Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-09-11

REV. DIR. w. o. CARRIER.
ton, and in 1896 the new First Presby
terrain church, a $4,000 edifice was
dedicated This was the result of a
confidence in the pastor that had
sprung up among the besiness men
who supported the church and gave
literally to the erection of the new
building, which is the prettiest church
in Wausau and the most expensive.
During the Rev. Mr.. Carriers pastor
ate there have been twelve missions
established, and a lady assistant, Miss
Monnie Cuff, assigned to work. Ten
missions are in the county and two in
the city have been regularly visited by
Mr.. Carrier and three local mission
aries ever since their establishment. In
two of them preaching is maintained
and the Sunday school work has been
extended to all of them. The church
maintains foreign missionary, the
Rev. q. F. Knauer, at Batanga, Africa.
In 1898 Ripon college conferred the
degree of DID. upon Rev Carrier,
and the same year, when sickness and
lack of supplies demanded local aid to
the soldiers who were at Cuba and
Porto Rico, the Rev. Mr.. Carrier was
denominated by the citizens to visit the
camps of the Wisconsin soldiers, more
particularly Co. G, Third Wisconsin, in
Porto Rico. With a quantity of sup
plies and ST 900 in cash he arrived at
Ponce one morning in October, His
presence and the good tidings, good
cheer and good things which he brought
created a revolution among the Mara
thon county volunteers. Wausau had
sent everything that was good to eat
and everything necessary to the COM
fort of camp, and in one weeks time a
great change in the condition of the
soldiers had been wrought.
Mr.. Carrier has also been prominent
in the state work and was for four years
preside Mt of the State Christian Endeav-
or Society. In 1895 he made an extend
ed visit to the Holy Land He is ma
tive of Lansing, Mich, graduate of
the Albion college, his wife is also a
graduate of the literary and music de-
partments of the same institution. Mr.
Carrier is also a graduate of Auburn
Theological Seminary. He has been
president of the Wisconsin Federation
of Reform which has been active in
having the curfew ordinance passed all
over the state, and is visiting penal in
stitutions with a view of assisting in
the advancement md uplifting of the
methods now in vogue,
HIS DEPARTURE SINCERELY REGRETTED.
Twelve years from the day he
preached his initial sermon in Wausau
he will bid farewell to his congregation
and accept call to the Belden Avenue
Presbyterian church of Chicago. His
departure from this city will be source
of regret to all good citizens, for he has
a world of friends in Wausau. Liberal
in his church work, social and COM
panionable fellow, royal entertainer
and man of pleasing address his
friendship extends far beyond the Pres
byterian congregation Said he last
evening:
Il tell you it is going to be trial for
me to leave to Wausau. When first the
proposition was made to me | gave lit
tie heed to the Importance of the
change, but when come to thoroughly
weigh the matter, and as the time draws
near for me to leave my friends of more
than decade, J appreciate the fact that
ii is going to a severe test. | love Wau-
sau and believe that the future is one
of continued growth and prosperity. /
appreciate that in few days l must
bid farewell to those whose faces have
been familiar to me for ten or twelve
years, there is a lump comes in my
throat-it IS ike leaving home"
MIR. Carriers call to the Belden Ave
nue. Church is of course one where sal
airy is increased and the field wider
one, and while his legion of friends ID
this city regret that it is necessary fol
them to part with their pastor, they al
express delight in the fact that his tai
ents have been appreciated TO the
extent of receiving a call to so prom
inent paktorate
The First Presbyterian church o
Nausau viii contain beyond dcnb
the largest congregation in its histor,
tomorrow morning when Mr.. Currie
win preach his farewell sermon. Mil
wankee Sentinel.