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North End Bible Hall, sometimes also known as the North End Gospel Hall, was an open brethren assembly in St. Louis, [[Missouri]] that was going by 1925, and ended may have been still in conflict existence in the early 1930's1942. Theodore Bossert was listed as a correspondent in an assembly address book published in 1927 by Faithful Words Publishing, based in St. Louis. The assembly, at that time, met at 1501 Penrose Street in the Hyde Park neighborhood. Bossert lived nearby at 1521 E. Grand Ave, although in 1942, when he registered for the WWII draft, he stated he was living at 1501 Penrose St.
=Claridge family=
Around 1925, a Baptist teenager named Addie Louise Claridge (1911-2009) was "impressed by a neighbor's Sunday School paper, and brought it to her father", Charles Francis Claridge (1868-1934) who declined to read it, thinking it was JW literature, but Addie insisted it was "just what we Baptists believe", and Charles "grudgingly read it over", and was "enthused enough to attend the humble services down the street and investigate its origin", and the Claridge family soon joined North End Gospel Hall, Charles ecstatically declared it to be "old fashioned Baptist going under a different name".
At some juncture, perhaps after Charles died in 1934, scandal struck the assembly when a couple "supercilious" young ladies accused a "truly godly elder" of in inappropriate relationship, and the congregation became "embroiled in consternation and conflict", and eventually foldedin an unknown year.
At a particularly low point in the conflict, Addie met a couple young ladies who were working for [https://bibletruthpublishers.com/ Bible Truth Publishers], a TW publishing house then based locally, and was "absolutely enamored with their consecration to the Lord, their knowledge of the Scriptures, and the dignity of their Exclusive serenity", and was eventually received into what is now the ''Fenton Meeting Room''.
=Penrose Today=
Since 1959, [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Revelation%20Missionary%20Baptist%20Church/115691128457110/ Revelation Missionary Baptist Church] has met at the site of the old North End Bible Hall.
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