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Newspaper
Spring Valley Gazette
Location
Spring Valley, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1920
Page
7
The note invites readers to attend Sunday School and church despite weather. It highlights the April 25 lesson from Ruth chapter 1, described as a love story about a young widow and her mother in law, and urges attendance for discussion.
Epworth League meets at 6 30 and preaching at 7 30 p m Reminder of Friday lecture course on April 23 Rev Perry will speak on Red Cross Work on the rescheduled date February 23 subject and speaker J C Jones pastor replaces May 4
The ladies of Fox River Association and nearby areas are urged to attend a rally for the Congregational Drive tied to the Inter Church World Movement in Spring Valley on Friday, April 28.
Miss Frances Patterson regional director of Women's Auxiliaries will head the rally in Chicago assisted by Granville local director Mrs A M Copkums and Oglesby vice president Mrs H A Bent. Miss Charlotte Willard of Morsovan Turkey may attend. Sessions start at 10 am and 2 pm with a basket lunch served at noon in the church social rooms.
Next Sunday morning the pastor will speak on the Inter Church World Movement and its Challenge, delivering the third talk on the subject.
A humorous note from the Ohio State Journal recalling John Milton’s meager dinners of olives while writing cheerful works. The item riffs on dining on boiled cabbage and prune whip as a playful contrast to Milton’s reputation for occasional cheerless verse.
The Northern Baptist Convention and allied agencies push to educate and organize foreign born populations. Plans include training workers for twelve nationalities such as French Russians Poles Italians Roumanians Hungarians Slovaks Mexicans Japanese Chinese and Scandinavians and expanding twelve city mission societies to broaden social educational and religious centers.
Volume I, Number 1 of The Baptist, official organ of the Northern Baptist Convention, issued in Chicago with an initial print of 75,000. Dr. Lathan A. Crandall is editor in chief, while Dr. Clifton D. Gray serves as managing editor. Contributing editors include Governor Carl Milliken of Maine and Yale’s William Lyon Phelps. The paper aims to highlight the denomination’s weekly forward steps and Christian advancement.
The Fukuin Maru, a Baptist gospel ship, travels the Sea of Japan serving remote communities. Northern Baptists seek a new captain preacher after the death of Captain Luke Bickel as Japan’s 33 Baptist churches plan 15 new congregations.
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