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- Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY
DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 167
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, November 14, 1931
METHODIST MINISTER AND
WIFE ARRIVE IN MARLIN
Will Preach at Services of His Church
Sunday Morning and Evening.
Rev. H. L. Munger, newly appointed pastor of the First Methodist church of
Marlin, and Mrs. Munger have arrived here from Jacksonville. He will
preach at both morning and evening hours Sunday.
Rev. Munger is a native of Houston, Texas.
Concerning his life and family the following information is supplied. He
spent his childhood on a farm in Williamson county, attended Southwestern
University at Georgetown, and entered the old Northwest Texas Conference in
which most of is ministerial life has been spent. He has been pastor in
Waco, Cleburne, Mexia, and Lubbock, before coming to the Texas Conference
which comprises East Texas. His father was a leading layman in the church
and his mother was for years conference president of the Woman's Missionary
Society. He is a brother of Dr. S. S. Munger of this city.
When a boy preacher, Mr. Munger was sent to
Waco. It was then that he performed the feat of building a church in one
day, holding a service in it at 5:30 p.m. at which an offering was made to pay
for it in full, and at 7:30 p.m. the second service was held at which he
organized a congregation of a hundred and fifty members.
Mr. Munger married Miss 'Lyda White of
Nashville, Tenn., and her father and mother make their with them at the present
time. There are two sons in the family one of whom is with them, the
other, a graduate of electrical engineering at the University of Texs, is now
with a Chicago company.
The new pastor states he and his wife are
delighted with Marlin and the Marlin people and that he is anxious to throw
himself wholeheartedly into the work of the church and the kingdom of God.
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