L. E. Ketcherside

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     The column Letter to Christians will appear no more. Its author, L. E. Ketcherside, has been called home. He died, as he lived, in the thick of the fight, with armor buckled on, and his face toward the walls of Jerusalem. On October 23, he mimeographed 450 tracts for distribution in Bismarck, Missouri. The following morning he began taking the message of truth from door to door. He covered but one short street when death stabbed at his heart like a bolt from the blue, and he fell backward, the tracts fluttering to earth about his prostrate form. He never breathed again. His earthly frame was committed to the ground on Oct.27. He was the last of my father's brothers and sisters, and his death closed one chapter of a family history which has given four proclaimers of the gospel to the church. My aunt Jennie will continue to reside at 306 North Main, Farmington, Missouri.