The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-12-13
To THE EDITOR OF TELEGRAPH:


TO THE EDITOR OF TELEGRAPH:
/ MY DEAR SIR:-I have not forgot
ten my promise to send you line from
my new Milwaukee home. Let me
seize this Monday morning hour, which
lis Minister'S Sunday, you know, to re-
deem the pledge.
/ We find ourselves pleasantly settled
here and work begins with fair prom
Use. There is much to be done. but good
helpers at my side offer willing hands.
We do not forget the old Kenosha
friends, and one of the happiest feat
ures of our Milwaukee life is to have
them drop in upon us. Your well
known toWnspeople, Mr.. and Mrs I. J.
Clapp, have just put in Sunday with
us, and in our talk together the good
people of your goodly city, Of course,
have come in for a generous remem-
brance. Among the crowds that fire.
quent Chapman's store, I often encoun-
ter Kenosha faces. / fancy Chapman's
must be growing in favor with people
your way. Perhaps the presence OF
those fine Kenosha girls behind his
counters, Misses Sholes, Frary, Head,
and Wood, may have something to do
with it. I see your old neighbor Thurs
ton on our streets. He is just now in
the high tide Of his oyster season.
Richmond, your quondam typo and
Telegraph local, does not tire Of his
mail route, though the long run to La
Crosse is pretty severe on flesh and
blood. Your old time mayor and post
master, Geo. III. Paul, Esq, is one of
my nearest neighbors. He has just
been chosen senator from this county.
And voted for him, too, though he is
a democrat and a republican, simply
because there are few men in Wiscon-
sill who will make SO able senator.
| Just as I am in the midst of these
Kenosha personals, in comes another
friend whose. name is familiar to IeIe-
graph readers, Mr. Frank I. Lee, who
has been preaching for several months
and with much acceptance at Highland
Park, Ill. He now tells me, what will
be quite surprise to his many friends
in your vicinity, namely, that he has
just relinquished his delightful field at
Highland Park to q New Haven class
mate, and that he starts in few days
for Boston, where he is to take an I'M
portant place on the Editorial Staff OF
The Coqagregatjonaljst. Perhaps this
will seem rather strange in one who
has so long had his face set towards
the ministry. It may even be a disap-
lpointment to some who had begun to
see in MI. Lee the promise of a very
fine preacher. Never did a young cler-
gyman begin pastoral labor with fairer
prospects, or surrounded by a more de-
sirable circle of intelligent and appre-
ciative supporters, than Mr.. Lee at
| Highland Park But the call to Boston
came in form that demanded careful
& conscientious consideration. It SEEM
ed providential and after weeks of
prayerful thought, consulting some Of
his wisest friends and teachers, he has
felt impelled to accept it, for time at
least. But 1t is due to the many friends
of Mr.. Lee to say that he does not yet
see it his duty to abandon any Of his
long cherished plans with regard to-
the ministry. He goes to Boston
unpledged beyond few years.
While he is willing fairly to consider
the question urged upon him at the
East, whether he ought not to give his
life to religious Journalism, he does
not at present incline that way. 10
preach the gospel is as much as ever
the choice of his heart. And the one
argument which now reconciles him to
even a temporary change, is, that few
years passed in such a focal point OF
intellect as Boston, and work upon
such paper as The Co1agregGtiona5ist,
will be only another and more adyan-
ced school of preparation for the high
Office to which he still looks forward.
His people at Highland Park of course,
are sadly disappointed. They have
turned to him with unusual affection
for so brief ministry. But with gen
erous confidence they have yielded to
the reasons that have controlled his de-
cision and have thus lightened for their
young pastor the pang OF separation.
That pang is still further lightened by
the fact that he has found for them in
his classmate a worthy successor, who
takes up the work without a moments
delay The offer OF such position is
highly honorable to one of Mr.. Lees
years. But he was already known to
the managers of1'be CopgregGtionG7iSt
as correspondent, and the tact he has
already shown in journalistic writing,
coupled with his ardent ambition to
make the most Of himself for the cause
of his Master, are the best pledge that
he will not disappoint the expectations
which the call implies. The hearty
congratulations and good wishes of
many friends Will follow him to East
ern work.
Mr.. Lee will be ordained to the work
of the gospel ministry at the Hanover
81 Co. ola,.ral, os HIS CITY rEl1as au