Rock Island daily Argus., 1888-03-19

| - his father was
ReU. q, W. Cue. steamboat captain
on the Ohio and Lower Mississippi rivers
but on coming to Illinois he entered the
mercantile business, in which he cons
tinued until his death in 1852. After
his fathers death he attended the Mt.
Morris Seminary, Ogle county, His, one
year. The year following was spent in
the academy at Brimfield, Ills. In 1857
he joined the church and again entered
school, this time in the new academy al
Princeville. From this time forward he
studied with view of entering
the ministry, and in the fall OF
1859 was admitted on trial in the Peoria,
now Central Illinois conference, held in
Kewanee. He was appointed as junior
preacher on the Wyoming circuit, work
of ten appointments. The next year at
the conference in Macomb, 1860, he was
sent to the FarYiew circuit as innior
preacher. The next year he was sent to
tie Pennington circuit which included
Pennington, Elmwood, Trivol, and Tri-
vol Center, all good strong appointments
and it was recognized as quite promo4
tion, but he was still Junior preacher,
Rev. B. q. Swarts being in charge
Young Cue began to think the confer
ence was never going to trust him with a
church in the management of its affairs,
Dut after six weeks from the conference
of 1861, B. G. Swarts gave up his charge
and went to the army, leaving the subject
of this sketch in the full management
of the churches, where he con-
tinued until the following con-
ference, when he was elected chaplain
of the 10S Illinois Regiment Infantry
Volunteers, rendezvouing at Peoria Aug
ust f9, 1862 With this regiment he re-
mained three years, being with them
in the battles of Chickasaw Bayou,
Miss, Arkansas Post, Port Gibson,
Champion Hill, siege of Vicksburg siege
of Spanish Fort and charge on Spanish
Fort. He was discharged from the ser>
vice of his country at Vicksburg, August,
1865, the war being at an end. He res
turned home and was appointed to the
Neponset charge, where he remained
three years In December, 1864, he was
married to Miss Anna Roberts, of Mor>
,on, ILL.,, who at the time was one of the
teachers in the Peoria schools. In the
'all of 1869 Mr.. Cue was appointed to
he Toulon charge, where lie remained
,hree years, and then was transferred to
he Nebraska conference and organized
he church at Fairmont, Fillmore county.
Neb., and was elected the first county
of public instruction in
that county. In the fall of 1872 he was
appointed by the Nebraska conference to
he First M. E. church in Omaha, and at |
The end of that year he accepted the po-
sition of assistant land commissioner of |
The Missouri, Kansas s. Texas railway,
and in order to fill the position it became |
necessary for him to ''locate," leaving |
he ministry and entering upon new |
inc of business, thing he always re-
yretted-for out of the ministry he was |
unhappy, and as soon as opportunity |
presented itself, he reentered the work |
hat was dearest to his heart, and the |
conference with which he first united. |
IN returning to the regular ministry he |
,heerfully gave up a salary of so, 500 per
,ear and was appointed to Ell Paso, H.,
It salary of $500 per year.
At the close of this year 1874. he was
lected financial agent OF the Illinois
Wesleyan university at Bloomington,
where he remained two years, and at the
conference at Pekin, Ills, 1875, he was
appointed to Streator, and remained three |
rears. In the fall of 1879 he was ap-
pointed to Pontiac. At the close of that |
rear, 1880, he was appointed presiding |
lder of the Onarga district, in which |
position he served the church for four /
years. While in that position he was
lected one Of the delegates to the gen
raj conference. and by that body was
made member of the general missionary |
md church extension committee, being |
he representative of the Seventh gen.
ral conference district, as described in |
he discipline of 1884. In the fall of
1884 he was appointed to the First
hurch at Peoria. where he remained |
hree years, and last fall he was appoint
d to Rock Island as pastor of the FiIst |
and is again a delegate to the |
conference of his church, that |
meets in New York next May.
THE CHURCH AS A UNIT.
At the Central church yesterday morn-
ug, Rev. Mr.. Meldrum took for the sub
ect of his discourse, The Unity and
of the Church of Christ" bas-
no his remarks on John 1921:
That they all may be one as thou, Father, art in
le and in Thee, etc.
Christians walk in the same light, said
ir Meldrum, but each reflects different
ay, as the rays of the sun are reflected in
arious hues from the objects of earth.
he light from the sun can be separated !