New York, 1895
Pastor John Chockley, of the North Baptist church of Flushing, who has had a number of rows with his congregation, is again in hot water. The members complain that the minister does not preach to them often enough, and is frequently absent delivering lectures on single tax. They will hold a meeting and an effort will be made to compel him to resign.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, July 5, 1895, p. 1.
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
RECTOR DE CORMIS FORCED OUT.
New York, 1895
A Claim of Deception in All Saints' Episcopal Parish.
The Rev. Louis DeCormis, rector of All Saints' Episcopal church, Great Neck, has resigned. His resignation was accepted at once by the vestry. This action was taken by the rector, after a pastorate of nine years, because of friction between himself and some of the vestry. Mr. DeCormis went to Great Neck in 1886. He brought such vigor into the management of affairs that he gathered a strong and wealthy congregation about him. A beautiful stone church was erected.
Everything went well until a month ago. Then a petition was circulated, asking the pastor to do more parish work, especially in the way of establishing a Sunday school. Many of the members and particular friends of the pastor signed this petition, being led to believe that it was the desire of the rector. George Hewlett was most active in getting signers to this paper. After the members had all been solicited, a meeting of the vestry was held Wednesday night, and a resolution was passed asking the Rev. Mr. DeCormis to resign. He refused. Mr. Hewlett said a large majority of the parishioners had signed a petition for his removal. Mr. DeCormis demanded to see the petition. Then he resigned.
When the petition was presented for signatures, it is claimed it asked for the establishment of a Sunday-school. Now, it reads to ask for the resignation of the rector. As soon as these facts became known, a stir was made. The friends of the pastor declared they had no such intention, and they started out to ascertain who was responsible for the turn things had taken. The people who have been put in a false light are starting another petition asking the vestry to reconsider their action, and also asking the Rev. Mr. DeCormis to remain.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 28, 1895, p. 1.
A Claim of Deception in All Saints' Episcopal Parish.
The Rev. Louis DeCormis, rector of All Saints' Episcopal church, Great Neck, has resigned. His resignation was accepted at once by the vestry. This action was taken by the rector, after a pastorate of nine years, because of friction between himself and some of the vestry. Mr. DeCormis went to Great Neck in 1886. He brought such vigor into the management of affairs that he gathered a strong and wealthy congregation about him. A beautiful stone church was erected.
Everything went well until a month ago. Then a petition was circulated, asking the pastor to do more parish work, especially in the way of establishing a Sunday school. Many of the members and particular friends of the pastor signed this petition, being led to believe that it was the desire of the rector. George Hewlett was most active in getting signers to this paper. After the members had all been solicited, a meeting of the vestry was held Wednesday night, and a resolution was passed asking the Rev. Mr. DeCormis to resign. He refused. Mr. Hewlett said a large majority of the parishioners had signed a petition for his removal. Mr. DeCormis demanded to see the petition. Then he resigned.
When the petition was presented for signatures, it is claimed it asked for the establishment of a Sunday-school. Now, it reads to ask for the resignation of the rector. As soon as these facts became known, a stir was made. The friends of the pastor declared they had no such intention, and they started out to ascertain who was responsible for the turn things had taken. The people who have been put in a false light are starting another petition asking the vestry to reconsider their action, and also asking the Rev. Mr. DeCormis to remain.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 28, 1895, p. 1.
Monday, September 1, 2008
PASTOR BYRT'S FAREWELL.
New York, 1895
He Will Be Succeeded at Morris Park by the Rev. Mr. Laass.
The Rev. Arthur W. Byrt concluded his labors with the Morris Park M. E. Church last Sunday. He delivered an historical address in the morning and in the evening preached a farewell sermon.
Monday night a reception was tendered him which was largely attended, not only by Methodists but by many citizens of other denominations. Addresses were made by the Rev. Henry W. Bryan, the Rev. Joshua Kimber, the Rev. Howard Billman, the Rev. Mr. Miller, the Rev. William Ross, and the Rev. Dr. D. W. Couch. Counselor Sanders spoke in high terms of the appreciation of the church for the work the pastor had done among them. A most complimentary resolution was received from the board of trustees of the village, and a letter full of generous expressions of regard for Mr. Byrt from Father McGuire of St. Benedict's Catholic church. The young people's Friday night class presented the pastor with a handsome gift. During the five years of his ministry he has built up churches at Ozone Park and Morris Park, the church at Morris Park being valued at $15,000, and having but a small floating debt. Its membership is now 185.
The Rev. Gustave Laass, of Centre Moriches, is to succeed Mr. Byrt at Morris Park the first Sunday of July.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 28, 1895, p. 8.
He Will Be Succeeded at Morris Park by the Rev. Mr. Laass.
The Rev. Arthur W. Byrt concluded his labors with the Morris Park M. E. Church last Sunday. He delivered an historical address in the morning and in the evening preached a farewell sermon.
Monday night a reception was tendered him which was largely attended, not only by Methodists but by many citizens of other denominations. Addresses were made by the Rev. Henry W. Bryan, the Rev. Joshua Kimber, the Rev. Howard Billman, the Rev. Mr. Miller, the Rev. William Ross, and the Rev. Dr. D. W. Couch. Counselor Sanders spoke in high terms of the appreciation of the church for the work the pastor had done among them. A most complimentary resolution was received from the board of trustees of the village, and a letter full of generous expressions of regard for Mr. Byrt from Father McGuire of St. Benedict's Catholic church. The young people's Friday night class presented the pastor with a handsome gift. During the five years of his ministry he has built up churches at Ozone Park and Morris Park, the church at Morris Park being valued at $15,000, and having but a small floating debt. Its membership is now 185.
The Rev. Gustave Laass, of Centre Moriches, is to succeed Mr. Byrt at Morris Park the first Sunday of July.
—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 28, 1895, p. 8.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Worry Causes Death
Illinois, 1916
Mrs. Marie C. Mueller, 43, wife or the Rev. E. L. Mueller, pastor of the German Evangelical church at Eight and Henry street, Alton, died of apoplexy yesterday at St. Joseph's hospital, in Alton. She had been suffering from a nervous breakdown which physicians thought was brought on by overwork in the church and by worry over the opposition of the members to her husband as pastor.
Three years ago, after her husband had been pastor of the church about five years, she received an anonymous letter telling her she was the cause of the members not liking the pastor. She is said to have worried constantly over that. Ten days ago the opposition to the pastor crystallized in a petition of thirteen members requesting his resignation. Before this petition was presented to the church the pastor handed in his resignation and it was voted on, the vote being 80 to 20 in favor of the pastor remaining.
—Edwardsville Intelligencer, Edwardsville, Illinois, April 14, 1916, p. 2.
Mrs. Marie C. Mueller, 43, wife or the Rev. E. L. Mueller, pastor of the German Evangelical church at Eight and Henry street, Alton, died of apoplexy yesterday at St. Joseph's hospital, in Alton. She had been suffering from a nervous breakdown which physicians thought was brought on by overwork in the church and by worry over the opposition of the members to her husband as pastor.
Three years ago, after her husband had been pastor of the church about five years, she received an anonymous letter telling her she was the cause of the members not liking the pastor. She is said to have worried constantly over that. Ten days ago the opposition to the pastor crystallized in a petition of thirteen members requesting his resignation. Before this petition was presented to the church the pastor handed in his resignation and it was voted on, the vote being 80 to 20 in favor of the pastor remaining.
—Edwardsville Intelligencer, Edwardsville, Illinois, April 14, 1916, p. 2.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Pastor Steals a Kiss
1916
For kissing the pretty daughter of a trustee of his congregation, Rev. J. Lewis Evans, pastor of the Congregational church of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, was ordered to resign "at once" by a resolution adopted at a meeting of the standing committee and the trustees. Miss Maude Jacobus, daughter of Edward J. Jacobus, a trustee, was not at the meeting.
The kissing incident is said to have occurred while Mr. Evans was moving his household goods into the parsonage. Miss Jacobus was carrying a framed picture upstairs. Mr. Evans, who is 55, was coming down. The stairway is narrow. They met in the middle and, in squeezing past, Miss Jacobus said the pastor threw his arms about her, hugged her tightly and kissed her "right on the lips."
—Edwardsville Intelligencer, Edwardsville, IL, April 7, 1916, p. 2.
For kissing the pretty daughter of a trustee of his congregation, Rev. J. Lewis Evans, pastor of the Congregational church of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, was ordered to resign "at once" by a resolution adopted at a meeting of the standing committee and the trustees. Miss Maude Jacobus, daughter of Edward J. Jacobus, a trustee, was not at the meeting.
The kissing incident is said to have occurred while Mr. Evans was moving his household goods into the parsonage. Miss Jacobus was carrying a framed picture upstairs. Mr. Evans, who is 55, was coming down. The stairway is narrow. They met in the middle and, in squeezing past, Miss Jacobus said the pastor threw his arms about her, hugged her tightly and kissed her "right on the lips."
—Edwardsville Intelligencer, Edwardsville, IL, April 7, 1916, p. 2.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Pastor Stands by Saloonkeepers
1905
Rev. George M. Bock, pastor of a Lutheran church in Mahony City, Pa., has resigned from the Ministerial Association of that city because of some features connected with its war on saloons. The association opposed the granting of a license to a man whose saloon is opposite Mr. Bock's church. The clergyman declares that the man is "a good neighbor" and that his place is "clean, decent, quiet and respectable." Therefore the preacher can not endorse the fight that is being made. He adds: "I have been pastor of the church for the past twelve years and have always endeavored to mind my own business."
True Sayings Indeed
If a man is a coward he always claims to be conservative.
The truth is always the strongest argument. — Sophocles.
Instead of doing things today the wise man did them yesterday.
The boy who ate twenty-nine bananas to win a $1 prize probably needed the money.
Rev. George M. Bock, pastor of a Lutheran church in Mahony City, Pa., has resigned from the Ministerial Association of that city because of some features connected with its war on saloons. The association opposed the granting of a license to a man whose saloon is opposite Mr. Bock's church. The clergyman declares that the man is "a good neighbor" and that his place is "clean, decent, quiet and respectable." Therefore the preacher can not endorse the fight that is being made. He adds: "I have been pastor of the church for the past twelve years and have always endeavored to mind my own business."
True Sayings Indeed
If a man is a coward he always claims to be conservative.
The truth is always the strongest argument. — Sophocles.
Instead of doing things today the wise man did them yesterday.
The boy who ate twenty-nine bananas to win a $1 prize probably needed the money.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Don't Be a Sloven
1910
No One Can Afford to Be Untidy
No man or woman is great enough to be slovenly.
I have known — and of course you have — many people who felt justified in developing their minds and ignoring their bodies, because they thought the mental was so much more important than the physical, a writer in the Colorado Springs Gazette says.
I think that is a very wrong outlook. No mental power, however great, exempts its possessor from the care of the person.
A brilliant, slovenly person may succeed in life, but only by using twice as much force as he need have expended. He will never go so far as the man or woman who takes care to add a prepossessing appearance to a prepossessing mind.
A few months ago I was much pleased to hear that a young minister for whose brilliance I had great respect had been honored by a call from a small town where he was preaching to one of Boston's most famous and beautiful churches.
Yesterday I was saddened by hearing that his resignation had been asked and given and that he had left the church and gone back to a small parish.
And the reason was simply this: He did not keep his linen clean.
A small thing, you say?
I don't know. A very large one, I should think, if it had the power to come between the congregation and his message.
A woman in our town whose slovenliness about her dress and her person has made her a town character took the civil-service examination recently. She is as clever as she is slovenly and passed at the head of the list. She has never received an appointment. It is an open secret that her failure to do so is simply because the officials will not have a person of her disgraceful appearance in a public position.
In the college from which I was graduated the commencement part is one of the prizes for which the best students strive. In awarding it last year a girl of the highest scholarship was passed over for one who had received less excellent rank because the first girl was nothing more nor less than "sloppy." The college was not willing that a girl of untidy appearance — no matter how brilliant her mind, no matter how clever a speech she might have made — should represent it on its commencement platform.
A shopkeeper might have an excellent stock of articles, but if his window show were thick with dust and his doorway choked with litter the public would be pretty apt to pass by and go to the more attractive shop down the street, though the articles sold there were no better or even scarce as good.
Any one who thinks the contents of his mind ought to make friends and win success for him, no matter how slovenly and unattractive his person may be, is just such a shopkeeper.
The examples I have cited have been extreme cases, of course. But on that account they are the better object lessons to remind any of us who may sometimes be careless in some slight particular that it never pays.
No One Can Afford to Be Untidy
No man or woman is great enough to be slovenly.
I have known — and of course you have — many people who felt justified in developing their minds and ignoring their bodies, because they thought the mental was so much more important than the physical, a writer in the Colorado Springs Gazette says.
I think that is a very wrong outlook. No mental power, however great, exempts its possessor from the care of the person.
A brilliant, slovenly person may succeed in life, but only by using twice as much force as he need have expended. He will never go so far as the man or woman who takes care to add a prepossessing appearance to a prepossessing mind.
A few months ago I was much pleased to hear that a young minister for whose brilliance I had great respect had been honored by a call from a small town where he was preaching to one of Boston's most famous and beautiful churches.
Yesterday I was saddened by hearing that his resignation had been asked and given and that he had left the church and gone back to a small parish.
And the reason was simply this: He did not keep his linen clean.
A small thing, you say?
I don't know. A very large one, I should think, if it had the power to come between the congregation and his message.
A woman in our town whose slovenliness about her dress and her person has made her a town character took the civil-service examination recently. She is as clever as she is slovenly and passed at the head of the list. She has never received an appointment. It is an open secret that her failure to do so is simply because the officials will not have a person of her disgraceful appearance in a public position.
In the college from which I was graduated the commencement part is one of the prizes for which the best students strive. In awarding it last year a girl of the highest scholarship was passed over for one who had received less excellent rank because the first girl was nothing more nor less than "sloppy." The college was not willing that a girl of untidy appearance — no matter how brilliant her mind, no matter how clever a speech she might have made — should represent it on its commencement platform.
A shopkeeper might have an excellent stock of articles, but if his window show were thick with dust and his doorway choked with litter the public would be pretty apt to pass by and go to the more attractive shop down the street, though the articles sold there were no better or even scarce as good.
Any one who thinks the contents of his mind ought to make friends and win success for him, no matter how slovenly and unattractive his person may be, is just such a shopkeeper.
The examples I have cited have been extreme cases, of course. But on that account they are the better object lessons to remind any of us who may sometimes be careless in some slight particular that it never pays.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Friends Church: "You Need Baptism of The Holy Ghost"
Ohio, 1916
Increased Attendance at Friends Church Revival
Large crowds attended the revival services at the Friends Church, Sunday. Last night it was necessary to throw open the Sunday School room. Seven persons presented their names for membership.
In his sermon in the morning the pastor spoke on the need of "Divine Equipment for Service." In part he said: God not only wants to save men from sin, but prepare them for service. It is not enough to have your sin pardoned, but you need the baptism of the Holy Ghost to give you power to do. This is the crying need of the church to-day. In the days of Finney, Edwards and the Wesleys it is claimed less than fifteen per cent of the converts backslid. In our day less than this number stand and all because we do not preach a full gospel.
In the evening his subject was "God's Estimate of the Value of a Soul." He said that no soul has ever gone so low but what Jesus goes beneath that one to lift him up. It is an abomination in the sight of Heaven for church people to talk about trash. All men are human beings, and have a soul and the soul of a poor harlot or drunkard is as precious in the eyes of Jesus Christ as that of the President or a King. When you hear a person talk about trash you may rest assured that that person is dirtier than the "trash" they talk about. The mission of Jesus is to put all men on an equality. Blind Bartimaeus had to be lifted up, while the self-righteous Zacchaeus had to come down, and the two met on the same platform.
Meetings to night at 7:30. Special prayer and inquiry meeting at 6:30. Special music at every service.
Resignation
Rev. Hugh Willard Hanna tendered his resignation as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Kenton, "for the sake of peace and harmony." His resignation caused general surprise as he was called to the pastorate in June, 1914, from Freeport, Pa.
—The Van Wert Daily Bulletin, Van Wert, Ohio, Feb. 21, 1916.
Increased Attendance at Friends Church Revival
Large crowds attended the revival services at the Friends Church, Sunday. Last night it was necessary to throw open the Sunday School room. Seven persons presented their names for membership.
In his sermon in the morning the pastor spoke on the need of "Divine Equipment for Service." In part he said: God not only wants to save men from sin, but prepare them for service. It is not enough to have your sin pardoned, but you need the baptism of the Holy Ghost to give you power to do. This is the crying need of the church to-day. In the days of Finney, Edwards and the Wesleys it is claimed less than fifteen per cent of the converts backslid. In our day less than this number stand and all because we do not preach a full gospel.
In the evening his subject was "God's Estimate of the Value of a Soul." He said that no soul has ever gone so low but what Jesus goes beneath that one to lift him up. It is an abomination in the sight of Heaven for church people to talk about trash. All men are human beings, and have a soul and the soul of a poor harlot or drunkard is as precious in the eyes of Jesus Christ as that of the President or a King. When you hear a person talk about trash you may rest assured that that person is dirtier than the "trash" they talk about. The mission of Jesus is to put all men on an equality. Blind Bartimaeus had to be lifted up, while the self-righteous Zacchaeus had to come down, and the two met on the same platform.
Meetings to night at 7:30. Special prayer and inquiry meeting at 6:30. Special music at every service.
Resignation
Rev. Hugh Willard Hanna tendered his resignation as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Kenton, "for the sake of peace and harmony." His resignation caused general surprise as he was called to the pastorate in June, 1914, from Freeport, Pa.
—The Van Wert Daily Bulletin, Van Wert, Ohio, Feb. 21, 1916.
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Pastor Resigns with Nervous Condition
Illinois, 1914
At the meeting of the members of the College avenue Baptist church, called at the close of the morning service, the resignation of Rev. G. S. Beckwith of Alton, was read. The resignation reads as follows:
"To the Upper Alton Baptist church: Friends — The message which I send you this morning fills we with grief for it separates me from a delightful people, and closes to me a great opportunity. When I accepted your call last November, I did so against the advice and in the face of the emphatic warning of my physician, who insisted that my nervous condition was impaired by overwork and demanded a complete rest. But the situation here made an irresistible appeal to me, by its wonderful possibilities and its rare opportunity for service, and I disregarded the expert's judgment and promised to undertake the pastorate of your church. After reaching Alton, the collapse came, and I find myself physically unable to undertake the work. In justice to you who have reposed such confidence in me, and to clear the way for you to call another pastor able to serve you as you so richly deserve to be served, I hereby tender you my resignation to take effect immediately.
"The church and the community have made a tremendous appeal to me and does so still, and I had hoped to make this pastorate the pastorate of my life, but that is now impossible.
"Trusting that God may guide you in the selection of one who will lead you wisely to His glory, I remain
Yours sincerely,
G. S. BECKWITH."
Action on the resignation was deferred until a decisive opinion shall be received from the expert whose advice Dr. Beckwith will seek immediately upon his arrival at Schnectady.
—Edwardsville Intelligencer, Edwardsville, IL, Feb. 13, 1914.
At the meeting of the members of the College avenue Baptist church, called at the close of the morning service, the resignation of Rev. G. S. Beckwith of Alton, was read. The resignation reads as follows:
"To the Upper Alton Baptist church: Friends — The message which I send you this morning fills we with grief for it separates me from a delightful people, and closes to me a great opportunity. When I accepted your call last November, I did so against the advice and in the face of the emphatic warning of my physician, who insisted that my nervous condition was impaired by overwork and demanded a complete rest. But the situation here made an irresistible appeal to me, by its wonderful possibilities and its rare opportunity for service, and I disregarded the expert's judgment and promised to undertake the pastorate of your church. After reaching Alton, the collapse came, and I find myself physically unable to undertake the work. In justice to you who have reposed such confidence in me, and to clear the way for you to call another pastor able to serve you as you so richly deserve to be served, I hereby tender you my resignation to take effect immediately.
"The church and the community have made a tremendous appeal to me and does so still, and I had hoped to make this pastorate the pastorate of my life, but that is now impossible.
"Trusting that God may guide you in the selection of one who will lead you wisely to His glory, I remain
Yours sincerely,
G. S. BECKWITH."
Action on the resignation was deferred until a decisive opinion shall be received from the expert whose advice Dr. Beckwith will seek immediately upon his arrival at Schnectady.
—Edwardsville Intelligencer, Edwardsville, IL, Feb. 13, 1914.
Friday, June 1, 2007
Dr. Aked Resigning Under Fire, Bible Snatched and Torn
1914
Dr. Aked to Resign Under Church Fire
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5. — As the result of criticism directed by the Presbyterian Ministers' Association of the San Francisco Bay cities against the declaration made Sunday by the Rev. Dr. Charles F. Aked, a clergyman of international repute, he probably will resign as president of the San Francisco Church Federation, according to announcement just made by Doctor Aked himself.
A communication has been prepared by the Ministers' Association asking for Doctor Aked's resignation because of utterances from the pulpit of the First Congregational Church last Sunday.
Doctor Aked said he would not support the doctrine of the miraculous conception and birth of Christ. "My conclusion upon this question," he announced, "is that the faith of Mark and John and James and Paul is good enough for me. It is good enough for any Christian. These men say nothing about Jesus having come into the world in a miraculous way. I prefer to stand with them."
1914
Minister's Bible is Snatched and Torn
Unknown Man Shows His Hatred for Dr. Aked's Doctrines
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1. — To show his disapproval of an unorthodox minister, an unknown man interrupted the ceremonies of the laying of the corner stone of the Congregational church in this city today, and tearing the Bible from the hands of the Rev. Charles Frederick Aked, who was speaking, tore the book to pieces and denounced the minister.
The occurrence caused much excitement, but the man turned quietly away, after he had torn the Bible, and walking into the crowd disappeared. His identity is still unknown.
Dr. Aked was formerly pastor of the church of John D. Rockefeller, and resigned from it some, years ago, issuing a rather caustic charge against the rich and their religion at the time of his resignation. He has been in San Francisco for the last ten years and has written quite extensively for the press on moral and social problems.
Dr. Aked to Resign Under Church Fire
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5. — As the result of criticism directed by the Presbyterian Ministers' Association of the San Francisco Bay cities against the declaration made Sunday by the Rev. Dr. Charles F. Aked, a clergyman of international repute, he probably will resign as president of the San Francisco Church Federation, according to announcement just made by Doctor Aked himself.
A communication has been prepared by the Ministers' Association asking for Doctor Aked's resignation because of utterances from the pulpit of the First Congregational Church last Sunday.
Doctor Aked said he would not support the doctrine of the miraculous conception and birth of Christ. "My conclusion upon this question," he announced, "is that the faith of Mark and John and James and Paul is good enough for me. It is good enough for any Christian. These men say nothing about Jesus having come into the world in a miraculous way. I prefer to stand with them."
1914
Minister's Bible is Snatched and Torn
Unknown Man Shows His Hatred for Dr. Aked's Doctrines
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1. — To show his disapproval of an unorthodox minister, an unknown man interrupted the ceremonies of the laying of the corner stone of the Congregational church in this city today, and tearing the Bible from the hands of the Rev. Charles Frederick Aked, who was speaking, tore the book to pieces and denounced the minister.
The occurrence caused much excitement, but the man turned quietly away, after he had torn the Bible, and walking into the crowd disappeared. His identity is still unknown.
Dr. Aked was formerly pastor of the church of John D. Rockefeller, and resigned from it some, years ago, issuing a rather caustic charge against the rich and their religion at the time of his resignation. He has been in San Francisco for the last ten years and has written quite extensively for the press on moral and social problems.
Quits Pulpit for Wilds of Alaska
1914
Sioux Falls, S. D., Jan. 20. — Having decided to accompany his brother, "Black Beaver," a noted explorer and trapper, to Alaska, where the latter has extensive property interests, Rev. George Edward Lewis, one of the best known clergymen of the state, has tendered his resignation and retired from active church work.
"Black Beaver" has been a rover all his life, and was in Alaska years before many white men had gone to that region. He accumulated valuable property and secured skins of wild animals for which he has received many thousands of dollars. He now is the owner of a private collection of skins worth $100,000.
Rev. Mr. Lewis has been pastor of the Congregational church at Canton and before going there was at Webster and other cities of the state. He is a descendant of General Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition, General Lewis having been a brother of the grandfather of Rev. Mr. Lewis. Francis Lewis, who signed the Declaration of Independence, was his great grandfather.
Mr. Lewis and his brother will spend their summers in Alaska and their winters in the United States. The engagement between the two is for a period of three years, and during this time Mr. Lewis and family will make their home at Seattle, Wash. If at the expiration of the three years he wishes to return to the ministry the pastorate at Canton will be held open for him.
Sioux Falls, S. D., Jan. 20. — Having decided to accompany his brother, "Black Beaver," a noted explorer and trapper, to Alaska, where the latter has extensive property interests, Rev. George Edward Lewis, one of the best known clergymen of the state, has tendered his resignation and retired from active church work.
"Black Beaver" has been a rover all his life, and was in Alaska years before many white men had gone to that region. He accumulated valuable property and secured skins of wild animals for which he has received many thousands of dollars. He now is the owner of a private collection of skins worth $100,000.
Rev. Mr. Lewis has been pastor of the Congregational church at Canton and before going there was at Webster and other cities of the state. He is a descendant of General Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition, General Lewis having been a brother of the grandfather of Rev. Mr. Lewis. Francis Lewis, who signed the Declaration of Independence, was his great grandfather.
Mr. Lewis and his brother will spend their summers in Alaska and their winters in the United States. The engagement between the two is for a period of three years, and during this time Mr. Lewis and family will make their home at Seattle, Wash. If at the expiration of the three years he wishes to return to the ministry the pastorate at Canton will be held open for him.
Preacher to Don Overalls, Study Social Problems
1916
DENVER, Colo., Oct. 30. — The Rev. Allan A. Tanner, prominent Denver churchman, resigned yesterday as pastor of the First Congregational church and people's tabernacle to don overalls and study economic and social problems at close range in the industrial centers of the east.
"The church," declared the Rev. Tanner, "either must get back on a human plane or get out of business."
Says Parents Should Supervise Courtships of Young Generation
AURORA, Neb., Oct. 30. — Speaking on the faults of the American people at the men's meeting of the Aurora Y. M. C. A. Sunday Judge Corcoran of York, declared that some of the worst evils in America are the divorce evil, profanity and laxity in church attendance. He insisted that the divorce evil is being accentuated by the failure of parents to properly supervise the courtships of their children.
Too often, he said, boys and girls marry without paying any attention to the true sanctity of the marriage relation. He cited instances in his own court where girls of seventeen and eighteen, with children in their arms, have been turned out on the world as widows. This, he said, would never occur if the parents would see to it that their children formed proper companionships and thoroughly understood the sacredness of the marriage relation.
Judge Corcoran said that the vice of profanity is more common in this country than in Europe. For three months, he said, he traveled in Europe without hearing profanity, But immediately upon his return to America, his ears began to tingle with profanity from the lips of Americans. He urged all men present to align themselves with some church and become active workers. The meeting was attended by a large number of men of Aurora, Marquette and Hampton.
DENVER, Colo., Oct. 30. — The Rev. Allan A. Tanner, prominent Denver churchman, resigned yesterday as pastor of the First Congregational church and people's tabernacle to don overalls and study economic and social problems at close range in the industrial centers of the east.
"The church," declared the Rev. Tanner, "either must get back on a human plane or get out of business."
Says Parents Should Supervise Courtships of Young Generation
AURORA, Neb., Oct. 30. — Speaking on the faults of the American people at the men's meeting of the Aurora Y. M. C. A. Sunday Judge Corcoran of York, declared that some of the worst evils in America are the divorce evil, profanity and laxity in church attendance. He insisted that the divorce evil is being accentuated by the failure of parents to properly supervise the courtships of their children.
Too often, he said, boys and girls marry without paying any attention to the true sanctity of the marriage relation. He cited instances in his own court where girls of seventeen and eighteen, with children in their arms, have been turned out on the world as widows. This, he said, would never occur if the parents would see to it that their children formed proper companionships and thoroughly understood the sacredness of the marriage relation.
Judge Corcoran said that the vice of profanity is more common in this country than in Europe. For three months, he said, he traveled in Europe without hearing profanity, But immediately upon his return to America, his ears began to tingle with profanity from the lips of Americans. He urged all men present to align themselves with some church and become active workers. The meeting was attended by a large number of men of Aurora, Marquette and Hampton.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Preacher Whips His Hearers with Sarcasm
Ohio, 1922
Marietta Pastor Recommends Jack Dempsey as Successor and Quits Job in Disgust
MARIETTA, Ohio, Sept. 26. — "They tell me when your last pastor preached his farewell sermon he said he would never recommend a preacher for this pulpit. I would not go as far as that. I think I have someone in mind who would be the right man for this church. He is a London minister and is called 'the fighting parson.' Whenever anyone disagrees with him he takes them outside the church and gives them a good licking. I recommend him for this pulpit.
"But, you say, 'Oh, we don't want an Englishman.' Then you can get someone in this country. There is Jack Dempsey; he's good enough for you. Failing him, you could get a mechanical, life sized preacher that some of the officious in the church could run."
In these words Rev. Mayson H. Sewell opened his farewell sermon in the fashionable First Presbyterian church here Sunday evening.
Before he had finished he made the arraignment of his congregation so hot that many of Marietta's "first citizens" arose from their pews and left the church.
Mr. Sewell lambasted the card players and dancers and continuing said: "There are lots of people who have lots of money, fine clothing, beautiful homes and fine limousines who are poor — poor in sympathy, poor in charity, poor in the experience of real, vital religion, maybe poor in honesty and in integrity. You think you are educated and know it all. Christ says you are blind — blind in regard to your spiritual state and your lack of spiritual vision. There is a great difference between what some people think themselves to be and what they really are. There is little hope for the man whose eyes are sanded with self-conceit and blinded to his own deficiencies."
Dr. Sewell came to Marietta eight months ago from New Philadelphia. He is an Englishman by birth and soon after coming here asked for a three months leave of absence to visit his European home. The session of the church refused this and the refusal led to an open break. The pastor appealed the case to the congregation, declared the session was autocratic and tendered his resignation.
The congregation voted nearly unanimously to accept. Dr. Sewell says he has had enough of America and will return to his native land.
—The Coshocton Tribune, Coshocton, Ohio, September 26, 1922, p. 3.
Note: The above article actually gives the pastor's first name and middle initial as "Myson M.," changed here. Other newspapers all give his first name as "Mayson" and whether it's "H" or "M" would be a toss-up. But his name appears on a Google search as "Mayson H. Sewell," being pastor at Arlington Heights Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, 1912-1913, and the same name at another place in 1910-1912. The great "sarcasm" headline is from an Indiana paper.
Marietta Pastor Recommends Jack Dempsey as Successor and Quits Job in Disgust
MARIETTA, Ohio, Sept. 26. — "They tell me when your last pastor preached his farewell sermon he said he would never recommend a preacher for this pulpit. I would not go as far as that. I think I have someone in mind who would be the right man for this church. He is a London minister and is called 'the fighting parson.' Whenever anyone disagrees with him he takes them outside the church and gives them a good licking. I recommend him for this pulpit.
"But, you say, 'Oh, we don't want an Englishman.' Then you can get someone in this country. There is Jack Dempsey; he's good enough for you. Failing him, you could get a mechanical, life sized preacher that some of the officious in the church could run."
In these words Rev. Mayson H. Sewell opened his farewell sermon in the fashionable First Presbyterian church here Sunday evening.
Before he had finished he made the arraignment of his congregation so hot that many of Marietta's "first citizens" arose from their pews and left the church.
Mr. Sewell lambasted the card players and dancers and continuing said: "There are lots of people who have lots of money, fine clothing, beautiful homes and fine limousines who are poor — poor in sympathy, poor in charity, poor in the experience of real, vital religion, maybe poor in honesty and in integrity. You think you are educated and know it all. Christ says you are blind — blind in regard to your spiritual state and your lack of spiritual vision. There is a great difference between what some people think themselves to be and what they really are. There is little hope for the man whose eyes are sanded with self-conceit and blinded to his own deficiencies."
Dr. Sewell came to Marietta eight months ago from New Philadelphia. He is an Englishman by birth and soon after coming here asked for a three months leave of absence to visit his European home. The session of the church refused this and the refusal led to an open break. The pastor appealed the case to the congregation, declared the session was autocratic and tendered his resignation.
The congregation voted nearly unanimously to accept. Dr. Sewell says he has had enough of America and will return to his native land.
—The Coshocton Tribune, Coshocton, Ohio, September 26, 1922, p. 3.
Note: The above article actually gives the pastor's first name and middle initial as "Myson M.," changed here. Other newspapers all give his first name as "Mayson" and whether it's "H" or "M" would be a toss-up. But his name appears on a Google search as "Mayson H. Sewell," being pastor at Arlington Heights Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, 1912-1913, and the same name at another place in 1910-1912. The great "sarcasm" headline is from an Indiana paper.
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
The Rev. Samuel A. Diehl's Work of 45 Years
Pennsylvania, 1920
Rev. Samuel A. Diehl, a native of New Oxford, and pastor of the Mt. Carmel Lutheran charge, consisting of Mt. Carmel congregation, at Moulstown, and St. Paul's, New Baltimore, who, on February 1st, handed in his resignation, to take effect June 1, 1920, has given the statistics of his 45 years' work in Pennsylvania and Maryland, during which he spent 28 years in Pennsylvania and 17 in Maryland. During his ministry Rev. Diehl baptized 1076 infants and 163 adults; confirmed 630 catechumens; received into church membership by letter 348 persons, and 106 by restoration; officiated at 724 funerals; joined in wedlock 352 couples, and preached 5,610 sermons.
—New Oxford Item, New Oxford, PA, Feb. 19, 1920, p. 6.
Rev. Samuel A. Diehl, a native of New Oxford, and pastor of the Mt. Carmel Lutheran charge, consisting of Mt. Carmel congregation, at Moulstown, and St. Paul's, New Baltimore, who, on February 1st, handed in his resignation, to take effect June 1, 1920, has given the statistics of his 45 years' work in Pennsylvania and Maryland, during which he spent 28 years in Pennsylvania and 17 in Maryland. During his ministry Rev. Diehl baptized 1076 infants and 163 adults; confirmed 630 catechumens; received into church membership by letter 348 persons, and 106 by restoration; officiated at 724 funerals; joined in wedlock 352 couples, and preached 5,610 sermons.
—New Oxford Item, New Oxford, PA, Feb. 19, 1920, p. 6.
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