Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1901 — Pastor Toasts Liquor Men. [ARTICLE]

Pastor Toasts Liquor Men.

In bumpers of beer the Rev. A. F. Sterger, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Evangelical church, Baltimore, drank the health of the Knights of the Royal Arch. The Knights are saloonkeepers and men in the liquor business and the occasion was the annual banquet. The Rev. Mr. Sterger recently publicly announced his sympathy with the saloonkeepers of Baltimore. The Anti-Saloon league denounced his course. The other Lutheran ministers of the city held a meeting and adopted resolutions declaring that the Rev. Mr. Sterger did not speak for the ministry of his church, and they regretted his action.