Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1903 — SIXTY YEARS IN THE MINISTRY. [ARTICLE]

SIXTY YEARS IN THE MINISTRY.

<R ev. David J. Huston, formerly of Milroy tp., this county, and Rev. James M. Smith celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of their entry into the ministry by holding all-day services in the Little Blue River Baptist ohuroh at Shelbyville, last Sunday. Together with the late John Phares they began preaching in April, 1843, their first sermons being delivered in that church. Mr. Smith is eighty-four years old, and lives in Missouri. Mr. Houston is eighty years old, and resides in Goodland.