The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-09-07
bARN|TZ DAY At
FIRST ENGLISH
| HERAN eli .
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, Is SET
ASIDE AS "BARNITZ Day BIZ
LOCAL LUTEERANS.
DR.. Barnttz Was for Twenty Years
Pastor Of the Sixteenth
Street Church.

The decision of IN" First English
Lutheran church. Of Sixteenth street,
city. 70 honor tho memory Of former
paStor and the real founder Of I'll" CON
, ercgntion. will be gratifying to q con-
siderable number of tho older residents
Of tho city. larS" uunhcr OF Wh"t''
have had the privileges Of attending. at
some time. the Barlitz Mission Sunday
; school.
II was during WIFI times that this
unique and popular minister came IL
Wheeling and began his ministry with
Il congregation of II persons prescott al
his first service and continuing here
! hS work until he had build"d up what
was SAID 10 BE- the largest SUNDAY
school in Wnst Virginia. For twenty
years he laborrd in Wheeling and h"-
! came int in:Li"iy identified with tn" life
! OF the city until he became ON" Of tho
! most widely known pastors Wheeling
: ever had lie Is SomGLiucS described rs
an Abraham Lincoln typo of Il man. re-
sGurbllnG the great statesman IN per
! sonal build and also III 4 keen sons" Of
: humur. which made him especially pop
uLlr KS public speaker. lie had ais"
J 4 great heart. which went out esp
cially to tn" poor and To tho boys and
! girls of tho streets. whom he gathered
! Up IN largo numbers aud brought into
This sunday school. II is said that at
! one Of the first services which h" held
here the congregation voted to raise SIS
! in monthly inS':uEncntS - bay n me-
: lutcon for the mission and TO contribute
toll moi tH GC
child. His was nn influential part in
! the establishment oc the Wheeling Chill
dron'S Home and hn Was also promincn;
! i'm securing the organization nf the Y.
: NJ C.. A. IN the city, later becoming sec
rotary.
, ii was due to the striking success o.
: his mission work hcrr that h" was Sc
lrctcd by his own denomination 10 be-
come western secretary of IN" Board Of
: Home Mission. 1 position which hr iill"'I
! with great credit until his death. few
= years ago. In this work h. travelled
over tho entire country. but chiefly tiI''
western sLituS establishing missions an'!
: encouraging the struggling miss ion;trIrs;
! in the cities and out on tho great
prairics. Il wis in this work that IN:
+, became 4 sur Of advertising agent for
! Wheeling, for everywhere he wen; II"
t iulu. III Il NuIll'l'tiN "'AN' ~ hI'ii ''''i
polling pathrS. OF the Nights and shadow :
Of his work III Tho Wheeling Mission. Ii
ia said that II" know. personally, prnc-
/ tic:ily every rlilru;ti president and zen
| crai ticket agent IN the country. and
! thu; :huy. knowing tho character nf his
work were glad 10 furnish ham FREQ
! transportation. Ono of the nlaTr"lS ri
! his travelling brethren IN tn" synod Was
the slight expense for travel when rru-
: traStnd with the thousands OF miles
7 which he had travelled in his great
work.
Methods Of Work Unique.
| His methods OF work were quit"
! UNDUE Ono Of the best remembered
! locally was his manner Of S"'nrilr brick
! for the building of the chapel nm S:N-
tccnth street. He hal taught tn" chill
! dren a song. the refrain Of which ran.
. Please buy 4 brick. and they. III turn.
went about the city Solicitin: their
| friends 70 oly Il brick for the building.
1t is limited that the children bc,am" So
enthusiastic in securing brick for TN"
now building THAT bricks would surrrp-
! tiously disappear from piles over tn"
! city, and that thus oven unwilling d"1"rS
! had n part In building tn" mission
chapel unknown IL themselves.
! Rarni;z picnicS IN Ih"S" days became
really city affairs. which everybody at
| tended and of which the Older residents
can tell you
Tho memory OF mr.. lfarntH - pre-
served III tho First church by Il memorial
tablet while tho stun" hapttS'nal font
/ Is Inscribed TO tn" iurrnory of his Wii'..
| His successor in tho lIa*t"riLtc. I'r. +. II
! porubaScr of Springfield. -. himself
widely known and greatly beloved III
Wheeling. has bonn invited hitck /" ;ul-
dress tho school AMI church on his m"i+o
, prc,irc,.asur SUNDAY. September J."
4 which Will II" observed as sort -!
home coming far not 'HIly n" NOM
t~rs If the school and church. bur ais"
fur all III" old friends and attendants
81 the I:;Iruit2 school.