Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1903 — PULPIT AND PREACHER [ARTICLE]

PULPIT AND PREACHER

Tiro of the best portraits of Leo XIII. were painted by Franz von Lenbach. The trustees of Baldwin University ot Berea, Ohio, have elected Prof. G. F. Collier acting president. The Rev. Wilbert J. Brown of Indiana has succeeded James B. Unthiank aa president of the Friends’ College at Wilmington, Ohio. Mns. A. P. Camphor, the wife of Preaident Camphor of the college of west Africa; at Monrovia, Liberia, has recovered from a serious illness. If we took as much pains to keep the tender lambs as we do to convert the tough old wolves the latter would soon die of starvation.—Ram’s Hom. The Rev. George C. Lorimer, D. D., has returned from Europe. He drew great congregations in England, but refused all overtures for a call to London. Dr. E. E. Smiley, who has resigned as president of the University of Wyoming. has accepted a call to the Congregational Church at Ithaca, N. Y., as its pastor. The Rev. Oscnr F. Moore, Jr., assistant at Grace Church, Newark, N. J., has accepted an appointment as chaplain and master at the Episcopal Academy, Cheshire, Conn. The Rev. Robert J. Burdette preached his first sermon last Sunday in his newly organized Temple Baptist Church at Ixm Angeles, Cal., taking as his subject, “Assured Prosperity.” Dr. Thomas March Clark, who has been the Protestant Episcopal bishop of Rhode Island since 1854, and is presiding bishop of that church in the United States, is coming near in length of years to the record of Leo XIII. Bishop Clark recently entered his 92d year. The Hawaiian committee of the Women’s Home Missionary Society has decided to build a home for Japanese women and children at Honolulu, to be known as the “Susannah Wesley home.” It is believed that this home will be largely self-supporting when it is ready for setru•ancy.