People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — Installation Service. [ARTICLE]

Installation Service.

Rev. M. R. Paradis who has been duly elected Pastor of the Presbyterian church of this city, was formally installed last Wednesday evening. Rev. D. P. Putnam and Rev. H. A. Percival both of Logansport and Rev. Rice of Monticello, duly appointed by Presbytery, performed the service. Rev. Percival delivered the sermon, a masterly and exceptionally able discourse on “The Preacher for the Age. ” The charge to the Pastor was delivered by Dr. Putnam, in his usually earnest and distinct style; the charge to the people a plain well conceived and pointed talk by Mr. Rice exerting the parishoners to an unfailing support of the pastor in whatever he should undertake. The pulpit was beautifully decorated with flowers, adding much to the impressiveness of the occasion.