Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-07
NEW PASTOR TAKES
CHARGE SUNDAY.
The Rev. Maurice S. White
Called To First Presbyterian
Church.
SKETCH OF HIS CAREER.
Will Begin His Pastorate Here
On June 9th. Successor To
DR.. George S. Bell.

On Sunday, June 9, the newly called
pastor of the Presbyterian Church will
assume charge of his pastorate here.
The Rev. Maurice $. White, of Ok
ford, Pa, has accepted the call and
Bell who. after a twentyyear pastor
ate, resigned last January.
For a church TO have had the same.
pastor for a score of years and then
to make a change is a matter of no
small importance in its history.
Naturally much interest centres in the
new pastor, and people of his cougre-
CATION, as well as others. desire TO
know something about him.
The Rev. Maurice S White is just
thirty years old. He was born at
Philadelphia July 3. 1883, and was edV
Gated at the Haverford School, taking
a Latin Scientific course, He was
graduated in the Glass 1905, and won
the commencement oratorical contest
cup on the school debating team.
Mr.. White took course at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania 1905-l909 i'm
Mechanical Engineering. and gradu-
ated in 1909, receiving the degree of
BIS. in Me He took part in several
inter r-collegiate debates and amateur
dramatics, and was president of the
Zolosophic Literary Society one year
He was offered position as teacher
in the Engineering Department there,
but declined.
He worked with the United Gas I'M
provement Company. of Philadelphia,
as cadet engineer" until the fall of
1912, then he entered the Princeton
Theological Seminary. He united
with the Northminster Presbyterian
Church of Philadelphia when but
twelve years old. AT sixteen he took
charge of a class of boys in the Sun
day School and was later superintend-
ent of the intermediate Department,
and still later Associate Superintend-
ent of the Sunday School. He was ac-
tive in Sunday School work in Phila-
delphia, speaking at number OF
conventions. He assisted DIR. George
w. Bailey, late president of the
Worlds Sunday School Association, in
arrangements for the Worlds Sunday
School convention held in Washing
ton May, 1910. working in DR.. Bailey's
office several months
At Princeton Seminary he won
Banks Scholarship, two prizes ($5O.OO
each) in History of Doctrine, and the
prize in Systematic Theology ($75.OO).
At graduation in 1915 he was awarded
the honorary BID. degree for a paper
on Revelation" in Department of Sys-
tematic Theology.
Mr.. White was married December
80, 1911, before deciding to study for
the ministry. Mrs. White lived at
Princeton during the three years and
took several courses with her hus-
band in the Theological Seminary
One child, Dorothy Virginia, was born
August "a, 1917.
He was ordained to the Gospel Min
| istry on June IS, 1915. and became
pastor of the Union Presbyterian
| Church, in the southern part of Lam
caster County, Pa. This is large
country church having a membership
of about 500.
The new pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church, this city, will start
work on Sunday, June o. Topic for
the morning sermon will be Search
ling for God" and the evening sermon
will be 1.-The Man Who Came BY
/ Night"