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Subject: Sd-Faulk Co. History (Chapter XXVIII -)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 19:38:15 -0500


Faulk County, SD History .....Chapter XXVIII - Free Methodist Church 1909
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FREE METHODIST CHURCH.

The Free Methodist church of Faulkton, South Dakota, was incorporated on the
15th day of January, A. D., 1900. Rev. Rufus Earl at that time purchased the
building from the Presbyterian denomination. Rev. Earl was pastor of this church
two years, afterwards moving to Port Arthur, Canada, where he has since died and
gone to his eternal reward. Since Rev. Earl's pastorate of the Faulkton circuit
there has been four different ministers serving this charge, Rev. W. N. Vennard,
now of Wessington Springs; Rev. Gallaway, of Indiana, who has since passed to
his reward; Rev. W. D. McMullen, now pastor of the Wessington Springs circuit
and the present pastor Rev. Daniel B. Waller, who was born in the state of Ohio
in the year 1866, and at the tender age of two years was left motherless, and
some of you know what home is without a mother. He was let to do about as he
pleased, so he grew up something like Topsy. At the age of fifteen he left his
home and became a wanderer upon the face of the earth; became a victim to bad
habits and waded into sin, but he will ever thank God that he had a praying
mother, and he was told by his sisters after he grew older that the last words
of that sainted mother was offered in prayer for her baby boy and often times in
after years when he would have went into sin and probably crime, the thought of
that deathbed scene and that prayer from those loving lips which were growing
cold with the death damps, caused him to stop and look with horror upon that
road that leads to hell and eternal night. Thirty years after that prayer was
offered, thank God, in the year of 1889 he became a follower of the Lord. He was
called shortly after conversion to preach God's eternal truth which he has been
endeavoring to do for the past six years and can say today:

He is walking in the light, and his path is shining bright,
And there is no more night, where he dwells.
This old world he bids adieu, and its pleasures fade
from view; All things now to him are new; all is well.


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HISTORY OF
FAULK COUNTY
SOUTH DAKOTA
CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS

TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS

ILLUSTRATED
19O9

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