Journal of the ..Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church . on, at 2:30,Jan. 13. It was an innovation. Rev. Jay W. Somerville, the pastor, andDr. Theodore Kemp, president of the Wesleyan, were in charge. Theexercises were in the form of the old Methodist Love Feast. No one wascalled on to speak, but the various preachers voluntarily spoke or startedone of the old hymns and the congregation joined in the singing. Theclass meeting, or love feast, plan of exercises seem to take away a greatportion of the heavy pall of ordinary funerals. When the congregationrolled out, Jesus,
Journal of the ..Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church . on, at 2:30,Jan. 13. It was an innovation. Rev. Jay W. Somerville, the pastor, andDr. Theodore Kemp, president of the Wesleyan, were in charge. Theexercises were in the form of the old Methodist Love Feast. No one wascalled on to speak, but the various preachers voluntarily spoke or startedone of the old hymns and the congregation joined in the singing. Theclass meeting, or love feast, plan of exercises seem to take away a greatportion of the heavy pall of ordinary funerals. When the congregationrolled out, Jesus, Lover of My Soul, and Am I a Soldier of the Crossand others of the grand old songs of the church there was uplift and thegreat work of the preacher of the Gospel of Christ stood out so strongthat the sorrow of his departure was lightened. There remain of the fam-ily, his wife, Mary B. Shaw, and his son, James H. Shaw. Two daughtersdied in infancy. There is also one sister, Mrs. Kate Dean, of Bloomington;Mr. William Shaw, brother, and Mr. Alexander Shaw, brother, in 1910 MEMOIRS 181 PHILIP FRANCIS GAY
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