. Gospel Messenger, The (1921). ingBro. J. I. Kaylor, of India, favored us with a short talk,following a most splendid program, given by the LaVerne College Mission Band. During the year and a half, since our Sunday-schoolhas been in progress, we have been favored with a pro-gram by the Hemet Brethren Sunday-school, a sermon byBro. Dickey, of La Verne, and a sermpn by the Methodistpastor of Hemet, besides the two programs mentionedabove. Seven different denominations are representedhere, the writers being the only members of the Churchof the Brethren. As much of the country is untillable,the f
. Gospel Messenger, The (1921). ingBro. J. I. Kaylor, of India, favored us with a short talk,following a most splendid program, given by the LaVerne College Mission Band. During the year and a half, since our Sunday-schoolhas been in progress, we have been favored with a pro-gram by the Hemet Brethren Sunday-school, a sermon byBro. Dickey, of La Verne, and a sermpn by the Methodistpastor of Hemet, besides the two programs mentionedabove. Seven different denominations are representedhere, the writers being the only members of the Churchof the Brethren. As much of the country is untillable,the families are few and scattered. The average attend-ance has been about seventeen. The reorganization thisyear resulted in Bro. Brubaker continuing as superin-tendent and Sister Brubaker as teacher of the BibleClass. ^,. Sunday is little regarded by many in this there are a few earnest Christian workers, and for-tunately the teacher of the district school is one of these. Hemet, Calif. D. Earl and Alice G. Eld. Cyrus Bucbei DEATH OF ELD. CYRUS BUCHEREld. Cyrus Bucher, son of Ezra and Elizabeth Bucher,was born July 28, 1845, near Cornwall, Lebanon County,Pa., and died athis home, in As--toria, 111., Jan. 21,1921, aged seven-ty-five years, five-months and twen-ty-four days. At the age ofseventeen he be-gan teaching inthe public schoolsand taught forseven terms. Afterhis marriage t oBarbara Dohner,he settled on afarm near theHeidelberg the spring of1868 he and hiswife united withthe Church of theBrethren. In 1870Sister Bucher died,and later on hemarried SisterLeah Gibble. In1881 he was elect-ed to the deacons office. In 1883 he was elected to theministry, being ordained as elder in 1904. He served thechurch two years as deacon and thirty-seven years asminister—sixteen of these as elder. He was a man ofstrong convictions and ready to stand for them at alltimes. He was much interested in Sunday-school work. Hestarted a school in the Heidelberg chur
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