Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1920 — PREACHER TURNS FISHERMAN [ARTICLE]

PREACHER TURNS FISHERMAN

Made No Money In Pulpit, but Thinks God Was With Him. “I couldn’t do it preaching; I had to go fishing. I think God was with ma for every I cast my net it came up full. For six days and nights I got little sleep, so great was the gatch.” That was what Rev.. H. B. Nyoen, pastor of the Norwegian Baptist Church, Tacpma, Wash., said the other day as he bought tickets for himself, his wife and four children for Norway, where, he says, preaching is more lucrative than in America. He could not gather enough money together to go home merely by preaching, so he joined a salmon fishing crow off the San Juan Islands and made a clean-up on the season’s catch. Rev. Mr. Nyoen wffl go to Harstad, Norway, where he wlll receive 6,000 kronen a ybar, with house and fwel furnished to him. He received iMt 6800 from his Uttle church in Tacoma.