Word: missions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...main activity of the association is its city mission work. This is divided into three parts: The T Wharf Reading Room, the Boston Industrial Home on Davis street, and the Chinese Sunday School in the Congregational House. The room on T Wharf is supported by money from the Port and Seaman's Aid Society...
More than forty active members are now engaged in the work of the St. Paul's Society. The principal mission work is the management of the "Emmanuel Club" for poor boys, which is conducted in the Emmanuel Mission House of the Church of the Ascension in Boston. The work is in charge of ten members of the society, who devote one evening a week to the amusement of about a hundred boys. The remaining nights of each week are devoted to lessons given by professional teachers, in carpentering, dancing, printing, cobbling and gymnastic training. The officers of the society...
...regular business meeting of the Christian Association last evening, the mission work of the society was discussed and the officers for the year were elected...
...chief outside work of the association lies in the homes and missions of Boston. With one change the field covered will be the same as in former years. It has been deemed advisable to give up the North End Mission. The work, therefore, will confine itself to three branches. Of these there are: The Davis Street Home for the unemployed, the Chinese Sunday School for the instruction of Chinamen in the English language and in the Bible, and the Sailors' Home on T wharf. Directors for these branches of work have not yet been appointed...