Satan's Chapel! - Samuel Milton Vernon 1 John 2:15 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. James 4:4 4 Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God. You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/stack45ny SUPPORT MINISTRY: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5022374 From "The Christian Advocate": So impressive a figure as that of Samuel Milton Vernon, D.D., should not be allowed to disappear after long and honorable years of service in the Christian ministry without a word of recognition, beyond the brief announcement of his death. Dr. Vernon had been in Philadelphia Conference thirtyseven years, and his scholarship and his personal graces had won for him a large place among his ministerial brethren and in the religious life of that great community. Few ever thought of him as a product of the West. Yet he was born near Crawfordsville, Indiana, seventy-eight years ago—when Indiana was Western and not Middle Western—•and was educated in Iowa, graduating in 1867, seven years after his elder brother. Dr. Leroy Monroe Vernon, first superintendent of Methodist Missions in Italy and later until his death Dean of Fine Arts in Syracuse University. Samuel Vernon began his ministry in Iowa Conference sixty years ago, was transferred to Des Moines in 1804, where he preached and became principal of the Conference Seminary at Indianola, and president of "Simpson Centenary College" into which it evolved in 1867. The next year he came East and in 1869 graduated from Drew Theological Seminary in its first class. After three years in New York Conference lie went to Pittsburgh, where lie was successively pastor of Christ Church, Emory Church, and North Avenue. In 1880-2 he was pastor at Huberts Park, Indianapolis, one of the most notable charges in his native State. Thence he came to Trinity Church, Philadelphia, in 1883, continuing to serve many of the leading charges with all his rich endowment of mind and heart until his retirement two years ago. Scholarly tastes, wide reading, and extensive travel naturally contributed to the making of an exceptionally well-furnished minister. He was interesting and edifying in the pulpit, and a helpful and inspiring teacher in the classrooms of Temple University. He was a power in the debates of his Conference (which sent him to the General Conference in 1012), and strongly exercised his gifts for analysis and argument in his contributions to The Christian Advocate and other periodicals and in numerous volumes. But more • impressive than his sermons, lectures, teaching, or writing was the man himself—polished and poised, a pillar of strength and beauty. The words already written of him by another are words so fitly spoken that they will bear repetition here: "He was a stalwart in mind as well as in body ... a gentleman of the old school, dignified, affable, and courteous. By his life, as well as by his preaching, he interpreted the Christ Spirit to men."