Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-31

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braska Missouri and Kansas were
originated into a separate annual con-
ference. He was sent to Kansas to
, look up the Germans. With horse and
buggy he made his way through Iowa
and Missouri to Humboldt, Kansas.
No missionary had been sent hither
by the church. The border war was
raging. The fight was to make Kansas
a free State. Here he helped with
General. afterwards Senator, Lane.
Colonel Montgomery. the famous John
| Brown and others. This was the year
of great drought A large sum of
money and much provision were sent
(which he distributed among the needy
settlers regardless of name or church
Fellowship.
Stayed Out of Politics
He could have had the nomination
TO the Legislature, was urged by Gen
eral Lane and others to enter the po-
Ilitical field but remained a simple
minister of the Gospel. He built the
church in Humboldt, the first church
of his denomination in Kansas. The
following year he was stationed in
Leavenworth, Kas. Here he erected
the second church of his denomination
lin Kansas.
In the Spring of 1862 he was elect
ed as travelling agent by the trustees
of the proposed college at Plaintield,
| Ill. The second year he was made
general agent. He labored very sue
cessfully so that the college was given
a fine start.
been unanimously elected general
agent. lie was next chosen presiding
elder and stationed on Des Moines dis
trict. This comprised q large terri
! tory, over which lie travelled by horse
and buggy. His self-denial was very
great He had number of remark
able escapes from death during this
period of his career.
BY his literary productions he at
tracted the attention of the leading
men of the church, so that at the Cen
eral Conference held in Pittsburgh
in 1867 he was elected sole editor of
| the Christliche Botschafter the Ger
man organ of the church, the oldest,
largest and at that time the most
widely circulated Protestant religious
paper in the country. He was re-
elected in 1871. Under his editorship
the Botschafter increased about 5000
lin its circulation.
Bishop at 3S
After eight years literary service in
his position as editor, the General
Conference in Philadelphia in 1875
elected him bishop at the age of 3S.
In this capacity he served the church
twenty-seven years. A law of the
church prevented his further re-elec-
ton in 1902. He was recently
editor of the Zeitschrift. He was
member of General Conference since
1863 and identified with missionary
and educational interests. In connec-
ton with Mt. Morris Seminary in llli-
nois, and the Seminary of the Cove
nanter Presbyterian at Grandview,
Iowa he enjoyed further educational
advantages. By private arrangement
he took the theological course of Lane
Seminary His intimate relations with
the famous Christlieb of the Univer-
sity of Bonn and other theological
professors of the schools of Germany
led him into the realm of theology
and cognate studies.
OF Exceptional Ability
! Very much might be said concern
ing the exceptional ability and labors
of Bishop Dubs. He was a man of
great intellectual power and physical
endurance. His mind was veritable
encyclopedia of information, and he
was well versed in American and Ger
man literature, as we'll as all the top
| les of the day. His reading and travels
! in this country and Europe gave him
| a familiarity with men and affairs
such as few persons have. His mem
| ory of persons and details was re-
markable. AS preacher and lecturer
on religious topics, he had few equals.
He was an editor of more than usual
ability. He always mad most inter-
esting way of impdrting information,
whether in the pulpit, on the lecture
platform, by his versatile pen or as a
. I-NNS
edge seemed ineXhaustible. and he was
always abreast with the times.
He was a master of assemblies.
These characteristics placed him in
great demand as a speaker upon Il va
riety of occasions. He had a reputa-
tion far beyond the bounds of his own
denominations
Spoke nj Great Gatherings
| He was frequently called to speak at
great gatherings of the larger de-
nominations and ON undenominational
occasions. such as college and Y. NJ.
| G. A. assemblies. His addresses were
characterized by a deep spiritual tone;
consequently his hearers were often
deeply moved into sympathy with the
subject presented and to definite ac-
! ton. His sermons gave evidence of
genuine, personal religious experience.
Bishop Dubs was twice married, the
first time to Miss Elizabeth Wabnitz,
of Grandview, Iowa, who died in 1884.
The second marriage was to Miss
Amanda T.. Carothers, of Milton. Pa.
He had ten children. seven sons and
three daughters. OF these, five sons
are yet living.
A successor to Bishop Dubs will not
| be elected or appointed according to
the laws of the Evangelical Church.
until the next conference in 1918. His
duties will be carried on by the other
two bishops, the Rev. DIR. w. II.
Fouke. of Naperville, ILL.,, and the Rev.