The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-10-29
A Popular Young Minister.

The Baltimore american of Friday pub
fishes picture of ard had the following
pleasant notice of the Rev. Frank f. Will
Jams of this county:
Rev. f. E Williams, of Chesapeake City,
Md, has accepted the call as pastor of
Boundary Avenue Presbyterian Church,
and will shortly enter upon his official
duties. Mr.. Williams is still young man,
being yet on the under side of thirty. He
is Marylander by birth, and had barely
attained mis- majority when he accepted the
principalshp of the Chesapeake City High
School. As teacher he was very accept
able to its patrons, remaining in charge two
years, and only resigniug that he might
enter upon a course of preparation for the
ministry, which he had long planned az his
life work. In the fall of 1888 Mr.. Williams
entered Princeton Theological Seminary.
Throughout his course there he was almost
continually in demand as e preacher, sup
plying pulpits in various places. The faculty
permitted his frequent preaching, because
at the same time, he ranked high as stu
dent being regarded by them as a man of
skip. He left the seminary with an excep.
tionally rare reputation for attachments in
ecclesiastical history and literature.
Upon his graduation from the seminary
in the spring of 81, Mr.. Williams was
invited to assume the pastoral duties of the
West Street Presbyterian Church in George
town, D. c., during the prolonged. absence
3 ,tu M E,,Il
Here Mr. Williams work met with the
most unqualified success, winning not only
the esteem and love of his people as pastor
| but preaching to increasing congregations
| to the very end of his engagement. During
his occupancy of this pulpit Mr.. Williams
was married to Miss May. daughter of DIR.
| j. V. Wallace, well known physician CT
Chesapeake City, whose family has long
been people of prominence in Cecil county.
| Mrs. Williams was educated at "The
! Cedars," in Georgetown, ID. G., and upon
her return there, few year later, was able
| to renew many acquaiutances made during
! her school days, well as make hosts of
new friends as the popular wife of the
popular young minister. Both Mr.. Williams
and his wife possess, in an unusual degree,
| those social qualities which are so necessary
to a successful minister.
Mr.. Williams is remembered at George
| town not only for his preaching and his
! social side, bus also for his organizing
| ability, displaying the faculty of not only
working himself but OF inspiring those
about him to earnest and effective work.
Mr.. Williams engagement at Georgetown
termin ated with the first of July last, since
which time he has been visiting and exam
lining various fields of labor that had invited
him to become their pastor. As preacher
Mr.. Williams will prove attractive to his
audiences. lie is an earnest and forcible
speaker, and breaches entirely without
notes. Mr.. Williams is not only himself a
young man, but has always had tn q deepest
interest in young men. He knows how to
enser into their sporSs and experiences and
to make their interests his own, and his
interest has always been reciprocated by
the interest young men have shown in him
Mr.. Williams was invited, before entering
upon his theological course, to become assis
tant secretary of The Young Mems Christian
Association, of New York city.