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Frank H Nelson of Cincinnati

by Warren C Herrick

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book is h the interest and contributions of the many friends of Frank H Nelson space does not per by name all who have furnished ratitude to them In addition to the years 1925-1928 as Mr Nelson's assistant I spent teeks in the autu a cross-section of Cincinnati and Christ Church Many businessmemories of one whom they loved, and often detained h I noticed also that Mr Nelson's photograph occupied a place of honor in more than one office as well as in many homes

There are others far better qualified than I to write this story, and I accepted the task, though with a keen sense of my inadequacy, first, because Mrs Nelson honoredconviction that it should be done for the sake of those who knew Mr Nelson, and also for those of a succeeding generation who ought to kno oneprofession Furthermore, I have written as one es an incalculable debt, and, therefore, cannot be wholly objective While I have endeavored not to y, it is frankly his life as I saw it, and depicts one whom I loved, adestions and for valuable rateful to Mrs Frank H Nelson, to Mr Nelson's sisters, Miss Margaret[1] and Miss Dorothea Nelson, and to Mr Howard N Bacon, who have helped me more than perhaps they know Then there is the pleasant duty of expressing my thanks to Mr Charles P Taft, the Junior Warden of Christ Church, Cincinnati, for writing the foreword; to the Vestry of Trinity Church, Melrose, Massachusetts for gladly granting me a leave of absence in 1943, and to Mrs E Howard Favor,cheerfully undertaken In the labor of preparing the final draft for the publishers I shall ever reht and skillful phrasing of Miss Mary Putnah School whose corrections and a less than creative Finally, I wish to let stand ht Reverend Henry Knox Sherrill, Bishop of Massachusetts, without whose encouragement and advice this little book could not have been written

WARREN C HERRICK

_Trinity Church_, _Melrose, Massachusetts_; 1945

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Deceased, July 6, 1945

A FOREWORD

How does one life affect another?

I have tried to remember what Frank Nelson directly asked me to do He asked me to teach in the Sunday School, and I did it Gradually I foundout an intellectual foundation for faith in God He never said anything tothat I act as captain in the Nation-wide Ca I ren, and I was always in it after that

He asked me to serve on the Vestry, and so really sick was an excuse for not being there

Certainly he never exhorted people to be civic patriots or reforave you such a hureat city that it made a tear come to your eye to think of what the city could be at its best, and it made you love it and the people in it Your own actions in civic affairs just naturally followed

He wasn't an exhorter of virtue, but heobjective that people went to work on their own problems with fresh faith

The only time I recall he was really annoyed with ency operation for appendicitis in the ht, and didn't let him know until the next day He was my minister, and that meant _minister_ After that, when I had ahis disappointment unless I went down to talk to hireat school as headmaster ”The city is the place that needs service and talents,” said he To that he had given his life, in the personal contact with his parish His life stands as a symbol of the way a true love of home and community is tied to a love of all God's children everywhere

CHARLES P TAFT

_Arise, And Go Into The City_

”_Arise, And Go Into The City_”

--_Acts 9:6_