The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-31
TWO CHURCHES
ARE BUILT AS
WORK OF YEAR
Four Protestant Pastors Remove to
Other Fieids - Increase Noted
in Sunday Schools Attendance.

Growth in the number of mem
bers received into fellowship and
communion, and in enlarged at
tendance at church services is re-
ported by Practically every Protest
ant pastor inRock Island, accord
ing to the stat nent of Rev. Charles
G. Mann, sedSstary of the Minis
terial ALLIANCE The erection of two
new church edifces was further
proof of religious advancement in
1921.
Stress is laid in his report upon
the market increase in Sunday
school attendance, hundreds Of
men and women giving their time
and talents. without financial COM
pensation to the instruction of
thousands OF children.
AS community centers, the
churches are reported to be giving
people, young and old in every sec
ton of Rock Island, opportunity for
clean, safe and sane amOsemen-,
entertainment and instruction. The
! new home of the Rescue Mission of
which the alliance is particularly
proud, is declared to be meeting the
real needs OF men daily.
Secretary Mann says that 'the
| fellowship among the Protestant
churches has been excellent, AMI
! that never in my experience have l
known a more consecrated, har-
monious and hardworking body OF
ministers than are in Rock Island
today"
Under the head of losses, he
! chronicles the removal TO other
fields of Rev. ]. c. Granger of the
First Baptist church, Rev. w. b
IOliver of the Second Christian
church. Rev. J. A. Carwile of the
Edgewood Baptist church, and Dr.
A. NJ. Stocking of the Spencer Me-
mortal Methodist church.
Although a year Of financial de-
preston and Unemployment, the
benevolences of the budgets of the
churches, and their benevolences "a
needier fields are declared to have
been met in a generous and self
sacrificing spirit
Build New Churches.
One of the outstanding ac-
complishments of the year was
the completion of the Wayman
Community Center church by the
Methodist colored congregation, at
a cost Of about $4,000.
Following closely upon this
achievement issthe erection of the
first unit of the new Fifteenth Ave
nue. Christian church. costing in the
neighborhood Of $4,000 and well
equipped for present needs. The
only active minister to be received
during the year was Rev. Frank
Marston of the Spencer Memorial
| Methodist church.
I'm speaking of the progress OF
the spiritual forces of the city for
the year" says Secretary Mann
I'VE must ever remember that ours
is an influence Ike that of the sun
not spectacular, but all pervading
ever present, and constantly fructi-
flying every re.p of life's activs-
ties.
I'm the advocacy of civic and so
cial Righteousness those forces dc
more than all other organizations
and institutions TO make crime diff
ficult, and virtue easy.
THE churches still await the
multitudes who stand aloof, that
through enlarged vision of respon-
sibility to God and man, and
knowledge of the inspired word OF
God, they may help US, who bear
the brunt of the work, and are hold
ing the line against anarchy, sell
fishness. immortality and ungodli-
ness of every SOFT, to render a bet
ter account in 1892.