The Nashville Christian Advocate was a weekly newspaper of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
It served as the central organ of the denomination as well as the official paper of the Tennessee Conference.
[1] It was the largest and most influential of the Methodist newspapers in the South.
[2] and remained the "leading weekly" of the church after the Civil War.
[3] Prominent editors included Thomas Osgood Summers (1812-1882), Oscar Penn Fitzgerald and Elijah Embree Hoss.