Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-23
FELLOWSHIP SECURES
BLIGHT AS DIRECTOR
MILLS ASSOCIATE BECOMES
REGULAR MINISTER
New Head of Liberal Organization
Said to Be Business Preacher
and Eminently Fitted
for Duties

Reynold E. Blight, who this month
will succeed Benjamin Fay Mills and
Mrs. Mills as the regular minister of
Los Angeles Fellowship is bust
ness man preacher" He comes from the
position of manager of the Los An
geles branch of the largest firm of GER
titled public accountants west of the
Mississippi to take up the work OF a
minister.
He is not, however, an amateur re-
ligious worker, having been engaged
most of his life in duties of this ma
ture. He was appointed preacher of
Methodist church in Canada when he
was 16 years of age. During his bust
ness career in Los Angeles he has also
served as associate miniter of the Fell
lowhip.
For a man not yet 80 years old Mr..
Blight has a remarkably extensive BIZ
ography. He was born in England
and his parents removed to Canada
when he was a boy. He was president
of one of the first Christian Endeavor
societies at Toronto. From there he
went to New York in 1896, and became
associated with Maud Ballington Booth
in prison reform work. While still i'll
his youth he was offered the manage
ment of Mrs. Booths Hope Hall at
It Iu6liillSs L. ~ AilAOdSiA NftiNiA AAiCi
than 5000 former convicts passed in the
next three years.
While practicing public acountancy
in Wall street, New York city, Mr..
Blight became interested in the pro-
hibition movement and was made presi-
dent of the Young Peoples Prohibition
league. He was engaged in this work
when he decided to come to California,
in 1903
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and then came to Los Angeles to as
sociate himself with the newly organ
lied Fellowship movement. While en-
gagged in both professional and religious
work Mr.. Blight has devoted some time
to writing. A series of twenty-five con-
secutive articles on investments and
accountics, in a financial weekly, at
tracted much attention, and at the same
time his magazine articles on sociolog-
ical and political questions pleased and
interested readers Mr.. Blight was
elected first president of the Legal Aid
society. He is at present managing ed
itor of the Fellowship monthly maya
zine. A year ago Mr.. Blight married
Miss Lydia E. Walters a Los Angeles
girl.
Commends His Ability
Mr.. Mills, in an announcement of
Mr.. Blight's acceptance of the ministry
of the FellOWSnlp, SAID. his iHlelleC-
tua1 equipment is remarkable. There
is probably no man of his age in South
ern California who has gained as great
esteem from the public for his rare
abilities and sterling devotion to the
right. He is a fine popular speaker,
commanding the attention of his au-
diences from the beginning to the close
of his addresses. His character could
not be better summed up than in the
words He came not to be ministered
unto, but to minister
The Fellowship is one of the largest
liberal organizations in the country. 1t
has no stated creed and all who wish
ito make an earnest effort to lead
trustful and unselfish life are welcome
to it's membership. 1t has a Sunday
school, clubs for young men and wom-
en-, and a public service committee,
through which it endeaVors to make its
influence felt for righteousness and
progress in civic affairs. Upon its plat
form many well known new thought
and reform speakers of America have
appeared including Henry Frank Of
New York, William Walker Atkinson OF
Chicago, Ben B. Lindsey of Denver
and Ella Wheeler Wilcox of New York.
At Blanchard hall yesterday Mr.
Blight gave the first of three addresses
on 1.-The New Thought" speaking on
what Is the New Thought?' Novem-
Der 90 he will present the subject. The
New Thought and the Old Theology,
and December he will talk on "The
New Thought in Practice" All meet
ings of the Fellowship are open to the
public without charge.