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HeartheCallThat**ComesSanduskytoBayOhiotMethodistsFromAcrossat Lakeside!rsHE beautiful Sunday /fcaorning of Ocandarefacing courageously the enormoustober 20 will never be forgotten by the task of re-establishing their church home.residents of Lakeside. Instead of theButapartfromallsympathyforthiscustomary church bell calling them to wor- local congregation, Lakeside as a whole be ship, they answered the shrieking fire siren longs to the Ohio, North-East Ohio, and Censummoning everyone to fight the firethattralGerman Conferences. Thereforethespread\v i t hgreatrapidityuntiltwentychurcheight residences or cottages had been comthepresentsachurchesofOhio.uniquesituationInthisamongdark hourpletely destroyed9andthebeautifullittlethey turn to us, and we hear from acrossMethodist Episcopal Church, so dear to the the rolling waves of old Lake Erie the callhearts of all, was utterly consumed. ValiantlikeuntothatfromMacedoniaand heroic efforts to save it were all in vain. “Come over and help us.99longago9vThe insurance fund amounts to approximately $5,400. •Thebishops of the Cincinnati Area andAccording tothemost conservative estithe district superintendents, in joint sessionat Columbus9Ohio9mates, it will require $40,000 to rebuild in a an appeal, through the churches of Ohio,modest way sufficient for the needs. We need Sunday, March 9. Accordingly, March$30,000 from the Methodists and the friends officially designated^ as “Lakeside Dayof Lakeside' in this StateDecember 16, authorisedonisforaMethodism is Ohio Methodists. Each pastor is authorizedto be re-established in a satisfactory house and requested to place the facts of the sit-:ofworshipinthise(¥ieimportant , Methodist, uation before his congregation, and toreHcenter.•v £ y;v, - i .1 _ V * I aSgjg slaS*'- v ffiNB lit - S'lS XThe Lakeside Methodist Episcopal Church MUST be rebuilt. Thus is not a. debatableuestion;must be doneceive from them their free-will offering for this needy cause. jThe local pastor^ W. A. Rutledge, and hist♦ V *•9andone without aid from outside sources.cannot be good wife are facing this trying situation ina mosit heroic way. Remember them in yourThelocal church, with fewer than 200 members, prayers. Bro. Rutledge will gladly give deincluding children and a number nonresidenttailed information wherever desired.AllvllUUl Vli wnvi L* IIUUIMV 1 Iiv/Al# ViJlUvlI 1H| w j ^has an outstanding record in the Conference money received is to be sent to the treasurer, for giving to every good cause of the church Mr. Kenneth Miller, Lakeside, Ohio, who will at large. The members will give sacrificially promptly forward receipt for the same.themselves out of their very limited means,(Signed) Herbert Welch,Edgar Blake.•jfe-RuinsMethodist Episcopal Church at Lakesidetr189
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The Christian Advocate
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Thu, Feb 13, 1930
Page 20
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