Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1883 — Church Matters. [ARTICLE]

Church Matters.

The Rev. W. R. Nowels will preach at the Baptist church next Sunday evening. The Rev. Peter Hinds filled the pulpit at the Baptist church last Sunday evening. The Rev. Gilbert Smalls, of Idaville, White Co., preached at the Presbyterian Church last Sunday. There is considerable probability that Mr. Smalls will soon take permanent charge of the Presbyterian congregation here. The Rev. J. H. Cissel, D. D.,the presiding elder, will preach at the M. E. church, Saturday and Sunday' evenings, and Monday morning next. The Love Feast will be held at 9 o’clock Sunday morning. The regular Quarterly meeting will be held at 10 o’clock Monday morning. The announcement made at the Presbyterian church last Sunday that the Rev. B. F. Ferguson, of the Free Will Baptist church, would preach in Rensselaer next Sunday evening was an error, that is the time of Mr. Ferguson’s regular appointment at Badgers Grove. Elder R. S. Dwiggins concluded his series of discourses at the Christian church, last Sunday morning, his subject of that day being: “The end of the world.” Mr. Dwiggins does not understand the scriotural meaning of the term “end of the world” to be a literal destruction of the earth, but rather the ending of the present order of things, and the beginning of a new dispensation.