The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-15

trying situation, we are satisfied that
their Jealous efforts to place the guilt
where it belongs will ultimately rid them
of an undesirable associate, and do the
banking community real benefit.
seventy-Five Years a Methodist
Preacher.
From the New York Sun, June 9.
Smiling faces and frequent glances to-
ward the door by the large company as.
sembled in Trinity NJ. E. Church, Jersey
City, yesterday morning, indicated that
some happy event was to be celebrated.
The programme indicated that it was the
centennial birthday of the Rev. Father
Henry Boehm of the Newark Conference.
At halfpast ten the venerable guest en-
tered the church edifice leaning on the
arm of his son.in-law, Mr. S. S. Emley,
and proceeded with tottering steps up
the centre aisle to the pulpit, where he
was received by the Chairman, the Rev.
R. Van Horne. The exercises began with
singing and prayer by the Rev. Bartholo-
NEW Weed. After another hymn, Father
Boehm arose, and with his long white
hair streaming over his shoulders, and his
time-scarred face aglow with smiles, said:
81 rejoice to rect you. my brethren in
the Lord, and that am permitted to see
the wonderful progress Of the Gospel Of
Christ in the land. There was no town
mere in 1909, when I passed through.
There was no houses but the ferry house,
[ think. Blessed be God for his wonder
full work throughout the land. I cannot
say much. but commit the rest to my
venerable brother Atkinson
The Rev. John Atkinson, on rising to
deliver the sketch Of the life of the ven
cradle patriarch, said that this being fes-
tive occasion, Father Boehm was inclined
to be festive also. Father Boehm
was born in Lancaster county, Pa,
June 8, ITS. The noise of the battles of
| Concord and Lexington had scarcely died
| away when he drew his first breath. He
has lived under the administration of all
| the Presidents, and cast his first vote for
John Adams in 1895. He distinctly re.
members the time when steamboats, were
unknown. In 1903, when he first came
to New York, the city extended only to
Canal street; Brooklyn was a snail town;
Cincinnati was just sprouting, and Chi.
cago was yet to be. He was born
nine years before the introduction of
| Mcthodism in New York, and nine
years before the organization of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church and election of
the first bishops, Coke and Asbury.
When he began to preach there were only
nineteen travelling preachers. He joined
the church at the age of twenty-five, and
| was licensed to preach January 6, 1900.
| The address then related the progress Of
the church, his companionship with
Bishop Asbury from 1903 to 1918, and
| accounts of his travels. He knew the
South when there was but one Method
| ism in America. He remembered when
in 1874 it was rent asunder, and as he
| stood there, he prayed to God that Meth
! odism, north and south, might become
one again.
The Rev. DR.. Porter then greeted Fa-
ther Boehm, and presented him with
purse containing $500. Letters were
read from several bishops; and the
exercises concluded with touching and
| eloquent tributes to the venerable guest,
by the Rev. Prof. Henry A. Butts, the
Rev. Jacob Todd, the Rev. 6. L. Taylor,
and the Rev. David W. Bartine. The
! chairman said that Father Bochm was in
too feeble health to shake hands with all,
but there was one present he did wish to
greet, and that was Mrs. Jesse Grant, the
mother of Gen. Grant, who journeyed
from Washington for this occasion.
Father Boehm pronounced the benc-
diction, and the audience dispersed. A
reception was held by Father Boehn in
the evening.
Ereclxinridge and Greeley.