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1 isjui-muBuy War BondsReads Historyee-en-elyteshatOf NorwalkBaptist ChurchThe following is another install-. |ment of the history of the Norwalk *'1( First Baptist church read at th OB- 100th anniversary in 1919 by the lly late Mrs. Edwin E Little and reread recently at the 125th annijly versary of the church by her daughter Ellen.Thirty or forty women of this church joined in this work, with ls Mr Corwin as their leader. In theay,iecltoThe mere mention of the C-same proportion, women joined in to the Crusade from all the churches, se. Among tlie leaders were; Mrs. Gid-ias eon Stewart, Mrs. Henry Brown.I Corwin, Mrs. Gibbs, Mrs. Farr, Mrs. Frederick Wickham, Mrs. , Corwin, Mrs. Gibbs, Mrs. Farr, th Mrs. Adams, Mrs. O. G. Carter, tit Tie Mrs. Whipple Baker. Mrs. Norcross wt ; a Mrs. Isaac Bistwick, Mrs. E. R. nil en Elliot, Mrs. Theron Kellogg and I many more. letli-enly,sade will bring to the minds of some of this audience remembrance of how eagerly the papers were scanned each morning for news of the spread od th movement which as. : went like wild-fire over Ohio.“The qq ; mills of God grind slowly”, but who I shall dare to say that this crusade did not fill its place in the process? In 1876 it was decided that the *a“ old church must be replaced by a T- ; larger and better building. The first'subscription was given, unsolicited, • by Mr. Mitchell Harrfcon. who wrote thesje lines to accompany hissubscription.Su! foi the ‘‘I lo\ anwshis an am fai in ed a is am led bit ins
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Norwalk Reflector Herald
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Sat, Apr 01, 1944
Page 2
Full Page
Clipped by
Bursley M.
NA, 19 Nov 2022
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