The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-12-10
Rev. Edgar Whitaker Work,
ID. d.

its dealing with preachers In the
Metropolitan Pulpit" records o
a sermon of our former townsman
Rev. Edgar Work, and the editor
of the "observer" prefaces the
sermon by the following personal
observation Of the life of Rev.
Work:
CDR. Work has been the pas tor
of the Fourth presby terian Church
of New York at West End ave
and 0lst.st "a little M IRE than II
year, and has already won place
among the leading pastors of the
city. His scholarship, his public
ministrations, his pastoral work,
his breadth of his vision, his
personality, win him friends in
and out of his church. friends
talk less of him perhaps than of
his message and his Master. He
is member of the Home Mission
Board, and of the Presbytery' e
Committee on Foreign Mission.
DR.. Work was BORN at Logan,
OHIO, in 1862, and WAS educated
in the University of Wooster,
Ohio, and in Lane Theological
Seminary at Cincinnati, being
graduated at the latter institution
in 1887. He received his degree
Of ID. ID. from Wooster in 1895:
later lie became a member of the
faculty at Wooster as professor of
Biblical literature and Apologetics,
and WAS pastor of the collegiate
church at the same time. For
several years DR.. Work was
member of the Board of Trustees
of Wooster University and of
Lane Theological Seminary, and
subsequently he became member
of the Board of Trustees of the
Omaha Theological Seminary. He
Is now member of the Board of
Of Trustees of Westminster Uni,
versity, Denver.
A born preacher, DIR. Work has
made a notable success in the
ministry, being pastor for seven
and half years of the Third
Street Presbyterian Church at
Dayton, Ohio. His pastorate be-
fore coming to New. York was in
Colorado Springs, Colo, where he
was succeeded by II New York
pastor, the Rev. Howard Agnew
Johnston, D. d. The church in
Colorado Springs grew during his
pastorate to membership of L.
800. He has been lecturer for
three summers at the Bible Teach
ers' Training School in New York,
and is now on the faculty of that
institution as a special lecturer on
the Bible. DR.. Work has publish
ed several bO O)ks, the latest being
'The Fascination of the Book"
of which one of the ablest Bible
teachers of our day says there is
nothing of it's kind that approaches
it. Other volumes are "Great
Moments in the Life of Paul."
"S.udy to be Quiet" devotional
book, and other minor publications.
He has given addresses, mostly on
Bible themes, ut many conferences,
including Northtield, Winona and
Silver Bay. He is engaged as
lecturer this year at Lane Theo
logical Seminary, Cincinnati, on
"rhe Bible in English Literature.
Several calls haye come to him
from and theological seminaries,
including an election to the presi-
aency of the new Presbyterian
College IN Denver; but he has
preferred to remain in the pulpit
DIR. Work is essentially Bible
preacher. He believes with Prof.
Richard G. Moulton that what
for Christian people to do
with the Bible is simply--to read
it. Therefore, he has made use
of many methods in his pastorate
OF interesting the people in the
Bible. On some occasions he has
preached on books of the Bible,
the people reading at times from
printed sheets containing an entire
book. Similar methods of study
ing the Bible are in use in the
prayer meeting. Though not
strictly an expository preacher he
believes, as he has said in chap
ter of his already referred to, that