Word: christian
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Christian Association. Devotional Meeting. Brooks House...
...charitable and evangelistic work which the Harvard Christian Association is carrying on in Cambridge and Boston, though comparatively little known, is the most important and most practically helpful part of the life of the Association. This philanthropic work has recently been taken up with new activity; a large number of men have entered into it and are making more effective the whole system of charities with which the Christian Association is interested...
...Chinamen attend regularly. These men come at first simply to learn the English language, but a large number of them, attracted by the spirit of the place, continue to come back again for the religious teaching of the school. Not a few of these Chinamen have become Christians, and some have gone back to China as missionaries of the Christian religion...
...children's free reading room in East Cambridge is the most recent philanthropic institution founded by the Christian Association. The 70 books bought a few months ago have been added to by numerous gifts, and a very good juvenile library of about 430 volumes has been collected at the reading-room. Perhaps to the scope of the influence and work of the reading-room no better testimonial is needed than the fact that its membership roll of 250 was made up almost immediately and that 75 children are now on the waiting list. A reading club and an athletic club...
...most interesting, though one of the simplest, branches of the Christian Association's work is the series of amateur concerts, readings and impersonations given by men from the University at the college settlement in Boston, at T wharf, and at other places. This work is, of course, not vitally important nor very far reaching in its effects, but it is a charity that creates a great deal of happiness...