Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-14

nearby towns. Rev. Smith wishes 1t
to be known that although he has the
oretically retired, he is still active and
continues to supply pulpits and en-
cages in other activities of his church,
the Willard Street M. E..
Rev. D. G.. Smith was born Novem-
Der II, 1887, in Ickesburg, Pa. After
attending the public schools Mr.. Smith
! continued his studies under private
instructors, carrying his education
near the completion of college work
and since then has w ceased to be
a student. He came to Peoria county,
Ill, in 1851 and stayed there until the
spring of 1855 when he moved to
Washington county. Iowa, where he
lived with his father, who was a farm
er there. Rev. Smith started teach
ing school soon afterwards and taught
until in September 1864, when he en-
tered the Iowa conference, being
schoolmaster at the Afnsworth school
at the time.
He has been a continuous member
of the Iowa conference for the past
ifty-one years, and it was for this rea-
son that he was called upon to preach
his semi-centennial sermon at Center
Vile conference, although his fifty
years of membership was pasred last
year. He filled the pulpits of the Web
ster circuit, Kirkville ciruit, Victor,
Marengo, Oskaloosa district, Brooklyn,
Montezuma, Bloomfield, Fairfield,
Abba, Ottumwa district, Willard Street
M. C. church and his last charge was
in Pella. He still supplies sermons for
ministers who are unable to fill their
~,,1~i$o f0r - rhorf firoo anH MANY
marriages and funerals.
The past ten years he has been
teacher of the class which is now the
street church.
five years a trustee of Iowa Wesleyan
college at Mt. Pleasant and for the
last ten years Of that period, served
as vice president Of the board Of
trustees. He was a delegate to the
general conference in Chicago In 1906
and was and is a member of the ex-
ecutive committee Of the civic league
Of Ottumwa.
He Is in great demand to perform
marriages and funerals many in OF
tumwa and a great number outside OF
the city, in towns where he has had
charges.
His semi-centennial sermon at Cen
terville was along a line which is sci.
dom heard, and along a new line OF
thought from that of the general u
of sermons. His subject was, "The
Christian Temple; the Builders and
Building" texts, Zech. 6:12, Behold
the branch; and he shall grow up out
of his place, and he shall build the
temple Of the Lord" Eph. 2:21, I'm
whom all the building fifty framed to-
gether groweth into an holy temple in
the Lord
An outline of his sermon follows:
He showed that this temple was the
church of Jesus Christ in it's spiritual
unity and fitness. That Solomon's
temple was the type, the Christian
temple the anti-type. That the branch
was the Messiah or Christ and was the |
architect and master builder and that
the apostles and others were but under
masters. The building is made up of
saved men, and children, char
acterized in the new testament as
living stones" or stones alive" No
other material enters the building.
Jesus Christ was the chief corner
stone, all the apostles being stones in
the foundation. See Eph. 2:2O).
THE building Is not yet completed"
said he, there remains an adaptable
place for every penitent and saved i
sinner. Y
"Solomon's temple was a thing OF
beauty and Of splendid material per-
lection, but the anti-type, the church
or temple of Christ far outshines in
moral beauty, human h%elpfulness and
divine honor, the superb type.
"Solomon's temple had a common