The Oskaloosa herald., 1913-10-30
SUNDAY SUBJECTS.

Speaking informally concerning or
ganizcE Sunday school classes, Presf
dent Howell, at the MahasKa county
Sunday School convention last week,
told Of an Instance of the work done
by class members outside of the Sun
day school,-foT the work of the Or.
! ganized class endures through the
week and the class members are act
i've on more: days than Sunday. A
young woman was brought from 8
town in a neighborfng county for
treatment and an operation was per
1 formed at the Oskaloosa Hospital
where she was confined to bed sew.
eral weeks. Nota day passed with
out it's special message to the patient
Fresh flowers found their way to the
sick room daily and practically every
mail brought some personal message,
post card or some other token OF
Friendship or concern for her happi,
mess and well being. And this is
only sample of the work being done
by the organized classes of the Sun
| day school. '7. l. ~ ,! "I '.~ d..
An investigation conducted in John.
son county by William NJ Hunt, has
developed the fact that forty-three OF
the 40 churches in johnson county
are outside of Iowa City. OF the AZ
churches, 80 ministers answered that
the automobile did not hurt the church
attendance. Only eight stated un
qualifiedly that the auto hindered the
churches. Three were doubtful -
stating that the automobiles probably
did not impair the church attendance
although they were not sure. In these
rural churches the answers indicated
that the ministers estimated 10 per
cent of their parishi6Hefs owned auto
mobiles so that the effect either way
was not great. ."' =. r - -" .--.I
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The Des Moines Capital has the fol
lowing to say of a gentleman we'll
Anown in this city, son of Rev. II b!
Hughes, formerly presiding elder OF
the Oskaloosa District; 1AG5 .
) "Twenty-seven years ago a young
Methodist preacher named f. II.
Hughes. left the theological school
and Joined the Iowa conference. He
was assigned to charge in PoweI
shfek county. He boarded on the
prairies nine miles from a railroad or
grocery store. He often read of
First NJ. E. church Of Des Moines, but
he says now that neither his ambi-
lions nor dreams ever ran to the
point where he ever expected to occu-
by the pulpit of the First church.
"In twenty-seVen years the young
preacher has become a bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal church. His rise
in the church was rapid and was due
to his clear thinking, hard work and
gifts as an orator. At the age of 29
he occupied the most prominent
Methodist pulpit in New England. At
the age of SO he was elected president
of DePauw university at Greencastle,
Indiana. At As he was chosen bish-
CD. and he is today the youngest
bishop of the Methodist church.
But Hughes, though young and
small OF stature Is of a bishops
size, mentally and spiritually A
bishop of the Methodist church Is
chosen for life or during good, be
havior. In sense he is an expound- |
er of the faith There is no clamp
on his tongue. A bishop may speak
without fear and let the chips fall
where they may And Bishop Hughes
takes advantage OF this prerogative.
He drives the old truths of Method
ism In a telling way. He lays down
new rules and doctrines without fear.
Since the days of Matthew Simpson
the greatest bishop and preacher OF
them all. Methodism in its quad
general conferences has pick
ed the flower OF its ministry for the
episcopacy.
"And the former Iowa circuit |
rider is richly entitled to his place |
among the great bishops"