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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1908
Page
12
The nucleus of a new Presbyterian church forms in the Bronx as Home Street Presbyterian Church prepares to open at Home Street and West Farms Road. Rev. Harold Rambo leads, with Miss Helen R. Chase visiting. Opening services are at 2 PM tomorrow, followed by weekly Sunday services at 3 PM and Thursday devotional meetings at 5 PM.
The International Sunday School Association added Rev. Dr. Franklin McElfresh of Zanesville Ohio to lead the teacher training department, shifting duties from W. C. Pearce who keeps the adult class division. Since Toronto three years ago enrolment rose greatly with eighty thousand teachers in training courses and ten thousand diplomas awarded.
The Evangelistic Committee of New York City expands work to nine tents and seven open air centers with leaders including HD Sheldon J C Grimes and J C Ladgate. Italian tents move locations and leadership. Rev Francesco Pirezzini Rev F A Taglialatera and Dr Nardi preach at various Malian tents. Robert Walker long time Italy missionary is stationed at 189th Street Belmont Avenue Fordham.
The Baptist Brotherhood, despite opposition from American Baptist Home Mission Society officers, will dedicate itself to foreign mission work with Laymen's Missionary Movement. It plans to build a large fund to expand Baptist missions in China and Japan, and will also support forming men’s clubs in Baptist parishes. The effort resumes now after prior protests delayed by the Home Mission Society.
Ossining hosts the seventy seventh annual camp meeting in a new auditorium at Ossining Heights with Rev Frederick H Carpenter leading and Charlies N Orittemten directing. Events include Children Day and Epworth League emphasis with speakers Fred Victor G Hallimead D Hughes J Tolfree Parr and Rev Dr Len G Brough ton among others. Brough ton and Parr are noted evangelists at various services with the program spanning August and early September.
Chapel at Portman Square London has arrived in Northfield to deliver Bible lectures at the Con ferences there. He is a leading young English churchman who helped establish the M C A in Palestine and Egypt and will speak on Christ's Conception of the Christian Life. He will speak at St Bartholomew's New York during his stay. The Marble Collegiate Church remains open and welcomes all. Dr. Allen will preach at 11 am on Paying the Fare and at 8 pm on The Mountains of God, with Miss Inez Barbour singing and Mr Royal Fish beginning a tenor engagement.
Professor Wilbur P. Bowen at Columbia urged Americans to replace passive viewing of sports with personal play to build the body. He warned adults mistake play as trivial and showcased images of active, strenuous recreation from boating to mountain scrambling, canoeing, and athletic games.
Miss Singh interrupts Teja Singhs lecture on Sikh intellect with a clear call of Papa from the door. The father’s defense of Indian dignity stirs the Columbia audience as he condemns colonial prejudice and notes limited opportunity for Indians in education, civil service, and mobility under British rule.
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