Biography quoted from Herald of Holiness - May 10, 1922:
"Rev. J. E. Gaar, of Olivet, Illinois, who occupies the “Nazarene Pulpit" this week, was sanctified wholly twenty-seven
years ago and has been in the active ministry twenty-five years. He was president of the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church for four years, conference evangelist two years, was twice delegate to the General
Conference, was a member of the Tri-Church Council of the Methodist Protestant, United Brethren and Congregational Methodist churches which met in Dayton, Ohio and Chicago, III. When the Council refused to
insert a statement on the doctrine of holiness in the new creed, Brother Gaar withdrew the Louisiana Conference from the Council. He was chairman of the commission appointed by the Louisiana Conference of the M. P. Church to meet a like commission from the Church of the Nazarene to consider a basis of union. Brother Gaar united with the Church of the Nazarene ten years ago and has spent seven years in the pastorate of our school churches at Peniel and Hamlin, Texas, and Olivet, III. He is now engaged entirely in the evangelistic work. He is one of our strongest preachers, a great man of prayer, and an earnest and untiring worker. Churches and camps in all sections of the country will be fortunate in securing Brother Gaar for a revival.—Editor."
