As bishop he visited M.E. Missions in Europe and India (1876–77), in Mexico (1881) and in Japan, Korea and China (1889–90).[4] He also was a delegate to the British and IrishMethodist Conference in 1894. Wesleyan conferred upon him the degree LL.D. in 1900.[5] He retired from the active episcopacy in 1904.[6]
His theology was described as holding to the faith of his denomination for essentials of doctrine, but with deference to the results of Biblical scholarship. He has published semi-centennial addresses delivered in 1875 and 1881.
"Andrews, Edward Gayer" in The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Samuel Macauley Jackson, D.D., LL.D., Editor-in-Chief, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1954.[7]
Death Notice in The Nashville Christian Advocate (official newspaper of the M.E.Church, South), January 10, 1908.[8]