The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-10-05
SUCCESSOR CHOSEN.
Albert Edwin keigwin Of MilIviIle, N. j..
Will be Called to Second Presbyterian
Church Of Pittsburg.

We clip the following from the Pitts
burg Gazette of Monday:- successor
to Dr. Frank Dewitt TaImage, As pastor
OF The Second Presbyterian church, has
practically been chosen. Ha 10 Rev. Albert
Edwin keigwin, pastor of the Presby-
terian church Ct Miliville, N. j. Mr..
heigwin preached both morning and even.
ing in the Second church. Last night,
preceding tho second service. the elders,
trustees and deacons OF the church held
an Informal meoting In the pastor study
and unanimously decided that the preach.
or OF tho dny was their choice for pastor
Of tho church.
A call fora congregational meeting was
formulated and was read from tho pulpit
at the conclusion Of the evening service.
1t will bo held on Monday evoning Octo-
ber Il. and tho call specifies 1t will be for
the purpose of clccting u pastor. unless
there is u radical change in the situation
in the Second church, Mr.. keigwin will
be elected.
Tho young preacher came to the pulpit
yeatsrday upannouuced Dir. Talmago In
trOducea him to tho congregation as q
friend and classmate, who was visiting
him and had consented to preach for him.
He preached from tho words. And Jesus
tolrhed him" Ha srnl.a Of Ch."!s,tis,uri.ruy
as llY ils45 iyisi:, Tar -i"s tia III d ths
world, Christ mu,t touch ii II A.. enuid
eve: be rtdesned from the effects OF sin.
He must tqucli individuals aud tho world
through Christian effort, The sermon
was not long, but it swept the congrcBa.
tion liko cyclone and gathered them all
10.
REQUESTED A MEETING.
As with one voice they said Mr.. Tai
IMAGES successor had been found, and by
the score requested the officers Of The
church to call II congregational meeting
and give them an opportunity to express
thnir wishes in II formal manner. Tho
officers were glad to comply with the re.
quest. Not one dissenting voice was heard
yesterday, and it only neeis the formal &C.
tion Ut the meeting which has been called
to put in legal form tho desire OF the entire
church.
At the evening service tle house was
packed and many were turned from tho
doors Mr.. Keigwin delivered nh eloquent
sermon from Ezekiel XII. 81. "Anl there
were windows in, It," He said there was
no contradiction between tho scriptural
statement that God was light and that
other statement that Christians were
light. Tho CHRISTIAN was he medium
through which the light of God flashed
npon the world. They were windows.
Tho window God intended should he found
in our churches to-day, he said, w0,o clean
Windows. Too many wero frost.coverou
and noeded the melting influence of the
Spirit, or were covered with dirt aud neol.
Cd His sanclifying power.
They should bo plnln windows Howas,
he said, in favor Of the plain old Gospel
of Joy and peace. There was u disposition
among Presbyterinns to put blue glass in
their windows SO that all tho light that
came from God was tinged with blue. Tho
Mothodists wore inclined to rcd glass.
The EpiScopnlians favored cathedral glass
of u fine qualify Tho Baptists wanted
nquariums in their windows. However,
he said, unconverted men were converted
under the pure light OF God. He exhorted
cvory Christian to he plate glass, clean,
pure, polished, strong, SO that The light OF
God might shine through him upon tho
unccnyerted.
CHEATED A GOOD IMPRESSION.
The sermon was heard with the greatest
attention. and confirmed the opinion form.
nl by the congregation at tho morning
service. Al tho conclusion Of tho service
Dr. Ialmngc read tho call for II congrega-
tonal meeting, and said nothing would
give him grenter pleasure than to put Ghe
hand OF the congregation in the hand of II
new pastor before his departure for Chi
cago, which would occur three weeks from
this morning,
Mr.. kogwin Is young man of pleasing
personality and possessed OF an cxcollent
pulpit voice. His delivery is striking and
Impressive. He has been pastor of the
MillvilIe, N. j., church for nearly four
years, and during his pastorate tho rongre
CATION has doubled in numbers His faith
or is pastor of the West Prcsby terun
church of Wilmington, Del, and brother
is pastor of the Scott Presbyterian church
of Philadelphia. The young man graduat'
cd from Princeton college in 1891 aud from
Union Theological seminary in New York,
in 1894, where he was associated In his
studies with DR.. Tallnage.
He has declined calls to Presbyterian
church Of Boston, Mass, the Rogers
Park Congregational church Of Chicago,
tho First Presbyterian church of Collins,
Col, and other important churches. When
asked last night il he would come to Pitts
burg, he said it would bu bad taste in II
young lady to decline m offer of marriage
bafolo it was formally made.