Identifier: spiritofmissions80epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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TWO SUNDAY SCHOOLS AT WORKFOR THE LENTEN OFFERING BRINGING THE CROSS TO THE CHILDREN By the Rev. C. P. Parker ^TN order to bring the children toI the Cross, we must first bringthe Cross to the children.This was the keynote sounded onQuinquagesima Sunday by the super-intendent of Holy Trinity Sunday-school, Hertford, N. C. He pointedto the large cross, painted in black onwhite ground. There were on it fivewhite spots, with unfinished, jaggededges, each having inscribed in its cen-ter the name of one of the Churchsgreat mission fields and the amountof money asked for it from the school.For the five fields, including theUnited States, $75.00 was asked, some$20.00 above the average Easter offer-ing through the mite-boxes heretofore.The children took fire from the centralidea, and to every ones surprise andtheir own (there were only thirty-eight of them) had, by the FourthSunday in Lent, brought in $85.00.As fast as the money was providedfor each field a beautifully tinted pic-ture (done b

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