Not Many Reverends Buried in Our Cemetery

Warren, Pennsylvania, 1877

— Rev E. F. Crane, will preach in the Baptist Church, Sunday afternoon and evening next, at the usual hours. He is from Little Falls, N. Y., and the understanding is that he will be secured permanently.

— It is related of a clergyman who received a call to a pulpit at Warren, R. I., that in investigating the question whether previous pastors had been kept for many years, he went into a graveyard and finding that no clergyman were buried there, declined the call.

— We doubt if "Rev." is engraved on many tomb stones in our cemetery. The pulpits of Warren, Pa., have been occupied by men of the best ability in the country, but we have kept them so well that they have always found it necessary to leave here to die.

— Titusville is convulsed with a temperance revival. Temperance is the absorbing subject among all classes.

— Over five hundred persons in Tidioute have signed the temperance pledge.

— The temperance revival widens and deepens every day. It is generally understood that "wine is a mocker and strong drink is" ten cents.

— Francis Murphy, the temperance apostle has a hard job on hand. He goes to Harrisburg soon, thinking to reform that town with a Republican legislature in session.

— "If you have sixty-six winters on your head, you have also sixty-six summers in your heart." The above remark, made by an elderly gentleman, the other day, has enough poetry in it to make it worthy of record.

— There were nine persons added to the Presbyterian Church last Sunday on profession of their faith in Christ. The church now numbers about 280 members. If each individual of this large number should, during the coming year, bring one other person to Christ; and should those thus brought influence others in the same way, how soon would the scripture, "and all shall know Him from the least unto the greatest," be fulfilled in this town. The Sunday School counted, on the last Sabbath, 265, visitors not included. There are six adult Bible classes containing in the aggregate about seventy persons.

—Warren Ledger, Warren, PA, March 22, 1877, p. 3.