East McPherson Church

(1890-1913)

The Gospel Messenger Nov. 4, 1890 page 684 Vol. 28 No. 43

McPherson Notes.

 Oct. 11, the McPherson church held its quarterly council in the college chapel and made arrangements for a love-feast, to be Oct. 25.

  Another item of business was to consider a proposition from the members in the eastern part of the congregation, to be organized into a separate church.  After a full and free discussion as the boundary line, church property, etc, it was agreed to form the new organization.

  The following Monday the organization was effected with thirty-one members, including four ministers and two deacons.  Some time before, the western part of the congregation was also organized into a separate body, containing forty-seven members.  Both have good meeting-houses and live Sunday-schools. This leaves the city congregation with thirty-two families, comprising eighty-three members, besides the students who are members.

The school is steadily increasing, the principal patronage being from the City, County, and State, since, as yet, not much effort has been made to increase the patronage from abroad.

  At this writing there are over one hundred and sixty students enrolled. One feature among the schools of our Fraternity has been demonstrated Schools need not follow the fashions of the world to become a success.  Those which carry out the principles of the church have been best patronized.  While the principle of the plain dressing was advocated and practiced by the Faculty in Ashland College, that institution never failed to have from one hundred to one hundred and forty students.

S. Z. Sharp