The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-05-16
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DIR. wEAvER's sEMI-OENTENNIAL

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DIR. WEAvER'S SEMI-OENTENNIAL.
We have recently noted the services
at Grace Church, Hartman, Tenn. SUM-
day, April 8, in observance of the ami
versary of DR.. G. S. Weaver's entrance
into the Universalist ministry. In the
course of the sermon which DIR. Weaver
preached on that occasion he spoke of
his early ministry, what the Gospel really
is, the peculiar joys and blessings of the
preacher, the progress of religious
thought in half century. and closed by
saying that he hoped to continue in the
ministry of Christ's Gospel as long as he
should live in the body, and that in the
life OF the world to come he might also
be engaged in an equally divine service.
Had he his life to live over he would en-
ter the ministry of the Universalist
Church as he did fifty years ago.
The church which DIR. Weaver has
honored and blessed by his half century
of ministerial life is richer and stronger
every way for these fifty years of loyal
service. No more faithful pastor or more
beloved brother is among us today than
DIR. George S. Weaver. The multitude
of his friends will rejoice that he has
been spared to celebrate this anniver-
sary and to pass in review a full half
century of ministerial labor. They will
also be glad to learn that in his adj
vanced age he retains full measure of
youthful vigor and is still able to work
in chosen fields for the church he has 30
faithfully served.
The Hartman Weekly Advance in re-
porting the semi-centennial services re.
cords the pastorates of DR.. Weaver az
follows: Springf sld, o, two years; Mar
ietta. o.. four years; st. Louis, Mo.
eight years; Lawrence, Mass. twelve
| years; Akron, O., six years; Canton, N
Y. three years; Galesburg, ILL.,. two
years; East Providence, r. l.. six years
Decatur, Mich, in connection with work
in the publication of books in Chicago
two years.
J The Advance adds: For the past five
years the Doctor has been living in Can
! ton, N. Y. where he has built g
fine home. and in the vicinity oil
which he has been active in religious
labors as well. Thus have passed fifty
years.
"But this is not the whole story. He
has found time to engage largely in all
the leading reforms, specially those OF
temperance and prohibition and the
rights and elevation of women. His
work in educational matters has been
varied and continuous. He founded
and built the Western Liberal Institute
at Marietta, o., which led the way in es-
tsblishing the Universalist colleges in
the West, and was an early promoter OF
Dean Academy in Franklin. Mass, being
the first financial agent of this now
fiourishing institution.
Through his writings in the promi-
nent journals of the past half century
DR.. Weaver has become widely known
and few authors in this country have SC
large constituency of readers for their
books as he has. In all he has published
fourteen volumes, under the following
titles. Mental Science Helps and
Hopes for the Young Aims and Aids
for Girls and Young Women Moses
and Modern Science Christian House
hold Ways of Life. Weaver's Works
for the Young The Open Way The
Bible View of HE'LL The Heart of the
World The Lives and Graves of Our
Presidents Heaven, Looking For
ward and a Biography of DR.. j. H
Chaplin.
"Of these books nearly all are YET
being sold and read. The Lives Of
Presidents has reached circulation Of
over two thousand copies. The Heart
of the World volume of over 70(
pages, setting forth the duties, influence
and joys of the Christian home, has
reached the great sale of more than hall
million copies, while Hopes ano
Helps for the young. has circulated
more widely still.
Those acquainted with the Doctor
feel that he certainly has learned the
secret of how to live. In spite of his
varied and exhaustive labors, he is still
at the age of seventy seven, in excellent
health and vigor, breaches with ease and
enthusiasm and is as interested as ever
in lifes great affairs. His youthful
spirit is attested in the fact that he left
his home of comfort in New York. wife
daughter and grandchildren. to assist
Mr.. McGlauhin in his mission as South
ern organic sr of churches"