Pray for Rain, Says J.O. Ervin, Sept. 10, 1925

Citizens Asked to Pray for Rain. . . Methodist Ministers’ Association Calls for Day of Prayer on September 12

I am asked by the Methodist Ministers Association of Rutherford County to make the request and to announce to all the citizens of our county that a day of prayer be and is called for Saturday, September 12th.

My dear fellow citizens, let us of any and all denominations of every race, class and creed, open our eyes to the conditions as they are and let us call our people together at our churches, our mills or our places of business at 10 to 11 o’clock a.m. or from 3 to 4 o’clock p.m. to have an hour of repenting, of confession and of faithful, earnest prayer that God of our fathers, the God of Elijah, may have mercy upon us and let fall upon our parched land showers of refreshing rain.

Let us further request and announce that if before the day and hour appointed for prayer a kind Providence should visit us with refreshing showers we meet at the same appointed hour for songs and prayers of thanksgiving to God, the giver of all good things.

Sept. 8, 1925

J.O. ERVIN

From the front page of the Forest City Courier, Thursday, Sept. 10, 1925

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