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Title: The churches at work
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: White, Charles Lincoln, 1863-1941
Subjects: Home missions Missions -- United States Church work
Publisher: New York, Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ingsone boy became a prosperous photographer, another anauthor, and another an artist. Another minister led careless children to study flow-ers, until some learned to identify more than sixtykinds. This field work was joined to a study of theflowers mentioned in the Bible and taught the boys andgirls the habit of Scripture reading. Helps the Friendless. The right kind of a com-munity church stretches out its hand with an educa-tional impulse to the friendless youth. It must do thisthrough some individual who is filled with the Christ-like spirit. In a city in New York state a businessman found a boy whose home was in the street. Totake this boy from such an environment and to bringhim into the Sunday-school, winning his friendship,improving his social condition, securing work for him,and being his big brother until he became a Christian,was what this good man did. He advised him untilhe established a home. Later he watched him developa prosperous business and grow in leadership in the
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CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION ATHLETIC CLUB. NEW YORKMULBERRY BUSH GANG. NEW YORK THE REACH OF THE LOCAL CHURCH 121 church by whose helpful ministry he was saved fromthe street. Such an achievement is only explained bythe loving work of a noble man. He who was yester-day a boy in the street is now one of the most generousgivers in his church and is becoming a denominationalleader. Friendly to Public Schools. A natural activity ofthe church is to safeguard the ideals of the publicschools. This should be done by uniting the most pro-gressive citizens of all parties in securing excellentmen and women to serve on school boards or com-mittees and in checkmating party politicians in theirefforts to upset the moral and intellectual standards ofthe people. Such a group of self-seeking and evil per-sons once displaced a noble Christian high school prin-cipal, and elected a man who was often under the in-fluence of liquor. More than one opium victim hasbeen shielded as a teacher by the same kind of p

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