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Adam Willis Wagnalls was born 81 years ago in Lithopolis, Ohio. Aged 24, he founded and was pastor of the First English Lutheran Church of Kansas City. After two years as clergyman, he served two in Atchison, Kan., as City Clerk; then went to Manhattan to enter the publishing business of Isaac Funk, a fellow alumnus of Wittenberg College (Springfield, Ohio...
Last year, the Rev. H. M. Melton, pastor of the Baptist Church, Bluffton, Ga., induced seven men to sign the following agreement...
Belief spread that miracles had been performed at Bluffton. From all America and parts of Europe came inquiries to the pastor, the postmaster, the mayor, the banker of Bluffton. Literature was compiled...
First, the Clarksburg band played The Star Spangled Banner. Then the pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church made an invocation. Then Senator Thomas J. Walsh rose and spoke the momentous words of notification. It was Mr. Davis' moment. He stepped up to the amplifiers and began. At the same moment a heavy rain began to fall, wetting the speaker and the listeners impartially...
...James Whitford Bashford; pastor, educator, author, M. E. Bishop of Peking, China. Born Fayette, Wis., 1849-died 1919. President of Ohio Wesleyan College, 1889-1904. Characterized by his students as "What-can-I-do-for-you" Bashford; by the Chinese, among whom he numbered many distinguished friends, as "the man with the shining face." A tremendous worker; carried a case of books with him when travelling and wrote many books himself. Among other strong views he held women should be admitted to the ministry...