Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1883 — Church Notes. [ARTICLE]

Church Notes.

The M. E. Church festival in Makeovers building, last Friday evening was not so successful as its predecessors have been. A heavy rain-storm in the early part of the evening had the effect of deterring many who would otherwise have attended. “He brought him to Christ” was the subject of the Rev. Claypool’s sermon at the M. E. church Sunday evening. The subject, short in words but vast in import, was handled in an able manner. The congregation was very large for the season, nearly filling tbe building. At the Christian church last Sunday morning Elder Halstead, under the head of “Christian liberality versus sectarian Dogmatism” made a manly plea in favor of a more perfect and universal tolerance of religions opinions which do not happen to accord with our own. The work of rebuilding the old M. E. parsonage is now progressing rapidly. Services at the Presbyterian church on the first Sabbath of August. On the fifth Sabbath of July, Rev. Small fills an appointment at Hebron, Ind. An efficient work is being done by an excellent corps of teachers in the Presbyterian Sunday school. There were eighty two scholars present on last Sabbath, and fqr some time past there has been a general average of eighty, and “yet there is room” for more. The Female missionary society held their monthly meeting at the church on Wednesday afternoon, just proceeding the prayer meeting. 1 The Ladies’ Industrial Society of the Presbyterian church will meet at of the Misses Smith on Friday of this week at 2 p. m., and a part of the work of this society is suggested to be the social family visiting among the friends and members of the church. It expected that the Rev. L. Nebeker, of Battle Ground M. E. church, will visit Rensselaer next Saturday and Sunday, in the interest of the Asbury University Endowment fund. He will pjeach at the M. E. church Sunday, morning and evening. Although the funeral ceremonies of Mrs. Tharp took place at two o’clock P. M. on Wednesday of last week, the remains were not buried until the arrival of Mrs. Hood, Mrs. Tharp’s daughter, from Port Wayne, who came on the 5;45 train Wednesday evening. All the other sons and daughters were present at the funeral.