Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-24
and people any where, and especially
in the history of the First Methodist
church in Ottumwa.
Purse for DR.. Brush.

in the history of the First Methodist
church in Ottumwa.
Purse for Or. Brush.
As was stated in the Courier last
week, the church board voted unani-
mously to pay DR.. Brush two months
more salary than was due him on his
contract, for the reason that it wish
ed to give evidence of it's and the con-
gregation's kindly feeling towards
him, and it is further pleasure to be
able to state at this time, that some
time this afternoon or this evening a
purse of between $3.50 and $500 will
be handed the doctor. 1t was made
up yesterday and today among his
personal friends and it is presented
as a modest testimonial of their sin
cere regard for him.
Winter in California.
DR.. Brush said to Courier report
err today that he will go direct to Los
Angeles, where he will spend several
months doing nothing whatever but
resting.
The Resolution.
The following expression OF appre-
citation OF the labors of DR.. and Mrs.
F. E. Brush, and of regret at the ter
limitation of their relationship was
unanimously adopted as follows:
THE necessities Of failing health
having severed the relationship here
|tofore existing between DR.. and Mrs.
If. E. Brush and the membership of
of the First, NJ. E. church of Ottumwa,
Iowa, it is the desire of the official
board of said church, on its own be-
half, and on the behalf of the entire
membership of this church and con-
gregation, to give proper and ear
nest expression of appreciation of
their labcrs amongst us, and of the
feeling OF personal regret and loss
which comes to all with realization
of the change.
"Of all the dlvinely appointed re-
relationships of this life, second only to
that of family unity and kinship, this
one of pastor and people, teacher and
taught, spiritual guide and spiritually
guided, takes deepest hold upon the
| lives and the hearts of men, and is the
most potent in shaping the spiritual
destiny of the soul 1t must ever re-
fleet in some degree, that personal
love and power which bound in unity
of desire and purpose, the divine
Master and his immediate deciples
He who enters upon this Relationship
as pastor and preacher, must either
do so with burdening sense of its
responsibility or be untitled for and
unworthy of it. DR.. Brush's life with
us has shown us that he in largest
measure has carried this sense of the
moral grandeur and the moral re-
sponsibility of his calling. For more
than four years he has devotedly
borne these burdens of responsibility
land care associated with this church
has freely drawn upon his great re
sources of intellectual and spiritual
Iendowment for our instruction and
our good, until the physical man could
]no longer endure the strain imposed
upon it. II we may judge and be
permitted to express our Judgment
lit is that his duty among us and tow
Iards us, has ever been faithfully, earn
testify, ana fully done; for we recog
nize in him man of untiring energy
when measured by physical strength
land OF answering devotion to the
cause he serves; man of great and
growing soul, whose delight is tc
i drink deep at the divine and ever
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