Historical data and life sketches of the deceased ministers of the Indiana Conference of the Evangelical Association, 1835 to 1915 . 111. He died in the work and gained a well-earned reward as aservant of the Cross of Christ. EDMUND CHASPER EWALD (1870-1911) Edmund was the son of Lutheran parents, and was born nearBremen, Ind., Nov. 24th, 1870. His young days were spent uponthe farm, attending public school during the winter months. Whenof age, he worked in a saw-mill, close by his home. In the spring of1894, he attended a United Brethren revival at Bremen, and was born again, uniting with the
Historical data and life sketches of the deceased ministers of the Indiana Conference of the Evangelical Association, 1835 to 1915 . 111. He died in the work and gained a well-earned reward as aservant of the Cross of Christ. EDMUND CHASPER EWALD (1870-1911) Edmund was the son of Lutheran parents, and was born nearBremen, Ind., Nov. 24th, 1870. His young days were spent uponthe farm, attending public school during the winter months. Whenof age, he worked in a saw-mill, close by his home. In the spring of1894, he attended a United Brethren revival at Bremen, and was born again, uniting with the Evangelical Church, of which hismother had become a member. He ascribed great praise to hismother for her Christian influence, and the training she gave him,often saying, My conversion was due to her earnest prayers, andall that I am, I owe to her and to the grace of God. He became a very active worker in the church, and soon heardGods call to preach the Gospel. He naturally shrank back from thissort of a life, being timid and having but a limited , after it was clear to him that God really wanted him in His 137. EDMUND CHASPER EWALD INDIANA CONFERENCE vineyard, he yielded. He had a re-markable dream that gave him greatencouragement in his call. Hedreamed one night that he was outon a large body of water in a boat,sitting idly by, while all around himthere were people in the water strug-gling and reaching out their handstoward him, and calling him to helpthem into the boat. This dream madehim feel that God had a special workfor him to do. At this time he wasworking at a creamery. He gave no-tice of his intentions, gave up hiswork, and went to North-WesternCollege. Here he put in nearly sixyears of hard study, graduating fromthe Evangelical Seminary, and if his health had not been impaired,he would have also graduated from the college in another year. HIS MINISTRY He came home, and received his license and was assignedby the Indiana Conference in 1902 to San Pierre
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