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Identifier: spiritofmissions74epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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-AND IN THE GARDEN 132 Establishing the Church in a Southern Mill Town months of the year. These wee contributors are under school age. They are taughtto use the prayer: God bless all the missionaries all over the world, and all the Lit-tle Helpers for Jesus sake; and to repeat the text: Little children, love oneanother. Daily at the noonday meal, all the children, before taking their seats at thetable, join in the blessing: Thanks be to Thee, O Lord! Feed the hungry, and grantthat all men everywhere may seek and find the Living Bread which cometh downfrom Heaven. And so with daily prayer and loving work, las all our Juniors may,these Indian girls -and boys are taking their part in hastening the time when all menshall know Him, and live to His praise.
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THE CHURCH OF THE MESSHAH AROUND WHICH CENTRES ALL THE WELFARE WORK IN MAYODAN ESTABLISHING THE CHURCH IN ASOUTHERN MILL TOWN BY THE REVEREND ALFRED R. BERKELEY MAYODAN is a mill town in thenorthwest corner of the Dio-cese of North Carolina.Twelve years ago a large cot-ton factory was built on the banks of theMayo River near its junction with theDan. The operators and their families, tothe number of twelve hundred, havecome chiefly from the surroundinghighlands. They are largely the samekind of people that the Church is tryingto reach in the mountains of this and ad-joining states. THE YOUNG MENS BIBLE-CLASS Of pure Anglo-Saxon extraction tlieyhave in a measure been cut off from theoutside world for generations. Possess-I ing little or no property and with limitedI school facilities they have grown up inpoverty and ignorance. In the countrythey are renters or tenants, and havingto pay from one-third to one-half oftheir crops for rent of land and toolsthey are able to maintain but a ba

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