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ADDRESS
OF THE
RIGHT REV. STEPHEN ELLIOTT, D, I)„
BISHOP OF GEOBGIA,
BEFORE THE
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YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
OP SAVANNAH,
IN THE
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INDEPENDENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
January 22d,. 1856.
PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION.
SAVANNAH, GA.:
PRINTED AT THE SAVANNAH JOURNAL JOB OFFICE.
1856.
Christian ^sstrriatiffit:
ADDRESS
OF THE
RIGHT REV. STEPHEN ELLIOTT, D. D,
BISHOP OF GEORGIA,
BEFORE THE
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
OF SAVANNAH,
IN THE
INDEPENDENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH,
January 22d, 1856.
PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATION.
SAVANNAH, GA.:
PRINTED AT THE SAVANNAH JOURNAL JOB OFFICE.
1856.
ADDBESS.
Gentlemen of the
Young Men's Christian Association :
As one of the citizens of Savannah and as one of the ministers of the
Gospel, whose lot God has cast in this place, I congratulate myself that
your Association has so successfully reached its first anniversary. Although
much still remains to be done to render your organization complete, much
has been done to prepare the way for future and increased usefulness. The
principles of your Association have been defined and put into active
operation—the various means of improvement for yourselves and of ben¬
eficence to others have been devised and arranged—a spirit of Christian good¬
will, such good-will as should pervade the followers of our common
Lord, has been generated—acquaintances have been formed that are fast
ripening into Christian friendship, and those who have hitherto felt isolated
and powerless are becoming aware of a fellowship of which they were
ignorant, and conscious of a strength which they had not recognized.
What a year ago was begun as an experiment, is now established as an
abiding institution—what then was only a desire and a hope in the hearts
of the good and the charitable, is now an Association with its officers, its
committees, its library, its reading-room, its respectable roll of Active and
Associate Members. While it has not intruded itself upon the public notice,
it has been silently working its way into efficient power, and to-night places
itself before the eye of the world that it may be known and recognized as
one of the agencies whereby our young men—the pride and hope of our
country—are to be elevated, and purified, and refined; whereby our city is
to be freed from the reproach of an ineffective Christianity. I am proud
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of being the organ of this annunciation ; still more proud at making it
in the presence of so respectable an auditory.
Was your Association merely a charitable one, a combination of the
Christian gentlemen of our various congregations for the purposes of vis¬
iting the sick and relieving the poor, and comforting the afflicted, it would
be an instrument of vast and permanent blessing. An Association for
these purposes was very much needed among us, for none such has hitherto
existed among the gentlemen of our Churches. The Christian women of
our flocks have always been active and efficient in their charities—have
always done what they could to relieve the misery of the world, and to
-jeer the hearts of the suffering and wretched ; but woman's sphere is lim¬
ited and cannot reach numberless cases of the most acute unhappiness.
She cannot intrude herself into the sick room of the young and friendless
stranger and minister to his wants—she cannot visit the victim of sin and
vice upon his bed of foul disease, and make his anguish less intolerable—
she cannot receive into her pure bosom the confessions of the criminal or
the repentance of the returning sinner. This must be man's work, and
should be the wor.'. if Christian men. And this is manifest from the
crowd of benevolent associations which has, of late years, sprung up
outside the Church of Christ, and which have been doing the work of
the Church to her discredit and dishonor. The organization of Odd
Fellows, the Howard Associations of our various cities, the guilds and
brotherhoods of our foreign emigrants have all grown up out of this want
of Christian association for benevolent purposes, and are a warning to
Christ's people to take heed lest the appropriate functions of the Church
of Christ be taken out of her hands by those professing no allegiance to
her doctrine or discipline. And this reproach can never be wiped out from
Christianity except by an association like yours, and of which, I trust,
vours is the germ. No subtle distinctions between doctrine and practice—
between faith and works—will avail anything with the world. " By their
fruits ye shall know them," stands prominently forth as the test of Christ's
disciples, and the world knows how to apply it, and human nature how to
decide upon the justice or injustice of the application. So long as these
merely benevolent associations can appeal to their self-denial, to their
bountiful charities, to their devoted attention to their sick and afflicted
membe/s, to their fearless disregard of " the pestilence that wralketh in
darkness and of the destruction that wasteth at noonday," the poor and
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the afflicted, and the suffering will feel that they owe to these volun¬
tary and worldly organizations that gratitude which the Church of
Christ should have claimed, that devotion which might have led thern on
from the reception of mere bodily benefits to the reception of spiritual
truth. It is impossible for the ministers of religion to fulfil this duty
unaided and alone. It is beyond the power of individuals, and would
over-tax the energies of the most active body, and the most willing heart.
For true benevolence consists not in the mere giving of alms—that is its
very least and lowest work. Personal attention—interest in the concerns
and business of the poor—sympathy with their feelings and their difficul¬
ties—the helping hand of influence and of power—the advice and gui¬
dance of the wise and the experienced, these are the elements of truest
benevolence, these the duties which should place the civic crown upon the
brows of their dispenser, for often do they save from ruin the citizens of
the Republic, and give back to her service her rescued children. These
most important parts of benevolence a minister, loaded with his own pas¬
toral duties, weighed down by the constant literary effort that is required
of him, having, like other men, his family and his domestic affairs to
watch over and manage, cannot attend to except to a very limited extent.
Unless the Christian laity will consent to lend him their time and their
influence, they must remain unperformed, and the Church of Christ lose
her richest opportunities of charity. For this reason is it, that I, in com¬
mon with the ministers of religion who surround me, hail this Association
as the beginning of a new era in benevolence among us, when we shh.ll
know where to turn for help in time of need, for help upon the principles
of Christianity, when we shall feel strong in carrying on our work of love,
having at our backs the zeal and activity of youth, moderated by the ex¬
perience and wisdom of mature life.
Was your Association merely a literary one, a combination of Chris¬
tian gentlemen upon Christian principles, for the purpose of intellectual
culture, it would deserve the warmest approbation of all who have at
heart the permanent well being of the community in which we live. We
need sadly a more decided literary development, and we need it only
because no pains have been taken to have it^therwise. There is among
us abundant material for literary society—men of high education, of
sound learning, of cultivated taste, of refined manners. We are behind
no community at the South in the learning of our bar, in the skill and
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science of our physicians, in the attainments of our clergy, in the varied
knowledge of our merchants. Our planters are, almost without exception,
•well read gentlemen who could throw their acquirements into the common
strife of literary collision, and give and receive lasting benefit from the
interchange of views and the strife of opinion. But all this is thrown
away, because at the South we are not gregarious. Each individual is
trained, owing very much to the sparseness of our population and the na¬
ture of our institutions, as an unit, and so each mind partakes of the in¬
dependence and the reserve of the individual. Sir Charles Lyell, in his
travels in the Southern portion of the Union, was struck with this feature
in our social life, and expresses his astonishment at the ludicrous contrast
which continually met him between the log cabins in which he was wel¬
comed, and the literary attainments of his host; between the rough ap¬
pearance of everything outside the house and the elegant refinement which
entertained him within. And this character has stamped itself
upon our whole Southern society—has crept from the country into the
towns where there exists no necessity for it, and has caused us to be con¬
sidered an ignorant and illiterate people. How exceeding difficult is it to
maintain anything1 of a distinctly literary character among us, and simply
from this evil habit of social reserve and proud independence. Our So¬
cieties all languish for want of support—our lecture rooms can be filled
only when some very distinguished stranger may make his advent among
us, and our public life is one entirely of business or of politics. This con¬
dition of things ought to be remedied—to be remedied for our children's
sake and for our own fair reputation. And if it can be remedied through an
association bound together by Christian principles, so much the better, for
all literary society needs now-a-daysto be watched and guarded. So free is
public opinion—so unshackled is the expression of all sentiments, and the
publication of all views—so rampant is the irreverence which would de¬
stroy all that is venerable because it happens to be old, an;l desecrate
whatever is sacred because it chances to be revealed, that Christian men
of learning and of ability must be vigilant over the. fountains of intelli¬
gence, and take care lest poison of the rankest kind be imbibed in the
nourishment which is given ^the young. To provide, therefore, for their
intellectual guidance, books of acknowledged learning and right principles
—the Bible being the standard of those principles—to establish reading
rooms where their enquiring minds may be fortified against the infidelity
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and licentiousness of the age—to afford them the opportunity of meeting
men of matured minds and disciplined understandings, is indeed a work of
highest Christian usefulness, and is one of the main objects of your Asso¬
ciation. Should your numbers increase as they deserve to do, and with
them your zeal and your influence, this faithful effort of yours may be the
beginning of a higher literary development among us, may be the
means of raising our social standard, at the same time that it leavens it
with the truth and blessings of Christianity.
Was your Association one of merely social influence upon the young
and friendless stranger, it should be worthy of our highest admiration and
our most fostering care. For in a country like ours, where there is no
such thing as entailed property or hereditary right of primogeniture, and
where almost every one is forced by necessity to make his own way in the
world, there are always crowding into our commercial cities well trained
but inexperienced young men, who are compelled thus early in life to run
the risk of wrecking virtue and character in their struggle for support.
They come, very often, from Christian homes, with a father's blessing upon
their heads, and a mother's prayers following their footsteps, and yet are
they peculiarly liable to evil from their ignorance of the ways of the
world, and from the confidence they have been accustomed to place in the
truth arid virtue Of all around them. Man has been to them, in the reli¬
gious" circle in which they have moved, what he appeared to be, and they
enter upon the battle of life, prepared for its difficulties and its hardships,
but not for its smile of treachery. They have been taught the necessity of
laborious industry, of strict integrity, of faithfulness to their duties, but
not the equal necessity of being guarded against the advances of seeming
friendship and pretended interest. They have come nerved against cold
and heat, against disease and pestilence, against privation and want, but
not against the seductions of flattery and the allurements of the world.
Young men born and educated in a city can scarcely appreciate the extent
of their danger, would find it hard to estimate the numbers who are its
annual victims. Guarded as they have been by parental guidance while
growing accustomed to the wickedness of a city ; warned off continually as
they have been from the haunts of vice, while their passions were yet
stronger than their reason; accustomed as they have become to the value of
the world's appearances, any risk to them must arise from some radically
perverted taste, or some obstinately corrupt propensities. Besides, they
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have their social circles in which they can spend their hours o? leisure and
wile away their unoccupied moments. The gentle influence of home is
always upon them ; the watchful eye of parental solicitude marks their
footsteps; the devoted affection of sisters casts its spell of purity about
them ; a warm fireside welcomes them to its comfortable circle ; a groupe
of cheerful friends makes virtue pleasant to them, and they need never go
to the seat of the scorner or into the dens of iniquity for the lack of com¬
fort or of society. But not so with the vast numbers of young men who
are pouring into our cities from their rural homes, without friends, with¬
out a family to welcome them, with no resources either of amusement or
of pleasure save those which may lie upon the surface of society, and
which are always the snares set for the unwary and the inexperienced. I
know no picture more touching in the whole experience of life than that
of an ingenuous youth cast in this friendless condition into the boiling
cauldron of a great city without a guide, without a counsellor, without a
comforter, with nothing but his good principles and his God. I know no
anxiety that must be more heart-rending than that of parents who are
forced to place a son in this position, no solicitude more overwhelming
than that with which they watch him as he buffets his way amid the temp¬
tations of the world ; and therefore I know no charity more beautiful,
more Christ-like, than that which opep® its arms to receive these sons of
Hope and of Prayer to it protecting bosom; which provides for them compan¬
ions, friends, counsel, comfort, everything they need, which gives them a por¬
tion of their own domestic happiness ; and recognizing a brother in the
child of a Christian, divides with him that which is far more valuable to
him than gold and silver : the sympathies and the aftections of the Heart.
When the news of this Association shall be carried to the Homes of the
State how many prayers will ascend from the lips of parents for its pros¬
perity—how many blessings will be heaped upon the heads of those who
conceived and arranged it. In saving one such youth, you preserve a child
to his parents, a citizen to his country, a soul to his God!
But while your Association is all these, a Benevolent, a Literary and a
Social Institution, and while it, therefore, may be expected to work out the
benefits which belong to these phases of its character, it aims at still higher
andn obler purposes,—it plumes its wings for the spiritual's well as for the
earthly. It not only undertakes all these offices, but it undertakes them
upon the highest of all principles—those of Christianity, and with the de-
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termination, God's grace assisting- you, of carrying them on in connec¬
tion with your own spiritual improvement, and that of the recipients
of your kindness. And in this you are true to the example of Him
whose name you carry. The earth-life of our Saviour is the chart of our
practice, and while He never refused to turn aside from the great work of
redemption in answer to the cry for mercy or the supplication for help, He
never failed to crown his work of love and charity with a maxim of truth
or a lesson of heavenly wisdom. The service which He worked for the
body was only introductory of a higher blessing which He designed for the
soul. And this is one of the leading purposes of your Association to render
all your labor of charity and sympathy subsidiary to the advancement of
evangelical religion. By the grace of God you have been made personally
sensible of the value of the soul, and as Christians you cannot consider
any work as well done unless it terminates in a knowledge of God's mercy
through Christ. Hence the admirable means which you have adopted for
preserving the faith of the young who may come among us, for invigorat¬
ing the lessons of piety which they may have brought from their homes,
for confirming their good habits, for bringing them under the droppings of
the sanctuary. And indeed the times upon which we have fallen demand
all this care and watchfulness. They seem to be strangely out of joint,
when men of education and of learning are giving themselves up to follies
past reasoning with, and to delusions which are almost incredible. What
then must be the hazard of a youth when cast into the midst of the ungodly
and the unbelieving, where the faith of his fathers is sneered at, and his
practice of piety is ridiculed, and all around him seem to consider Chris¬
tianity as a fable and personal religion as a weakness ? How can one so
weak, so immature stand up before this ridicule of companions and asso¬
ciates, or maintain his belief against the sophistry of the practised contro¬
versialist, or the audacity of the unblushing infidel ? Shall it be possible
for him to preserve his Christianity and his innocence ? It may be possi¬
ble, for nothing is impossible with God, but the chances are all against
him, unless his character be one of uncommon firmness, or his piety of un¬
usual depth. But very different should be his condition, were he met, upon
his entrance into our city, by young men of position, of high character,
of acknowledged talents, who should welcome him as a Christian, who
should let him see and understand that there were some faithful to Christ
in the midst of the general unbelief, some not ashamed to call Jesus their
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master, and to walk in bis footsteps before a sneering world. The struggle
would be comparatively slight for him under this Christian sympathy and
support, and he would rise above the temptations to- faithlessness and to sin,
and becoming strong in the Lord, would add another to the baud who serve
him in sincerity and in truth. Deeply important therefore is this part of
your arrangements—important for the Church of Christ, important for the
souls for which Christ died. Brought into connexion, through your agency,
with the pastors of the Churches in which they may have been trained,
finding in this Association companions of their own age and of like prin¬
ciples, recognizing in Christianity a bond of sympathy which they had not
before realized, the chances become entirely reversed, and the probability
is all thrown upon the side of truth, and of virtue.
But besides this effort for the spiritual improvement of others, you have
made provision for your own growth in Christian knowledge. While
watering others, you have wisely determined to be yourselves watered with
the dew of God's holy spirit. While laboring to kindle the love of others
into a flame of active devotion, you have placed yourselves in an attitude
of watchfulness over yourselves, that so the fire may not go out upon the
altar of your own hearts. You have taken to yourselves the solemn
warning of St. Paul—a warning which lie applied to himself, to beware
" lest when he had preached to others, he himself should be a castaway."
And if this be necessary in a minister, one whose whole thoughts and life
are absorbed in religious things, whose very business it is to be occupied
in the sanctuary, whom feeling and habits and the opinion ol the world
separate from worldly influences, how much more necessary lor you who
must preserve your consistency in the midst of the most adverse influences
and maintain your principles against an unceasing and often malignant
antagonism. You have indeed demand for all the grace which you can
derive from earth or heaven ; need for all the strength which may be pro¬
cured by reading, and meditation, and prayer, and Christian communion.
But as a faithful friend I must warn you, in this connexion, against an
evil which may arise out of the very midst of your devotion, and that is
to take heed lest you permit yourselves to grow up into an institution out¬
side of the Church of Christ. Your own power and the benefit which
you can confer upon Christianity will depend upon your close connexion
with the churches of which you are respectively the members. Your
work is, as I have shown, a most important one, requiring just such an
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agency as yours to perform it, but it should be done in subordination to
the appointed ministry under which you may each lie enrolled. Watchful¬
ness upon this point will prevent all collision or jealousy between you, and
the regular means of grace established by Christ in his Church upon earth.
And I merely touch upon this point in passing, because it is the rock upon
which all voluntary Associations are prom; to be wrecked. Beginning
their career of usefulness in connexion with and in subordination to the
Church, they have gradually assumed an independent position, and forget¬
ting their original principles, have often endangered the peace of the Church,
while they have most surely destroyed their own rightful influence. While
performing therefore the legitimate functions which, as laymen, you have
undertaken, beware lest you overstep and embarrass, instead of support
the ministers of the gospel.
All this benefit which has been detailed as the result of your Associa¬
tion will depend, gentlemen, upon the zeal and earnestness with which you
shall carry on your operations. It is not enough that you declare and
publish your principles, that you elect your officers, that you appoint your
Committees, that you fill your treasury ; you must see that the active
practical work which you have undertaken is fully performed. It is too
much the case in matters which do not involve personal interest and pecu¬
niary results, that association s satisfy themselves with adopting a satisfac¬
tory constitution, with passing resolutions about whose truth nobody can
dispute, and then with supposing that somehow or other the constitution
will work itself, and the resolutions carry themselves out. Let this not be
your sin ! The ground which you have occupied is too sacred and too holy
to be neglected or abused. You have pledged yourselves before the
Churches to attend upon and relieve the sick, to seek out and support the
poor, to welcome the young stranger as he enters the gates of your city, to
furnish him with companions and with friends, to prepare for him intellec¬
tual and spiritual nourishment of a wholesome description. And the
Churches will look to you for the performance of these things. You
have voluntarily associated to wipe away the reproach which the superior
assiduity of worldly associations has laid upon Christianity, and we shall
depend upon you for its fulfilment. We hail it as a most auspicious augury
when we find the young men of our congregations boldly and fearlessly
coming together upon Christian principles, separating themselves from the
world, and planting a higher standard of gentleness, of purity, and of
truth. You need fear nothing but yourselves ! Your principles are those
which God has revealed as the truth, the life and the way! Your pur¬
poses are those which Christ honored through his whole life,
and then consecrated by his death ! Your power is supernatural and un¬
earthly ; it is the same which nerved the Apostle when he said " I can do
all things through Christ that strengtheneth me." Only be true to your¬
selves, to your principles, to your purposes, to your divine power, and
blessings will spring up along your pathway, and the " well done good and
faithful servant" of your Saviour will welcome you to the rewards of
eternity.
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YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
OFFICERS.
PRESIDENT.
Robert B. Hilton, Second Baptist Church.
VICE-PRESIDENT.
Joseph H. Ladson, Trinity Church.
RECORDING SECRETARY.
John M. Guerard, St. John's Church.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
"William S. Bogart, St. John's Church.
TREASURER.
William G. Dickson, Independent Presbyterian Church.
LIBRARIAN.
John D. Hopkins, Independent Presbyterian Church.
DIRECTORS.
Lewis J. B. Fairchild, First Baptist Church.
J. D. Smith, First Presbyterian Church.
J. W. Sims, St. John's Church.
P. "W. Alexander, Christ Church.
John T. Thomas, Lutheran Church.
Noah K. Barnum, Trinity Church.
W. H. Baker, Independent Presbyterian Church.
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COMMITTEES.
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ON ESSAYS AND REVIEWS.
J. F. Cann, John M. Guerard and Thomas G. Pond.
CHURCH COMMITTEE.
W. I. Miller, First Presbyterian Church.
C. B. Carter, Christ Church.
William L. Wakelee, Independent Presbyterian Church.
John A. Mayer, Wesley Chapel.
C. H. Starr, First Baptist Church.
John T. Thomas, Lutheran Church.
B. Mallon, Second Baptist Church.
N. K. Barnum, Trinity Church.
Edward Miller, St. John's Church.
BOARDING-HOUSE COMMITTEE.
Noah K. Barnum, L. C. Tebeau and J. D. Hopkins.
EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE.
John M. Guerard, Joseph H. Ladson and G. A. Gordon.
COMMITTEE TO VISIT THE SICK.
J. D. Smith, L. C. Tebeau,
I. S. Anderson, W. B. Nungazer,
J. D. Hopkins, T. A. Askew,
W. G. Dickson, E. 0. Withington,
C. B. Carter, S. M. Colding.
W. King, Jr.,
FINANCE COMMITTEE.
Charles S. Hardee, L. J. B. Fairchild, F. J. Champion.
COMMITTEE ON TEACHERS FOR SABBATH SCHOOLS.
G. A. Gordon, Christ Church.
George S. Gray, Independent Presbyterian Church.
W. S. Bogart, St. John's Church.
Wm. I. Miller, First Presbyterian Church.
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James R. Dickson, Wesley Chapel.
N. K. Barnum,... Trinity Church.
W. S. Phillips, First Baptist Church.
Samuel B. Sweat, Second Baptist Church.
J. T. Thomas, Lutheran Church.
LIBRARY COMMITTEE.
W. S. Bogart, P. W. Alexander, W. H. Baker.
ACTIVE MEMBERS.
Alexander, P. W., Christ Church.
Anderson, Isaac S., Trinity Church.
Askew, Thomas A., Independent Presbyterian Church.
Baker, William H., Independent Presbyterian Church.
Baker, Thomas G.,
Barnum, N. K., Wesley Chapel.
Birch, J. N., Wesley Chapel.
Bogart, William S., St. John's Church.
Carter, Cyrus B., Christ Church.
Cann, J. F., Independent Presbyterian Church.
Champion, F. J., Christ Church.
Clark, Rev. George H., St. John's Church.
Colding, Silas M., Trinity Church.
Crumley, Rev. Wm. M., Wesley Chapel.
Dickson, William G., Independent Presbyterian Church.
Dickson, James R., Trinity Church.
Dowell, Wyer J., Trinity Church.
Epping, Rev. William, German Lutheran Church.
Fairchild, Lewis J. B., First Baptist Church.
Farrell, William H., First Baptist Church.
Gordon, George A., Christ Church.
Gray, George S., Independent Presbyterian Church.
Guerard, John M., St. John's Church.
Hardee, Charles S., Independent Presbyterian Church.
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Hilton, Robert B., Second Baptist Church.
Hopkins, John D., Independent Presbyterian Church.
Jenkins, Thomas A.,
King, Rev. Charles B., First Presbyterian Church.
King, William, Jr., Trinity Church.
Ladson, Joseph H., Trinity Church.
Mallon, Bernard, Second Baptist Church.
Marshall, William J., Independent Presbyterian Church.
Mayer, John A., Wesley Chapel.
McDonell, Rev. G. G. N., Methodist Church.
Miller, Edward, St. John's Church.
Miller, William I., First Presbyterian Church.
Nungazer, William B., Trinity Church.
Nungazer, James Y., First Presbyterian Church.
Peabody, George A., St. John's Church.
Phillips, William S., First Baptist Church.
Pindar, T. Norris, First Baptist Church.
Pond, Thomas G., St. John's Church.
Ripley, J. S., Independent Presbyterian Church.
Robinson, C. E., Independent Presbyterian Church.
Rogers, C. D., Wesley Chapel.
Selkirk, J. N., Lutheran Church.
Sims, F. W., St. John's Church.
Skelton, J. Avery, Wesley Chapel.
Smith, J. D., First Presbyterian Church.
Solomons, J. S., Trinity Church.
Starr, C. H., First Baptist Church.
Sweat, Samuel B., Second Baptist Church.
Tebeau, Lewis C., First Baptist Church.
Thomas, J. T., Lutheran Church.
Yalleau, William N., Trinity Church.
Wakelee, William Law, Independent Presbyterian do.
Wilbur, Aaron, Independent Presbyterian do.
Withington, Edward O., First Presbyterian do.
White, James, Independent Presbyterian do.
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ASSOCIATE MEMBERS.
Beach, E. 0.
Bryan, Henry
Currell, Spencer
Davis, John E.
Davenport, I.
Gallie, John B.
Habersham, J. 0.
Habersham, Robert
Haupt, Wm. L.
King, "Walter
Lamb, Caleb
McDonell, J. S.
Miller, James
Millen, John M.
Richardson, John
Williams, Theophilus
Willett, B.
"Winkler, J. A.
Zogbaum, W. D.
COUNSELLING MEMBERS.
Anderson, John W.
Anderson, George W.
Crane, H. A.
Duncan, "Wm.
Echols, A. A.
Green, Charles
Hardee, Noble A.
Harden, Edward J.
Hogg, James E.
King, "William
Lewis, John N.
Lynn, "William
Mercer, H. W.
Rodgers, James G.
Stoddard, John
Yoorhies, Jacob Y. N.
"Walker, Robt. D.