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FEBRUARY 9. 1949
THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
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Brother Marin Lewis is doing
mission work at Livingston. Mon:
tana but his support is not
<"■>' • t«-h f~r him to live on and his
wife is taking in wasiflng to en-
ol In them to stay there. “Will
not some church or churches sun-
ply $75.00 per month for his sup-
port'’ The Livingston brethren
are sound and Brother Lewis is
Horace W. Busby is to preach,
for a m.ccting a’ the Ninth and
Cr>nno];v St eets church in Clo-
vis, N. M. from March 6-16.
FOR SALE: HELPY SELF LAUN-
DRY in fast growing town, good
schools, active church of Christ. |'Rout. 1. College Park, Georgia
Brother Davis would like to fill
the spring season by
singing in meetings.
• • • •
C. E. McGaughey will speak at
the Sears and Summit! church
in Dallas Februarv 20. at 7:00
p.jn., giving a report of the
work in Britain.
The Crawfordsville, Ind. Chu-
rch is installing new carpet in
the auditorium. Their contribu-
tion averaged $1.04 per person
present (children included), for
the year 1948.
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eration and Quality of per-
formance." Brother Haun
Kite has been employed by
the elders to work with the
chorua.
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doing a good work1,” states R- L.
Roberts of Quanah, Tex.
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A series of meetings Awill be
,held at the new building of the
crurch in ' Huntington, W. Va.
from February l<-?7. Paul S.
Gray, regular minister, will do
To give Orphan
Chris' inn Home.
1,23—Machinery and Supplies
22x32 Pony Miehle Printing
Press. Does Excfellent work. Must
go to make room for larger press
Price 91,500 ./
Building Fund,
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ness upon me has quickly made
us.indigents, we as a family hav-
ing been always of the ordinar-
ily poor in life. For a year now
we are living chiefly on whatev
er friends, neighbors and church
members can spare for us. I have
appealed to some congregations
in our province but aid from
then) is not forthcoming for con-
gregations of the Lord’s church in
the Philippines are still few and
very financially unable. Hence, I
have thought of turning to my
more able brethren across the
ocean for help.” ~ '
Brother GamMinda r quests that
any help for them b? sent to
Brother L. E. O’Neal, Box 96,
Zamboanga City, P. Iy to be sent
on to him.
LIFE OF ELDER
JOHN SMITH
Two Mustang Mailers and about •
seventy galleys for name slugs
Ona Milter Feeder being dis-
mantled for repair parts.
One font 14 pt. Ceritury Mats
like new for Linotype or Intertype
Several broken fonts. Write us
your needs, and we may be able
to sort up your Fonts.
Por Information Write or Phori*
Calif, met in their new bail-
ment for the first time on Jar-
nary 23. They have been
meeting In the Woman’s Com -
munity Club Building and are
planning now to filnish the
super-jrtructure of the build-
ing an soon as mmible. The
Control church in Los An-
a
Tr> rnpke of them teachers and
i r'' >c1’crs of the New Testament
Church.
NEEDS: $2,500 per month in
regular support so that a maxi-
mum of 50 orphan boys can be
cared for.
Send Contributions to Crescent
Hill Church of Christ. Box 786,
Brownfield. Tex.
Frascati Orphans Home,
rriation concerning the
will be mailed the reader
request.
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. Ir-
rigation farms that grow all
kinds of erflps and vegetables—
Good Schools--Bible Chair in
local college, E. Dabs Smith, in-
structor. NINE active CHJJRCH-
“|E> _OF CHRIST in County. For
more information see or write:
Ji M. Foster or W, D. Pate- al
| Foster Agency, 113 S. E. Majry
, Street, Portales, New Mexico. rrr
-Gerald O. Fruzia, who preaches
for the church in Balboa, in the
Canal Zone, wishes to -visit a
number of churches the first
three weeks in March in the in-
terest of the work in Central and
South America. Any congrega-
.1 tion who is interested in this
nroiect and would like for Broth-
er Fruzia to visit them and tell
them of the opportunities there
rhould contact the Central church
of Christ,. Clebrne, Tex.
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The Riverside church in Fort
Worth contributed $201.00 toward
the work in Mexico after Bill
Reeves had told about his tour
among the churches in Mexico.
the preaching.
Five lessons on "Church
Government and Leader-
ship" were reqmtljf given at
the College Street church in
ter, an elder Cleburne,
Junction, Tex. b« Of io Fos-
Tex. Walter W. Lehrtions is
the minister at Junction.
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Basil C. Doran Completed
The contributions at tly
Heights church in Houston hVve
averaged more than $50.00 per
week above their budget esti-
mate during January. ’
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Jim Davis of 4200 Worth, Dai-
Jas 1, Tex. has been leading the
singing’ in a meeting in Rock-
springs, Tex. with P. D. Wilmeth
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The Sears and Summitt church
in Dallas has sent a box of cloth-
ing to Unity, Maine for Brother be baptteed and the Inrpe nt»m-
Shirley Morgan to use in his
work there.
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ber of young Christians place a
great responsibility upon us in
trying to teach them. Then too
"^-"Mrs. Clinton Noble of Landgr, WB hiUMt work with all of our
Wyoming writes.,the following in- strenRth to Ket a place pf wor-
quiry: l<Do you know of any good erected as soon as possible
-- - : so that we can have a permanent
place of worship of our own.
We are indeed thankful to
General Clay and General Hays
for this permission to brin^ ad-
ditional workers into Germany.
We consider it a great compli-
ment and we are going to do our
best ■ to take advantage of our
rriany opportunities. We know
this has come about as a result
of the prayers and efforts of
many Christians throughout .the
-- .. In ottr report to
Berlin, we stated that more than
$150,000 worth of food and cloth-
ing has been distributed to more
than, 18,000 needy Germans.
Only Started
Brethren,- we have only started
the work we came here to do.
Please do not think that it is
finished. Continue to send food
and clothing and monep. We are
concentrating our efforts in one
place and our efforts are begin-
ning to show good results. We
believe this is the way to do
mission work in mission fields.
. v We plan to—IhhW—up—Mme—
sfroftg congregations- here in
and um them as radii*
atlng centers from wh|ch the
Gospel may spread throughout
Europe. Funds for building are
’. Ydu may fend*
to the Elders,. ’
A monthly publication dealing
with Catholicism. Subscription,
per year — 91.00.
Brother Ross McGinnis, Boyd,
T:x. is doing the preaching in a
meeting which be'an January 30
at the church in Mered, Calif.
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The Carolina Lectures will be
held at Spartanburg, S. C from
April 25-29. G.. A. Dunn of Dallas,
Tex is to be the principal speak :r.
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The church in Brawley,
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Wyoming writes.,the following in-
Ohristians who would like to com?
to Wyoming and work in drilling
oil walls and try to h ip- get a
church start d here? It’s very cold
—bub terribly lonesome-with no
church here.' There is only one
memb r here besides my family . . ,
I could give nearly 24 hours a day
to help some good Ladar.”
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F. B. Shenherd spoke in the
gospel meeting which was
held at the Davenport Iowa entire world,
church from January 23
through January 30. The
chrch there meets in the
Odd Fellows Hall, SOBVj
Brady Street. Numa Crow-
der is the minister.
F. B. Shepherd spoke in
the gosoel meeting which
was held at the Davenport.
Iowa' churrtr Trbrh January
23 throuah January 30. The
church there meets in the
Odd" Fellows Hall. 508‘A
Bri»dy Street. Numa Crowd-
er is th* minister. *
Basil C. Doran cpmpleted a
week’s meeting at Spring, Tex
January 23 during which there
were 13 restorations, two bap-
tisms and one to place memJaer-
ship.
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The church, at I|arper, Ore.,
thopoh very small, helps support
a preacher in the Philippines;
i sends money to Japan and CARE
. packages'and .clothing to Europe
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The pirectors and other
friends -of Childhaven, the or-
phanage to be established in Al-
abama, started the monev
-lising program Sunday, Febru-
a ry 6.
••elf-supporting. She is a regis-
tered nurse and she . and Sister
Helen Baker from Lubbock, Tex.,
also a registered nurse, plan to
help those who cannot secure
galas sands iham $75.00 par Jtjpspital care and to do personal
‘ work.
Brother Keith Coleman is sup-
ported by Walnut Street church
of Christ in Sherman, Tex. He
received his bachelor’s degree
from Harding College and his
Master’s degree from Wheaton
College in Illinois. - .—
Miss Irene Johnson is sent
here from the Fourteenth Street
church'in Washington, D. C. She
received her Master’s degree
from (Columbia, Mississippi. She
resigfi^d teaching in Harding
College to take up the work in
Germany, > <
Miss Dorothy Baker is sent
^havplhere from th®St- Elmo Chuxchin
riramHooga'. Tenn. A graduate
of the college, she has had ex-
perience in the business office of
•Haiding College. She and Miss
Johnson will perhaps spend most
.of their time in personal work
and teaching. , •
Russell Artist and wife and
their daughter,' Merrilee. aged
For ir formation Bob Pate,
Sno White Ltundry or write Box
543, Andrews, Texas.
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The n’-oqr*m director of
WBAP-TV has invited the
.chorus of the Polytechnic
church of Ft. Worth to ap-
pear on the Vesper Hour the
third Sunday of each month,
6:00 to 6:30 p.m. He stated
in r. letter to Brother Leroy
Brownlow, minister at Poly- ,
technic: "It will interest vou
to know that it h the general
opinion here at WBAP-TV
that of all the organisations
which have appeared on the
Sunday Vesper Hour yours
has been by-far, the best.
from the standpoint of coop-
ARLINGTON, VA. CHURCH
OF CHRIST
20 North Irving St.
Hn Washington, D. C, area)
Tel. GL-2161 or GL-178A
msfiTi iiid'iins’
HUME
Frascati, Italy
TRUSTEES: Elders of Crescent
Hi'l C-'bur-ch of Christ, BroWn-
“f’h' Texas
PURPOSE:
rovc of Ifalv
month. ' X W. Sfiddieton it
the minister at Brawley.
.The church at Safford, Aria, is
now painting the interior and ex -
terior of the church building
'They are betn g su ppQrtcd“Dy
West side in Phoenix with $20 a
week until March yyhen the
amount will be reduced to $10.00.
reports Arthur W. White.
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Botes Home in Qulnlin, Tex. is
dally turning aw-v childr n be-
cause they do not have room for
th m. “With proper funds we can
receive about 20 of th se young-
sters right away by Iflrilsfilri't a
dormitory on which i
stopped work” stated Gayle Oler,
sup'rlntendent.-
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Following is an excerpt from a
letter received from Juan Gama-
linda of .the Philippine Inlands:
“I am a bed-ridden invalid with
jrix small children and a wife to _
-support. The adVenl of this^ UJ-'■seuen. will b« a great help? He
< has y degree and was a
tercher at Abilene Christian Ccl-
te^e before coming to Switzer-
land for-this work. He is sup-
no'-ted by t*te Sears and Summitt
C?hurch in Dallas, Texas.
Permission for these eleven
workers to enter Gtrmany comes
at a very critical time. Brother
Palmer and Brother Bunn spend
most of tneir time Tn the school
in Koenigstein. Brother Helsten
spends most of his time in the
Boys’ Home, so that leaves only
a few of us to work here in the
office to receive the large num-
ber of people (vho tome daily
asking for help and teaching. /
Total of 258 Baptisms
Until last night, 235 people had'
been baptized, and last night
there were 23 more baptized,
making a. total of 258. The large
number of people who desire to
Retentlv. surrounding congre-
gations have assisted in stsrtin®
a new congregation at Hurst,
Texas, small town between
Dallas and Fort Worth. Brother
Charles L. Heron of A'lington
Tex. helped them in their first
meeting. “This would be a self-
supnorting congre’ation soon
with the proper leadership. It
would be very fine if some n*
the stronger congregations would
get toge’her and support a man
for this work until they can stand
alone,” said Brother Heron.
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T'.-.f'e- ♦he sponsdT'^hin of the
church meeting at 2101 No”th
California in Stockton, Cplif. a
new congregation met for the
first time on,January 23 a* Lodi.
Calif, in the Odd Fellows’ Build- 1
ing. “If you"know of anyone in ,
t^o vtctnifv of ^odi who is a
member of 'he church, contact
Linwood'E, Bishon. minister of
t h e sponsor ng eoncrega’ion”
states Charles L. Walters of Mo-
desto, Calif.
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