Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — Didn’t Like the Elder. [ARTICLE]

Didn’t Like the Elder.

Rev. 11. A. Cleveland, D. D., some •* years ago, was pastor of one of the Methodise churches in Taunton* Mass. He was a strong, eloquent preacher, and a man of independent mints At one time' he had some trouble with the ] presiding elder of the district, and duning his sermon the following Sunday he indirectly referred to the controversy, and remarked: i “Why, If the Savior was to appear on earth tomorrow some little presiding elder would pop up and demand his , credentials.”