Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1902 — Bishop Vincent. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Bishop Vincent.

We are pleased to be a>>le to pr-s. ::t to our readers a picture of fti-iivu, Vincent which is slid to be an excel lent likeness. He comes io our city next Tuesday to preside over the conference which meets here. Bishop Vincent is one of the strongest men in the Methodist church. Previous to his election to Bishop in 1888, he had been for a number of years corresponding secretary of the Sunday school union of the Methodist church and editor of the Sunday school literature. He is perhaps best known as the founder of the Chautauqua movement. This at least is the greatest movement that he will leave of his life’s work. The general conference of 1900 fixed his offiicial residence in Zurich, Switzerland for a period of four years and he has just recently returned to this country for tl e first time since his removal to Switzerland. He held several conferences in this country and after attending the semiannual meeting of the bishops in November will return to his former home. He has traveled extensively, having visited nearly all o: the Methodist mission fields abroad.

BISHOP J. H. VINCENT.