Article March 29, 1900 Issue

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A correspondent's letter in the New York (Methodist) Christian Advocate says: "Third Avenue is peculiar in not having one church along its whole length. Between Forty-second Street and Fifty-ninth Street, a short section intersected by only seventeen cross streets, on Third Avenue, Manhattan, there are no less than sixty-five saloons and liquor-selling groceries; and this is one of the respectable sections of the avenue. There is not one church along the whole distance, and there is only one little Gospel mission—that at No. 805—formerly a restaurant, converted into a room with a seating capacity of about one hundred and fifty, the founder and superintendent being a lady who seemingly bears all the expense herself."

M. B. Thrasher contributes to the (Baptist) Watchman a short article on the Tuskegee Conference of colored people, which is a feature of Booker Washington's splendid work in behalf of his brothers of the negro race. As the result of the discussions at the conference, a set of resolutions were adopted, of which the following is the first section:—

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