Sunday, June 23, 2019

Impressive Lady Evangelist at Brevard Methodist Church, June 20, 1919

From the Brevard News, Friday, June 20, 1919

Lady Evangelist at Methodist Church

Mrs. Olin P. Ader, evangelist, is here for two weeks work in this community. Mrs. Ader is one of a very small number of women in the country who are regularly appointed ministers of the gospel. Mrs. Ader and her husband, Rev. O.P. Ader, who is pastor of the Haywood Street Methodist Church in Asheville, are conducting a series of meetings at the Brevard Methodist Church. Both ministers have been speaking to crowded houses since the opening of the meetings last Sunday. Mrs. Ader preached the initial sermon on Sunday morning to a large and deeply interested audience. She chose for the theme of her first discourse to a Brevard congregation the subject of “Responsibility and Opportunity” and developed with convincing logic her argument that every mortal is placed in the world with the specific responsibility of making it better and making some definite contribution toward the higher development of humanity. To every one, the speaker said, comes some opportunity for a personal share in the good work of the world which can be done by no one else. “Do not think,” said she, “that because you are not a preacher or a teacher you have nothing to do. Opportunities are daily all around you for doing good if you will only see them.” Mrs. Ader is a very pleasant speaker with easy delivery and clear enunciation.


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