Our bishops; a sketch of the origin and growth of the church of the United brethren in Christ as shown in the lives of its distinguished leaders . ^ begun, and that he shall yet domuch more to shape the destiny of the church whichhe so ably represents ? 598 EZEKIEL BORING KEPHAET. Heaven never meant him for Uiat passive thingThat can be struck and hammered out to suitAnothers taste and fancy. Hell not danceTo every tune of every minister;It goes against his nature — he cant do is possessed of a commanding his, too, is the stature of command;And well for us it is so ! There exi
Our bishops; a sketch of the origin and growth of the church of the United brethren in Christ as shown in the lives of its distinguished leaders . ^ begun, and that he shall yet domuch more to shape the destiny of the church whichhe so ably represents ? 598 EZEKIEL BORING KEPHAET. Heaven never meant him for Uiat passive thingThat can be struck and hammered out to suitAnothers taste and fancy. Hell not danceTo every tune of every minister;It goes against his nature — he cant do is possessed of a commanding his, too, is the stature of command;And well for us it is so ! There existFew fit to rule themselves; but few that useTheir intellects intelligently — ThenWell for the whole if there be found a manWho makes himself what nature destined him,The pause, the central point to thousand thousands,Where all may press with joy and such a man is Wallenstein. — JS^ TueJcL-i^;^ DANIEL KUMLER FLICKINGER. D. BISHOP UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST. BISHOP FLICKINGER was born May 25, A. , near the village of Seven Mile, Butlercounty, Ohio. His parents were pious, industrious andwell-to-do people, natives of Pennsylvania. Their ances-tors at no remote period before them had come fromSwitzerland. His grandfather on each side came overfrom the Old World between 1Y80 and 1790. The religion of these parents was of a very positivekind and took hold of their daily life. The fatherbeing a large farmer, ahvays had hired help, and attimes quite a number of hands about him. His housewas the regular preaching place for many years, aswell as the home for the itinerant preachers. Timewas taken for prayer morning and evening, and forthe usual meetings on Saturday at one oclock p. m., toall of which meetings and prayers the laborers wereinvited to be present. In the absence of the father, thefamily worship was conducted by the mother. Not-withsta
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