Faulk County, SD History .....Chapter XXVIII - Free Methodist Church 1909 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sd/sdfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 8, 2005, 7:38 pm FREE METHODIST CHURCH. The Free Methodist church of Faulkton, South Dakota, was incorporated on the 15th day of January, A. D., 1900. Rev. Rufus Earl at that time purchased the building from the Presbyterian denomination. Rev. Earl was pastor of this church two years, afterwards moving to Port Arthur, Canada, where he has since died and gone to his eternal reward. Since Rev. Earl's pastorate of the Faulkton circuit there has been four different ministers serving this charge, Rev. W. N. Vennard, now of Wessington Springs; Rev. Gallaway, of Indiana, who has since passed to his reward; Rev. W. D. McMullen, now pastor of the Wessington Springs circuit and the present pastor Rev. Daniel B. Waller, who was born in the state of Ohio in the year 1866, and at the tender age of two years was left motherless, and some of you know what home is without a mother. He was let to do about as he pleased, so he grew up something like Topsy. At the age of fifteen he left his home and became a wanderer upon the face of the earth; became a victim to bad habits and waded into sin, but he will ever thank God that he had a praying mother, and he was told by his sisters after he grew older that the last words of that sainted mother was offered in prayer for her baby boy and often times in after years when he would have went into sin and probably crime, the thought of that deathbed scene and that prayer from those loving lips which were growing cold with the death damps, caused him to stop and look with horror upon that road that leads to hell and eternal night. Thirty years after that prayer was offered, thank God, in the year of 1889 he became a follower of the Lord. He was called shortly after conversion to preach God's eternal truth which he has been endeavoring to do for the past six years and can say today: He is walking in the light, and his path is shining bright, And there is no more night, where he dwells. This old world he bids adieu, and its pleasures fade from view; All things now to him are new; all is well. Additional Comments: From: HISTORY OF FAULK COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS ILLUSTRATED 19O9 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/sd/faulk/history/other/gms68chapterx.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/sdfiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb