Few preachers among the Disciples of Christ have a wider field of usefulness than has Chas. S. Medbury. It is also true that he meets the obligations of this position with marked ability and faithfulness. Following college days accepted first regular pastorate at El Paso, Illinois, January 1,1898. Remained in El Paso four years. The 1st of January, 1897, opened a seven years' pastorate at Angola, Indiana. January 1st, 1904, came to Des Moines, Iowa, to the pastorate of the University Church. In 1898 served as Chaplain of the 157th regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, in the Spanish-American War.
In 1909 president of the American Christian Missionary Society at the Centennial Convention. In addition to duties of present pastorate has the privileges and obligations of the Chaplaincy of Drake University, which institution granted him the degree Doctor of Divinity in 1909.
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Sermon
The Christianity of Christ
Carnegie Hall, Thursday Morning, October 14.
This moment means far too much to have any man's personality obtrude itself upon the people's thought. The work of our God has the right of way.
And yet who can stand where centuries meet and be unmoved as to human relationships? God works through men, and when we think of him and his, ...read
