. Journal of the ... Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. rhook, Roodhouse,Tolono, Marshall, Greenfield, Hillsboro, Lovington, Humboldt, PleasantPlains, Bluffs, Girard and Fithian. He possessed a strong, rugged nature,intensified by heroic struggles in his early life. When, called to theChristian ministry he had an ambition to qualify for the sacred ofliceand by availing himself of all facilities within his reach, he became notonly an excellent Bible student, but a theologian and logician of no meanSJtanding. He was educated at the Illinois Wesleyan University. As apre
. Journal of the ... Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. rhook, Roodhouse,Tolono, Marshall, Greenfield, Hillsboro, Lovington, Humboldt, PleasantPlains, Bluffs, Girard and Fithian. He possessed a strong, rugged nature,intensified by heroic struggles in his early life. When, called to theChristian ministry he had an ambition to qualify for the sacred ofliceand by availing himself of all facilities within his reach, he became notonly an excellent Bible student, but a theologian and logician of no meanSJtanding. He was educated at the Illinois Wesleyan University. As apreacher he was strong. Biblical and persuasive. His kindly sympatheticnature shed a fascinating glow over his more rugged features and consti-tuted him an ideal husband, father and patriotic citizen. He was a fearlesschampion of every reform- His memory is blessed. The funeral serviceswere held in Petersburg, 111., and were conducted by the pastor, G. , assisted by the Rev. Messrs. W. A. Smith, C. A. Ward and twolocal pastors. Interment was made in Pleasant Plains, J. P. HILLERBY. As the flowers fold up at the close of day. so gentlyclosed the eyes of this aged saint, at the end of lifesearthly day, February 13, 1922, at the home of hisdaughter. Mrs. Charles Hopper, in Jacksonville, Illi-nois. He was in the ninetieth year of his age, andhis race was run. He was born in Yorkshire, Eng-land, that cradle of Methodism and ministers of thegospel. His father was a miller by trade, but a stu-dent, and became a well informed and influentialman, austere but manly. While still a child the son,J. P., committed the catechism to memory, and, ashe smilingly declared, that was his theological edu-cation. At the age of eleven, he was converted underthe ministry of a local, but powerful preacher. He at once felt the call topreach, and that conviction never left him. He was apprenticed to learnthe dry goods trade, and he served in that capacity in several cities untilhe was twenty-
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