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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1916
Page
8
A large crowd braved rain to hear an evangelist at Huntington avenue Tabernacle. Families, including several children, watched men reform after prior drunkenness and pledge daily prayer, as congregants sang and urged gratitude to God. The scene contrasted sober arrival with earlier intoxication.
Sunday campaign events across Brookline Roslindale and Boston feature Billy Sunday sermons on Mothers and religious talks. Activities include Bible studies at St Mark's Brookline and Roslindale Baptist Church, a Park Street luncheon, and afternoon and evening Tabernacle services with sermons and appeals.
Billy Sunday presses Christian volunteers in the sermon The Mercies of God urging living sacrifices not fear. He frames faith as invitation and gratitude, cites examples of gratitude for sight, hearing, health, and provision, and calls out moral engagement over mere church membership.
A Boston Sunday tabernacle sermon urges living sacrifice not dead ritual. Speaker condemns material excess and hypocrisy, cites Socrates, Jesus, Lincoln, and Paul to urge personal reform and evangelism.
A Thanksgiving meeting of the Mackabee Associates of East Boston featured remarks by Mr. Alpert who endorsed Billy Sunday’s stand-out policy while critiquing modern liberal religion. He warned against fear of God fading and noted newspapers as a substitute for traditional sermons. Attendees totaled 434,000 to date with 11,000 present on the day.
Large textile employer seeks several acres for a factory in a district with readily available intelligent male and female labor. Location must be railroad accessible. Request full property description and details on water supply facilities especially soft water, nearby industries, and local labor supply. Address T F Kennedy Room 1003 185 Madison Ave New York NY.
A mother testimonials Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as the most effective remedy she has used for her baby's constipation. The product combines simple laxative herbs with pepsin, is non habit forming, gentle, and palatable for children. Druggists offer it at fifty cents a bottle, with a free trial bottle available by writing Dr W B Caldwell Montana Illinois.
Abraham Alpert, editor of the Boston Jewish weekly, lauds Billy Sunday for his stand pat attitude on religious matters. The piece highlights the consistency of Sunday's approach as a paradoxical yet orthodox stance praised by the editor.
Three armored cruisers of the Pacific fleet and one Atlantic fleet ship will be renamed after state names following a Navy Department order. The Maryland becomes Frederick, Colorado becomes Pueblo, West Virginia becomes Huntington, and Washington becomes Seattle. State names will apply to new superdreadnoughts under construction.
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