The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-09-05
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

The Morning Leader is giving bio
graphical sketches of the ministers OF
our city, and in it's issue of last Sunday
morning had the following concerning
the Rev A. J. Davis, pastor OF the
East end Methodist, church which
we take pleasure IN producing, as
follows:
Ills has been a quiet life OF good
deeds and high thoughts said a mem
Der of the Thompson avenue Metho-
dist Episcopal church, of the pastor,
Rev 4. J. Davis. And true, his life
is a story easily told, but yet not
without its interest and its lesson. lie
spent his early youth working on the
scanty farm among the green hills OF
his native state, Vermont.
He received a preparatory education
in the public schools and afterwards
Barry academy, and in 1857, when he
had just reached his majority, came
to Wisconsin, then the far west, where
by dint of his own energy and hard
labour he continued his education, tax
ing a classical course it Gal1svllle
university in This state, then Metno-
dist institution, and receiving the de
gree of \. i. Only within the last
year this same college has recognised
his continued labours in the field of
learning and the ripe scholarship to
which he has now attained by Offering
to confer upon him the degree of doc
tor of divinity.
Mr. Davis stepped from the college
halls into the pulpit, taking upon his
graduation his pastorate at Chippewa
Falls and for twelve years he ldbored
continuously and zealously for the
cause of Christ and his church at
Chippewa Falls and other towns in
the Chippewa valley being located at
Durand, Augusta, and Eau Claire, at
which latter place he had charge sue
cessively of the Lake Street and Bar
stow Street Methodist churches. 1t
was larely through his unalded efforts
that the central and beautiful location
for the Lake Street church was secur
ed, and under his direction that the
handsome church edifice of brick and
stone, the finest in the city, was erect
ed.
Under the rule Of professional tin
erancy, which the Methodist confer
ence puts upon its ministers, Mr.. Da-
Wis made another change, this time
going to the southern part part OF the
state, taking charge of pastorates III
Grant and Lafayette counties for seven
years, at the end,of which time he WAS
called to New Richmond in St CroiX
county, and i'll the fall of 1889 came to
superior as pastor of the Thompson
avenue church. In two weeks he viii
complete p years as an active minis
ter in the Vest w isconSin conference,
during which time he says there has
not been an interruption even of Il
single month.
y busy life is a pleasant life, and
Mr. Davis has he SAYS found all of
his appointments very pleasant lie
finds his church at Superior vcly kind
active and united. Under his charge
il is rapidly growing i'll nambo.s,
str tngth and interest. The church is
centrally and beautifully located at
W est Sixth street and Thompson aven
ue. Near the church Il very neat and
o., ali IDC "
l. been completed at a cost OF s., 100.
Within the last year also a branch
board Of trustees was created and 4
So 900 church built at Central Park.
All this has been done and more not
mentioned and the church practically
free from deb.
IN his STYLE Of preaching Mr.. Davis
is topical. lie uses neither manuscript
nor notes and has no record or notes of
"A sermon" he saws should be Great
ed from the scriptures, suggested and
Illuminated by the time when, and !
the people to whom, 1t is to be preach !
ed" His congregation thinks he has !
very little yeneratiOn for ancient
creetls or old Theological formulas. As |
he said, 1t is 10 sign that a thing is |
true because it is old lie enjoys the .
atmosphere of the living present and /
studies with great pleasure all the |
phases of the thought of this wonderful |
age. He is in profound sympathy with |
and believes that Jesus Christ
Is rapidly lifting the world out or its
sins and its sorrrows, and that there I
never was Il time when the church was .
SO pure and So conSccrated as It is to
day. He sees much that is wise and .
hopeful in the modern governments ,
and their politics, and with the char
acter in AS You Like It. finds good
i'll all things.
I'm 4 Nut Shell.
We might as well permit our enc
IN, of