REV. E. R. ELLER

   A series of revival services July 25-Aug. 1 is planned at Spring Hill Baptist church, Wagram, it has been announced by the pastor, the Rev. John Hiott.
   The visiting minister will be the Rev. Eugene R. Eller of Easley, S. C., who will speak at services twice a day Monday through Friday at 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.
    On Sunday, July 25, there will. be services at 11 am., 6:30 p.m., and 7:30 p.m. Final services in the series wiII be held Sunday, Aug I, at 11 a.m.
   Nursery care wil1 be furnished for all evening services.
    A pastor of wide experience, Mr. Eller is a native of North Carolina who has served churches in Georgia, North and South Carolina. He is presently serving as superintendent of missions for the Piedmont Baptist Association. He was selected by the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention to preach in Cuba on two occasions and has visited mission work in Mexico, Europe and the Bible lands.

   The 1965 minutes of the Brushy Mountain Baptist Association are dedicated to the Rev. Adolphus Worth Eller. Mr Eller was born May 10, 1898, in the Reddies River Township of Wilkes County, the son of Rufus C. and Mrs. Mary Gertrude McNiel Eller. He married Miss Ethel Wells of Yadkinville, North Carolina October 13, 1918. Three daughters of Purlear are: Mrs. Gertrude(?) Eller, Mrs Arlene Warren and Mrs. Christine Roberts.
   Mr. Eller worked fourteen years Forest Furnature Factory before entering the ministry. He was ordained to preach Dec. 6, 1933, at the New Hope Baptist Church Purlear, N. C.
   He surved as the minister for the Brushy Mountain Baptist Associationin 1951-1952, and was President of the Wilkes County Pastors Conference, which he helped to organize, for several years. He preached the annual mission sermon at Goshen Baptist Church in 1953. He attended the first classes of what is now known as the Fruitlans Baptist Bible Institute, near Hendersonville, when the classes were opened in Boone, N. C., by the Reverend J. C. Canipe. He also attended many sessions of the Seminary Extension Center which met at the First Baptist Church, North Wilkesboro. For several years he went to the Pastors Week of Christian Study and Fellowship at Mars Hill Colledge, Mars Hill, N. C.
   He served as pastor of fifteen churches before illness forced his retirement. Thirteen of these churches are in Wilkes County. He was pastor New Hope and - - - Baptist Churches, Purlear, N. C. when ch- - - buildings were rebuilt. He and his wife were members of First Baptist Church.

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   He served as moderator of Brushy Mountain Baptist Association in 1951-52, and was presldent of the WIlkes Pastors Conference, which he helped to organize, for several years. He attended ,the first classes of Fruitland Bible Insitute when that school was formed in classes held in Boone. He also studied at the Seminary Extension Center at North WHkesboro and at Mars Hill College.
   He was a member of Lewis Fork Baptist Church, where he was pastor 17 years, and was a member of Mount Pleasant Masonic Lodge.
   Surviving are his wile, Mrs. Ethel Wells Eller; three daughters, Mrs. Doff Eller, Mrs. Paul Warren and Mrs. Christine Roberts, all of Purlear, Rt. 1; and a brother, Roby Eller of PurIear, Rt:1
   The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Arbor Grove Methodist Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be at Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home until placed in the Church at 10: a.m. Wednesday.

   The Rev. Ma.x A. EIler of LilIington lias been named to the Canlpbell University Board of Minlsters. He is pastor of Angier Baptist Church.
   A native of Iredell County, Eller retired aftcr 30 years of service as a Navy chaplain. From 1977 - 1981 he served as a staff member and director of the Navy Chaplains School In Newport, Rhode Island.
   Active In the Baptist denomination. Eller has served as president of Pastors Conference and chairman of the Program Committee of the Annual Conference for tIle Lltlle River Baptist Association. Ordained In 1952, ElIer has served several churches in North Caro!ina. Including Reldsville, Maxton and Raleigh.
   Eller earned the bachelor of divinity degree at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the bachelor of arts degree at Wake Forest University.

   Commander Max A. Eller Is to speak Sunday, Dec. 27 during the 11:00 morning worship service at the Fuquay-Varina Baptist Church. He is a graduate of Wake Forest College and Southeastern Baptist Seminary. He pitched pro-ball for the Raleigh Caps and served as pastor to the Bethlehem Baptist Church on Poole Road in Raleigh and a church in Maxton from which he went into the chaplaincy. He has served one tour in Vietnam and is presently serving as chaplain at Portsmouth. N. H.
   Eller Is married to the former Doris Stroud, sister of Joe and David stroud. They have four children, three boys and a girl. The public is cordially invited to attend.