Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1902-01-21
REV. CLARENCE e. sesRMAN.


Rev. Clarence E. Eberman, field secre
tary of the United Society Of Christian
Endeavor, will speak at South Pari.
Tuesday afternoon and evening, Jan. %
The afternoon meeting will be workers
conference.
Mr.. Eberman is large man physical
~, tall, broad-shouldered, and with
much of that amplitude of figure that a
cheerful disposition and German ances.
try may combine to give men. who, like
Count Zinzendorf, for instance, are Sc.
lected by God to carry great resposibili-
ties on their shoulders.
Like his Master he was "born in
Bethlehem" but it was the Moravian
Bethlehem of eastern Pennsylvania, and
not the Judaan Bethlehem. This was
in 1853. His ancestors were among the
first German Moravians who came to this
country from Saxony. His grandfather
and two uncles were foreign mission
aries, and his father was born on mis-
sion field in the West Indies.
at is not Mr.. Eberman's fault" says
one we'll acquainted with his whole life.
shat he did not become a missionary"
With six other members of his class Of
nine in the theological seminary, Mr..
Eberman volunteered for work in Alaska,
but only two men could be used, and he
was not of the elect number.
Mr.. Eberman's education was obtain
ed in the Moravian Parochial School at
Bethlehem, at Nazareth Military Acad-
envy. and at the Moravian college and
theological seminary at Bethlehem.
where he earned his degree of B. ID. in
1884.
1t was at the age of thirteen, just be-
fore entering Nazareth Academy, that
Mr.. Eberman reached the full determi-
nation to become a minister of the Cos
pei. Before he had reached his full ma
jority he was ordained to the ministry
and called TO the Moravian church at
Castleton Corners, Staten Island, \. Y,
in fellowship with Rev. W. II. Vogler,
the Moravian trustee in the United So
ciety of Christian Endeavor. Thence he
was promoted, first to Brooklyn, in
1889, and TO Lancaster, one of the most
important Moravian parishes in the
United States, in 1898.
But the efforts of no man of Mr.. Eber-
mans breadth of sympathy and brother
denomination. He did large amount
of outside platform work in behalf of
temperance, moral reforms, and the
young peoples movement in other de-
nominations. He was Bible-society
president, school director, Prohibition
candidate, and author of helpful
volume of Quiet Hour meditations, en-
titled deeper Yet"
1t was inevitable that man of so
winning personality should be popular
with young and old, and should have
many calls upon his time and strength.
Mr.. Eberman has face that marks him
as leader in the cause of right. 1t is
the face of An optimist, strong in will
power, intellectual, sunny. 1t is whole
sermon in itself, but not funeral SER
mon.
Naturally he became early an enthu-
siastic and forceful Endeavor worker,
and it was not strange that the Pennsyl-
vania union should cast its eye on him
as a splendid presidential possibility.
From 1895 TO 1901 he gave this greatest
Of State unions an administration that
has never been surpassed for aggressive
work. His great power
as an organizer was strikingly demon
strate6.
Mr.. Eberman has been a welcome and
helpful speaker at International Con-
ventions, and brings with him into his
larger field of work the prestige of sue
cess and the confidence and love of a
host of friends within the Moravian
Church and without it.