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Show DR. SHORT IS TO LEAVE SALT LAKE Called to Spokane; Is to Preach Last Sermon Here Sunday. REV. T. B SHORT. Rev. Francis Burgette Short. Pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church, will preach hia last sermon In SaH Lake next Sunday. Ha has been called to the pastorate of tha First Methodist Episcopal church In Spokane. This is one of the largest Methodist churches lr. the west, the membership mem-bership running around one thousand. While rt will te a promotion fnr Dr. Short In many waya. one of the principal ones being a substantial Increase In salary, hia fondness for Salt Lake made him argue the question several daya before accepting accept-ing the call. The blahops Issued the call, however, and ha answered today that he would be In Spokane abo-.:t the first of May. Dr. Short has been pastor of the local church since August, lfO". He came here from the First church In Portland. Dr. Short went to California from Wilmington. Wilming-ton. Del.. In ltl, and has been In the west evei since. When he came here there was a debt of $32,000 on the church. The congregation waa paying about 11000 a month Interest. If there la anything Dr. Short tikes better than raising church debts It has not been found, so he leaped right Into the fight against the local burden, with the rasult that the mortgage was burned last December. In recognition of his six years active work here and hia experience tn raising dehta undoubtedly led the bishops to aak htm to go to Spokane, as It Is understood a debt hangs over the churoh there. Few ministers have enjoyed more travel abroad than Dr. Short haa. He left here In February. 112. and traveled through Buroe, Egypt. Pales-Una, Pales-Una, Turkey and other places. Ha waa away six months. Ha has delivered several sev-eral lectures on the trip. Dr. Short wrote a book of the trip with Illustration for Newall Be man and J. C. Pen m-v, through whose generosity and friendship the trip waa made possible. Twice nefore that Dr. Short had traveled trav-eled In Europe. It la tne belief In local church circles that Dr. Betta of the First church In Spokane Spo-kane will coma hare. |