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COMMEMORATIVE OF

EEY. BE'VEBLI WAUGH, D.D,
LATE SENIOR BISHOP OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

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Besides those things that are without, that which cometh
UPON ME DAILY, THE CAEE OP ALL THE CHURCHES. — 2 Cor. xi, 28.
This is to me a new text. Long as I have been a
preacher, I have never before attempted to preach
from it. Its apparent appropriateness has suggested
its selection. My fears are that I shall not be able
to do justice to the subject and the occasion.
My voice is feeble, and there is so much noise around
the house that it will be very difficult for me to
speak. The present surroundings impress me with a
deep sense of responsibility. I feel that I need the
prayers and sympathies of the congregation. It is
by request of my colleagues that I appear in an
effort to execute the order of the General Conference
with regard to the funeral services of Bishop "Waugh.
I should gladly have committed the solemn service
to other hands ; but I remember the exhortation of
Peter : "Be ye subject one 'to another, and be clothed
with humility ; for God resisteth the proud, but
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sympathies, and humbly trusting in the Lord for
supporting grace, I shall do the best I can, and leave
all results to God.
The Christian ministry is a subject of paramount
importance. It is enough to fill the head, hands, and
heart of any man for life. It involves an interest
that cannot be . estimated. In executing this high
trust we should keep two things in view. Fi/rst, we
should aim to come up to the Gospel standard as
nearly as possible ; and secondly, we should not pre
sume to go beyond it. Now, fortunately for us, we
have in the New Testament sufficient instruction with
regard to the practical duties of the ministerial office ;
and not only ample instruction of the right kind, but
we have also illustrious examples. Paul says : " Be
ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ."
Now, while we may imitate Paul with regard to his
self-sacrifice, his ardent zealj and his persevering
efforts to save souls, it does not follow that we may
be his successors in all respects.
Our general theme this morning will be, Paul and
his successors : and, remembering the ground taken,
that we should aim to come up to the Gospel stand
ard, and not presume to rise above it, we raise these
propositions :
I. There are some things in the ministry of Paul
with regard to which we cannot be his successors.

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II. There are some things in the ministry of Paul
with regard to which we do not desire to be his suc
cessors ; and,
III. There are some things in the ministry of Paul
with regard to which we may and ought to be his
successors. These points will briefly claim our attention.
I. There are some things in the ministry of Paul
with regard to which we cannot be his successors.
1. And first, the apostle possessed "the gift of
tongues." We use this in the sense of speaking
many languages. The apostle to the Gentiles had,
without doubt, the knowledge of some languages
acquired in the ordinary way, by dint of close and
persevering application to study. But the point re
ferred to especially is, he possessed the knowledge of
many languages by direct inspiration from God. He
says : " I thank my God, I speak with tongues more
than yon all ; yet in the Church I had rather speak
five words with my understanding, that by my voice
I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in
an unknown tongue."
2. In the second place, he was endowed with the
spirit of prophecy. We are told that " the prophecy
came not in old time by the will of man ; but holy
men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy
Ghost." He very distinctly, in his letter to the Thes-

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salonians, prophesies the apostasy of the Eomans
under the personification of the "man of sin," "the
son of perdition." He also very distinctly prophesies
the downfall of that corrupt power. He says: "Then
shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall
consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall de
stroy with the brightness of his coming." He also
said : " The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the lat
ter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed
to seducing spirits and' doctrines of devils; speaking
lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared as
with a hot iron ; forbidding to marry, and command
ing to abstain from meats, which God hath created
to be received with thanksgiving of them which be
lieve and know the truth." He said also: "This
know also, that in the last days perilous times shall
come. • For men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affec
tion, trace-breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers of that which is good." Now, these pas
sages are sufficient to show that Paul was an inspired
prophet, and spake " as he was moved by the Holy
Ghost." And we have a few would-be modern apostles, who
profess to be the successors of the apostles, and as
sume to vindicate their claim to that relation by the
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they are few. They are fanatics of the Mormon type,
and others alike spurious. And let them, and all
others interested, remember that Paul himself, whose
successors they assume to be, made this declaration :
" Charity never faileth : but whether there be proph
ecies, they shall fail ; whether there be tongues, they
shall cease." Now, all that assume to speak with
tongues and to be inspired prophets, flatly contradict
him whose successors they assume to be.
3. In the third place Paul was endued with the
gift of miracles.
When he rebuked Elymas, the sorcerer, " there fell
on him a mist and a darkness ; and he went about
seeking some one to lead him by the hand." And
when the damsel, possessed of a spirit of divination,
called to the apostles, until she becamean annoyance
to them, " Paul being grieved, turned and said to the
spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ
to come out of her. And he came out the same
hour." When Paul was shipwrecked at the island
of Melita the barbarous people kindled a fire for
their comfort. Paul also "gathered a bundle of
sticks, and laid them on the fire, and there came a vi
per out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. And
when the barbarians saw it, they said among them
selves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though
he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not
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the fire, and felt no harm." And the barbarians
stood around eagerly expecting that " ha should have
swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly ; but after
they had looked a great while, and saw no harm
come to him, they changed their minds, and said he
was a god." In the same Island was Publius, " the
chief man of the island," whose aged father " lay sick
of a fever, and of a bloody flux : to whom Paul
entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him,"
and he was instantly healed.
In one instance, at least, Paul raised the dead. At
night he continued his preaching until a late hour;
" and there sat in a window a certain young man
named Eutychus, who fell into a deep sleep ; and as
Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep,
and fell down- from the third loft, and was taken up
dead. But Paul went down, and fell on him, and
embracing him, said, Trouble not yourselves, for his
life is in him ; " and he presented him alive to his
friends, and there was great rejoicing on his account.
Now, these instances are sufficient to show that
Paul, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, did
work miracles. But none of us can work miracles ;
and in this respect, none of us can be the successors
of Paul.
4. In the next place, Paul was an apostle, and in
regard to the apostolic office he had no successors.
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stituted for a specific purpose, to be perpetuated for
a short fime and then discontinued forever. The
mission of the apostles was to establish Christianity
in the world, by appealing to the facts of the Gospel
history from personal knowledge ; and when necessary,
confirming their statements by working miracles.
This was accomplished in one ordinary lifetime. The
apostles then disappeared from the stage of action,
mostly by deaths of violence, and they have no suc
cessors; and in the veiy nature of the case, they
could have none. No one was eligible to the apos
tolic office unless he had seen Christ, and was pos
sessed of the faith of miracles. This is clearly taught
in the New Testament. After the death of Judas,
" Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and
said ... of these men which have .companied with
us, all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out
among us, beginning from the baptism of John,
unto that same day that he was taken up from us,
must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his
resurrection." And of those that had personal knowl
edge of Christ, for none others were eligible, they
nominated two, Justus and Matthias ; and then, like
men of God, they got down upon their knees and
prayed : " Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of
all men, show whether of these two thou hast chosen."
And after prayers "they gave forth their lots;
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parlance, they voted by ballot, and Matthias was
elected. Now Paul did not pertain to the original college
of the apostles ; and from this fact some inferred
that he had not seen Christ, and consequently they
supposed he could not be an apostle. But Paul an
swered them on this wise : " Am I not an apostle ? am
I not free [from these slanderous charges ?] Have I
not seen Jesus phrist our Lord ?" Yes, Paul had
seen Christ ; for as he was going to Damascus,
" breathing out threatenings and slaughter against
the disciples of the Lord," Jesus met him, arrested
him with a power that brought him. to the«ground,
and a light from heaven shone round about him
brighter than the mid-day sun, and a voice fell not
only upon his outward ear, but upon his inmost soul,
" Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? And Saul
said, Who art thou, Lord ? And the Lord said, I am
Jesus whom thou persecutest !" Paul was overcome,
conquered, so to speak, slain ; and he arose and was
carried off, blind, to the house of a friend. And for
three days and three nights he fasted, and agonized,
and prayed with all his ransomed powers, and then
deliverance came. And he not only found pardon
through faith in Christ, but he at the same time re
ceived a commission as a Gospel preacher. And
what did he preach ? " For," he says, " I delivered
unto you first of all, that which I also received, how

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that Chirst died for our sins according to the Scrip
tures ; and that he was buried, and that he rose
again the third day according to the Scriptures ; and
that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve ; af
ter that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren
at once ; of whom the greater part remain unto this
present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he
was seen of James ; then of all the apostles. And
last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out
of due time. For I am the least of the apostles, that
am not meet to be called an apostle, because I per
secuted the Church of God." Then Paul had seen
Christ, and this settles. the question of his eligibility
to the apostleship in part.
But had Paul the other prerequisite, the faith of
miracles ? You read in the nineteenth chapter of
the Acts, that " God wrought special miracles by
the hands of Paul ; so that from his body were
brought unto the sick handkerchiefs, or aprons, '
and the diseases departed from them, and the
evil spirits went out of them." Then he had
seen Christ, and had the faith of miracles, and was
a genuine apostle — the apostle to the Gentiles.
But now we inquire further, Who, of all the pre
tended successors of Paul in our day, either Papist .
or Protestant, has seen Jesus Christ ? Not one ; no,
not one. And though some of them pretend to work
miracles, it is a vain and ridiculous pretense, unvin-

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dicated by any satisfactory evidences ; and no man
that reads the Bible and thinks for himself believes
them. Thus we see that the apostles have no suc
cessors with regard to the apostolic office.
H. But we notice now that there are some things
with regard to the ministry of Paul in which we do
not desire to be his successors.
We speak here with regard to his privations, his
oppositions, his sufferings, and the personal abuse
and violence he encountered. He tells us that he
" fought with beasts at Ephesus ;" that is, with
beasts in human form. And he said to the Philip-
pians : " Beware of dogs, beware of evil-workers,
beware of the concision." And he gave a general
warning to the brethren for the reason that " all men
have not faith." But upon this particular subject
we propose that Paul shall speak for himself. We
read from the context thus : " Are they," inquires
Paul, " are they ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a
fool) I am more ; in labors more abundant, in stripes
above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths
oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes,
save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was
I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a
day I have been in the deep ; in jburneyings often,
in perils of waters; in perils of robbers, in perils by
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perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in
the sea, in perils among false brethren ; ii\ weariness
and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and
thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness."
Now these things require no comment, only to say
these are " those things that are without," in the di
rect meaning and sense of the text.
And yet they did not form the weightier part of
the burden that rested upon the apostle to the Gen
tiles. He says : " Besides those things that are with
out, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of
all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak ?
Who is offended, and I burn not ?" Now, we remem
ber that Paul had charge of all the Gentile churches.
The work was great ; the opposition powerful ; aris
ing from the prejudices of the Jews and from the
superstition of the pagans. And there was a con
tinual influx of difficult questions and subjects upon
the apostle to the Gentiles : questions respecting
doctrines, questions of practical duty, questions of
conscience, questions of experience, questions of dis
cipline and government, questions of dispute and
confusion. And all these were bearing upon him at
once, insomuch that Dr. Clarke, commenting upon
them, calls them "an insurrection of cases," and
gives it as his deliberate opinion, that the difficulties
from within — " the care of all the churches"' — were a
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from without, and all those evils and afflictions to
which he referred in the passage we have just read.
III. But we must notice, lastly, that there are some
things in the ministry of Paul with regard to which
we may and ought to be his successors.
Here we wish to remark, that while Paul was
largely endowed with extraordinary gifts, he at the
same tiine practiced all the ordinary duties pertaining
to the Christian life, and exercised all the ordinary
functions of the ministry ; and in these things we
may and ought to be his successors. To aim at a
few particulars :
1. In the first place, Paul was a converted man. He
admitted that prior to his conversion he was a blas
phemer, a persecutor, and injurious; but he said he
" obtained mercy,' because he did it ignorantly in
unbelief" — probably more than can be said in our
favor. After he was converted he said : " For the
law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath. made me
free from the law of sin and death. For what the
law could not do, in that it was weak through the
flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of
sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh,
that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled
in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the
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trust that we have been " saved by the washing of
regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy. Ghost."
We trust that we have felt "the power of his resurrec
tion, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made
conformable unto his death." We trust that we have
tasted that the Lord is good, have been made partakers
of the heavenly gift, and felt the powers of the world
to come.
2. In the next place, Paul believed in a progressive
spiritual life. He did not teach that when men and
women are born again they are born full-grown ;
he thought that young converts are "babes in Christ,"
and should "desire the sincere milk of the word, that
they may grow thereby." He, exhorted the brethren
to " grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ" — to " leave the first prin
ciples of the doctrine of Christ and go on to per
fection." And what he taught he practiced, for he said:
"This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are
behind, and reaching forth unto those things which
are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of
the high calling of God in Christ Jesus."
And we too believe in a progressive spiritual life.
We believe in all the stages of Christian experience,
as taught in the Bible. We believe in conviction of
sin, in repentance for sin, attended with a breaking
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with godly sorrow. We believe in receiving pardon
through simple faith in the blood of the Lamb. We
believe in the witness of the Spirit, even of the Spirit
of adoption sent forth into the heart, " crying Abba,
Father." And we believe in a full salvation : that it
is our privilege to be saved from inbred corruption ;
to have the " old man" — that is, the corrupt nature —
crucified, with the affections and lusts cast out, so as
to be emptied of sin and filled with God. , We be
lieve in coming up to the measure of the stature of
the fullness of Christ. We believe in loving God with
all the heart, soul, mind, and strength, and our neigh
bor as ourselves, so as to be able to " rejoice ever
more, pray without ceasing, and in everything give
thanks." Therefore in this regard we claim to be
Paul's successors.
3. Again, Paul was called of God to preach.
He is very specific upon this point. He says:
" Necessity is laid upon me ; yea, woe is unto me if
I preach not the gospel!" And, brethren, we have
had very similar feelings. We do not believe that the
Gospel ministry is a human profession, to be chosen
as law or medicine, either by ourselves, or by our
religious parents or friends for us. We believe the
ministry is a divine calling, a high and holy calling ;
and every one of us has made this profession. In
taking our first ordination vow this question was
proposed to us: "Do you trust that you are inwardly

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moved by the Holy Ghost to take upon you the office
of the ministry in the Church of Christ, to serve God
for the promoting of his glory and the edifying of
his people ?" And what answer did we individually
make ? We all returned this answer : " I trust so."
So then there is not a minister among us who has not
professed to be " moved by the Holy Ghost " to take
upon him this work. And he that cannot make that
profession, and yet takes upon himself that work, has
missed his way and mistaken his calling.
4. Furthermore, Paul was a " traveling preacher "
in the largest sense of the term.
"From Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum
he fully preached the Gospel of Christ. Yea, so he
strove to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was
named, lest he should build upon another man's foun
dation." And now, when we read the journal of
Paul's travels and of his labors, as detailed in the
New Testament, we are led to inquire : Is there any
thing analogous to this ? Does the modern history
of the Church afford anything bearing any tolerable
analogy to this? And we naturally respond: Look
at Wesley, the great evangelist of England, and look
at Asbury, the great evangelist of America, and you
have something quite analogous thereto. And we re
joice thatso many of their sons, in allparts of the world,
still strive to follow them as they followed Christ.
But Paul was also a pastor. Although he was a
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" traveling preacher," yet he sustained the pastoral
office. Now no man can sustain the pastoral office
unless he has charge of at least one society or of one
congregation. But Paul had " the care of all the
Churches." He was at once the pastor of the pas
tors and of all their flocks ; and when he assembled
the elders of Ephesus at Miletus he said to them :
" Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the
flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you
overseers, to feed the Church of God, which he hath
purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that
after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in
among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own
selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to
draw away disciples after them. Therefore watch,
and 'remember, that by the space of three years I
ceased not to warn every one night and day with
tears." And what Paul taught them he practiced
himself. He says : " Ye know, from the first day
that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been
with you at all seasons, serving the Lord with all
humility of mind, and with many tears and tempta
tions, which befell me by the lying in wait of the
Jews: and how I kept back nothing that was profit
able unto you, but have showed you, and have
taught you publicly, and from house to house." Then
Paul was a pastor, officially and practically, upon the
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6. But Paul sustained a threefold office. He says in
one place to Timothy : " For there is one God, and
one mediator between God and men, the man Christ
Jesus ; who gave himself a ransom for all, to be tes
tified in due time. Whereunto I am ordained a
preacher and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ,
and lie not,) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and
verity." Then Paul was " ordained," that is, divine
ly appointed a preacher, and divinely appointed an
apostle; and he was a pastor, as we have seen. And
now, what was true of Paul was true of all the apos
tles, we presume. All preachers and pastors were
hot apostles, but all the apostles were pastors and
preachers. And Peter bears a very similar testi
mony. In his First Epistle General he sets out by
styling himself, " Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ ;"
and afterward says : " The elders which are among
you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of
the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the
glory that shall be revealed : feed the flock of God
which is among you." What was true of Peter was
true of all the rest. All elders were not apostles, but
all the apostles were elders. Now we have a threefold
office in our economy, and- it differs from the three
fold arrangement that Paul was under only at one
point. He was a preacher, pastor, and apostle;
there are some of us who are preachers, and elders,
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ops in our economy, but all bishops are elders and
preachers. The distinction between you and us is
one of office, of prudential arrangement, and not of
order. We utterly disclaim being apostles, or the suc
cessors of the apostles with regard to the apostolic
office ; but we claim to be scriptural bishops. We
claim to be in a position very similar to that of Timo
thy, bishop of Ephesus, and Titus, bishop of Crete.
Paul said to Timothy: "And the things thou hast
heard of me among many witnesses, the same com
mit thou to faithful men, who shall, be able to lead
others also." To Titus he said also : " For this cause
left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order
the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in
every city, as I had appointed thee."
Now here were two scriptural bishops. They had
authority to regulate the Churches andj to ordain
ministers ; and at the same time they were traveling
evangelists, and " went every where, prea.ching the
word." Now while we disclaim the idea of being
apostles, we do think that we sustain an office and a
relation very similar to that sustained by Timothy and
Titus, who were the first successors of the apostolic
age. Now, to show this, let us look at our work. In
the first place we have a sort of supervision of all the
conferences, of all the districts, of all the circuits, and
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daily" is " the care of all the Churches." We have in
some sense the supervision of the temporal and spirit
ual discipline and necessities of the Church. We
are required to travel at large throughout the bounds
of our work, and there is not a man among us who
travels less than five thousand miles a year ; and
there are brethren upon this platform now who have
traveled during the past year fifteen thousand miles,
and one more than twenty thousand miles, in the
prosecution of their official duty. Some regard this
travel as our heaviest burden. This is a great mis
take, for this travel, with all its perils, is the pleas-
antest part of our work, and it is that which sustains
and recruits us from time to time. When we are al
lowed to preach on ordinary occasions-it is a pleasant
labor, but the special occasions on which our services
are desired would be equal to all our time and all
our strength if we were to fill all orders. We are
allowed to stay at home a little — thank God for that !
but even then we are not free from " the care of
all the Churches." . There is a heavy official corre
spondence ; I speak not for the others, they are youn
ger than I, and can do more work than I can ; but
when at home I consume from one to two quires of
.paper per month in my official correspondence.
And this is to me the hardest part of the work I now
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just as much pressure upon our brain and nervous
system, and upon our heart also, as it is possible for
us to endure— and sometimes a little more. What is
seen of us as we preside in the conferences gives a
very imperfect idea of our toil. We are seen in the
chair for half a day ; but while to sit for four or five
hours, and to watch the course of the business, is
somewhat fatiguing, it is rest compared with our
afternoon and night work. I mean the stationing
work. We have now more than six thousand preach
ers to station annually. Each bishop on an average
stations more than a thousand in the year. And
considering the work with all its local peculiarities,
and the men with all their peculiarities and those of
their families, so to distribute them as not to embar
rass the" work, and at the same time not to embarrass
them and their families, is truly a Herculean task. It
sometimes. happens that interferences with the work
greatly increase these difficulties. . It sometimes hap-
.pens that ministers desire particular places, which they
cannot have in accordance with -the claims of all the
men and all the places ; and it sometimes happens,
on the other side, that certain places and people want
certain ministers whom they cannot obtain consistently
with the general demands of the work? And what
is to be done ? The territory of the conferences is
generally small, and a prominent man soon comes to
be known, and in the course of fifteen or twenty

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years he becomes acquainted with all the principal
appointments in the bounds of the conference ; and
the people begin to long for something fresh, and
importune the bishop to transfer from other confer
ences. And when that begins then the conferences
commence a course of remonstrance, the people ask
ing and the conferences opposing these transfers, with
a sternness sometimes that I can scarcely reconcile
with the disinterestedness of the Gospel. And so
here we are, between two fires, and turn which way
we will we are liable- to be scorched. Yet I must
say, on the whole, that he that desires the office of a
Methodist bishop desires a good thing ; for with our
economy it is indispensable. But we forewarn you
that, in receiving this office, you will find troubles and
responsibilities to which you have heretofore been
strangers, and involve yourselves in perplexities of
which you know nothing. To do all the work of a
Methodist bishop, and to do it as we are expected to
do it, would require the faith of Abraham, the meek
ness of Moses, the patience of Job, the strength of
Samson, the courage of Paul, the wisdom of Solo
mon, the eloquence of Apollos, and the paternal love
of John. But as we have not all these excellences,
all we can do is to do the work as best we can, in
measure and kind, and then submit to all the criti
cisms that may be heaped upon us with as good a
grace as possible.

24 A DISCOURSE COMMEMORATIVE OF
And yet there is one relieving thought to my mind.
There are brethren, competent brethren, among you,
who, notwithstanding all the responsibilities, and
sacrifices, and privations, and labors it will bring upon
them, would be willing to accept the office rather than
that the good cause should suffer.
But let us turn our attention to the subject before
us more immediately on this occasion.
It is a most solemn dispensation of Providence by
which twelve members of your last quadrennial session,
and one of its presiding officers, have been called from
time to eternity. It reminds us of the inquiry in the
Bible : " Our fathers, where are they ? and the proph
ets, do they live forever?" And what has been may
be again. It is among possible events, to say the
least, that twelve or more of these brethren, and one
or more of your presiding officers, may be called to
their final account in the course of the coming quad
rennial term. And the very thought that it may be
so wakes up to memory the solemn admonition of
Christ : " Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye
think not the Son of man cometh ;" and sends round,
in soft whispers, from heart to heart, the question,
" Lord, is it I? Lord, is it I?" And suppose it should
be you, and suppose it should be I, what then ? If
we are found at our posts with our armor on, and our
faces toward the enemy, and humbly trusting in the
Lord Jesus Christ, all will be well. We may fall at

REV. BEVERLY WAUGH, D.D. 25
' our posts ; but if faithful, we shall fall covered with
glory, and, like Jesus, conquer when we fall. God
grant that whenever, and wherever, and under what
soever outward circumstances death may overtake
us, Jesus may be with us, to hold up our sinking
heads, to soothe our breaking hearts, and to .bring us,
with songs of deliverance, in everlasting triumph, to
his eternal kingdom.
Bishop Waugh pertained to a small class among us
upon whom " came daily the care of all the Churches.".
And it will be found, by consulting his history, that
his life was a practical illustration of the principles
contained 'in our sermon. There has been so much
written and so much published on the subject, that
we have not the vanity to suppose we can say any
thing new ; nor do we suppose we can say what has
been said any better. But by adverting to the outline
of his history, it will stir us up by way of remen>
brance. The little sketch I have here to read was, at
the earnest request of my colleagues, drawn up by
me for the General Minutes of 1858 ; and not seeing
that I can make it much better, I have concluded to
adopt it with some slight modifications, which I will
now endeavor to read. '
Beverly Wattgh was born in Fairfax County,
Virginia, October 25, 1789, and died in the city of
Baltimore, February 9, 1858. In his early youth, at

26 A DISCOURSE COMMEMORATIVE OF
the age of fifteen, he attached himself to the Church
of God, and maintained his reputation as arconsistent
Christian to the time of his death. When a youth he
wrote some time in one of the public offices in Wash
ington city, which probably laid the foundation of
his well-developed business habits in after life. His
conviction of duty to enter the Christian ministry
was so strong that he believed he could not decline it
but with great peril to his soul and to his religious
enjoyment. He further believed that the ministry
of reconciliation was happily designed for winning
souls to Christ ; and entering upon it with humble re
liance upon God, he became endued with power from
on high, and his efforts were crowned with great
success. He was admitted on trial as a traveling preacher
in the Baltimore Conference in 1809, then in his
twentieth year, and appointed helper on Stafford and
Fredericsburgh circuit, in Virginia. , In 1810 he
had charge of Greenbriar circuit. In 1811 he was
admitted into full connection, ordained deacon, and
stationed in Washington City. In 1812 he was ap
pointed to Stephensburgh charge. In 1813 he was
ordained elder and stationed in Baltimore City. In
1814 and 1815 he labored on Montgomery circuit,
and in 1816 on Berkley. ¦ In 1817 stationed again in
Washington, and in 1818 returned to Baltimore. In
1819 and 1820 he had charge of Fell's Point, Balti-

REV. BEVERLY WAUGH, D.D. 27

more ; in 1821 and 1822, Georgetown, D. C. ; in 1823
and 1824, Frederic^ Maryland ; in 1825 and 1826,
Baltimore City station, and in 1827, East Baltimore.
In 1828 he was elected assistant book agent, and in
1-832 principal book agent. During the eight years
of his agency his name appeared on the Minutes of the
New York Conference, his election constituting him
a member of that body, as the rule then was.
He was a delegate to the General Conferences of
1816, 1820, 1828, and 1836. The General Conference
in 1836, in Cincinnati, elected him to the office of
General Superintendent. He filled that responsible
relation nearly twenty-two years, and after the death
of Bishop Hedding, in 1852, was senior bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. The whole term of
his itinerant ministry was nearly forty-nine years, and
during that protracted period he never sustained any
other than an effective relation, never suspended his
earnest labor to promote the cause of Christ.
In whatever position Bishop Waugh was placed he
proved himself a working man. He shared with his
colleagues the toil and responsibility of the general
oversight and of presiding over five sessions of the
General Conference, some of which were the most
laborious and stormy ever known in the history of
our Church, and, so far as we know, gave general
satisfaction. He presided on an average over about
seven conferences a year, or say one hundred and

28 A DISCOURSE COMMEMORATIVE OF
fifty in all. And so tenacious was he of performing
his whole duty that, sick or well, he seldom called an
elder to relieve him from the chair a moment. The
number of days he spent in presiding and care
fully watching over and directing the proceedings of
ecclesiastical bodies must have been over a thousand.
This duty we know to be wearisome and exhausting.
But his afternoon and night sessions in the stationing-
room were still more so. No business is more re
sponsible or difficult than that of assigning ministers
to their respective charges. All the peculiarities of
the work, and of the men and their families to fill it,
together with the likes and dislikes of preachers and
people, as far as they are known, have to be regarded.
" And who is 'sufficient for these things*? " To afford
perfect satisfaction to all parties in every case is
not calculated on" by the bishops, nor expected by any
reasonable man ; such as do require it are little in
formed respecting the general subject of an itinerant
interchanging ministry. With all its practical diffi
culties, however, it is the best ministerial organiza
tion in America, because most successful. And the
practical working of itinerancy is attended with less
friction upon the whole than might be supposed ; less
than is experienced in the systems regulating changes
among various orders of settled pastors.
The rule requiring the bishops to appoint the
preachers annually, under certain limitations and ex-

REV. BEVERLY WAUGH, D.D. 29
ceptions, was carefully and faithfully executed by
Bishop Waugh for nearly twenty-two years. The
average number of preachers appointed by him per
annum was, probably, five hundred and fifty, or say
twelve thousand in all. What a fearful responsibility
was involved ! How many hard cases were decided !
How severely were his sympathies taxed ! How
many disappointed expectants, both' among preachers
and people, to worry him with complaints or petitions
for relief not in his power to afford ! But his prin
ciple of action under the rule was the good of the
work first, and the accommodation of parties second.
To this principle he adhered under all. circumstances
to the best of his judgment, and in doing so main
tained at once the integrity of the episcopal admin
istration and the confidence of his brethren generally,
both in the ministry and laity.
To follow Bishop Waugh on his regular episcopal
tours for twenty-two consecutive years, and review
his travels and labors, would no't be suitable here in
this brief sketch. Besides, the requisite material is
not in our possession or reach. Suffice it to say,
when our jurisdiction's joint superintendents ex
tended to the entire connection, east, west, north, and
south, he took his full share of the work, changing
routes with his colleagues annually, so that each one
should quadrennially, if possible, visit all the con
ferences. In those days his routes ranged from

30 A DISCOURSE COMMEMORATIVE OF
Michigan to Georgia, and from Maine to Texas,
"everywhere preaching the word." This form of
the work continued till the brethren of the South
organized for themselves. Since that period his la
bors have been geographically curtailed, but not
otherwise diminished. During his whole * term of
episcopal service, it is believed,' he traveled about
one hundred thousand miles by all sorts of convey
ances, preached two thousand sermons, presided over
one hundred and fifty conferences, and ordained from
twenty-five hundred to three thousand deacons and
elders,, besides service rendered on various special
occasions. His toil and peril, fatigue and suffering,
must have been immense, but always without com
plaint. In 1857 he presided over 'six conferences scattered
from the Atlantic seaboard to Michigan and Indiana,
besides aiding his colleagues at three or four others.
For 1858 he had engaged to preside as far east as
Providence Conference, and as far west as Iowa.
Though in the sixty-ninth year of his life, and the
forty-ninth of his itinerant ministry, his zeal was in
nowise abated. He knew full well the perils of
travel by land and water ; the privation of long ab
sence from home ; his liability to sudden attacks of
disease, by which he had several times been admon
ished of his coming end ; but none of these things
moved him. He left the time, place, and manner of

REV. BEVERLY WAUGH, D.D. 31
his departure out of this world with Him who orders
all things well, but seemed resolved to die at his post;
" His tody with his charge lay down,
And cease at once to work and live."
A letter written on the day Bishop Waugh died,
by Eev. William Hamilton, of Baltimore, contains
these interesting items :
"The bishop went to Carlisle about two weeks
since to assist Brother Chambers in an interesting
revival of religion now in progress in that place, and
while there labored with his usual zeal and success.
On his arrival at home he was taken with violent
erysipelas, but through the skill of his attending
physician, Dr. Dulin, the disorder had fully yielded,
so much so, indeed, that he was able to sit up and
converse a little with his friends the evening before
he died. The immediate cause of the bishop's death,
it is thought, was an affection of the heart, for he
expired in a moment and without a struggle.
" Thus has fallen in our midst one universally be
loved and respected, and whose death must produce
a profound sensation throughout the Methodist Epis
copal Church."
The death of such a distinguished servant of Christ
is a loss to the general work. The whole Church,
of which he was senior superintendent, is bereaved.
Nearly a»million of members and over thirteen thou
sand ministers, and preachers feel as if they had

32 A DISCOURSE COMMEMORATIVE OF
buried their father. His manly form no more ap
pears among us. His voice will be heard no more
in our councils. That vacant seat in the episcopal
board deeply affects his b'ereaved colleagues. We
shall not again behold his placid countenance. His
flowing locks of silver white will never again excite
our veneration or elicit our admiration. His dark
and brilliant but mild and beneficent eyes will never
again shed upon us their beams of fraternal affection.
But he leaves with us his bright example that we
may follow him as he did Christ. It is worthy of
imitation. He was a man of God, a consistent Chris
tian, and faithful minister, scrupulous in the perform
ance of every known duty. He was plain in his
apparel, though proverbially neat ; sedate in appear
ance, courteous in manner, affable in social life,
given to hospitality. He was grave but not sad;
cheerful but not trifling; communicative but not
loquacious ; economical but not avaricious ; liberal
but not wasteful.
As a Methodist he advocated the "old landmarks"
laid down by our fathers ; ever ready to encourage
valuable improvements and to incorporate needful
changes, but no friend to speculative reform. He
adhered very strictly to Methodist doctrine, rule, and
usage everywhere ; yet as a Christian he cultivated
large views and pursued a liberal policy toward all
evangelical Churches, and could say with Paul, " Grace

REVi BEVERLY WAUGH, D;D. 83
be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in
sincerity." As a minister of Christ he was not showy,
but solid and impressive, earnest and untiring in
effort, and had many sons and daughters in the Gos
pel who will rise up and call him blessed. As a
presiding officer he was dignified and courteous,
always respectful and respected, evincing nothing of
the prelate, but much of the father in Christ. May the
mantle of our lamented Elijah fall on some younger
Elisha, who shall prove himself worthy to wear it !
Though our departed brother was not bodily trans
lated in a chariot of fire like the old prophet, yet his
redeemed spirit ascended to heaven, leaving the mil
itant Church in a general flame of revival glory.
There is no better time to die and go home to the
heavenly inheritance than when the Gospel army is
in rapid motion and cheering us on every side with
shouts of victory. His funeral sermon was preached
by Bishop Janes, atid the burial service was read by
Bishop Scott. The spot in which the remains of the
departed rest is near the graves of those eminent
servants of God and the Church, Bishops Asbury,
George, and Emory, in the Mount Olivet Cemetery
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