Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1897 — PASTOR WILL SEEK GOLD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PASTOR WILL SEEK GOLD.

Rev. Frank P. Vrooinan, Tired of Ministry, Will Go to Klodike. Rev. Frank Buffington Vrooman, assistant pastor of the People's Church, Chicago, has confirmed the report that he will go to the Klondike. He has decided to leave the ministry of the gospel so as to be able to devote his entire time to the race after Mammon. As one of the promoters of a company to be capitalized for $10,000,000, the preacher recently

made a trip to St. Louis to prepare for an expedition to the Yukon. In shaking the dust of a clerical career from his feet Mr. Vrooman takes the opportunity to remark upon the unremunerativeness of the profession he is leaving. He says that he received only $25 from the People’s Church, in the time he served it. It is his opinion that being a clergyman is too expensive a luxury for him and he is tired of it. Mr. Vrooman’s controversy with the Presbyterian church and his acceptance of the position of assistant to Dr. Thomas are matters of recent history.

REV. F. B. VROOMAN.