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            Selecting a preacher fro this gigantic project was no little task.  The names of various prominent men in the brotherhood were mentioned.  It was the consensus of most that C. M. Pullias was the man best suited for the job.  Pullias was well-known throughout the brotherhood.  He possessed a deep, resonant voice.  His knowledge of the Scriptures was unparalleled.  Just before the final decision was made G. W. Sweeny, who was in that particular meeting, suggested that N. B. Hardeman’ of Henderson, Tennessee, would be the ideal man for the meeting.  Sweeny had first met Hardeman at a meeting in Iron City Tennessee when the latter was thirty-three years of age.  Even though Hardeman was forty-seven at the time preparations for the meeting were being made he had never preached in Nashville, and was little known by those who were responsible for the plans.  But after a conference with the committee Hardeman was unanimously chosen to be the preacher for this meeting.

            The true greatness of C. M. Pullias shone forth when he accepted the second place as song leader for the meeting.  Pullias was reported to have said’ “I will be glad to sweep the floors or render any other services to make possible this proposed meeting,”  The thousands of Christians throughout Middle Tennessee got behind the Hardeman-Pullias meeting and gave it their full support.

N. B.H.— Biograph y of Nicholas Brodie Hardeman, James Marvin Powell and Mary Nelle Hardeman Powers, pages 170, 171