This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...which elsewhere existed, he doubted the existence of another diocese in the country which had so little to display in the number and costliness of its church buildings. Trinity Church, Winchester, organized in April, 1859, under the supervision of the Rev. Thomas A. Morris, was admitted to union with the diocese the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...which elsewhere existed, he doubted the existence of another diocese in the country which had so little to display in the number and costliness of its church buildings. Trinity Church, Winchester, organized in April, 1859, under the supervision of the Rev. Thomas A. Morris, was admitted to union with the diocese the following year, with fifty-nine communicants. The parish was the result of the then recent location of the University of the South at Sewanee, twelve miles distant. St. Paul's Church, Athens, and St. Andrew's Church, Murfreesborough, were also admitted to union with the diocese in 1860. The latter had thirteen communicants, and a like number was reported by the Church of the Redeemer, Shelbyville, an unorganized congregation. Immanuel Church, Ripley, also submitted a report. There were reports submitted to the convention of 1860 of missionary work by the Rev. William Crane Gray in West Tennessee, and by the Rev. Dr. Thomas B. Lawson in East Tennessee. Altogether, the outlook for the Church in the diocese, (which had been incorporated on the 15th of March, 1858, under the name of "The Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Tennessee,") must have been bright and encouraging. The incident is related more fully, and with the Bishop's explanation of his part therein, in Bishop Green's " Memoir of Bishop Otey"; in the Dioc. Journ. of 1858, and elsewhere. CHAPTER IX. THE CHURCH AND EDUCATION. Bishop Otey was pre-eminently an educator, and he succeeded in permanently impressing the character of a teacher upon the diocese over which, in the providence of God, it was given him to rule for thirty years. His idea of the Church's mission was that of a teacher. The Apostles had been sent forth to teach all nations ...
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