Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1917 — REV. BARNEY MAKES APPEAL [ARTICLE]

REV. BARNEY MAKES APPEAL

FORMER PASTOR OF BARKLEY CHRISTIAN CHURCH MAKES ABLE ADDRESS. A large audience greeted Rev. E. M. Barney at the union meeting held at the Christian church of this city Sunday night. Rev. Barney wm s number of years ago, pastor of the Barkley Christian church and did more than possibly any other minisTer to buildlip thaforgahization in that part of the county. He is now with the Anti-Saloon League of Indiana and is making a most excellent drive for this organization. His address here was a very fine one and the financial response was the vrey best ever offered by the people of this county. At the close of the meeting the following resolution was adopted and a copy telegraphed to President Wilson: A “Rsolved, that the Protestant churches of Rensselaer, Indiana, rejoice in the splendid provisions of our government in protecting our soldiers from intoxicants and the social evil, by surrounding the barracks and cantonments at home with a zone of safety, and that these churches in a union meeting this fourth day of November, 1917, petition President Woodrow Wilson to use the influence of the American government to secure the same zone of safety for the American soldiers abroad.”