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| DONALD MUNRO,
St. Johns, Mich. |
| Donald Munro was born in Glasgow, Scotland, May 14, 1865. When two months old his father was killed; two months later his mother sailed for Canada, with seven children. A year later she died. A sister twelve years of age, cared for him four years, when she died. He lived with an uncle ten years, then worked on a farm, in a factory, and in a store. He attended Ridgetown Collegiate Institute two years and a half, and Toronto University three years. During his last vacation, in four weeks, he secured $6,000 for the Cecil Street church, Toronto. Left college to develop the Canadian Evangelist; traveled among the Ontario churches two years; preached at Selkirk three years, organized the Rainham Center church with fifty member; preached at Wayland, Mich., one year; chosen corresponding secretary of the Michigan Christian Missionary Society in 1900, which position he still fills. |
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| WILLIAM M. ROE,
Buchanan, Mich. |
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Born in Henry county, Ind., April 26,
1830. Attended the district school; studied
at home several years; attended seminary at
South Bend, Ind.; taught several district
schools; a student and teacher at Eclectic Institute,
Hiram, Ohio; preached fifty years,
ministering successfully to churches in Ohio,
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa. Assistant
editor "Northwestern Christian Proclamation;"
author "Bible vs. Materialism."
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