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The Church Journal}

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terest which attaches to the subject of the contemplated
Southern University, renders it a valuable supplement to
the account which we transferred, from another source, to the
Journal of July 29th.--Eds. Ch. Jour.]

[Correspondence of the Church Journal.]

LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, East Tennessee, July 7th, 1857.

Messrs. Editors:--Your readers have been apprised of the
meeting proposed to be held by the representatives of the
Church in the ten most Southern States, for the purpose of
founding a University for their common benefit. The day
appointed for the meeting was the 4th inst., and the place
the top of this mountain. All the Dioceses were represented.
The morning opened auspiciously; the weather throughout
the day was charmingly bright and cool. At an early hour
crowds of horsemen, carriages, and other vehicles, began to
throng the mountain brow in front of the hotel, and all seem-
ed animated by the inspiration of the occasion. At the re-
quest of the meeting, Col. A. M. Lea, a graduate of West
Point, and a Churchman, acted as Marshal of the Day, and at
11 A. M. announced as the order of proceedings, on the lo-
cality selected for the occasion, the following programme:

1. The One Hundredth Psalm.
Tune--Old Hundredth.

2. A portion of Scripture.
To be read by Rt. Rev. Wm. M. Green, D.D., Bishop of Miss.

3. The Te Deum.
To be Chaunted.

4. Prayer.
By the Rt Rev. N. H. Cobbs, D.D. Bishop of Alabama.

5. Gloria in Excelsis.
To be Chaunted.

6. The Declaration of Independence.
To be read by Greer B. Duncan, Esq., of Louisiana.

7. The Star Spangled Banner.
By the Band.

8. Address.
By the Rt. Rev. J. H. Otey, D.D., Bishop of Tennessee.

9. Hail Columbia.
By the Band.

A procession was then formed under the direction of the
Marshal. Immediately following the Band came a Revolu-
tionary soldier of venerable age. bearing the national
flag. By his side walked a lad of 10 years, presenting to-
gether Old and Young America--those who had handed
down to us our political and religious freedom, and their
blessings and those unto whom we were here to devise means
to transmit them. Next in order came the Rt. Rev. Drs.
Green and Cobbs, then the Rt. Rev. Dr. Otey and Greer B.
Duncan, Esq.; next the Rt. Rev. Drs. Polk, Elliot, and Rut-
ledge, accompanied by ladies of their families; then the Rev-
erend Clergy, with ladies of their families and others; then
then the lay members of the Board, with their families, and citizens
generally. The procession moved, under the conduct of the
Marshal, to the place appointed--an elevated plateau on the
mountain top--and on reaching it, the delegates arranged
themselves on either side of the Speaker's stand, the audi-
ence seated itself in front on the rude benches which art
had extemporized, or the ruder ones which nature had strewn
around; the choir, with its melodeon, on the right, and the
Band, with its brazen array, on the left. The Marshal, from
the stand--a huge rock, covered by the branches and thick
foliage of a venerable oak--commenced Old Hundredth, to
be sung by all standing. And never was that magnificent
old Psalm poured forth from hearts more full, or in more
earnest strains of grateful praise. The choir was extempor-
ized, but all congregations represented, from all Dioceses,
contributed their men singers and their women singers, who,
gathering thickly around the improvised organ, sent up a
tide of song from that mountain top, which seemed to sweep
the heavens. I have often heard Old Hundredth, under cir-
cumstances calculated to excite and impress, but never did I
see before such a combination of incidents, prompting all
parties to enter on its use with such whole-souled earnestness.
The grandeur of the surrounding scenery, the occasion, the
associations, the future, all contributed of their influence, to
give zest and impressiveness to the singing of that Psalm.
May the strains in which it was uttered ascend as acceptable
incense before the Throne of the Lord of Sabaoth!

After the Psalm of the Bishop of Mississippi read the 22d
Chapter of Joshua, as not inappropriate. The Te Deum was
then chaunted in full voice by the whole assembly. An ap-
{part of last line not included in scan} offered by the Bishop of Alabama.