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* WiS 1912-12: Ardmore, PA: "S. McEwen has had three week's meetings in [[Bryn Mawr Gospel Hall, PA|Ardmore]]. Attendance good and some fruit."
==19311915==[[Maryland history]]: The assembly now meeting at New Hampshire Avenue Gospel Chapel, Silver Spring began in April 1916 at F. G. Ruebsam’s house at 5224 Illinois Avenue, NW, in Washington, DC. The assembly moved in January 1917 to N. Fillmann’s home, 1422-22nd Street, SE, Washington, where it remained for a time. Bible Readings were held each Lord’s Day at the homes of C.W. Birkett and F.G. Ruebsam alternately, previous to the Breaking of Bread, which was the outcome of Gospel tent meetings for two consecutive summers (1915 and 1916) by Evangelists Benjamin Bradford and [[Samuel McEwen, Sr.|Samuel McEwen]]. Their ministry was followed by F.B. Hanle in the fall of 1916 and the spring of 1917." ==1924==* LOI 1943[[North Carolina history]]: "At about the same time that the work in Asheville began, a similar interest was stirring in Raleigh in the north-central part of the state, the so-called Piedmont area. The work at Raleigh dates to before 1924, when James C. Chappell returned from World War I. He had heard about the New Testament church meetings through a fellow soldier. He discussed what he had learned with his friend David Allen. They invited [[Samuel McEwen, Sr.|Sam McEwen]] and W.G. Smith to come to Raleigh for a Gospel effort, and these evangelists held a tent campaign in September 1924. After the campaign, a hall was rented on Gaston Street, and the first Remembrance meeting in the Raleigh Gospel Hall was held in November 1924, attended only by David Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Chappell, and the two preachers. About a month later four other Christians had joined the circle around the table. Records of the assembly show a continuous growth in numbers. The two evangelists returned each year for five years. Souls were saved each year. By 1931, there was an assembly with 40 in fellowship, meeting in a former church building. James Chappell, a pharmacist, carried on an extensive pastoral and visitation ministry. Lester Wilson: wrote for LOI in 1940, “In 1931, I came south from Canada with Brother Fred Nugent. We arrived in Canton, NC and after about three months we went to Raleigh where there was a hearty little assembly of around twenty; the fruit of the labors of Mr. Sam McEwen and W.G. Smith." See [[North Carolina history]].
==1940==