekrill 25.00\\nMiss Fannie Bell 3.00\\nMiss Evie Bell 3.00\\nMiss Hattie Bell 3.00\\nMrs. Marv Bell 5.00\\nR. IT. Parham 10.00", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0346.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 301\\nG. K. McSwine 5.00\\nW. A. Cantrell 10.00\\nE. R. Wright 10.00\\nW. F. Wright 15.00\\nM. Wright 5.00\\nE. Adams 50.00\\nJno. D. Adams 30.00\\nG. Brack, Jr 1.00\\nC. Brack 1.00\\nElbert Brack 1.00\\nImogene Brack 1.00\\nMrs. J. Blocker 1.00\\nN. Y. Bailev 5.00\\nG. M. D. Cantrell 2.00\\nMiss Bessie Cantrell 5.00\\nMiss Carrie Carnahan 1.00\\nMiss Lina Carnahan 1.00\\nMrs. J. A. Crutchheld 5.00\\nMr. and Mrs. H. K. Cochran 25.00\\nMiss A. S. Crease 10.00\\nMiss Sne Cooper 1.00\\nSam Chnrchill 5.00\\nMiss Jennie Clement 5.00\\nW. A. Compton 10.00\\nL. W. Cherry 10.00\\nMrs. G. A. Davis 5.00\\nMiss Emma Fox 5.00\\nRobt. Griffith 25\\nMr. and Mrs. J. W. Goodwin 85.00\\nR. B. Gress 15.00\\nMiss Madge Henegen 5.00\\nR. O. Hopkins 5.00\\n]\\\\lrs. F. E. Hutt 5.00\\nMiss Alice Hammond 1.00\\nMrs. C. T. Hodges 3.00\\nJ. H. Haney 10.00\\nMrs. J. H. Haney 5.00\\nMiss M. Tordon 1 0.00", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0347.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "302 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nJ. W. Kirkwood 1.00\\nC. J. Kramer 10.00\\nJas. Kendrick 10.00\\nMiss Nellie Lawson 2.00\\nMiss Emily Lewis 10\\nMrs. Jas. Lawson 5.00\\nMrs. E. S. Leslie 5.00\\nG. H. Lee 5.00\\nMiss Merrick 5.00\\nMiss Marquitli 50\\nMrs. Marquitli 50\\nFred Martin 5.00\\nMiss Amelia Miller 10.00\\nMiss Rosa Miller 10.00\\nMrs. J. R. Miller 25.00\\nMrs. J. S. Matthews 1.00\\nMrs. A. E. Martin 15.00\\nMrs. J. J. Morrison 1.00\\nR. T. Morye 1.00\\nMrs. E. C. Newton 5.00\\nC. E. j^iswonger 5.00\\nMiss Juliette Peav 2.50\\nMrs. S. C. Peay 2.00\\nMiss Carrie Peav 1.00\\nMrs. G. N. Peay 1.00\\nMrs. C. Peyton 10.00\\nT. C. Powell 25.00\\nG. K Payne 1.00\\nEdna Payne 35\\nAddison Payne 25\\nBertha Payne 25\\nRubit Payne 25\\nMrs. S. Parkins 1.00\\nMrs. M. W. Peabody 5.00\\nR. W. Polk 5.00\\nMrs. Rumbough 5.00\\nMrs. A. A. Rutland 1 0.00\\nH. 0. Rather 5.00", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0348.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 303\\nMrs. Fannie Scott 5.00\\nMrs. S. P. Parks 2.00\\nC. II. Sayle 5.00\\nJ. H. Sannoner 5.00\\nA. Sundholni 15.00\\nR. E. Smith 1.00\\nA. B. Sholars 1.00\\nE. H. Tobey 5.00\\nMrs. Jennie Tucker 3.50\\nMrs. J. V. Zimmerman 5.00\\nMiss May Wright 50\\nHerbert Wassell 10.00\\nMrs. Margarette Wassell 10.00\\nWalter Watkins 5.00\\nC. H. Whittemore 10.00\\nMiscellaneous Cash 98.41\\nDr. C. M. Taylor 10.00\\nMrs. T. J. Churchill 1.00\\nJno. F. Calef 1.00\\nMrs. N. K. Sample 5.00\\nMrs. Fred Martin 3.00\\nC. H. Lewis 5.00\\nMiss J. Churchill 50\\nE. O. Clark 2.50\\nM. Wright 5.00\\nJ. M. Bracey 2.50\\nJ. S. Eggleston 10.00\\nMrs. A. R. Trazzare 5.00\\nG. M. D. Cantrell 2.00\\nMrs. S. E. Barber 40.00\\nMrs. G. S. Brack 10.00\\nG. S. Brack 15.00\\nMiss M. E. Brack 25.00\\nW. H. Ragland 20.00\\nA. R. Peyinghaus 10.00\\nL. W. Cherry 10.00\\nR. G. Pillow 2.50\\nG. H. Stratman 5.00", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0349.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "304 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nH. W. Morrison 10.00\\nHal Cochran 1.00\\nSam Cochran 1.00\\nH. N. Samstag 5.00\\nW. Carnahan 25.00\\nBob Butler 5.00\\nM. H. Johnson 25.00\\nJ. B. Cowpland 15.00\\nHarry Heck 3.00\\nEmma Kramer 15.00\\nJ. E. Harbey 5.00\\nChas. M. Fowler 5.00\\nIrene and Ella Adams 2.50\\nS. B. Adams and wife 10.00\\nJoe Calef 5.00\\nW. P. Hutton 2.50\\nMrs. B. B. Sterling 2.50\\nNoland Williams 5.00\\nJno. G. Fletcher 25.00\\nK. L. Goodrich 25.00\\nH. B. Armistead 5.00\\nW. S. Haines 10.00\\nBonis Mast 5.00\\nJ. H. Sonthall 10.00\\nT. J. Darragh 25.00\\nC. Jennings 5.00\\nJ. A. Van Etten 5.00\\nFrancis Johnson 5.00\\nJno. A. Mitchell 5.00\\nW. B. Worthen 25.00\\nG. K Peay 5.00\\nDr. T^enow 5.00\\nMrs. Griffith 5.00\\nDr. Dibrell 10.00\\nD. W. Jones 10.00\\nGray Carroll 10.00", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0350.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0351.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "REV. J. E. H. GALBRAITH.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0352.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 305\\nA. D. 1863-1894. Rev. John E. H. GalhmiUi (Assist-\\nant Minister of Christ Church, to Rev. Wallace Carnahan),\\nAvas born September 2, 18G3, in Bombay, India, where my\\nfather was, at that time, a missionary of the English C hurch\\nMissionary Society, and in charge of the Robert Money Insti-\\ntution, a missionary school. I was baptized in the Cathedral\\nthere; w^as confirmed in Ireland, of wdiich my parents are\\nnatives (father being of an old Scotch-Irish family, and\\nmother of English parentage), by the late Archbishop of\\nDublin, R. C. French, D. D. came to this country in 1883,\\nhaving been educated at St. Columbus s College and Trinity\\nCollege, Dublin, wdiere I took ^honors in classics took a\\ntheological course at the University of the South, Sewanee,\\nTenn. was ordained by Rt. Rev. A. Gregg, D. D., Bishop of\\nTexas, to the Diaconate, at Sewanee in September, 1887 to\\nthe Priesthood by Rt. Rev. J. S. Johnston, D. D., Bishop of\\nWestern Texas, at San Marcos, Texas, September, 1888;\\nspent first months of my Diaconate as assistant at Christ\\nChurch, Little Rock, Ark. was in charge of San Marcos\\nand Lockhart from May, 1888, to June, 1889; returned to\\nLittle Rock, as assistant and in charge of St. Paul s Mission\\nand Christ Church Academy, and in June, 1891, took charge\\nof Lee County Mission, Beattyville, Ky., and remained five\\nyears, during which time a handsome stone Church was\\nerected there; left Beattyville, November, 1896, and am at\\npresent Priest in charge of St. Peter s parish, McKinney, and\\nSt. Paul s, Greenville, in the Diocese of Dallas, Texas mar-\\nried Miss Alice Gray Barnett, of Louisville, Ky., October\\n2, 1888. We have four children, viz: Richard William,\\nJohn Gray, Selina Emma, and Hugh Barnett.\\nThe Brotherhood of St. Andrew, For the spread of\\nChrist s Kingdom among men, was established in Christ", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0353.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "306 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nChurch Parish, by the Rev. John E. H. Galbraith, Chapter\\nISTo. 706, December 28, 1891.\\nRev. Wallace Carnahaii Rector.\\nRev. Mr. G-albraith Curate.\\nThe Boys Department of Brotherhood of St. Andrew,\\nChrist Church, For the spread of Christ s Kingdom among\\nboys, was organized by J. M. Bracey, January, 1894; char-\\ntered January 9, 1896.\\nRev. John Gass Rector.\\nThe Wardens of Christ Cliurch during the incumbency\\nof Rev. Wallace Carnahan besides those mentioned are given\\nin order\\nMAJOR JOHN DUNNING ADAMS.\\nMajor John Dunning Adams, Vestryman and Senior\\nWarden of Christ Church, was born in Humphreys County,\\nTenn., June 23^ 1827. No member of the parish ever left a\\nstronger impress upon it than Major Adams. He was blessed\\nwith a good heredity. His father, Samuel Adams, of Virginia\\nstock, was president of the Arkansas Senate, acting governor\\nof the State, and afterwards State treasurer. He was a man\\nof high character and ability. Major Adams s mother was\\nRebecca May, of an excellent Tennessee family.\\nJohn Dunning removed with his parents to Arkansas in\\n1835. He received his education in the common schools of\\nthe State and an academy in Little Rock.\\nWhen 18 years old, he enlisted in the Volunteer Army\\nof the United States for the war with Mexico, as a member\\nof a cavalry company in Colonel Yell s Regiment. He was\\nat once made orderly sergeant, and took part in the battle of\\nBuena Vista, where he was severely wounded.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0354.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 307\\nAfter the Mexican War, young Adams became private\\nsecretary to Governor Thomas H. Drew. He studied hiw,\\nbut never engaged in its practice.\\nIn 1848 he married Catherine Yeiser, daughter of Dr.\\nDaniel Yeiser, of Kentucky, and granddaughter of Philip\\nYeiser, of Baltimore, Md., a man of colonial fame.\\nMr. Adams, for the greater part of his life, was engaged\\nin the steamboat business, operating extensively on the Arkan-\\nsas and Mississippi rivers. He also invested in plantation\\ninterests in both pursuits he was .eminently successful.\\nDuring the Civil War Major Adams having promptly\\nenlisted in the Confederate cause, was soon made quartermas-\\nter of the Trans-Mississippi Department, which office he filled\\nwith marked success.\\nIn 1892 he was apj^ointed United States Commissioner\\nfor Arkansas in the World s Fair, held in Chicago. The\\nsame year he was elected Commissioner of Mines, Manufac-\\ntures and Agriculture, having declined overtures for nomina-\\ntion as Governor of the State.\\nFor many years Major Adams was an active and promi-\\nnent member of the Masonic fraternity, and attained the\\nhighest degrees of that order.\\nIn every relation, and in any position. Major Adams\\nwas always the chivalrous gentleman. Brave, generous,\\nmagnanimous and faithful, he was a modern reproduction of\\nthe Ancient Knight, without fear and without reproach.\\nMajor Adams s fidelity to his friends, and his benevo-\\nlence towards all who appealed to his tender heart, became\\nproverbial. As husband and father, Major Adams was most\\nunselfish and devoted. It is scarcely a figure of. speech to\\nsay that he was the idol of his family.\\nStrong and noble as Major Adams was in his business", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0355.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "308 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nand social relation, it was chiefly in his relation to the Church\\nthat his character exhibited its most beautiful aspect. He\\nwas baptized and confirmed in Christ Church during the Rec-\\ntorship of the Rev. Wallace Carnahan, whose loyal parishioner\\nand affectionate friend he was from the beginning of that\\nRectorship until Major Adams s death.\\nHe was elected to the Vestry in 1887 and soon afterward\\nwas appointed Senior Warden, which post of duty he held for\\nthe remainder of his life.\\nIn the judgment of this same pastor, Major Adams was\\nan ideal layman, earnest and faithful in the routine duty\\nof a Vestryman and Warden^ he rose to a height of moral gran-\\ndeur in great emergencies. In the most trying and moment-\\nous period of the history of Christ Church, Major Adams sunk\\nconsiderations of worldly policy, and bravely espoused the\\ncause of righteousness. It is chiefly to the courage, wisdom\\nand self-sacrifice of Major Adams that a great moral revolu-\\ntion in the parish was made successful.\\nPerhaps the most conspicuous point in Major Adams s\\ncharacter was cheerfulness in adversity no misfortune could\\ndampen his spirits or sour his temper.\\nAfter a painful, but short, illness Major Adams departed\\nthis life on the 7th of December, 1892, lamented by a larger\\ncircle of friends than those of any man who ever lived in\\nthe State.\\nHe leaves a widow and two sons^, Samuel B. and Dean\\nAdams, and a memory redolent with the sweet smelling\\nsavor of a grand Christian manhood.\\nIn the north transept of the new Church is the large and\\nbeautiful ^^dndow before described, representing the four\\nevangelists, with their symbolic figures. It was donated by\\nMajor John D. Adams, but bears no inscription.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0356.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 309\\nHIS LAUGH HIS FORTUNE.\\nIT WON HIM FRIENDS AND FORTUNE AND DISCONCERTED HIS\\nENEMIES.\\nFrom the New Orleans T i mes-Deriwc rat.^\\nEver hear of a man who made a fortune out of his\\nlaugh f said a guest of the St. Charles last night, as he looked\\nover the register. I have heard of girls whose faces were\\ntheir fortunes, but I knew a man whose laugh was positively\\nhis fortune. That name Sam B. Adams on the register\\nthere, reminds me of a man who made a fortune out of his\\nlaugh. His name was John D. Adams, and he was the\\nfather of Sam, the gentleman registered there. John D.\\nAdams was a typical steamboatman of Arkansas, and in addi-\\ntion to his steamboating was a ])lanter of extensive interests,\\nand was connected with other business enterprises. He was\\nthe first man to run a steamboat up the Arkansas River, and\\nhis name in that State to-day is a synonym for geniality, cour-\\nige and business success. He was very successful, and his\\nfriends used to attribute his success to his wondrous laugh. It\\nwas not boisterous, yet loud, and was so musical and jolly that\\none could imagine old Kris Kringle was personified in him.\\nAv(\\\\ his good humor and genial disposition were contagious.\\nOther river men would say that his laugh got him all the gov-\\nernment mail contracts. He would go to Washington, get\\nacquainted with the man who had charge of the contracts\\nand he, like all of Adams s new acquaintances, would soon\\ncome under the infection of his magnetic laugh, and form a\\ngenuine admiration for the jovial steamboatman. lie\\nwas known at the hotel by everybody, and was pointed out for\\nyears by a negro porter, to whom he once gave a $5 gold piece\\nas a tip in a fit of jollification over the closing of a big con-\\ntract in his favor. Amazing tales were told of his courage\\nand his steamboat experiences. On one occasion when an\\naccident happened to his boat and the passengers became\\npanic-stricken, he calmed them as if by magic by calling them\\n21", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0357.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "310 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nchildren, and laiigliiug at their fear his famous laugh com-\\npelling conlidence and mirth by its very melody and jollity.\\nHe even used his laugh when very much angered, but it wab\\nof a diiferent character, and death lurked behind it. In a\\nsteamboat quarrel with three desperadoes, once, he denounced\\nthem with a laughing accompaniment, a cynical, chilling,\\ndangerous kind of a laugh, his eyes glittering like a snake s,\\nand his forefinger on his revolver, ready to dash out the life\\nof the first one who made a move. One of the desperadoes\\nsaid afterward, in speaking of the occurrence, that he never\\nfelt so queerly before in his life. He said he felt as though\\nthe very marrow in his bones was being frozen. St. Louis\\nGlohe-Democrat, July 27, 1897.\\nThe children of Major John D. Adams and Catherine\\nYeiser, his wife, are Samuel B. and Dean, the only surviving\\nmembers of a grouj) of five.\\nSAMUEL B. ADAMS.\\nSamuel B. Adams, Vestryman of Christ Church, a son\\nof Major John D. and Mrs. Catherine Yeiser Adams, was\\nborn in Little Rock on the 17tli of January, 1849. He was\\neducated at the school of Rev. Pike Powers, in Halifax\\nCounty, Va., at the Virginia Military Institute, and at the\\nLTniversity of North Carolina. As a member of the Institute\\nCadet Corps he took part in the valley campaign under Gen-\\neral Breckinridge during the Civil War, and fought in the\\nbattle of Few Market.\\nHe became captain of a steamboat at 22 years of age, and\\nfollowed that calling for several years with much prosperity.\\nFor a year Mr. Adams engaged in mercantile business\\nin ]^ew Orleans, and in 1S77 started the firm of Adams\\nBoyle, insurance agents. For ten years he was employed by\\nthe railroads entering Little Rock as local ticket agent.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0358.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 311\\nMr. Adams is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and\\nhas attained the highest degrees of that order.\\nMr. Adams was twice married, first to Miss Mary Boyd,\\nof Halifax County, North Carolina, and some years after her\\ndeath, to Miss Sallie Haney, of Yoiingstown, Ohio.\\nMr. Adams was elected to the Vestry in 1888 to fill the\\nplace of the late Hon. W. W. Smith, Judge of the Supreme\\nCourt of Arkansas. He was treasurer of the parish for\\ntwo and one-half years, and chairman of the finance committee\\nfor several years.\\nIt is largely to Mr. Adams s financial ability and devo-,\\ntion to the parish that its prosperity is indebted.\\nAs chairman of the building committee, his most recent\\nzeal has been devoted to the erection of the new St. Paul s\\nChapel. Mr. Adams was the author of the plan which was\\nadopted by the Vestry for bonding the Church debt a measure\\nwhich gave the parish relief when staggering under an appar-\\nently hopeless burden. Mr. Adams s unselfish and delicate\\ndevotion to his pastors, has won for him the name of the\\nRector s best friend.\\nAt this time (March, 1899) Mr. Adams is still living,\\nthe head of a lovely household, composed of his venerable\\nmother and his daughters, Katharine (Mrs. Farrar McCain),\\nIrene (Mrs. Julius L. Witz), and Ella Sibley.\\nDean Adams is a planter on the Arkansas River; mar-\\nried Amelia Wright, and has one son, John D. Adams.\\nThe vacancy caused by the death of Major John D.\\nAdams, Senior Warden of Christ Church, was filled by the\\nformer Junior Warden,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0359.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "312 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nWILLIAM ARMOUR CANTRELL, M. D.\\nA. D. 1616. The Cantrell or Cantrill family is of\\nEnglish origin. The names of large families in the shires\\nof Berks, Derby, Suffolk, Stafford, oSTorfolk, Wilts, and York\\nare mentioned in the Heralds Visitations Lists, from 1528-\\n1664, as belonging to the gentry. Ralph Cantrell, of Bury\\nSt. Edmunds, Suftolkshire, England, received a baronetcy in\\n1616 from King James I, who instituted the order in 1611,\\nand was granted Armorial bearings, which were copied from\\nHeraldry; by Woodward, LL. D., volume 1 plate xxviii, cut\\n12 in Astor Library, New York, by a friend, for the writer\\nIn 1712 Rev. William Cantrell procured the perpetual\\ncuracy of St. Alkmund s, Derby, England, and, when his\\nbenefice was created a vicarage, Cantrell Avas its first vicar,\\nholding the living to his death. On the pavement within\\nthe communion rail is a flag, for the Rev. William Cantrell,\\nA. M., fifty years vicar of this Church.\\nFrom the History of Derby, by Glover, the following\\nanecdote is quoted\\nSt. Alkmund s Church is supposed to have been\\nfounded as early as the ninth century. It is undoubtedly\\nthe oldest in Derby. Since the year 1712 it has\\nenjoyed an endowment, becpieatlied by a gentleman of the\\nname of Goodwin, which Mr. Hutton hands down to us in\\nthe following words\\nAn old bachelor of the name of Goodwin, descended\\nfrom an ancient family in Derby, possessed an estate of sixty\\npounds a year. How Avill you dispose of your fortune,\\nsays Mr. Cantrell, minister of St. Alkmund s. I am at a\\nloss, replied Mr. Goodwin, for I have no relations. Here\\nwas a fine opening for Cantrell to increase his income and for\\n*Mrs. Harlan P. Christie nee Cantrill of Brooklyn, New York.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0360.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "WILLIAM A. CANTRELL, M. D.\\nPRESENT SENIOR WARDEN.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0361.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0362.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 313\\nGoodwin to save his soul, by giving that property to pious\\nuses, which he could keep no longer. My Church, said the\\nparson, stands desolate; instead of being a place of worship,\\nit is only a nursery for owls and bats. No act of charity\\ncan surpass that of promoting religion. Then I will give\\nten pounds per annum to St. xllkmund s at my death, and the\\nresidue at the death of my nephew, which last happened about\\nthe year 1734. The estate is situated at Plumley, in the\\nparish of Eckington. At that time produced sixty pounds a\\nycar^ now about two hundred and ten.\\nA picture of this Church w^as sent to the annalist with\\nthe accompanying note from the vicar in charge, Rev. J.\\nStanley Owen\\nSt, Alkmund s Vicarage, Derby England,\\nJuly 13, 1900.\\nMr-s. William Cantrell:\\nDear Madam I am sending you the best unmounted\\ncabinet photograph of St. Alkmund s Church that is to be had.\\nI need not say that the present Church is not the building\\nMr. Cantrell used to minister in. That building, known\\nnow as Old St. Alkmund s was taken down in 1842, and\\nthe present Church built on its site, at a cost of about \u00c2\u00a31 2,000.\\nThe photograph sent is very good of the Church, as it is now,\\nwith one exception: the Vestry at the southeast corner has\\nbeen removed and a larger suite of Vestries built in its place.\\nWe should so like to have a memorial to Mr. Cantrell in our\\npresent fine Church, if you saw your way to erect one.\\nFaithfully yours,\\nJ. STATELET OWEK.\\nThe first historical mention of the name in America may\\nbe found in Captain John Smith s General Historie of Vir-\\nginia, where William Cantrell is mentioned among the four-\\n*See Church at the close of this Tnography.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0363.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "314 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nteen gentlemen who accompanied him on his discoverie of\\nthe Chesapeake Bay, in 1608.\\nA. D. 1609-1796. In Henning s Statutes or the Laws\\nof Virginia, also in The Genesis of the United States, by\\nAlexander Brown, the name of William Cantrell, Gentleman,\\nis mentioned among the number of grantees and an incor-\\nporator of the Second Virginia Charter, dated May 23, 1609.\\nIn Ramsey s Annals of Tennessee is found mention\\nof Stephen Cantrell, Sr., grandfather of the subject of this\\nsketch\\nSTEPHEN CANTRELL, SR.\\nStephen Cantrell, St., was born in Abingdon, Va., in\\n1758, and came to Tennessee from North Carolina in 1776,\\nbeing then in the service of the Continental Commissioners\\nof North Carolina, as Captain of the Guard. Eor his zeal\\nand perseverance in the discharge of his duties he was\\nawarded a grant of land of 640 acres on Stewart s Creek, in\\nDavidson County, Tenn., which deed was placed on record\\nin the register s office at Nashville, Davidson County. This\\nland grant was located January 29, 1784, signed by Richard\\nCaswell, Governor, with seal of the State of North Carolina\\naffixed, dated October 8, 1787, and a certified copy of the\\nsame may be had by applying to the County Clerk of David-\\nson County.* This land afterwards lay in Sumner County,\\nTenn., which was erected in 1786 by authority of North Caro-\\nlina, off the east end of Davidson. At Fort Blount, East\\nTennessee, Stephen Cantrell, Sr., met and afterwards mar-\\nried, in 1782, Mary S. Blakemore, daughter of Major John\\nBlakemore, of the famous Donelson expedition. Stephen\\nCantrell, Sr., and William Montgomery were the first rei)ro-\\n*Land Grant No. 64, recorded in Book A page ^07.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0364.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 315\\nsentatives sent from Sumner County to the first legislature\\nin Tennessee, which met at Knoxville, East Tennessee, March\\n28, 179 G. During the years 1792-93 he commanded a com-\\npany as captain of sixty-three men for the protection of the\\ncountry against the inroads of the Indians. f\\nA. D. 1727-1854. He died at his home in Sumner\\nCounty, February 5, 1827, aged 68 years, 7 months and 7\\ndays. His wife, Mary Blakemore, was born in North Caro-\\nlina, March 8, 1765, and died August 2, 1849, aged 84 years,\\n4 months, and 25 days. Stephen Cantrell, Sr., and Mary\\nBlakemore, his wife, had eleven children, nine sons and two\\ndaughters. The eldest of these, Stephen Cantrell, Jr., was\\nborn in Sumner County, Tenn., March 10, 1783, and was\\nmarried:}: at Xashville, Tenn., January 2, 1897, to Juliet Ann\\nDeadericl- WendeL He was, at different times during his life,\\nmerchant, commissary and quartermaster during the Creek\\nWar pension agent for all Middle Tennessee for many years\\ncounty magistrate mayor of Xashville president of the\\nBank of N^ashville, and, finally, a cotton planter on the\\nArkansas River, where he died of pneumonia, September\\n5, 1854, aged 71 years. His wife, Juliet Ann Deaderick\\nWendel, was the daughter of David Wendel, Sr., and Susanna\\nDeaderick, his wife, born in Winchester, Va., April 8, 1787.\\nHer grandfather, David Diedrick, Sr., of Wurtemburg, Ger-\\nmany, who emigrated to the United States before 1750, was\\namong the German Pennsylvanians Avho settled Winchester,\\nVa., the oldest town in the Shenandoah Valley.* His name\\nand that of Samuel Wendel, of Dort (or Dordrecht), Holland,\\nher maternal lirandfather, are numbered amouii thirtv-three\\ntSee the Edition of 1853, pa^e 589 of Ramsey s AnnaLs of Tennessee.\\ntSee marriage notice in Parton s Life of Andrew Jackson, Vol. I, page 246.\\n*See Henry Howe s Historical Collections of Virginia, Rockbridge County,\\npage 451.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0365.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "316 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nof these emigrants, who built the first Lutheran Church in\\nthat town. A translation of the Latin document placed in\\nthe cornerstone of that Church is in the possession of her\\nson,\\nWILLIAM ARMOUR CA^ttreLL, M. D.,\\nthe subject of the subjoined sketch, wdio was the eighth, in a\\ngroup of nine children, three sons and six daughters, born to\\nStephen Cantrell, Jr., and Juliet A. D. Wendel, his wife.:}:\\nA. D. 1826-1900. He was born at his father s farm,\\nnear Nashville, Tenn., January 23, 1826. At a later date\\nthe family removed to the citv, where he attended the primary\\nschools until he was 13 years of age. He was then sent to\\nPrinceton, IST. J., and placed at Edgehill Seminary, where he\\nmade good record as a student. While there he met with\\nthe great bereavement of his life, in the death of his mother.\\nPreceding this, came the financial wreck of his father, whose\\nestate had been valued at $200,000. He was recalled and\\nbecame a student at the Xashville University, but soon began\\nthe study of medicine with his cousin. Dr. James Wendel, of\\nMurfreesboro, Tenn. In 1845, he entered the medical\\ndepartment of the University of Louisville, Ky., where his\\nkinsman, Dr. Lunsford P. Yandell, Sr., professor of chemis-\\ntry and pharmacy, was one of his preceptors. Drs. Gross,\\nShort, Cobb, Drake, Miller and Caldwell occupied chairs at\\nthe same time, and Dr. S. S. ISTicholas was president of the\\nfaculty.\\nDr. Cantrell graduated at this LTniversity, March 6,\\n1 847. The year following he spent at ISTew York, where he\\nreceived the appointment of assistant physician in Bellevue\\ntThis sketch is ooniori fvorn Biogra^hir-al a lrl Hi storif^al Memoirs r f Central\\nArkansas. r)uhlished by the Goodspeed Publishing Co., at Chicago, Nashville and St.\\nLouis in 1889.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0366.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 317\\nHospital. He was then appointed to relieve I)r. Winter-\\nbottom, as physician of the JSTursery Hospital at Blackwell s\\nIsland, and remained there during the summer of 184(S. In\\nthe following year he went to New Orleans, La., where, feel-\\ning qualified, he proposed to enter upon his life work.\\nThe solitary condition of his father, however, impelled\\nhim to abandon his purpose. After one winter of medi-\\ncal experience at ISTew Orleans, where he treated yellow fever,\\nin epidemic form, he established himself at Pine Bluff, Ark.,\\nin the vicinity of which his father resided as a cotton planter,\\nand later at Little Rock. Here, in LS-19, he met his future\\nwife. Miss Ellen Maria Ilarrell, who had lately arrived with\\nher family, from Xashville, Tenn., fleeing from the cholera,\\nthen decimating the city of ISTashville. On February 13,\\n1852, Dr. C^antrell and Miss Ilarrell were married in Little\\nHock by the Rev. A. R. Winfield. During what proved to\\nbe the last year of his father s life, Dr. Oantrell took his\\nfamily to live on an adjoining plantation, and was with him\\nat the time of his death, September 5, 1854. Afterward he\\nresumed his practice in Little Rock, where he raj)idly built\\nup a solid reputation as a practitioner.\\nDr. Cantrell has filled, successively and honorably, the\\npositions of city physician, county ])liysician, president of the\\nState Board of Medical Examiners, president of the College\\nof Physicians and Surgeons, delegate to the Medical Associa-\\ntion, at Nashville, Tenn., besides attending to a heavy prac-\\ntice. He is the only surviving member of the first medical\\nassociation in Little Rock, which he helped to organize. The\\nmanaging board included R. A. Watkins, j\\\\L D., president;\\nWm. A. Cantrell, M. D., secretary: A. W. Webb, ]\\\\r. D.\\nCraven Peyton, ]\\\\r. D. George Sizer, M. D., and Corydon\\nMcAlmont, M. D. On May 28, 1801, the president of the", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0367.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "318 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nConfederate States of America, at jVIontgomery, Ala., ap-\\npointed liim surgeon of First Arkansas Mounted Volun-\\nteers, Colonel T. J. Cliurcliill, commander, in the Second\\nArkansas Regiment of the Provisional Army of the Confed-\\nerate States. In this capacity he served in several engage-\\nments.\\nAfter Lee s surrender he was solicited to take charge\\nof the .United States Post Hospital, at the Little Rock gar-\\nrison. He accepted and held this position of acting assistant\\nsurgeon during the command of Brevet Major-General\\nArnold, captain Light Battery G, Fifth Artillery, and that\\nof Colonel C. H. Smith, Twenty-eighth Infantry, a period of\\nfive years. Llis record as a physician at this hospital added\\nmuch to the reputation for sagacity and skill, already earned.\\nVery lately he has had charge of the medical department at\\nthe School for the Blind, in this city, and was appointed\\ntrustee of that institution by Governor S. P. Hughes.*\\nIn 1855 Dr. Cantrell became a confirmed member of\\nChrist Church (Episcopal) under the hands of Rt. Rev.\\nGeorge W. Freeman, who was his constant friend until death.\\nHe served as a member of the Vestry of Christ Church during\\nthe incumbenc} of Rev. Andrew F. Freeman of Rt. Rev.\\nHenry C. Lay, Bishop of the Diocese of Arkansas, and Rec-\\ntor of Christ Church of Rev. J. T. Wheat, and Rev. P. G.\\nRobert was Junior, and, later. Senior Warden with Rev.\\nWallace Carnahan Senior Warden with Rev. John Gass, and\\nSenior Warden with Hox. G. Gordon Smeade.\\nWhile the social amenity of his disposition and\\ngrace of manner have caused him to be sought bv the most\\n*He is now (A. D. 1900) President of the County Board of Medical Examiners.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0368.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 319\\npolished circles, the earnest simplicity and sympathy of his\\nnature have endeared him to the most humble in rank. Like\\na full river, bravely bearing its own burdens to the sea, yet\\ndispensing life and refreshment on each side, his course has\\nshown a long succession of private and public services, which\\nprove that the prominent desire of his soul has been to be\\nuseful.\\nMrs. Cantrell is the daughter of Rev. Samuel Harrell\\nand Ellen Catherine Collins, his wife.\\nShe was born at Princess Anne Courthouse, in Princess\\nAnne County, Va., where her father was located, being a mem-\\nber of the Virginia Methodist Conference. He died at Mead-\\nville, Va., during her infancy, and is buried near McKendree\\nChurch, where he preached. Mrs. Cantrell is the grand-\\ndaughter of Rev. Asa Harrell and Rachel Beeman, his wife,\\nof Gatesville, in Gates County, N. C, formerly of Harrells-\\nville, Hertford County, C, which town, now in decay, was\\norginally in Chowan County, from which Hertford was\\nformed in 1759. Asa Harrell served in the War of the Revo-\\nlution under General Horatio Gates, in 1780-81. He was\\nordained Deacon in the Methodist Church by Bishop Asbury,\\nGates County, ^N C, and was ordained Elder by Bishop Mc-\\nCandery at Somerton, Nansemond County, Va., on the 20th\\nof November, 1820. He was the son of Jesse Harrell and\\nElishua Savage, his wife, and died at 80 years of age, leaving\\na numerous posterity.\\nMrs. Cantrell accompanied her widowed mother, brother\\nand sister to Nashville, Tenn., where she was educated under\\nthe direction of her mother a woman of unusual talent,\\nsuperior education and varied accomplishments, which she\\nemployed in the support of her family, as principal of a semi-\\nnary for young ladies, situated on Vine street, near Union,", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0369.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "320 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nJSTasliville. Later the family came to Little Rock, in the\\nspring of 1849, and finally settled on a farm on the Arkansas\\nriver. Mrs. Cantrell is a graduate of the Nashville Female\\nAcademy, Dr. C. D. Elliott and R. A. Lapsley, principals,\\nalso of the French Academy, M. Audigier, principal, and is a\\nproficient in music. She has been a writer for magazines\\nand newspapers her earliest contributions at 16 years of\\nage, having appeared in Godey s Lady s Book. She repre-\\nsented the State as essayist in the Woman s Congress at the\\nWorld s Exposition at Chicago, also at the Exposition of\\nISTashville, Tenn., and has served as State Regent in the Na-\\ntional Society of Daughters of the American Revolution. She\\nwas confirmed in the first Christ Church in 1855 by the Rt.\\nRev. George W. Freeman. She is now the secretary of the\\nDiocese in the Woman s Auxiliary to the Board of Missions.\\nThe children of Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Cantrell, all natives\\nof Little Rock and vicinity, each of whom has received a\\nclassical education, are:\\n1. Lillian Mrs, Joseph Lovell Bay, of St. Louis, Mo.\\n2. Ellen May Mrs. Decatur Axtell, of Richmond,\\nVa. At Hot Springs, Va., their sunmier residence, Mr. and\\nMrs. Axtell have been the chief inspirers and contributors in\\nthe building of a Church, wdiich was opened for service on\\nGood Friday, April 1, and consecrated October 14, 1899, by\\nBishop Arthur McGill Randolph, of South Virginia.\\n3. Daisy Mrs. Lucius J. Polk, of Galveston, Texas.\\n4. Wendel Who died, aged 11 months.\\n5. Isadore\u00e2\u0080\u0094Mri^. Philo H. Goodwyn, of Galveston,\\nTexas.\\n6. Bessie For some years secretary of The Little\\nRock Memorial Cha]itor of the I nited Daughters of the\\nConfederacv.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0370.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0371.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "ST. ALKMUNDS CHURCH, DERBY, ENGLAND.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0372.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 321\\n7. Decide rick Ilarrell Of Little Kock, lawyer.\\n8. WiUiain Annour, Jr. Of Fort Worth, Texas, rail-\\nroad agent.\\nThe children of J\\\\ir. and Mrs. Bay are Lillian, Manstield\\nCantrell, Amy Axtell (]\\\\[rs. Kobert Tyler Sturgeon, of St.\\nLouis, Mo.), Lovell, Ellen Virginia, who died in infancy, and\\nMargaret Wendel.\\nThe children of Colonel and Mrs. Polk are Armour\\nCantrell, Anne Leroy, Lucius Junius, Jr., Margaret Wendel,\\nDaisy Cantrell, and Ellen Harrell, who died in infanc}\\nThe children of Mr. and Mrs. Goodwyn are Philo\\nHiram, Jr., and William Cantrell.\\nHOis\\\\ WM. W. SMITH.\\nHon. Wm. W. Smith was i\\\\.ssociate Junior Warden of\\nChrist Church with Major John D. Adams.\\nA. D. 1838-1888. Hon. Wm. W. Smith, Associate\\nJustice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas, was born in Cokes-\\nburg, Abbeville County, S. C, October 12, 1838. He was\\na graduate of South Carolina College, Columbia, S. C, and\\nmarried Emma Connor, August 9, 1865. He came to Arkan-\\nsas in 1866, was admitted to the bar in 1867, and entered into\\npartnership with ex-Governor Simon P. Hughes (at present\\nAssociate Justice of Supreme Court) in the practice of law\\nin the same year at Clarendon, jMonroe County. He served\\nat the bar till 1882, when he was elected one of the Associate\\nJudges of the Supreme Court. He died December 18, 1888.\\nHis Avidow survives. The children of Judge Smith and\\nEmma Connor, his wife, were Julia, Emma, Dennie, Frances,.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0373.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "322 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nAnnie, and an infant son, William Wright Smith. Only two\\nlived to be grown. Dennie was married February 24, 1892,\\nto Harry B. Carter, and died August 18, 1895, leaving one\\neliild, Albert Carter. Judge Smith was an active and faith-\\nful member of the Episcopal Church. He served as Vestry-\\nman and Superintendent of the Sunday School of the Church\\nat Helena, Ark., where he lived in 1877, and, during his resi-\\ndence in Little Rock, served as Vestryman and Junior Warden\\nin Christ Church. As a staunch friend and counselor, he\\nwas inexpressibly prized by his Rector, Rev. Wallace Carna-\\nhan, who, in a time of parochial distress, was indebted to him\\nfor moral support and affectionate sympathy. His name\\nadorns these annals as a beloved and honored Warden.\\nIn the fifty-first volume of Arkansas Reports of the\\nSupreme Court the opening pages are set apart and entitled\\nIn Memoriam. Of the beautiful tributes there presented\\nby distinguished orators, two, by those who knew him as a\\nChurchman, are transferred to these pages\\nMr. Justice Smith died on the 18th day of December,\\n1888. The sad intelligence of his death was announced to\\nthe people of the State by the following proclamation:\\nAgain the State of Arkansas mourns the loss of one of\\nher best citizens.\\nThe Hon. W. W. Smith, Associate Justice of the Su-\\npreme Court, departed this life at 11 o clock p. m. the 18th\\ninstant, at his residence in the city of Little Rock. In his\\ndeath the family has lost a most excellent, kind and affection-\\nate husband and father; society, one of its most valued and\\nbest beloved members the bar of the State, a modest, earnest,\\nable and upright member the judiciary, a just, conscientious\\nand able judge; the State, a citizen of great worth, faith-\\nful, patriotic and true in all the relations of life; and\\nthe Church, a meek, devout and consistent member. In\\nt(-ken of respect for his memory, the flag on the Statehouse will", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0374.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 323\\nbe lowered to halfmast until after his funeral, and the offices\\nof the State government will be closed on Thursday, December\\n20, after 12 o clock m., that the State officers and employees\\nmay attend the funeral.\\nSIMON P. HUGHES,\\nGovernor of the iState of Arkansas.\\nImmediately after this announcement a meeting of the\\nbar of the Supreme Court was held in the Supreme Court-\\nroom. The meeting was called to order by Governor Hughes\\nand upon his motion. Chief Justice Cockrill was requested to\\nact as chairman. On taking the chair, and after making-\\nother remarks appropriate to the occasion, Judge Cockrill\\nspoke of Judge Smith as follows\\nHe came upon the bench six years ago, admirably\\nequipped and prepared for the discharge of the duties of his\\noffice. His previous training had been rigid from close and\\nsystematic study. Those wdio knew him had no apprehen-\\nsion as to his career upon the bench, for they knew that he\\nbrought to bear upon its duties an aptitude for labor, and a\\nwell-trained mind that was clear and logical and never uncer-\\ntain in its conclusions. They have not been disappointed in\\nthe result. His labor was gigantic. Immediately upon\\nhis entry upon the bench it was perceptible that business was\\ndispatched more expeditiously, and even the most critical will\\nbe compelled to acknowledge that his work was well done. He\\nmay have committed errors. He must have been more than\\nmortal not to have done so. In the discharge of his duties\\nhe was industrious, unassuming and far seeing.\\nHe had the patience and willingness to hear and to learn,\\nwhich, it has been said, is, in the assemblage of judicial\\nqualities, perliaps the rarest and most valuable. His lucid\\nand logical manner of statement is apparent to all who have\\nlistened to or who have read after him.\\nHis judicial style is sim])lo and direct. It was never\\ndiffuse and rarelv ambiguous. It was in these respects but", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0375.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "324 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nthe reflex of his cliaracter, for he was ingenuous, frank and\\ndirect to a greater degree than any man 1 have ever known.\\nThese qualities, aided by his clear perception and power of\\nmental concentration, enabled him quickly to detect nonessen-\\ntials in a cause, and penetrate at once into the very heart of\\na controversy rarely being led off from the controlling\\npoints by any wavering desire to follow up useless investiga-\\ntions. The duties of his office circumscribed the limits of\\nhis ambition, and he delighted in their performance not\\nfrom any sense of j^ride of place or power, for he was of a\\nsturdy mould that despised ostentation, and recognized more\\nand more as the swift years went by, that officeholding is\\namong the least of the pleasures or personal benefits of life.\\nHis ambition was to be useful to his fellow-men by the faith-\\nful performance of a sacred trust. ISTo standard of honor\\nwas higher or sense of justice more robust than his. He\\nrecognized that the importance of an upright and capable\\njudiciary cannot be overestimated in its value to the State,\\nHis aim was to lend his aid in perfecting it as far as in him\\nlay. His effort was not without its fruits; but wdiat he\\naccomplished was not by the exercise of the qualities I have\\nmentioned alone. It avails nothing that a judge is only\\npatient, laborious and able. There is another quality, with-\\nout which these are useless. It is courage. I do not refer\\nto personal courage, though Judge Smith was endued, as I\\nam informed by his war comrades, with as ti-ied a courage as\\never marched up to the roaring throats of a dee]) ranged artil-\\nlery but I refer to a bravery of a higher and a rarer kind\\nbravery which could be steadfast under the criticism of friends\\nand against the assaults of enemies. In this, no man, I\\nbelieve, in modern or in ancient times, excelled him. No\\npopular prejudice or partisan clamor could move him. He\\nwas zealously devoted to duty and became a martyr to his\\ndevotion. He has as certainly sacrificed his life upon the\\naltar of public service as did ever a soldier wlio, at his coun-\\ntry s bidding, meet fleath upon the field of battle. Weary and\\nworn with the travail of hi^; office, he has dragged out tho past\\nvear, bravelv batflinc to recaiu the strenofh he had lost in the", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0376.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 325\\nservice of his peoj^le. lie is no longer trammeled. He is\\ndelivered out of bondage, Tliougii dead lie speaks. His\\nvoice, tlirougli bis decisions, will still lind audience among\\nthose to come after us. His impress is upon the bar and\\nthe judiciary, and through them upon the people. His influ-\\nence was always for good; wutli him there was no retrograde\\nmovement. He despised hypocrisy and detested wrong.\\nWhile the hands of all who knew him are raised to do him\\nreverence, would that mine had the cunning to bring the\\nsweetest rose of all the field to deck his name, for none\\ndeserved it more. I trust that better words than I can speak\\nwill tell how his loss wall be mourned and felt. I do not\\nthink it the exaggeration of praise to say that now, when he\\nhas just reached the midday of his usefulness, the State could\\nhave better spared any other of her best and most loyal\\ncitizens. In reverent gratitude I do thank God that he has\\nblessed this land with the birth of such a man, and made it\\nmy 2:)rivilege to know him.\\nMr. W. S. McCain was appointed secretary of the meet-\\ning. Upon motion, the chair appointed a committee on reso-\\nlutions, consisting of Messrs. Sol F. Clark, U. M. Rose, E. W.\\nKimball, John Fletcher, J. W. Blackwood.\\nThe chair appointed Judge Rose to present them to the\\nUnited States Court Mr. George W. Caruth to present them\\nto the Supreme Court; Mr. W. C. Ratcliffe to present them\\nto the Pulaski Chancery Court, and Mr. E. W. Kimball to\\npresent them to the Pulaski Circuit Court.\\nThe resolutions were presented to the Supreme Court by\\nGeorge W. Caruth, late United States Minister to Spain, him-\\nself a faithful Churchman, in the form here quoted\\nSupreme Court of Arkansas,\\nSaturday, May 18, 1880.\\nPresent: Sterling R. Cockrill, Chief Justice; Burrill\\nB. Battle, Monti H. Sandels, Wilson E. Hemingway^ and\\nSimon P. Hughes, Associate Justices.\\n22", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0377.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "326 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nMr. George W. Carutli addressed the court as follows:\\nMay it Please Your Honors\\nW. W. Smithy the Senior Associate Justice of this court,\\ndeparted this life, after a long illness, on the isth day of\\nDecember, 18SS.\\nOn that day his professional brethren, keenly alive to the\\ngreat calamity which had befallen both them and the State,\\ntook order touching his death, adopted a series of resolutions,\\nfeebly expressive of their feeling of admiration, love and\\nrespect for their deceased friend, and deputed me to present\\nthem in this tribunal, that they may be writ upon your honors\\nrecords, there to remain as long as those records themselves\\nremain, as an earnest, heartfelt, but inadequate tribute to\\nthat upright judge. As I speak these words I am painfully\\nimpressed with the frequency with which death has flung its\\nawful shadow over and about this chamber. When I came here,\\nbut a few years ago, to be enrolled at this bar and oh, how\\nshort and swift have been those years there sat on the bench,\\nEnglish, whose kindly features look down on us from yonder\\nspeaking likeness Walker, whose strong, rugged personality\\nmade him so great a figure in our jurisprudence, and Har-\\nrison. English and Walker, after serving their country with\\nfidelity and ability, now sleep with their fathers. Harrison\\nalone, is left. Then came the courtly and learned Eakin, who\\nsoon wearied of the struggle and went to join the wife of his\\nyouth, who had preceded him to the great hereafter. There at\\nthe clerk s desk sat Luke E. Barber, whose presence here was\\na benediction for so many vears, and by his side, his deputy,\\nhis brother, Gwyn both are gone. Following fast and quick\\nafter these distinguished dead, came our lamented friend, and\\nanother judge of this court ceased from his labors. In deliver-\\ning addresses of this character, one is naturally apprehensive,\\nlest, following the admirable maxim, de mortius nil nesi\\nhonum, exaggerated phrases and extravagant eulogiums Avould\\nfind a place. But in this instance it is but the plain truth\\nwhen T say my apprehension is not that T will say too much,\\nbut too little; in a word, that T will not be able to do simple", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0378.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 327\\njustice to the exalted character, great abilities and lovable\\nqualities of him of whom I now speak. No language I could\\nemploy would be too strong in expressing my own estimate of\\nthe man and the judge.\\nA. D. 1838-1882. Judge Smith was a native of South\\nCarolina, born near Cokesburg, in the year 1838. He had\\nthe benefit of a college education, having graduated from the\\nSouth Carolina College in 1859. The year after his gradua-\\ntion he came to this State and settled in Monroe County. At\\nthe commencement of hostilities in the late war he joined the\\nFirst South Carolina Regiment, commanded by Colonel\\nGregg. He subsequently served as Ca])tain in the Twenty-\\nthird Arkansas, under Colonel Adams. When the war ended,\\nhaving shown himself a brave soldier and skillful officer, he\\nreturned to Clarendon, and in 1867 formed a partnership with\\nSimon P. Hughes, afterwards governor, and now a justice of\\nthis court, in the practice of law. Judge Smith continued the\\npractice of his profession at Clarendon until 1877, when he\\nremoved to Helena, where he remained until he was elected\\nan Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Arkansas in\\n1882. In the spring of 1888 a pulmonary disorder discov-\\nered itself, making it necessary for him to seek relief in rest\\nand travel. He made a resolute and manly struggle with his\\ndread antagonist, undertaking weary journeying, striving\\nvigorously\\nTo hold death awhile\\nAt the arm s end.\\nGallant as was his struggle, it was fruitless. To him\\nthe end was at hand, and finding himself mortally smitten in a\\ndistant State^ he came back to his home to die. Surrounded\\nby his family, ministered to by loving hands, without a mur-\\nmur, in full possession of his faculties, fully realizing that\\nthe supreme moment had arrived, he calmly bade the world\\nfarewell.\\nThus passed away a great jurist, and as clear souled and\\nclean handed a man as this age has produced. Great intel-\\nlectually, he was no less great morally and spiritually. ^fy", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0379.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "32S THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nacquaintance with him began in 1S78. To have known him\\nwas a privilege, and to have had his friendship I account one\\noi the most fortunate events of my career.\\nHe was an admirable practitioner, splendidly equipped\\nin the learning of his profession, studious, careful, painstak-\\ning, and the very soul of honor but it was as a judge, in the\\ndischarge of judicial functions, that his pre-eminence was so\\nmarked. It is said of poets they are born and not made. I\\nsometimes think it might with equal truth be said of judges.\\nThe profession knows that to be a good lawyer is one thing\\nand to be a good judge is another. Something more is\\nneeded. It is the judicial mind, and Judge Smith had that\\nto perfection. He had patience without limit, and although\\nhimself possessed of a quickness of apprehension which\\nenabled him to grasp the situation in a moment, he was always\\nwilling to listen to the humblest and dullest of us with a\\ncourtly attention which made it an absolute pleasure to\\nappear before him.\\nAs a judge in this court, I am sure I do but speak the\\nunanimous sentiment of the bar when I say, no one could be\\nmore thoroughly competent to discharge its high, delicate and\\nalways responsible duties.\\nWith great learning ever at hand and ready for the occa-\\nsion, whatever may have been its exigency, he was always\\nmost happy and felicitous in its application to the case under\\nconsideration.\\nAs for his judicial opinions, from the first to the last they\\nwere models. For purity of style, for clearness of thought,\\nfor felicity of illustration and vigor of expression they stand\\namong the finest of judicial deliverances. His mind was\\nclear, earnest and powerful, and all his faculties severely\\ndisciplined.\\nHis analytical and logical powers were remarkable.\\nThere was a delightful directness about all he said. He called\\nthings by their right names, and no man had to read twice to\\nascertain what he meant. There was, in addition, a simplicity\\nof expression which was always charmins He wasted no\\nAvords, but straightway went to the very core of things. This.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0380.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 329\\ncharacteristic directness and simplicity was lexemplified in\\none of his last earthly utterances. But a little while before\\nhis dissolution he was asked if he was conscious of his condi-\\ntion. His response came clearcut and direct, Yes, the end\\nis near. I am all right. That was all he said, and why\\nshould he not be all right V If this white-souled Christian\\ngentleman, who had been faithful to every trust, had dis-\\ncharged every duty, coidd not afford to die, who could\\nThe Psalmist asks Who shall ascend into the hill of\\nthe Lord and on answering seems almost to have had our\\ndead friend in view: Even he that hath clean hands and a\\npure heart and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity,\\nnor sworn to deceive his neighbor.\\nHe loved the truth for the truth s sake evenhanded\\njustice was what he sought, and to accomplish that no amount\\nof labor was too great, no extent of research too much. His\\nconvictions were always followed, and it never concerned him\\nhow his conclusions were received. He neither claimed nor\\nsought applause. Ilis was indeed a striking and unique\\njudicial personality. All his ambitions were centered on a\\nfaithful discharge of his duties. I have, if your honor pleases,\\nno hesitation in saying that nearly as any one I ever knew\\nhe filled the measure of a perfect judge. With abilities of a\\ncharacter to have commanded attention at any time or place,\\nhe never sought distinction in the political world, nor was he\\never induced to seek any of its glittering prizes, because he\\nloved the law.\\nHe was, under all circumstances, a gentleman. T^o man\\nmore scrupulously observed those courtesies and amenities\\nwhich do so much to soften and beautify life. No man\\nendeavored more earnestly to fulfill all the duties of society\\nas they came to him, and a truer friend or one more willing\\nto oblige could not be found.\\nHe despised sham, cant and hypocrisy, and was as open\\nas the day, being, indeed, an Israelite in whom there was\\nno guile. His life was blameless as became a devoted riiris-\\ntian, for such he was. He believed iiii])Hcitly in the truth", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0381.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "330 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nof our liolj religion, lived accordingly, and could well say\\nat the end, I am all right.\\nWe have laid away in his last resting place our distin-\\nguished and lamented friend, whither he went in the full faith\\nand belief of a blessed resurrection. A stately and beautiful\\ncolumn of the State has fallen. This court can no longer\\nprofit by his wise and judicious counsel. His family, always\\nso precious to him, is deprived of his protection and aifection.\\nBut, if your honors please, we have this consolation We\\nhave left the recollection of a life full of purity, exalted\\nabilities and duty performed. We have this remembrance.\\nLet us cherish that\\nTor memory is the only friend\\nThat grief can call her own.\\nPursuant, therefore, to the request of my brethren, I\\nno^^ present these resolutions.\\nMr. Caruth then read the resolutions adopted by the bar\\nof the Supreme Court, which may be found on pages 36-39\\ninclusive, in the same volume of reports.\\nIn Church, as well as State, this Warden was the pillar\\nin the temple, whose top was finished with lily work, the\\nname of which was Boaz In it is strength.\\nMR. JOHA WATTS GOODWIIT.\\nA. D. 1831-1893. Mr. John Wath Goodwin, who had\\nfor some time served as treasurer of Christ Church, was elected\\nJunior Warden in 1893. The death of Major John D.\\nAdams, whose office of Senior Warden devolved upon Dr.\\nW. A. Cantrell, occasioned a vacancy in the office of Junior\\nWarden. This has been filled by Mr. Goodwin during the\\npast seven years. He was born in l^elson County, Va.,\\nAugust 6, 1831; was confirmed in 1849 in the Chapel of", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0382.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 331\\nJubilee College, Illinois, by Bishop Chase, and was married\\nOctober 25, 1870, at Early Grove, Miss., by Rev. W. K.\\nPonglass, to Elizabeth Eose Bailey, who was born August 5,\\n1839, in Fayette County, Tenn. She was the daughter of\\nDr. Isham G. and Susan Bird (Smith) Bailey. By occu-\\npation Mr. Goodwin was a merchant, and later the treasurer\\nof the Little Bock and Memphis Railroad. Since 1887 he\\nhas resided in Little Rock. The children of Mr. and Mrs.\\nGoodwin are\\n(1) John Bailey, (2) William, and (3) Bessie.\\nMr. Goodwin s grandfather and great-grandfather were\\nboth in the Continental Army. He is the descendant in the\\nsixth generation from IMajor James Goodwin, who came over\\nfrom England and settled near Yorktown, Va., about the\\nmiddle of the seventeenth century, in the following line\\nSon of James DosweJJ Good ir hi. who died June, 1869, in\\nMemphis, Tenn., and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery. His\\nwife was Catherine (Watts) Goodwin, wdio died January 27,\\n1851, in Ralls County, Mo., and is buried near Hydesburg,\\nMo. Their children are\\n1. Marie Louise Born October 6, 1826; married\\nLeroy P. Stewart.\\n2. Jolut Watts Born August 6, 1831; married Eliza-\\nbeth Rose Bailey.\\n3. Tirginia Ella Born January 31, 1843; married\\nCharles T. Hodges.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a01. James Overton Born Juno 14, 1846; died July,\\n1876; unmarried.\\n5. Mary Catherine Born May 27, 1849; died July,\\n1860; unmarried, and three others who died in infancy.\\nMr. Goodwin s grandfather was Thomas Goodirin born\\nMay 25, 1765, in Hanover County, Va. was married in 1789", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0383.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "332 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nto Temperance Harris, who was born also in Hanover County.\\nShe was the daughter of Overton and Ann (Xelson) Harris.\\nHe was a farmer, and in religion a Baptist. They resided in\\niS^elson County.\\nThomas Goodwin served an unfinished term of enlist-\\nment for his father in the Continental Army, and was a Revo-\\nlutionary j)ensioner. He died in I^elson County, Va., April,\\n1838.\\nGreat-grandfather, John Goodwin; born iiovember IT,\\n1735, in York County, Va. married to Elizabeth Doswell\\nborn 1743, a daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Drummond)\\nDoswell she, a daughter of a son of William Drummond,\\ngovernor of the Carolinas.\\nGreat great-grandfather, James Goodivin born in York-\\nHampton parish, York County, Va. was married first, to\\nDiana Chisman born October 12, 1715; a daughter of John\\nand Eleanor (Howard) Chisman.\\nGreat great great-grandfather, Peter Goodivin, was mar-\\nried before 1607 to Rebecca Tiplady, a daughter of Captain\\nJohn Tiplady, Justice of the Peace for York County, and son\\nof John and Ruth Beale Tiplady.\\nMAJOR JAMES GOODWIX.\\nMajor James Goodwin, the head of the family, married,\\nfirst, Rachel of York County, Va., whose tomb-\\nstone on Back Creek, says, that she was born in 1G30, and died\\n]\\\\ray 23, 1G60, leaving, as it states, by Major Goodwin five\\nsons and two daughters, viz\\n1. Robert married Anne\\n2. J oil II married Elizabeth ]\\\\[oore.\\n3. Peter; married Rel)ecca Tiplady.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0384.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0385.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "REV. JOHN GASS.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0386.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 333\\n4. Matthew.\\n5. Martin married Barbara\\n6. Susannah married Duke.\\n7. Elizabeth married Blinkhorn.\\nThough none, perhaps, phice a higher estimate on the\\nvalue of an lionorable ancestry than does Mr. Goodwin^ he\\nis yet entirely exempt from the charge of resting on that for\\nhis advancement in life.\\nWho serves his country well has no need of ancestors,\\nand in every charge of life Mr. Goodwin has endeavored so to\\nperform his duty that he may leave the matchless legacy of a\\ngood name to those who come after him, rather than to look\\nbackward to those who went before for support. On his\\nown merits he has won the esteem and confidence of the com-\\nmunity and the Episcopal congregation.\\nREV JOHN GASS.\\nA. D. 1894. Eev. John Gass succeeded the Rev. Wal-\\nlace Carnahan, as Rector of Christ Church, having arrived at\\nLittle Rock, October 4, 1894. The newspaper chronicled the\\nevent thus\\nSunday morning (October 9) at Christ Church a cordial\\nand flattering reception was accorded the new Rector, Rev.\\nJohn Gass, who recently came hither from Charleston, S. C.\\nThe distinguished young divine made his first appearance in\\nthis city before a very large representation of T^ittle Rock s\\nbest people, all of whom were favorably impressed with him.\\nHe took his text at the Sunday morning service from Exodus.\\niv, 2 ^\\\\nd the Tord said unto him. What is in thine hand\\nAnd he answered, a rod.\\nThe eloquent young Rector s discourse was assuredly a\\nsplendid introduction of his force, intellect and capability to", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0387.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "334 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nthe people of this city. He is one of the youngest divines\\nin the country, yet he ranks with those much older than he is.\\nHe speaks without notes, and with a voice resonant and clear.\\nWhen fairly inducted in the various duties of his well-\\norganized charge he began to establish what he deemed of first\\nimportance, namely, a school for CUiurch girls. As doubts\\nwere felt and expressed as to the healthfulness of underground\\n({uarters for all-day sessions, and, as the patronage did not\\njustify the expense of renting rooms in a more appropriate\\nlocality, the school was suspended after one year s experiment.\\nA. D. 1896. On Monday, October 5, 1896, Mr. Gass\\nopened a Bible class for ladies, with thirty-three members,\\nand also one later for gentlemen. The first lived to be the\\nmost vigorous arm of his consecrated service, the other became\\nmerged in the order already estatblished by Rev. John E. H.\\nGalbraith, the Brotherhood of St. xlndrew. The Bible class\\ndid more towards promoting the spiritual grow^th of the parish\\nthan any other means employed during Mr. Gass s Rectorship.\\nTaking Blakeslee Graded Lessons wdth written questions\\nand answers, as a Bible study manual, he enlarged and ex-\\npounded on each lesson with the lore he had accumulated by\\ndiligent study, in such clear style and with such winning\\nfriendliness that none ever went from the weekly meeting\\nwithout being edified and strengthened to meet the demands of\\nlife. It seemed a marvelous thing to see fifty or more wives,\\nmothers, grandmothers, and maidens seated in rows before him\\nin the Sunday School room, with written answers carefully\\nprepared, eagerly seeking instruction as it fell from the gra-\\ncious lips of this gentle teacher. The good did not stop there.\\nHis familiarity with Scripture, obtained thus in constant\\nstudy, brightened his discourses, like a thread of gold in a\\ntexture of fine cloth, and his hearers were sent back to the", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0388.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 335\\nfield of the world, armed with the sword of the spirit which\\nis the Word of God.\\nA. D. 1895. In October, 1895, the Rector issued the\\nfirst number of a parish paper, under the ausj^ices of the\\nChrist Church Chapter of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew,\\nThe initial page is here given\\nOUR PARISH.\\nVOL. 1. LITTLE ROCK^ ARK.^ OCTOBEK^ 1895. NO. 1.\\nCHRIST CHURCH.\\nSoutheast corner Fifth and Scott streets.\\nRev. John Gass, Rector.\\nRectory, 509 Scott street.\\nVESTRY AND OFFICERS.\\nDr. W. A. Cantrell Senior Warden.\\nJno. W. Goodwin Junior Warden.\\nH. K. Cochran Treasurer,\\nW. H. Ragland Secretary,\\nSam B. Adams, W. F. Wright, J. H. Ilaney, A. A,\\nRutland, J. M. Bracey, J. A. Van Etten, Gordon Peay,\\nSERVICES.\\nMorning Prayer Sermon 11 a. m.\\nm.\\nEvening Prayer and Sermon 7 :30 p\\nHoly Communion, first Sunday 11 a. m\\nThird Sunday at Y :30 a. m", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0389.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "336 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nSUNDAY SCHOOL.\\n9 :30 a. m. Rev. John Gass, Superintendent E. H.\\nTobey, Assistant; A. H. ISTewton, Secretary and Treasurer;\\nHerbert Wassell, Librarian Miss Irene Baird, Pianist Miss\\nHattie Cowpland, Violinist.\\nMISSIONS.\\nJ. J. Huntley, Superintendent.\\nSt. John s southeast corner Second and Rector avenue.\\nAlbert Wassell, Assistant Superintendent.\\nSt. Paul s, Eleventh, between Rin2;o and Cross.\\nMr. Dunlap, Assistant Superintendent.\\nJ. M. Bracey, Bible Class Leader.\\nSt. Luke s, Argenta.\\nHerbert Wassell, Assistant Superintendent.\\nSOCIETIES OF THE PARISH.\\nBROTHERHOOD OF ST. ANDREW.\\nE. H. Tobey Director.\\nAlbert Wassell Secretary.\\nJ. M. Bracev Treasurer.\\nLADIES AID SOCIETY.\\nMrs. Thos. J. Dari agh President.\\nMrs. Emma S. Lawson Vice President.\\nMiss Sophia Crease Secretary.\\nMrs. T. J. Dill Financial Secretary.\\nMrs. G. S. Brack Treasurer.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0390.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 337\\nDAUGHTERS OF THE KIKG.\\nMrs. John Gass Directress.\\nMiss Rose Miller Assistant Directress.\\nMiss Caroline Peaj Secretary and Treasurer.\\nTHE WOMAN S AUXILIARY,\\nMrs. Catherine Skipwith Vice President.\\nMrs. John Gass Recording Secretary.\\nMrs. R. J. Polk Corresponding Secretary.\\nMrs. W. H. Ragland Treasurer.\\nCHANCEL GUILD.\\nMrs. G. W. Sappington President.\\nMiss Matilda Jordan Secretary and Treasurer.\\nA. D. 1896. The Missionary Society had been doing\\nsplendid work in the parish under the direction of the\\nformer Rector, Rev. Wallace Carnahan, and his successor\\nemulated his zeal in the furtherance of the devoted object of\\nhis life. At the tAventy-fourth annual council of the Episco-\\npal Church in Arkansas, which was convened in Trinity\\nCathedral May 8, 1896, the Bishop, Rt. Rev. Henry Xiles\\nPierce, reported the establislnnent in the Diocese of a branch\\nof the Woman s Auxiliary to the Board of Missions, with\\nMrs. John Gass, Diocesan Secretary, under the direction of\\nthe general secretary, Miss Julia C. Emery, at the Church\\nMissions House, ]^ew York, a woman whose inspiring zeal\\nand wise administration have greatly stimulated the interest\\nand enthusiasm of the Church in Arkansas on the subject of", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0391.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "338 THE ANNALS OP CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\ndomestic and foreign missions. Through the officers of the\\nseveral branches she has transmitted much missionary litera-\\nture and statistics that have greatly enlarged the survey of\\nmissionary fields.\\nMr. Gass was the first Rector to introduce a vested choir\\nof boys. These were supported by a double quartette of\\nadults. On Easter Day, April 14, 1895, with Mr. R. Jeffer-\\nson Hall, as organist and choirmastQl the following\\nmembers marched from the Vestryroom across the Chan-\\ncel to the main aisle and from thence to the choir stalls\\nin the south transept: Henry Gass, Elbert Brack, Gott-\\nlieb Brack, Maurice Cowpland, Fletcher Kimball, Edwin\\nScott, Lovell Bay, Robert Johnson, Tim Allan Smith,\\nCorydon Wassell, Cruger Smith, Jesse Dill, Mack Whiting,\\nCharles Lawson, Will Skidmore, and Charles Polk. They\\ntook the front seats of the choir, those in the rear being already\\noccupied by Mesdames Hall, Bailey, Cochran, Davis Misses\\nEield, Bobbins, Lawson, Bell, Heath, Parliam, Woodruff,\\nPerry, Goodrich Messrs. C. P. Harnwell, Walter Polk, J. L.\\nHornibrook, Louis Dodge, Birkett, Leonard H. Camp. T.\\nMc K. White, Harry J. Hall, Dunaway, and Armistead, in\\nall forty choir members. A brilliant programme of music\\nwas rendered.\\nThe Easter offering for Church debt was $1,350, the\\nSunday School offering not included.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0392.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 339\\nLIST OF CONTRIBUTOliiS TOWAKD THE PAY-\\nMENT OF THE DEBT ON CHRIST CHURCH,\\nLITTLE ROCK, ARK, 1896.\\nThe Vestry of Christ Church, Little Rock, issue an\\nannual statement of the Easter Offerings for the Church deht.\\nThe following sums were given on Easter, 1896\\nWhen the whole debt shall have been paid, a statement\\nwill be printed showing the total amount received from each\\ncontributor toward the building of the Church and the pay-\\nment of the debt\\nEASTER OFFERING^ 1896.\\nAdams, Mr. John A 10.00\\nAdams, Mrs. Elvira 25.00\\nAdams, Mr. and Mrs. S. B 5.00\\nAdams, Mr. C. S 5.00\\nAdams, Mr. J. D 5.00\\nAdamson, Mrs. J. S 4.00\\nAugspath, Mrs 4.00\\nArmistead, General H. B 5.00\\nAlley, Fannie 25\\nAllen, Mrs. A. D 5.00\\nBarclay, Mrs. Sue 1.50\\nBond, Mr. J. B., Jr 2.00\\nBovle, Jno. F 5.00\\nBrack, Mr. and Mrs. G. S 20.00\\nBlocher, Mrs. Jesse 1.50\\nBuchard, Mr. Geo. F 25.00\\nBond, Mrs. S. P 3.00\\nBlackwood, Mrs. J. \\\\Y 1 0.00\\nBracey, Mr. J. M 10.00\\nBailey, Mr. N. Y 5.00\\nBateman, Mr. U. C 5.00\\nBurkett, Mr. R. L 1.00\\nBentley, Mrs. E 5.00", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0393.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "340 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nButler, Mr. C. M 10.00\\nBunch, Mr. T. H 15.00\\nBrack, Miss Imogene 2.00\\nBrack, Elbert 1.00\\nBrack, G. S., Jr 1.00\\nBrack, Clifton L 1.00\\nBrodie, Mr. John 10.00\\nButler, Mr. Robt 1.00\\nBernays, Mr. Louis C 2.00\\nCantrell, Miss Bessie 5.00\\nCantrell, Dr. G. M. D 5.00\\nCantrell, Mr. D. H 5.00\\nCantrell, Dr. W. A 10.00\\nCarroll, Miss Fannie 5.00\\nCarroll, Miss Susie 5.00\\nCalef, Mr. J. B 10.00\\nCarroll, Mr. Gray 10.00\\nCunningham, Miss Kate 5.00\\nChurchill, Miss Juliette 1.00\\nClements, Miss Jennie 15.00\\nCochran, Mr. and Mrs. H. K 20.00\\nChurch, Mrs. P. K 5.00\\nCoffman, Mr. C. T 5.00\\nCompton, W. A 10.00\\nCasper, J. E. L 5.00\\nCherry, Mr. and Mrs. L. W 10.00\\nCrease, Miss A. S 5.00\\nCockrill, S. R 25.00\\nCurtis, Mr. Zay B 2.00\\nCowpland, Mr. J. B 25.00\\nCohen, Mrs. C. S 5.00\\nCarrol], Mrs. C. E 2.00\\nCarroll, Mr. Casey 5.00\\nCockrill, Mr. Ashley 5.00\\nDaughters of King 20.00\\nDaughters of King 80.62\\nDibrell, Mrs. J. A 10.00\\nDunklin, Mrs. W. J 3.00", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0394.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 341\\nDeshon, Mrs. E. A 3.00\\nDarragli, Captain T. J 25.00\\nDenie, Mr. M. R :i.50\\nJ)avis, iJorothy 1.00\\nEdwards, A. B 5.00\\nEberts, H. F. H 10.00\\nFox, Mrs. A. II 5.00\\nFox, Miss Gertie 2.00\\nFowler, Chas. F 10.00\\nFletcher, Mr. F. M 1 0.00\\nFletcher, Mr. John G 25.00\\nFrench, Mr. Ross 1.00\\nGalloway, Mr. D. F. S 5.00\\nGoodwin, Mr. John W 26.25\\nGass, Rev. John 10.00\\nGass, Mrs. John 5.00\\nGriffith, Mrs. S. L 10.00\\nGoodrich, Colonel R. L 25.00\\nGoodwin, Miss Bessie 5.00\\nGoodwin, John B 5.00\\nGress, Mrs. R. B 10.00\\nGress, Elizabeth 50\\nHammond, Miss Alice 1.50\\nHutt, Mrs. F. E 5.00\\nIlntton, W. P 2.50\\nITennegin, Miss 5.00\\nJlempstead, Mr. Far 5.00\\nHollenberg, Mr. F. B. T 10.00\\nITnnter, Mr. A. J 5.00\\nHodges, John P .00\\nHarrington, Jas 2.00\\nHarbey, Mr. J. E 5.00\\nHamilton, Robt 2.50\\nJenkins, Mr. W. E 2.00\\nJabine, Mrs. John 10.00\\nJohnson, M. H 10.00\\nJordan, Miss Matilda 5.00\\nJennings, Dr. R. G 1 0.00\\n23", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0395.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "342 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nJohnston, A. H., and daughter 50\\nJohnson, T. T 2.50\\nJohnson, Francis 5.00\\nJohnson, Mr. and Mrs. H. P 15.00\\nJennings, Dr. Ches 5.00\\nJones, Mr. H. C 10.00\\nKendrick, Mr. Jos 15.00\\nKramer^ Miss Emma 15.00\\nKramer, Fred, Jr 5.00\\nKramer, Mr. C. J 10.00\\nKnights Templar 6.25\\nKirkwood, Mr. John 5.00\\nKirkwood, Mr. and Mrs. T. C 3.00\\nLeslie, Mrs. A 2.50\\nLawson, Mrs. E. A 5.00\\nLow, Mrs. Geo. J 5.00\\nLeland, Mr. E. W 10.00\\nLee, Mrs. G. H 10.00\\nLange, Mrs. A 8.00\\nLadies Aid 2.00\\nLenow, Dr. J. H 5.00\\nLadies Aid 51.20\\nLewis, Mrs. C. H 2.00\\nMorye, Mr. C. T 5.00\\nMayer, Mr. Max 2.00\\nMcKay, D. A 5.00\\nMartin, Joe 1.00\\nMiller, Mrs. J. K 25.00\\nMiller, Marguerite 25.00\\nMiller, Wiley B 25.00\\nMiller, J. R. 25.00\\nMiller, Miss Rosa 10.00\\nMiller, Miss Amelia 1 5.00\\nMeshon, Mr. Jeff 5.00\\nMitchell, Mr. John A 25.00\\nMartin, Mrs. Fred 5.00\\nMatthews, Mrs. L. B 2.00\\nIForrison, Jennie 2.00", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0396.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 343\\nMatthews, L. and E 50\\nMorrison, Mr. H. W 10.00\\nMartin, Mrs. K. W 10.00\\nMiscellaneous cash 112.74\\njSTeiley, J. B., and wife 5.00\\nNorton, S. A 2.00\\nO Connell, Miss Fannie 5.00\\nPerrie, C. T 2.50\\nPowell, W. J 2.50\\nPolk, Mrs. L. G 5.00\\nPolk, R. J 5.00\\nPolk, Eugene 5.00\\nParkins, Mrs. S. 2.50\\nPillow, R. J 10.00\\nPierce, Mrs. H. N 5.00\\nParham, Major R. H 10.00\\nPaine, Mrs. Oscar 2.00\\nPillow, Mrs. R. G 2.50\\nPolk, R. W 5.00\\nPenzel, Chas. F 25.00\\nPevton, Mrs. C 5.00\\nPeay, G. N 10.00\\nPeay, Mrs. J. C 5.00\\nRather, Mrs. H. C 5.00\\nRutland, Mr. and Mrs. A. A 25.00\\nRickon, F. J. H 2.50\\nReyburn, Sam 5.00\\nRagland, Mr. W. H 25.00\\nRead, Mrs. Julia 5.00\\nScott, Miss Fannie 5.00\\nSpeed, ]\\\\rrs. J. S 5,00\\nSholars, Dr. A. B 10.00\\nSmith, R. E 2.00\\nSayle, Mrs. C. H 5.00\\nSouthall, Dr. J. H 10.00\\nSannoner, J. H 5.00\\nSpears, Miss Annie 2.00\\nSannoner, Mrs. M. L 1.00", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0397.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "344 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nSkipwitli, Mrs. K 10.00\\nSappington, Mrs. W. A 10.00\\nSundholm, Mr. Aug 5.00\\nSterling, Mrs. B. B 2.00\\nSmothers, Mr. L. S 1.00\\nShall, Miss L. S 25.00\\nSheltz, Mrs. M. A 50\\nThien, Mrs. C. E 1.00\\nTaylor, Dr. C. M 25.00\\nTucker, Mrs. Jennie 2.50\\nTunnah, J. K 5.00\\nVan Etten, Mr. J. A 25.00\\nVan Etten, Mrs. G. H 20.00\\nWhite, Juliette B .85\\nWing, Mrs. CM 5.00\\nWorthen, W. B 50.00\\nWoodcock, F 5.00\\nWassell, Mr. A 5.00\\nWhittemore, Mr. C. H 10.00\\nWright, Morehead 5.00\\nWright, Captain W. F 10.00\\n-Williams, Mr. Is al 5.00\\nWassell, Herbert 10.00\\nZimmerman, J. V., and wife 7.50\\nTotal $1,778.16\\nA. D. 1897. Two years later Professor R. Jefferson\\nHall conducted the Easter Services, with the following sub-\\njoined programme:\\nEaster Sunday services at Christ Church to-day will be\\ninaugurated at 7 :30 a. m. with a celebration of the Holy Com-\\nmunion. There will be morning prayer Math sermon and\\ncelebration at 11 a. m., Simday School festival at 3 p. m.,\\nand evening prayer and song service at 8 p. m. The choir\\nM ill be composed of the following singers\\nBoys John Gass, Ji-., Henry Gass, Jack Mitchell,", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0398.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 345\\nJamie Abbott, Thos. Howard, Hal Cochran, Oscar Scliaad,\\nFrank Mitchell, Sam Cochran, Randolph Newton, Cleni\\nSchaer, John Foulkes, Percy Skirving, Joe Kennedy, Allie\\nHemming, Gordon Blackwood, Gottlieb Brack, Chas. Lawson,\\nElbert Brack, Will Skidmore.\\nMen Messrs. Robertson, Brantley, Waters, Berbig,\\nMartin, Whiting, Schaer, Lescher, Wilson, McGee, Field,\\nHornibrook.\\nLadies Mrs. Hall, Misses Bell, Smith, Lawson, Ward,\\nJohnson, Pickering, Carlisle, Deane, Freeman, Brack, and\\nMrs. McGee.\\nMr. Gass was a pleasant speaker, and delivered some in-\\nteresting lectures, representing the Association of Pastors of\\nthe several denominations in the city, and the Young Men s\\nChristian Association.\\nOne of his sermons that he deemed worthy of preserva-\\ntion in the form of a small printed pamphlet is here inserted\\nSERMON PREACHED BY REV. JOHN GASS IN\\nCHRIST CHURCLI, LITTLE ROC^K, ARK.,\\nTRINITY SUNDAY, LS05.\\nIn the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the\\nHoly Spirit. Matthew xxviii 19.\\nTo-day is Trinity Sunday. It is the completion of the\\nChristian year. All that has gone before looked forward to\\nthis truth all that is to follow will be drawn from it. The\\none purpose of the life and work of Jesus Christ was to reveal,\\nto make known the Father. Advent was the heralding of\\nthe cry, Behold I He cometh Christmas was the incarnation\\nof the Son of God. Then we beheld the life of the God-man\\nin all its sympathy and helpfulness. Good Friday we saw\\nthe Lamb of God offering Himself for the sins of the world.\\nEaster was LTis glorious victorv over sin and donth. Then", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0399.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "346 THE ANNALS OP CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nWhitsunday was the giving of the Promise, the coming of the\\nSpirit to guide us to God, to teach us the truth of God in\\nJesus Christ. So to-day we stand at the very height and\\nlimit of Christian knowledge the Being of God The pur-\\npose of all Christian effort is to attain the vision of God, to be\\nlike God, so to-day we contemplate the end of our life the\\nBeing of God What a profound thought When the\\nProphet Isaiah had the vision of the Lord, he said, Woe is\\nme for I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips, and\\nI dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips for mine eyes\\nhave seen the King, the Lord of Hosts. When the beloved\\nJohn beheld his ascended Lord in glory he fell at his feet as\\none dead. What shall we do Pray to the Holy Spirit to\\nmake pure our hearts that we may see God. Xow, before\\ngoing on, let me make a few remarks as helps and safeguards\\nagainst error.\\n(1.) The Trinity is not a doctrine about God that we\\nmust accept in order to be saved. It is not a theory about\\nGod that the Church or the clergy have formulated to force\\nupon the laity. Sometimes I think persons in the pews think\\nthis. It is not necessary for salvation to accept any theory\\nof the Trinity, The Trinity is not a doctrine even that Jesus\\nChrist taught. The Trinity is a fact existing from all\\neternity. So the Trinity is not a doctrine about God, but\\nthe revelation of the Being of God. (2.) The Trinity is not\\nn problem in heavenly arithmetic. Daniel Webster was once\\nasked if he could explain the Trinity. He replied How\\ncan you expect me to understand the arithmetic of heaven,\\nwhere three are equal to one and one to three The mathe-\\nmatics of heaven are the same as that of earth. The Trinity\\nhas not been revealed as a problem to worry, to puzzle us,\\nand to make demands upon our credulity. (3.) The Trinity\\nis not irrational. It is not a doctrine we must accept in blind\\nfaith, feeling all the time a revolt and protest in our minds\\nagainst it. If it is a question between our reason and any\\ntheory of the Trinity, then we had better give up the theorv,\\nbecause reason is the highest, divinest part of us, and to be\\nuntrue to it, is to be untrue to ourselves. But haiijiily there", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0400.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 347\\nis no such question. (4.) We must be humble. We are\\nfinite, God is infinite we are limited, God is illimitable we\\nare sinful, God is holy. We cannot expect to know all of\\nGod. We do not know about the eternal existence of God\\nbefore time and creation and therefore cannot speculate about,\\nor try to define it.* The Trinity is not a complete definition\\nof God, it is the revelation of God to our finite understanding\\n(IS He is to us. Let us be willing to confess, now we sec in\\na mirror, darkly but then face to face now I know in part,\\nbut then I shall know even as also I have been known.\\nISTow: (1.) We confess the unity of God. The\\nC^hristian religion springs from the stock of the Jewish relig-\\nion. It changes none of the truths of that belief, but takes\\nthem up, brings them into clearer light and fulfills them. The\\nJews were witnesses in history to the oneness of God. Their\\nfirst and greatest commandment was, I am the Lord, th} God,\\nthou shalt have none other Gods but Me. Hear, O\\nIsrael, the Lord thy God is one God. The N ew^ Testament\\nnever speaks of but one God. One God and Father of us\\nall. The unity of God is the very foundation of the Chris-\\ntian religion. We confess the oneness of God as strongly as\\nany. We are unitarians not tritheists monotheists not poly-\\ntheists. Now in the unity of the Godhead Ave say there are\\nthree Persons. The cause of all the confusion, de1)ate and\\nschism has been the word, Person. I think it would hv well\\nto change the word and to substitute another in its place. The\\nmost orthodox of theologians, Calvin, once said the same. It\\nis an indefinite word. It gives cause for misunderstanding.\\nIt does not mean the same thing in theology as in common\\nspeech and the people always give to its theological use their\\nmeaning. The early teachers of our religion, when they\\nused the words three persons, did not mean by the word\\n*We only know God as revealed to us in His relation to u-^. Wo cannot trv to\\nexplain hoir Qod existed hefoj-e this. There are certain st-iteim^nts that the Word\\nor Jesus or the Son was before all thinsrs, was with Gxi, was ti d\u00e2\u0080\u0094 had the Glory of\\nthe Father hefore the world was\u00e2\u0080\u0094 is the imaare of the invisible Gid, the first -born of\\nall creation. -John I, 1,3: John XVU. 5: Col. I. 15. But from these we cannot con-\\nstruct any doctrine of the eternal Trinity before time.\\nThe name of the Holy Trinity expre.sses all that has been made known to us of\\nthe relation of the Godhead to ourselves as we are created, redeemed, sanctified.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0401.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "348 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nperson what we now mean. Person with ns signifies wiU.\\nYon cannot conceive of personality withont wilL It is the\\nvery center and core of the person. Take any three persons\\nyou know, A, B, and C, they signify three separate, distinct\\npersons, because of their three separate, distinct wills. ISTow\\nthis has been applied rigidly to the Godhead in many theologi-\\ncal books, and to-day it is the popular conception of God. God\\nthe Father with one will^ God the Son with another will. God\\nthe Holy Spirit with still another will.\\nThe will of God the Father is opposed in anger to the\\nman the will of God the Son is moved with love to man and\\nHe reconciles the will of the Father the will of the Holy\\nSpirit in a mysterious, miraculous way works upon the wills\\nof men. So we have really three Gods. TJnitarianism was\\nthe righteous protest against this mechanical theory of God\\nand has resulted in much good. Xow in truth there is but\\none will in the Godhead and in this sense really but one Per-\\nson the will of the Father^ manifested by the Son, energized\\nby the Holy Spirit. According to the ancient teaching God\\ni;:- one in essence but threefold in operation Father, Son, and\\nHoly Spirit.\\n(a.) God is the Father. God is the source from which\\nall things come, as the fountain from which all life pours is\\nthe Father. God, the Great I Am of existence, the eternal\\nfirst cause God in the primeval essence of His Being, is the\\nFather. We do not know all of God, up in the heio:hts we\\ncannot scale, back in the infinite distances we cannot see, God\\nis the Father. The infinite, eternal energy behind all\\nthings, is God the Father. God whom no man hath seen\\nnor can see is the Father.\\n(h.) God is the Son. But God is not self-contained,\\nthe fountain of life is not always shut up. Ever from all\\neternity God has been and is manifesting, revealing Himself,\\never the fountain ha? been and is sending forth its life. That\\nwhich comes from and is begotten of God is the Son. The\\nSon is God manifesting Himself, speaking out in phenomena\\nand fact. God in revealing Hiniself has revealed Himself\\nperfectly in the man Jesus Christ. In him dwelleth the", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0402.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 349\\nGodhead bodilj-. *God was in Christ revealing lliTnself\\nunto the world. Therefore we call Jesus Christ the Son of\\nGod. (Compare John 1, i, 10; Colossians I, xv, 21.)\\nGod is the Holy Spirit. But once more God\\nhas not left the world. lie did not make the world and then\\nleave it alone as a mechanic will leave his work. He is living,\\nworking, energizing in the world. He is an immanent God.\\nWhat is tlie power in human history always turning and shap-\\ning it strangely upward, onward What is the influence\\nin human lives, speaking to conscience, stirring up from sloth\\nand sin, arousing to action, quickening into life, producing\\nholiness i This power, this influence, is the Holy Spirit of\\nGod. The personality of the Holy Spirit is the personality\\nof God producing holiness, righteousness, in the world. And\\nthis God is indeed the same God who is beyond and above all\\nas the Father and throngh all as the Son. (Compare John\\nxiv, 26; Romans v, 5; Komans xiv, 17; xv, 13, etc.)\\nTo gather up our truth in a few words (1.) There is\\nGod above all, the Source from which all things come tliis is\\nGod the Father. (2.) Then there is God manifested through\\nthe world, through nature, tlirough human life, sujiremely\\nthrough Jesus Christ; this is God the Son. (8.) And then\\nthere is God energizing in human history, living in hmnan\\nlife; this is God the Holy Spirit one God and Father of\\nall, who is over all, and through all and in all. The Father\\nis the Life Transcendent, the Divine Source o^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0( r uJ/: The\\nSon is the Life, the Divine Stream tlirough dJL The Holy\\nSpirit is the Divine Inflow into the individual consciousness,\\ngiviiig inspiration to the conscience of each separate cliild of\\nthe Father of all m a//.\\nNow, brethren, is all this theory and idle sjiecnlation I\\nFor what good Let us see: What is the flrst serious\\n(picstion that comes to the human mind I Is it not this,\\n*This note is written for any theoloerianinto whose hands this sermon may come\\nThis may be said to be Sabellianism. Accordina; to that heresy the Son and .Sjiirit\\nwere but transient, t^-mporary modes assumed by God for a purpose: as soon as that\\npurpose was accomplislied these modes of )iein j were discarded. But in the above,\\nFather, Son and Holy Spirit are eterntil oT crators of the one God. God is not in ab-\\nstract unit, but a livintr Beina: with absohite relations to all that is the.se relations\\nare Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Father is God above us, the Son is God with\\nus, the Holy Spirit is God in us.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0403.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "350 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nWhat is the power back, Ijehiiid all things, at the very heart of\\nthe Universe, from which all things come, to which they go\\nIs it blind fate Varying Chance i Eternal force Is there\\nany power at all i Ever the mind goes seeking, searching to\\nfind the secret. There is no rest until it is found. Tell me\\nthy name. The Trinity declares that above and behind all\\nthings and life as the source from which they come, as the end\\nto which they move, is the Eatherhood of God. Back in the\\nveiled, mysterious infinity, forward in the unsolved future\\nthere is nothing that can hurt us because the Fatherhood fills\\nit. (6.) The second question is this: As we look out\\nover the world with its light and darkness, its good and evil,\\nits beauty and ugliness, we ask, who made it Is there\\ndualism Did the powers of good and evil unite to create it\\nIs the Devil equal to God as the builder The Trinity\\ndeclares it is begotten of God. The power that governs the\\nw^orld, the life that fills the world, is the Son of God. The\\nworld is from God. Hope on. Work on. God shall be\\nall in all. (c.) The last question is, as we look out on the\\nceaseless, selfish strife between man, the dark social problems,\\nsin and wrong so strong in human lives, we ask, Is there any\\nhigher power with man Where is God The Trinity\\ndeclares that the Holy Spirit of God is present in the history\\nand life of man at work, energizing, agonizing, and will give\\nvictory to truth and righteousness and will lead men on to the\\nperfect knowledge of God. Oh fellow-men, the truth of all\\ntruths for the world, for mankind, for us, is the Trinity. God\\nabove us as the Father, God ivith us as the sharer of our life,\\nthe bearer of our woes, the partner of our struggles, our\\nBrother God in us as our Life, our Conscience, our strength\\nthe voice of our prayers. Indeed if the Trinity is not in\\nthe Bible it ought to be.\\nTeach us to know the Father, Son,\\nAnd Thee of both to be but one\\nThat through the ages all along\\nThis may be our endless song\\nPraise to Thy eternal merit\\nFather, Son and Holy Spirit.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0404.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 351\\nA. D. 1896-1898. At the twenty-fourtli annual of the\\nEpiscopal Cliurcli of Arkansas, which convened at Trinity\\nCathedral, Little Rock, May 7, 1896, Rt Rev. H. N. Pierce\\nrecommended the election of a Coadjutor. Rev, John Gass,\\nDean of the Little Rock Convocation, chairman of the stand-\\ning committee, and chairman of trustees of the University of\\nthe South, and Rev. C. H. Lockwood, of St. John s Church,\\nHelena, Dean of the Helena Convocation, chairman of thf\\nboard of managers of the parochial paper, were prominently\\nmentioned for the jDlace, also the Very Rev. Wm. Montgomery\\nBrown, Archdeacon of the ])iocese of Ohio. There ^vas no\\nelection.\\nAt a special session of the Diocesan Council, which met\\nat Trinity C^athedral December 1, 1897, the last mentioned\\ndignitary was elected, and the majority of the standing com-\\nmittee of the American Episcopal Church signified to the\\ncommittee of this Diocese on April 5, 1898, their consent to\\nthe consecration of Archdeacon William M. Brown to be\\nBishop-Coadjutor of Arkansas. From the House of Bisliops\\nthere came to Archdeacon Brown at Cleveland, Ohio, on June\\n3, 1898, the following telegram:\\nMajority of Bishops consent received to-dav.\\n(Signed.) W. C. DOA^TE.\\nBishop Doane is the acting executive head of the House\\nof Bishops. Accordingly, on the Feast of the Nativity of St.\\nJohn the Baptist, June 24, 1898, at half past ten o clock, in\\nJ rinity Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio, Archdeacon Brown\\nw^as duly consecrated Bishop-Coadjutor of the Diocese of\\nArkansas.\\nAbout three months previous, the Rev. John Gass Avas\\ntendered a call from St. Luke s Church, Atlanta, Ga., and on\\nApril 22, 1898, it was announced that at the Vestry meeting", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0405.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "352 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nof Christ Church held before the convention of the annual\\nDiocesan Council a letter was read from hiin, in which^ with\\nmany expressions of regret, he tendered his resignation as Rec-\\ntor of the parish. Chief among his reasons for changing the\\nlocation of his work, was that a serious throat trouble which\\ncaused him great and continual suffering could only be\\nrelieved by a change of climate. This resignation was ac-\\ncepted with profound regret by his Vestry and deplored by\\nthe congregation and community at large. On May 29, 1898,\\nhe preached his farewell sermon at Christ Church, and on\\neJune 7, 1898, he arrived in Atlanta and entered upon the\\nwork of his new parish. On Saturday, August 27, the St.\\nLouis Glohe-D e mocrat announced the death of Rev. John Gass\\nin South Carolina, where he had gone for a brief vacation,\\nfrom acute appendicitis. Through the Arkansas Gazette on\\nSunday morning, August 29, the news came as a thunderbolt\\nfrom a clear sky.\\nArrangements were made for a memorial service at\\nChrist Church, to be conducted by the Rev. C. C. Kramer, of\\nNew Iberia, La., who was the acting Rector at the time.\\nThis was held on Sunday, September 4, an account of\\nwhich was given in the Arl-ansas Democrat of ]\\\\[onday, Sep-\\ntember 5, and is here appended\\nHE WAS A GOOD MAIs^.\\nLOVIXG MEMORIAL SERVICES IN IIOXOR OF REV. JOHN GASS^\\nLATE RECTOR OF CHRIST CHITRCH TRIBUTES SO TEN-\\nDER xVLL BORE TESTIMONY TO HIS GREAT\\nWORTH AS A MILITANT CITIZEN OF THE\\nLORD s COM MOX WEALTH.\\nServices in memory of the late Rev. John Gass were held\\nyesterday forrnoon in Christ Church, of which lie was so long", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0406.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 353\\ntlie beloved Eeetor. The attendance of [)arishioners and\\nfriends from other denominations was qnite hirge, and the\\nservices, conducted bv Kev. C. C. Kramer, acting Rector,\\nwere very impressive and breathing a spirit of veneration for\\nhim in whose memory they were come together. Added inter-\\nest attached to the service from the fact that this was the\\nclose of Rev. Kramer s connection wdth the parish, and the\\npeople have learned to love and admire his acting Rectorship.\\nThe altar and chancel were beanti fully decorated with floral\\nofi^erings, crosses, crowns and other designs. These flowers\\nAvill be sent to the bereaved wife of the distinguished divine,\\nwho will cherish them, though faded, for the tender memories\\nclustered about their petals.\\nAt the conclusion of the beautiful E])isc()})al service a\\nnund:)er of resolutions were oifered^ which are given below\\nBY THE VESTKY.\\nWkereas, Our l)ek ved Rector, the Rev. John Gass,\\nwas, on the morning of August 26, called by Almighty God\\nto the life immortal, and we, the Vestry of Christ Church,\\ndesire to give expression to our personal loss, as well as that\\nof the Church Militant in which he served so faithfully.\\nResolved, That in the death of the Rev. John Gass,\\nChrist s vineyard on earth has been deprived of a distin-\\nguished laborer, who never spared himself in doing his mas-\\nter s service.\\nResolved. That his eminent qualities of mind and heart\\ncom])leteh endeared his life to all who tasted of its sweetness\\nand sanctity.\\nResolved, That while humbly bowing to the Divine\\nwill, and fully believing this faithful workman has been sum-\\nmoned to a higher service, we cannot fail to express the irre-\\npressible sorrow which hovers as a shadow upon those who\\ncalled him a friend and pastor.\\nResolved, That his labors in Little Rock as Rector and\\ncitizen were of the highest philanthropic and beneficent\\nnature, and our city has been so abundantly blessed by his\\nfour years residence amongst us that our people will never\\ncease to hold his name in grateful remembrance.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0407.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "354 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nResolved, That to those dear ones who knew him as\\nwife and children, whose affliction and grief are of the heaviest\\nand severest character, we extend the most earnest sympathy\\nof our hearts, and we pray that the Divine Comforter will\\nconsole their sorrow and dissipate their cloud by the bright-\\nness of His presence.\\n(Signed:) C. C. Kramer, Priest in Charge; W. A.\\nCantrell, Senior Warden; J no. W. Goodwin, Junior Warden;\\nS. B. Adams, F. M. Jeiferson, Treasurer Gordon j^. Peay,\\nSecretary; G. S. Brack, J, M. Bracey, H. K. Cochran, C. T.\\nCoifman, A. A. Eutland, J. A. Van Etten.\\nLADIES AID SOCIETY.\\nIn compliance with a special request, a brief synopsis\\nof the life of this distinguished divine was prepared by his\\nown hand, and bestowed as a parting gift upon the writer. In\\nits simple modesty it is a fair epitome of his character. In\\nits record of work done there is no doubt of his having been\\nhappy in performing it, in reverent imitation of the Master.\\nIt is here appended: (Eead by J. M. Bracey.)\\nRev. John Gass, born Greenville, January 16, 1857;\\neducated at Greenville, and the University of the South,\\nSewanee, Tenn, ordered Deacon in Christ Church, Green-\\nville, S. C, by Rt. Rev. W. B. W. Howe, October 29, 1883\\nfirst sermon preached ISTovember 5, 1882, in the same Church\\nmarried Miss Ivy W. Perrin, of Abbeyville, S. C, January\\n17, 1884 ordained to the Priesthood by Rt. Rev. C. T. Quin-\\n1ard in St. Augustine s Chapel, Sewanee, Tenn., July 13,\\n1884; sermon by the Chaplain, Rev. Thos. F. Gailor, text\\nII Corinthians, iv, 18; first charge was the twin parishes,\\nWinsboro and Ridge Springs, S. C, from June, 1885, to\\nOctober, 1880; then went to Augusta, Ga., the Church of\\nthe Atonement, October, 1886, to June, 1890; served as\\nassistant minister in Grace Church, Charleston, S. C, from\\nJune, 1890, to October, 1894: was Rector of Christ Church,", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0408.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 355\\nLittle Eock, Ark., from October, 1894, to June, 181)8. Dur-\\ning his KectorshiiJ in Christ Church, 188 persons were bap-\\ntized, 151 conlirmed, 46 marriages performed, 105 burials.\\nWhen the news of his death reached Little Rock a meet-\\ning of the Ladies Aid Society was called for Friday after-\\nnoon, September 2, at the Church, by the vice president, Mrs.\\nFrancis Johnson, who, in the absence of the president, ap-\\npointed a committee to draft resolutions of respect and sym-\\npathy. They are liere appended\\nA new and solemn exj^erience has come to this associa-\\ntion. For more than thirty years it has been, in all seasons,\\nwhether of success or failure, the main reliance of the Rector\\nand the Yestry. Many times the members have met to unite\\nin expressions of sorrow at the removal of an associate to a\\nhigher plane of service, but never before have they been called\\ntogether to mourn the passing of their Shepherd from his\\nplace among them to the home eternal. Only three short\\nmonths have slipped away since our beloved Rector, Rev.\\nJohn Gass, bade farewell to this fold and assumed charge of\\nanother, but as his official successor had not as yet assumed\\nthe vacated place, and as four years of zealous leadership and\\nloving guardianship had identified him with this parish of\\nChrist Church, Little Rock, it seemed that this congregation\\nshould be accorded the place of chief mourner in the far-\\nreaching processional of grief. That he was admired, respected\\nand beloved at St. Luke s may not be questioned, but only\\nthis congregation, who knew him at the maturity of his physi-\\ncal strength, in the completeness of his intellectual growth\\nand splendor, and in the perfection of his goodness, when\\nfaith and love, which parted from him never, had ripened his\\njust soul to dwell with God, can do full justice to his memory.\\nWhether in his robes of office at the font, at the prayer\\ndesk, pulpit and the table of Holy Communion, at the mar-\\nriage altar, at the bedside and at the grave, in his daily walks\\nthrough the streets and environs of the citv, wherever one of\\nhis flock needed ministrations, he seemed always animated", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0409.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "356 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nwith tlie same single-liearted, earnest purpose, the saving of\\nsouls, so that in his warfare with the world, the flesh and\\nthe devil, while not a Goliath in frame, he was a David in\\nmight, and a Goliath might envy his unheralded deeds of\\nheroism. Admirals and generals may be commissioned by\\nman, but an apostle, such as he, is only commissioned by God.\\nHe died at Pendleton, S. C, at the residence of Colonel B. E.\\nSloan, on Friday, August 26, 1898, and was buried on Sun-\\nday afternoon at 4 o clock at Greenville, S. C, the place of\\nhis birth. His remains were taken from the residence of his\\nstepfather, Mr. H. C. Markley, to Christ Church, Greenville,\\nwhere impressive services were held, and simultaneously at\\nSt. Luke s Church, Atlanta, Ga., his latest charge. He left\\na wife, who shared his highest aspirations, and whose greatest\\nhappiness was to sustain him in his parochial and apostolic\\nwork. He left also a group of lovely children, between the\\nages of 12 and 6 Ivy, Henry, John and Catherine, and\\nBessie, the daughter of a deceased brother, who had become\\nhis charge. Their best inheritance will be the memorv of\\nhis virtues. As companions in their sorrow be it\\nResolved, That in losing our Rector, the Rev. John\\nGass, we feel ourselves bereaved of a brilliant teacher, a loving\\ncounselor, an affectionate friend, and a worthy examplar, who\\nhas passed like a shining light to the courts above. May we\\nfollow in the path he made\\nResolved, That we extend the united sympathy of this\\nbody to the bereaved members of his family, and the joint\\nprayer that God may give unto them beauty for ashes, the\\noil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for heaviness.\\nResolved, That these expressions of condolence be\\nplaced on the records of the society for our remembrance and\\nadmonition, and that a copy of the same be forwarded to the\\nwidow of the deceased.\\n(Signed.) MRS. W. A. CANTRELL,\\nMRS. SUE CREASE PEAY.\\nMRS. J. M. BRACEY.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0410.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 357\\nDAUGHTERS OF THE KING.\\nThe resolutions of the Daughters of the King, Advent\\nChapter, in loving memory of Rev. John Gass, were read by\\nGovernor Dan W. Jones as follows:\\nFor years we have walked and worked and sat with him\\nin heavenly places. He was our head, teacher, counselor,\\nfriend. He consecrated us and by two simple vows we were\\npledged to higher, deeper, spirituality. Pie bestoAved on us\\neach the badge of our order, the little silver cross, bearing the\\nLatin inscription, MngnaJiimUer Cruccm Sastinc. (Bear\\nthe cross courageously.)\\nWeek by week we met for prayer, for advice and for\\nworking orders, for his was a practical religion. Love is\\nservice.\\nIf we grew to be an inspiration to him (and wo are\\ngrateful for the high praise), it was only the reflection of what\\nhe was to us.\\nThe life and character of John Gass were an s])istle,\\nseen and read by all men, telling them that he had been with\\nJesus and had learned Him.\\nBut sad tidings come to us He who was our head\\nhas been taken from us, and our hearts are filled with sorrow\\nfor his untimely death.\\nThe old accustomed places which he frequented are elo-\\nquent reminders of him the lecture room, where were S])ent\\nthose never-to-be-forgotten Lenten mornings, the chancel and\\npulpit which have echoed with his teachings, the altar where\\nwas broken the bread and blessed the chalice, seem yet to be\\nfilled with his presence.\\nNot yet can we realize that the eloquent teacher, the ten-\\nder, generous friend, the strong, pure soul, has passed away.\\nWe have lost him he is gone\\nWe know him now all narrow jealousies\\nAre silent and we see him as he moved,\\nHow modest, kindly, all accomplished, wise,\\n24", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0411.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "358 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nWith what sublime rej^ression of himself,\\nAnd in what limits, and how tenderly;\\nISTot swaying to this faction or to that,\\nNot making his high place the lawless perch\\nOf winged ambition, nor a vantage oround\\nFor pleasure, but thro all this track of years\\nWearing the white flower of a blameless life.\\nTo the one dear Daughter upon whom this sorrow falls\\nwith such crushing weight, we extend our tenderest sympa-\\nthies, and for her our prayers ascend.\\nMay all love.\\nHis love, unseen but felt, o ershadow Thee,\\nThe love of all Thy sons encompass Thee,\\nThe love of all Thy daughters cherish Thee,\\nThe love of all Thy people comfort Thee,\\nTill God s love set Thee at His side again.\\nJULIA M. BRISCOE,\\nMABLE RITCHIE,\\nCommittee.\\nBIBLE CLASS.\\nMr. R. J. Polk presented the following resolutions by\\nthe Bible class\\nInasmuch as it hath seemed well to our Father in\\nHeaven to call from earth to paradise our beloved Rector,\\nteacher and friend. Rev. John Gass, we, the members of his\\nBible class, desire to add our tribute of love and profound\\nrespect to his memory and to exjiress our grief at our great\\nloss.\\nFor nearly three years it was our privilege to meet with\\nhim weekly for the purpose of studying God s Word, and it\\nwas then that his deep spirituality, universal love and broad\\nCatholicity were best manifested. There we learned from\\nhim to know God as our lovina- Father, and Jesus Christ as", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0412.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 359\\nour tender elder Brother, and to realize, through searching\\nthe Scriptures, God s constant care and guidance of those who\\ndo His will. The imparting of these spiritual truths to the\\nmembers of his loving and earnest class was, as he said at our\\nlast meeting, the work he had most loved and enjoyed. At\\ntimes he seemed almost inspired, as if, with St. John, he\\nhad been allowed a vision of the holy city, jSTew Jerusalem, and\\nhad caught the reflection of its glory. He loved to dwell\\nupon the beauty of holiness and the building of Christ-like\\ncharacter. He kept ever before us the fatherhood of God\\nand the brotherhood of man, and God s faithfulness in the\\nfulfillment of His gracious promises to those wdio keep His\\ncommandments.\\nWe on our part deemed that no greater privilege than\\nbeing led by him beside the waters of comfort could have\\ncome into our lives, and we desire to express our deep appre-\\nciation of the blessing we enjoyed in being members of his\\nclass and listening to his words of wisdom.\\nTo his loving wife and faithful companion in all his\\nworks, and to each member of his little flock, to whom he was\\na most tender father, we extend our heartfelt sympathy in\\ntheir bereavement. We grieve with them, and for them, and\\nmourn our own personal loss in his transition from earth to\\nthe mansions of God.\\nHe is not dead, but sleepeth.\\nAsleep in Jesus O how sweet\\nTo be for such a slumber meet;\\nWith holy confidence to sing\\nThat death has lost its sting.\\nMRS. RUFUS J. POLK,\\nChairman.\\nBY THE CONGREGATION.\\nMr. C. T. Coft nmn read the following, signed by a large\\nnumber of the members of the cono reo ation", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0413.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "360 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nThe undersigned members of Christ Church congrega-\\ntion wish to express hereby our deep and sincere sorrow at the\\ndecease of our dearly beloved j^astor, Ilev. John Gass. The\\nintelligence of his death comes with a suddenness that is ap-\\npalling; its unexpectedness makes our grief all the greater.\\nDuring his pastorate in this Church he had become endeared\\nto us through the tenderest ties^ and it is dithcult to realize\\nthat we will see him no more. To us his life seemed to be\\nan epitome of all the Christian graces, and his soul to be tilled\\nwith the Master s law of love^ which he so eloquently and\\nforcibly taught. We can but pray that the Giver of all good\\nwill mercifully comfort his stricken family in their great\\nbereavement.\\nFIRST PEESBYTERIAN CHURCH.\\nHon. Jos. W. Martin, of the First Presbyterian Church,\\nread the following tribute by the session of that congregation\\nResolved, That we have heard with profound sorrow of\\nthe death of Rev. John Gass, late Rector of Christ Church,\\nand we desire to record here our great love and our high re-\\ngard for this noble Christian man and minister. We bow\\nwith you to-day by his newmade grave and shed with you tears\\nof profound sympathy and love. May the God of love minis-\\nter consolation to his bereaved and loved wife in her great\\nbereavement, and to his sorrowing little orphan children.\\nThough recently removed from us, we feel with all good\\npeople of every name and class that not only your Church has\\nlost one of its most valued men, but that his untimely taking\\noff is a loss to his country and to humanity. Truly a great\\nman hath fallen in Israel.\\nS. C. BOSSIXGER,\\nChairman.\\nREV. c. c. kra:\\\\[er.\\nAt the conclusion of the reading of the resolutions. Rev.\\nC. C. Kramer delivered an eloquent sermon upon the text,\\nIt is ex])edient that T i^o aAvav. JoJin xvi, 7.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0414.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 361\\nFollowiiiii, is a synopsis of the address\\nThe words were spoken bv the Savior at the Last Sn]iper\\nwords freighted with the spiritnal character of Christ. The\\nspeaker reviewed the inner meaning of the words in tlieir\\nobjective relations. It was to secure the incarnation of the\\ndivine nature that it was expedient for llini to go away. It\\nis in this manner we contemphite the death of all men, such\\nas the late Brother Gass. He had given sixteen years of his\\nlife to the militant service of God, but its effects cannot be\\nmeasured within the bounds of years rather by the flight\\nof an unending eternity. God created humanity because he\\nneeded humanity. He needs our love and He needs our ser-\\nvice. There is a continuity of existence not bounded by this\\nlife. In tender words he referred to the loving ministra-\\ntions and the noble service of the deceased Rector, and laid\\nupon his tomb a chaplet of eloquence that touched all hearts.\\nThe kingdom of God is the atmosphere enveloping the divine\\npersonality. Service is to open the eyes of the world to see\\ncelestial visions, to open the ears to hear celestial music this\\nwas the mission which filled to the full the life of dear Brother\\nGass. Great qualities of mind and intellect do not make up\\nthe sum of a good life its complement being great and tender\\nheart (lualities. Where there is such a union the convictions\\nof man are thoroughly saturated with divine love. Another\\nquality much needed in this life is manly strengtli and earn-\\nestness of purpose. Dr. Gass was so well rounded in all the\\nquantities of tenderness and strength that all men could look\\nupon his life and say, He was a good man.\\nThe sermon was followed l)v the Eucharist, of which a\\nlarge number partook.\\nwo:\\\\rAX s auxiliakv.\\nThe tribute by the Woman s Auxiliai-y was ju-esented by\\nMr. Fay Hempstend as follows:\\nWhereafi. The Woman s Auxiliary of Christ Church,\\nLittle Rock, realize a sorrow that words can poorly express", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0415.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "362 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nin the loss of their beloved Rector, Rev. John Gass even\\nthough he was not with them they felt that they could rely on\\nhis valuable advice and guidance, and that his interest in this\\norganization which he founded would always be maintained.\\nBut God, in His wisdom, has ordained otherwise, and called\\nhim to his reward in the heavenly mansions and left them to\\ngo on alone. We all know how deeply interested he was in\\nthis work, therefore let us do honor to his blessed memory by\\nworking more earnestly and follow closely in the path he laid\\nout for us therefore be it\\nResolved, That our deepest sympathy be extended to\\nour lamented Rector s most estimable wife and children, and\\nour own prayer is that God will have them in His tender\\ncare, and comfort them in His mercy.\\nResolved, That these resolutions be placed upon the\\nminutes and a copy sent to the bereaved family.\\nMRS. CAROLINE COHEA^,\\nMRS. SUSAN PEAY,\\nCommittee.\\nTO THE LATE REY. JOHIvT GASS.\\nBEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT ADOPTED BY THE MINISTERS ALLIANCE\\nOF LITTLE ROCK.\\nTribute to the memory of Rev. John Gass by the Minis-\\nters Alliance, of the city of Little Rock\\nThe Ministerial Alliance of this city, at its first meeting\\nthis fall w^as by the vacant chair again reminded that since\\ntheir last meeting the Rev. John Gass, late Rector of Christ\\nChurch, had been called home. The shadows of sadness passed\\nover the faces of all present as if they had fallen from a real\\ncloud when his name was mentioned. Hearts were touched\\nwith sweetest memories his most genial disposition, his sym-\\npathetic voice, his benign face, his words of wisdom, and his\\nfraternal, Christ-like spirit. Tn the vision of our faith he\\nis not dead, but glorified. We know that as his congregation", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0416.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 363\\nleft behind poured out tears of lamentation that his parish-\\nioners who had passed on before waited for him in delight.\\nThe beautiful words of Bickersteth were fully realized\\nby this sainted pastor when he entered Heaven\\nIn amaze\\nI asked what meant such gratulations there,\\nAnd one of many answered, From thy mouth\\nWe heard of Jesus love, and thine the hand\\nThat led us to His feet. It was enough;\\nFor all the Parent and the Pastor woke\\nWithin me all the holy memories\\nOf bygone days flowed in a refluent tide\\nOver my soul once more. Some I had known\\nFrom rosy dawn of childhood\\nSome I had shepherded Yea, many. And\\nSome in after years had poured the burden\\nOf a wounded spirit into mine.\\nAnd others, dying, heard me read of Him\\nWho on the cross for mercy cried to Christ,\\nHeard, and themselves believed. All these I knew,\\nAnd quick as liaht their story flashed on me.\\nBut in that group of filial spirits came many\\nI knew not part of that great store\\nOf unsuspected treasure Heaven conceals.\\nAnd they, too, poured on mo beatitudes.\\nWe express to the bereaved companion of our dear\\nbrother our deepest sympathy and most fervent love. We\\ncommend her and the precious children into the hands of our\\nmost merciful Heavenly Father. He in this great habita-\\ntion is a Husband to the widow and a Father of the fatherless.\\nThe committee was ordered to furnish a copy to be spread\\non the minutes of this alliance, to forward a copy to INfrs. Gass,\\nand to give copies to our citv papers.\\nS. G. MILLEK.\\nChoinnan.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0417.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "364 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nA. D. 1 898. The Rev. C C. Kramer, who officiated on\\nthis occasion, and whose profound and touching discourse was\\nbut inadequately reported, is Rector of the Church of the\\nEpiphany, New Iberia, La., where, for ten years, he had been\\nthe constant officiate. He had just been granted a three months\\nleave of absence, when he accepted the invitation of Rev. John\\nGass to fill his vacated pulpit for one month. While per-\\nforming the duties of the parish Mr. Kramer won the respect\\nand regard of the congregation, by his scholarly and helpful\\nsermons as well as by his winning personality. On Sunday,\\nJuly 3, 1898, he preached at Christ Church and administered\\nthe Holy Communion.\\nOn Sej^tember 7, after a brief visit to Hot Springs, he\\nleft for Washington, 1). C, via the Lakes, having kindly\\nfurnished the annalist with an abstract of his life, which he\\npencilled down during his farewell visit.\\nREV. C. C. KRxiMER.\\nA. D. 1886-1894. The Rev. Charles Coleman Kramer\\nwas born in Baltimore, Md., January 8, 1858 attended the\\nEpiscopal Institute, Washington, D. C, where he graduated\\nin 1876; entered the same year St. Stephen s College, Annan-\\ndale, N. Y., and graduated in arts, 1880, taking his class prize\\nfor natural sciences was educated in Divinity at the General\\nTheological Seminary, jSTew York City was ordained Deacon\\nApril 10, 1883, by the Rt. Rev. J. X. Galleher in Christ\\nChurch, New Orleans, La., and Priest by the same Bishop in\\nChrist Church, Napoleonville, La. He was a missionary in\\nthe Diocese of Louisiana from liis ordination as Deacon, until\\nhis acceptance of the Rectorship of the Church of the\\nEpiphany, New Iberia, in 1886, serving for one year as\\nArchdeacon. He was Actina Rector of Trinitv Church, New", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0418.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 365\\nOrleans, from 1892 to 1895. He returned to the liurch of\\nthe Epiphany, Xew Iberia, as Hector in 1894, which position\\nhe still holds.\\nREV. JAMES NOBLE.\\nA. D. 1886-1897. Rec. Jamc^ Nohic, a young Deacon\\nat Oklahoma, previously from JWnv York, was called to assist\\nRev. John Gass, Rector of Christ Church, and made his first\\nappearance in the Chancel at Friday afternoon service, June\\n12, 1886. He was admitted to the holy order of Priesthood\\nby the Rt. Rev. H. X. Pierce and attending Priests, at Trinity\\nCathedral, May 11, 1897, during the session of the twenty-\\nfifth annual Council of the Diocese of Arkansas, Rev. John\\nGass presenting the candidate. On the 15tli of September,\\nRev. Mr. Gass officiated at the nuirriage of Rev. James T^oble\\nto Miss Mabel Hedges Simpson at El Reno, O. T. Mr. Xoble\\nleft the parish October 1, 1897, for Marianna and F orrest\\nCity to take charge of the two Episcopal Churclies in the two\\ntowns. On December 17, 1897, he accepted a call to the\\nEpiscopal Church at Tyler, Texas.\\nMr. and ^Irs. Xoble have had one son, wh.o died soon\\nafter birth.\\nMr. J. J. Huntley, Missionary Superintendent and\\nlicensed Lay Reader of the Christ Church Missions, has\\nkindly supplied the data of his mission work, whicli is here\\nsubjoined\\nST. PAUL S.\\nA. D. 1890-1894. St. Paul s Sunday School and Mis-\\nsion was organized in 1890 by Rev. John E. H. Galbraith,\\nunder whose ministry it prospered for some time. After", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0419.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "366 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nhis ministry ended it began to decline, so that in January,\\n1S04, there were but six attendants. At the urgent request\\nof Rev. AVallace Carnahan Mr. J. Huntley, as Lay ]\\\\Iission-\\nary Superintendent, took charge of it. The attendance began\\nto increase, and continued to do so until eighty members were\\nenrolled. Much of its success was due to the faithful attend-\\nance for a year or more of Miss Bessie Cantrell, Avhose ability\\nas organist and teacher was so willingly given. Monthly\\nentertainments of a Churchly character were given in this, as\\nin all the other missions. The Rev. John Gass, as Rector of\\nChrist Church, and its missions, by his loving oversight, did\\nmuch to help this, as well as the other missions.\\nST. JOHN S MISSIOK\\nA. D. 1892-1894. St. John s Mission was organized\\nin the summer of 1892, as a Union Sunday School. In the\\nspring of 1894 the superintendent, teachers, and scholars\\nrequested the Rev. Wallace Carnahan to receive in his charge\\nas Rector of Christ Church, the mission, which was duly so\\nreceived. The roll of membershij) was at this time seventy.\\nTwelve baptisms and two confirmations was only a small part\\nof the good done in this mission.\\nST. LUKE S.\\nA. D. 1894. St. Luke s was organized in North Little\\nRock in June, 1894, in a private parlor, Avith twenty scholars\\nand four teachers. The attendance soon averaged thirty\\nscholars, and the communicants twenty. In this mission\\nthere have been a large number of baptisms and six confirma-\\ntions.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0420.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 367\\nST. BAKNABAS S\u00e2\u0080\u0094 BAIUXG CEOSS.\\nA. D. 1894. St. Bariiabas s Mission was organized in a\\nprivate house on the 30th of December, 1894, with six\\nscholars and two teachers. The attendance continued to\\nincrease until there was an average attendance of thirty\\nscholars. After two years successful operation, and during\\nthe ministry of Rev. James jSToble, Assistant ]\\\\linist( r of Rev.\\nJohn Gass, of Christ C^hurch, the Sunday School was closed\\nfor nearly two years. In May, 1898, it was reopened with\\nthe ultimate intention of making it a Diocesan Mission. The\\nBishop officiated the fifth Sunday after Easter and baptized\\nthree children. The Bishop again officiated, baptizing five\\nchildren of different ages, and confirming two adults. St.\\nBarnabas s has now twenty-three baptized children and eleven\\ncommunicants.\\nST. PAUL S.\\nA. D. 1896. St. Paul s Mission house and lot on\\nEleventh and Pulaski streets which had been the investment\\nof the Ladies Aid Society ($1,100), was sold for half that\\namount by the Vestry of Christ Church, in whom the title\\nof the property was vested, and in December, 1896, a lot was\\nbought for St. Paul s Parish by the Rev. James ^s^oble, As-\\nsistant Minister of Christ Church, situated on Fifth and\\nVictory streets, which location was then adjudged to be more\\nfavorable for the growth of a congregation. A neat brick\\nchapel now stands on that corner, which was formerly occu-\\npied by a saloon, and several devout and active members of\\nthe Church have collected together the Sunday School, which\\nhad been scattered after the sale of the original mission\\nchapel. The present Rector holds service there on Sunday\\nafternoons.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0421.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "368 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nIn 1896 Mr. Gass assumed the editorial charge of The\\nArkansas Missionary published quarterly in the montlis of\\nFebruary, May, August, and November, in behalf of the\\nDiocese, with the subjoined list of the Clergy of the Diocese\\nLIST OF THE CLEKGY OF THE DIOCESE.\\nBISHOP.\\nEt. Kev. Henry Xiles Pierce, D. D., LL. D Little Rock.\\nPRIESTS.\\nEev. W. T. Allen Fort Smith.\\nEev. C. E. Cabaniss Pine Bluff.\\nEev. D. I. Hobbs Little Eock.\\nEev. G. W. Flowers Van Buren.\\nEev. John Gass Little Eock.\\nEev. E. S. James, D. D Eureka Springs.\\nEev. J. W. Keeble Batesville.\\nEev. C. H. Lockwood Helena.\\nEev. W. J. Miller Hot Springs.\\nEev. A. W. Pierce Hope.\\nEev. D. S. C. M. Potter, D. D Morrilton.\\nEev. D. B. Eamsay Camden.\\nEev. D. L. Trimble Pine Bluff.\\nEev. J. J. Vaulx Fayetteville.\\nEev. E. J. Williams Forrest City.\\nEev. I. P. Daniels Little Eock.\\nThis had been edited for the two years previous by Eev.\\nJohn Davis, whose resignation as Dean of Trinity Cathedral\\ntook effect in September, 1895, and who, not long after, went\\nto Tokio, Japan, to take a professorship in the Theological\\nSeminarv there.\\nA powerful factor in the hands of the Clergy of Christ\\nChurch has been and continues to be the Chapter of The", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0422.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 369\\nDaughters of the King, an order which originated with the\\nEpiscopal Church. The Christ Church Chapter is here\\nbriefly described in its origin and progress by Miss Emma\\nKramer, one of the members, at the request of the annalist:\\nA. D. 1894. Rev. Wallace Carnahan, in 1S94, asked\\nthe young ladies aud young married ladies to meet and form\\na Chapter of the Daughters of the King. At the first meet-\\ning in January there were present Carrie and Lina Carnahan,\\nNonnie and Queen Lawson, ]\\\\Iisses Georgie Woodruff, Mary\\nHennigan, Zoe Scull, Susie Martin (Mrs. Mayfiehl, of Ala-\\nbama), Mrs. Sample, Mrs. Pope, Emma Kramer.\\nMrs. Pope was our first directress. She then went to\\nAlabama, after serving two months, and Miss Churchill took\\nher place. Misses Maggie Dennison, May Wright (]\\\\[rs.\\nFrench Hoge, of Kentucky), C^arolyn Peay, Kosa Vickers\\n(Mrs. John McClintock, of Kentucky), Hattie Bell, Leila\\nField, Jennie Clements, Juliette Churchill (Mrs. R. L. Good-\\nrich), Annie Belding (the only member we have lost by\\ndeath), Mary O Connell, Rosa Miller. We were on proba-\\ntion until October, when Mr. Gass came here. We then were\\ninitiated and formed the Advent Chapter. Some who were\\nat the first few meetings withdrew. Mrs. Gass was elected\\ndirectress and it was through her influence the girls began\\ntaking interest in the work. Mrs. Goodrich, Misses Peay,\\nMiller, Bell, Woodruff, and Kramer are the only original\\nmembers that now belong to the order, though others have\\njoined, and we have forty members now who are doing good\\nwork. The work, or sewing committee, alone made seventy-\\nfour (7-1) dollars during Lent, and the two months pre-\\nceding.\\nA. D. 1898. At a meeting of the Vestry of Christ\\nCluireh on the evenino- of June 7, after the rc^signatioji of the", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0423.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "370 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nEev. John Gass had been tendered and accepted and he had\\ndeparted for Atlanta, Ga., it was decided to call the Rev. Geo.\\nGordon Smeade, Rector of Trinity Clnirch, Pine Bluff, Ark.,\\nto till the vacancy. On the 29th of June following, the Rev.\\nMr. Smeade signified his acceptance of the office of Rector of\\nChrist Church, to assume the charge on 1st of October.\\nProfessor W. W. Lathurn, of l^ew York City, had been\\nsecured several weeks previously as organist.\\nOn September 29, 1898, Rev. Mr. Smeade arrived in\\nLittle Rock and became the spiritual head of Christ Church\\nParish.\\nREV. GEORGE GORDON SMEADE.\\nA. D. 1887-1899. Rev. George Gordon Smeade gradu-\\nated with degree M. A. at Roanoke College, Salem; Va.,\\nentered the Theological Seminary of Virginia, completed\\nthe three years course, was ordained to the Diaconate\\nJune 24, 1887, by Bishop F. M. Whittle, of Virginia,\\nand to the Priesthood, June 29, 1888, by Bishop A. M. Ran-\\ndolph, of Southern Virginia, then Assistant Bishop of Vir-\\nginia. He was sent to Pulaski City, Va., as a Deacon, and\\nremained there until he accepted a call to Trinity Church,\\nPine Bluff, Ark., having declined several previous calls. He\\nwas Rector of that Church nearly two years, which he re-\\norganized- it having long been dismembered and without a\\nRector repaired and beautified the Church building, and\\nhirgely increased the congregation, which reluctantly resigned\\nhim on his acceptance of the call to Christ Church, Little\\nRock. Mr. Smeade is a young man and unmarried and\\nmight well hesitate to assume control where such an illustrious\\nline of leaders had preceded him, but he was well equipped\\nfor the arena, and, restinc on the arm of the Almio;htv he", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0424.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "REV. GEORGE GORDON SMEADE.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0425.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0426.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 371\\nentered upon his work with a divine courage, which found\\nhim at the end of a year, victorious and undismayed. Suc-\\nceeding to a well organized and flourishing parish, with one\\nincumbrance and one drawback, he set himself to remove that\\nincumbrance the remainder of the Church debt and to\\nrestore peace, which had lately been disturbed in Episcopal\\nwaters. By way of numerical proof, showing the result of\\nliis labor in the first and second years of his Rectorship, the\\nnumber of candidates presented by him to Bishop H. N.\\nPierce for confirmation on Palm Sunday, 1899, was nine,\\nand those presented on the First Sunday after Easter to\\nBishop Wm. Montgomery Brown numbered forty-four the\\nlargest class that has ever been presented for confirmation in\\nChrist Church. The financial ability of the Rector has also\\nbeen fully demonstrated by his plan of canceling the Church\\ndebt. The Easter collection for this object was $2,529.70,\\nof which the Ladies Aid Society of the Church contributed\\n$743.58. With pledges for $700, which Mr. Smeade still\\nholds, augmented by $1,000 from the Ladies Aid Society,\\nwhich will fall due from the Building and Loan Association\\nnext Easter, the incumbrance will be removed and the Church\\nbe consecrated. The Vestry gave a vote of thanks to their\\nindefatigable Rector, in which the congregation heartily con-\\ncurred. As a preacher, Mr. Smeade is logical, profound and\\npersuasive and holds full congregations. His sermons have\\nbeen blessed to his parishioners. Socially he is highly\\nesteemed for his modest integrity.\\nAt the request of the annalist, Mr. Smeade procured from\\na cousin the appended lineage, which is reproduced from the\\nletter of Captain W. Gordon McCabe, one of the most bril-\\nliant and accomplished scholars in the country, and is now\\n])rincipal of the University School, Richmond, Va.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0427.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "372 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHUnCH PARISH.\\nLliS^EAGE.\\nA. D. 1 781 Rev. George Gordon Smeade, who was born\\nat Old Point Comfort, Va., is the son of Lieutenant Abner\\nSmeade, United States Army, who resigned, entered the Con-\\nfederate army and rose to be colonel and inspector-general\\non ^Stonewall Jackson s staff, and Amanda Wentworth Gor-\\ndon, his wife. She was the daughter of Alexander George\\nGordon, Commodore, United States Navy, and granddaughter\\nof George Taylor, who was one of the Wardens of (Christ\\nChurch, Alexandria, Va., during George Washington s attend-\\nance at that Churchy and was a member of the standing com-\\nmittee of the Episcopal Church of Virginia. Said Alexan-\\nder George Gordon, Commodore United States Xavy, was the\\nson of George Alexander Gordon, of Alexandria, Va., and\\nMary Morris, his wife. Mary Morris, born in Dutchess\\nCounty, J^ew York, was the daughter of John Morris, brother\\nof Robert Morris, financier of the American Revolution.\\nSaid George Alexander Gordon was the son of Lewis Gordon,\\nof Easton, Penn., and his wife, Mary Jenkins, of Philadel-\\nphia, lirother of Elizabeth Gordon, who married James Tay-\\nlor, son of George Taylor, signer of the Declaration of Inde-\\npendence. Lewis Gordon, your (Rev. G. G. Smeade s) great\\ngreat-grandfather, was a most accomplished and cultured\\nman. lie was a lawyer of eminence in Xorthampton\\nCounty, Penn., and of direct descent from the Gordons, of\\nKenmuir, Kirkcudbright, Scotland\\nKenmuir s up and awa Willie\\n*Williain of GordoTi, Sixth Visfoiint of Kenmiire, is the hero of the Jmcohite\\nsong referred to. In a letter to his dauerhter Sophia, Mrs. John Gibson Loekhart,\\ndated London, April 3, 182n, Walter Soott writes:\\nWe had a very merrv day yesterday at Lord Melville s where we found Lord\\nHuntley (the late Duke of Gordon) and other friends, and had a Immper to the new\\nBaronet who.se name was jazetted that eveainar (Sir Walter himself). Lady Hunt-\\nley plays Scotch tunes like Hitrhland anarel. She ran a set of variations on Ken-\\nmure s on and awa which I told her were epoui?h to raise a whole Country side. I\\nnever in mv life heard such fire thrown into that sort of music. See Loekhart s\\nLife of Sir Walter -Scott. Bart, Vol. VI, page 20.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0428.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 373\\nYour Taylor relatives were people of character and hig li\\nposition. Through them jou are closely related to Mrs.\\nGeneral Fitzhugh Lee and Governor Holiday, of Virginia\\nyou are the great nephew of Rear Admiral Taylor also great\\nnephew of Colonel Frank Taylor, United States army, of\\nMexican War fame, who married the daughter of Chief Jus-\\ntice Taney and you are connected with the Daingerfield s,\\nFowle s, and other distinguished folk.\\nOn his father s side Mr. Smeade is related to Justice\\nLamar and the famous Madame Octavia Walton Le Vert.\\nThe choir of Easter, 1800, with Professor Lanthurn,\\norganist, was composed of the following members\\nBoys Oscar Schadd, C^lem Scliaer, Jack ^Mitchell,\\nFrank Mitchell, Sam Cochran, Hal Cochran, John Foulkes,\\nPercy Skirving, Melchoir Eberts, Robt. Bogardt, Willie\\nFeeders, Gordon Blackwood.\\nSopranos Miss Heath, JMrs. Benj. Llarnwell, ^liss\\nEdna Bragg, Miss Ernest Field, ]\\\\Iiss Hudspeth, Mrs. McGee,\\nMiss Fannie Bell, Miss Ilattie Bell, Miss Xonnie Lawson,\\nMiss Rena Smith.\\nAltos Miss Nannie Field, ^[iss Imogene Brack, ]\\\\Iiss\\nI)e Xeler.\\nTenors Mr. Tate Robertson, Mr. Chas. P. Harnwell.\\nBassos\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mr. Talbot Field, Mr. Jesse Dill, Mr. Terry\\nField, Mr. Chas. A. ]\\\\[agee, :\\\\Ir. Geo. Lescher, Mr. Chas.\\nLawson.\\nPAROCHIAL REPORT FOR THE COIS^CILIAR YEAR\\n1 809-1000, TWEXTY-EIGHTLI AXXUAL\\nCOUXCIL.\\nCHRIST CIirRClI. LITTLE HOCK. PULASKI COUXTY.\\nThe Rev. G. Gordon Smeade, ^F. A., Rector; residence,\\n,^)00 Scott street: the Rev. James Dickinson Simmons, As-\\n25", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0429.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "374 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nsistant; Major Parliam, Lay Reader; Dr. Win. A. Cantrell\\nand John \\\\V. Goodwin, Wardens; Frank M. Jelierson, Clerk;\\nGordon ]S Peay, Treasurer.\\njS^umber of registered Parishioners, 1,000. jS^ umber of\\nfamilies, 350, Baptisms, infants, 20; adults, 11; total 31.\\nConfirmations, 44. Marriages, 14. Burials, IS. ISTumber of\\nconfirmed persons, 650. Communicants Admitted, 44;\\nreceived, 10 died, 3 removed, 2 present number, 538. Sun-\\nday School Teachers and officers, 46; jjupils, 318; total,\\n364. Public Services On Sunday, 100; on other days, 100;\\nHoly Communions, 50. Sittings in Church, free and rented,\\n650.\\nServices are sui3ported by pew rents, by w^eekly envelope\\nsystem and by voluntary contributions.\\nOfferings. Parochial Communion alms, $238.47\\ncurrent expenses, $4,825.25; payment of debts, $3,200;\\nLadies Aid Society, $968.68; Daughters of the King,\\n$497.84; St. Cecilia s Guild, $323; Chancel Guild, $255;\\nChrist Church Sunday School, $260.96; St. Paul s Chapel\\nSunday School, $378.60 total, $10,947.70. Diocesan Dio-\\ncesan assessment, $115 Diocesan Missions, $210.25 Bishop s\\nsalary, $113 total, $11,385.95. Missions\u00e2\u0080\u0094 General, $82.67\\nForeign, $25; Domestic, $25; University of the South,\\n$30.11 total, $162.78. Total for all objects, $11,548.73.\\nValue of all Parish land (exclusive of buildings), $14,-\\n500; value of Church building, $51,500; value of Rectory,\\n$6,000; other Parish property, $1,000; total value of all\\nParish property, $73,000. Total indebtedness of the Parish,\\n$1,200.\\nThis has been the most successful year in the history of\\nChrist Church. Every department of the Church is alive\\nwith activity.\\nThe Assistant Rector (Rev. Mr. Simmons) will enter\\nu]ion his duties this week.\\nThe Easter oflFerino- amounted to $2,554.70. After\\nthe pledges are collected, including $1,000 in the Buildinii\\nand Loan Association, the indebtedness on the Church will\\nonlv bo $200.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0430.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 375\\nI cannot close this report without s})eaking of the won-\\nderful work being done by Mr. Fay Hempstead at St. Paul s\\nChapel, a Mission of this Church. In a very short while 1\\nbelieve the work will be self-supporting.\\nKEPOKT OF THE COMMITTEE OX STATE OF\\nTHE CHUKCH.\\nThe Committee on State of the Church beg leave to re-\\nport, and they are highly gratitied and greatly encouraged\\nby the improved condition in which they find the Church in\\nArkansas, and the signal progress made by the Diocese within\\nthe brief period of a few short months; that they have to\\nrecord the grandest year in the history of the Church in this\\nState. It is truly remarkable. The labors of the Bishop\\nin the field, and outside of it, for its advantage, have both\\nbeen untiring and eminently fruitful. The remarkable fund\\nthus accunndatcd in aid of missionary work in the Diocese is\\nfar beyond all precedent. The Church in Arkansas has been\\nplaced in full touch wath the American Church, thus auguring\\nthe brightest prospects for future years of co-operation and\\nadvancement.\\nIt may well be believed that this beginning, stimulating\\nas it is, is but the herald of a still more glorious day. That\\nso much should be accomplished within so short a period by\\nour new Bishop should fill our hearts with thanksgiving and\\ngratitude to the bountiful Giver of all good. The blessed\\nconsequences are plainly visible in every quarter of the\\nDiocese. The force of working clergy has increased within\\nless than one year almost one hundred per ccmt, a marvelous\\naugmentation of power for future good. Xew rectories, new\\nchapels and Churches seem to be the order of the day. On\\nevery side there is life, energy and rapid develo|)mont.\\nParishes for long years stagnant have ex])orienced a haj^py\\naAvakening. Where before there was division and w(\\\\ikness,\\nin some instances to the ))oint of ])aralysis, now there is har-\\nmony and strength. Funds are freely contributed even by\\nisolated Churclimen and Churchwomcn Jouff denied the dear", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0431.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "376 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\npi ivilege of the services of tlie Church. The Church is being\\nplanted in new places. Large confirmation classes are pre-\\nsented to the Bishoj).\\nAll this, under God, is mainly the result of the diligent\\nand tireless labors of the Bishop, and of the Archdeacons pro-\\nvided, appointed and inspired bv him. He and thej have\\nbeen unremitting in their journey ings to and fro into every\\ncorner of the Diocese, visiting and preaching and laboring,\\nand especially appealing for assistance to help on the Holy\\nCause of Christ and the Church.\\nTruly, this is a wonderful record. Heartily may we\\nexclaim, What has God wrought Hopefully now may we\\nmove on in the good work, putting behind us the dead past\\nand gazing steadfastly into the brightness of the coming years,\\nwherein, with the steady and faithful exertion of the same\\nforces and influences, we may reasonably hope, with the bene-\\ndiction of the Father, to enjoy a constantly increasing growth\\nand expansion, until within a very few years, the Church in\\nAmerica will have cause to point witli ]iride to the great work\\ndone in Arkansas.\\nG. GORDOIS^ SMEADE,\\nFor the Committee.\\nTPIE AVAEDEXS AXD VESTRYMEJvT OF CHRIST\\nCHURCH.\\nA. D. 1 839. John H. Crease, Senior Warden Luke E.\\nBarber, Junior Warden; Lambert Reardon, Charles Rapley,\\nJohn Hutt, J. P. ]^orman, John Adamson, L. J. Reardon,\\nF. W. Trapnall, D. Butler, John Wassell, and William\\nPrather.\\nA. D. 1 841 John Wassell, Senior Warden Abner S.\\nWashljurn, Junior Warden. No record of the Vestrymen\\nhas been obtained.\\nA. D. 1849. Daniel Ringo, Senior Warden; John\\nWasscl], Junior Warden; William B. Wait, Treasurer. No\\nfurther record of Vestrvmcn obtained.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0432.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 377\\nA. D. 1858. Luke E. Barber, Senior Wai-Jen John II.\\nCrease, Junior Warden Daniel Tlingo, Wni. B. Wait, Thos.\\nChurchill, S. H. Hempstead, John Wassell, C. F. 31. Xoland,\\nWin. A. Cantrell, H. jST. Case, Robert Clements.\\nA. D. 1867. Luke E. Barber, Senior Warden; .John\\nWassell, Junior Warden; Wm. B. Wait, S. L. Grithtli, Wm.\\nA. Cantrell, U. M. Rose, Ben C. Trapnall, Gwynne Bar-\\nber, Daniel Ringo, T. J. Churchill, and Gordon X, Peay, Sr,\\nA. D. 1885. Luke E. Barber, Senior Warden; \\\\l. IL\\nParliam, Junior Warden; Wm. B. Wait, W. W. Smith, J. H.\\nHaney, Robert J. Matthews, William G. Whipple, l^ogan PI.\\nRoots, Geo. H. Van Etten, Samuel L. Griffith, P. K. Roots.\\nA. D. 1886. R. II. Parham, Senior Warden; S. L.\\nGriffith, Junior Warden W. B. Wait, J. H. Ilanev, Robert J.\\nMatthews, William G. Whipple, Logan H. Roots, Geo. IL\\nVan Etten, P. K. Roots, C\\\\ H Dolbeer, F. D. Clark.\\nA. D. 1 887. R. H. Parham, Senior Warden W. W.\\nSmith, Junior Warden John D. Adams, Dr. W. A. Cantrell,\\nR. L. Goodrich, Dr. L. R. Stark, Rufus J. Polk, G. S. Brack,\\nJ. H. Haney, C. H. Dolheer, F. D. CMavk.\\nL D. 1888. R. H. Parham, Senior Warden; W. W.\\nSmith, Junior Warden; John D. Adams, Dr. W. A. (^mtrell,\\nR. L. Goodrich, Dr. L. R. Stark, R. J. Polk, G. S. Brack, J.\\nH. Haney, John W. Goodwin, F. D. Clark.\\nA. D. 1889. R. II. Parham. Senior Warden Dr. W. A.\\nCantrell, Junior Warden John D. Adams, John W. Goodwin,\\nR. L. Goodrich, L. R. Stark, R. J. Polk, J. II. Ilanev, G. S.\\nBrack, F. D. Clark, S. B. Adams.\\nA. D. 1890. John I). Adams, Senior Warden; Wm. A.\\nCantrell, Junior Warden; R. II. Parham, G. S. Brack, L. R.\\nStark, Ralph L. Goodrich, J. IL Ilanev, Rufus J. Polk, Sam\\nB. Adams, John W. Goodwin, T. C. Powell.\\nA. D. 1891. Same Vestrv re-elected.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0433.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "378 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nA. D. 1 892. John D. Adams, Senior Warden W. A.\\nCantrell, Junior Warden K. H. Parham, J. H. Hanev, G. S.\\nBrack, K. L. Goodrich, L. R. Stark, J. W. Goodwin, S. B.\\nAdams, T. C. Powell, W. F. Wright.\\nA. D. 1893. W. A. Cantrell, Senior Warden; John W.\\nGoodwin, Junior Warden; S. B. xVdams, W. F. Wright, T. C.\\nPowell, W. H. Ragiand, H. K. Cochran, J. M. Bracej, G. N.\\nPeaj, J. A. Van Etten, H. F. H. Eberts.\\nA. D. 1894. W. A. Cantrell, Senior Warden; John W.\\nGoodwin, Junior Warden; G. S. Brack, S. B. Adams, J. M.\\nBracey, H. K. Cochran, W. H. Ragiand, W. F. Wright, A. A.\\nRutland, G. IvT. Peay, J. A. Van Etten.\\nA. D. 1 895. Same Vestry re-elected.\\nA. D. 1 896. W. A. Cantrell, Senior Warden John W.\\nGoodwin, Junior Warden; H. K. Cochran, Sam B. Adams,\\nW. F. Wright, A. A. Rutland, W. 11. Ragiand, J. H. Haney,\\nJ. M. Bracey, Gordon X. Peay, J. A. Van Etten.\\nA. D. 1897. W. A. Cantrell, Senior Warden; John W.\\nGoodwin, Junior Warden H. K. Cochran, S. B. Adams,\\nJ. M. Bracey, G. S. Brack, A. A. Rutland, Gordon N. Peay,\\nJ. A. Van Etten, C. T. Coffman, F. M. Jefferson.\\nA. D. 1 898. Same Vestry re-elected.\\nA. D. 1 899. W. A. Cantrell, Senior Warden John W.\\nGoodwin, Junior Warden G. S. Brack, H. K. Cochran, J. M.\\nBracey, A. A. Rutland, G. X. Peay, C. T. Coffman, J. A.\\nVan JEtten, F. M. Jefferson, Robert E. Wait.\\nA. D. 1 900. W. A. Cantrell, Senior Warden John W.\\nGoodwin, Junior Warden G. S. Brack, H. K. Cochran, F. M.\\nJefferson, G. K. Peav, S. R. Cockrill, T. H. Bunch, G. H.\\nFee, R. W. Polk, H. C. Rather.", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0434.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 379\\nTRExiSUREES OE C^HRIST CHURCH.\\nJohn H. Crease, Lambert Reardon, William B. Wait,\\nAmbrose H. Sevier, J. T. Trezevant, A. J. Slaughter, W. B.\\nCotton, R. H. Parham, John H. Haney, Albert O Neal,\\nAlbert Wassell, John D. Adams, Samuel B. Adams, John W.\\nGoodwin, W. E. Wright, H. K. Cochran, Erancis M. Jeffer-\\nson, Gordon N. Peaj.\\nPRESIDENTS OE THE LADIES AID SOCIETY.\\n(1) Mrs. Jane Newton Crease, (2) Mrs. Sim Bostick,\\n(3) Mrs. Sue Crease Peav, (-t) Mrs. Charles Scott, (5) Mrs.\\nH. N. Pierce, (6) Mrs. Logan H. Roots, (7) Mrs. Catherine\\nB. Skipwith, (8) Mrs. James Lawson, (0) Mrs. George W.\\nDenison, (10) Mrs. George Sappington, (11) Mrs. Sue\\nCrease Peay (second term), (12) Mrs. Rachel Carroll, (13)\\nMrs. T. J. Darragh, (14) Mrs. James Lawson, from 1896 to\\n1900, continuously.\\nVICE PRESIDENTS.\\nMrs. A. L. Breysacher, Mrs. Frances Johnson, Mrs.\\nJulia B. Bond, Mrs. Sue Crease Peay.\\nTREASURERS.\\nMiss Ada Beall Cochrane (Mrs. T. B. Lee), Mrs. J. H.\\nHaney, Mrs. G. S. Brack, Mrs. M. S. Horrocks.\\nSECRETARIES OF THE LADIES AID SOCIETY.\\nMiss A. S. Crease, ]Miss Georgie Woodruff, Mrs. A. L.\\nBreysacher, Mrs. H. G. Hollenberg, Mrs. Bessie Peay Bohlin-\\nger, Mrs. W. A. Cantrell. Mrs. (George Denison, Mrs. J. M.\\nbill, Mrs. R. B. Gross, ]\\\\rrs. A. A. Rutland.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0435.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "380 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nTHE MISSIOXARY SOCIETY.\\nThis society, being understood to embrace all baptized\\nmembers of the congregation, has no recognized head, except\\nthe Rector. Tlie Ladies Aid Society usually supjilied the\\ncommittees to work under Rev. Wallace Carnahan s direction.\\nSome noble work was done in sending missionary boxes to\\nclergymen in remote districts and donations in currency to\\nfeeble parishes within the Diocese.\\nLater this association, under the Rev. John Gass, took\\nthe title of The Christ Church Branch of the Woman s\\nAuxiliary to the Board of Missions in the Diocese of Arkan-\\nsas. The Woman s Auxiliary was organized by Mrs.\\nTwing, honorary secretary, at the instance of the general sec-\\nretaries of the board, the Bishops of the Church, and its own\\ngeneral secretaries of the board s appointment, in Xew York,\\nJanuary, 1872. The present secretary. Miss Julia C.\\nEmery, entered upon her duties October 1, ISTfi, and has\\ncarried the work steadily on since that time, assisted by her\\nsister, Miss M. T. Emery.\\nA. D. 1 886. The Christ Church Branch of the Woman s\\nAuxiliary in the Diocese of Arkansas was organized May 17,\\n1886, with the following officers. Rev. John Gass, President;\\nMrs. Catherine B. Skipwith, Yice President; Mrs. G. H.\\nYan Etten, Second Yice President Mrs. C. S. Cohen, Third\\nYice President Mrs. Rufus J. Polk, Fourth Yice President\\nMrs. W. H. Ragland, Treasurer; Mrs. John Gass, Record-\\ning Secretary; Miss ]\\\\ratilda Jordan, Corresponding\\nSecretary.\\nIn 1898-00 the officers were Mrs. C. S. Cohen, Yice\\nPresident Mrs. Sue Crease Peay, Second Yice President\\nj\\\\rrs. Wm. A. Cantrell, Recording Secretary Miss Matilda\\nJordan, Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. Eds2,ar Ilolman,\\nTreasurer.\\nIn 1800-1000 the officers were Rev. Geo. Gordon\\nSmeade, President; ]\\\\lrs. G. II. Yan Etten, Yice President;", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0436.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 881\\nJV Irs. G. W. Sappini toii, Second Vice Prositlcnt Mrs. (Jray\\nCarroll, Secretary; Miss Matilda Jordan, Correspondiui;- Sec-\\nretary and Treasurer.\\nOFFICERS OF DAUGHTERS OF THE KLXG.\\nFirst Directress, Mrs. Pope; Second Directress,\\nMrs. John Gass Third Directress, Mrs. X. Y. Bailey j Fourth\\nDirectress, Mrs. Andrew Hunter; Fifth Directress, Miss\\nEmma Kramer.\\nOFFIC^ERS OF ST. CECILIA S GUILD.\\nyOKMED IN 1S!)T 1;K\\\\ JOJIX GASS, IM-X TOK.\\nA. D. 1897. President, Mrs. Charles Martin (organ-\\nizer) Vice President, Mrs. Edwin Bentley Secretary, Miss\\nMinnie Cowpland Treasurer, Mrs. LI. K. Cochran (Corre-\\nsponding- Secretary, ]\\\\Irs. Frederick ]\\\\Iartin.\\nA. D. 1898. President, Mrs. Charles ALirtin Vice\\nPresident, ]\\\\Irs. Edwin Pentley Secretary, Miss Minnie\\n(J owpland Corresponding Secretary, Miss Xell Dooley\\nTreasurer, ]\\\\Iiss Imogene Brack.\\nA. D. 1899. President, Mrs. Edwin Bentley; Vice\\nPresident, Mrs. Frederick Martin; Secretary, Miss Xell\\nDooley; Corresponding Secretary, ]\\\\Iiss Bertie Ilndspeth;\\nTreasurer, Miss Bohbie Jones.\\nAdvisory Board Mrs. Gass, ]\\\\rrs. Compton, Mrs.\\nSybert, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Bragg, .Mrs. Retan.\\nORGANISTS OF CHRIST (TIURCIL\\nMrs. Wm. II. C. Yeager, Dr. Ben Scull, Ah-. Leonidas\\nP. Wheat, ]\\\\Ir. Ives, Dr. J. M. Beidelman, :\\\\Irs. Mar-\\ngaret Kerr, Miss Mary E. Ilarrell, Professor Levy, Professor\\nEllinger, Miss Laura Wiederman, Professor August Hoifman,\\nMiss Mary Smith (Mrs. Dewey), ]\\\\riss Lily Wright (Mrs.\\nPutnam Dickinson), Miss Ludovica Krause, ^fr. Edward", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0437.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "382 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nCutts Gould, Miss Margaret Woodruff, Mr, T. 0. Deane, Mrs.\\nMadison, Professor Brebegh, Mr. Palin Saxby, Mrs. P. K.\\nHoots, Mrs. W. 0. Denney, Miss Irene Baird (Mrs. Murray),\\nProfessor P. Jefferson Hall, Professor W. W. Lantliurn.\\nSIA^GEKS.\\nMrs. Plelen Scott, Miss Lizzie Shall, Miss Frances Cocke\\n(Mrs. Trapnall), Miss Mary Crease (Mrs. Watkins), Miss\\nLavinia Reardon (Mrs. Wait), Miss Helen Reardon (Mrs.\\nScott), Miss Harriet Grafton (Mrs. Fatherly), Miss Blanche\\nScott (Mrs. Sokolski), Miss Eliza Tucker (Mrs. Beebe), Miss\\nMary Ellen Tucker (Mrs. Ives-Strong), Miss Joanna Krause\\n(Mrs. Hotze), Miss Arbadoo Gibson (Mrs. Farrelly), Miss\\nMaggie Reyburn (Mrs. John Peay), Miss Laura Crease (Mrs.\\nLewis), Miss Lollie Tucker (Mrs. Hardy), Miss Annie Rear-\\ndon (Mrs. Raleigh), Misses Isadore and Lillian Pike (Mrs.\\nRoome), Miss Jennie Whipple, Mrs. Ames-Billings, Mrs.\\nHarris-Ryan, Miss Edwards, Miss Emma Scott (Mrs. Law-\\nson), Miss Johanna Scott (Mrs. Robards), Miss Lily Wright\\n(Mrs. Dickinson), Miss Imogene Wright (Mrs. Sevier), Miss\\nLillian (^antrell (Mrs. Bay), Miss Bessie Pierce (Mrs.\\nLyman), Miss May Cantrell (Mrs. Axtell), Mrs. Katzenstein,\\nMrs. Hanford, Miss Alice Compton (Mrs. Weaver), Miss\\nWilliams-Harnwell, Mrs. Whipple, Mrs. Cavanaugh, Miss\\nDaisy Cantrell (Mrs. Polk), Miss Nellie Clarke (Mrs.\\nWard), Miss Isadore Cantrell (Mrs. Goodwvn), Colonel Wm.\\nG. Whipple, Major J. W. Smith, Judge W. J. Warwick, Mr.\\nWm. Hunter, Mr. Geo. Gibbs, Mr. Victor ISTcwton (in the old\\nChurch and Chapel), Mr. T. W. Bankes, Lieutenant Post,\\nIT. S. A. Lieutenant Gregory, U. S. IST.\\nA. D. 1 899. ITpon the demise of the aged Bishop Henry\\nXiles Pierce, on September 5, 1.S99, after seventy-nine years\\nof earthly pilgrimage, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Wm. Montgomery\\nBrown, Bishop-Coadjutor since June 2S, 1898, became Bishop", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0438.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 383\\nof the Diocese of Arkansas without further ceremony. lie\\nliad been at his summer home at Galion, Ohio, and when\\nnotified of the serious iUness of Bishop Pierce immediately\\nset out for Fayetteville, Ark., to attend on him. When there\\nwas no hoi^e of recovery and tlu^ end was at hand lie hd t Fay-\\netteville for Little Rock and was ready to receive the funeral\\ncortege when it arrived here at 7 :50 p. m., on the Cth of Sep-\\ntember, and take part in the funeral services before narrated.\\nThe biography of the latest Bishop will close the series given.\\nIt will naturally be shorter than those of his predecessors, as\\nhis career has but begun, but it is the sincere hope of the\\nannalist that it will crown all that have gone before with a\\nblessed fruition of their joint labors.\\nThe following summary of Bishop Brown s work is\\nquoted from the Journal of the Twenty-eighth Annual Council\\nof the Diocese of Arkansas\\nSUMMARY OF MY WORK IX ARKANSAS.\\nPlaces visited, thirty-four; number of visitations, fifty-\\none sermons, sixtv-five addresses, seventy-five lectures, six-\\nteen; baptisms, ten; confirmations, 108 communions, twenty-\\neight; marriages, one; letters dimissory received, three.\\nOf the lOS confirmations mentioned, the candidates from\\nChrist Church presented by Rev. George G. Smeade are\\nLittle Rock\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Christ Church, April 22, 1900: Mr. Yerne\\nRicord Stover, Mr. Rufus E. Brugman, Mr. Jno. C. Peay,\\nMr. W. A. Pickering, Mr. Reyburn R. Peay, Mr. Oscar Addi-\\nson Schaad, Mr. James David Crockett, Mr. Ashley Cockrill,\\nMr. Shelby Tuppes Jabine, Mr. F. D. Beaming, Mr. E. II.\\nLeaming, Mr. Clarence Shell Gordon, Mr. Robert Whittield\\nXewell, Mr. Robert Dorsey Wooldridge, Mr. Albert Retau,\\nMajor Claude H. Sayle, Mrs. Grace Anna Dean, .Miss Winnie\\nGrace Dean. Mrs. Lida Leo]iard, Mrs. Xettie Williams, Mrs.\\nClara Whavne, Miss Prewitt, :\\\\liss Irene Elizabeth", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0439.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "384 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nHamilton, Miss Ethel Marigold Sniitli, Miss Bettie G. Ward,\\nMiss Gertrude Berbig, Mrs. F. 1). Learning, Mrs. E. H. Learn-\\ning, Mrs, J no. W. Mast, Jr., Miss Serena L. Abbott, Miss\\nAbbigale Belle Becker, Mrs. Jennie Mitchell Cockrill, ^Miss\\nJessie Eliza Scott, Mrs. Robert E. Wait, Mrs. Beyburn R.\\nPeaj, Mrs. Matilda Merriman, Mrs. Melissa Retan, Miss Zilla\\nE. Retan, Miss Carrie May Retan, Miss June Sibeck, Mrs.\\nLucile Llillis Hooper, Miss Maggie Richard Henwood, Miss\\nMartha Dickinson Brumnan.\\nTHE RT. REV. WM. MOA^TGOMERY BROWIs^ D. D.\\nA. D. 1855-1898. The lU. Rev. Wm. Montgomery\\nBroiot, D. D., second Bishop of the Diocese of Arkansas, was\\nborn in Wayne C^ounty, Ohio, near Orrville, iSToveniber 6,\\n1855. His academic studies were pursued in the High School\\nof Cleveland, Ohio, at Seabury Hall, Earibault, Minn., and\\nunder private tutors. He studied theology at Bexley Hall,\\nthe Theological Seminary of Kenyon College. Was ordered\\nDeacon by Bishop Bedell, June 17, 1883, in Trinity Church,\\nCleveland, and was placed in charge of Grace Mission, Gallon,\\nOhio. Was advanced to the Priesthood by the same Bishop\\non May 22, 1884, in Trinity Church, Toledo, Ohio. He re-\\nmained at Gallon, building up that mission, and establishing\\nmissions in adjacent places to the number of seven, until 1891,\\nwhen he became the General Missionary of the Diocese of\\nOhio, with the title of Archdeacon. In the latter capacity he\\nhad, under the Bisho]), oversight of all the missionary Avork\\nin the Diocese, and was largely instrumental in establishing\\nthe Church in a great many places and of building twenty-one\\nmission cha]iels. At the time of his election to the Episco-\\npate he was also secretary of the Diocesan Missionary Com-\\nmittee and of the Diocesan Board of Trustees, and he was one", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0440.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "RT. REV. WILLIAM MONTGOMERY BROWN. D. D.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0441.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0442.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 885\\nof the special lecturers at the Kenjoii College Theological\\nSeminary, Bexley Hall. He was elected Bishop-Coadjutor\\nof Arkansas on December 1, 1IS*J7, and was consecrated in\\nTrinity Cathedral, Cleveland, June 24, IS JS, by Bishops\\nMcLaren ((Jhicago), Seymour (Springlield), Whitehead\\n(Pittsburg), Vincent (Bishop-Coadjutor of Southern Ohio),\\nLeonard (Ohio), Atwill (West Missouri), Hale (Bishop Co-\\nAdjutor of Springlield), and White (Indiana). The\\nappointed consecrators were the Bishops of (Tiicago, Pitts-\\nburg, and Coadjutor of Southern Ohio. The ju-esenters\\nwere the Bishops of Springhehl and Ohio, and the ])reaclu r\\nthe Bishop of West Missouri. The attending Presbyters\\nwere the Very Rev. D. I. Hol)bs, of Little Rock, and the\\nRev. Professor Davies, of Gambler. Archdeacon Taylor, of\\nSpringfield, 111., acted as de))uty registrar. J]isho]i Brown\\nreceived the degree of 1). 1). from Kenyon College and from\\nthe University of the South, 1SU8. He is the author of ^The\\nChurch for Americans, first published in ISOC), and now in\\nits tenth edition.\\nOn April 9, 1885, Rev. Wm. Montgomery Brown nuir-\\nried Miss Ella Bradford, the adojited daughter of ^Irs. ALiry\\nScranton Bradford, of Cleveland, Ohio. His first (charge\\nwas in Gallon, Ohio, where he still retains his summer home.\\nLie moved to Little Rock with his family in Xovendjer, ISIJS,\\nwhere he has since resided.\\nThe Right Rev. Wm. Montgomery Brown, I). I)., P ishoi)\\nof Arkansas, has just issued from the ]U ess of Thomiis Whit-\\ntaker, New York, the tenth edition of his remarkal)le book,\\nThe Church for Americans. Libertas, writing in tlie\\nB ort Htnifh Times, says that it is remarkabh not so much for\\nits great popularity, which is evidenced by the number of\\neditions through which it has run, as for its broad-minded\\nspirit, liberality and entire freedom from invective, ridicule", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0443.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "386 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nor harsh criticism in discussing a subject which ordinarily\\ncontains more latent heat than any other that of religion\\nwherein too often our advocates of a peculiar cult\\n^Prove their doctrine orthodox\\nBy apostolic blows and knocks.\\nThe spirit of the work may be determined from the\\nfollowing paragraphs of the introduction\\nIt was impossible to cover the ground marked out for\\nthis book without instituting comparisons between the Episco-\\npal Church and other bodies of Christians. Where we are\\nfound to differ radically in matters of doctrine and govern-\\nment an uncompromising effort has been made to justify our\\nposition. But the uniform endeavor has been to speak the\\ntruth as Episcopalians understand it in a spirit of love and\\nfairness, and it is hoped that we have nowhere been so unfor-\\ntunate in our expressions as to wound the feelings of any who\\ndiffer from us or to leave the imjDression that we are so nar-\\nrow and bigoted as not to perceive that the various denomina-\\ntions of Churches have done and are doing a great ainount of\\ngood. We believe that countless millions will be in heaven\\nwho followed not with us.\\n^But though we are aware of the Christian graces, the\\ngood works, and the bright heavenly prospects of tens of thous-\\nands of the representatives of the Roman Church and Dissent-\\ning Protestants, yet this glad conviction does not justify us\\nin forgetting our prolonged, causeless, hurtful and therefore\\nsinful divisions, and the consequent obligation to do what we\\ncan to restore the visible organic unity of the primitive\\nChurch. We are indeed all journeying toward the Promised\\nLand but how much better it would be for us and for the\\nAvorld if we were going together in the straight and narrow\\nway of God s appointment\\nBishop Brown s arguments are based upon the following\\nbroad tenets", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0444.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "THE AJSNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. 387\\n(1. Christ founded a visible, organized (Jhurcli, and\\nhas laid upon us the obligation to ally ourselves with it. {2.)\\nThe way to that Church is not through the gates of Ivonie.\\n(3.) Nor by way of Methodism, Presbyterianism, etc., but\\n(4) Through the Episcopal Church.\\nThe writer follows the history of the Church in detail\\nfrom the time it was planted in Britain in apostolic times,\\nprobably by St. Paul himself, through all its struggles with\\npapacy, and gives a graphic account of the founding of the\\nChurch in America. His reviewer closes by commending\\nChurch for Americans to every fair seeker after knowledge,\\nas one of the cleverest, wisest and most logical and least dog-\\nmatic presentations of Episcopal doctrine than can come to\\nhis hands. It will eradicate from the minds of many of us\\nvery mistaken impressions and till us Avitli a more wholesome\\nrespect for tenets, which perhaps we did not before under-\\nstand.\\n\\\\_Arhmsas Democrat, April 19, 1900.]\\nPtEY. BROWX ACTED\\nAS A SUBSTITUTE AT ST. MATTllEw s CHUKCII IX NEW YORK.\\nThe following clipping from a New York paper will\\ninterest the friends of the Rev. Win. M. Brown in liittle\\nRock\\nAn unusual incident occurred at St. Matthew s Church\\nupon the occasion of the recent visit of the Bishop of the\\nDiocese. Dr. Krans was so ill that he could not take part\\nand present the class. Bishop Brown, of Arkansas, who hap-\\npened to know of Dr. Ivrans s condition, because he made one\\nof the Lenten week day addresses, volunteered to take his place\\nas parish Priest, and did so, reading the lesson and presenting\\nthe class. Dr. Gallaudet reading the Collects and Psalter.", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0445.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "388 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nBishop Potter, as could be seen, tried to treat Bishop Brown\\nas another Bishop, oli ered him the chair, etc. But Bishop\\nBrown refused. He was there to be the Parish Priest, and\\nhe refused to be anything else. Bishop Potter referred to\\nthe incident eloquently and touchingly, saying that while he\\nhad confirmed nearly one hundred thousand persons in this\\n]3iocese, this was the first instance he had known where the\\nclass had been presented by one Bishop to be confirmed by\\nanother. He recalled the story of St. Peter and St. John\\ngoing to Samaria to confirm those converted under the preach-\\ning of St. Philip, the Deacon.\\nLIST OF SUBSCRIBERS TO THE AIS^XALS OF\\nCHRIST CHURCH PARISH, LITTLE\\nROCK, ARK.\\nBishop Wm. Monts omerv Brown 5 Copies.\\nDr. Wm. A. Cantrell 5\\nDr. James A. Dibrell 2\\nMr. J. H. Hanev 1\\nMr. G. S. Brack 1\\nRev. P. G. Robert, St. Louis, Mo 1\\nMrs. Sterling R. Cockrill, Little Rock 1\\nMrs. John IS^. Jabine 1\\nMiss Mary E. Harrell, Hot Springs 1\\nRev. Wallace Carnahan, San Antonio, Texas. 2\\nRev. Geo. Gordon Smeade, Little Rock 2\\nMr. Robert E. Wait 1\\nAir. John S. Adamson 1\\nMrs. Lillian Cantrell Bay, St. Louis, IMo\\nMrs. Cara Crease Peyton, Little Rock\\nMrs. Sue Crease Peay, Little Rock\\nMiss A. S. Crease, Little Rock\\nMr. J. Huntlev, Little Rock\\n^1 r. C. T. Coffmau. Little Rock\\nJh: B. B. Minor, Richmond, Ya", "height": "2970", "width": "1799", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0446.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH. :?89\\nRev. T. C. Tupper, Savannah, Ga 1 Copies.\\nColonel Wni. G. Whipple, Little Rock 1\\nMrs. C. M. Butler, Little Rock 1\\nMr. Norman B. Morrell, Knoxville, Tenn 2\\nMrs. Gilbert Knapp, Toltec, Ark 2\\nMrs. Daisy Cantrell Polk, Galveston, Texas 2\\nMrs. May Cantrell Axtell, Richmond, Va 10\\nGeneral B. W. Green, Little Rock 1\\nMiss Hettie Denison, Little Rock 1\\nMrs. P. K. Roots, Little Rock 1\\nRev. Willard IL Roots, Chelan, Wash 1\\nRev. Geo. F. Degan, Augusta, Maine 1\\nMr. Fay Hempstead, Little Rock 1\\nAFr;:. A. Compton, Little Rock 1\\nMr. Wm. A. Cantrell, Jr., Fort AVorth, Texas. 2\\nMrs. Augusta Van Etten 1\\nMrs. John C. Peay 1\\nMrs. E. llpliam Reeve 1\\nJudge U. M. Rose 1\\nMiss Julia C. Emery, New York 1\\nMrs. Isadore Cantrell Goodwyn, Galveston, Texas 1\\n]Mrs. John Levering Matthews, Little Rock 1\\nAL s. Mary F. Zimmerman 1\\nMrs. Susan Cantrill Christie, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1\\nMiss Louie Cantrill Christie, Brooklyn, N. Y 1\\nGazette Publishing Company 1\\nMr. R. O. Paul, Little Rock\\nMrs. Benj. Harnwell, Little Rock\\nMr. John M. Bracey, Little Rock\\nMiss Matilda Jordan\\nCaptain Sam B. Adams\\nRev. C. C. Kramer, New Iberia, La\\nMrs. F. Wolcott Jackson, Newark, N. J\\nMr. A. F. Adams, Dallas, Texas\\nMrs. A. A. Rutland, Little Rock\\n]Mr. W. W. Lanthurn, Little Rock\\nYlrs. W. W. Smith, Clarendon, Ark\\nAirs. G. :\\\\r. D. Cantrell, Little Rock\\nRev. Arthur Howard Noll, Somerville, Tenn", "height": "2980", "width": "1736", "jp2-path": "annalsofchristch00cant_0447.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "390 THE ANNALS OF CHRIST CHURCH PARISH.\\nEev. Geo. W. Lay, Concord, iST. H 1 Copies.\\nMajor E. H. Parham, Little Rock 1\\nMrs. John Dudlev Adams, Little Eock 1\\nMr. S. S. Wasseli 1\\nMrs. Sophronia Peav Golder 1\\nMrs. W. Fulton Wright 1\\nMrs. Fannie Kendricks 1\\nMrs. Francissa E. Hutt 1\\nMrs. Mary Causine Clements 1\\nMrs. Eliza Scott, Scott s Station 1\\nDr. Claiborne Watkins 1\\nMrs. O. P. Robinson, Ashvale, Ark 1\\nMrs. P. Foulkes, Little Rock 1\\nMrs. J. B. Pillow, Helena, Ark 1\\nMrs. Rufus J. Polk, Little Rock 1\\nMrs. Laura Lewis Bunch, Little Rock 1\\nMrs. A. P. Howell, Little Rock 1\\nMr. Deaderick H. Cantrell, Little Rock 25\\nMrs. Fanny Ashley Gray, Little Rock 1\\nMrs. J. Cabell Breckinridge 1\\nMrs. L. P. Gibson 1\\nMrs. A. V. Sappington 1\\nMiss Frances M. Scott 1\\nMr. Herbert Wasseli 1\\nMr. John W. Goodwin 1\\nMrs. Mary C. Oppenheim, San Francisco, Cal 1\\nMr. J. G. Cantrell, Xashville, Tenn 1\\nMr. Wm. S. Mitchell, Little Rock 1\\nColonel Geo. W. Caruth, Little Rock 1\\nMrs. Logan H. Roots, Little Rock 2\\nMrs. Louisa F. Bailev, Little Rock 1\\nMrs. John G. Fletcher, Little Rock 5\\nMrs. Robert W. Johnson 1\\nMrs. Francis Johnson 1\\nMr. P. Hotze 2\\nMrs. Wm. C. Stout 1\\n]\\\\[rs. D. G. Fones 1\\n150 copies $300.00\\nEngravings donated by W. A. Cantrell, M. 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