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My Appointments
1893 Montros e
1894 Left in hands of Pres.six months sent to Saginaw s.s till conf e r ~B
1895 Banner three ye ars
1898 Montrose and Bridgeport
~1899 Goodells
' 1903 Shelby
. 1905 Smiths Creek
190'7 Ingham
1909 Goodells
1912 Owosso
1916 Lum
1918 Gass River
1919 ~eave of absence to r egain health Off six months then to Ma~l
Mayville bill comference
1920 Smiths Creek
1922 President
192'7 O:aginaw
and• Sheridan Ave addad i n 1929
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1930 Bircl). Run
1939 Retired.
Sinc e that one winter in Evangelistic work
As supply
adair
nine months
Port Austin 12 months at two differs
times
Melvin four months
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Yhese were
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appointment s made by the D.S.
Bse as much of this as will suit your purpose
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~ ~~~rs. M. J. Carley
RS . Jenn ie E. Ca rley, 88, of Lans ing died September 2 in a local
hosp ital. She was the widow of th e
late Rev. l\L J. Carley of t he Detroit
Conference.
Mrs. Carley, a r esident of L ansing
f or 35 years, was em ployed by t he State
Department of P ublic I nstruction f or
man y years; was state W CTU organ izer a nd musical director for th e Michigan g r oup and served as local p resident
and as s ix th district pr esident for 15
yeat·s. She was a member of Centra l
Methodist Chur ch and of t he Progress ive Class there and had been affiliated
wit h t he Central W CTU f or 35 years.
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She is sur vived by a s is ter, l\Irs.
Charlotte E . Barnes of Lansing.
Fu neral se rvices we re held September
[i at the Estes-Leadley Fu neral Home,
Dr. Pa ul Morr ison officiati ng. Bmia l
was in E vergreen Cemetery.
JUN221950
REV. M. J. CARLEY died Wednesday,
J une 7, in Yazoo City, Miss., whe1:e he
had been Jiving for some years wt th a
brother. l\'Ir. Ca!'ley was a ret ired member of the Detroit Conference. Bm;al
took place in Yazoo City. 'W\.. C.'L.
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Lansing, Michi gan.
Rev. N. N. Clark,
Chelsea, Mich.
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Dear Brother Clark:,
I sent my little
contribution to the History of early Methodism in North
Michigan to brother Lees on, fearing that you might not
be well enough to receive it. You know it is 3 years or
mome , since you asked me to write up my experience in
opening up that new Country(50 years ago this very month.
and I was happily surprise~ to learn from Bro. Leeson
that though you were not as young as you used to be you
are busy as a Philidelphia Lawyer.
\'Vhy1 I'm called an old"has been" you know; and you were
hiking or driving around your circuits 14 years or more
before I got started.The first meetings I conducted were
in 1886. I had only an exhorter's license then, up to
Christmas that year, when I was licensed to preach. One
of the stewards of the board that voted to license me
was still living in Bay City when I was up there last
fall.
At Pinconning, where I preached 1892 -- '94, I found just
one member who was in the Church when I was there. And at
Hillman (as given in my sketch) not one. On my Indian River
Circuit-1~~~ -'89 -- I found just one, and he was too
feeble to write anything and so deaf I had to shout to
make him hear me. But he was glad to see me.
I was not able to find any Ohurch mecords at I.R. The
Cheboygan pastor has been coming there to preach once
at the noon hour ob Sundays for the past 6. years; but he
told me he knew nothing about the Church records. Only a
few members there , and none of them that I found could tell
me anything about the records. I learned the name of t he
pastor who preached there before him (He came from Onaway
for one service same as now) I wrote to him weeks ago, but
hav·e not received any reply. I gathered some interesting
facts from the children of old members.
And my diary contains some things that might be of interest
too; but I have delayed a write~up hoping to get the records
so .as to be sure of dates and names.
I carry 3 scars on my body received while pastor there.
Not from the violence of men, but in learning a new trade
(working on the river)_ to get mone¥ to buy flour etc. to
feed a family of four1. Flour was $1 6. a bbl. that winter
and spring. An Infidel doctor (Mouthpiece of an infidel
club - s a id to have 12 members) boasted that they would
starve out the preacher, foreclose the mt g. on the Church
and remodel it for an infidel club house.
As health officer he closed one of my church es for 3 mo.
because of diphtheria in one family that lived by the
church. I.R. is no longer the head of a circuit but the
the church still stands. Remodeled (But not by infidels)
freshly painted. And a faithful few are keeping up a very
fgo~ Sunday- School ;and young folks were surprised to learn
a there had ever been an Infidel Club in the mown.
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I love thy Church 0 God~ Her walls before thee stand,
Dear as the apple of thine eye And graven on thy hand.
For her my tears shall fall;For her my prayers as~end;
To her my cares and toils be given; till toils and ca res
shall end.
Beyond my high est joy I prize her heavenly ways,
Her s weet communion solemn vows, Her h ymns of love and
praise.
Blessings upon the name of Timothy Dwi ght for that hymn.
It expresses ~ my innermost heart. My twelve years in
the active ministry stand out as the most worthwhile of
all the years of my life.
How good our Lord has been to us to give us so many years
to work with him to bring in tha t better day when evil shall
be cast out and righ teousness shall be established in t h e
world , and "the earth shall be full of t he knowledge of t h e
Lord, a s the waters cover t h e sea."
"To Him I owe my life and breath , And all the joys I have;
He malces me triumph over dea th , He saves me from the grave.
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Since from His bounty I receive such proof s of love divine ,
Had I a THOU SAND HEARTS TO GIVE, LORD , T~EY SHOULD ALL BE
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And ifA..had a million dollars it would be used to promot e
t h e com1ng of t hat final tr iumph. But I haven't the Milli on
doll a rs. However I have a hope tha t I may ye t be able to
pay out on the little pl a ce down i n Mississippi , and provide
in my Will tha t Whe n Mrs. Carley and I have closed our wo r k
h ere it shall be turned i nto cash for Detroit Conference
to use in promot er ttie work of t he Kingdom of our God •
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For every loss there is a gain,
when souls are in a ccord
and listen with t h e spir it's ears
to wh ispers of our Lord.
And how the rapturous music swells,
that floats across t he years
from choir voices harmonized
and softened by our tea rs .
For
our
For
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every wound we have received
Gilead has a bal m.
every lonly silent mile
Faith has found a psalm.
Wi th love to you and ·all t he dear friends. as ever,
Your Younger Brot her, Marion J. Carley.
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CHELSEA , MICH I GAN .
Carley, Marion J.