History of the Lemen family, of Illinois, Virginia and elsewhere . at it was for sale, and thatthe editor had decided to give his life to the ministry,his new-made friends were surprised and shocked,but his old friends of boyhood days simply smiled,and said We knew it would be so. The church at Salem, 111., where he was born andraised, at once asked the privilege of ordaining him,which was granted; and so he was ordained at theage of twenty-eight by the church which baptized himwhen he was thirteen. He then spent a year or more in missionary laboramong the churches of Missouri, and in that tim
History of the Lemen family, of Illinois, Virginia and elsewhere . at it was for sale, and thatthe editor had decided to give his life to the ministry,his new-made friends were surprised and shocked,but his old friends of boyhood days simply smiled,and said We knew it would be so. The church at Salem, 111., where he was born andraised, at once asked the privilege of ordaining him,which was granted; and so he was ordained at theage of twenty-eight by the church which baptized himwhen he was thirteen. He then spent a year or more in missionary laboramong the churches of Missouri, and in that timefounded a Baptist College at Lebanon, Mo., whichwas later moved to Bolivar, and set influences in mo-tion that resulted in the founding of the Baptist Col-lege at Pierce City, Mo. He was prominent at allassociational meetings, and many flourishing churchesin that vicinity date their birth from the time of hislabors during the first years of his ministry. Aftera little more than a year of most earnest labor givento the cause he loved, as he often did not receive. 747—FLORENCE J. LEMEN. BIOGRAPHICAL. 183 enough remuneration to meet his expenses, lie ac-cepted the call of his old home church at Salem, III.,to become its pastor. After a pastorate at Salem of two years, he wascalled as pastor of the Baptist Church at Bunker Hill,111. He resigned at Salem and accepted the call toBunker Hill, in order to be near to Shurtleff College,as he desired to enter that school again and take athorough theological course. This he did and grad-uated from the Theological Department of ShurtleffCollege, receiving the degree of B. D. The winter following his graduation in theTheological course, in January, 1881, he wascalled to the pastorate of the First Baptist Churchof Council Bluffs, Iowa. He remained pastor of thischurch for four years. At the close of the secondyear of his pastorate, he founded the Christian HomeOrphanage. Two years later he resigned the pastor-ate, and since that time has d
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