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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1918
Page
7
The most intensive evangelistic campaign ever waged by a Protestant denomination will start in the Methodist Episcopal Church worldwide with watch night services on New Year’s Eve and run through Easter. In New England, 900 Methodist churches will participate.
A January nationwide union evangelism campaign marks the 100th anniversary of the first Methodist home and foreign missions. Organizers aim to recruit leaders, reach the unchurched, and mobilize members through watch night services, cottage prayers, and a week of prayer starting January 6, with continued efforts through Easter.
Captain Smyth pursues the jinx aboard the Arthur M after a two month Atlantic voyage from Economy Nova Scotia. The schooner failed to deliver lumber to Boston, suffered canvas losses twice, sent to St John for repairs, and the captain fell ill with influenza delaying profits before returning with a wary crew guarding a rumoured rabbit’s foot superstition.
Colonel Harry Cutler leads a national call from the Jewish Welfare Board for men and women to serve in demobilization camps on trains transports and overseas. Home service workers receive a one week emergency training at 149 Fifth Avenue while overseas workers attend Y A A training at Columbia University and Barnard College. quotas set for cities to supply entertainers teachers rabbis and social workers.
The Brotherhood of the old Shawmut Mission hosted a luncheon yesterday afternoon for nearly 100 men. Roast lamb, potatoes, vegetables, pie and pudding were served under Superintendent Jed E. Winslow with help from Herbert McMahon president Frank Curtis secretary and Sergeant Herbert Hunt of Co J Bath Infantry. An entertainment and testimony meeting followed.
Paris December 2 The American ambassador William G. Sharp left Paris last night to return home due to the severe illness of a brother. He will sail from Brest for New York aboard a transport.
Italian deputies from Trieste Istria Fiume and Zara met Col House in Paris to present a memorial to President Wilson. They urge that Dalmatia be Italian with Fiume free to govern itself and claim Trieste and Istria should join Italy, arguing plebiscites and strategic ports support Italy's claim.
Funeral services for B. O. Flower founder of the Arena and the Twentieth Century Magazine will be held today at 2 p m at his brother’s residence 101 St Botolph Street corner of West Newton conducted by Rev Elwood Worcester rector of Emmanuel Church He died at Newtonville on Tuesday.
Letters of sympathy for rabbis work were received from Baker Daniels Brandes Johnson Clark Mack and others. A resolution favored amalgamation with the Jewish Rabbis Association. Cardinal O Connell urged American rabbis to help check Bolshevism. The Jewish Ministers Association and Orthodox Congregations endorsed the British Palestine homeland plan at a New York convention.
Lisbon reports a new Portuguese ministry formed on December 24 with Tamag nini Barbosa serving as premier and interior minister and M Cortereal as minister of war.
An American relief expedition carrying physicians nurses and supplies will sail mid January to the Near East. The United States government has loaned a 7000 ton transport to the committee for Armenian and Syrian relief. The mission will include agricultural experts doctors and nurses plus medical supplies and farming implements to aid next year’s crop.
An advertisement touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a cure for indigestion. It depicts a former grouch becoming Sunny Jim after use, claiming improved digestion, reduced gas, heartburn, sour rising, and gagging. The copy urges readers to buy a 50cc box at drug stores and join others in benefiting.
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