Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1901 — PULPIT AND PREACHER [ARTICLE]

PULPIT AND PREACHER

The Rev. Addison Parker will become pastor of a Baptist church at "Richmond, Ind. The Rev. R. N. Van Doren is now connected with the Standard of thia city as one of its editors. The Rev. G. A. Ottmann will assume charge of Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church, St. Louis. First Methodist Episcopal Church of Des Moines, lowa, raised $4,000 for ths church benevolence this year. The first church edifice erected in Sheboygan, Wis., for worship by the Presbyterians was dedicated recently. Dr. William Ashmore, a missionary of the Baptist denomination, has left Yokohama, Japan, and is now in his old field at Swatow, China. The Rev. H. E. Chase Las resigned his chair at Nashotah House and entered upon the rectorship of Grace Episcopal Church, Hinsdale, 111. Dr. W. H. Rider has been transferred from East Ohio conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church to northern Minnesota conference, and is now pastor of Simpson Church, Minneapolis. The Rev. J. B. Dunwody, who married President Roosevelt’s parents, is still living in a little town in Colleton County, 8. 0. He is 86 years old. He -performed the ceremony in Roswell, Ga., Dec, 18*