The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-05-05

Rev. Charles e. Fultz-A Preacher VIII,
| WORKS Seven Days in the Week.-Durinl
the nine years that he has been actively en-
gagged in the ministry Rev. Charles E. Fultz
pastor of Otterbein Memorial United Breth
rem Church, Hampden, says the Baltimore Sun
mas made the week days as we'll as the Sunday
count, and, although his length of service hai
peen short, his record of achievement hal
been long.
! :. When youth he felt the call to preach the
gospel, but after he had completed his course
at Western Maryland College his health was
so impaired that he was advised to abandon
the theological studies which he had mapped
out for himself. He needed the refreshing
open air and the trees and flowers, his advisers
salo, and so he went back to the farm. al
farming he was successful and prospered. He
was married during this period and he had
reason to be happy.
| Soon his health came back and as his physi-
cal strength returned so did his long cherished
conviction that he was called to preach. He
could not ignore the call, nor resist the attrac-
uon which the ministerial life had for him.
For the second time he left home, but this
time it was his own home, and not that of bis
parents, as before. 1t was harder to go away
TO college, to study side by side with the young
men, when all the while he knew that his
VIE and his baby were at home. But he went
10 the Biblical Seminary at Dayton, Ohio.
AneIe ne stu0leQ marc, Tor ne Ielt tndL ne
wanted to make up for lost time.
de was more matured than his fellows
gents. His enthusiasm for his work had been
increased by the delay. He came out of the
seminary with all the best thought that it had
sought to instill and with few original ideas
besides.
One of these original ideas was that the
preacher should mingle with men on the week
days. Another was that the preacher should
not depend upon the pulpit entirely, for many
whom the preacher is most anxious to appeal
TO do not come to the church to submit to con-
version. The preacher, he thought, should go
into the factories and mills and stores and seek
out those who do not come to the church. He
put this idea into practice from the beginning
OF bis active ministry.
His first charge was at Greencastle, Pa,
where he was assigned in 1897. There he sue
eeeded in greatly increasing the size Of the
ien1re wiped off a debt Of s., 600.
Bat bis best work has been at Otterbein Me-
moral Church, where he has been for the last
seven years. During that time he has con-
$50, made 687 accessions to the member
ship OF the church and brought the enrolment
from 20e to 618. There are $50 children in the
Sunday lchool.
In Hanpden he has found fruitful field
for the application of his aggressive methods
Scarcely aday passes but he spends few hours
visiting the factories the stoneYards or the
mills. He is well known and he is always
seeking to widen his acquaintance.
If, for instance, he has been successful in
getting one man in quarry into his church
be calls upon the man while at his work and
tries to get his fellow workers into the fold, If
they are not already church members. In this
way he gets the people to thinking about
church and religion and even if he does not
succeed in getting them into his congregation,
he does them some good by his talk.
Along with its increase in membership the
church has improved in financial condition.
The pretty stone building and the parsonage
were built in 1892 and the debt left was $25, 600
During this time Rev. MIR. FultZ has succeeded
amount: Easter Sunday the church received
gift of $1,000 from a lady who was deeply
impressed with the work that it was doing.
Practically the whole debt has been paid.
Rev Mr.. Fultz is a native of the 9th district
of Baltimore county and the only son of the
late George NJ. Fultz, who was in his day
well known paper manufacturer and farmer.
Hicks Weather Forecasts for May
We publish below from Word and Works the
Hicks weather forecasts for the present month:
to the 9Th being prolonged over the 4th by the
moons passage over celestial equator on the 9Th.
very warm wave for the season, sustained
until after storms of rain, wind and thunder
about the 4th and 9Th, will pass from west TO east
at this time. Careful observers of clouds and
other indications, especially with the aid of
ing storms will be violent or moderate. Change
to rising barometer and cooler behind these
storms will be of short duration.
covers the 7th to 18th. The full moon in peri
gee on the 9Th and at extreme south declination
on the 18th, will be factors in the resulting per-
turbations of this period. By the 8th low ba-
rometer and much warmer will be advancing
from the west, attended by very decided storms.
From 9th to 18th series of storms will sweep
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west to east. Rapid change to high barometers.
westerly gales and much cooler will follow this
series of storms, and frosts will visit many CEN
trail to northern sections from the 10th and l4th
"A reactiOnary storm period is central on the
14th, 10Th and 10th. The Mars and Mercury dis
turbances, blending with this annual tendency,
make it entirely possible and probable that VIC
lent to dangerous storms may appear about the
14th, 18th and 10th.
the 23d. This promises to be the most active to
violent period in May. 1t is regular Vulcan
period. covered by Mars and central with the
the l9th. in apogee on the I'D, and at new on the
S3d. All these things combined indicate that
and electrical storms of marked severity will
prevail at the first and continue to the end of
this period. All through the central part of
May there is greattendency at the storm periods
to daily cycles of storms. for a number of days
in succession, breaking up as rule with gen
10th to the 23d), promises to bring one of these
cycles. If after the first storm the barometer
does not rise and the wind change to westerly
and decidedly cooler, about the same time on
the following day look for a repetition of the
storm, and so on for several days, or until the
changes named occur The elimination of this
night on the I'D. The outlook for this whole
period is threatening but we will name Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, 2lst, ga and 23d, as
danger days. Should the normal changes occur,
clearing and much cooler weather should appear
about the oath and 18th.
"A reactionary storm period is central on the
26th, 9th and 28th with strong that
the combined Mars and Mercury influences will
cause prolonged threatening, IL not stormy
p w The general character Of the Mars pc.
riod will determine the kind and intensity of
storm and weather to be expected from about
the goth to the end of the month. If the Mars
period comes in with an excess Of storminess,
the period extending from the 10th to the 23d
will not only bring continued daily cycle of
storms will hardly re Oh their elimination and
come to an end until about Saturday, Sunday
and Monday, 26th, 9th and 2Sth. A decided
change to cooler will spread over the country
generally at the wind up of these storms.
1.-The last day of May is the beginning of 9
regular storm period which will express itself
during the opening days of June. We will say
In closing that, under ordinary conditions, the
outlook for June is exceptionally threatening.
pected and the conditions in May will indicate
the general character of phenomena to look for.
A general maximum of electrical storms, with
many seismic and volcanic disturbances, are
among the pre- eminent probabilities"
Baltimore County Relatives Will be
Glad to Read This Letter.-Mrs. Julia B.
L. Scott, of Gainesville, relative of Mr.. Henry
T. Scott of the Union Iron Works, San Fran
cisco, has received word from California that
all of her relatives who were in the earthquake
are safe, though they have lost much property.
The following extracts are from graphic letter
received by Mrs. Scott last Saturday. 1t is
dated April 2lst:
II suppose that our part of the city was the
most wicked district, for we got it quick and
plenty, whereas other portions suffered but
slightly. This is still Gods country, but He
seems to have let his satanic majesty have
possession for 80 seconds.
"Along the water front and south of Market
street. on made ground, where poorer buildings
existed, they were lighting fire for breakfast.
The result was many collapsing houses and in
cipient fires started. The water mains burst,
and there was no force to fight the fire. The
military took possession and took charge of the
dynamiting, but they were too timid about de-
stroying property until the fire actually attack
ed it. Then it was too late, but they kept up
the policy for two days and a half. The mill
tary made great promises to stop the fire at
Van Ness avenue, and they should have done
it by dynamiting couple of blocks in front of
the flames. They waited. however. until the
flames reached the houses they blew up.
when the city officials saw that the mill