Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1878 — From a Saloon to a Pulpit. [ARTICLE]

From a Saloon to a Pulpit.

A little over ten months ago Charles F, Whitcomb walked into ’Syracuse wearing an old straw hat with a hole in the top, a pair of shoes with the heels knocked off, and a linen duster. Yesterday the Bev. Charles F. Whitcomb, of Ira, Cayuga county, entered the Standard editorial rooms ; the straw hat had given place to a site tile, and the lirieir duster nad been multiplied to a full-dress suit pf black. It is but a littld'pver twelve months ago that Mr. Whitcomb van a saloon where the worst characters of Detroit, Mich., congregated. He went through a Entail fortune of SB,OOO or $10,000; spent the lastoent with boon companions, and then started on a tramp. At Port Leyden, LtfwiS county, he abandoned his former habits, and when he struck Syracuse: and the revival he maintained Ms desire to lead a better life. He took up one branch of Mr. Hammond’s labors— work among the intemperate. This he 'pur-, sued for several months, and was quite successful. He reached Ira, where he, now is pastor. of a church, which has prospered under his ministrations. From a saloon-keeper to a preacher ip twelve months. — Syracuse (N. Y.) Standard.