. Holston Methodism [electronic resource]: from its origin to the present time . f a goodly supply of this worlds goods, butheld it as a steward; for no man was more charitableto his suffering brethren or more liberal to his gave largely of his means to the support and up-building of Methodism, the old church in Chattanoogaat the corner of Market and Eighth Streets beinglargely built by his donations. The last years of hislife were years of suffering; but his gentle Christiancharacter never wavered, and they were marked byinfinite patience and sublime trust in God. No truerdescriptio
. Holston Methodism [electronic resource]: from its origin to the present time . f a goodly supply of this worlds goods, butheld it as a steward; for no man was more charitableto his suffering brethren or more liberal to his gave largely of his means to the support and up-building of Methodism, the old church in Chattanoogaat the corner of Market and Eighth Streets beinglargely built by his donations. The last years of hislife were years of suffering; but his gentle Christiancharacter never wavered, and they were marked byinfinite patience and sublime trust in God. No truerdescription of the man and his character can be giventhan that of the text of Dr. Cunnynghams talk at hisfuneral: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is noguile. Thus was spent a life of sixty years from 1821to 1881 ; and from the time of his first becoming a citi-zen of Chattanooga, in 1838, to the day of his death,April 26, 1881, no voice was ever heard against him;but all of the citizens contemporary with him unite inpraise of his life. Prof. Edmund Longley died in 1906; but if I do. EDMUND LONGLEY, 542 HOLSTON METHODISM. not give a notice of him out of the chronological ordergenerally observed in this history, I fear that, such ismy shattered health, I may never be able to pay tributeto his great talents and many virtues. He was a manwhom I greatly admired and loved. He never joinedthe Conference, but was through life a local was a weeping prophet. I sometimes thought thathis great emotionality interfered with his logical abilityin the discussion of his subject. However, he preachedsome sermons that ranked high in homiletics. I onceheard him preach a sermon of great power, in everyrespect, at Lebanon Camp Ground, in WashingtonCounty, Va. The thought was good and the feelinggreat. He wept through the whole sermon, and thelarge audience of saints and sinners wept with him. Rev. Edmund Longley, , was born in Sidney,Kennebec County, Me., April i, 1819; and died atGla
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