Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1917 — Preacher Famine As a Result of the War. [ARTICLE]

Preacher Famine As a Result of the War.

War conditions, with the increase! standards, which are now being required of those who would enter the ministry, are causing a shortage of ministers in the Methodist Episcopal church, according to a statement made by Rev. W. B. Freeland, chairman of the board of examiners for the Theological Institute of the northern Indiana conference which met at Kokomo recently. At present Dr. M. S. Marble, superintendent of the Wabash district, is advertising for two ministers to fill vacancies caused by the war, and Dr. B. S. Hollopeter, superintendent of the Logansport district, is short one minister. Stringent regulations governing the admission and advancement of students were adopted at the institute. Hereafter a student must have a high school or preparatory school education and must make a grade of at least 70 per cent in a list of five or six books. The work practically has been doubled.