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Title: History of the Church of the brethren of the Eastern district in Pennsylvania by the committee appointed by District conference
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Church of the Brethren. Districts. Eastern Pennsylvania. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Lancaster, Pa., The New era printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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delphiaChurch their support in zeal and gifts went far to make pos-sible the founding of the new church. Dr. Henry Geigerdied in 1885, leaving a widow, son and daughter. Sincethat time she has been found in all good works and it washer thought to found a mission and later a church in hismemory. She first supported the mission, later she fur-nished all the funds for the erection of the chapel and par-sonage, and later still for the present commodious churchbuilding. She has always borne a large share of the neces-sarily heavy expense connected with a city church, an ex-pense too heavy to be borne by the mission in these earlierdays. The work is very close to her heart and we pray thatmuch good may be accomplished in His cause in this partof His vineyard. A. J. Culler. C The Founding and Development of BethanyMission. Kensington is Philadelphias manufacturing center. Millsand factories, in this section of the City, are multitudinousand the products are of great variety. There are carpet
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THE PHILADELPHIA CHURCHES. 143 mills, woolen mills, cotton mills, hosiery mills, and otherestablishments that work in wood and metal. Consequentlythe residents, for the most part, belong to the laboring class.Again, as Philadelphia has been characterized as the City ofHomes, Kensington may be described as that part of theCity in which the homes have children in them. A high per-centage of the families are young and the children are at anage when they are most susceptible to moral and religiousinfluence. The forms of vice which thrive in every cityare equally thrifty in Kensington. Drunkenness probablystands first, followed closely by gambling, sexual immoral-ity and kindred evils. In a sentence, this is the home ofgreat industries, of working people, of numbers of children,and many forms of sin and vice. It is in the heart of this section that Bethany Mission, ofthe Church of the Brethren, is located. From the stand-point of the need of the field and the opportunity of touchingthe you

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