History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Omaha and suburbs . years,he was appointed to Seward street Church in thiscity. J. W. Phelps, late of the Rock River Confer-ence, was appointed to the Omaha District in 1885,as Dr. Maxfields successor, and at the same timeof the accession of R. N. McKaig to the pastorateof the First Church. Mr. Phelps was an able preacher, having astrong and impressive voice and an oratoricaldelivery. He was a man of pleasing address anda good friend of his preachers. His managementof the District was creditable to himself and theChurch. He was on intimacy with Bish
History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Omaha and suburbs . years,he was appointed to Seward street Church in thiscity. J. W. Phelps, late of the Rock River Confer-ence, was appointed to the Omaha District in 1885,as Dr. Maxfields successor, and at the same timeof the accession of R. N. McKaig to the pastorateof the First Church. Mr. Phelps was an able preacher, having astrong and impressive voice and an oratoricaldelivery. He was a man of pleasing address anda good friend of his preachers. His managementof the District was creditable to himself and theChurch. He was on intimacy with Bishop Fowler,whose residence at that time was in San Francisco,who planned for the removal of Mr. Phelps to thePacific coast. He spent two j^ears on the Districtand was in the midst of the third when the way 86 METHODISM IN OMAHA. was opened for him to go. Quitting the District,he speedily made ready to leave Nebraska, and theDistrict was turned over to T. C. Clendening, thenserving as pastor of South Tenth street R. N. McKaig had just ended a pastoral. REV. ROBERT N. iMcKAIG, term at Lincoln, Nebraska, and was transferredfrom that Conference to this, in September, 1885,and was stationed at the First Church, services were sought for Wabash Avenue • 87 METHODISM IN OMAHA. Church, Chicago; and the disappointment of hisbeing removed to this city, instead, was not satis-factory to him, though he obediently his arrival at the Omaha depot, brethren withcarriages met and wheeled him and his family tothe parsonage, where the ladies had spread apalatable luncheon. His fame had preceded him,and the Church people anticipated a year of greatthings. The beginning was full of promise andcontinued to be encouraging. Winter came, andhe began holding frequent services intended tobuild up the membership in spiritual life. A littlelater an Evangelist was called to his revival brought out large gatherings, amongthem many ungodly. The awakening o
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