The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-05
KANSAS CONNENT
DEDICATED 24o CHURCHES.


Rev. Mr.. Kelly has been a member of
the Methodist church for 81 years, and
In its ministry for a years. He has
served all four of the South Kansas
conference presiding elder districts as
presiding elder, and has held the pas
torates in the First churches of prac-
tically all the principal towns of the
south and east central sections of
the state. including Emporia, Ottawa.
feyville.
He was a member of the old Kansas
conference, when 1t included all of
Kansas, and was at Ottawa when the
DIVISION into districts came. He was at
Wichita when that section went into
the southwest conference, and he went
with that assignment until transferred
70 Emporia and back into the South
Kansas conference.
Rev. Mr.. Kelly has been pusher of
church work. He got business in a
business way, while looking after the
spiritual welfare of his field. He took
TO CoHeyv1lle to this conference session
a showing that every minister in his
district had his salary paid up-an I'M
usual condition. as even those outside
the circle of church work know-and a
showing that the various departments
of church business had all made ad-
vancement in the past year.
Fort Scott district that Rev. Mr.. Kelly
accomplished results that western
Methodism still talks of. In the four
years Of his service he built 35
churches, built Il parsonages and had
| Ii other church buildings under way
when he turned the district over to his
successor. Not long ago the Christian
Advocate contained the remarkable
story of a campaign in which Bishop
McCabe Joined Rev. Kelly in the lat
L fcr- te, ALL 11l
| Gated, seven church cornerstones were
| laid, and the debts of eight churches
paid off in Is days time. Rev. Mr..
Kelly has dedicated free of encum-
| hrance about 240 churches in the state
of Kansas. He dedicated the first
| Methodist church in the territory of
| Oklahoma, at the then little settlement
| of Oklahoma City. He built and dedi-
Gated the first chapel built in the
| Philippine islands by either a regular
or volunteer army chaplain. In his
| three and half years service of pre-
siding elder of the Emporia district he
| created more than one-third of the
| church property, and nearly one-fourth
of that in the Independence district is
credited to his two years of service
| there.
Rev. Mr.. Kelly came to the church
| work from an army service which got
| him a discharge written by Secretary
| of War Stanton himself, specifying
wounds IN battle as the cause of re-
| tirement. He entered the war with ar
Illinois regiment, serving some two
years and half. and was shot in the
fighting in the battle of Dallas. He
| spent some time in the hospital and
| left that institution on crutches. When
! the Spanish war broke out Rev Mr.
Kelly entered the service as chaplain
| and passed through the Philippine
! campaigns in that capacity. He is now
| on the retired list of the United States
army, coming to the Ottawa district
of his church four years ago on his re-
tirement from the military service
Ottawa Herald.
| MAKING POLITICAL JOBS.
At time when the country is wor-
ried by a deficit, it would seem that
congress would attempt retrench-
ment, as a railroad would under the
| circumstances, and lop off few OF
many needless Jobs. 1t would seem
that way, at least, If you knew
nothing about congress. Just what
the last session of congress did In
this juncture was to add 3.877 fed
roll. 1t will be strange indeed, il
the present session. called to settle
the tariff controversy and nothing
more, doesn't add a few to the num-
Der. Indeed, there has already been
talk of commission to make g
1eisurely study of the very matter
congress was called to settle. Toe
| much government work is done in
the political campaigns, to be pai6
for in future jobs.-Atchison Globe.