Daniel Graber Ordained Minister 1922

GRABER

Posted By: Henry Co Volunteer
Date: 3/25/2006 at 12:28:10

Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
October 24, 1922

Daniel Graber, a son of Rev. Daniel Graber of Mobile, has been ordained a minister of the gospel at the church known as Sugar Creek, southeast of Wayland. Special services were held last Sunday afternoon at which time Bishop Bender of Kansas was present and performed the rites of ordination. The new minister has attended the college of the Amish church at Heston, Kans., for three years and did work for the relief of Armenians in the last days of the war. He was over there 18 months. His congregation think he is unusually well equipped for the work. He has a year for further study before he will be expected to preach, but may enter on his work at once. He is farming north of Noble in Washington county. Ministers in that church do not draw regular salaries, but the members of the congregation see to it that a man who preaches for them is never in want. If he is called away from home in busy season or any time when help is needed on the farm they see to it that nothing is neglected. Rev. Sebastian Gerig of Wayland now 84 years old, preached for his church for 55 years and he recently said that he never suffered for lack of enough to make him comfortable and he raised a large family besides. In many ways the system is better than that of denominations where the minister's salary is so small that the family of the minister actually is deprived of the necessities of life.