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| Title | The New Testament Christian :A Message from the Eliada Homes for Children |
| Identifier | http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/eliada_home_archive/ntc.htm |
| Creator | Lucius B. Compton and Eliada Homes, Inc. |
| Subject Keyword | The New Testament Christian (A Message from Eliada Homes for Children) ; Lucius Bunyan Compton ; Eliada Home ; Leicester, NC ; social services ; orphanages ; orphans ; unmarried mothers ; education ; schools ; social work ; Baptists ; religion ; homeless children ; Margaret Weaver ; Janet McGregor ; Arch Cameron |
| Subject LCSH | Compton, Lucius Bunyan, 1875- Eliada Home for Children (Asheville, N.C.) Eliada Homes, Inc. --Asheville(N.C.) -- History Young women -- Religious life -- North Carolina -- Asheville Unmarried mothers -- History Orphanages -- Asheville, N.C. -- History Orphanages -- North Carolina Homeless children -- North Carolina -- Asheville Evangelists -- North Carolina -- Biography Asheville (N.C.) -- Biography |
| Date | Date of digital resource: 2006-04-18 Date of item: August 1927, vol. XXX no.8 [1909-1975] |
| Publisher | Eliada Homes, Inc. |
| Contributor |
Lucius Compton, editor ; Arch Cameron, editor (later years) |
| Type | text ; illustrations ; image |
| Format | Periodical |
| Source | M2005.8.1 |
| Language | en=English |
| Relation | Eliada Homes Archive; Margaret Dowdle Oral History , Voices of Asheville Oral History project, UNCA Special Collections. Heritage of Western North Carolina, NRHP files ; Margaret Deaver Collection of Presbyterian Newsletters |
| Coverage | 1909-1975 |
| Rights | Any display, publication or public use
must credit D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of
North Carolina at Asheville. Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. |
| Donor | Donor number 202 |
| Description | The New Testament Christian newsletter
belongs to the Eliada Homes Archive. Eliada Homes began as a
non-denominational Christian home for unwed mothers and, later, grew
into an orphanage for children in Southern Appalachia. Lucius
Compton, the founder of Eliada Homes and first editor of the New
Testament Christian, describes the newsletter's
title in the first issue. He states that workers and volunteers at Eliada Homes "stand on the
principles of New Testament Christianity, in that they hold out
helping hands to the unfortunate girls and to the homeless destitute
children without distinction as to faith or creed" (Vol. 1, 1).
Self-published on the campus of Eliada Homes, the monthly newsletter described to friends and contributors the various activities related to Eliada Homes for each specific month. Topics covered included volunteers and employees' biographies, children activities, new additions to the home, new members of the residence, community donations, fundraisers, camp meetings, and editorials. Later issues included lists of children's birthdays with an accompanying photograph and brief biography of each birthday child. Following the mission statement of Eliada Homes and Faith Cottage, the newsletter always included a devotional comment, testament of faith, witness, or prayer. The first New Testament Christian was first published January 20, 1909. UNCA Special Collections retains copies of newsletters ranging from 1909 to 1975 in the Eliada Homes Archive. Only one issue is selected here. |
| Acquisition | 2005-08-30 |
| Citation | The New Testament Christian, D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 |
| Processed by | Special Collections staff 2005 |
| Last update | 2006-04-18 |
