Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weekly newspaper column, announced awed Laborite M.P. Tom Driberg, who had been showing Visitor Russell around Parliament. "She has studied the Bible and its interpretation deeply. In her mother's garden in California, she told me, she and a group of other young people have built a chapel; down there, among the eucalyptus trees, strictly for prayer . . . Crowds of them come in every evening...
They rode up & down the cliff in ancient funiculars (the "Inclines"), jammed the buses and trolley cars which filled the cobblestone, alley-like streets. The luckier and better-paid lived in nearby suburbs. Most of the wealthy had fled to the distant suburbs of Sewickley Heights, Fox Chapel, or to Rolling Rock, 50 miles to the east in the mountains near the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
Last week, in the late Indiana summer, 65-year-old Fletcher Chapel stood as firm as its surrounding maples and oaks-still a modest roadside church, but a strengthened landmark in the rural heartland of U.S. religion...
When the morning service was over the women, in their Sunday-best print dresses, bustled off to the new basement to fix a country-style dinner. Meanwhile, Brother Robinson heard the quarterly progress reports on the three churches-Fletcher Chapel, Ebenezer Church and Pimento Church that make up 35-year-old Rev. Eldon O. Gourley's Pimento circuit...
...collection that briskly raised enough to cover the debt and put an extra ?40 into the fund for an oil heater. Brother Robinson glowed. Finances were looking up and the young people were again taking an interest in church. Brother Gourley ran his eyes proudly over the chapel as the late afternoon sun flooded through its new windows. Said he: "We have great hopes...