East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-02-03
PRESBYTERIANS
INSTALL PASTOR
CEREMONIES ON SUNDAY
Large Congregation Attends Morning
Service at Local Church at Which
Rev. S. l.. Grigsby Is Installed
Special Services Held I'm Evening
Services Impressive.

The installation exercises yesterday
morning of the Rev. S. l.. Grigsby as
pastor Of the First Presbyterian
church of this city were largely at
tended. The ceremony was an inn
pressive one. Excellent music was
furnished by the choir
Special services were held in the
evening at which the Rev. w. L. Van
Nuys of Parksdale, ore, delivered the
sermon. This service was also large
ly attended.
The morning service began at the
usual hour. The Rev. J. V. Mlligan.
d. D., of Portland, delivered the
installation sermon. Rev. w. NJ.
Bleakney, Phi. D.. of Walla Walla,
gave the charge to the new pastor,
while the charge to the congregation
was delivered by Rev. w. L. Van Nuys
of Parkdale. Singing was rendered
by Mrs Dickson of this city. and the
Misses Allen and Smith of Parkdale.
The Rev Sherwood L. Grigsby was
born in Trenton, Tenn. He is a
grandson of the late Rev. ]. f. Bright,
ID. D., for many years an eminent
minister and educator in the South
ern Presbyterian church. At the age
of fourteen Mr. Grigsby united with
the Presbyterian church. While yet
in his teens he was taken under the
care of the Presbytery in West Ten
nessee as a candidate for the gospel
ministry. entering the Southwestern
Presbyterian University. from which
institution he graduated, receiving the
degree of A. b. Later he entered the
Columbia Theological Seminary from
which he graduated after a three
years course Returning to Tennessee
he was ordained to the full wo:k of
the gospel ministry and settled as pas
tor of the church at Union City, where
he labored until the spring of 1892,
in connection with the Union City
church at Tiptonville the county seat
of the adjoining county. These char
ges although small when he took
charge, both became at once self-sup-
porting. he becoming the first settled
pastor of each. From 92 to '95 he
was pastor of the Second Presbyterian
church, Paducah, KY. where a splen-
did work was accomplished. During
the period of his early ministry he
was called to churches in large cities
such as Louisville. KY, and Birming-
ham, Ala, but chose rather to labor
where he felt that his services were
most needed. For more than seven
years te was pastor of the important
church at Holly Springs Miss. and
later for several years pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, Emporia,
Kansas. The latter church had
membership of over five hundred and
worshipped in a splendid stone edi-
flee About two hundred were added
to the membership of this church dur
ing this prosperous pastorate, but de-
string to make his home in the west.
Mr.. Grigsby decided to resign his pas
torate. accepting call to the office
under the Presbyterian Board of
Pastor Evangelist of the Presbytery
of Southern oregon, locating at
Medford To this work he devoted
all his time, preaching almost every
day for fifteen months, and travelling
several thousand miles. much of
which was by stage. until called to
take charge of the church at Pendle-
ton.
Mr. Grigsby was married to Miss
Lucy NJ. Jackson while in his first
charge at Union City, Tenn. They
have four children, three daughters
and son.