Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1885-05-27

The CslebIaten Of The Ei6hteth Birthday Of
Rev. J.. Y. Hines At Elk Point.
An Interesting Sketch Of the Life Of This
Pioneer E~piscopalian--.T The Ceremonies, Etc.

An Interesting Sketch Of the Life Of TIL!
Pioneer Ep~iscopalian--. The Ceremonies, Etc
Elk PoINr, May 2O.-Special to
the Journal: Tuesday. May 10, was
the S0th birthday Of the Rev. J. V.
Hines rector ofSt. Andrews church,
Elk Point, and St, Paul's, Vermil-
lion, D. T., and at the instance Of
Bishop Hare the anniversary was
appropriately celebrated by public
exercises at the rink on the evening
Of that day, at which a large audi
Of citizens generally assembled. In
the necessary absence of the bishop
the Rev. VIM. Harris, D. D., dean
Of Calvary cathedral, Sioux Falls,
presided. There were also present
Of the clergy the Rev. VIM. Rich
mond, of Sioux City, Ia, and the
Rev. j. w. Wicks, of Canton, d. T.
Letters of regret and congratulation
were received from many of the
clergy who were unable to be pres
le9t
After brief devotional services, Drs
Harris gave a somewhat extended
but interesting sketch of Father
Hines long life, from which it ap-
peared hat he was born in Wick
ford, r. l., where, to the age Of II
years, he was brought up in St.
Paul's Episcopal church under the
Rev. Nh. Burge and Bishop Girls
void. Going to New Bedford,
Mass, in 1922 to learn a trade three
years later, sixty years ago he enter
ed the ministry, OF. the christian"
denomination, OF which body he was
a prominent and leading minister
for about fourteen years, chiefly in
the city of Boston. In 1889 he
adopted the views of William Mil
Ter, the founder Of the Second Ad-
vent" denomination, and became
next to Mr.. Miller, the leading min
lister of that body. He remained in
that connection thirty-nine years, a
most earnest and faithful preacher
Of The gospel, as he under
stood theat gospel. Besides preach.
ing or lecturing for many years,
upon an average of at least once
every day, he published denomina.
tional papers weekly, in Boston,
New York, Rochester, Cincinnati
Baltimore, Buchanan, Michigan,
Chicago, ILL.,, and for one year in
London, England. He preached in
nearly all the states of the union,
the British provinces, England, Scot
land and Irland. He is said to have
issueu over ten millions of publica-
tons from his Boston Office alone,
where he for SO many years pub
lished the Advent Herald. He was
the acting representative of the
| Second Advent body in the Evan
gelical Alliance, which met in Lon
| don in 1876, where he had himself
conspicuous by his courageous un-
compromising contest, almost single
handed among the American mem
bers of that body, for the exclusion
of slave. holders from membership
in it, thus vindicatins his consistent
CIV as a co lahorer at home with
William Lloyd Garrison and other
pioneers in the extreme anti-slavery,
or abolition movement, a courage
and consistency which we cannot
well help admiring, even though we
cannot quite symathize. as DR.. Har-
ris confessed that he could not, with
the precise direction that it took.
After having reached the age of
20 years, Father Hines was led to
review his position and to investi-
gate the claims of the church Of his
youth. The result was, that he adj
vised his son, VIM. Lloyd Hines,
(himself a prominent minister
among the Second Advent people,
now rector of the church, of st.
John Baptist, Wolfsboroe junction,
N. H.), to enter hat church, and
not very long after, at the age Of Is
years, he was himself confirmed by
Bishop Clarkson in Trinity cathe-
dral, Omaha, Nebraska, where in
May, 1879, he was admitted to the
deaconate, gaining for himself the
distinction OF being the oldest dea-
con which the Protestant Episcopal
or any other modern church has
ever known. He was Immediately
assigned to the charge of the mis-
sions at Elk Point and Vermillion,
ID. T., and living at the former place,
after SO many years OF excitement,
of travel, and Of arduous and varied
labors, he has passed six >years of
quiet but still earnest and devoted
for the same master whom he has SO
long sought to serve and for the
church Of his early love-a church
which in these !, his last years, he
seems ia love with all the emthusi-
ASH Of youth.
Father Hines is still, at the age Of
fonr score years, remarkably vigor-
Gus. suffering very little apparently
Of the elabor and sorrow" which are
supposed to belong TO such extreme
age, and with the help Of his faithful
wife seems likely to do 4 good deal
more Of earnest work.
At the conclusion Of the address,
DIR. Harris reminded the audience
Of that verse Of Holy Scripture:
"Thou shalt rise up before the
hoary head and honor the face Of
the old man." and ask that all pres
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