ministers," the report read, "to study the lives of the Fathers of our Church, praying that they may all be consecrated by the Holy Spirit as these men of God were." An appreciation J.B. Kanaga, an important Pastor and Presiding Elder of the Evangelical Association in Ohio, and representative of the same to the great Councils of the Federated Churches of America, wrote a tribute to Bishop Orwig on the centennial of his birth (1910). He wrote: In his preaching he was always exact, and adequate in his treatment of a subject. He was always concerned and often even anxious about his preparation. But when he came to the delivery he stood forth as a Master in Israel. Not gifted with eloquence, and I think, actually indifferent to all but apostolic unction and Gospel truth... he wrought with heroic devotion in the day of small things and the hand of that master builder was in the foundation of the Church. Selected writings the first history of the Evangelical Association (1854) Die Heils Fuelle, (translated, "Full Salvation") a catechism for the Evangelical Association a book on Pastoral Theology See also List of bishops of the United Methodist Church References Leedy, Roy B., The Evangelical Church in Ohio (1816-1951), The Ohio Conference of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, 1959, pp. 778–780. Thumbnail Sketches of Evangelical Bishops, Raymond M. Veh, Editor. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Evangelical Publishing House, 1939. External links American bishops American evangelicals 1810 births 1889 deaths Bishops of the Evangelical Association German-language writers American publishers (people) 19th-century American historians 19th-century American male writers Ministers of the Evangelical United Brethren Church 19th-century American bishops People from Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Historians from Pennsylvania American male non-fiction writers