New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-15
NEVSPAPER MEN IN THE PCLPIT
THREE PASTORS WHO LAID DOWN THE PENCIL
TO PREACH.

THREE PASTORS WHO LAID DOWN THE PENCIL
TO PREACH
A number Of D,ooklyn pastors have entered tho
ministry after having spent moro or less uIe J" WI"
in other professions. several Ike Dr. SloHS' ~
Henry A. Powell DR.. T.. p. Inccrsoll, Dr. H. T. rnul
and Dr. Lyman Abbott. studied law bcfFe tlcy s,'o'u
theology 4 few like Drs J. \. Roc he Il. T. ih"i'H
and A & EuDn took the degree of VI. D. before enter
ing the pulpit and number have beer teachers ana
coI,occ nrofossors There are also few who cAncu
professional experience In newspaper w0H before 'eE
embarked I'm the work to which they arc no" oeNo""s
their energies. The Rev. :. GlhoId NelN'h was ~
norter and editorial writer upon Brooklyn newspapers
in his early years. and then studied Ia" au -
nractice But he felt called 10 the field OF ministerial
hor and after ordination in charge Of the BeteI
ues,on OF Plymouth Church for several years nc
tbeu accented call to the Trinity Baptist Chnrch' an"
has successfully labocc with it for five years ~"
other former newspaper reporter ana writer i INC "'
Thomas r. Everett who recently accepted the pa''o'.
., = Matthews English Lutheran Church. ho
worked upon several Ncw-Y"k ana nus
burg papers before entering tho ministry anu
he has been Lutheran pastor IN ONO ana fenlS|i
vania for dozen years or more
A third eX-ncwspaper writer anu cul"' ~
prominent pulpit IS the Rev Harlan IT, Menuei'''ii'
who lately accepted call to the "r"oIle N'V'"o
PRESBYTERIAN Church after rcsgnihg ooNesc poN'
dcncv in ;hc West Mr.. Mcndenhall IS forty years
=, ua ,.os horn Of Quaker parentage in Coaesvillc
Penn His father is president Of the American oc"Ihs
>f,chlno Company, Of Philadelphia Tie son Wa
educated in Washington and at Winston seminary
az rastbampton Mass, where he prepared Tor coh3so
IN, he had gained a taste for newspaper WORN pS
c,,rr,snnudug for "Thc Springfield KrpahI'ii'
and AZ the age Of eighteen he loihed INC
tan of that newspaper and soon was pun !"
c,,rr, Of its page Of New-England news Nh'or
vor Al this work he entered Lafayette College ana
art.r graduation studied IN the Western lbeo"E'd
seminary at Meadvc, Penn, and was graduated !"
,s-1 Ills first pastorate was at the Ihiro FTc'p'
t.risn Church al Fort Wayne, Ind -htcr Ncc So'i'
no resigned and made tour of Europe ana upon NE
return he accepted call 70 the sixth frt'oyVIIa"
church OF Pttsburg In 1r-3 he went 10 'p'''i -"
,ot, for nj, health and became pastor o. INC fIat
estvt.rlau Church I'm Grand Forks lie was ai,o
odi,or If The Plain Dealer the only mormhS o''S
no,er in the place. In 1889 he became pfe'"c"' y
,,c jamestown University, young ilsiIutD'' ""'
.rcccs.lnllv managed is affairs for year nc NV"
r.t,rned 10 the East and after the Key W. ., nius
r.s,rnrd from the Greene Avenue Flc ,OE ."n ~,
i, ga. invited occupy IT pulpit iI'' 1I. ~
'f,,ta ,f ur,y,,lvn suited 10 bis h"tlJh ne az
IN =, the church recently. declining can - L,s'"
=. ,ho INC fine Already cOnslIeranlc hul'p.i VI
,r,vrmentS in the church are pdhhcu 10
5"nt.u promises be one OF the Mus, M . So
'acnert i'm the city. he takes up inc lopo' w., H.
bav looked Al from "A newspaper point OI N'"' io wv
oniiect, of many OF his scrmOl'