Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1895 — Letter From Rev. Gilbert Small. [ARTICLE]

Letter From Rev. Gilbert Small.

Idaville. Inti., Oct. 3d, 1895. Jos W. McEwen, My good old friand: Yours received, and I send a phots which was taken daring the davs 1 served in Rensselaer. I have no later one in possession, but this resera. bles me at the time I was known in the field, and when a future gene~ tion, yet unborn, tears down tfce edifice now going up, they nan gain au idea of what I resembled in days gone by. Affairs in that church have un-» dergone a change since my first visit nearly eighteen years ago, when Mr. Coen told me there was no use in trying to revive the c. usi. Yet at the end of a year, for which service, oneshalf time, 1 received $175, the cause looked brighter; and when I went back, four years or so later, signs of growth were appar jnt, and at the end of two years as statrd supply, I left 50 members, and the Wi y was open for a settled pastor. Would like to be with yon on the 15th, but am otherwise engaged Hoping to see you all when the church is dedicated in the spring, 1 remain Yours as ever,

GILBERT SMALL.

Remember me ta all friends.