Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1944-08-25

co-chairmen; to Mrs. Helen Under
wood, program chairman; to Mrs.
Annie Crews, music chairman; to
Mrs. Henriette Poster, publicity
chairman; to Mrs. Minta Mosley,
chairman of decorating committee;
and to all the women who served
in any capacity in this endeavor.
We are thankful for kind friends
who came and supported the WOm-
ems Day program.
Border has had sadness to strike
it in the death of one of its precious
Jewels, Mrs. Maude Francis. May
God bless Mr.. David Francis in this
period of anguish. Also Mrs. Robert
Kelley has suffered the death of
her brother, Robert Johnson. He
died in State Sanitarium Saturday,
Vernon, Missouri. Funeral has been
arranged at his home, Mariana,
Arkansas. Mrs. Kelley is attend
ing the funeral in Mariana.
At the morning worship Sunday,
August q, the minister will speak
from the theme "The Divine I'M
perative." Church Reporter.
Pilgrim Baptist Church News:
Mems Day Sunday, August 10, plus
Women's Day Sunday, August 20,
equals pilgrim United" a just title
for the browning success of the
joint efforts just concluded by the
members and friends of Pilgrim.
Sunday, August 10, DR.. Isaac
Fisher issued a challenge to our
men and boys to be ready and will
ing to assume places of respon-
sibility in the "Never ending search
for a man."
At the evening service, Mr.. S.
Vincent Owens, executive secre-
tary of the st. Paul Urban League,
pointed out that we ourselves must
do certain things to make our
place in the industrial postwar
economy secure. He said we need
men who will do a job well, give
their employers their best, join la
Dor unions, regardless of affiliation,
be dues paying members, work
through existing organizations such
as the church for unity because
herein through Christian principles
we have an opportunity for i'm
provement of world conditions. His
topic was "Men We Need"
At the five o'clock service Sun
day, August 20, a large and ap-
preciative audience was thrilled by
an address by Miss Evelyn Camp,
formerly a missionary to Japan.
Using Acts 1925 for a basis for
her talk she said, "God has made
of one blood all nations of men for
to dwell on all the face of the
earth" She said, eve should re-
alize that there are Christian peo-
pie in every warning nation and we
should not destroy our Christian
solidarity"
Flowers were in memory of Mrs.
Eva Babo from her sisters Mrs.
Irene Carter and Mrs. Bessie Mas
singale. Visitors included: Mr.. and
Mrs. W. G. Renfro, Minneapolis;
Bessie Buck, Lambert, Miss; Mrs.
Opal Royal, Detroit, Mich; Mrs.
E. A. Stewart and Mrs. E. B. Jack
son, Winnipeg, Canada; Walter T
Price, Chicago, ILL.,; Chief Petty
Officers George E. Harris and Mrs
George Harris, Seattle, Wash; DR.
A. B. Scott, Cleveland, Ohio; Miss
Anita C. Scott, Cleveland, Ohio;
Miss Martha Hilyard, Cleveland
Ohio; Mrs. A. A. Williams, Kansas
City, Mo-; Mrs. R. P. Jackson, Chi
cago, Ill.
Next Sunday, August 27, the
guest speaker will be Rev. T
Theo. Lovelace of Chicago, ILL.,.
secretary of the Home Mission
Board of the National Baptist Con-
vention. He will preach at the II
a. m. service and again at p. m.
when several Twin City ministers
will take part in a large meeting
Last Sunday Mrs. Susie Gaylord
sang T'll Co." Mrs. N. ]. Hunter
accompanist.-Clara E. Curry.
CamphOr Memorial Methodist
Church Notes: zone of the great
est needs of the Christian church
today is the spirit of intercession in
the lives of the members. We
must pray for others, even as
others have prayed for u.s." de.
clared our pastor, Rev. Clarence
T. R. Nelson in the sermon last
Sunday morning. The sermon was
the third in a series of sermons
on Prayer by Pastor Nelson
Dorothy Monson sang "The Lord:
Prayer" by Malotte. Scion Ellis
brother Of two of our faithful
members, Mrs. Lottie Milton anG
Mrs. Sallie Harrison, renewed his
profession as a Christian and JOINED
the church. He was formerly 6
member of the Baptist Church in
Hollindale, Mississippi. Visitors
present included: Mrs. Robbie
Woods, of Vicksburg, Mississippi
Percy Thompson formerly of Meri.
dan, Miss; and several st. Pau,
people, including Benjamin ]
Moore, Mrs. Holt, Virginia Wash.
ington, Frank Branson, C. L. Reed
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