In 1899, a Gospel Hall was planted on the eastern side of Toronto, [[Ontario]], [[Canada]], thought to have been a hive from what is now [[Broadview Avenue Gospel Hall, ON|Broadview Avenue Gospel Hall]], early known as the East End Gospel Hall. In the 1910's, a Hall was built at 84 Swanwick Avenue where it met until 1950 when its current structure on Danforth Avenue was built. It was known as East Toronto Gospel Hall, but more popularly the Swanwick Avenue Gospel Hall until their move to Danforth when it was rebranded as Danforth Gospel Hall.
=Danforth Gospel Hall=
Letters of Interest (LOI) 1950-11 had an article on "Assembly Building Activity", that started with the following:
"In both Canada and the United States this has been one of the greatest years in history if not the very greatest in the number of new assembly buildings being erected and in remodeling and improvement."
It then listed the following assemblies (both Chapels and Halls) with detail about their construction development, including:
* Fort Wayne Gospel Chapel, Fairfax Dr. & John St., Fort Wayne, [[Indiana]]
* Turner Road Gospel Hall, Turner Rd. & Tecumseh, Windsor, Ontario
** seating 250+ in the main auditorium
* Christian Brethren Church, Cap de la Madeleine, Three Rivers, [[Quebec]]
* Centerville Gospel Chapel, 828 S. 12th St., [[Iowa]]
* Gatchell Gospel Hall, Ontario
* [[Hutchinson Gospel Chapel, KS|Hutchinson Gospel Chapel]], [[Kansas]]
** improvements for convenience and to add to its SS capacity
* Bethany Chapel, 37th St. & Grand Ave., Indianapolis, [[Indiana]]
** special credit to William Brown
* [[Norwood Gospel Chapel, IL|Norwood Gospel Chapel]], Nagel & Foster, Norwood, Chicago, [[Illinois]]
** hive from Irving Park Gospel Hall which rebranded as [[Portage Park Gospel Chapel, IL|Portage Park Gospel Chapel]]
** 250 in the main auditorium
* Middlesex Chapel, [[New Jersey]]
** SS classroom extension
* Congress Avenue Assembly, Congress Ave. & Pioneer St., Rochester, [[New York]]
** Carter Street Assembly relocation
* '''Danforth Gospel Hall''', 2235 Danforth Ave., Toronto, Ontario
** "Swanwick Avenue Gospel Hall, Toronto, Ontario has become Danforth Gospel Hall, near a busy corner at 2235 Danforth Avenue. Seating capacity 310."
* Ward Street Gospel Hall, Ottumwa, Iowa
** enlarging for new SS rooms and installing new seats
* Twenty-Fourth Avenue Gospel Hall, Vancouver, [[British Columbia]]
** installing an oil burning furnace, and other improvements
* Bethel Gospel Hall, 28 William St., Arnprior, Ontario
** after 21 years in rented quarters. Seating 120.
* Bancroft Gospel Hall, Ontario
** Seating 400
* Bethesda Bible Chapel, 1969 View St., Salt Lake City, [[Utah]]
=It Is Time To Work=
In the March of 1952 issue of ''Letters of Interest'', William G. McCartney pens the following editorial:
"At a breakfast meeting in a large hotel in Chicago recently, a businessman who was schedule to talk about his own affairs chose instead to speak on the imminent danger of the [[United States]] being swallowed up by Communism. Born in a European country, he had experienced some of the horrors brought on by this godly philosophy. Again and again he punctuated his address with these words: 'Men, we are losing America and our freedom, bought at such a cost, and we don't know it." As he pleaded with his listeners to take action to halt this appalling menace, he spoke with a depth of emotion rarely displayed these days, even in the preaching of the gospel.
At least one of his listeners was smitten to the heart. As the speaker outlined the plan he thought would curb the encroachment of Communism, the hearer thought on the fact that we as assemblies of God's people hold the truth, which alone will crush Communism and cure every other ill, and yet how much we hold our peace and withhold from the world about us the only remedy. With eyes enlightened by the Holy Spirit, we see the approaching danger, yet we do little to warn our fellow men to flee from the wrath to come.
Too little are we loyal to our acquaintances with whom we hold friendly converse day by day, and to the land in which we live and enjoy freedom. How much more are we guilty of disloyalty to our God! Are we not satisfied with meeting to remember the Lord each Lord's Day, having a gospel service in the evening, and a midweek prayer and ministry meeting? Why have the gospel campaigns of eight to ten weeks passed into history? Why is so little agonizing prayer heard? Why are prayer meetings so poorly attended, and often such dull affairs? Why, in short, have we little concern for the souls of lost men?
Is it not, brethren, that we are self-satisfied, self-righteous, self-centered, and 'have need of nothing'? Our condition may be summed up in the sad words of the Apostle Paul, "All seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's'. We are letting our Christian heritage slip away from us. Will we not wake up until we have been engulfed by a system hostile to all we believe? Will we not rouse ourselves until we have to pay with our lives to maintain a testimony to God?
Brethren, there is still time for us to work. It is yet day. And here and there throughout America a few assemblies are demonstrating that God still responds in grace in the salvation of lost sinners when His people are in earnest about sounding out the Word of the Lord. During the past few months, sizable numbers of souls have been saved in protracted gospel efforts in Danforth Gospel Hall in Toronto, [[Woodside Bible Chapel, IL|Austin]] in Chicago, St. James in [[Manitoba|Winnipeg]], South Main Street in [[British Columbia|Vancouver]], and Hayward in [[California]], to name but a few.
What blessing would come to the Lord's people if each assembly would plan a gospel campaign this year, and back it up with real prayer and sacrifical cooperation. There are evangelists among us who would be delighted to participate in such effort. Brethren, let us who have the oversight in the assemblies and who shall stand before Him in that day to give account of our leadership, fall before Him now, seeking guidance and an open door for a real gospel campaign in our own community during this year of grace 1952. Let us not plan just a campaign of one or two weeks, but let us determine to go on until the blessing of the Lord comes down."
=George Hall=
==Articles==
===[[Letters of Interest]]===
* LOI 1950-11: "[[Assembly Building Activity LOI 1950-11|Assembly Building Activity]]"
* LOI 1952-3: "[[It Is Time To Work" LOI 1952-3|It Is Time To Work]] by William G. McCartney
