The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26

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Report on Evangelism.
Rev. II. Ross Paden then gave his
report on Evangelism" He said
that there was a deeper religious
interest i'm the churches of MankatO
now than at any time during the
past years. There was veritable
religious awakening; for the evan
gelical awakening; for the evangellis-
tic conscience had been aroused.
In arranging for a meeting, there
should be included every organiza-
ton in the church and seek to
elect them to bring men to Christ.
Every church, Catholic or Protestant,
believes in this work of evangelism
He spoke of the fellowship that
evangelism brought with it, and
how the Y. M. c. A. first discovered
this Evangelism was the heart and
core of the spirit which should per
wade in every community, a spirit
of Him who came to save He spoke
of the religious awakening in Man
kato the past winter. At the ST.
Peter and ST. Paul Catholic churches
twenty-one days of services were
held by two Catholic priests and for
over two weeks revival services
were held by the English Protestant
churches The attendance at these
was marvellous The Swedish Luth-
eran church was also active in it's
work among the Scandinavian peo-
Pile.
Bible Study For Men.
Professor M. w. Deputy of the
normal school spoke on Bible Study
for Men," He gave a brief census
of the attendance at the Bible classes
of the different churches of the city.
There were several churches who
had no classes of this kind. Follow
ing, is summarized census:
First Baptist church, Mems class 40
Scandinavian Baptist church, mix
ed class ................ 20
Christian, mixed class. .......... %
First Congregational church, mix
Episcopal church, high school
boys class ................5 to 10
Centenary Methodist church.
Special Mems class. ....... Is
Mixed class, normal and com
mercial college students so to Is
German Lutheran church, large
class adults.
Swedish Lutheran .......... II to Is
German Methodist .............. -.
North Mankato Methodist, Young
mems class -.
Presbyterian church., high school
boys class -.
Welsh Methodist church, mix
ed ................. 30 10 0O
Y. NJ. c. A. Bible class, total
attendance ................ ."2,040
*Average attendance, rs.
Invitation Is Extended.
The committee extended an invita-
ton to all Sunday school superin-
tendents to be present at meeting TO
be held soon to discuss ways and
means of encouraging this work.
The committee had also conceived
the idea that in the near future,
they bring together all the teachers
and have a rally evening, when sew
eral topics on Bible study will be
discussed and a program given. The
public will also be invited to be
present. In his closing remarks he
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on the upgrade.
e. f. Soaring, secretary of the
Commercial club, spoke on Creating
Better Ideals" Regarding Rev. Hobbs
suggestion, he said that the club
was at present trying to make nego-
tiations to secure factory here
that would give a large number OF
men employment during the winter,
and that probably sugar beet fac
tory would be established in Man
kato.
The Publicity Committee.
Regarding the work of the pub
Lefty committee he said that most
of their work was done before the
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at that time it was done very thor
ouehly. He complmented the daily
papers for the liberality with which
they gave the organization space,
and said that the publicity commit
tee was at the mercy Of the editors,
but that the latter had never turn
ed down any copy handed them.
He suggested that number of ar
ticles be written on live subjects
looking for the upbuilding of the
moral side of Mankato to be publish
ed once week. The idea was not
to have this work done by the COM
mittee but TO assign subjects to eX-
perts in their line and then have
them write brief, terse articles for
the local papers. The committee is
70 assign these topics. At the last
meeting about forty different topics
were selected, which would make
not only readable copy but matter
that would be sought after.
when the thoughts of everybody
turn to lettering the conditions of
Mankato and every other feature of
this city, it cannot help but result
in a great deal of good" was his
closing remark
"Mankato's Responsibility to Rural
Communities" was the subject OF an