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GOSPEL HALL IN HOLLANDWAS HOME OF GROUP OF CHRISTIANS FOR MANY YEARS. SERVICES STILL HELD IN HOMES.Holland, Oct. 19.—Gospel Hall, little two-story frame structure in Park street, this village, for many years ' the meeting place of as closely a knit religious group as one could find anywhere, is idle now, but Holland residents still like to point out the building as oiie of the most interesting sights of the villageI It was about fourteen years ago thatX VV UO UUUUfc J --the families of Horace Underhill of Griffins Mills and Fred Becker of Colden both of which were large, decided to band together for religious worship-and-a-strietly^-religious life The white-painted Gospel Hall was selected as a meeting place. The families adopted no cult name, but simply referred to themselves as Christians.The young people of the two families did not attend motion pictures or dances. They did not mingle with other religious groups, and outsiders, never attended the lengthy, weekly services.Reading of the Scriptures featured the services. Scarcely ever did a i whisper break the severe stillness.11 Even small children seemed more' ] orderly than one would expect. It j c was woe unto her or him who violat- (\ ed the strict code adopted by the j heads of the families. |As the girls and boys of the two i families grew into young men and women there was no courting appar- J ent, before or after the religious ser- ( vices, but courting and romance there *V IVvM) V VV** ^ o ^ .must have been. In the last eleven years, there have been four marriages uniting the two families.The first romance that bloomed into marriage was between Ralph Becker and Maybel Underhill. They were married April 22, 1925. They live on a farm in Burhngham road, a mile west of Holland. They have four children.Another romance that had its inception as a result of the formation of the religious group resulted in the marriage of Arthur Underhill and Lillian Becker, January 15, 1927.They live on a farm on the Gulf road, west of Holland, and have three chil-dren. , ,Rudolph Becker and Helen Underhill were married May 2, 1929 and have three children. They live on the old Becker homestead at Colden The last marriage was that of Ray mond Becker and Florence Underhill and the date, July 11, 1934 They have one child and live on a farm in the Blanchard road, near WestFalls . IThe group no longer meets in Gos- ] pel Hall, but has divided into two, branches. One group meets at the home of Ralph Becker and the other group at the home of Horace Under- . mil However, the services are con- | ducted in the same manner as they were when the meetings were held in Gospel Hall.—Buffalo Courier-Express.
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Arcade Herald
Arcade, New York, US
Fri, Oct 23, 1936
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