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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
The North Shore Church 
Problem---An Appeal 
Rev. 
The problems which confront the 
churches of the North Shore are 
unique and serious and the possibili- 
ties of solving them in large part 
lies beyond the power of those who 
are most interested in its solution. 
The ministers of the North Shore 
can maintain their church services 
with regularity and do faithful 
work, but they are seriously handi- 
capped by some conditions which 
faithfulness on their part cannot 
overcome or even relieve. Many 
will be surprised to learn what I 
have learned that there are many 
who come to the North Shore who 
are deprived by their work on Sun- 
days and week-days from attending 
the services of any church during 
the season. Two weeks ago there 
was inaugurated in our own church 
a service for Scandinavian people 
on the North Shore. The service 
was held originally at 7.30 on Fri- 
day evening. At the suggestion of 
a Scandinavian the service was 
changed to 8-30 and in one week the 
attendance was doubled. Even at 
that hour I am informed that there, 
are many who are unable to attend 
because of duties which prevent. 
I have been informed by some of 
the Protestants who have attended 
the evening services during the week 
that they are never able to attend the 
Sunday service because of the early 
hours. This means that attendance 
at the morning service is entirely 
out of the question. The service is 
held at 7.80. It appears to me that 
these conditions could be changed 
without very much inconvenience to 
the households on the Shore. I make 
this appeal for those who cannot 
make the appeal for themselves. 
Another serious influence which 
every church has to combat is the 
non-church attendance of church peo- 
ple during the summer months. Dur- 
ing the winter these people attend 
the churches which they belong and 
increase their power by the moral in- 
fluence of their personal presence in 
the House of God. In the summer they 
come to the shore and the church 
is forgotton and their personal in- 
fluence willingly or unwillingly, wit- 
tingly or unwittingly, is thrown with 
the unrighteous element which is ex- 
istent in this as in every community. 
The church consequently has an ad- 
Clarence Strong Pond, Pastor of Beverly Farms Baptist Church. 
ded burden for it is handicapped by 
the inertia of church pcople, and 
young people are quick to detect the 
habits of summer people and their 
neglect of the church services. 
The results of such influences upon 
young plastic minds are disastrous 
and those who do not know the ex- 
act facts cannot appreciate the great 
harm that is being done to young 
minds on the North Shore’ by the 
abandonment of the church during 
the summer months, by those who 
are accustomed to worship regularly 
during the winter in their own home 
city churches. 
This is not so much a protest as it 
is an appeal. 
I do not believe that those who 
come to the shore realize how much 
the efficiency of the churches of the 
North Shore have been impaired in 
the past by carelessness on the part 
of summer residents or owners of 
estates, nor how much they can in- 
crease the efficiency of the church by 
personal attendance and a little 
thoughtfulness concerning the hours 
of labor on the Sabbath Day. 
The attendance of the permanent 
residents of the North Shore is ir- 
regular just as soon as the summer 
season opens. The helpful automo- 
bile and ever ready telephone has 
added other burdens and it is a for- 
tunate business man on the North 
Shore who is able to get through 
the Sunday without some attention 
being demanded concerning prospec- 
tive or pending contracts. Here again 
is another cause that prevents church 
attendance. The whole problem of 
hours and labor on the Shore harms 
the church and the attendance and 
in the end the community, because 
this influence cannot continue from 
one generation to another, with its in 
creasing influence, without doing a 
harm to the community which in the 
end must react—and that inevitably 
against the Shore as a place for rest 
and residence. 
What can you do to stem the tide? 
There is nothing impossible to 
him who will try.— Alexander. 
WEAR (I(T) 0D RUBBERS 
BEVERLY FARMS 
The Scandinavian Sewing ecirele of — 
ehureh 
the Beverly Farms Baptist 
was recently organized and will meet 
on alternate Friday evenings during 
the summer season. The last meet- 
ing was held in the parlor of the — 
The next meeting will be ~ 
ehureh. 
held at the home of Osear Hakan- 
son assistant superintendent of the 
Seandinavian department of the 
chureh work. Mr. Hakanson lives — 
at the corner of Everett and Hale 
street diagonally opposite the Bey- 
erly Farms 
square. 
dially invited to attend. 
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Gardner of - 
Norwalk, Conn., have been visiting — 
Beverly Farms friends the past 
week. 
The Seandinavian service Friday 
evening was exceptionally well at-— 
tended at the Beverly Farms chureh. 
The service was econdueted by the 
pastor of the church and he was as- 
sisted by Rey. Mr. Lindstrom who 
delivered a sermon in Seandinavian. 
The next service will be on Friday 
evening, July 26, 
H. M. and R.E. Hodgkins have 
just completed the contract of re- 
tinting the lower side walls of the 
interior of the auditorium of the 
Baptist church. J 
Letters remaining unclaimed at 
Beverly Farms Postoffice week end- 
ing July 11: Andrew G. Byrne, 
Miss EB. S. Campbell, Miss Bessie 
Donahue, Miss Minnie Donahue, Pet- 
er G. Garvey, Jane Yacht, Miss Ol- 
ga Halmbran, Mrs. Mary A. Harris, 
Mrs. Francis C. Holmes, Mary Han- 
card, James King, Miss H. MeKen- 
na, J. HW. MeMean, Frank Aagot 
Paulson, Polly Proctor, James Stone, 
Miss Lillian Whittendale—William. 
R. Brooks, Postmaster. 
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Osborn 
have returned to their home on High 
street after their winter’s absence. 
Real Estate and Improvements. 
Tlenry W. Brown of Gloucester, 
conveys to Alfred C. Needham of 
Manchester, 7878 square feet of land 
in West Gloucester. 
George L. Knight of Manchester, 
conveys to Charles H. Nichols of 
Chicago, Ill., land on School street, 
50 by 362.98 feet. 
ANGORA KITTENS 
FOR SALE 
Robert W. Tarr 
45 South St., Rockpert, Mass. 
Postoffice in Central — 
All Seandinavians are cor-— 
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