Pastor Begins Tour Around the World

1921

Sheboygan Pastor Begins Grand Tour

The Rev. J. W. Perry, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in this city, left yesterday afternoon for Milwaukee on his tour around the world. He was joined in Milwaukee by his brother, the Rev. Enoch Perry, industrial missionary of the city of Milwaukee, and they left on the nine o'clock train for Banff, Alberta. They expected to stop at Banff a day and continue to Vancouver, leaving there Nov. 12 on the Canadian-Australian steamship Niagara for Australia.

Communion was administered as the parting ceremony in the church Sunday morning. At the close of the service, the Rev. Perry dismissed the communicants from the altar with a brief admonition to "Go in peace." He did not conclude his benediction because of intense solemnity of the occasion.

With a few brief remarks, the Rev. Mr. Perry was in the midst of a veil of tears and his congregation almost to the individual joined to a greater or slighter degree with him. "Blest Be the Tie that Binds" was sung as the concluding hymn.

—Sheboygan Press-Telegram, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, November 7, 1921, page 10.