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Cummings Guest House Register Pages 023 And 024, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

This is a detail from the Cummings Guest House Register. You can see a digital version of the full text HERE.

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 025 And 026, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

This is a detail from the Cummings Guest House Register. You can see a digital version of the full text HERE.

A History Of The Czechs In Knox County, Nebraska, Joseph John Van Hoff

Open Access Master's Theses (through 2010)

When the average person thinks of the Czech settlements of Nebraska, he is apt to have in mind the large numbers of this national group who are located in the comparatively centralized area of Douglas, Saunders, Butler, Saline, and Colfax Counties. Few seem to realize that one of the larger of the Czech settlements of the state is to be found in Knox County, a section considerably removed, and having relatively few contacts with the Czechs in the above-mentioned counties.

It is the purpose of this thesis to tell the story of these Knox County Czechs. In it effort will …

Present Status Of Teacher Training Courses In Industrial Arts In Teacher-Training Institutions Belonging To The American Association Of Teachers Colleges, G. E. Nicholson

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Shantung Revival, Mary K. Crawford

Books and Other Holy Spirit Artifacts

Mary K. Crawford compiled the testimonies of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the North China Mission in the Shangtug (Shangdong) province of China. The author calls it "the greatest revival in the history of Southern Baptists in North China." Testimonies include healing, manifestations of the Holy Spirit, radical conversions and signs and wonders. The revival occurred among the students of Shangtun Christian University and the regional Southern Baptist Churches. Includes several photos of the mission and participants.

The images of this book are copyrighted to the Holy Spirit Research Center and may not be reproduced in any form.

The Oxford Hills And Other Papers, Charles E. Waterman

Maine Collection

The Oxford Hills and Other Papers

by Charles E. Waterman

Merrill & Webber Co., Auburn, Maine 1929.

Contents: The Oxford Hills / Mansion and Man / Androscoggin Valley Paper-Makers / Gem Stones of the White Mountain Foot Hills / Andrew Cragie

Sprague's Journal Of Maine History (Vol.Xiv, No.2), John Francis Sprague (Ed.)

Maine Collection

Sprague's Journal of Maine History (Vol.XIV, No.2) April, May, June 1926.

Edited by John Francis Sprague.

Vol. 14, No. 2 (1926) Contents: History of the Chadwick Survey / Undeveloped Areas for Maine History Research / Fred Pike / Record of Marriages of Aroostook Pioneers / John C. Cross / Historical Notes about Farmington, Maine / "Like a Bell's Distant Tone" / Relating to Farmington and Sandy River Region / Facts to be Remembered about the State of Maine / Passing of the Old Tanneries / School Department / Editorial Comment / Captain Silas Adams / Sayings of the Subscribers

Sprague's Journal Of Maine History (Vol.Xiv, No.1), John Francis Sprague (Ed.)

Maine Collection

Sprague's Journal of Maine History (Vol.XIV, No.1) January, February, March 1926.

Edited by John Francis Sprague.

Vol. 14, No.1 (1926) Contents: Longfellow's English Ancestors / Fort Mary / A New Version of Thanatopsis / When King George Assessed the Town of Gorham, Maine, in 1770 / Politics in Bangor in 1860 / Referring to the Name of Mount Battie / List of Tax Payers in the Town of Vienna, Maine, for the Year 1834 / James Henry Carleton / An Old Maine Newspaper / My Mother / Historic Thanksgiving at Southwest Harbor / The Lugubrious Tale and Doleful Death of …

Sprague's Journal Of Maine History (Vol.Xiv, No.3), John Francis Sprague (Ed.)

Maine Collection

Sprague's Journal of Maine History (Vol.XIV, No.3) July, August, September 1926.

Cover: "In Memoriam John Francis Sprague, June 16, 1848 -- May 7, 1926".

Vol.14, No. 3 (1926) Contents: Tributes to John Francis Sprague / All Alone / March in a Maine Pasture / Regarding the Jonothan Edwards Family / What Forestry Means to Maine / Repeating Maine History / Side-light on Ancient Local History / Chadwick Survey Paper Corrigenda / First Permanent Settler / Census of Penobscot County / Letters from Journal's Friends / Maine Patriotic Orders / Kind and Appreciative Words / Sayings of Subscribers

The Americanization Of Czech Surnames, J. B. Dudek

Nebraskiana Publications: Resources and Materials on the 37th State

An essay on issues surrounding the alteration of Czech surnames in the United States of America in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

J. B. Dudek was born in Nebraska and was the rector at St. John's Nepomuk Roman Catholic Church in Yukon, Oklahoma, United States. He was educated at Benedictine Abbey at Sacred Heart, Oklahoma, and at Kendrick Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, United States.

Political Organization Of The Plains Indians, With Special Reference To The Council, Maurice Greer Smith

University Studies (University of Nebraska) (1888–1984)

Next to sociological field work, ... there are within this branch of study no other investigations so urgently needed as monographs on some definite class of social phenomena or institutions among a certain group of related tribes. A comparative treatment of some social institution as it exists throughout the uncivilized races of the world undoubtedly has value .... But at the same time a comparative study suffers from defects which seem wellnigh inseparable from the prosecution of so great a task. A social institution is not an isolated phenomenon, but is closely connected with a variety of facts. It is …

Matthew 12:40, Morris Kullman

Books and Other Holy Spirit Artifacts

Morris Kullman was a converted Jewish man who became a Pentecostal believer at at the Mission of Redeeming Love in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1914. The book gives insight into the Jewish nature of Gospel topics such as Sabbath, Passover, and the crucifixion of Jesus. 24 pages.

The book is part of the Holy Spirit Research Center collection.

https://oru.libguides.com/HSRC

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 002 And 003, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

This is a detail from the Cummings Guest House Register. You can see a digital version of the full text HERE.

Cummings Guest House Register Pages 004 And 005, Usm African American Collection

We Exist Series 4: Cummings Guest House Register Excerpts

No abstract provided.

Cummings Guest House Register (Full), Usm African American Collection

Cummings Guest House Register

The Cummings family of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, ran a guest house from 1923 until 1993. Register in which guests signed themselves in or were signed in by staff at the Cummings Guest House, 110 Portland Ave., Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Includes signatures of family members who attended reunions after the Guest House ceased operation.

Date Range:

1923-1998

Size of Collection:

1 ft.

Provenance:

The Cummings Guest House Register belonged to the Cummings Guest House, in operation in Old Orchard Beach ME from 1923 into the 1990s. It was purchased by the University of Southern Maine’s Glickman Library, with some …

A Call To The Dust & Ashes, William E. Booth-Clibborn

Books and Other Holy Spirit Artifacts

This booklet, The Call to the Dust & Ashes, contains reflections and statements from the First Southern Bible Conference of the Pentecostal Assemblies of The World, held in Little Rock, Arkansas November 3-10th, 1922. The Conference was put on by some of the white PAW ministers in the South, including William Booth-Clibborn, C. C. O Opperman and other ministers from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. But the meeting was controversial because black PAW ministers because they could not attend due to segregation in the South. Nevertheless, this booklet is an important artifact of Oneness Pentecostalism.

Texas Boy Evangelist, Clarence Heckendorn

Books and Other Holy Spirit Artifacts

A book about the life of Clarence Heckendorn, a boy who was saved a singer for the Pentecostal evangelist. Charles Parham. He joined Parham's evangelist band at age 15 and preached in Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Colorado. The book tells his story and includes teachings on salvation, sanctification, baptism in the Holy Spirit, and prophecy. Contains photos of Heckendorn, Percy Campbell.

The year is c. 1921.

The Personal Testimony Of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, Aimee Semple Mcpherson

Books and Other Holy Spirit Artifacts

The testimony of Aimee Semple McPherson published by Echo Park Evangelistic Association in circ. 1920.

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Conviction and Conversion
• 13 - Baptism in the Holy Ghost
• 19 - Marriage and Calling into the Vineyard
• 21 Miraculous and Instantaneous Healing of Broken Ankle
• 25 - Call to Foreign Fields
• 27 - Death of My Husband
• 33 - Work in Canada
• 35 - Called to Dwell in Tents
• 39 - Transcontinental Auto Tour
• 43 - Call to Build the House of the Lord

Images of this book are copyrighted to the HSRC and may not be reproduced in …

Azusa Street Mission: Fourteenth Anniversary Of The Out-Pouring Of The Holy Spirit In Los Angeles California, William J. Seymour

Books and Other Holy Spirit Artifacts

This is a program from the Fourteenth Anniversary of the Azusa Street Outpouring in 1920 put together by William J. Seymour. It was one of the last events at Azusa. Seymour died in the summer of 1922 from a heart attack.

This program contains an outline of Seymour's teaching on the soon coming of Christ and a number of songs that were sung during the meeting.

Songs include:

"Were You There?", "He's Coming Soon", "I Remember Calvary", "Christ Returneth", "The Hallelujah Song", "The Comforter Has Come", "Christ Receiveth Sinful Men", "He Lifted Me", "I Want To Be Ready", "Lord I …

Pastor's Salary Account Book, 1919-1927, Bethlehem United Church Of Christ (Tenth Legion, Va.)

Series 1 - Administrative Records, 1844-1979

Contains records of church members and payments made by each member to the pastor’s salary.

November 15, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, dated to approximately 1916, Abbie writes to Mrs. Tibbets about several topics, including her teaching job, attending an exhibition, seeing the Emperor pass on the street, tea services, and describes in detail her accommodations. She says that she is very happy in Japan now that she is more used to the climate.

Eastern Maine Real Estate Company Meeting Minutes; May 25, 1911 - Dec 26, 1917, Eastern Maine Real Estate Company

Eastern Real Estate Company Archives

Meeting minutes from the Eastern Maine Real Estate Company, covering May 25, 1911 through December 26, 1917.

Church Record Book, 1910-1952, Bethlehem United Church Of Christ (Tenth Legion, Va.)

Series 1 - Administrative Records, 1844-1979

Ledger contains administrative records of the church including membership lists, lists of officers, business meeting minutes, and financial records. The bulk of the meeting minutes are from 1910-1933, and the membership lists date from 1920 - 1950s.

Samuel Morris: The Story Of A Spirit-Filled Life, D. E. Reed, Arthur Jordan

Books and Other Holy Spirit Artifacts

The story of a boy from Liberia who came to America and his dependence upon the Holy Spirit.

1908 edition originally published by several different religious publishing companies, including Christian Alliance (in Harrisburg, Pa.) and the Golden Rule (in Albion, Mich.). OCLC records have authors as Stephen Merritt; T.C. Reade.

July 23, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets about her vacation trip from where she was staying in Tokyo to several different places around Japan. She writes of her stay in a Japanese style hotel. She also writes about the scenery around her, and about how long it takes her by rail to get to her travel destinations. She also writes of a traveling companion named George, and how she has invited Abbie to come and visit her and meet George.

April 11, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets about life in Japan. She writes about the climate, and how she finds she cannot do as much due to the "enervating" nature of the climate there. She describes a "sword walking" ceremony, in which one climbs a ladder made of swords. She then writes of the beginnings of spring in Japan and how there is a fair coming to Japan, "the largest ever held in Japan."

January 18, 1907, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Abbie writes to Mrs. Tibbets about the "glorious" scenery where she is staying. She writes of the mountains, streams, tall oak trees, and blossoms as the season changes from winter to spring.

December 26, 1906, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, Cora writes to Mrs. Tibbets to thank her for the Christmas gifts. She describes the table that they set for a traditional western-style Christmas. They invited a Japanese couple, who were described by Cora to be very fascinated with the Christmas decor. She also tells Mrs. Tibetts about her coming vacation with George to Oshima, as there is a volcano there that they are intending to climb.

Account Book, 1906-1919, Bethlehem United Church Of Christ (Tenth Legion, Va.)

Series 1 - Administrative Records, 1844-1979

Ledger contains record of payments made to the pastor's salary, and various other collections within the church including the orphanage collection, home mission, and payments on church repairs.

The Great Mukti Revival, Pandita Ramabai

Books and Other Holy Spirit Artifacts

No abstract provided.