Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-10-17
SUCCESSFUL WOMAN PASTOR.
New England Home Magazine Has
Appreciative Sketch Of Rev.
Efie X. M. Jones.

\ recent issue OF llllS popular lldSd-
zine contained full page half tone
cut of Rev. E. X. NJ. Jones with the
following sketch:
Few women preachers who have
been called to the pastorates of New
England churches have had more sue
cess in their chosen field Of labor or
have become more widely known as
the result of their work, than Rev.
Ettie X. NJ. Jones, pastor OF the Uni
versalist church of Barre, Vt.
4 few weeks ago at st. Johnsbury.
VT. she preached the funeral sermon
of Rev. Harry L. Neazey, whose
death by drowning in Greensboro
Pond profoundly shocked that section
of New England.
She is one of the two women who
are to appear on the programme OF
the biennial session of the general
convention of Universalists. which
will be held in Boston in October.
Rev. Mrs. Jones is a woman Of
striking presence. She is tall and
dignilied in her bearing, powerful in
her oratory and graceful in her move
mentS.
Her reasoning is clear and persua-
siye and her sermons are particularly
strong and practical. Her chief desire
is to appeal interestingly to the
hearts of old and young alike, and
this faculty which Mrs. Jones pos
sesses is one of the secrets Of her sue
cess. She is very much interested in
the work of the Young Peoples So
ciety of her church, and she improves;
every opportunity to study their
needs and minister unto them. She
has two little daughters, to whom she
gives the fondest care, proving her
ability to be truly both mother and
father to her children.
Ellie kidwell McCOllum was born
near Fort Scott, Kansas, in March,
1869. She received the best edllca-
ton that the locality could give-and
the Kansas school system is excellent
and early began the work of a
teacher. for which she had been tit
ting herself. and in which she gave
promise of more than ordinary sue
cess. She was of thoughtful and seri-
Gus mind. giving much attention to
religious things, and having joined
the Univeralist church in her girlhoOd
she felt called to undertake the work
of its ministry, which admits women
to its ranks on equal terms with men.
She entered Ryder Divinity school at
Galesburg. H.. in the fall Of 1883,
and was duly graduated from that
institution with honor, having com
pleted more work preparatory to hel
degree of Bachelor of Divinity than
| had any other student in the Sch0o
up to that time. Miss McCollum was
allowed more than the usual freedom
, for outside work. largely earning hel
way through college by regular Labor
as IA preacher, principally in Lafay'
. cite. Pecatonca, and Belvidere, ILL.,
She married the Rev. B. Wallace
Jones of Dubuque, Ia, a classmate
and with him. after brief work IL
Iowa. went to Barre, VT, in The
spring of 1894, she being formally
called as her husbands assistant il
the labors of this large and important
church. Here. early in 1898, her nus
band died, and Mrs. Jones was at
once called to succeed him. She has
carried on the whole work since that
time with conspicuous success, and is
largely active outside the bounds OF
her parish, lecturing and speaking or
special occasions. Her position is
one of the foremost in the state, anC
prominent in the denomination.