Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1883 — The Churches. [ARTICLE]

The Churches.

Hinds and Havens, Heaven and Hades: —The first two are preachers, the second two are what they’ll preach. At Bell Center, two miles north of Rensselaer, on Sunday, May 13th. All are invited. Our Free Will Baptist brethren are now figuring on a church edifice to cost S3OOO to S4OOO. If. they put that much money into the building, it Is to be hoped that they will conclude to use brick rather than wood in its construction. There is now a considerable probability that a church building will be erected this year by the M. E. society in the neighborhood of the Wasson school house. SIOOO, it is stated, has already been subscribed for the purpose, and if such be the case the erection of the building the present year seems very probable. The Rev. A. Taylor, the Presbyterial Evangelist, received information, yesterday, that he had been elected to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church at Pierceton, Kosciosko county, Indiana. Mr. Taylor has naturally grown weary of the arduous labors of an evangelist, and will probably accept the call, and remove to to Pierceton about the tenth of this month. The Rev. Gilbert Small, as has already been stated several times, preaches at the Presbyterian church on the first and third Sunday of every month. Next Sunday is his regular appointment and he will preach morning and evening. It is also announced that he will hold services at Bell Center schbol house, north of town at 3 p. m., next Sunday. Residents of the neighborhood are respectfully invited to be present. A branch of the Woman’s Board of Foreign Mission Society, of the M. E. churcn, was organized in Rensselaer, at the residence of the Rev. J. J. Claypool, last Saturday afternoon. Mrs. J. J. Claypool was elected president, Mrs. M. B. Alter, vice-president, Mrs. T. L. Jones, recording secretary, Mrs. Joseph Clark, corresponding secretary, Miss Madge Osborne, treasurer. Last Sabbath morning being the time appointed for the annual missionary collection at the M. E, church, the Rev. Claypool pretWhed a missionary sermon to such good purpose that the collection which followed reached the amount of Twenty-eight dollars and forty cents. The amount assessed against Rensselaer circuit for missionary purposes this year, is seventy five dollars. All of which, or nearly so, the pastor believes will be raised. When it is remembered that the entire circuit raised but fifteen dollars last year for missions, and never was known to raise more than twentyfive dollars in a year, the magnitude oi Mr. Claypool’s expectations will be fully realized.