Historical data and life sketches of the deceased ministers of the Indiana Conference of the Evangelical Association, 1835 to 1915 . all thegood that was ever in me was entirely rooted out. But later hewas converted and remained a Methodist until 1842, when, at thetime of his marriage, he united with the Evangelical Association. HIS CALL TO THE MINISTRY Ruben became active in the church and soon received the in-ner call to enter the Gospel ministry. Yielding was not withoutserious difliculties, his experience in this being very similar to thatof other men who had realized the divine call, but
Historical data and life sketches of the deceased ministers of the Indiana Conference of the Evangelical Association, 1835 to 1915 . all thegood that was ever in me was entirely rooted out. But later hewas converted and remained a Methodist until 1842, when, at thetime of his marriage, he united with the Evangelical Association. HIS CALL TO THE MINISTRY Ruben became active in the church and soon received the in-ner call to enter the Gospel ministry. Yielding was not withoutserious difliculties, his experience in this being very similar to thatof other men who had realized the divine call, but who lacked suffi-cient schooling. But he finally obeyed and received his 1846 he received his first charge, Bristol Circuit, under Frank-lin Tobias; 1847-8 he served on Wayne Circuit with Phil. Schwartz,This was a very successful year. His next field was Columbiana,1848-50. In 1850 he served Mansfield. At the close of the secondyear he had to locate in order to recuperate his broken health. In1853 he re-entered the work and was assigned to Miami Lancaster, Pickaway and Mansfield. Thus ended 11 years 253. RUBEN RIEGEL INDIANA CONFERENCE of active service in the Ohio Conference, serving each year with acolleague. In June, 1859, he came to Indiana, settling west of Goshen,Ind. In September of this year he entered the Indiana Confer-ence and served the following fields: 1859-60, Elkhart Circuit;1860-1, South Bend Circuit; 1861-3, St. Marys Circuit; 1863-4,Berrien, in Michigan, and when the Michigan Conference was or-ganized, in 1864, he volunteered to join it. He said, I volunteeredto go and help to start the new institution and bring it into run-ning order. He was returned to Berrien Circuit in 1864. In1865-7 he served St. Joseph Circuit, traveling 4 years in this Con-ference. In 1866, the second year he was in this Conference, he losthis dear companion. She had nobly stood by him in his work, andpatiently bore the privations of an itinerants life. This ber
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