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central location for the Chinese church of San Antonio was necessary
and "by a step of faith, the old Spanish Governor’s Palace
was chosen. It was already 200 years old. . . . The livestock room
and courtyard needed much cleaning, but happily on May 22, 1921,
thirty-four men and children attended the first Bible classes on
that Sunday afternoon. . . ."
But the Chinese
claimed problems. After two years "many interruptions by drunkards"
forced a move to a room above the Woo Lee Café; on West Commerce.
The Chinese congregation quickly called this "The Upper Room."
Joe
T. Lew [in the 60th anniversary publication of
San Antonio’s Chinese Baptist Church]
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