Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1917 — Church Requests Pastor’s Return. [ARTICLE]

Church Requests Pastor’s Return.

At the fourth and last quarterly conference- held at the Methodist Episcopal church of this city by District Superintendent McKenzie Wednesday evening, the large congregation without a dissenting Voice urged that Dr. Strecker be returned to his pastorate here for another year’s work. The regular annual session of the Northwest Indiana Conference is to meet at Valparaiso, Ind., Sept. 26. This conference is composed of the following districts: Greencastle, Lafayette, Crawfordsville and Hammond. It includes four Methodist churches in Indiana, all the Methodist churches in Terre Haute, and also the Methodist churches of South Bend. A line connecting these cities would represent the eastern and southern boundaries of the district. There are two more conferences in the state. The one including the Northeastern part is called the Northern Indiana Methodist conference and the remaining part of the state is called the Indiana Methodist conference. There are eight hundred Methodist preachers actively engaged in that number of popular pastorates in the state. .