Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1915 — REV TITUS GRANTED HIS RELEASE [ARTICLE]

REV TITUS GRANTED HIS RELEASE

Pastor of Christian Church Will Tender Resignation to Enter AntiSaloon Work.

At a meeting of the official boart of the Christum church yesterday, Rev. G. W. Titus, the pastor, was with reluctance granted his release as pastor of the church. He only recently accepted a call as pastor for another year. He will continue the work here until the latter part of October, to give the board time to secure his successor, when he will remove to Indianapolis to take up work as field secretary of the state anti-saloon league, a work for which he feels that he is especially fitted.

It was with reluctance that Rev. Titus gives up his work here, and the board was reluctant to grant him his release and offered him special inducements if he would remain here as pastor of the church. He wifi tender his resignation as pastor of the church next Sunday, at which time it will be accepted. During his fifteen months here as pastor of the church he has increased the membership by seventy. The church is in better shape financially than at any time in its history. The men’s class in the Sunday school is the largest'in the history of the Sunday school and the Sunday school work has increased greatly.