Thursday, September 16, 1926
AN HOUR IN THE HOUSE OF A FRIEND
Every Saturday, businessmen of Richmond buy a page of advertising space in the Richmond Times Dispatch to, as the manager of a large corporation that helps pay for the page says: “strengthen Richmond’s sturdy position as a church community.”
On this page is printed a timely article dealing with religious matters, particularly church attendance. Then there are the names of the scores of firms and corporations and businesspeople who bear the expense of the advertisement. Then there is a picture of a leading businessman and his testimony as to what religion has done for him and what it means to others. Then there is a picture and a historical sketch of one of the numerous churches of the city. Last Saturday, the article was by Clara Woolworth. It is fine reading and here it is:
An Hour in the House of a Friend – that is what going to church really means. You would go a long way to spend an hour in the home of a good friend, where you knew you would find quiet and peace and a chance to know yourself and your friend better, and to talk out, to think out, some of the things that are bothering. Why not accept the invitation given Sunday after Sunday, and other days, too, to spend an hour in the church near you – the House of a Friend – where you can have the same sort of comfort, infinitely increased, that you will find in the house of any human friend?
In this House of a Friend, to which we invite you, we do not ask your creed or color. The very fact that you have entered its doors entitles you to all its privileges. If your mood is to be by yourself, we shall respect it and you may commune with your Friend in your own way. We would like to have a chance to know you better and to have you help us make our invitation mean more to more people, if you will, and thus carry the friendly spirit of his house further out.
And if, sometimes, because we are only human, you feel that we have not lived up to the ideals of our House, tell us that, too, for we need to know it. This Friend has many Houses here in town, and if others appeal to you more than ours, go there, but for your own good, and yes, for the good of the community, spend an hour a week in the House of a Friend.
DIED
Mrs. Leah M. Hannah, aged 66, widow of Rev. Geo. P. Hannah, died September 1, 1926, in Hinton. Her husband, Rev. Geo P. Hannah died some 26 years ago and was well-known in the county. She had been vising friends and relatives in the county and had attended the Fair and took sick and was taken to her home at Hinton.
She was the youngest daughter of the late David and Mary Grimes. She leaves three sons, Silas, Paul and Roscoe, and two daughters, Mrs. Will Lewis and Mrs. A. E. Foster.
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Mr. Henry N. Hannah was born in Slaty Fork March 29, 1855, and died March 24, 1926. Had he lived to March 29, he would’ve been 71 years of age. He was married to Miss Margaret E. McClure, at Locust, in the year 1882. To this union, one son was born, Ernest A. Hannah, well known postmaster of this city. Mr. Hannah was one of the dauntless pioneer Temperance workers in his native state.
