The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-30
BIDS FAREWELL
TO HIS FLOCK
Rev. G. w. Hensel Will take
Up Evangelism.
new PASTOR WILL Be SENT
Conference Will Convene in
Toledo.
Admonishing Each Member of His
Congregation to Live Close TO the
Master Rev. Henscl Bids Adicu
TO Calvary Church People.

AT the evening service at the CAL
vary Evangelical church Sunday,
Rev. Clarence w. ,Hensel, who has
been pastor of the church for some
years past, preached his farewell SER
mon to the congregation here. The
retiring pastor admonished his flock
to remain faithful and to keep close
to the Master.
Rev. Mr.. Hensel will enter the
laymen's missionary field with head
quarters at Cleveland.
There was n very large attend
ance OF the church membership at
the closing service Of the conference
year Sunday evening. Thursday of
this week the annual conference OF
the Columbus district of the Evan
gelical church convenes at Toledo
and will continue in session over
next Sunday. 1t is not known who
the next pastor in the charge here
will be. During the evening the re-
firing pastor said in part:
"When 1 hand In my reports to the
conference convening at Toledo, /
will have closed my work here and
my relations with Calvary church
will have been severed. / am not
going of my own free choice, but
because of the feeling that God has
a greater work in store for me.
can leave no better word with you
than that you live close to God and
pray that His will may be done.
With the close of my work here, I
will have ended my pastorate, and !
hope that 1 may never touch one of
you as q pastor during the pastorate
of my successor. When the new
pastor comes. receive him with open
arms of love even as you have re-
ceived me.
ain leaving you there is on sweeter
thought left to me tain you have
been faithful. When I shall have
gone from you I shall be glad TO
know of your welfare, not how each
of you may have prospered or as the
church may have prospered, or
whether you have become prominent
individually or II Calvary church has
arisen to high place among the
churches. / shall only be glad and
interested to know If you have been
faithful, for all of the other consider
ations are, in a sense, fickle. There
has been harmony in the church so
much indeed that people have come
to me and talked about 1t, and / am
glad that this is true. People know
IL and l know it., and It is very
happy thought. only hope that you
may keep closer to the Master and
stand by your new pastor. May God
bless you"
The close of the ministry OF Christ
was the theme of the able sermon
preached as farewell to his flock.
He spoke of the last days OF the
ministry of Christ on earth as re-
corded in the twenty-sixth chapter
of Matthew In the few days pre-
vious to the crucfxion the Master
left eight of his disciples and told
them to wait while he took Peter
James and John with him to the
mountain and prayed. Rev. Mr..
Hensel here formed three groups
Christ forming one himself. the eight
another and the three a third group.
There are come other Christians VINO
are in tho group of eight and who ar
not SO close to the Master as were
the three who wanted to be close to
the Master at all times. In closing
his address, Rev. Hensel urged his
congregation to be numbered among
the group composed of three in order
that they might remain In toucn
with the truth. g
At the conference Thursday OF TINS
week, the laymen In the church Wild
for the first time be represented q
n. Zachman, OF this city. Ii one oil
the delegates from the Columbus dis'
trict. --.L.- III