Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1883 — About the Churches. [ARTICLE]

About the Churches.

The North West Indiana Conference of the M. E. church meets this year, at Terre Haute, on the 29th of August, a month earlier than usual. Bishop Harris will preside. The M. E. Sabbath School is in a very flourishing condition. The number of scholars in attendance last Sunday exceeded 90. The Rev. Gilbert Small will preach atEorypt school house, Jordan tp., next Sunday, at three o’clock p. m. The Rev. Peter Hinds will preach at Bell Center school house, next Sunday, at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Subject; “ The where-a-bouts of the Devil.” The Rev. Peter Hinds, and wife, will be received, by letter, into the fellowship of the Rensselaer Missionary Baptist church, next Sab bath at 10:30 a. m. Mr. and Mrs Jay Williams, and Mrs. J. Q. Alter, have lately united with the M. E. church of Rensselaer, by letter. The Rev. James T. Abbett preached intheM. E. Churches at Wolcot and Remington last Sunday. These were Mr. Abbett’s first attempts at regular preaching, but that he acquitted himself with credit there is no room for doubt. Last Sabbath, immediately after the close of the morning services, the congregation at the Free Will Baptist church repaired to the river, a short distance above, and opposite to the Oil Well, where the pastor, Rev. B. F. Ferguson, administered the rite of Baptism, by immersion, to four candidates: Mr. Frank Kellet, Mrs. Lyman Zea, Miss Adda Daugherty and Miss Minnie Norris.