The following is from Saleste, Paul H., Ninetieth Anniversary of Saint John's Evangelical and Reformed Church, January 1, 1935. (Spelling and punctuation as in the original.)
Rev. J. B. Jud was the next minister. He came with a family of eight children and devoted wife. One of the children, Mrs. Pauline Schettler, still carries on the tradition of that family in our midst, while others also are still remembered. Rev. Jud, was benevolent, consistent, and steadfast. His was a gracious and humble personality. Like Saint Augustine, Luther and others, his was a religion of the heart. While he insisted that "justification by faith" was an essential doctrine of the church, it was more than just a theological term. He exhalted God until everything pertaining to law, duty and conduct became strangely solemn and momentous. Many young ministers coming from Germany, found his home a welcome place o hospitality and counsel, until such time when they were able to answer a call of God, to their own field of labor. "The doors of the Jud parsonage were always unlatched" for homeless servants of God.
In this period a new parsonage, the one in brick adjacent to the second church on the picture, was erected. It housed the ministers of Saint John, even after the second church had been superceded, until 1920. During this period a Sunday School Teachers Society was organized, which stimulated the activities of the young people to such an extent, so that a Young Peoples Society also became a reality. I am told, "an attendance of 200 at one of the meetings was a regular occurrence." In modern parlance, "that's unbelievable," and yet that is the fact. How far we have fallen from so "wholehearted a loyalty to godly things" by the young people of our time! A modern minister wishes, it could be so, today. Evening services were characterized by great interest in missions and missionary programs. "Our people knew all about Missions and Missionaries" during these days, it is quoted.