Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1917 — FORMER PASTOR SPORE HERE [ARTICLE]

FORMER PASTOR SPORE HERE

Rev. E. M. Barney Addressed Union Meeting Sunday. Rev. E. M. Barney, a former pastor of. the Barkley Christian church and now with the Anti-Saloon league, addressed a union meeting at the Christian church Sunday evening. In a plea Rr funds + o car -y on their great work in behalf of the nation at this critical time, he received a liberal and substantial response. At the close of the meeting the following resolution was adopted and a copy of the same telegraphed to President Wilson: Resolved, that the Protestant churches of Rensselaer. Indiana,-re-joice 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 4th 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.