Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1901 — AS THE WORLD REVOLVES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AS THE WORLD REVOLVES

If *as*ln4 of a ffotcd 7 re *cher. Rev. Dr. Edwin B. Webb, the aged and widely known missionary worker of the Congregational church, died at Welleßley, Mass., last week of senile debility. His most prominent offices In the work of the church W§qe chairman of the prudential comfhlttee of the American board of commissioners tor missions, president of the

trustees qf the Hartford Theological Seminary and member of the executive committee of the Congregational Home Missionary Society. Dr. Webb was born In Newcastle, Me., in 1820. His father was a farmer, and the future missionary labored as a farm boy and afterward as a helper in a country store. His tastes were intellectual, however, and he passed through Lincoln Academy and Bowdoin College, from which last named institution he was graduated with a degree in 1846. In 1847 he entered Bangor Seminary and was called to a pastorate before his graduation. He Insisted, however, on a few months’ study at Princeton, and thence went to Augusta, Me,, to begin his ministry. He was called by a congregation in Boston in 1860, and became pastor of Shawfmut Church In 1863. In that year he was elected a member of the executive committee of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, a post which he held until his death. In 1876 Dr. Webb’s usefulness in the missionary field took on a wide expansion. He had already visited Egypt, "PSleatlne, Syria, Asia Minor and other biblical lands, and he entered into his larger labors with spirit and devotion. Dr. Webb, in his prime, was an eloquent and a powerful preacher. His sermons were always interesting. His flock loved him in all of his capacities, and when he resigned from his pulpit in 1886 he was made pastor emeritus. He was a clever and vigorous writer, although never a controversialist, and he was tolerant and gentle in his doctrines and his life.

REV. DR. E. B. WEBB.