WORLD DAY OF PRAYER
OBSERVANCE IN NELSON ON FRIDAY In common with women throughout the world women of all denominations in Nelson will be observing next Friday as a day of prayer There will be services both morning and afternoon in St. John’s Methodist Church, with a communion service at 10 o’clock in the morning. * As far back as 1887 Presbyterian women in the U S.A. came together at the suggestion of Mrs Darwin R. James president of the Women’s Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church, to pray for home missions Interest in this Day of Prayer increased and the foreign mission forces chose a day for united prayer in the early ’nineties. In 1920, both in Canada and the United States, church women of all denominations united in prayer, the first Friday in Lent being selected as the “Day of Prayer for Missions.” in 1936 Christians of more than fifty countries kept the day together. , The day begins in New Zealand and the Fiji Islands and ends on St Lawrence Island off the coast of Alaska.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 10 March 1943, Page 2
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