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Show Page 35<br><br>[PHOTO: MRS. J. H. LOOMIS.] The following noble women have been missionaries of the church: Misses H. Watson, M. Allen, C. Larson, E. Parson, Anna Oberg and Effie Putnam. The present membership is 132. The Sabbath school numbers about 200, with average attendance of 125. The Wilson's Lane Mission has an attendance of thirty. The Ladies' Mission circle has earnest, devoted workers and is growing. The Ladies' Aid Society has done excellent work. On account of the absence of Mrs. Johnson the executive work has developed upon Miss Williams, than whom no member has taken more interest in making the holiday number of the CHURCH REVIEW a success. The B. Y. P. U. is a prosperous organization. The Thursday evening prayer meeting is the delightful gathering of this church and the Tuesday afternoon prayer meeting has an encouraging attendance. The preaching [PHOTO: H. A. LINDLEY.] services have an average attendance that bespeaks the earnestness and influence of the church that is in every way hopeful. Every department of the church is moving harmoniously and in the face of every obstacle is gathering strength.<br><br> THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH<br><br> In Ogden was organized, with thirty-five members, October 19, 1890, In the Weber County Courthouse, in connection with a visit of Rev. Leonard G. Thompson, now of Colorado. The first meeting looking to this result was held in the Baptist Church, May 28, 1890. Several other meetings were held in the interval between this date and the date of organization. The first settled pastor of the church was Rev. J. L. Brandt, who came to the field in August, 1892. He was followed by Rev. Charles M. Fillmore in the summer of 1893. After an interval of settled ministers the church has for a few weeks the labors of Rev. Melvin Putnam. Those constitute the list of settled ministers the church has had until the arrival of the present pastor, Rev. Galen Wood, July 1, 1895. In addition to their labors the church has enjoyed occasional visits from Rev. M. L. Streator, evangelist of the Christian Woman's Board of Missions, and perhaps from some others. While there have been periods of bright promise in the history of the church yet so limited and irregular have been its pastoral ministrations that it has made only moderate progress. [PHOTO: MRS. HATTIE MORTON.] The present membership is sixty-five. During most of its history the church has maintained a Sunday-school, and of recent years a Y. P. S. C. E., both of which have done efficient work. The Sunday-school numbers sixty-five members and the Endeavor Society twelve active and associate members. A Junior Endeavor Society has also been recently organized and is doing good work. The work immediately before the church is the development of its life, the enlargement of its membership, and its equipment with a house of worship and other means of efficient work. [PHOTO: MRS. LUCY E. PARMLEY.] Probably little, if anything, will be done in the direction of building during the coming year. In other respects there seems reasonable promise for satisfactory progress. The name of the S. S. Superintendent is Mrs. Lucy E. Parmley. Mrs. Hattie Morton is president of the Endeavor Society, and Miss Nellie Hendershot is secretary. Ogden, Utah, Nov. 8, 1895. Galen Wood, pastor of the Christian church in Ogden, was born May 4, 1852, in East Smithfield, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. His parents were consecrated Christians, and all their children, five in number, now occupy positions of trust and responsibility in the respective churches with which they are identified. He grew up on a farm to the age of 18, with the exception of three months spent in an academy at Waverly, N. Y. He made a profession of his faith in Christ on Sunday, August 22, 1870, at the regular Sunday morning service of the home church. On the following day he left home for the State normal school at Mansfield, Pa., from which institution he graduated in June, 1872. It was chiefly the expectation of leaving home, perhaps permanently, as afterward proved to [PHOTO: GALEN WOOD.] be the case, that forced his decision at this time to make a profession of Christianity. He felt that he could not go out into the world without publicly committing himself to Christ. In August, 1872, he entered Hiram College, Hiram, O., graduating from the classical course in June, 1877. The year '85-'86 was spent in selected studies in Bethany College, Bethany, W. Va. In September, 1877, he located as pastor of the church of Disciples at Leroy, Pa. This work continued three years, and was followed by a like period of work with the church at Aurora, O. In September, 1880, he accepted a call from the Christian Woman's Board of Missions to enter their service in the Montana field, where they were then just taking up work. He reached Deer Lodge, which was the chief field of his labors for the following three years, on October 19th. Here a small church of the Disciples, one of the three then existing in the Territory, organized by visiting preachers, was worshiping in the courthouse. During the winter following arrangements were made to begin the erection of a house of worship in the early spring. This work was completed and the house, perhaps the best in the town, costing about $7000 was dedicated November 2, 1884. Meantime a house of worship had been built in Anaconda, and a church organized. This thriving town at the south end of Deer Lodge valley had had its beginning during the summer of 1883. During the following winter Mr. Wood responded to the call of its citizens, many of whom were formerly from Deer Lodge, to visit them and conduct religious services. This visit resulted in the organization of a church and the erection of the first house of worship in this now flourishing and important city. During the past season the original property of this church has been sold and a new and better, in better location for church purposes had been purchased, and a new and much better house was erected. In September 1886, Mr. Wood entered into a life partnership with Miss Agnes Irvine of Deer Lodge, and after a brief visit to friends in the east, located as pastor with the Anaconda church, which had much of the time been carried as a mission in connection with the church at Deer Lodge. In connection with the work at Anaconda monthly visits were made to |
