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THE CHRISTIAN PORTRAIT GALLERY: CONSISTING OF HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS OP CHRISTIAN PREACHERS AND OTHERS. EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY M. C. TIERS. CINCINNATI, OHIO: STEREOTYPED AT THE FRANKLIN TYPE FOUNDRY. 1864. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by M. C. TIERS, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. PREFACE. F or the satisfaction of the reader, it is proper that I state the reasons that have induced the publication of this work. Having resided for a number of years in the vicinity of Cin cinnati, where the photographic art is carried to great perfec tion, and having observed, among the thousands continually visiting the city, 0 1 1 mercantile and professional business, as well as in the correspondence of our editors and booksellers, frequent inquiries for fine photographs of several of the promi nent men among the Disciples, I determined, after consultation with a number of the brethren here, to meet the demand by the publication of a volume such as is now offered. That I might not place myself on too extended a plane in the selection of subjects, I have, with the advice of experienced brethren with whom I have consulted, concluded to make the age of forty years the minimum of the persons to be repre sented ; and that there might not be any reason for suspicion of personal favoritism, I have made seniority the sole rule of preference in regard to position. Hence, the eldest stands first, and the youngest last, with a regular gradation between, with but two or three unavoidable exceptions, in the entire collec tion. A large majority of the photographs are by Mr. C. W. 5 PREFACE. H owland, a young artist of eminent skill, on Fifth Street, Cincinnati; some of them, of superior merit, are by Klau- ber & Campbell, of Louisville, Ky., and others still are by Mr. J. P erry E lliott, of Indianapolis, Ind., who is also a brother in the Christian faith. A number are by unknown photographers, in various sections of the country. In a collection of sixty pictures, representing the living and the dead, some of them from the living subject, and some from other pictures, often much defaced, it can not be expected that there can be equal merit in every case. But, having spared no time nor pains, nor reasonable expense, to obtain the best that could be furnished, the author is confident of having produced a volume of portraits that will be highly acceptable to the friends and brethren of those represented. For the further gratification of the friends of those whose portraits I have published, the materials at my command have been such as to enable me to present a few brief, reliable state ments concerning the men represented. I have endeavored to avoid mere eulogistic praise, preferring that the appearance of their portraits in this volume, together with a brief state ment of facts, should, to the friends who might see and read, speak the fullest appreciation of their worth. In the arrangement of the work, each portrait faces the sketch to which it belongs, and hence the name of the per son represented is invariably at the top of the page facing the picture. It will be remarked that the sketches are not uniform in length, some being much longer than others. This can not be attributed to any desire to be unjust to any, when it is under stood that there has been great disparity in the material facts for such sketches placed at my disposal. 6 PREFACE. In some cases, too, my correspondents have made special request that their communications should, if possible, be pub lished entire. In such cases I have endeavored to comply, as far as I could reasonably do so. In a volume in which the number of pictures is necessarily limited, I have been compelled to exclude a considerable num ber whose names have equal claim to a place with some of those that appear. Others whom I have invited have failed to respond, so that I have been compelled to supply their places with the names of those whom I deemed equally worthy of such notice. One or two well-known brethren, whose prominent positions and increasing influence are highly appreciated by the writer, as they are by the brethren at large, have, after repeated importunities, “ respectfully declined” representation among “ distinguished brethren.” This must be my apology to their friends for their non-apj)earance. I should rejoice, however, to extend the work to a second volume, and am accumulating materials for that purpose, so that, should I meet with proper encouragement with this, I will be able soon to publish another of equal merit in every particular. As I have stated elsewhere, this work is written with refer ence to its ·influence on the uninformed “ world,” rather than on the Church. I have desired to let the “ world” know, what I am entirely conscious is the fact, that the Gospel which we preach has not been received simply by the ignorant, illiterate, and rude of this generation, but that many of the highly-gifted and influential of our age have been constrained, by the weight of its evidence, to yield assent to its claims, and to devote themselves to its ministry. Feeling conscious of this, I am 7 PREFACE. willing and desirous that the character and extent of our suc cess as a people shall be made known everywhere through the persons, lives, and characters of those who have been the in struments. For these considerations I have compiled and written this work, earnestly hoping that from the drawing-room and center- table it may be to many hitherto thoughtless ones the harbinger to the living voice of some evangelist making known the Gros- pel of salvation. CONTENTS. HISTORICAL SKETCH .................................................................................................................... 13 N e w Y o r k a n d N e w E n g l a n d .............................................................................. 19 P e n n s y l v a n ia ................................................... 21 M a r y l a n d a n d V i r g i n ia ............................................................................................... 22 O h i o .................................................................................................................................................. 22 K e n t u c k y ..................................................................................................................................... 27 L o u i s v i l l e ................................................................................................................................... 29 I n d ia n a * ..................................................................................................................... 31 I l l in o is ........................................................................................................................................... 32 M is s o u r i......................................................................................................................................... 3-4 T e n n e s s e e .................................................................................................................... 35 A r k a n s a s ..................................................................................................................................... 3 8 M ic h ig a n , W is c o n s in , I o w a , a n d M i n n e s o t a ....................................... 40 N o r t h C a r o l in a a n d t h e e x t r e m e S o u t h e r n S t a t e s 4 0 F o r e ig n M is s io n s ................................................................................................................. 41 C r e e d s .............................................................................................................................................. 41 P r e a c h i n g ................................................................................................................................... 4 2 R e c e p t io n o p N e w M e m b e r s .................................................................................... 4 3 T h e L o r d ’s S u p p e r .............................................................................................................. 4 3 C h u r c h O rganization ..................................................................................................... 4 3 O r d in a r y a n d E xtraordinary C h u r c h O f f i c e r s ........................... 44 O r d in a t io n o p O f f i c e r s ............................................................................................... 4 6 C a l l to t h e M i n i s t r y .................................................................................................. 4 7 T h e H o l y S p i r i t .................................................................................................................. 4S C o l l e g e s a n d S e m i n a r i e s ............................................................................................ 49 L i t e r a t u r e ................................................................................................................................ 5 0 CONTENTS. PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. PHOTOGRAPHER. PAGE 1. THOMAS CAMPBELL C. W. Howland, Cincinnati........................ 55 2. B a r t o n W . S t o n e ........................... “ “ “ 61 3. J o h n S m i t h .......................................... “ “ “ 72 4. A l e x a n d e r C a m p b e l l “ “ “ 77 5. J