Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — PULPIT AND PREACHER [ARTICLE]

PULPIT AND PREACHER

The First Congregational Church of Oakland, Cal., celebrated its fortieth anniversary last Sunday. The parishioners of St. Teter’s Protestant Episcopal Church, St. Louis, have raised $33,000 to free the church from debt. A statue of St. Lucia, by Guiseppe Donato, an Italian, 19 years old, has been presented to the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Philadelphia. Archbishop Martinelli, Papal Delegate in the United States, will be present at the dedication of the Polish Catholic Church at St. Josephat, in Milwaukee, on April 14. The Rev. W. B. Wright, D. D., has resigned the pastorate of Lafayette Pres* byterian Church, Buffalo, N. Y. He will not accept a call to another church, but will devote himself to literary work. The Rev. James Le Baron Johnson, fofmer assistant rector of Grace Episcopal Church, New York, has been deposed from the priesthood at his own request. Mr. Johnson has been suffering from nervous prostration. The Rev. A, M. Palmer, the oldest member of Newark conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died on Thursday morning in the 83d year of his age. lie had l>een a member of the conference more than fifty years. There has been a mortgage of $4,800 against the First Baptist Church, Camden, N. J., for more than forty years. At the service last Bunday Charles Watson, general superintendent of the South Jersey Gas, Electric and Traction Company, announced to the congregation that he had lifted the mortgage us a Christmas gift to the church. 'Die Rev. John B. Turpin, D. D., has been formally installed as pastor of First Baptist Church, Charlottesvilla Va. He was pastor of a church in Carrollton. Ms,, before he accepted the call to the Virginia church. At Tampico, 111., recently, an aged man united with the Methodist Episcopal Churdh on probation. He built the first house in Tampico; he had donated ground for n church building to every church erected In the place, but had held aloof from church fellowship. He was highly respected by all, and his act in joining the church greatly moved bis old friends.