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John J. Boltz.
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Annetta I. Boone
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Elizabeth Bright.
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Mrs. Lightcap
Helen M. Brobst.
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Oct. 5, 1907
M. Edith Clouser
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Florence S. Coller
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Florence M. Davis.
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Robert A. Davis.
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J. Grim Derr
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Bessie V. Felix
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Louisa E. Frantz
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Mary E. Bankes
Clarence H. Beck
Charles G. Boger
Eva M. Brown.
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Howard J. Fick
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NAMES.
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When Lost.
Helen M. Funck
Mar. 29, 1907
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Mahretta I. Gery
July 2, 1908
Morris Gift
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Amelia S. Goodhart.
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Maude M. L. Heckman ...
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H. Howard Hoffman
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William R. Ibach.
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Earl W. Jackson
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Edna I. Kinsey
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Margaret M. Kline
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George R. Kline
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Chester T. Matten
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Annie L. Miller.
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Mrs. Westley
Stella Moodhard
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Oscar F. Moser
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July 2, 1908
Luther T. Naftzinger
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Clarence E. Neiman
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Mabel M. Printz.
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Rayman W. Reeser
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Ruth E. Rightnour
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Earl J. S. Rose
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Edith M. Shadel
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Katharine S. Shadel.
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M. Edna Shomo
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Henry A. Swoyer
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Walter T. Swoyer
Charles E. Tompkins
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Mrs. Miller
Harry D. Whitner
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William C. Barto
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Mrs. Jennie L. Behrle
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Mrs. Verna L. Gerhard ...
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Adam B. May
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Mrs. Clara J. Mull.
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Emma I. Mull
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Charles F. Mohrbach
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Mrs. Katie A. Mohrbach.
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Mrs. Agnes A. Cooper .. ...
Monroe H. Fensterm'her
Aaron T. Mull
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May Vernon
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Charles W. Matten
Walter L. Noll.
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Carrie E. Wright
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Mrs. Kurath
Mrs. Kate R. Bagenstose
Mrs. Alice N. Heckman ..
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Bertha R. Lutz
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Mrs. Burley
Mrs. L. J. Rothenberger ..
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Mrs. Emma R. Rutter
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James C. Shears
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Mrs. Anna M. Shears.
Mrs. Hallie J. Smith
James H. Stitzel.
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Claude W. Burley
Oct. 13, 1907 D
Alfred B. Loy
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Mrs. Lizzie G. Loy
Mrs. Isabella J. Waid
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Harry H. Roy
Nov. 23, 1907
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Warren S. Balthaser
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Catharine Heyberger
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Eva M. Baum.
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Clarence S. Clark.
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John A. Clewell.
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John D. H. Deysher
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Gertrude N. Feather.
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Beulah A. Fegley
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Mrs. Anna B. Fishel
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Pearl M. Free
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Junie M. Free
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Henry Arthur Freeman ..
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Mrs. Clara E. Gauker
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Edna R. Greth
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Alvin C. Groff
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Mrs. Ada Gehret
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Helen E. Heffner
Paul C. Hertz.
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Bessie P. Ketterer
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Thomas L. Moyer.
Naomi E. Bright.
John Dautrich
Raymond S. Fassnacht ...
Franklin Heyberger
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Daniel W. Rutter
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Marion S. Klein
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Anna M. Kurtz
Joseph A. Kurath
Chester G. Leedy
Minnie E. Lerch
Estella Less
Edith N. Levan
Sydney J. H. Levengood
Daniel P. Loose
Gertrude L. M. Ludwig ...
Earl L. Mengel.
Mabel E. Mersinger
Fannie F. Millet.
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Herbert O. Moll
Clarence Moodhard.
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Herbert C. Richardson
Annie M. Rutter
Howard E. Tompkins.
Ruth F. Trout
Eva V. Waid
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Edith E. Walker
Mrs. Kate DeLong
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Dr. George F. DeLong ...
Mary E. Dague
Elias R. George
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Mrs. Matilda Long
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Mrs. Martha Loose
Mrs. S. Maud Maberry.
Walker L. Stephen ..
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Charles F. Bosold.
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John F. Hunsicker
Mrs. Cath. E. Hunsicker.
Jere B. Kistler
Mrs. Annie A. Kistler
Mrs. Salinda Lewis
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Oct. 11, 1908
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Charles A. Troelsch
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Mrs. Phoebe E. Troelsch
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Sallie M. Betz
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Annie V. Carl
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Mrs. Katie M. Evans
R. Edward Harbach
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Mrs. Kate R. Peters
Wilford M. Schappell.
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Paul Shaak.
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NOTE .- By mistake a dagger (+) was placed after the name of Mrs. Grace Thompson, and omitted from the names of Mrs. Annie Buckwalter, William H. Hinkle and Lizzie R. Kline (Mrs. Neiman).
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REV. ANDREW H.SMITH.
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MRS.
REV. GLASE GERHARD.
THE SONS OF THE CONGREGATION.
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CHAPTER XIV THE SONS OF THE CONGREGATION
D URING the first twenty-five years of her history St. Stephen's Re- formed Congregation sent three of her sons into the Christian min- istry and one of her daughters into the foreign mission field : Rev. Henry Y. Stoner, Rev. Andrew H. Smith, Rev. Glase Gerhard, and Mrs. Anna M. Schneder. A brief sketch of the lives of these persons who have entered the larger work of the Master's kingdom will be in place in this history and will be of interest to its readers.
We hope the example set by these members of St. Stephen's will be an incentive to other young men and women of our congregation to enter upon these high and holy callings.
REV. HENRY Y. STONER.
Rev. Henry Y. Stoner, son of George and Katharine (Young) Stoner, was born at Stoners- ville, Pa., August 7, 1859. His mother was of Swiss ancestry.
He received his educational training in the public schools of his native village, Birdsboro
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Academy, Kallynean Academy at Boyertown, Pa., and in private schools in New York and Philadelphia.
He was thrown on his own resources when eleven years of age. He entered the nail fac- tory of the E. and G. Brooke Iron Company at Birdsboro, Pa., and labored there until he was fifteen years of age. He began to attend va- rious private schools, working on the farm and the Perkiomen Turnpike during the summer seasons.
He became a member of the Schwarzwald Reformed Church by confirmation in 1871 un- der Rev. Aaron S. Leinbach, D. D. He worked in the Sunday schools in Baumstown and Phila- delphia, and served as deacon in the Reformed Church at Birdsboro, Pa.
He taught public school for three years, taught one year in Gregory's Commercial Col- lege, Newark, N. J., and seven years in the Bryant and Stratton Business College, Phila- delphia, Pa.
He founded the Inter-State Commercial Col- lege in Reading, July 1, 1885. Removing to Reading in April, 1886, he became a member of St. Stephen's Reformed Church, where he
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was active in Sunday school work, and was an elder of the congregation from January 5, 1887, to June 9, 1890, serving as secretary of the con- sistory from February 7, 1887, to June 9, 1890.
He began to prepare for the Christian min- istry in 1887 under the direction of the faculty of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in the United States at Lancaster, Pa., with Rev. C. S. Gerhard and Rev. Rufus W. Miller as private instructors. He was exam- ined and licensed by Schuylkill Classis at Schuylkill Haven, Pa., in 1890.
He began preaching at Riverside (now Ol- ivet Reformed Church) in February, 1890, and in April of the same year at St. Mark's Re- formed Church. Both of these stations had only Sunday schools at the time. During 1890 congregations were organized, and in 1891 churches were erected. In 1893 the building at St. Mark's was enlarged. Several years thereafter St. Mark's and Olivet were each con- stituted a separate charge, and Rev. Mr. Stoner retained St. Mark's. Neither of these congre- gations ever received any support from the Board of Home Missions. The ground of St. Mark's was paid entirely by the First Reformed
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Church, Rev. H. Mosser, D. D., pastor, while Mrs. D. R. Althouse and her children donated the ground for Olivet.
After laboring faithfully as pastor of St. Mark's for about eight years, giving promise of great usefulness in the Master's work, he was compelled to resign in 1898 on account of acute stomach troubles.
He has continued as principal of the Inter- State Commercial College, and has succeeded in making it one of the best and most efficient col- leges of this kind in the state.
Mr. Stoner was united in holy matrimony . with Mary C. Fritz, of Baumstown, Pa. They have three daughters and one son.
Although not now in the active pastorate, Rev. Mr. Stoner is frequently called upon to preach and to deliver addresses in the churches and Sunday schools of the city and surrounding districts. He was elected President of Reading Classis in 1898, and served as treasurer of Read- ing Classis from 1906 to 1909. He removed to Wyomissing, where he organized a Sunday school, of which he has been Superintendent ever since, and was the leading spirit in organ- izing a Reformed congregation at Wyomissing.
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He contributed several articles on sociologi- cal subjects to the "Reformed Church Review."
REV. ANDREW H. SMITH.
Rev. Andrew Hoffa Smith, eldest child of Charles J. and Sarah A. (Hoffa) Smith, was born about a mile north of Womelsdorf, Pa., October 2, 1865.
His parents were born and raised in and near Womelsdorf, Pa. His ancestors were of German, Dutch and French descent.
In the spring of 1871 the family removed to Reading, where he attended the public schools, going as far as the Grammar grade. He then spent several years on his grandfather's farm, attending school in Marion township and the High School in Womelsdorf.
After his fourteenth birthday he secured employment with the Philadelphia and Read- ing Railroad Company in its car shops as an apprentice to learn the trade of upholstering. He soon mastered the trade and became one of the most efficient workers in the department. He worked for a time in the bakery of Klein and Smith, but after becoming of age he re- turned to his favorite trade, working in a prom-
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inent furniture house on Penn street in Read- ing.
Under the influence of Mr. M. J. Coller he became identified with Emanuel's Sunday School, taking charge of the music, which he led with his favorite instrument, the clarionet. He had been catechized and confirmed in St. Luke's Lutheran Church by Rev. F. K. Huntz- inger, April 15, 1881. After the organization of St. Stephen's Reformed Sunday School he was chorister of the Sunday school and later of the congregation.
He heard Rev. C. S. Gerhard preach a ser- mon in 1887 on the need of more ministers, which brought to an issue a question which had been a burning one with him, and he decided that, if it were possible, he would respond to the call. He spent two years as a special student in Carroll Institute, during which time he was also tutored by Rev. Mr. Gerhard, and entered the Junior class of the Theological Seminary at Lancaster in the fall of 1889. During the sec- ond year of his seminary course he became ac- tive in the athletic and musical clubs of Frank- lin and Marshall College. He played on the " Varsity" foot ball team as left guard. He
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sang on the college choir, and was a valuable member of the college glee club and orchestra.
During his vacation after the middle year in the seminary, under the direction of the Board of Home Missions, he organized two con- gregations and Sunday schools at Lykens and Tower City, and revived a third at Irwin, Pa. These congregations were anxious to have him become their pastor after his graduation from the seminary in May, 1892. But he had a call from the South, and, after being examined and licensed by Schuylkill Classis, in Trinity Re- formed Church, Pottsville, Pa., went to New- ton, North Carolina, where he was to supply Grace Church for two months with the view of becoming their pastor. He entered upon his work with his characteristic vim, but in three weeks he was prostrated with typhoid fever. After having sufficiently recovered he went home to convalesce, but the long trip during the heat of August brought on a relapse that was worse than the original sickness. In the mean time Grace congregation sent him a unan- imous call to become their pastor, which was accepted. He was ordained and installed on Sunday, October 9, 1892.
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Rev. Mr. Smith married Miss Katie S. Shultz in St. Stephen's Reformed Church at 1 Reading, September 21, 1893, the ceremony be- ing performed by Rev. C. S. Gerhard. They occupied the new parsonage which had been built by the congregation at Newton, N. C. During his pastorate of five years at this place the belfry on the new church was completed, a bell installed and the debt of the congregation reduced to $90.00. Among his members were members of the faculty and students of Catawba College, some of the latter of whom were influ- enced by Rev. Mr. Smith to enter the Christian ministry, taking their theological course at Lan- caster, Pa.
In 1897 he accepted a call to become pastor of the First Reformed Church at McKeesport, Pa., which became self-sustaining after he had been pastor for only seven months. His work here was very promising, but while preparations were in progress to sell the old church property and to build a new church at a more favorable location, Rev. Mr. Smith received a call from the Harrisville charge in Virginia, which, after due consideration, he decided to accept. His people were loath to see him leave and passed
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flattering resolutions on the work he had done among them.
He removed to Tom's Brook, Virginia, where he now resides, having served that charge for more than six years. His people built him a parsonage and increased his salary, which are marks of the esteem in which he is held by them.
Mr. Smith has served as President of North Carolina and Virginia Classes, has for years been a member of the Board of Trustees of Massanutten Academy, and is a member of the Board's executive and building committees.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith have three children : Elsie Virginia, born at Newton, N. C., June 27, 1894; Sidney Shultz and Charles Nevin, both born at Mckeesport, Pa., respectively on July 27, 1898, and October 4, 1900.
REV. GLASE GERHARD.
Rev. Glase Gerhard, eldest son of Rev. Cal- vin Seibert Gerhard, D. D., and Emma Eliza- beth Gerhard (nee Glase), was born on July 17, 1872, at Sunbury, Pa.
He attended the public schools at Sunbury, Pa., at Columbia, Pa., and at Reading, Pa. He
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was graduated with merit at the Reading High School in 1890, delivering the Latin oration.
He was confirmed by his father at St. Ste- phen's Reformed Church, Reading, Pa., April 23, 1886, and was active in the work of the church, the Sunday school and the Young Peo- ple's Society. He joined the Young Men's Christian Association when a boy, and became much interested in its work.
He entered the Sophomore class of Frank- lin and Marshall College in the fall of 1890, and was graduated in 1893. During his col- lege days he took an active part in the college life with all its diversified interests. He was a member of the Goethean Literary Society, served as one of its officers, delivered the salutatory at its fifty-seventh anniversary and an oration at the fifty-eighth anniversary. He was a mem- ber of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. He was a great lover of music, and was himself an accomplished pianist. While at college he was a member of the Franklin and Marshall Glee Club. He was much interested in athletics, served as a substitute on the " Varsity" foot ball team, and during his Senior year managed the foot ball club. He was on the editorial staff of
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the " Oriflamme," and for three years was editor- in-chief of the "F. and M. Weekly."
After a year of post-graduate study at Har- vard University he entered the Lancaster Theo- logical Seminary, graduating in 1897. He re- ceived his first call in May, 1897, to the Hum- melstown charge. Here he spent a year and a half among friends and associations, the mem- ory of which he always most dearly cherished. In the fall of 1898 he accepted a call to St. John's Reformed Church, Philadelphia. He en- tered upon his work there with his accustomed enthusiasm, and was untiring in his efforts to promote in every way the cause to which he had consecrated himself. But his pastorate at St. John's was to be a short one-a year and a half. During this time there were received into the church 106 new members, and a Haskell pipe organ was installed.
He added to the burdensome duties of a city charge the editing of the "Reformed Church Messenger" during the six months' illness of the editor. Always an enthusiastic and inde- fatigable worker, he multiplied his labors be- yond what even his robust health could bear. But his reward was great. He continued to
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grow into the larger life that comes to those who bind to themselves with the everlasting bands of mutual love and confidence and service all whom they touch. He made a brave fight against death-life was so sweet to him-but in vain. He was destined to live in the hearts of those whom he loved so dearly. The end came on July 22, 1901.
We quote the following paragraphs from an article contributed to the "Reformed Church Record" by Rev. B. Bausman, D. D., shortly after the young minister's home-going :
"The departure of Rev. Glase Gerhard a few weeks. ago is still fresh in the minds of his many friends. Rarely does a Christian life begin under more favorable auspices. He stepped into being in a parsonage. Given to God in early infancy, nurtured in the bosom of a home rich in love and a spiritual atmosphere, from a little child a deep- ly interested member of his father's Sunday school, at eight years of age he seemed to have a vision, not unlike that of Samuel of old. It must have come to him in the night season, too. For early one morning, while his father was still in bed, he stealthily approached him and whis- pered into his ear the great revelation, 'Papa, I am going to be a minister.'
"Thenceforth he grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man, an obedient son, a kind and af- fectionate brother, making the utmost possible improve- ment of his school, college and seminary opportunities. Meanwhile a genuine boy and youth, full of natural vigor, fond of play and sport, a leader in athletics, which helped
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him to develop a splendid physique, yet all the while an active, whole-souled Christian in all his habits and influ- ence, a nature in some points not unlike that of the late Henry Drummond. He never sowed "his wild oats." A bright, buoyant, magnetic nature, whose kindly heart made him hosts of friends. His conscientiousness was one of his most conspicuous characteristics, said one of his young friends. In all his relations in life, social, athletic, literary and ministerial, he heeded the voice of conscience.
"The three years of his ministry were a phenomenal success. For his years his pulpit ministrations produced marked impressions. His open sunny disposition and sympathetic heart peculiarly made him a blessing in so- cial circles no less than in homes of sorrow. By nature and by grace he was a soul-winning shepherd. World- lings whom others failed to impress he won for Christ. He was a seeker of the lost. No difficulties could deter or discourage him. Among the sweetest joys of his min- istry were the far-away wanderers whom he brought into the fold.
"His short life was exceptionally happy. He was happy in his work and bore his affliction with cheerful, patient hope. This meant much. He had great expecta- tions for useful service. Life was sweet and much to be desired, because it was lived in Christ and for the saving of other lives. With such fiery, chivalric devotion in a young minister, men and angels are in admiring sympa- thy. In heaven above and on the earth beneath there is great joy over souls that are saved, and over those that serve and suffer to save them.
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"Our departed brother meant it kindly when he con- sented to relieve the afflicted editor of the 'Reformed Church Messenger' for six months. As acting editor his extensive reading and literary taste were noticeable in every issue. Some of his friends date his declining health
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from this double burden. How from this time he bravely battled for life has been already reported.
"The text which he selected for his funeral seems to be an epitome of his faith. Through it he gives his part- ing counsel and blessing to his family and friends. 'I know whom I have believed.' His future is secure."
MRS. ANNA M. SCHNEDER.
Mrs. Anna Margaret Schneder, daughter of J. Frederick and Margaret (Rasp) Schoenberger, was born in Marietta, Lancaster county, Pa., on January 12, 1868.
She was educated in the public schools of Marietta and in Mercersburg College.
She was confirmed in the Marietta Reformed Church by her future husband, Rev. D. B. Schneder, on April 11, 1884.
She became a member of St. Stephen's Re- formed Church on May 29, 1887, where she taught in the Sunday school.
She was married to Rev. D. B. Schneder, in St. Stephen's Reformed Church, on October 10, 1887, by Rev. C. S. Gerhard, assisted by Rev. A. R. Bartholomew, and Rev. Ambrose Gring, then missionary to Japan. Mr. Schneder was betrothed to Miss Schoenberger before his ap- pointment as a missionary to Japan. When elected a missionary, he asked her whether she
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would accompany him to the foreign field. When she consented, they arranged to be mar- ried shortly before the time set for their depart- ure for Japan. They left for their far-off field of labor in November, 1887.
Mrs. Schneder has been a useful helpmeet to her husband in his noble work. She has done a great deal for the Japanese people and for the success of our mission there. While at home on furlough from August, 1896, to April, 1898, she raised a large portion of the funds needed for the erection of the Nibancho Church, and she has been very active in the congrega- tion and Sunday school of that church.
Mrs. Schneder was at home on her second furlough from April, 1905, to February, 1908, when she did a great deal for the cause of for- eign missions throughout the Church in this country.
At the present time she has Bible classes at her home three evenings in the week, does a great deal of individual work among the ladies of the city, is active in the work of the Boys' School, often entertaining the boys at her home, and goes quite frequently into the country on evangelistic trips. During the war she spent
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much time doing evangelistic work among the soldiers in the hospital.
Dr. and Mrs. Schneder have three daugh- ters, all of whom were born in Japan : Mary Elizabeth, born March 15, 1890; Anna Mar- garet, born July 4, 1892; and Clara Katharine, born April 11, 1899. The oldest two were con- firmed in St. Stephen's Reformed Church on April 13, 1906, by Rev. Thomas W. Dickert, and are pursuing a course of study in the Wom- an's College, Frederick, Md. The youngest daughter returned with her mother to Japan in 1908.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL ROOM.
CHAPTER XV THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
S T. STEPHEN'S Reformed Sunday School was organized December 23, 1883. As already stated,* it was a continuation of Emanuel's Reformed Mission Sunday School, which was organized April 22, 1866,+ and to which a brief refer- ence is made elsewhere.į It will be of interest to quote the first Article of the Constitution, which is as follows :
"This Sunday School shall be called 'Emanuel's Re- formed Mission Sunday School' of Reading, the object of which shall be the dissemination of religious knowledge, the inculcation of moral precepts and duties, and the em- ployment of such means as will, under the blessings of God, secure finally the salvation of the children."
The original officers of Emanuel's Sunday School were John B. Bowman, superintendent ; William Heidenreich, assistant superintendent ;
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+ The date of organization on page 17 (1864) is incorrect. When that chapter was written, the original records of Emanuel's Sunday School had not been found, and we followed the date given in Mr. Daniel Miller's "History of the Reformed Church in Reading, Pa." Since then the records have been found, and the above is the date of organization as there given.
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William Heidenreich, secretary ; Martin Good- hart, treasurer; Isaac Ritter, librarian ; B. F. Frey, W. R. Henninger and N. C. Henninger, assistant librarians.
The minutes of Emanuel's Reformed Mis- sion Sunday School were faithfully kept from its organization, April 22, 1866, to April 1, 1875, after which there is no record until De- cember 31, 1879, when it is called St. Paul's Memorial Reformed Mission Sunday School, and bears that name to the time of its transfer in 1883, when it became St. Stephen's Reformed Sunday School.
As stated before,* the Reformed Sunday School Association of Reading appointed a com- mittee, September 14, 1879, to present a plan for reaching the neglected children of the city. The committee reported September 17, 1879, as follows :
The committee appointed by the Reformed Sunday School Association, September 14, 1879, to present a plan or system as to the best way to reach the neglected child- ren of our city, beg leave to make the following report:
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