. History of the First Presbyterian Church of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and addresses delivered at the celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the pastorate of the Reverend George L. Kalb, . ALICE M. IRWIN-GHORMLEV. CHII^DREN OF THE CHURCH. 79 cause in Central Committee during the General Assembly at Sara-toga, New York, in 1894. REV. JOSEPH GORDON GRABIEL. Joseph Gordon Grabiel was born February 26, 1866, at Wal-nvit Grove, Ohio, son of Jacob and Mary Westlake Grabiel. He. REV. JOSEPH GORDON GRABIEL. graduated with honors at the Ohio Normal University in 1888,having taught four years in


. History of the First Presbyterian Church of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and addresses delivered at the celebration of the thirty-fifth anniversary of the pastorate of the Reverend George L. Kalb, . ALICE M. IRWIN-GHORMLEV. CHII^DREN OF THE CHURCH. 79 cause in Central Committee during the General Assembly at Sara-toga, New York, in 1894. REV. JOSEPH GORDON GRABIEL. Joseph Gordon Grabiel was born February 26, 1866, at Wal-nvit Grove, Ohio, son of Jacob and Mary Westlake Grabiel. He. REV. JOSEPH GORDON GRABIEL. graduated with honors at the Ohio Normal University in 1888,having taught four years in the meantime. On the advice of Rev. 8o PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HISTORY. George L. Kalb, D. D., together with that of his pastor, RevJames E. Alexander, of Rushsylvania, he placed himself underthe care of the Bellefontaine Presbytery as a candidate for thegospel ministry, and entered Lane Seminary. Here he spentthree years, graduating with the class of 1891. During the lastyear of his seminary course he supplied the churches of DeGraflfand Huntsville. At graduation they extended him a unanimouscall to become their pastor. He remained on this field about ayear. Of three calls he accepted that of the Church of theCovenant, of West Bay City, Michigan, in the spring of 1892,remaining there five years, during which time the church mem-bership was increased three hundred and fifty per cent. Whilehere he conducted one revival alone in which 141 cards were sign-ed, and 32 members wer


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