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The Mobile Item

Location

Mobile, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jan 25, 1914

Page

20

Baraca Class Gives $1000 To Missions In Dallas

Ida Clyde Clarke notes a Baraca Sunday school at First Baptist Dallas donates $1,000 to missions. Dr John R Motts reflections stress reliance on God's power rather than more native workers, urging immigrant youth involvement and the idea of a "great brotherhood" among associations.

Missions Ida Clyde Clarke First Baptist Church Dallas Texas John R. Mott Pers God

Evangelistic Challenge in Japan Highlights Urban Rural Gap

A statement by Mrs. A. W. Wilson notes about 80 percent of Japan's population in rural districts and 20 percent in cities, with 96 percent of rural residents in unworked areas. The piece stresses a vast task for Christianization, requiring renewed humility and consecration, and cites the YMCA's global outreach on ships and in ports to aid mission work.

Japan

Thinking Black author recalls Feast of Memories in jungle

Dan Crawford recounts a heathen village chief proposing a Feast of Memories and, with Crawford, leading a makeshift Lord’s Supper. They used a battered box and a mug, arguing vessels become holy through reverent use. He urges sending old communion vessels to mission churches.

Dan Crawford Mr. Crawford

Bible Shipments Surge for Central America Canal Labor Force

The canal zone grows in world and Bible affairs. Rev. J. A. Dunkum oversees Central American distribution and has pressed for more Bibles. Since June 1 shipments reach 5,643 volumes valued at 1,009 dollars, mainly English Bibles sought by Jamaica canal workers, with Spanish Chinese and French versions also present.

Canal Zone J. A. Dunkum Central America

Generous Chinese church boosts aid with per capitas

A report notes the Chinese church raised about 250 dollars per person through modest means. Most contributors earned five to fifteen dollars monthly, with farmers renting land and schoolgirls sacrificing meals to fund the cause. A teacher earning five dollars a month taught Li Hung Chang’s grandsons English for an hour daily, then donated thirty dollars monthly to support a college bound boy for a year.

Li Hung Chang

School Work in Brazil Progress and Library Growth

In Brazil the college work continues with satisfactory results. Students expanded the library by over 200 books, alongside a steady stream of excellent literature. A visiting patron from Alegrete praised the catalog and mission, saying you make character here. Anderson Weaver, Uruguayana, Brazil.

Brazil Price Little Magazine Alegrete Anderson Weaver Uruguayana

Cuba Breaks the Record Sign for Protesantism in Cuba

Circulation of scriptures rose through nine months to September 30. Amid money scarcity and many lottery ticket sellers, colporteurs and agents of the American Bible Society operate in the country promoting Protestant materials despite obstacles.

Cuba

Candidates Press Poll Tax Payment Ahead of Key Elections

Anxious campaigners urge voters to pay poll tax as payments lag behind last year. With a senior state race on April 6 between Underwood and Hobson and major state and county offices on ballot, sheriffs and road commissioners join appeals before Saturday night January 321 to close books.

Underwood Hobson Supreme Court

White House Couple Returns to Washington

The White House bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs. Francis B. Sayre, returned to the White House this evening, accompanied by Mrs. Sayre's elder sister Miss Margaret Wilson.

White House Washington International News Service Francis B. Sayre

Bible Society’s Cuba Scripture Push Sets Record

The Bible Society and local pastors distributed more than 23 000 Scriptures with the year expected to exceed 30 000, a new circulation record in Cuba. S A Neblett from Santa Clara states the word of God is not bound.

Revival Turns Students Toward Ministry at Local Church

Presiding Elder Lea led a two week revival for students, resulting in a daily class of fifteen young men for study and prayer. Two graduates teaching in non mission schools with good salaries have chosen to enter the ministry. W B Nance Soochow University China.

Presiding Elder Lea W. B. Nance Soochow University China

Sunday Rest and Missionary Work Across Regions

The piece notes China designating Sunday as a day of rest without endorsing Christianity. It details the American Bible Society’s 1876 Brazil agency distributing 785000 Gospels mostly in Portuguese, with 57000 by nine colporteurs to 350 towns last year. It lists Asian populations in California and a Ping Yang church attendance claim, and mentions Mexican women earning about fifteen cents daily.

China The American Bible Society Brazil Brazilian

Brazil Exports Boost US Trade Power in Year

The United States is Brazil's top customer buying 112 million dollars of exports in one year. In the canal zone 7000 Americans live there including women and children, with about 27000 laborers. three quarters are West Indian Black workers and the rest Spaniards and Italians.

United States Brazil Canal Zone

Where to Worship Baptist in Mobile Churches

A list of Baptist and Presbyterian churches in Mobile with service times and pastors. First Baptist Church on Government and Jefferson Streets led by Rev John W Phillips. Whistler, Dauphin Way, Northside, Epiphany Anglican and several Presbyterian churches, detailing Sunday schools, sermons, and prayer meetings.

Church Schedules Across Town Include Multiple Services

Broad Street to Whistler churches list Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and worship at 11 a.m. with evening services at 7:30 p.m. Epworth Leagues meet around 6:30 p.m. Midweek prayer gatherings occur Wednesday evenings.

Broad Street S. W. Roberts L. F. Grube Epworth League Toulminville J. T. Eckford

Christian Church Services and Times

First Christian Church at Government and Dearborn streets led by minister James T Law holds Bible school at 9:30 a m worship at 11 a m and 7 30 p m Morning subject Jesus the Worshipper Evening Great Before God All are cordially invited Also Church of Christ on Dauphin street invites all to Bible study at 10 a m Subject Life of Paul Preaching and Communion at 11 a m Take Dauphin street car and exit at Weston place.

Dauphin Way Baptist Church W. P. Hines D. D J. L. Baskin Eliot Northside Baptist Church N. Conception Street North Conception Street Broad-street Fresbyterian Church Broad and Selma Streets South Franklin Street First Christian Church Dearborn James T. Lawson Jesus God Church of Christ Dauphin Street Paul Weston Place First Church of Christ, Scientist Christian Science Hall St. Emanuel Street

Lutheran Services In Dearborn Street Church

Lutheran Church on Dearborn and St Francis Street led by Pastor H M Hennig offers English service at 8 a m German service at 10 30 a m and Sunday school at 9 15 a m with both language worship disciplines scheduled.

Lutheran Church Dearborn St. Francis Street H. M. Hennig

Church Services and Schedules For Several Local Parishes

Sunday services listed for First Church of Christ, All Saints, Trinity Church, St. Mark's Toulminville, St. Paul's Whistler, and aWhiskier corner parish. Holy Communion times range 7:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. with morning prayers and sermons, Sunday schools at 9:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and confirmations at 7:30 p.m. The Right Rev. C. M. Beckwith to administer confirmation at Trinity Church.

Trinity St. Anthony and Jackson A. G. Richards C. M. Beckwith D. D Alabama Toulminville A. G

Rate Increase Would Be 34 Percent In Alabama

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad petitions to adopt Southern Classification No. 39 in place of Alabama Local Classification No. 2. If approved, it would raise rates by about four percent on average, according to A. J. Parsons, president of Mobile Chamber of Commerce, and R. G. Cobb. Mobile business groups will oppose the change at the Railroad Commission hearing on March 2, after a February 2 date was postponed.

Southern Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company Alabama A. J. Parsons Chamber of Commerce Mobile Railroad Commission

No, She Has Not Changed In Wealth Rumor

The reflection notes that even if a woman abruptly gains wealth, friends from her earlier poverty would insist she remains the same person not altered by fortune. It emphasizes enduring character over social ascent.

Ocean Springs Hears Of Orchard Growth And Big Plans

Special to The Item Ocean Springs Miss Jan 24 The sale of a six acre pecan grove for 3000 to a visitor from the North. Holcomb boulevard area yields over 10000 pounds of fancy paper shell pecans this year. The town sees increased plantings of oranges grapefruit and pecans and a rumored 6000 to 15000 acre orchard and truck farm project with northern capitalists. Local plans seek to add Ocean Springs to the Alabama and New Orleans Transportation Company freight depots ferries schedule.

Ocean Springs Miss C. S. Bell Holcomb Boulevard Association of Commerce Alabama and New Orleans Transportation Company

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Bible Southern Missionary News Bureau Great Brotherhood Young Men's Christian Association Bible In the Students and the Ministry California Missionary Voice Ping Yang Nashville the National Mosaic Flooring Co National Mosaic Flooring Co Mobile, Ala Mobile, Alabama Government and Jefferson Streets John W. Phillips T. H. Frazer Whistler Baptist Church J. W. Tucker Heywood Vaughan Central Presbyterian Church Dauphin and Ann D. A. Planck Methodist Crichton J. B. Trotter J. N. Cammack Daphne J. L. White Government Street B. A. Donnelly R. A. Tunnell Oakdale D. Y. Register A. L. Push Dumas Chapel A. B. Brown Nora Hoover St. Francis and Joachim O. C. McGehee F. P. Roach St. Stephen's Road B. C. Glenn O. D. Dilling Dauphin Way Church Lutheran Christian Science Episcopal All Saints, Government Ann Streets Trinity Church St. Paul's Church Whistier Whaiusne Crit Church Corner St. Emanuel Parsons Cobb New Orleans Kellogg’s Aoe Kellogg's Santtone Kelloge Sutton Bros St. Francis St T. S. van Aller S. Broad St H. Burkett New Jersey Cedar Sts Bienville Pharmacy the Peoples Bank
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