A history of Methodism in the United States . , who visited the mis-sions of the church, he was elected president of Central Col-lege, Fayette, Mo., and there remained till chosen bishop. Key is a native of La Grange, Ga., where he was bornJuly 18, 1829, He was converted in 1847, was graduatedthe next year from Emory College, and at once enteredthe Georgia Conference. He had spent eleven years inMacon as pastor and presiding elder, and thirteen in Co-lumbus in similar capacities. When the General Conference assembled in Atlanta in1890 the number of preachers and members had reached1,177,150, a
A history of Methodism in the United States . , who visited the mis-sions of the church, he was elected president of Central Col-lege, Fayette, Mo., and there remained till chosen bishop. Key is a native of La Grange, Ga., where he was bornJuly 18, 1829, He was converted in 1847, was graduatedthe next year from Emory College, and at once enteredthe Georgia Conference. He had spent eleven years inMacon as pastor and presiding elder, and thirteen in Co-lumbus in similar capacities. When the General Conference assembled in Atlanta in1890 the number of preachers and members had reached1,177,150, a gain of 186,156; corresponding addition hadbeen made to the ministry. Bishop McTyeire died February 15, 1889. So valuablehad been his services in promoting the foundation andendowment of Vanderbilt University that the conference,after commending him in every capacity, declared that nothing would give him more durable honor than thegreat service rendered in forming and directing Vander-bilt University; that it is a grand monument to the mem-. JOSEPH S. KEY. NOT ORGANIC UNION BUT FRATERNITY SOUGHT. 385 ory of its founder, and hardly less to the name of Mc-Tyeire. Certain ministers having been speaking publicly andpriv^ately of the reformed theater and the legitimatedrama, the conference, after various attempts were madeto postpone the resolution, declared such expressions tobe misleading and dangerous, and the more so if theyemanated from a preacher of the gospel. By a rising votethey denounced the Louisiana State lottery as a nationaldisgrace, and expressed most profound sympathy for theirbrethren of Louisiana, promising to aid them by all propermeans to rid themselves forever of that and all other lot-teries. The committee ordered by the last General Conferenceto revise the hymn-book had finished its work to the satis-faction of the church. S. A. Steel, who had been frater-nal delegate to the General Conference of the MethodistEpiscopal Church of 1888, reported his reception.
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