Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1902 — PULPIT AND PREACHER [ARTICLE]

PULPIT AND PREACHER

The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Media, I’n., celebrated its golden jubilee last week. The Rev. E. R. Carter of Toledo, Ohio, lies become pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Ogden, Utah. Dr. James Y. Mitchell has just completed a quarter of a century as pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Lancaster, Pa. Thi Rev. n. C. First, for many years superintendent of Baptist missions in Illinois, has accepted a call to the Baptist Church nt Kearney, Neb. Third Presbyterian Church of Fut Wayne, Ind., was dedicated a few days ago free of debt, $6,000 being raised on the day of dedication to meet a balance due of $5,000. _ . Forty thousand dollars of the debt on Epworth Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, Cleveland, was provided for in forty life insurance policies of SI,OOO each, taken out and paid for by friends of the cbirch. t