The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-26

the success of the church in its Incl
piency was in great measure due.
The church has had but few pastors,
Elder John Couch was the successor
of Elder Ross, and he served a very
long Passionate, finally dying like true
Christian soldier, with his harness upon
him. He was succeeded by Rev. H f.
carpenter, who served for a number
of years and gave way to the present
pastor, Rev. William A. Butch.
Although the church is one of the
smaller ones Of the city, it's pastor is
one of the most hard working clergy
men OF Worcester and his labors are
not alone confined to the local field.
The denomination Is one that above
all other things prizes work of an
eyangelistic nature and Rev. Mr. Burch
gives very large share of his time
to labors of that sort.
He recognizes the value of printers
INK as medium of disseminating his
doctrines and as the best method OF
reaching the largest number Of people
ne publishes a paper which is devoted
TO the interests Of his work 1t is a
monthly publication in pamphlet form
called Good News" and has cir
culation Of more than $4,000 copies per
issue.
Mr.. Burch does the entire editorial
work of the sheet himself, EMPLOYS a
man who does electrotyping for him
and prints the paper from electrotvpe
plates which he keeps in order to be
able to reprint back numbers of the
publication, which he is often called
upon to do, owing to the demand that
IS MADE for specially admirable num-
bers.
The copies of Good News contain
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nature and are considered among those
engaged in this work as among the
best that are produced for free distrib-
ution at camp meetings, tent meetings
and gatherings where the work of re-
claiming sinners is carried systemat1-
cally on.
Mr.. Burch is himself an able writer
and much of the matter that is used in
the publications is written or adapted
by himself, while the remainder is Sc
lected from the work of the greater
divines of fs1s own and-0ther denomina-
TONS. Mr.. Burch has conducted Good
News for number of years and it's
constantly increasing circulation has
been amply earnest of its popularity
among religious workers.
Rev. Mr.. Burch carries on the work
from conviction and a sense Of duty.
as he does not make a money-making
L
published by him in the form of the
Good News pamphlet are sold to those
in the evangelistic field for about a
quarter Of what all other publishing
house ask for similar works
The activities of the church are nu-
merouS and well organized. The sun
day school is a model one and attracts
the children Of the denomination as
few of the similar organizations of the
city seem to do. 1t is differed by F. d.
Barnes, superintendent, and L. n.
Olmstead, assistant superintendent.
The officers of the church itself are
as follows Moderator, Elon G. Hig-
gins; clerk, M. Albert Whiting; treas
urer John Z, Taylor; auditor, William
K, Brooks; elders, Lewis Sherman,
Seth w. Lincoln, p. NJ. Cunningham;
deacons, Franklin d. Barnes, Dorrance
L. Leach, Oscar V. Sibley; deaconesses,
Annie b. Lincoln, Lucretia Rice, Clara
c. Hathaway; standing committee,
Seth w. Lincoln, H. H. Nash, f. D.
Barnes, r. H. Leavitt, William X.
Brooks; preaching committee, Z. G..
Higgins, f. D. Barnes, Lewis Sherman;
tract committee, Il. G. Higgins, Lewis
Sherman, F. D. Barnes.
The Ladies Aid Society Is termed the
"Lend-a Hand" Society of the church,
and Is an organization that carries out
all the social work of the church and
lends its aid in very material manner
to the raising Of the funds necessary
TO carry on the church work. The Off
GERS of the society are Mrs l.. e. Scho-
field, president, and Mrs. f. /. Taylor,
secretary.
The Womans Missionary Society of
the church is very strong organlza-