REED, Myron

Sorrry…there was a second page. Greeley Tribune (Greeley, Weld County); Date: Feb 8, 1900 Page 4 Reminscences of Myron Reed By day he drove oxen on the farm and at night pursued his education by the light of a pine knot. At the first call for soldiers he bared his breast to the enemy of the republic. He became a captain of rough riders, but never, as many suppose, a chaplain. He received a charge of buckshot in the knee from an unseen friend which kept him an invalid all the remainder of his days. After the war Mr. Reed took up theology and was the pastor of several congregational churches. We are sometimes asked how it was that he remained the pastor of the congregational church on Glenarm street for eleven years. That church was organized in 1866 and copied an old creed. The last pastor of that church, before Mr. Reed, tore the spinal column right out of that creed. What a preparation he had for the ministry. Compare his preparation with that of the ordinary, evangelical, machine-made minister. (I will have to be a little careful what I say. This society is in the habit of throwing people out). His greatest abiding trait was his humaness of nature. He was the most individual man I ever knew. On all social and religious questions he was always on the firing line. He spent no time in thinking what not to do.