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Source:             Hinds County Gazette           Circa 1908
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P.K. Whitney, Proprietor
_ _ Vol. LXV.

BEAUVOIR CHAPEL FUUND
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All Churches Urged to Collect Contributions to Assist in This Christian Work.
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Address Presented to the Mississippi Press Association, Which Was Adopted With 
Resolution That All Papers in the State Publish It.
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The following address for the Mississippi Division of the United Daughters of 
the Confederacy was presented to the Mississippi Press Association I session 
at Hattiesburg last week, and was adopted along with a resolution that all the 
papers in the State publish it:
  “The Mississippi Division has held its annual Convention and acted as 
liberally as it could under the circumstances upon the matter of erecting a 
chapel at Beauvoir.   The U.D.C. is a patriotic organization and is already 
pledged to the education of young men and women; to the building of monuments 
and the preservation of Confederate history and relics.
  “The chapel fund is gradually growing, but as it is necessary for the work 
to be accomplished quickly, it is necessary for us to ask further assistance 
from outside sources, from the churches and from all patriotic people who wish 
to give to it.  After the Chapel Committee had set the 19th of April as the 
date for the taking of collections in the churches, Bishop Bratton and other 
Episcopal ministers advised that another day be set for the Episcopal 
churches, as Easter contributions in that denomination are for a special 
purpose.  This date will be announced later.
  “In the meantime we urge all ministers who have not already done so to call 
for contributions from their congregations.  We feel that this is a work in 
which the Christian people will be glad to assist.  Rev. J.C. Park, pastor of 
the Greenwood Methodist church, thinks that the church people should take a 
very large part in it, helping the U.D.C. in every way to accomplish this 
noble effort.  If all our ministers would appeal as earnestly to their flocks 
as Rev. Park did, we would soon have a beautiful chapel at Beauvoir.  After 
his eloquent appeal to his congregation on Easter Sunday, the sum of $45.70, 
nearly one-fourth of the entire amount received, was given.
  “We wish to thank those pastors and congregations that have sent us 
contributions.  Considering the small congregations of some of them, their aid 
has been most generous.”

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