Ephemera and Posters

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De Vrienden Van Scheut 1954. Interesting booklet of business advertisement by companies supporting the Missions de Scheut in the Congo. B

Price: $40.00

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Letter from Wilson Reid The Truth 2x2 Cooneyite missionary in Rhodesia. Four page autograph letter, signed, written in pencil on 5" x 8" sheets by Wilson Reid. Dated 5-9-1920. Wilson Reid was a missionary with the unnamed religious movement referred to as The Truth, the Two by Twos, Cooneyites, and other names. The letter is addressed "Dear Sister." There is no envelope with it. Reid begins by describing his new situation: Hugh McKay and I are in our own hired house in a little town in Northern Rhodesia not far from the Congo border. Lodgings are scarce and expensive, too. Places for meetings are out of the question so an empty house with a good front room served the double purpose. We got boxes and planks and washed up what old tabled etc we found on the premises and you would be surprised to see how meetings are. He reports that their first meeting was not well attended, but they later learned they were competing with another event "of more attraction." t-aml060aAML 060And "tonight we cannot have a meeting because the English ch[urch] parson is here on a visit and had we collided with him we would have done more harm than good." He next reports that he has written a letter to George Walker and was sorry to hear of Walker not being well. "I hope however he will be able to have enough strength to keep going and even if his body gets down and if he can only keep his heart and spirit for [illegible] it will be an inspiration to others." The rest of the letter goes on in a similar vein, with reflections on aging, and how it is important not to just stop doing anything as you get old and action gets harder. You should still do as much as you can, even if it is only to urge others onward. He concludes: "I do not mind aging in it, but I don't want to die out of it and when should I come to the place where I am not fit to put in a whole year at a stretch I hope I will put in every year what I can...and so to make the most of myself. You may think this a strange letter....These have been my thoughts for a good while and when Adam Hutchinson came here and we talked of it much that I had thought was confirmed by him. My thoughts began to take a more definite form and I feel sure the line I have spoken along here is the right one. Yours in Him, Wilson Reid."

Price: $150.00

t-aml060a1AML 060From Wikipedia: Two by Twos (often known as The Truth by its members) is an international, home-based new religious movement that has its origins in Ireland at the end of the 19th century. Among members, the church is more usually referred to as "The Truth", "Meetings", "the workers and friends", or "The Way". Those outside the church refer to it as "Two by Twos", "The Black Stockings", "No-name Church", "Cooneyites", "Workers and Friends", or "Christians Anonymous". Church ministers are itinerant and work in groups of two, hence the name "Two by Twos". The church's registered names include "Christian Conventions" in the United States, "Assemblies of Christians" in Canada, "The Testimony of Jesus" in the United Kingdom, "Kristna i Sverige" in Sweden, and "United Christian Conventions" in Australia. These organization names are used only for registration purposes and are not used by members. The church was founded in 1897 in Ireland by William Irvine, an evangelist with the interdenominational Faith Mission. Irvine began independently preaching a return to the method of itinerant ministry he claimed was set forth in Matthew 10. Church growth was rapid, t-aml060a2AML 060spreading outside Ireland. Irvine eventually began preaching a new order in which the hierarchy that had developed within the church would have no placement. This teaching became controversial within the church and led to his expulsion by church overseers around 1914. One of the church's most prominent evangelists, Edward Cooney, was expelled a decade after Irvine. The church then became much less visible to outsiders for the next half-century. Publication of several articles and books, increased news coverage, and the appearance of the Internet have since opened the church to wider scrutiny. The church does not explicitly publish any doctrinal statements, claiming these must be orally imparted by its ministers, referred to as "workers". Doctrine of the church teaches that salvation is reached by attending the group's home meetings, accepting the preaching of its itinerant, unsalaried ministry workers, and "professing". (See Terminology). Whereas some other Christian sects believe in faith through salvation, the Two by Twos teach that salvation is not achieved through faith alone, but achieved only through a combination of faith and "works". Works are described as selfless good deeds, which are in accordance with the teachings of Jesus Christ.

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1955 Aerogramme Letter of SIM Nigeria Missionary Nurse, Helen Hawbaker. Size: 9.5" x 8" unfolded - Some signs of wear. May be some water discoloration. Thin paper. SOLD

Price: $90.00

Note: Helen Gladys Hawbaker was born on May 24, 1922 at Dallas Center, Iowa to Clarence Earl and Mary G. (Beshore) Hawbaker. She graduated from Minburn High School in 1938, and attended the University of Iowa in 1944 receiving her nursing degree in 1947. After graduation, Helen worked in Iowa City until 1948. She then attended Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois receiving a diploma in the Missions Course in 1950. Helen worked in Missions in Nigeria Africa as a Missionary/Nurse in 1951 and returned to the Perry, Iowa area in 1986. She died December 10, 2010.

 

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Eight issues of El Negrito. 1952 (July, August), 1955 (February, October), 1956 (February, October, November, December). Only Harvard holds one volume, December 1929 - December 1930.

Price: $480.00

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Collection of 64 European prayer cards and announcements all relating missionary activity in Africa. M SOLD

Price: $280.00

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Spanish childrens comic Vidas Ejemplares. Beato Santiago Berthieu. 1967. B eh

Price: $90.00

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Group of 3 original promotional brochures of the ABWE (Association of Baptists for World Evangelism)... Eight pages with the covers giving the history and biblical foundation for the ministry. M

Price: $150.00

t-aml041AML 041Spanish chromo album titled Fray Escoba. The 196 photo chromos inside are from the 1963 movie by the same name, starring Cuban actor Rene Munoz. It is the story of the life of Martin de Porres. The movie, and this chromo album, came out the year after Porres was canonized. M SOLD

Price: $400.00

Note: Martin de Porres Velázquez, O.P. (December 9, 1579 – November 3, 1639), was a lay brother of the Dominican Order who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized in 1962 by Pope John XXIII. He is the patron saint of mixed-race people, barbers, innkeepers, public health workers, and all those seeking racial harmony. He was noted for work on behalf of the poor, establishing an orphanage and a children's hospital. He maintained an austere lifestyle, which included fasting and abstaining from meat. Among the many miracles attributed to him were those of levitation, bilocation, miraculous knowledge, instantaneous cures, and an ability to communicate with animals.

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Unused donation box from the Opere Missionarie Pontificie, c1920 M eh

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11 prayer cards with artwork by N. Van den Houdt. M

Price: $300.00

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