The Christian Plea is the successor to the Gospel Plea. Financial conditions forced the change from a weekly to a monthly in 1927.
J. B. Lehman explained the change thusly, "On account of financial conditions we were compelled to make the Christian Plea a monthly instead of a weekly. While we regretted the necessity of doing this, we have a very strong feeling that this will prove a blessing in disguise. We have a feeling that if we can make a good monthly after the order of the World Call we will have a paper that will serve us better than the weekly did."
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Christian Plea Volume 1 (November 1926 - October 1927)
Vance G. Smith
Christian Plea Volume 1 (November 1926 - October 1927)
The editorial staff includes Vance G. Smith, Editor; Associate editors are Mary E. Taylor, H. L. Herod and J. B. Lehman.A regular column is From the Banks of Old Kentucky by C. H. Dickerson.
Information on the African American schools appears often. These schools include Southern Christian Institute, Jarvis Christian College, Piedmont Christian Institute, and Central Christian Institute.