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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: Twice-born Men in America - or The Psychology of Conversion as Seen by a Christian - Psychologist in Rescue Mission Work - -Author: Harriet Earhart Monroe - -Release Date: September 8, 2016 [EBook #53014] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TWICE-BORN MEN IN AMERICA *** - - - - -Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class='tnotes covernote'> - -<p class='c000'><strong>Transcriber's Note:</strong></p> - -<p class='c000'>The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.</p> - -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_001.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div> - <h1 class='c001'>Twice-Born Men in America<br /> <span class='small'>OR</span><br /> <span class='large'>The Psychology of Conversion as Seen by a Christian Psychologist in Rescue Mission Work</span></h1> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c002'> - <div>BY</div> - <div class='c002'><span class='xlarge'>HARRIET EARHART MONROE</span></div> - <div class='c002'><span class='sc'>Also Author of “Conversation as a Science and an Art,” “Heroine of the Mining Camp,” “Historical Lutheranism,” “The Life of Gustavus Adolphus,” and “Washington—Its Sights and Insights”</span></div> - <div class='c003'>PHILADELPHIA, PA.:</div> - <div class='c002'>THE LUTHERAN PUBLICATION SOCIETY</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div><span class='sc'>Copyright, 1914, by</span></div> - <div>HARRIET EARHART MONROE</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_iii'>iii</span> - <h2 class='c005'>PREFACE</h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>I taught psychology for fifteen years at the Atchison -Institute, the predecessor of Midland College, located at -Atchison, Kan. I was there greatly impressed by the -fact that the books gave no adequate analysis of the -psychology of the greatest mental and moral change -which can come to the human mind, namely, conversion -and regeneration; yet these changes make the great difference -which we see between men and nations.</p> - -<p class='c000'>A Rescue Mission gives a great opportunity to study -mental and moral changes, and my observations and conclusions, -made from years of study, are herein embodied.</p> - -<p class='c000'>This book is sent forth with the earnest hope and -prayer that it will lead many souls to Christ; also that it -will show earnest laymen just how to bring about that -psychological change which we call conversion. A Sunday -school teacher who brings only ninety per cent of -her students through the process of conversion and regeneration -is ninety per cent a success and ten per cent -failure. The same is true of a pastor with a class of catechumens.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Ye must be born again,” is just as true to-day as it -ever was, and if we believed it as Paul believed it, -what live wires we would be.</p> - -<p class='c000'>This book is to remind us that Jesus saves to the uttermost -in our day, just as He did when He visibly walked -this earth.</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in17'><span class='sc'>Harriet E. Monroe</span>,</div> - <div class='line'>204 A Street, S. E., Washington, D. C.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>July 29, 1914.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_v'>v</span> - <h2 class='c005'>CONTENTS</h2> -</div> - -<table class='table0' summary='CONTENTS'> - <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'>CHAPTER I</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <th class='c008'></th> - <th class='c009'>PAGE</th> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>How I Happened to Become Interested in Rescue Mission Work</span></td> - <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_7'>7</a></td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'>CHAPTER II</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>Rescue Mission Work</span></td> - <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_22'>22</a></td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'>CHAPTER III</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>Incidents Showing the Power of God to Save</span></td> - <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_29'>29</a></td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'>CHAPTER IV</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>An Element of Humor in Rescue Work</span></td> - <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_36'>36</a></td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'>CHAPTER V</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>Big Feet</span></td> - <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_44'>44</a></td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'>CHAPTER VI</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>How We Got a New Mission Building</span></td> - <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_49'>49</a></td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'>CHAPTER VII</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>Varieties of Work in a Gospel Mission</span></td> - <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_59'>59</a></td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'>CHAPTER VIII</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Need of Rescue Work</span></td> - <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_69'>69</a></td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'>CHAPTER IX</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Penny Lunch and Free Dispensary</span></td> - <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_82'>82</a></td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_vi'>vi</span>CHAPTER X</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>The Power of the Gospel</span></td> - <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_94'>94</a></td> - </tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr><td class='c007' colspan='2'>CHAPTER XI</td></tr> - <tr><td> </td></tr> - <tr> - <td class='c008'><span class='sc'>Hereditary Sin</span></td> - <td class='c009'><a href='#Page_107'>107</a></td> - </tr> -</table> - -<div class='ph1'> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c004'> - <div>Twice-Born Men in America</div> - </div> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span> - <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER I<br /> <span class='sc'>How I Happened to Become Interested in Rescue Mission Work</span></h2> -</div> -<p class='c006'>In January, 1908, a great calamity came to me in the -form of destruction by fire of most of my earthly property -and the death in the fire of a loved sister. The event -had in it some other elements of great pain not necessary -to mention here. If my soul had not been anchored in -Jesus, the combination of sorrows would have broken -down my mentality and sent me to the asylum. As it -was, I stood steadily trusting God, knowing that all -things worked together for good to those who love God. -I was sure I was a lover of God, and so, while every fiber -of my body and soul ached with unspeakable pain, I never -doubted God's love, care and sympathy.</p> - -<p class='c000'>In the midst of this grief I received a letter from Mr. -George W. Wheeler, the President of the Executive -Board of the Gospel Mission, saying about this, “Come -down to the Gospel Mission, look it over and see if you -care to come in with us in the work of saving souls. Unless -we secure a woman of large executive ability, our -work can scarcely go forward.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>I answered that I would be glad to join them, and the -next week, the first week of September, 1908, I received -<span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>a letter from the Secretary, S. M. Croft, saying I had -been elected to the Executive Board of the Gospel Mission, -which met once every week.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The following Monday I met with the Board, where I -heard a letter from Mr. Tyson, saying that he withdrew -from the Board because the dormitories were badly kept. -Then followed a letter of the same kind from a Mr. -Fritz, and another from Mr. Sidell. As soon as the session, -which was largely a prayer service, was closed, Mr. -Wheeler accompanied me to look over the dormitories.</p> - -<p class='c000'>I never saw or dreamed of such conditions. The -very walls were alive with vermin. In the story above -the chapel were fifteen vile beds, and on the third story -above us we saw a floor covered with dirty, wrinkled -newspapers. I said, “Where do the men sleep?” “On -the beds you saw in the third floor and on these newspapers.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>In my heart I said, “Dear Lord, surely not here, amid -this vileness?” The answer was as sharp and distinct -as though spoken through a trumpet, “Prepare ye the -way of the Lord.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Mr. Wheeler,” I said, “I see conditions, and I take -charge.” He left for his work in the United States -Treasury, and I went to the street and hired a force of -cleaners, whitewash men, scrubbers, sweepers, etc., and -called up Mrs. Claude Myers, the wife of a Presbyterian -minister, and two other fully consecrated women who -were not afraid of work. I asked them to come at once -and bring with them buckets, scrub brushes, rags, soap, -etc., while I put in a supply of chemicals for the vermin.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Those women helped to burn the bedding and to send -away some as trash. They helped me clean the beds; the -whitewashers even entered into the spirit of it, and every -<span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>crack was filled with plaster of paris; they went over -the walls three times with lime and carbolic acid. The -Health Bureau in the Municipal Building gave me a -preparation used on floors in jails and in hospitals for -contagious diseases. Some redeemed men came to our -help, and by Saturday night we turned over a clean -house.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Every one of us cleaners was obliged to go to the Turkish -bath and have our clothing brushed and fumigated -before we could go to our own homes.</p> - -<p class='c000'>On Saturday evening I told Mr. Wheeler and Mr. -Gordon that besides the good men and women who had -helped us for the cause for five days, we had spent -twenty-five dollars. Never will I forget the dismay of -those two good men. “What! Twenty-five dollars! -Where do you think we will get that?” I answered, -“Fortunately I belong to a church that lives and works -by faith, and to-morrow, being Sunday, I shall tell the -Sunday school of the Luther Memorial Church, and -we'll see about that twenty-five dollars.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>The next morning I went to the pastor, Rev. J. G. -Butler, D.D., and he secured permission from the superintendent -of the Sunday school for me to speak three -minutes. The superintendent hated innovations, but I -can say a lot in three minutes, especially when I state -the needs of the lost men of the community. After the -school was dismissed nearly every teacher and grown -student gave me something, and in less than five minutes -I had twenty-seven dollars.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Sunday night I told what the Lord had done for us, -and I began to ask all persons present to contribute -sheets and pillow-cases. I did this so much and so often -that season that a little four-year-old girl of Mrs. Claude -<span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>Myers upset the gravity of an entire meeting by saying -out loud one Sunday evening, “There comes Mrs. Sheets -and Pillow-cases again.” Well, before winter was over -we had about fifty clean, well-equipped beds for which, -when they had it, men gladly paid ten cents per night. If -they did not have it, the beds were given as long as they -lasted; but, after the beds were filled, often fifty men -slept on the floor with only the boards under them and -no covers.</p> - -<p class='c000'>We had no heat in the dormitories, but one day Mrs. -Richard Butler, a wealthy woman of the city, was ordered -by the Spirit to visit the Mission. She came by -Mr. Gordon's office in her carriage and he took her -through our building. She saw our first need was heat. -She sent immediately to a hardware store and ordered a -large stove for the third floor with a drum for the fourth -story, and through her kindness the men were given heat, -but not until after two deaths, caused by cold, hunger -and wet clothing, had about broken our hearts.</p> - -<p class='c000'>I remember a young, fair-haired man from Virginia, -evidently well born and bred, coming in one night, -slightly under the influence of liquor. It was a rainy, -snowy night; his clothing was wet and he was suffering -from a severe cold. When the meeting was over he -started to go up stairs, which had nearly a zero temperature. -I begged him to stay by the fire and sleep on a -bench, if needed, but he petulantly refused. He was -dead by nine o'clock next morning. I had wept all the -way home, for I feared just what happened.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Mrs. Butler's stove put an end to that. She furnished -coal for the entire winter.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Now that we had beds and heat, I saw we could not -keep the beds clean without bathing facilities. So at our -<span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>next Board meeting I said, “Brethren, we need a good -shower-bath with warm and cold water so that men -soiled and weary can have the comfort of a warm bath.” -All the members of the Board demurred on account of -the expense. Then I said, “Brethren, if I make myself responsible -for the eighty-five dollars needed and you are in -no way held for it, may I have the bath put in at once?” -Of course, they wanted the bath, as they saw how much -it was needed, and gave cordial consent. I purchased a -rubber stamp, and on the outside of our first circulars -which we issued I stamped the words, “I have made myself -personally responsible for the cost of a shower-bath. -Help a little.” And with my own contributions the bath -was paid for as per contract.</p> - -<p class='c000'>That fall we put out a circular folder, of which the -following is the open letter, and is introduced only to -give the continuity of this work so that my friends may -know the aim, object and history of the Mission from the -beginning:</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r c010'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in12'><span class='sc'>Gospel Mission,</span></div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>1230 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W.</span></div> - <div class='line in16'><span class='sc'>Washington, D. C.</span></div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-l c010'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Dear Friend</span>:</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c011'>Under the blessing of God and the guidance of the Holy -Spirit, a Rescue Mission has been opened at No. 1230 Pennsylvania -Avenue, N. W., where nightly gospel services will be conducted -and the Lord Christ held up to view as a Saviour “mighty -to save and strong to deliver.”</p> - -<p class='c011'>Our corps of workers is composed of consecrated and Spirit-filled -men and women, many of whom have had long experience -in efforts of this character. On the occasion of the opening -service (Saturday evening, May 12) God set His seal to the -work by drawing seven earnest seekers to our altar for prayer.</p> - -<p class='c011'>Street meetings will be held nightly, and an earnest and aggressive -work carried forward for the betterment of society and -the salvation of lost men and women.</p> - -<p class='c011'><span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>Our hall is well located on the south side of Pennsylvania -Avenue, N. W., in the midst of saloons and pool-rooms and in -close proximity to that section of the city almost wholly given -up to evil, and it will be the constant effort of the Mission and -its workers to seek out and rescue the erring girls and reckless -men who are found in large numbers in this immediate neighborhood.</p> - -<p class='c011'>The management is determined that the expenses of this work -shall be kept at the minimum figures—not exceeding $100 per -month—and they confidently appeal to their Christian brethren -and friends and to the public for such funds as shall be found -necessary to carry forward this work. Can you, will you, aid us?</p> - -<div class='lg-container-r c010'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>With great respect,</div> - <div class='line in4'><span class='sc'>G. W. Wheeler</span>, <em>Chairman</em>,</div> - <div class='line in4'><span class='sc'>J. S. Mewshaw</span>, <em>Secretary</em>,</div> - <div class='line in4'><span class='sc'>H. D. Gordon</span>, <em>Treasurer</em>,</div> - <div class='line in10'><em>Executive Committee</em>.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c000'>These good men are at this writing (1913) yet connected -with the work. Mr. Mewshaw is an employee of -the Pennsylvania Railroad, and has charge of a station -some distance from Washington, but contributes and -comes with us occasionally. But no organization was -ever more fortunate than the Gospel Mission in its -officers.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>TREASURER, MR. H. D. GORDON</h3> - -<p class='c013'>is a prominent lawyer of the city. He really gives more -time to the Mission than his business can afford. When -we are under strain to make a payment on the building, -he and Mr. Wheeler can go to their friends and raise -$1000 more readily than the remainder of the Board -can raise $100. They ask largely of their friends. The -others of us ask for one dollar monthly contributions, -and we each receive as we ask. Mr. Gordon's devotion -<span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>cannot better be illustrated than by the following: Mr. -Gordon is a most effective singer. I have heard many -singing evangelists, but none with a finer pathos of voice -than Mr. Gordon's. One evening in the fall of 1909, -when each evening we were privileged to hold our outdoor -meetings in front of the city post-office, I was passing -on the street car when I saw Mr. Gordon with his -guitar standing all alone, trying to sing salvation to some -passing sinners. I found the tears coursing down my -cheeks, so I got off at the next corner and went back -to help him, but by that time other workers were on hand -and it was less sacrifice for me to speak for him. I -acknowledge here a mean pride (which the Lord has -had to thrash out of me with many hard knocks) against -speaking on the street. I have had to remember many -times that Jesus was an outdoor preacher all His days, -and all the Apostles, and who am I that I am ashamed -to follow where He has led! But Brother Gordon can -stand alone anywhere for Christ. He is greatly in demand -in other cities as a successful evangelist.</p> - -<p class='c000'>I want to here bear testimony to the great good done -by outdoor meetings. If all evangelical churches who believe -in conversion and regeneration would hold their -meetings outdoors in the summer, they would bring many -souls, for which they will be held responsible, to Christ. -If young people would hold alley meetings in the alley -nearest their church they would bring sinners to Christ, -there would be no slums and the young Christians would -grow in grace.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>PRESIDENT, GEORGE W. WHEELER</h3> - -<p class='c013'>President, George W. Wheeler, of the Executive -Board, is one of God's best gifts to the city of Washington. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>He is the very best City Rescue Mission worker -I have ever seen, and I have seen most of the city missions -of the United States and Europe. In the summer -of 1910, in company with Mrs. M. P. Spindle, I visited -all the great cities of Europe, especially Glasgow, -Edinburgh, London, Paris, Berlin and Rome, to obtain -suggestions for improving our work, as we thought, at -that time, to plan for erecting a great mission building -unequaled in all the world. Most mission buildings are -mere adaptations of old buildings. We hoped to do -better, but God ordered otherwise. Among all these -great mission workers I have seen none superior to -George W. Wheeler in Rescue Mission work and in conducting -an interdenominational organized work for God. -First, his consecration is marvelous. He had been thirty -or more years in government service, to lose time means -not only loss of money, but even endangers a man's -tenure of office.</p> - -<p class='c000'>But when Mr. Wheeler is called to see a soldier, a -sailor, a sick man in the hospital, who must be seen in -business hours, he never, as all other government members -of the Board do, pleads loss of any kind, but goes at -once on the errand of love and mercy. Then he gets on -well with his Board of Directors; if debate runs high and -a measure is carried without his favor, he holds no -grudge, he is universally kind. That means much. Then -his acquaintance is so large he can secure good talent for -helpers in every line; he has the absolute confidence of -the community (which he richly deserves), and by the -blessing of God secures funds for our great work; and, -best of all, he leads many souls to Christ. He has probably -seen more souls born into the kingdom of God than -any other living rescue worker.</p> - -<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>(Mr. Wheeler died January 19, 1914. “He buries the -workers, but the work goes on.”)</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>MRS. M. P. SPINDLE</h3> - -<p class='c013'>is a Christian woman whom I found connected with the -Mission when I went there. My attention was first attracted -toward her by her liberality when I made the calls -for bedding, so now I borrowed $85 from her and put in -the bath. She was kind enough to let me pay it back in -driblets, and from that day to this she has given more -money than any other worker. She has loaned or given -the money to go forward in each venture of mine, and, -above all, I have had the benefit of her counsel and her -favor in every form, and together we have prayed -through many an obstruction which seemed an impassable -barrier.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>THE FUMIGATOR</h3> - -<p class='c013'>No sooner did we get the bath in place than I saw the -necessity for a fumigator, not only that men should have -their clothing purified from disease and from vermin, but -for the sake of the beds. I found that they could not be -kept clean without the men bathed and had their clothing -fumigated.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The Board again did not feel able to put in the fumigator, -which cost $125. In this work I found a friend in -Mr. Ernest Gichner, who invented a sheet-iron room -with suitable fire-box and chimneys, which he anchored -on the roof of the building.</p> - -<p class='c000'>It did good service and added to the comfort of the -men and the cleanliness of the house, not only while -there, but later he moved it over to our new building. -Mr. Gichner permitted me to make payments in installments -<span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span>of $25, which I was able to collect mostly from my -friends in the Luther Memorial Church and the Mission -workers themselves, who are always liberal even beyond -their means.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>ENLARGEMENT</h3> - -<p class='c013'>I became Chairman of the House Committee in September, -1908, and the following December Mr. H. W. -Kline was made Superintendent. As soon as we had -nice beds to offer for ten cents a night, we had a steadily -increased patronage, so that by the fall of 1909 we were -obliged to rent a large room back of us. That winter we -had eighty-four beds filled nearly every night.</p> - -<p class='c000'>A friend in California sent me $25 as a Christmas -present, and I put white spreads on the twenty-five best -beds. Some members of the Board laughed at me so -much that I was obliged to remind them that the money -of the Mission was not used. Long ago they have come -to see that a white bed is a necessity if we are to keep -a clean house.</p> - -<p class='c000'>By October, 1909, our expenses for rent, fuel and -necessities had increased from $100 to $150 each month.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Our statistics for 1908, as shown by our circular, were -as follows:</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><em>Statistics of the year and of the last quarter—From January, 1908, to January, 1909</em></div> - <div class='c002'><em>Statistics of three months of 1908, as follows</em>:</div> - </div> -</div> - -<table class='table1' summary=''> - <tr> - <th class='c014'></th> - <th class='c015'>Attendance</th> - <th class='c015'>Req. for Prayer</th> - <th class='c015'>Seekers</th> - <th class='c015'>Conversions</th> - <th class='c016'>Services</th> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c014'> </td> - <td class='c014'> </td> - <td class='c014'> </td> - <td class='c014'> </td> - <td class='c014'> </td> - <td class='c009'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c014'>Dec. 1908</td> - <td class='c014'>1961</td> - <td class='c014'>165</td> - <td class='c014'>86</td> - <td class='c014'>14</td> - <td class='c009'>41</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c014'>Jan. 1909</td> - <td class='c014'>2487</td> - <td class='c014'>217</td> - <td class='c014'>73</td> - <td class='c014'>37</td> - <td class='c009'>46</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c014'>Feb. 1909</td> - <td class='c014'>1245</td> - <td class='c014'>51</td> - <td class='c014'>34</td> - <td class='c014'>13</td> - <td class='c009'>28</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c014'> </td> - <td class='c014'><hr class='division' /></td> - <td class='c014'><hr class='division' /></td> - <td class='c014'><hr class='division' /></td> - <td class='c014'><hr class='division' /></td> - <td class='c009'><hr class='division' /></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c014'>Total</td> - <td class='c014'>5693</td> - <td class='c014'>433</td> - <td class='c014'>193</td> - <td class='c014'>64</td> - <td class='c009'>115</td> - </tr> -</table> - -<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>(Now we care for over 50,000 persons a year.)</p> - -<p class='c000'>During the year employment was found for probably -300 men.</p> - -<p class='c000'>We accept it as a great privilege to have presented the -gospel of Jesus Christ to this number of people.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Our little circular of that period thus sets forth:</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>THE NEED OF RESCUE WORK</h3> - -<p class='c013'>“Washington is a dreadful place for a man out of work. -The city having no manufactories, and all rough work, -such as excavating, is let by contract to men who prefer -Italians or Negroes as diggers, while stores and offices -have room for only the efficient young person, so that, -when from age, inefficiency or lack of political influence, -people are dropped from the government service, we are -often at our wit's end to provide means of subsistence -for these worthy persons most anxious to labor. We -have some old men whose working days are over. These -are for the most part good men, for the wicked do not -live out half their days. A few immigrants from northern -Europe, sick men who are able to walk about, but could -not work if they had it; the shoestring man, the umbrella -man, the sandwich man, the men who are half insane for -lack of food and enforced lack of sleep, for they have -no place to sleep oftener than once a week. Then we -have the criminal classes, which must be touched with the -Spirit of God, or they will become the dynamite which -will destroy our cities, also the men just out of prison. -These are the special thought of the Mission, for unless -they are made to feel that they are but temporarily sidetracked -from the great highway of success, they will become -an ever-increasing menace to society.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Above all, we have the drunkard, who has lost his grip, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>lost family, lost place in society, lost business and has -become a mass of putrid flesh, utterly abhorrent to his -fellow-men. When we look at these people, whose weary -eyes have looked long into unspeakable sorrow, our very -souls rejoice that we have proven beyond possibility of -doubt that 'the blood of Jesus Christ, His son, cleanses -from all sin; that if we confess our sins, He is faithful -and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all -unrighteousness,' for we have seen some of every class -mentioned redeemed, placed back in society, among the -producing power of the nation.”</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>“OUR GOSPEL MISSION TIDINGS”</h3> - -<p class='c013'>(a monthly paper) was issued first in October, 1909. All -members of the Executive Committee have helped in -some measure on it, but the responsibility has fallen -heaviest on Mr. G. W. Wheeler and myself. Our entire -income is the result of our paper, it is our means of communicating -with the public.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>THE INDUSTRIAL PLANT</h3> - -<p class='c013'>was really brought about by two tragedies. One cold day -I went to the Mission, and on the outside I saw a man, -whom I shall call Kelly, shivering at the door. He looked -like death, pale, trembling, the lips and nostrils drawn as -if in extreme pain. “What is the matter, Kelly?” I said. -“I am starving to death; amid all these happy people I -am left out. I have walked the streets hunting work till -I can walk no more.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>At that time we did not provide food of any kind, but -I said, “Let us go up stairs to the Mission,” where Mr. -Proctor, then acting as Superintendent, provided bread -<span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>and coffee. I set the man to re-whitewashing the dormitories, -and we kept him till he secured work.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The other was the case of a young man just released -from Moundsville Penitentiary. After I had given the -lesson one Tuesday night, I was led to tell in detail the -story of Valentine Burke, a man converted in the St. -Louis jail, from reading one of Mr. Moody's sermons -in a city newspaper. Mr. Burke afterward became a valuable -citizen, held the position of assistant warden, and -led hundreds of lost men into the clear light of the gospel. -When I had finished, a well-dressed man on the front -seat said, “I am just out of Moundsville; no one has -spoken a kind word to me, I have had nothing to eat -to-day, I see no way but to steal again.” He was only -about twenty-two years of age. I put my arm over his -shoulder and said, “Son, we will take care of you and get -you work.” The Superintendent took him up stairs, gave -him bread and coffee, then a warm bath, but he was so -weary the men had to help him to get to bed. We all -tried to get that boy work, but as soon as the word penitentiary -was mentioned every door was closed. I remember -walking up Capitol Hill, crying aloud to God, -“Give us an industrial plant or the sorrows of homeless, -workless men will take my life.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>I paid for the food for a week. He tried also to obtain -work, but I think the sight of my anxious face worried -him—I have learned not to carry sorrow in my face since -then. That boy slipped through our fingers and went -back to crime. Now, at whose hands will that soul, anxious -for better things, be required?</p> - -<p class='c000'>Before I went for my summer vacation I urged before -the Board an industrial plant. Mr. Kline strenuously objected. -During that vacation I laid the matter very fully -<span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span>before God in prayer and felt constrained to urge the -starting of an industrial work.</p> - -<p class='c000'>At our first meeting in September Mr. Kline said, -“Brethren, I have come to see the need of an industrial -plant, not only so that men can earn lodging, but where, -after conversion, we can keep a man a few days to -teach him the way of life.” A Mission worker often -prays himself into light.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Again I was forced to borrow money with which to -purchase a horse and wagon. Mrs. Spindle loaned me -the $150 needed. That fall my little book, called “The -Life of Gustavus Adolphus,” published by The Lutheran -Publication Society, Philadelphia, came out. The house -gave me $25 in cash, if I remember correctly, and 100 -copies of the book, which I sold at 40 cents a copy. So I -gave the $65 of my own on the horse and wagon in paying -back Mrs. Spindle for the loan.</p> - -<p class='c000'>In some way we also secured a paper baler, thus we -gave two men work in collecting books, newspapers, etc., -and two men at the baler. In the November <cite>Gospel Tidings</cite> -we announced that the wagon from the Gospel Mission -would call on the first and fifteenth of the month, and -would accept papers, rags, clothes, bottles, etc., saying, -“We have old men who separate these things and label -and bale this material.” The money was used to feed -and care for these unfortunates.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The city people responded most generously, and in this -way our industrial branch was started, and greatly benefited -the Mission for two and a half years.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Later we obtained a wood-saw run by a gasoline engine, -and we started the penny bundling industry, where -we could use eight or ten men and make the double purpose -<span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>of work for unfortunate men and yet make the industry -self-supporting.</p> - -<p class='c000'>When the United States granted wood pulp to be -brought into the country free of duty, our paper industry -was destroyed, as we could not sell the paper, and the -government took our woodyard and killed our wood industry, -but they both did much good in their day.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The Gospel Mission in the fall of 1914 will again open -a laundry, wood cutting, rope-making, printing, and chair -caning in the line of industries for men who will gladly -work rather than eat the bread of charity.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span> - <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER II<br /> <span class='sc'>Rescue Mission Work</span></h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>When I was called to assist in the Gospel Mission, I -was not a novice in rescue work, having been among the -workers of the Sunday Breakfast Association in Philadelphia, -Pa., for twelve years under the direction of Mr. -Lewis Bean, probably one of the ablest mission workers -of this or any other country. The Sunday Breakfast is, -so far as I know, the largest Rescue Mission of this country.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>HOW GOD CALLED ME</h3> - -<p class='c013'>When I moved from Washington to Philadelphia, I -found myself very lonely. I had been President of a -Collegiate Institute at Atchison, Kan., from 1870 to 1885, -when, because of failure of health, I came East, and took -up literary work. At Washington, where I lived from -1885 to 1888, I soon came in contact with literary people, -and belonged to both literary and scientific clubs, some -of whose members are to this day strong personal friends. -But in the twelve years in Philadelphia I never became -much acquainted with university people, authors' clubs, -Browning or Shakespeare clubs, although I knew they -were all there. God had to break me loose from too -great devotion to that side of life in order to use me for -more spiritual work.</p> - -<p class='c000'>One evening, in the summer of 1888, I came along -Arch Street where, in a basement room at Broad and -Arch, some women were holding a prayer service. I -<span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>entered and joined with them. Three poor, ragged, -soiled men were converted. I saw the women were even -more inexperienced with the phenomena of sudden conversions -than I was. So I stepped forward and pledged -the converts to a Christian life. Then I appealed to the -good men present to see that the converts had a good -meal that night, and asked for work for them. Good -men at once promised both.</p> - -<p class='c000'>When the meeting was dismissed a gentleman came to -me and said, “We need you at the Sunday Breakfast -Association to speak next Sunday night. We shall have -over 1000 men present, all needing to find God. You -are one of the women who can speak without any of -the Little Johnny death-bed scenes, and we need you.” -I replied, “If you asked me to talk on Dickens, Shakespeare, -or any literary character, I could easily do it, but -to win souls to Christ, I am not at all sure I could do it.” -He did not argue, he simply said, “I give you your opportunity.” -That startled me, and I said, “I will try.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>So the next Sunday evening at the Breakfast Association -I made my first talk before an audience largely of -the submerged tenth. The galleries and the platform -were filled with well-dressed people, and, instead of trying -to save some soul, I tried to make a fine speech. My -rhetoric was perfect, my periods nicely rounded, my -illustrations pertinent, and I sat down pretty well satisfied -with my fine self. Mr. Bean saw what I had done, -so he shook a few grains out of all the chaff I had given -them, made the application, and let me down as easily as -he could.</p> - -<p class='c000'>But while I sat there God's Spirit dealt with me. -“What if a mother of one of these lost men had had -your opportunity,” said God's Spirit, “would she have -<span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>talked platitudes to the galleries and the platform? -Would she? Would she?” I saw my sin. As I fled -from the house I nearly cried aloud in my shamefaced -grief. When I got to my room I went to my knees and I -cried to God my deep shame, “Dear Father, I have sinned. -I know now that is not my work. My business is to instruct -the intellect. I will leave the winning of souls to -preachers and mothers. Help me to bear the testimony -of a well-ordered Christian life, speaking for you in my -own social set, but I am not equal to facing those who -have looked long into the eyes of sin and suffering and -sorrow, and are uncomforted with a knowledge of Thy -grace.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>So I felt I had disposed of that, and determined to -keep to literature forevermore. The next day the card -of a woman whom I had met in the highest social circles -of Washington was sent to my room. As I came down -through the hall I saw in front of the house her carriage -with footman and driver and team of Kentucky-bred -horses. When I entered she broke out in a sort of -wail, “I hear you spoke at the Breakfast Association last -night.” “Yes, and made a great guy of myself. I do not -expect to ever go there again, except as a spectator. I -fear I am more literary than religious.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>I wish I could describe the next few minutes. Her -face blazed. “You, you!” she said; “why you had a -father a minister, your mother a praying woman, and -you not to go there to speak to lost men, if you have the -opportunity! You have had everything which training -can give, and you refuse to reach a hand to lost men.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Well, what does that concern you?”</p> - -<p class='c000'>She sat down. The agony in her face became anguish. -She turned white, then red, then back to white, till I -<span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span>feared for her heart. “What does it concern me! What! -What! Well, I must tell you. I have a son who sits -down in that awful crowd!”</p> - -<p class='c000'>It was my turn now to be moved. “You?” I said, -“why, you live in a white marble palace, and can it be -that your son is a homeless, friendless man?”</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Yes,” she said, “I live in a white marble palace and I -hate it from turret to foundation stone, because my oldest -son is not allowed under its roof. He is a drunkard, -and will steal everything he can lay his hands on and -sell it for drink, so that his father forbids me to see him -or to give him money. The last time I saw him he was -shoveling coal into a manhole; he looked the part.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>Here she tried to give me a large roll of money, as -she said, “Take this, and please go to the Breakfast Association -and find my darling boy.” “Madam, I am not -authorized to take money for the Association. Dr. Henderson -is the Treasurer, do see him!” “I will not. Will -know who you are. I told him much of meeting you -in Washington. I want you to take this money and find -and clothe my sorrowful son; and oh, say what I would -like to say if I could talk like you! Tell him when he -sees a light at the top of the house that his mother is in -the attic praying for him, and will you pray for me that -I shall not die under this? Will you pray for my son?”</p> - -<p class='c000'>Then we two kneeled and poured into the heart of a -loving Saviour that story of woe. How she wailed over her -own frivolous life, and promised her God a life for Him. -Nearly all the persons referred to have died, so, though -the parties may be recognized in Philadelphia, it cannot -now harm anyone.</p> - -<p class='c000'>I took the money offered. The next Sunday evening -I went to the Association, and my face must have told -<span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>the story, for when I said to Mr. Bean, “I have a message,” -he let me speak. I selected the words, “Son, behold -thy mother!” I told many incidents of heart-broken -mothers because of the sins of their sons, and then I told -of Mrs. W., nearly in the above language. Probably -two hundred men requested prayer that night, and I saw -God could use me for other than literary work.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Mr. Bean said, “That man will not show up till the -others have gone,” so I sat down and waited.</p> - -<p class='c000'>When nearly everyone had left the room a poor, blear-eyed -youth came to the platform. He said, “Mrs. Monroe, -I am Will W. Do give me some money.” I said, -“Will, do you intend to break your mother's heart? Do -you intend to keep on drinking?” “Now, see here, Mrs. -Monroe, I have honestly tried to quit.” Then, pushing -up his sleeve, he showed me scars. “There I have signed -the pledge with my own blood, and I cannot quit.” -Howard McMasters, one of the Breakfast Association -workers, pointed the way to Christ far better than I -could. Then he gave him tickets where he could get -lodging. I met him the next day at a Turkish bath -house. At first they refused to take him, and only by -paying a high price could I secure him a bath and proper -barbering. I gave him a complete outfit of clothes, and -he looked very respectable. Mr. McMasters put a good -man on the case to talk with him, to read the New Testament -with him, to explain salvation and to help him find -God, and to keep at his side whenever possible.</p> - -<p class='c000'>My business took me out of town for several weeks; -when I came back to the city, I went, of course, the first -Sunday evening to the Breakfast Association. After -the meeting was over Will W. came slouching up to the -platform as vile as when I first saw him. He had sold -<span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>every article I had given him for drink. This sorrowful -experience was repeated about five times, but as good is -stronger than evil, the prayers of God's people prevailed, -and Mr. McMasters brought him forward to the altar -and God met him.</p> - -<p class='c000'>His mother's prayers, the word of God as shown by -Howard McMasters and that wonderful Divine Spirit -made a clean work, and a soul was born to God. We -kept him as well guarded as we could. The smells of the -street troubled him, for that reason I went to his father's -wholesale house on Market Street. I had met Mr. W. -with his wife in Washington, and he met me cordially, till -I said, “Mr. W., I have come to talk to you about your -oldest son.” He blazed at me, “Don't you dare to speak -to me of my oldest son. He has broken my heart, his -mother's heart, and disgraced my name. I will not permit -even my wife to speak of him, much less a friend.” -“But he is converted, Mr. W. It will be different now.” -“Oh! he has a new dodge, has he?” “Mr. W., you must -talk to me fairly about this wrecked young life or refer -me to someone who can act in your behalf.” “Well, see -his brother,” and a clerk showed me to the brother's -counting-room. He heard my story with sympathy. -After stating the case, I said, “I want you to put him on -a truck farm down near Media, and get him away from -the smells of Philadelphia.” This was done, though it -took several weeks to bring it about.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The next Sunday night Will sat on the platform, and -testified to the power of God to save. When the meeting -had closed, a handsome young woman, wearing a costly -tailor-made gown and with the stamp of the patrician in -every line of her dainty person, said to me, “Mrs. Monroe, -I am going to marry Will W. this week.” “Oh, my -<span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>dear girl, do not risk it till he has proved himself for two -years! Do not risk it!” “You believe he is converted, -do you not?” “Why, yes; but we should see the transforming -power of the gospel before you risk your happiness.” -“Will needs me now to help him keep straight. -You have not as much faith as you ought to have yourself, -or you would believe he will hold out.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>What more could I say? They were married. His -mother was present at the ceremony, and they went to -the farm to live. Will was held by the power of God, -and, after much blundering, they made a fair success -with a truck farm.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span> - <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER III<br /> <span class='sc'>Incidents Showing the Power of God to Save</span></h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>Among the many other impressive cases of the power -of God to suddenly change a human life from evil to -good occurred at the Breakfast Association in Philadelphia -about the year 1898, and although fifteen years -have passed, every incident, every word is indelibly -written on my memory.</p> - -<p class='c000'>I was coming off the platform one evening when I met -a large, fierce-looking, scowling man, who looked as if he -wanted to strike me. I stopped at once. “Friend,” I -said, “you are in trouble.” “What is that to you and such -as you?” “It is much to me. You look like an employer -of men, yet here you have been taking the bread and -coffee of charity.” “Well, I have been an employer of -men, but now I cannot even get employment. I have -been behind bars; now what hope in life is there for -me?” “Many men who have been behind bars have afterward -made good citizens and even made fortunes. Let us -go down to the Board room and talk this out.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>As he went along growling that there was no hope -for him, I motioned to Mr. McMasters and another -worker to come with us. When we were seated, he said, -“Now, all I want of you people is to help me get work -so that I do not wander like a stray dog through the -streets of the city where I was born. My wife and family -have deserted me and I am a desperate man.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Yes,” I said, “brother, no woman could live with you -as you are now, one would as soon live with a wolf; your -<span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span>hand is against every man and every man's hand is -against you. But God can again make you an employer -of men. He can make you a good husband and father, -but you must find God first. Where is your mother?” -I saw him shrink, and I knew then I had the key. “My -going to prison killed my mother. I had a mill in a -suburb of Philadelphia, and sometimes, after the day's -work was done, I would step into a saloon and take a -glass of beer with my foreman. I was not what you -would call a drinking man. One evening we got into a -dispute about something concerning the mill, and I picked -up a monkey wrench and struck my foreman just one -blow, but I killed him. All our property went for lawyer -fees, all to no purpose, for I was sent to prison for -ten years. I have just been pardoned,” and he drew the -governor's pardon from his pocket. “When I went to -my home I found strangers in it, but at last I found my -wife and my children now nearly grown, but they would -not let me live with them.” I knew perfectly well from -other experiences that he had gone in violence and had -been met with violence.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Mr. McMasters now took the case. He said, “If your -mother were now living, do you believe she would have -received you?” “I am sure she would. The warden -often told us that our mothers would stay by us, that -children grew ashamed of a father in prison, wives persuaded -themselves that it only kept up their grief, but a -mother's love is like that of the God above, it remains. -But mother died.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Well, you want to meet her again, do you not?” “Yes, -but my mother was a Christian.” “That is it; let us kneel -and talk to your mother's God.” Reluctantly, growling -that God cared nothing for a poor devil like him, he -<span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span>kneeled, and with the three of us kneeling about him, -we each one presented the case to God, calling on the -“God whom this man's mother loved and served, asking -mercy for a broken life, a broken home and a broken -heart.” By the time the last one prayed his head was -on the chair and he was sobbing. Then he prayed for -himself, and God came down and the old alchemy of -God turned the heart of stone to a heart of flesh, and -George Gneiss was born into the kingdom of God. It -was not difficult to get him a place as a skilled miller, and -from that day to this he has made good.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The transforming power of the gospel was plainly seen -within a week in his face, in his clothing, in his bearing -at every meeting. After a few Sundays I was called out -of town for six weeks. When I came home, I went to -the Breakfast Association and there, from the gallery, -Mr. Gneiss looked down on me. At his side was a -Quaker woman in the plain dress of her Church, and -with them was a manly boy of seventeen. After the -services, they all came to me (I motioned to others to -come), and they told us the story of their reunion. Tears -stood in her eyes as she said, “We have family prayers -now, and we pray for you every day. God is blessing -us in every way. Pray for us.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>After that they came to see me, either at the Breakfast -Association or at my home, as often as three or four -times a year as long as I remained in Philadelphia.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>THE GOSPEL MISSION</h3> - -<p class='c013'>After telling about those two incidents connected with -my small share of rescue work in Philadelphia, it is time -now to resume the story of our Gospel Mission. It is -only because we see souls converted almost every night -<span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span>that makes it possible for us to bear the sight and the foul -smell of unclean bodies, of dead whisky and tobacco, -and the revolting drunkenness, then the remonstrances -of one's own kindred and church people are trying, unless -God gave great recompense, first in one's own enlarged -spiritual life, in order to fit us for the work, and -almost daily gave us the joy of seeing souls converted, -it would be an impossible work.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>CONVERSIONS AND REGENERATION</h3> - -<p class='c013'>Conversion seems to me to be largely man's share in -the greater fact of regeneration, which is entirely God's -work in a human soul.</p> - -<p class='c000'>At a Rescue Mission the theologian could get a new -and practical knowledge of the gospel he preaches; the -professor of psychology sees how spiritual powers, unseen -to mortal eye, can grip the entire machinery of the -mind, and by a supernatural application of God's Spirit -and the word of God make a man over again.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Hundreds of times have I seen the alchemy of God -make men who steal to do God's service; feet that have -been in the way of the transgressor to walk in the paths -of righteousness, and tongues accustomed to blaspheme -to sing God's praises.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Professor James defines conversion thus: “To be converted, -to be regenerated, to receive grace, to experience -religion, to gain assurance, are so many phrases which -denote the process, gradual or sudden, by which a self -hitherto divided and consciously wrong, inferior and unhappy, -becomes unified and consciously right, superior -and happy, in consequence of its firmer hold on religious -realities.”</p> - -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_035.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p>“REMEMBER ME”: HANDS UP FOR PRAYER</p> -</div> -</div> - -<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span><em>The first element in conversion is first an influence from -the Holy Spirit brought about by prayer.</em> Now, that -prayer may have been sent up years ago by a mother now -dead, but is usually the result of a prayer atmosphere in -the meeting.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The Holy Spirit acts like a searchlight on the human -soul, and the sinner for an instant sees himself as God -sees him. I have seen men rush through the door, and, -without taking a seat, come straight to the altar, because -God's Spirit had met them. That is not the usual way, -and it is usually some immediate message of His word, -rendered in song or spoken word to the sinner's heart, by -which he catches a glimpse of his lost condition.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Let no parent be discouraged concerning a wandering -child. Delayed answer to prayer is not a denial. I know -a minister whom God greatly uses who was a wild youth -when his mother died, but God answered her prayer. He -will answer yours.</p> - -<p class='c000'>It is important who presents the sinner to God. A -perfunctory church member who plays cards, dances, -tipples or smells of tobacco, cannot acceptably bring a -soul to God. God often accepts a soul without an intermediary, -but the wrong person keeps a soul from God. -It makes a difference. You remember Ezekiel 14:20, -“Though Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they shall -but deliver their own souls by their righteousness,” showing -that as we abide in Him, God answers prayers accordingly. -Then the word of God comes in. The helper -tries to make the seeker lay hold of the promises. I have -seen many conversions on Romans 10:13, “For whosoever -shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” -It comes like a wireless message from on high. It becomes -personal as the praying sinner cries to God, he -believes he is heard, he believes he is forgiven, he accepts -<span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span>the pardon and rises to his feet a redeemed man. A -supernatural power has come into his soul. Another -verse which brings men through is 1 John 1:9, “If we -confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our -sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>The religion of Christ has two elements in it—a destructive -element and a constructive element. The destructive -element is what we figuratively call “the blood -of Christ.” It not only pardons or washes away the past -sins, but it takes out of the soul lying, drinking, lust, laziness, -deceit, fraud of any kind, and with the constructive -element it puts into the soul honor, truth, industry, integrity -or wholeness. It creates in the soul the desire to -walk in companionship with Christ.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The recognition of sins forgiven and the conscious -presence of God is what in emotional natures makes -some shout, some weep, some tremble as with an ague, -but regeneration in all souls brings unspeakable joy. It -not only energizes for action, but it puts into the soul the -power of endurance before unknown.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>I HAVE KEPT THE FAITH</h3> - -<p class='c013'>One cold night in November, 1908, the writer had -charge of the Gospel Mission service. In the testimony -meeting a fine looking young man arose and said about -this: “I am a graduate of a college in Maine, also of a -medical department of a college of this city. I have had -a good practice and a good home. I have lost all of -these from hard drink. Last spring I was converted in -a street meeting held by this Mission at the post-office -corner. Soon after that I obtained a situation in a large -department store in this city, where I did good work, but -I lost my temper at the inefficiency of a driver. I learned -<span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span>then and there that only proprietors have the right to -lose their tempers, and I lost my place. I have had a -hard time since. God only knows the suffering of a man -without money, friends, or even acquaintances in a great -city.” And with a wail, like a cry of anguish, he said, -“But I've kept the faith! I've kept the faith!”</p> - -<p class='c000'>After the close of the meeting, a worker said, “I fear -that man has had no food to-day.” I went to him and -said, “Son, when did you eat last?” He answered, “Yesterday -morning.” I slipped into his hand a dollar bill -and my card, and said, “Come and see me to-morrow -morning.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>We had no difficulty in getting him back into the department -store where his quick and clear penmanship, his -great executive ability, have been most highly appreciated -for nearly five years.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span> - <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER IV<br /> <span class='sc'>An Element of Humor in Rescue Work</span></h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>Unless one can see the humor in rescue work, the tragedy -of it all would break the heart, ruin one's health, and -keep one's mind all the time on the sorrowful stories -that we hear daily.</p> - -<p class='c000'>A part of successful rescue work is the ability to bring -each sorrowful case to God, lay it on His altar, and leave -it behind us when we leave the Mission.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>AUNT MARY</h3> - -<p class='c013'>One very cold night, a few years ago, we had present -among our visitors a wealthy lady and gentleman from -Pittsburgh. We were most anxious that the Mission -should make a good impression on them, hoping a donation -of at least $25. It was a very cold night. Soon -after the services opened a person, whom I shall call -Charles Winters, son of an old Virginia family, came in. -He was much under the influence of liquor, and began -at once to make a disturbance.</p> - -<p class='c000'>I remembered his dear old gray-haired mother and his -accomplished sister, and knew in a moment that if he -were put out he would freeze to death or be placed in -prison. Two of the helpers started to put him out; that -was the easy way, and there were my guests and that -prospective donation.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The men already had hold of him, when I said, “Stop, -men; please let me speak to him.” Laying my hand -kindly on his shoulder, I said, “Charles, sit down and behave -<span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>yourself.” With a drunken laugh, he said, “I'll sit -down for you, Aunt Mary, but not for these toughs.” -All evening I had to go back every few minutes to quiet -him, much to the amusement of my friends, who frequently -to this day call me Aunt Mary. But I saved a -family from shame and my donation came all right.</p> - -<p class='c000'>In most businesses old age is a handicap, but every gray -hair of my white head is an asset. Nearly every evening -some poor, vanquished soldier of fortune, ragged, unshaven -and unshorn, comes to me and says with quivering -lips, “You look just like my mother, to-night, will -you care a little for me?” And I lay my arm across the -soiled coat and say, “Son, the trail of every sin is on your -poor soiled body; you have tried some by yourself to be -good, now let us ask Jesus to help. But I shall send you -up stairs under guard and to the bath-room, where you -must take a very warm bath while I go to the workroom -and get you clean clothes from the skin out; your -clothing will go into the fumigator over night; you shall -have enough to eat and be physically comforted, then we -will try again with Jesus as yoke-fellow. You and -I will talk to Him about it and we will try again, shall -we?”</p> - -<p class='c000'>There is no use talking salvation to a hungry man or a -man physically uncomfortable. We usually help a poor -fellow several days before anything more than the above -is said, then we show him the tendencies of his life; he -sees them in the wrecks all around him. He hears the -testimony of redeemed drunkards, thieves and gamblers, -and sees them clothed and in their right minds; then the -teachings of some Christian mother, Sunday school -teacher, or preacher comes back, and lo! he prays. God's -Holy Spirit acts as a searchlight, and he sees his abhorrent -<span class='pageno' id='Page_38'>38</span>self as God sees him, and he cries for mercy. -God comes down when the sinner calls for redeeming -power, and a great psychological change takes place. If -a soul really agrees to give up every sin, to take Jesus -Christ as pattern and friend, Christ Himself enters into -covenant relations with that soul and the man is born -again. He usually lays hold mentally of some one verse -of Scripture, which becomes to him a personal message -from on high. I have seen many take the verse, “Seek ye -first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all -these things shall be added unto you,” and use it as the -stepping stone into the higher life. They seek God and -live His righteousness. Take the case of</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>MR. E. C. CONNAUGHT</h3> - -<p class='c013'>as an example. One very cold morning in January, 1912, -Mr. Kline received a telephone message like this, “There -is a drunken man with a wife and four children set out -on the street at so and so. Bring coffee and food at -once.” Just as quickly as they could get the food, Mr. -and Mrs. Kline hastened to the relief of that family. -The wind was blowing snow and sleet, though it seemed -too cold for either. The family, including the drunken -father, were brought immediately to the Mission, though -their household stuff was left standing on the street, -where it remained four days. It was such a miserable -collection that even the colored people did not steal any -of it. Then it was brought to the Mission and stored in -the cellar.</p> - -<p class='c000'>One child was in the hospital from a blow from the -father. They were physically comforted and put in the -“Shelter,” a place reserved for stranded women and children. -By night the father was fairly sober and they were -<span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span>all taken to the religious services in the chapel, where -Mr. Connaught heard man after man rise and testify -that God had saved him and taken away the appetite for -drink. At first there was a sneer on his face, but gradually, -as one well dressed man after another bore the same -testimony, he cried out, “I have been an infidel, not believing -in God or immortality, but if the God you worship -can cure me of this awful appetite, I want Him.” He -kneeled at one of the front benches, and an awful spectacle -of rags and dirt and bloated flesh he was.</p> - -<p class='c000'>I remember thinking, “Surely this case is beyond help,” -but God is better than we even dare hope. Several -prayers were offered in his behalf, then he prayed for -himself, and lo! he prayed with the tongue of the learned. -He said, “O God, if there be a God, hear the prayer of -the very lowest of Thy children. I need Thee, I am -totally undone, I put myself in Thy hands for forgiveness -and for discipline. O Lord, save me!”</p> - -<p class='c000'>He kneeled a moment longer, then rose to his feet with -a clear brain, and, looking about like one dazed, said, -“What has happened, you all look different?” Mr. Kline -laid his arm lovingly over the man's shoulders as he -said, “Brother Connaught, you have received your sight. -The Lord Jesus has come into your soul.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>The next morning the Associated Charities had him -arrested for non-support of his family. Judge DeLacy, -a good man, was on the bench. One of our workers said -to the judge, “This man was converted last night, and if -you will give him a chance he will now support his family.” -“Oh, yes, most anyone would be converted rather -than go to Occoquan” (name of the workhouse). “But, -judge, this is no fake case; try him.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>The bloated face, the soiled clothing were against him, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span>and the judge sent him up for eleven weeks. The little -woman and her children were sent to her relatives in -North Carolina by the Board of Charities and Children's -Guardians. Some of our workers kept at his side, reminding -him that he had put himself in God's hands for -discipline, and assuring him that if he could stand true, -God had a useful life in store for him. A marked New -Testament was given him when he left for down the -river. There his head was shaved in the very cold -weather, his clothing changed, so that he took a severe -cold which came near carrying him off with pneumonia. -It took about two weeks to bring political and social influence -to bear to have him paroled and sent back to the -Mission.</p> - -<p class='c000'>January and February of 1912 were very cold months, -it was hard to get any kind of work for men to do, and -the only thing we could secure for Connaught was passing -circulars at sixty cents a day. That amounts to $3.60 -per week; of this he was obliged to pay to the judge $3, -to be sent to his wife. In two or three days Mrs. Kline -phoned me, “Connaught is trying to live on the rolls and -coffee given in the bread line at six o'clock in the morning.” -I replied, “Connaught must have oatmeal with -cream—real cream, for his diseased stomach; he must -have eggs and meat and strong coffee, or he will lose his -religion.” “Well, who is going to provide all that?” -“The Lord has money enough for that.” “Well, suppose -you bring some of it right along,” which of course I -did.</p> - -<p class='c000'>About the tenth day after he began circulating papers, -the work gave out. We really prayed night and day, for -we feared he would be rearrested and we had no money -to support him. In a few days he secured work at digging -<span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span>on the streets at $1.25 per day. He had never been -accustomed to manual labor, so when I sympathized with -him on his poor blistered hands, he said, “I am so glad -to get the work that the hurt is nothing.” Think of that -for a man who had not done a lick of work, physically or -mentally, for months and months.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Long before this we had found that he was a graduate -of an English university, had lived in good style, keeping -servants, he had possessed a nice home when he was -first married, but when he found the habit of drink had -fastened itself upon him, he came to this country hoping -to break away from old companions and surroundings, -and thus get away from the sin which bound him.</p> - -<p class='c000'>He tried all the cures; in fact, all his property not -spent in drink went to the cures, but nothing cured him. -We found he had been a first-class bookkeeper for one -of the great railroads centering at Washington, so we -applied to them. I am glad to say they took an immediate -interest in the case.</p> - -<p class='c000'>A man was sent to see him, then Mr. Connaught was -put in charge of an office building at $40 per month, and -at once he wanted his family back. They came first to -the Mission, for we desired to keep him attending services -every night till he would understand better the word of -God and grow strong in faith. The railroad now pays -him $80 a month, for he is a good executive, and he has -bought a little home in the suburbs on which he is paying -monthly; a home where he can have a garden, an -orchard and chickens. About once a week the father, -the mother, and children come to the Mission. No better -looking or happier looking people enter that building. -He comes, as he says, to bear testimony to the saving -and keeping power of the dear Lord Jesus.</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span> - <h3 class='c012'>PSYCHOLOGY</h3> -</div> - -<p class='c013'>Now, science could not cure this case; all that science -could do had been done for him. He had become so -low that if he saw his children starving and he had ten -cents, the money went to the saloon and not for bread. -It is, as Professor James says, that “Conversion is the -only means by which a radically bad man can be changed -into a radically good person.” The agencies in any conversion -are first prayer, then the Holy Spirit and the -word of God. This man was so far gone that he did not -believe in the existence of God. But the sympathy of the -workers made them pray most earnestly for God's Spirit, -which came with convicting power. The verse of -Scripture which came like a wireless message to his soul -was, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to -forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” -He claimed and still claims the last clause -as a message to him personally.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The reason that hundreds of sermons fail to comfort a -saint or convert a sinner is because they fall on prayerless -pews. You remember how what is known as the Great -New England Revival came about. Dr. Jonathan Edwards -was accustomed to go to his church every Saturday -afternoon to think and to pray for his people.</p> - -<p class='c000'>On one occasion a beggar, known in the town as Old -Betty, sat unseen in a back pew. The great preacher -put his head down on the Bible and sobbed. As he came -out Old Betty said, “What is it, Dr. Edwards, that so -troubles you?” “Betty, I have not seen a soul converted -in this church for a year. Why is it?” “It is because -these pews are prayerless.” “Will you pray till you -get the answer that God will come in power to this -church?” “I will.” Betty hid when the janitor came -<span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span>to close the church, and the answer to her soul did not -come till the dawning of the morning.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The following day Dr. Edwards started as usual to -read his sermon, but he soon put it away and began a -straight evangelistic talk, professed Christians stood in -their places and asked for prayers, elders and deacons -prostrated themselves before God, the whole town became -a prayer circle, and the New England Revival had -begun.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span> - <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER V<br /> <span class='sc'>Big Feet</span></h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>One day a very large man, well over sixty years, and -with three fingers off each hand, in a very modest way -said to me, “I am so ashamed to tell a lady my needs,” -and he turned up his foot and showed me where the sole -was worn out, so that at every step he made he left a -track in blood. “You poor fellow, you need not be -ashamed to tell me of need like that. I shall arrange for -you to stay at the Mission till I get shoes for you.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>He was of the class who sell shoestrings and pencils, -but in very cold weather people do not stop to buy from -street merchants. That night, after the midweek service -of my church, I rose in my place and asked for a pair of -shoes number 9½ or 10. The men hooted, no one of -them ever wore that size, declaring, of course, that I -wanted them to wear myself.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Well,” I said, “whether you wear them or not, you -get them for me,” and I told the story of the bleeding -feet. I did the same at my boarding house. By the next -day one of the elders of the church came with two pairs -of shoes which looked nearly big enough for boats, also -one of the men of the boarding house sent to Annapolis -to his father, a very large man, for a pair of shoes, -which came to me by express. I put the three pairs into -a basket and rushed to the Mission, when lo! the poor -man could barely get his toes into the shoes. With trembling -lip, he said, “It is simply disgraceful to be old and -poor and so awful big that even one's friends cannot help -<span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span>a fellow.” “Indeed, it is no disgrace to be old, poor and -big, but it is a disgrace to be a bad man of any size or -age. Don't you worry, I shall find the shoes.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>That afternoon I met a Board composed mostly of -men eminent in city affairs, among them was a distinguished -lawyer, a very large man. He sat with his -foot across one knee, when I leaned over and said, -“Brother, would you mind walking home in your hose, -and giving me those shoes for a poor chap as large as -you are?” “Do you really mean it?” “Yes, I do; only -I will let you wear them home, then send them to me -with hose, under clothes, and any other clothing you -can spare.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>By the next morning I had clothing for the poor fellow, -and Mr. G.'s number 11 shoes fit as if made to order.</p> - -<p class='c000'>If the poor man had successfully sold pencils and shoestrings -all winter he could not have been so well clothed -as he was that day. But, best of all, while he was obliged -to wait he read the four Gospels through several times, -and he sought and found salvation in Jesus Christ. That -was November, 1911. Since that he has gotten a place -as night watchman in a large building, and he is a good -and faithful man.</p> - -<p class='c000'>In Missions we have a large number of deserted wives -with children, whom we clothe. By that help they can -by their own labor keep their little families together, and -then on every holiday, such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, -etc., we bring them all to the Mission for reunion and -a big dinner. The joyous seasons for the rich are the -saddest times for the poor and the bereaved. It is such a -privilege to be the administrators of the church people -who send money and clothing for these purposes. In -return, the Missions are the real protection of the city. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span>A hungry man is dangerous, and a man with a hungry -family is a menace.</p> - -<p class='c000'>My maid told me, one extreme cold day, that a man -was at the door to see me. I found there one of the most -dangerous housebreakers in the country. “Murphy,” I -said, “I do not want to see any of you men at my home. -What do you want?” “I am starving.” “Well, go to the -Mission, we never turn a man away there.” “I wouldn't -be caught dead there.” “Why not?” “Well, I hate Kline -(the Superintendent) and the whole outfit, but I am -starving, I tell you.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>I knew by that he had been stealing at the Mission. -Thieves fold up the sheets and pillow-cases, even when -they have been entertaining free, put the bedding under -their coats and get away with it. In time we get to know -them and will not put them in the dormitories, but only in -the barracks fitted with shelving but with no pillows or -covers, but fire is kept all night. The bath and toilet-room -adjoins or is part of the barracks, so that men are -made comfortable. I took Murphy to an eating house -near by and filled him up, but at the same time warning -him to get out of town as soon as possible or change his -course and become a good man. Now, if that man had -not been given food he would surely have gotten it, if it -cost a human life. Bad as he was, he would have been -fed had he gone to the Mission. I feared he would not -go, but would commit some depredation. Speaking of -thieves, reminds me of the case of a man whom I shall -call</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>JAMES MANN.</h3> - -<p class='c013'>One evening a tall, fine-looking man came into the -Mission chapel. One gets to know thieves somewhat as -you know an Englishman, a German, an Italian, by the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>marks environment have left on the person. I knew on -sight that he was a thief. We had a Salvation Army -man at the Mission that night from West Virginia, who -gave the message. His subject was, “Be sure thy sin will -find thee out.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>He had been a thief, had served time, but now he told -how happy and safe he felt serving God and in being a -good citizen. Several men knelt at the altar that night, -so when 9.30 <span class='fss'>P.M.</span>, the time for dismissal, came, the men -were permitted to go to the dormitories while one or two -workers prayed with the penitents.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Mr. Mann retired, but he could distinctly hear the -praying. He declared that a voice said, “<em>Mann, now or -never</em>.” He tried to go to sleep, the inward voice persisted, -“Now or never.” He put on his clothes, went -back to the chapel, threw himself down at the altar and -cried to God for mercy for himself.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The workers gathered about him, he told God his story -of sin and shame, and God heard his cry for mercy, and -he rose a forgiven sinner. His kit of burglar tools were -thrown into the Potomac River. He had come to Washington -to burglarize in the northwest section of the city -during the time when Mr. Taft was being inaugurated. -His portrait could have been seen in the rogues' gallery -in every large city of the country, but in a few weeks God -so changed his face that the man could not have been -recognized by the old portrait.</p> - -<p class='c000'>We told Major Sylvester, Chief of Police, of the case, -and Mann was put on the special police force at the -Union Station at inauguration time, and never before nor -since was there ever such a quick nabbing of the noted -thieves as at the Taft inaugural occasion.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Mr. Mann's mother came on from her western home. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>She is a sincere Christian woman. It was doubtless the -answering of her prayers which brought conviction, then -salvation to that dangerous man. Once she said, “James, -I never heard of you for two whole years; where were -you then?” He made an evasive answer, but we knew -that he had spent them behind bars.</p> - -<p class='c000'>After the inauguration the special police were discharged, -and Mr. Mann went to work as a carpenter. -He made a good assistant carpenter. About six months -after that one of the Northern States was making a -search for large men for their mounted police. Major -Sylvester recommended Mann, as he was six feet four -inches tall, and from that day to this he has been on the -mounted constabulary of a great State, engaged in enforcing -the law, rather than breaking the laws of his -country.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Now, is not that real service to the State? This man -was restored to his family, to society, to God. He became -a factor for righteousness, instead of an element -of danger to the commonwealth.</p> - -<p class='c000'>We are not always fortunate enough to see men of -that class seek God. On one occasion three young thieves -came into the Mission, they were of the traveling men of -their base business. After I returned to my home I -called up the police and told them my suspicion, and -asked them to watch the Mission very closely from -eleven o'clock until morning. They were all captured -between twelve and one o'clock midnight as they were -leaving the building and escorted to the station and told -to leave town, which, of course, they did immediately.</p> - -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_053.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p>FREE SUPPER SERVICE</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_49'>49</span> - <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER VI<br /> <span class='sc'>How We Got a New Mission Building</span></h2> -</div> - -<h3 class='c012'>(A CHAPTER ON FAITH)</h3> - -<p class='c013'>Although by January 1, 1911, we had eighty-four beds -filled nearly every night with homeless men, we felt ourselves -very much hampered for room. We turned many -away. Many a poor fellow that winter walked the -streets all night to keep from freezing.</p> - -<p class='c000'>When we pray for a thing which we think the work of -the Lord requires, we begin at once to arrange for it, -as if the money to do the work were already at hand. -Our paper, <cite>The Gospel Tidings</cite>, of January, 1911, said, -“Our Mission now does business in three different localities, -and will soon be obliged to rent two more places -for the wood cutting department and for opening a penny -lunch-room.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>We were so sure that the Lord's work needed enlarging -that we went to the very best architects we knew, -Gregg & Leisenring, and told them our plans and needs, -and they prepared with the greatest care, drawings for -a building costing at the very least $50,000, besides the -cost of the land. Then the writer visited the seats of the -mighty in New York City with the best introductions that -the District Commissioners and leading statesmen could -give. While I was received with great kindness and -courtesy, I was distinctly told by one magnate that he -helped only the young and those starting in life; by -another that his charity could never take a local form, -that he gave along the line of research for causes and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span>remedies of diseases. The women, whose secretaries I -met, themselves not being visible to plain people, I was -assured had planned all their surplus income for five to -eight years ahead, so that I came back convinced that -God's way for the Gospel Mission was not by way of -New York City.</p> - -<p class='c000'>About that time a great fire occurred in an eastern city, -and many men and women lost their lives, and the order -went out in Washington that every building where a -large number of people worked or slept must have plenty -of fire-escapes.</p> - -<p class='c000'>We found to put fire-escapes on the Gospel Mission -would cost $125, an immense sum to us, but we were -preparing to put up the fire-escapes when the owner refused -his permission. We told the police, and asked time -to relocate, but were peremptorily ordered out of 1230 -Pennsylvania Avenue, N. W. We could find no suitable -building obtainable within our means.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>A MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS</h3> - -<p class='c013'>was called at my house for prayer. There were thirteen -members present. The object of the meeting was stated -by President Wheeler, a few of God's promises read -from His word, and we went on our knees for prayer.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Each one asked for a suitable home to do the Master's -work as seen and done by the Gospel Mission. It was -noticeable that after the eighth person had prayed, each -prayer took more and more the form of thanksgiving, as -if we already had received the building, or money to -build it.</p> - -<p class='c000'>There had been offered to us a very large double building -which had once been used as the District Building, -and upon which it was claimed that the government of -<span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span>the United States had once put $60,000 to make it fireproof. -It is situated at 214-216 John Marshall Place, -N. W., not far from the foot of Capitol Hill. After having -the distinct answer to prayer that God was working -with us, a letter was written to Mrs. John Hay, wife of -the deceased great Secretary of State, asking her to purchase -that building for $25,000 for us and to permit us to -pay her a fair interest and pay the principal in annual -payments. The letter was written about the first of -March. Almost by return mail Mrs. Hay replied that -she did not care to make so large an investment, but if -we cared to go forward and purchase the building ourselves, -that on April 1 she would give us $5000 on the -first payment. Never will I forget the scene when that -letter was read.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Mr. H. D. Gordon had received the letter just as he -was starting for the Board meeting, his face was radiant. -When Mr. Wheeler came in the letter was put in his -hands without comment. As soon as he read the words, -“I will give you $5000 on the first payment,” without -waiting to finish the letter, he said, “Let us pray.” We, -on our knees, each one thanked God for the gift dictated -by His Spirit, and asked God's blessing on the magnanimous -woman who had obeyed the Spirit's order.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The Building Committee eventually secured the property -for $22,000, of which $5000 was to be a cash payment, -and by agreeing to pay $1750 annually, and to pay -semi-annually a 5½ per cent interest.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Think of the growth in spiritual power of a little organization -which in September, 1908, shuddered at a bill -of $25, in the early spring of 1911 joyously making itself -responsible for $17,000 bearing a semi-annual interest -amounting in the year to $850!<a id='p51'></a></p> - -<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span>Since that time we have made three annual payments -of $1750 each, and we have met all interest to date.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Probably in no civilized country was there ever a -dirtier house. The building had been occupied by some -foreigners until it had become so vile that the police condemned -it and obliged them to move out. They took with -them all gas fixtures, all sewerage, heating and water -pipes; in fact, wrecked the building, but a mission band is -brave, and went valiantly to work.</p> - -<p class='c000'>More than one hundred wagon loads of dirt were taken -from the cellars. We know, for we paid ten cents a load to -the dump. When we had put in $100 in glass, it scarcely -made a mark, so large is the building. It has sixty-six -rooms, some of them as large as the chapel of an ordinary -church.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The walls have been scraped and calcimined and whitewashed; -the entire woodwork inside and all the outside -has been painted; new gas pipes and gas fixtures have -been placed; new sewerage and bath-rooms have been -prepared. Four new fire-escapes and an electric fire-alarm -system installed; a splendid French steel range has -been set in the kitchen; hot and cold water supplied to -various parts of the building, etc.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The first meeting was held in our new building, 216 -John Marshall Place, N. W., on the evening of April 15, -1911, Mr. Wheeler presiding.</p> - -<p class='c000'>We found the roof leaked so badly that in case of -storm some rooms became uninhabitable. Again I was -obliged to personally guarantee the payment of $500 for -a new roof. Again, Mr. Ernest Gichner came to my -help. He put on a good roof, built up and pointed the -thirteen chimneys, put ventilators in many chimneys, saw -to resetting, reglazed all skylights, and permitted us to -<span class='pageno' id='Page_53'>53</span>pay him $25 per month till the debt was paid off.</p> - -<p class='c000'>When the possibility of completing the first cleaning -seemed most hopeless, when heat, water and gas pipes -had to be replaced, several members of the Board pledged -$100 each. To some of us that meant great self-denial. -Mrs. Richard Butler gave $500 and Mrs. Spindle $200; -in all we spent $5000 in repairing and cleaning that building. -Every step was made in faith.</p> - -<p class='c000'>It was wonderful how our people sacrificed to get all -this done; women who do not do such work at home -came and scrubbed and cleaned; many a poor man gave -a day's work. Three men who readily command $3 per -day, worked three months each at $1 a day with room -and board. The people of Washington sent us piles of -old furniture, for which we were deeply grateful. Then -Superintendent Kline got a great quantity of furniture -and many feet of piping for conducting heat, and secondhand -radiators at the sale of the old Riggs Hotel. We -secured a good mechanic, and with our mechanics at the -Mission, installed the heating plant. The expenses during -that time were at least $200 per week. At our Board -meeting one Tuesday, Treasurer Gordon reported $4.84 -on hand. All business was stopped immediately and we -went to prayer telling our Father that we had but $4.84 -and the bills of the week would be due on Saturday. -We had each of us done all we could afford. The following -Tuesday the Treasurer reported all bills paid and -$284 in the treasury. Thus God not only supplied all our -wants, but graciously relieved our anxiety.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>SPEAKER CHAMP CLARK</h3> - -<p class='c013'>Rather an amusing incident occurred when our cleaning -was most strenuous. We have a large number of -<span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span>good women who will do good work if I lead, so on one -occasion I took a tin bucket with rags, soap, scrub-brush, -etc., and went to help on work rather out of my line. -I started to return with the bucket in hand. When I came -to the car I saw the Hon. Champ Clark, who had then -very recently been elected Speaker, at the front of the -car. I was careful to take the back seat, hoping he would -not see me. I had barely got seated when he came back -and took a seat beside me. I tried to apologize for my -appearance and impedimenta. He said, “Oh, bother! -Never mind. What fault are you Republicans finding -with me now?” and we went at the Reciprocity Bill, then -before the House, with hammer and tongs. When I got -off at Second Street, S. E., the Speaker carried the -bucket and handed it to me in his gallant way, still talking -of the measure before Congress. I doubt if he recognized -whether it was an old tin bucket or a jewel case -which he transferred to me.</p> - -<p class='c000'>As long as this is a faith chapter, I shall here insert a -statement of how God sent the last $300 on our annual -payment and semi-annual interest due and paid May 7, -1913.</p> - -<p class='c000'>This is from the June, 1913, number of <cite>Gospel Tidings</cite>:</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>HOW THE LORD PAID THE DEBT</h3> - -<p class='c013'>Mrs. Monroe's Letter in <cite>Lutheran Observer</cite> of May 16:</p> - -<p class='c000'>“On May 1 (1913), we were owing at the Gospel Mission -on the building $15,500 with $406 semi-annual interest. -We have agreed to pay $1750 each year, so we -were responsible for $2156 on May 1; by special agreement -it was not paid until the 7th. I want to tell my -friends who have prayed with me in this struggle how -the Lord led us.</p> - -<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span>“At the Board meeting, Tuesday, April 29, we had -$1140 in the treasury. By Wednesday morning we had -$1200. Thursday we had $1300, and on Friday, at Dr. -Stearns's class, I reported $1400 in the treasury and requested -God's children to ask for the $756 yet due. By -Sunday, May 4, we had $1659, when Hon. B. H. Warner -subscribed $200, bringing our fund to $1859. A small -bill reduced it to $1856.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“The gentleman who held the note telephoned from -Baltimore that he would not come for his money until -Wednesday, May 7. At the Tuesday evening meeting -five of us prayed definitely for $300. On Wednesday -morning, just after breakfast, a friend telephoned, -'Please come up at once.' Now, that is my writing day, -and I felt I could hardly go, but my times are in His -hands, and if He said 'Go,' then that was my orders. I -went at once, and my friend said, 'I feel you are needing -$300 on your debt, and the Lord woke me up to tell -me to hand you $300, and I am prepared to pay it.'</p> - -<p class='c000'>“To say how grateful we all are cannot be put into -words. But at this time, when the city was being scoured -for $300,000 for the Emergency Hospital, when the Ohio -sufferers had claimed all we thought we could spare, for -the Board of a little mission, dependent mostly on the -poor, as the poor man's church, to pray down from -heaven $2156 of a special fund, besides the running expenses, -which are always very heavy, means more than -money to us. It seems to be the divine seal of God's -approval on our work. I had subscribed $500 for myself -and friends. He graciously paid through me $656, -and now, with the $300, He has made my share $956.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Some of the readers of the <cite>Observer</cite> sent me money, -but more prayed for our work. Now, join with us in -<span class='pageno' id='Page_56'>56</span>praising God for a message straight from the throne of -our dear, loving heavenly Father.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“To everyone who helped, even to the amount of five -cents; to those who denied themselves usual comforts -to help the Mission; to those who gave to help provide -shelter for the poor—to each of us He sends, I am sure, -this dear message, 'I glorify you in order that your faith -may be strengthened and that you may glorify me.' If -any of us has ever had any doubt of God's special providence -to His children, let this concrete example be a permanent -love-message of assurance to every such -doubter.”</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>NEXT STEP OF FAITH</h3> - -<p class='c013'>By June, 1913, we found that nearly every Sunday -night more than one hundred persons had to be denied -entrance on account of lack of room. We saw by taking -down a partition on the north side of the chapel between -chapel and hall, we could seat at least one hundred more. -We were just over the strain of the last payment, and we -were loath to ask our friends for more help, but as God -continues to each of His children the blessings which -they daily enjoy, so each child of God must continue to -help in His work, and relying on Him “who worketh with -us,” we ordered the wall taken out at a cost of about -$900, which afterward proved to be $1300. Again I had -to make myself responsible for the payment of that -amount. It was all paid on time.</p> - -<p class='c000'>In this faith chapter I desire to insert the following -from the <cite>Gospel Tidings</cite> of June, 1913:</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>MR. WHEELER'S STORY</h3> - -<p class='c013'>“At the Sunday evening service, December 18, 1912, -Mr. Wheeler said: 'When I was in charge of religious -<span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span>work at the United States jail some years ago, one Sunday, -after service, I went round, as was my custom, to -shake hands with the men behind the bars. I came to a -fine-looking man, to whom I said, “Why are you here? -I have often seen you on the street, and I have thought -of you as a good citizen.” “O Mr. Wheeler, I have been -a good citizen. My wife and I have a little store in -Georgetown, where we sell oysters in the winter and -ice cream in the summer. My wife gave me $65 to settle -our bill with the wholesale oyster man, and I took a -number of drinks, and finally went into the marble -saloon and took a drink with some strangers, and as -surely as I tell you I do not remember another thing -until I found myself in a cell at the station house.”'</p> - -<p class='c000'>“On further inquiry Mr. Wheeler found that the prisoner -was charged with passing counterfeit money. It -appeared that after he came out of the saloon a Jew was -crying clothing on D Street. This man went into the -Jew's clothing store, bought a suit of clothes, for which -he offered a $50 bill in payment. The Jew could not -make change, so took it to a neighbor, who assured him -the bill was bad, and the man's arrest immediately followed.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Mr. Wheeler went often to the cell to pray with and -for the poor prisoner, who devoted his time to the study -of the Gospels. He was soundly converted. Mr. Wheeler -said, 'Do not trust alone to your lawyer. Appeal to Jesus -Christ now to clear you, for, as far as I can see, man -cannot.'</p> - -<p class='c000'>“His lawyer told Mr. Wheeler that the court would -surely send the prisoner to the penitentiary. On the -morning of the trial several Christian men met together -and prayed over the case. The court convened at 10 -<span class='pageno' id='Page_58'>58</span><span class='fss'>A.M.</span>, and the case was immediately called. A stranger -asked to be sworn as a witness. He said about this: -'I was in Washington on the day this affair occurred. I -do not often take a drink, but I happened to be in the -saloon when this man came in. He took a drink with two -young fellows who happened to be there, and the liquor -made him drunk at once, when one of the young fellows -said, “It is my turn to treat, and I will, if any of you -can change a $50 bill.” This man brought out lots of -money, and got the $50 bill in exchange. I left Washington -the next day, that is how I was fortunate enough to -remember the date. I got back yesterday, and happened -to see a statement of this case in the evening's paper, and -I felt simply compelled to come and give my testimony.'”</p> - -<p class='c000'>The prisoner was reprimanded (which was unnecessary, -as he was a new creature in Christ Jesus), but the -case against him was dismissed, as it was apparent there -was no intent to defraud the Jew. His family nearly -smothered him with kisses and embraces, and he walked -out a free man.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Skeptics may say this was mere chance. But how did -it happen that the man came back on that day, saw that -account in the paper, felt compelled to testify? No, God -directed the case after it was committed to Him.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_59'>59</span> - <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER VII<br /> <span class='sc'>Varieties of Work in a Gospel Mission</span></h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>We are apt to think that all persons who accept the -hospitality of the Mission are low-born people; we have -not found it so. There have knelt at the altar of the Gospel -Mission, priests and preachers, lawyers, doctors, merchants, -engineers, college men and poor chaps who have -had no education but that of the street.</p> - -<p class='c000'>I remember one night when we were located at 1230 -Pennsylvania Avenue, there knelt at the altar three men, -one an ex-preacher, one a graduate of the University of -Virginia, and one the nephew of an ex-President of the -United States. We believed they were all converted. -The preacher was in bad physical condition, and we felt -it necessary to put him into a Christian institution for -such as he for medical treatment. The taste for liquor -had gone, but the ulcerated stomach and bowels remained, -also his nerves were in a dangerous condition. -How we ever obtained money enough to pay that man's -bills for six weeks is yet a marvel, but we did it. He -came out a redeemed, humble man. He went to the -pastor of a large church in Brooklyn, whom he had -known at college, and before that large church he acknowledged -his sin with shame and deep contrition. The -church had grace enough to accept him. The congregation -opened a rescue mission, supported entirely by that -church, where for five years he has preached the gospel -and has saved a hundredfold more souls than the big -church which supports the mission.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The Virginian never again crossed our path, but Mr. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_60'>60</span>Buchanan died after three years of a good life, an honored -member of an Episcopal church in Washington.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Men who have been dissipated, even when redeemed -and reformed do not, as a usual thing, live to old age. -The wages of sin is death to the body, though the soul -may enter upon eternal life.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Among the sorrowful who nightly are to be found at -the missions of this city either pensioned by their family -or the government, but not permitted to return to their -homes, is one man who was once one of the <em>best</em> mail -agents between Washington and New York City. -Another, the son of an ex-cabinet officer. Another has -been Chief Mathematician in a government bureau, besides -about twenty wrecks of various government departments.</p> - -<p class='c000'>I remember the case of a well-known man in Philadelphia. -He was converted one extremely cold night at the -Breakfast Association. No provision is made there for -beds, so that poor fellow started “to carry the banner”—that -is to walk the streets all night. About three o'clock -in the morning he was taken with a congestive chill. A -kind policeman, seeing the man was ill and not drunk, -sent him at once to that blessed little Presbyterian hospital -in West Philadelphia.</p> - -<p class='c000'>It happened that one of the Board of Directors of the -Breakfast Association, Mr. Tibbals, had given the poor -fellow his card. The authorities, finding the card, sent -for Mr. Tibbals. The sick man had revived enough when -Mr. Tibbals arrived, to give his true name and the address -of his parents, which was a number on Fifth Avenue, -New York City. That street was then a residence -street for very wealthy people. Just as soon as it could -be done, a telegram for $100 was received in reply and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_61'>61</span>we were directed to do all we could for him. But the -man died before night, and Mr. Tibbals was asked to -take the body to New York. The coffin was carried into -one of the handsomest brown-stone residences on that -handsome avenue.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The mother and father met Mr. Tibbals, and in the -parlor the coffin was opened for identification. It was -the body of the only son of that proud family. The -father gave one look, one great sob, then seized his hat -and fled. The mother said, “O Mr. Tibbals, you think I -am grief-stricken over his death! But I am not even -sorry. This son has been a drunkard from childhood. -We could not keep him at home, for he would steal -everything he could carry away and sell it for whisky. -Since we lost sight of him, I have never opened a paper -without fearing I should read his name in connection -with some awful crime. No, I am relieved. I shall know -where he is. I have often gotten into my carriage and -have had the driver go up and down this street (which -was then covered with cobblestones) as fast as the law -permitted him to drive, and I have screamed and -screamed my heart out. I have gone to the seashore -to scream to let off my nervous strain. Had I given just -one such scream in my own house, I would this day be -in a mad house. Oh, no, for this death, after what you -hope was a conversion, I am deeply grateful to God!”</p> - -<p class='c000'>And yet people wonder at Carrie Nation. It is a wonder -that grief like that does not make iconoclasts of all -mothers whose sons go down the Jericho road.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The following testimony, given in the winter of 1911, -by one who had stood on many rounds of the social ladder, -a man who accepted redemption, and is now kept by -the power of God:</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span> - <h3 class='c012'>A REMARKABLE TESTIMONY</h3> -</div> - -<p class='c013'>“When Brother Wheeler requested me to address this -meeting, I felt somewhat nervous, for the simple reason -that I had never in my life addressed a religious meeting -before, and I so stated to Mr. Wheeler. However, I -could not refuse him, and here I am.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“True, in years gone by, while down South, I have -spoken to political gatherings. Since I got religion, I -stopped that. If I should ever make a political address -again, it will be in the interest of the Prohibition party. -I regret that I have no experience in addressing a religious -meeting, and I, therefore, ask you to be patient -with me, especially as, due to previous engagements, I -was unable to prepare myself, except in so far that I have -decided to make a few remarks on personal salvation, -and by the term personal I have my own in mind.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“I want to tell you something about my own experience, -how I had lost my God and found Him again. A man -born and reared on the Bowery or any of its side streets -in New York City, a man who from his childhood on -has been influenced by evil-minded and sinful people, has -never heard of Christ, and in the course of time becomes -a hardened criminal, such a man may be condemned by -mankind, but never by God.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“A man born and raised in a comfortable, refined -home, who has been taught the doctrines of Christ, has -confessed his belief that Christ is His Saviour, has a full -knowledge of right and wrong and of the duties he owes -his fellow-man—if such a man becomes a willing victim -to sensual pleasures, he may not be condemned by mankind, -but God will condemn him, unless he repents and -starts to lead a new, clean life.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Only too often men are so completely wrapped up in -<span class='pageno' id='Page_63'>63</span>their personal matters, as, for instance, in their business -affairs, that they absolutely lose sight of the obligations -they owe God, and also their fellow-men, and, as a -natural result, neglect their souls.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“I honestly believe that such a man is more to be -pitied than the ones who, either through their own fault -or being victims of circumstances, have lost their hold -in life and finally found themselves 'down and out.' A -man may temporarily be without food and shelter, but this -is nothing compared to trying to live without God. However, -a man who is a wanderer on the face of the earth -and who has lost his God, is indeed a wretched being. I -am speaking from experience.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“For years I had violated the divine laws. I had been -what is generally termed a society man, 'way down South. -I enjoyed a large income, but I spent everything for -worldly pleasures. Finally, I became disgusted with my -surroundings; but, better still, I became disgusted with -myself. I drifted to New York City, determined to live -a new life. This occurred about fourteen years ago. Up -to that time I had not been within or even near a church -for seven years. The New York atmosphere apparently -did not agree with me. Instead of leading a clean, moral -life—by that I understood at that time a life simply conforming -to the requirements of the social laws (the -divine laws did not exist for me)—I became worse than I -had ever been.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Although I made good money, as the saying is, I was, -nevertheless, broke all the time. I voluntarily gave up -several splendid positions because objections had been -made to my reporting late in the morning for duty, and, -having become rather nervous, I practically found it impossible -to get along with anyone. I had become a slave -<span class='pageno' id='Page_64'>64</span>to my habits, and finally associated with the 'has beens,' -as they are sometimes called.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“There is not a man in this room who knows more -about the life on the east side of New York than I do. -I know full well what it means to be hungry and homeless. -I have worked as a longshoreman, newspaperman, cook, -bookkeeper and correspondent. I have been running hot -frankfurter stands, etc., sometimes I had two jobs in one -day. I was given a wonderful taste of the ups and downs -in New York City, especially the downs. I certainly am -grateful to Providence for subjecting me to that awful -experience in New York City, for in that way I learned -to know human nature. I learned to know that the so-called -submerged masses were composed of human beings, -not brainless individuals; that, as a matter of fact, -there are better people, especially morally, among the -poor than among the so-called society people.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“I might be asked why it was that I did not find God -again, when I was down and out in New York City. -Christ was knocking, knocking all the time to enter my -heart, but I had become a cynic and would not let Him in. -I used to think in those times that if there was a just -God I would not be in such a sorrowful plight. The -trouble with me was, I did not have enough sense to admit -that my condition was simply due to my own faults -and to nothing else.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“During my stay in New York I have met many -saintly people, men and women who devoted their time, -energy and money to the uplift of the homeless and the -friendless. Those good people tried their best to have -me converted. They did not succeed because I was not -willing and because I actually believed most of my -friends who were in charge of the several missions that -I was in the habit of attending were suffering from hallucinations, -although perfectly honest in their self-imposed -task.</p> - -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_071.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p>PENNY LUNCH ROOM</p> -</div> -</div> - -<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_65'>65</span>“The greatest evil in New York City is, as everywhere, -the saloon. The majority of you men present here this -evening must admit if it were not for the saloon you -would not be here as applicants for bodily assistance. -There are evil spirits in us and around us to lead us -astray; the devil's worst temptation is whisky or any -other intoxicating drink. Man was made in the image of -God; when a man gets drunk he is worse than a beast. -A man will get drunk again and again, a beast will not, -having seemingly more sense than a man. The saloon -is the greatest foe to the spread of the gospel. In most -cases the saloon-keeper knows quite well that he is a -highway robber, that his business is ruining untold -thousands of men, women and children, but as his so-called -business is a legalized one, he may continue indirectly -committing murder.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Really I have more respect for the highwayman and -robber than for a saloon-keeper. During my voluntary -and involuntary observations in New York and elsewhere, -I have come to the conclusion that Christ would -conquer the world in much less time if only the awful -saloon and dive could be eliminated.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“In my travels in this country and in the foreign -countries, I have met many people who by word and -deed were spreading the gospel. Some of them naturally -inquired of me whether I had been converted. My -answer was 'No,' because, as a matter of fact, I did not -know the meaning of the word converted. I was told -to seek Christ and the meaning would be made plain to -me. Evidently I was not sufficiently willing to meet -<span class='pageno' id='Page_66'>66</span>Christ half way, and thus I wasted years of my life -before I finally submitted to the pleadings of the Saviour.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“While I was in the Philippine Islands, twelve years -ago, I was deeply impressed with the different attitudes -of the officers and enlisted men when on the firing line. -It was plain, even to the casual observer, that the men -who were thoroughly devout Christians—and there are -many thousands of Christians in our army—were not -afraid to face the bullets, but the men who were agnostics -and unbelievers, whatever that may mean, were so -nervous and excited that they hardly knew what they -were doing, or they were downright cowards.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“In my own case I was not afraid of death, as I had -given very little thought to such a possibility; besides I -had become more or less indifferent to life and possible -death. One hot summer day, while fighting the Filipinos, -I was shot through the head. An army surgeon bandaged -me up as best he could and then assured me I was -very likely not to live through the day.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“If I ever got scared, it was then, and if ever I prayed, -it was then, in spite of the excruciating pains I suffered. -The words of a comrade, who was a fine soldier, though -not a thorough Christian, uttered by him shortly before -I was wounded, were constantly ringing in my ears, -namely, 'A man may possibly live without Christ, but -he cannot die without Christ.'</p> - -<p class='c000'>“For a month or so the doctors and nurses did not -think I would live, but God spared my life, and no doubt -for a purpose. For six months I was unable to utter a -word, as the bullet had passed through my tongue. It -was well for me I could not talk to any human being, -but I could talk to God. During those months I lived -my entire life over again. I promised God to become a -<span class='pageno' id='Page_67'>67</span>better man. True, I became more earnest in my views -of life, I realized the value of the golden rule, but I was -not converted. I could not yet understand the meaning -of the word.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“The Red Cross nurses, who at the beginning of the -trouble in the Philippines were in charge of the hospital, -were not only experts in their profession, but were -splendid types of self-sacrificing Christians, and their -presence alone made the patients think of their mothers -or sisters or other dear ones at home, thousands of miles -away, and thus unconsciously these nurses, noble representatives -of womanhood, frequently wrought a change -for the better in the hearts of the wounded soldiers.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“While I was a patient at Manilla I saw many a man -pass out of this life. The man with Christ in his heart -died with a smile on his lips, knowing he had done his -duty and that Christ would meet him. The unbeliever -suffered agonies.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“I was wounded almost twelve years ago, not a day -has passed without my communicating with God, and -God was always willing to talk with me, when I addressed -Him. As a result of my experience in the Philippines -I spent almost three years in the hospital. I -thank God He made me suffer, it was the only possible -way for me to find Him again. My conversion did not -take place all at once, it took place gradually. God used -different means and ways in recalling me. I cannot mention -them here without baring my life to you, which may -be of no interest to you. Let me assure you no man can -succeed without Christ. A man may amass a fortune, -but if he neglects his soul his life is of little value.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Among the applicants at different missions, I have -met men who claimed the good people in charge were -<span class='pageno' id='Page_68'>68</span>nothing but hypocrites. It is certainly strange that those -fellows apply to hypocrites for help. Why don't they go -to the agnostic or to the unbeliever?</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Follow my advice, first seek Christ; He is always -ready and willing to accept you; the rest is easy. A -drunkard cannot become sober by taking the Keeley -cure or anything like that. The desire for drink is often -inherited, medicine will not cure the sufferer, only God's -grace can cure him.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Why is it that the man who lives with Christ is always -happy, even under adverse circumstances, and the man -without Him is, as a rule, nothing but an egotist? You -can easily find the answer yourself. Come to Christ, and, -if you are willing to come, why not now?”</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_69'>69</span> - <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER VIII<br /> <span class='sc'>The Need of Rescue Work</span></h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>As early as the fall of 1909 we put out this call:</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>CENTRAL BUREAU OF LABOR</h3> - -<p class='c017'>“The District of Columbia needs a Labor Bureau to -which our Mission and the Associated Charities can send -men and women out of employment. The Bureau, being -a government affair, should know where labor is needed -and should furnish transportation to such places, whether -it be to the cotton fields of the South, the harvest fields of -the West, or the manufactories of New England.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“Such a Bureau should secure from the railroads concessions, -such as they give to immigrants, in sending our -unemployed to the fields of labor.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“Unless Society, with a big 'S,' reaches a hand to the -unemployed these people will surely become a menace -to our great cities, and on some sad day they will dynamite -our public buildings.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“We, who work among them, know their sorrow, their -anguish, their despair, which will end in desperation, unless -relief is furnished.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“Use your influence to secure a Central National -Bureau of Labor for the unemployed. The strong and -wealthy can care for themselves, but a good government -should concern itself with its weaker members.”</p> - -<p class='c000'><cite>The Survey</cite> (published in New York) is now (1913) -steadily advocating something of this kind, and now Congress -(October, 1913,) is considering the matter.</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_70'>70</span> - <h3 class='c012'>FOR THE UNEMPLOYED</h3> -</div> - -<p class='c013'>An organization or industrial army of the United -States was provided for in a bill presented to the Senate -by Senator Poindexter, upon the request of R. A. Dague, -of Creston, Iowa. Eligible to membership in the army -would be any unemployed man more than sixteen years -old. The Secretary of Labor would be the recruiting -officer, but an “industrial general,” at a salary of $250 -a month, would command the forces. The army, according -to the bill, would not bear side arms or fight bloody -battles, but would be employed in labor at harbors, forts, -government buildings, irrigation ditches, canals and other -public works of the nation, state and municipality. Residents -in the United States who become members would -receive $2 a day, “together with board and lodging,” -while those who have been in America less than five -years would receive only $1.50. Foreigners who hereafter -come to America would receive only 25 cents a day, -which would be wrong. We expect from the United -States government that ideal justice, even to a foreign -workman, which we shall each receive when we stand in -the presence of Eternal Justice.</p> - -<p class='c000'>All this shows that the idea of a Bureau of Labor -which will help the laborer is steadily growing.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>AN INCIDENT OF THE WINTER OF 1910</h3> - -<p class='c013'>One day Mrs. Kline, the wife of the Superintendent -of the Gospel Mission, phoned me, “We have a man here -so covered with vermin that I cannot let him into the -house, yet he seems to be an educated man. [This was at -the Industrial Department on Fourteenth Street, before -we had our new building.] What shall I do now?” “Call -Donavan, Hall and Happy, and take him to the woodshed -<span class='pageno' id='Page_71'>71</span>and have a tub of warm water; let the men give -him a thorough bath, barber him and wrap him in blankets, -till we can get clothes for him.” That was done. We found -Taylor an educated man, a graduate of the University -of Pennsylvania, the editor of a paper in a suburb of -Philadelphia. He claimed that he had been “shanghaied,” -that is, drugged and carried on board an oyster -boat as a common laborer. He had gone to Baltimore -to go on a drunk, hoping his friends would not find him -out, but his Nemesis was there waiting for him.</p> - -<p class='c000'>He had been kept six weeks on the oyster boat, had -been forced to bunk with negroes and common roustabouts. -After he became sober, I fancy the owners of -the boat saw that they had captured the wrong man, and -would gladly have gotten rid of him. They did not dare approach -land lest their entire crew escape; at last he was -put aboard a passing boat and sent to Washington. He -was over six feet high, of fine physique, about thirty-two -years of age. We did not find it easy to get clothing -suitable for such a person. The day came when he was -able to attend the services at the Mission. He kneeled -at the altar, and we hoped he was converted. We greatly -wanted him to bring suit against the oyster men, but that -would have made his case public, and he did not desire -that. He readily secured a place on one of our city -papers as the purveyor of automobile news, but when -pay day came he got drunk and fell down the stairs and -broke his arm. His system was in bad condition and he -was obliged to go to the free ward of Providence Hospital. -We now wrote to his family, and his mother came -for him in a big touring car from Philadelphia and took -him home, but the exposure and dissipation had done -their perfect work, and he only lived a few months. He -<span class='pageno' id='Page_72'>72</span>seemed, from all accounts, a truly penitent man, but only -at the judgment day shall we know whether he entered -into the rest prepared for the children of God only.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Another experience in the winter of 1911 gave us a -still lower opinion of the oyster men of the lower Chesapeake -Bay. Mr. Hall telephoned me, one cold slippery -day, “Do come down at once, the oyster men are in. -Mr. Kline is away, and the men are in bad condition.” -I went at once. The halls were full of them; many had -only overalls, shirt and shoes without stockings; they -looked frozen. I ordered coffee and rolls at my expense -till I could call help. I feared if I opened the clothing -room they would raid it, so great were their needs.</p> - -<p class='c000'>It was too slippery for women to venture out, so I -began phoning to members of the Lutheran Church -whom I believed would come. One man in a bank said, -“I am not a clerk. I can't go out this kind of weather -for that class of men.” I replied, “I saw you at communion -last Sunday, and I venture you promised your -God to serve wherever you were needed; here is your -first call.” “I shall come at once and bring three other -members of the church with me.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>That winter the Luther Memorial Church, of Erie, -Pa., had sent us a large box of men's clothing, every -article mended, clean and in good condition, and just the -week before a charitable organization, at Chevy Chase, -Md., had sent us two large barrels of men's clothing, and -a full half bushel of socks nicely darned and every article -clean.</p> - -<p class='c000'>So we put trousers on one pile, coats on another, vests -on another, underclothes on another, a churchman at each -pile. I had charge of the socks, then Mr. Ifft, of the -Luther Memorial Church, in the next room superintended -<span class='pageno' id='Page_73'>73</span>the trying on, fitting and exchanging garments. -As we handed each garment we said about this, “The -ladies of the different churches send you these garments -with their love and sympathy.” Many a poor fellow, -all unused to blessing, said, “God bless the churches for -remembering such as us.” In an hour's time we clothed -over seventy-five men. A few did not need complete -outfits. We never supposed we had that many garments -on hand, but that day cleared out all we had in reserve.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Among these men were two Welsh boys, both Christians, -not long in this country. They had not known the -strength of American liquors (which were doubtless -drugged); they were very contrite and were at once put -to work, one as a furnaceman, the other in the wood -yard. We hear the United States revenue cutters have -been after the oyster men and shanghaiing is no longer a -common crime.</p> - -<p class='c000'>When a friend looked in on that crowd of superior -business men helping distribute clothing and saying -words of consolation to the broken men, he said, “I believe -in my soul you would order in the President of the -United States to help at the Gospel Mission.” “Oh, no!” -I replied, “President Taft, good man as he is, would not -be permitted to drive so much as a tack at the Gospel -Mission. He does not recognize Jesus as His Saviour; -only orthodox Christians who can tell the sinner of the -redeeming power of Jesus the Christ can successfully -work in a rescue mission like this.”</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>THE HOLIDAYS</h3> - -<p class='c013'>are a sore trial to the homeless or to the recently bereaved. -Often women of the highest social rank come -to the Gospel Mission on Thanksgiving, Christmas and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_74'>74</span>New Year's, when we give a good dinner to everyone -who applies. (These women forget their own woes as -they serve others.) The subjoined newspaper letter will -give you a good picture of one such occasion:</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>THANKSGIVING DAY AT THE MISSION OF 1910</h3> - -<p class='c013'>“It is a very curious thing to say, that while I saw no -relative of mine, being far separated from all of my kindred, -while I had no time to accept the hospitality of -friends, but ate my dinner at my boarding house, so as to -be at the Mission for service, yet it was one of the happiest -days of my life. It is wonderful the kindness God -puts into the hearts of His people at this season. Not a -member of the Mission has wealth, yet God gave us -means through His children to feed between three and -four hundred people. A little Ohio Joint Synod Lutheran -church at Fulton, Md., sent us a dozen chickens, two -bushels of potatoes, some fine apples, turnips, beets, cabbage, -etc. We bought fifteen turkeys, a lot of hams, then -the New Willard Hotel prepared our fowls and other -meats, and the Raleigh Hotel prepared and cooked all -our vegetables, adding enormous pans of baked beans, -and all this they did free of charge.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Bakers sent us bread and pies, florists sent us great -quantities of flowers, so that we were able to feed all -comers and send out a number of baskets to poor families. -This was the bodily side; the spiritual side was even -better.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“The services began at twelve o'clock noon, and lasted -until ten at night, with a change of leaders, musicians and -varying audiences each hour.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Two boys, about sixteen and eighteen years old, had -walked all the way from Richmond, Va. As they fed -<span class='pageno' id='Page_75'>75</span>their famished bodies, one said, 'O Jim, did you ever before -hear of such a place where one can really get all he -wants to eat, can get a hot bath, can get one night's lodging -all for nothing? I am so tired I just couldn't walk -any more!'</p> - -<p class='c000'>“One man, about thirty years of age, simply prostrated -himself at the altar, and cried aloud to God for pardon. -After he rose he said about this, 'I came from the workhouse -this morning an angry, outraged man, after thirty -days' sentence. I felt my punishment was a great injustice. -My hand was against every man, for I felt every -man's hand was against me. I was ready for any crime. -Someone met me and said, “Go to the Gospel Mission.” -I answered, 'I prefer to go to the saloon and get drunk -and forget for a few hours my sorrows and loneliness.' -But the friend brought me here. You have given me a -good dinner, but that is the least, you have reached the -friendly hand. Brother Wheeler says I can make this my -headquarters till I get work. I am a skilled mechanic, -and I can soon get my place back again, and now I want -to say God has forgiven me my sins, and they are so black -and so many. I was a Christian in my early life, so I -know what I am talking about when I promise my God -and all you, my friends, that, God helping me, I, this day, -take Christ for my Saviour and I will love and serve Him -all the days of my life.' That of itself paid me for all I -could do.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“From three to five people came to the altar for -prayer each hour, and the last hour saw nine young men -pleading for forgiveness, and promising a new life. In -all, I should say, that about fifty people asked for prayers -and twenty-five people sought pardon.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“We had a great singer, Mrs. Fitch, whose singing was -<span class='pageno' id='Page_76'>76</span>greatly used of God to call men to repentance. Thanksgiving -Day was a great day on earth, at the Gospel Mission, -and a great day among the angels of heaven who -saw sinners redeemed.”</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>CHRISTMAS AT THE GOSPEL MISSION</h3> - -<p class='c013'>of 1909 was described by the writer in the following -sketch of the January, 1910, <cite>Gospel Tidings</cite>:</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Christmas at a mission takes on a great element of -thanksgiving; first for the great gift of God—and no -anthems sound so sweet, so deep, reaching into the deep -places of the soul as, 'Now, when Jesus was born in -Bethlehem.'</p> - -<p class='c000'>“The first thing on Christmas Day was to remember -our brothers in bonds. Down at the barracks in the -guard-house, we have two converted men. One a soldier -whom we believe is receiving four times the punishment -for neglect of target practice which he ought to receive; -we can only counsel patience, comfort by our visits and -send him a good dinner.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Then a dear Jewish brother is there. He had been -in the army two years ago, but he was baited, tormented -and outraged in his poetic soul until he deserted. After -that he was converted, and felt with us that he must go -back and take whatever the United States had for him. -One of our workers went with him to the Secretary of -War, who said, 'Why, man, don't come to me; take a carriage -for fear you be arrested on the street.' Mr. Ellison, -our helper, took a carriage and went directly to the -Commandant at the barracks. The Commandant said, -'We are sorry for Mr. L., but he will get two years in the -penitentiary at hard labor.'</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Mr. Ellison said, 'Commander, this man is the servant -<span class='pageno' id='Page_77'>77</span>of the living God; you will give to this Jew that mercy -you yourself will at the last expect from the Judge of all -the earth, who came to this world as a Jew.' Well, it -would be a long story to tell of the court-martial, but, in -answer to prayer, the Jew got only six months in the -guard house, and that time will expire this month.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Then two poor workmen are in the hospital, and four -sinners who promised reformation in the workhouse, -must have a remembrance. Kindness in shame often -leads men to Christ.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“But the great event of the day was the service from -twelve to one o'clock, followed by a dinner at which from -two hundred to three hundred lonely men were fed. In -the evening a service, at which the old, old story of love is -told, heart-broken men are redeemed, and we all go home -wondering at the never-ending miracle of the gospel, -which takes tongues which blaspheme and makes them -sing God's praises, feet that walk in the ways of sin and -makes them run in the ways of righteousness, hands that -steal and makes them do God's service. Oh, it is a wonderful -gospel, and a wonderful Saviour!</p> - -<p class='c000'>“'O ye priests of the Lord, bless ye the Lord, praise -and exalt Him above all forever. O ye servants of the -Lord, bless ye the Lord, praise and exalt Him above all -forever. O ye spirits and souls of the righteous, bless ye -the Lord, praise and exalt Him above all forever. O ye -that are holy and humble of heart, bless ye the Lord, and -praise and exalt Him above all forever.'”</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>NEW YEAR'S EVE</h3> - -<p class='c013'>And New Year's at a Rescue Mission is an interesting -time. Men have wandered the streets for a week, when -it seemed to them every other human being on earth was -<span class='pageno' id='Page_78'>78</span>happy but themselves; they see happiness in every passing -face, they have caught glimpses of Christmas trees -through open doors, they have sensed the appetizing -smells of good dinners, they have witnessed at the railroad -stations and even on the streets the reunion of -families, they have heard the deep-toned organs from -churches, they have heard the ragtime music of happy -people about the home piano, and they only unloved, unloving, -uncomforted, lonely men walk the lonely streets -of our great cities.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Is it any wonder that memory calls up the time when -they too were in happy homes, when mothers' arms encircled -them, when a father's benediction was on their -young heads, and, like the prodigal son, they say, “I will -arise and go to my Father”?</p> - -<p class='c000'>Every one of them knows that sin is the cause of his -downfall, and they also know that they must get right -with God before they can forsake evil habits. Scarcely -one of them but what has tried again and again to leave -off their grosser sins but have failed, but when at the -watch-night service they are told of a Saviour mighty to -save, hope comes again to the broken-hearted.</p> - -<p class='c000'>I remember one occasion at the Breakfast Association, -Philadelphia, at the twilight service, New Year's Eve, I -saw five hundred men stand for prayer at one time. Our -Mission is much smaller, but on New Year's Eve and -during New Year's Day, when we have a continuous -service from 12 o'clock midday to 9.30 <span class='fss'>P.M.</span>, with an -entire change of leaders and musicians each hour, I have -seen your nominal Christian, the toper, the criminal, all -so overcome by the convicting power of the Holy Spirit -that social differences melted away and they knelt side -by side at the mercy seat; we have seen fifty people enter -<span class='pageno' id='Page_79'>79</span>into covenant relations with God in that pivotal period -of the year, and we have seen most of them keep the -faith.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Think of a church holding a meeting nine and a half -hours long; in most churches the pastor and the elders -would have the last three hours or more all alone. But -at the Mission the interest deepens so that it is hard to -dismiss even at a late hour.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>THE FORGER FROM NEW HAVEN</h3> - -<p class='c013'>It was at one of those long services I saw a New -England man brought under deep conviction, and at last -yield to the Spirit, make confession and receive Christ.</p> - -<p class='c000'>It was about 4 <span class='fss'>P.M.</span> when he arose to tell his story of -sin. He said, “I have committed a crime against the -State, and I want to know if I can be forgiven before -that is made good. I want to see three members of the -Board alone.” Three of the men went into consultation -with him. It proved that he had forged a check at New -Haven for $300, had collected the money and had escaped.</p> - -<p class='c000'>He was told, “God will forgive you now and undertake -for you in case you promise full restitution.” He -kneeled at the altar, began to pray out loud, promised -restitution and promised to bear patiently any punishment -the State demanded.</p> - -<p class='c000'>A worker was sent with him to New Haven. He went -first to his own father, who said, “John, I never want -to see your face here; you had no business to come back, -for you will be sent to prison and disgrace us all.” “But, -father, I am converted, I mean to take my punishment, -then live a true man ever after.” “Oh! that is different; -in that case, I will help you all I can.”</p> - -<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_80'>80</span>They went at once to the man whose name had been -forged. They found him very bitter at first, but when -John told his story of how ashamed and sorry he was, -and added, “I have come back to take my punishment, -then I want to be a good man and a good citizen all the -rest of my life.” At this point the father said, “Mr. -Percy, I will gladly pay back the $300 and interest if you -think you can forgive John.” That was done and the -prosecution withdrawn.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The episode had a little after-clap. John came back to -Washington, and came at once to the writer. He said, -“Mrs. Monroe, I want you to ask Miss Stanislaus if she -will marry me.” “Why, ask her yourself, man; I am not -in practice in handling love matters.” “No, you see my -red head and freckled face and freckled hands make me -so homely I am afraid to ask. Do see her for me.” This -I did. She accepted him, and he obtained a situation in -the mountains of North Carolina as a school teacher. -He preaches on Sunday and they both teach all week and -seem to be doing good work.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The <cite>Gospel Tidings</cite>, of December, 1910, had this -notice:</p> - -<p class='c011'>WHAT WILL YOU DO, FELLOW-CHRISTIANS?</p> - -<p class='c011'>“Eleven men, cold, hungry and friendless, the night of -December 5, said, 'Mr. Kline, for God's sake, give us -work!' He replied, 'We do not have the work to give -until we get wood-cutting machines.' Mrs. Monroe said, -'I shall trust God's people to help me on that, even though -the horse and wagon are not yet paid for.' So she personally -took the risk of the -50 needed to put in the machinery. -Her friends will remember that a great fire three -years ago not only destroyed her property, but also her -means of making money.</p> - -<div class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/i_089.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p>10 AND 15 CENT DORMITORIES</p> -</div> -</div> - -<p class='c011'><span class='pageno' id='Page_81'>81</span>“'Blessed is he that considereth the poor, the Lord will -deliver him in the time of trouble.'</p> - -<p class='c011'>“The Gospel Mission Board feel that when the necessities -of men are so great as in this call that it is God's -call to help by giving them means to help themselves. -Maybe in these suffering men your Saviour passes by.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>The Christian people of Washington made a generous -response to that call, and by the next issue of the <cite>Tidings</cite> -we announced that we could give fifty cents a day for -six hours' work, leaving time to hunt a better place, and -yet pay lodgings and food.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The October <cite>Tidings</cite> of 1910 said:</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c010'> - <div>A MENACE</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c011'>“What is the most important question now in Washington? -From our standpoint it is the care of the unfortunate -and the sinful. Why? In order to protect -your home. When a man walks the streets hungry, cold -and friendless, and looks through the window of your -happy home and he sees you surrounded with the comforts -he lacks, do you know you are in danger? Unless -the unfortunate are comforted, they will surely dynamite -our great cities.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“The Gospel Mission stands between you and this danger. -We make these sons of sorrow realize that they -need be only temporarily sidetracked from the great highway -of success, that the grace of God, their renewed will -power and our friendly hand may yet restore them to -home, friends and society, and make them useful men.”</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_82'>82</span> - <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER IX<br /> <span class='sc'>The Penny Lunch and Free Dispensary</span></h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>The following is a letter written by Mr. George W. -Wheeler, which was published in our <cite>Gospel Tidings</cite>, of -February, 1911:</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>PENNY LUNCH</h3> - -<p class='c017'>“In an experience of twenty-six years in active, earnest, -aggressive Rescue Mission work in this city, the writer -cannot recall that any line of secular work taken up for -the amelioration of the poor has ever called forth such -universal expressions of interest, sympathy and co-operation -as the 'Penny Lunch and Newsboys' Waiting -Room,' opened by the Gospel Mission, at 304 Fourteenth -Street, on Saturday, February 4. The city papers published -pictures of the interior and exterior, and a portrait -of our Superintendent, Mr. Kline, and were most generous -in their endorsement of the enterprise, while the -<cite>New York Times</cite> and other papers spread the news far -and wide that the cost of living had been solved in Washington -by the Gospel Mission '<em>Penny Lunch</em>.'</p> - -<p class='c011'>“The opening of this lunch-room was made possible -by a noble Christian woman of wealth, who was born, -reared and now resides in this city. Her interest was -aroused by reading a statement of the work and needs -of the Gospel Mission, prepared by our Superintendent, -and she came to see about the matter, learned its approximate -cost, and sent a check to pay the expenses.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“For two weeks or more Mr. Kline and his assistants -were busy papering, painting, etc., and finally the steam -<span class='pageno' id='Page_83'>83</span>table and coffee urns, with many other essentials of a -twentieth century up-to-date lunch-room were installed -and the doors were opened to a waiting crowd. Mrs. -Kline oversees the cooking, and everything is as clean -and neat as in one's home.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“The menu consists of the following articles: Coffee, -1 penny; bread or rolls, 1 penny; beans, 1 penny; doughnuts, -1 penny; sour, 1 penny; beef stew, 3 pennies; one-half -pie, 3 pennies. A lunch, consisting of soup, meat, -vegetables, bread and coffee, 5 cents. This brings a well-cooked, -clean, nourishing meal within the reach of all -who have any income whatever.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“It was amusing to see the class of men and boys who -came to have their appetites satisfied at the lowest cost. -Newsboys, messenger boys, laboring men, teamsters, and -all kinds of indescribables came, and they appeared -greatly surprised to find such an attractive room with -all the 'latest improvements' found in a lunch-room. And -how they did eat! A big soup plate filled to the brim -with bean soup, a big china cup filled with steaming hot -coffee, a big brown roll or three slices of Corby's 'Mother's -Bread.' These were good, and 'mighty filling at the -price.'</p> - -<p class='c011'>“Well, the 'Penny Lunch' is launched, and whether the -prices charged will pay the cost of the material, cooking -and serving, or not, we feel certain that any little deficiency -that may occur will be cheerfully met by the well-to-do -of our community.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“A coffee-roasting firm has pledged five pounds of -good coffee each week for use at the 'Penny Lunch' room, -and we are sure dealers in other lines will be glad to -assist. Corby Brothers have been furnishing from fifty -to seventy-five loaves of bread for our 'bread line' for -<span class='pageno' id='Page_84'>84</span>many months, and Browning & Baines, coffee dealers, -have supplied six pounds of coffee a week for a long time -past.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“We greatly appreciate the generous co-operation of -all these dear friends, who help us to help others to help -themselves.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>The benefits of the Penny Lunch can never be told till -the books of eternity are opened, but some idea may be -gathered when we state that the report of the bread line -from May 12, 1911, to May 12, 1912, was 41,750, but the -report from May 12, 1912, to May 12, 1913, was 18,950. -The Bread Line is the name of a service at 6 <span class='fss'>A.M.</span>, the -year round, when bread and black coffee is served to all -who come for it. If people will come before daylight in -the winter, or at that early hour in the summer for coffee, -without cream or sugar, and a quarter of a loaf of bread, -we believe they need it, and we gladly give it, not as a -charity, but as a visible token of our sympathy. Now, -the fact that 22,800 fewer people took bread and coffee -free in the year 1912 to 1913, compared with the preceding -year, can only be accounted for that when a man has -a few pennies in his pocket he could buy a satisfactory -breakfast, and gladly did so rather than to line up for an -unrequited kindness.</p> - -<p class='c000'>How shamed many men were to take food in the bread -line, but the loving word sweetened many a bitter cup. -Once a hand so unusually white and well-kept reached -for the cup of coffee. Mrs. Kline looked up and saw the -face of a man who had been a minister of the gospel. -She said, “Brother, take only the coffee, we want you to -take breakfast at our family table this morning.” He sat -down to drink the coffee with bitter tears coursing down -<span class='pageno' id='Page_85'>85</span>his shamed face. Of course, every kindness was shown -him, “for need has its right, and necessity its claim,” then -the blessed Spirit came in and lo, he prayed, and God -received back to a useful life a man who had found sorrow -and sin bitter and the tears of remorse salt.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>WHAT DR. HALLIMOND, OF THE NEW YORK BOWERY MISSION, SAYS ABOUT THE BREAD LINE</h3> - -<p class='c013'>“There are in the Bowery men who never sleep in a -lodging house because they have not the price, and they -get their bed either by stealing or begging, and eat out of -the garbage boxes. You who have never been to the -Bowery know nothing of the agony or remorse that these -men feel. Now, what are we to do with them? There is -not anybody to look after them but us. Oh, the horrors -of the homeless man! It is the many little comforts that -go to make our comfortable life. They cannot keep clean. -They cannot brush their clothes or comb their hair, they -cannot take their shoes off their poor tired feet. These -men gather there in the great meetings, and among them -are many that are in the last stages of physical weakness. -Many of them ought to be in the hospital instead of walking -the street day and night. Many of them are dying of -hunger. Sometimes we cannot get men to understand -that we have people in our meetings that are dying of -hunger. I am not using any figure of speech. It is not -an unheard-of thing for men to drop dead in our meetings. -That is why we have the 'bread line.' We dare not -fail to help these people. People sometimes come to us -with the very best of intentions, talking to us of the sin -of indiscriminate charity; but, bless your life! is not God -indiscriminate, for does not He cause the rain to fall on -the just and unjust? Did Jesus Christ ever go through -<span class='pageno' id='Page_86'>86</span>the hungry crowds and find out who was worthy and who -was unworthy? Did He not spend His life to help just -such men? These dear people some of them are spending -seventy-five cents to find out where the other twenty-five -cents is to go. I have made up my mind that if I ever -find a man dying on my doorstep of hunger, and I can -do anything to save him, I am going to do it, whether he -deserves it or whether he does not.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“That is the origin of our bread line about which you -have heard so much. We cannot help but have a bread -line. In fact, I refuse to allow our work to be called a -charity. It is not a charity, it is brotherly kindness. It -is not a charity, but a kind hospitality, just a little evidence, -just a little token, that there is somebody who -cares for their poor weary hearts which these destitute -brothers of ours possess. As long as the bread line exists, -and God helping, it shall exist as long as there is -need for it, people must know that there is something -wrong with our social system, a problem that we cannot -solve but that is up to the politician. As long as we are -in this great, rich country with all the extravagances of -wealth, then the bread line shall tell that there is something -wrong, and that our Declaration of Independence, -declaring, as it does, for 'life, liberty and the pursuit of -happiness,' is but a delusion and a snare.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>This seems a long interlude to the Penny Lunch chapter, -but you can see the lunch counter where five cents -can buy beans, bread and coffee, saves many a man from -feeling that he takes charity. The bread line was instituted -to fortify a man's stomach against needing to go -to the saloon in the morning for the free lunch, also to -give strength to a poor fellow so he could search for -work.</p> - -<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_87'>87</span>The bread line food given each morning will not of -itself sustain life, as we found out to our sorrow. One -Tuesday night, as the writer entered the Mission for the -purpose of conducting the service, I found the men at -the door excited. On inquiry, I found a man lying on the -front seat dying. The Emergency Hospital ambulance -had already been called. I found a man who twenty -years ago had been a leading patent attorney of this city. -I saw the soul was about to depart. I said, “Mr. West, -say, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.'” “No, I have lived -wicked, I shall die wicked.” “O son, say, 'Lord Jesus, -forgive me.'” “Too late, too late; I have heard you all, -night after night, and I have rejected Christ. I must -die as I have lived.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>I motioned the choir to sing softly, “Jesus receiveth -sinful men.” I bent over him, urging repentance; the -ambulance men were at my side, they picked him up and -laid him carefully on the stretcher. I said, “Dear Mr. -West, we are praying for you, pray for yourself.” I kept -my hand tenderly on his head as the stretcher was slowly -carried out, but he continued to say, “Too late, too late -for me.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>He died within an hour, and the post-mortem showed -he had died of inanition caused by slow starvation. We -found he had tried to live on the bread and coffee of the -bread line alone; he was too poor to buy food, too proud -to tell his needs, and we were too stupid and too busy -to realize his awful need. We thereby learned a good -lesson, and the Superintendent and helpers now all look -more carefully after the man who sits down claiming -either exhaustion or sickness.</p> - -<p class='c000'>No man, woman or child is ever refused food because -without money, but if a man can buy whisky, we think -<span class='pageno' id='Page_88'>88</span>he ought to be able to buy food, though even then we look -after him.</p> - -<p class='c000'>We cannot leave the granting of food to employees, -so when the Superintendent and his wife are absent we -have some pathetic cases. Mr. Gordon found a little fellow -crying at the door. “What is the matter, little man?” -said the big man. “Mother gave me ten cents to buy -food for our family, and I have lost the money.” You -may be sure Mr. Gordon obtained much more than ten -cents' worth of food for the child. Very many families -live in one furnished room and get all their food at the -penny lunch counter. Seamstresses, all the dollar a day -men for many squares, girls from the Agricultural Seed -Bureau, come in and buy at cost the luncheon at the middle -of the day. Many well-to-do people come in and -take luncheon to watch the various grades of humanity -who solve the cost of high living by taking meals at the -Mission. All the street peddlers, the umbrella man, the -shoestring and pencil man, the rag gatherers, eat at the -counter, the better class sit at the tables.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Mr. Gordon saw a little altercation between a waiter -and a customer, the waiter demanding four cents while -the man had but three cents. “But you should not have -ordered food unless you could pay for it.” The poor -man looked dreadfully embarrassed, at last he looked up -and said, “Will you lend me a cent, sir?” which was -gladly done.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Many who come only for the cheap meal are induced -by the kindness shown and by the good music and bright -lights in the chapel, to go in to the services. There some -song, some word from the speaker, some devout prayer, -touches the chord of memory of what a mother, a faithful -teacher or almost forgotten preacher has taught years -<span class='pageno' id='Page_89'>89</span>ago, and, backed by the Holy Spirit, a prodigal son or a -prodigal daughter returns to the Father's house.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Mr. Kline reports the meals furnished in the Penny -Lunch Room from May 12, 1912, to May, 1913, to be -87,856, at an average cost of four and one-third cents per -meal.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>THE DISPENSARY</h3> - -<p class='c013'>was opened February 1, 1912, after the need was very -apparent, and further neglect of this branch of work -seemed impossible.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Never will I forget the day when I first called up Dr. -C. H. Bowker, one of the leading physicians of the city, -living on Massachusetts Avenue, near Thomas Circle, the -very heart of the city, and told him of a man who had -pneumonia, and of a woman in the shelter with a severe -cold, and asked him to go to the Mission free of charge. -I waited with bated breath for the reply. It was, “I am -an exceedingly busy man, but I shall try to go within an -hour.” Very much emboldened, I said, “Could you stop -in once a day to see if anyone there has a contagious -disease, or if anyone should be sent immediately to the -hospital?”</p> - -<p class='c000'>The answer seemed very slow, and I fairly trembled, -for our need was so great. At last he said, “Well, I -have noticed if I put a duty on my daily program, I -manage in some way to get it in.” From that day to this -that blessed doctor has been at the beck and call of the -Mission day and night; only God knows what a help -and a comfort he has been to broken men and sorrowful -women in that part of the city.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The February <cite>Gospel Tidings</cite>, of 1912, had the following:</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_90'>90</span> - <h3 class='c012'>GOSPEL MISSION DISPENSARY</h3> -</div> - -<p class='c013'>“For several months we have had a house physician, -and the use and need for him has steadily increased. The -establishment of regular hours at which patients could -see the doctor, and a proper place for consultation, naturally -suggested the establishment of a dispensary. This -appeared feasible to the Executive Committee, and Mrs. -Monroe, Superintendent Kline and Dr. Bowker were appointed -a committee to study the advisability of such an -addition to our work. The report from this committee -was favorable to the project, and active steps were at -once taken to the establishment of a free general dispensary -for the treatment of all classes of cases, or their -reference, where necessary, to special institutions.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“The location of the Mission for dispensary work -could not be better from any point of view. It is accessible -to the hundreds needing its help. There is no conflict -in its field by any other institution doing this class -of work. Four rooms on the first floor of the Mission, -with the chapel for a waiting-room, will serve admirably -for dispensary needs at present. And these rooms are -rapidly being put in shape by carpenters and painters. -Shelves are being made for the pharmacy, a door cut -through the partition, and running water is to be installed.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Our printing plant will again demonstrate its usefulness -by furnishing the necessary record blanks, labels, -treatment cards, etc.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“The Executive Committee has placed Dr. Charles -Harvey Bowker, 1204 Massachusetts Avenue, in full -charge of the Gospel Mission Dispensary, and he will -have associated with him at first Dr. O. C. Cox, 1320 -Eleventh Street, N. W. A number of leading physicians -<span class='pageno' id='Page_91'>91</span>and surgeons have evinced an interest and willingness to -give their services, and Dr. Bowker will add them to the -dispensary staff and assign them work as the clinic grows -and they are needed.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Dr. Bowker's experience in managing a hospital in his -home city, and his hospital and dispensary work in Washington, -assure us a businesslike management of this new -branch of our work.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Our need at present is for drugs and surgical dressing, -and it is hoped that the druggists of the city may -contribute.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“The dispensary opened Thursday, February 1, 1912, -at 10 <span class='fss'>A.M.</span>, which will be the regular daily hour, and all -those who are interested are invited to inspect the new -rooms.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>You notice that we opened February 1, 1912, and our -annual report in May <cite>Tidings</cite>, 1913, shows the following:</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c010'> - <div>THE MISSION FREE DISPENSARY</div> - <div class='c002'><em>Staff</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c010'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Physician in charge, Dr. Charles H. Bowker, 1204 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c010'> - <div><em>Associates</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c010'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Dr. Oliver C. Cox, 1320 Eleventh Street, N. W.</div> - <div class='line'>Dr. W. O. Owen, Southern Building.</div> - <div class='line'>Dr. William F. Hemler, 706 Eighth Street, N. W.</div> - <div class='line'>Dr. C. A. Simpson, 1217 Connecticut Avenue, N. W.</div> - <div class='line'>Dr. C. F. Dufour, 1347 L Street, N. W.</div> - <div class='line'>Dr. Adam Kemble, Cecil Apartments, Fifteenth and L Streets, N. W.</div> - <div class='line'>Dr. Jesse Ramsburgh, The Portner.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c010'> - <div><em>Hours for Treatment</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c010'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Medical and surgical cases treated daily, 11 to 12 <span class='fss'>A.M.</span></div> - <div class='line'>Diseases of Women—Monday, Wednesday and Friday.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_92'>92</span>Diseases of Men—Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.</div> - <div class='line'>Diseases of Children—Monday, Wednesday and Friday.</div> - <div class='line'>Diseases of Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat—Monday and Thursday.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c010'> - <div><em>Report for the Year Ending April 30, 1913</em></div> - </div> -</div> - -<table class='table1' summary=''> - <tr> - <td class='c008'>Cases treated</td> - <td class='c009'>2500</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c008'>Referred to Hospital</td> - <td class='c009'>80</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c008'>Treated at homes</td> - <td class='c009'>80</td> - </tr> -</table> - -<p class='c000'>The dispensary is in need of a sterilizer and a special -fund for medical supplies for those too poor to pay.</p> - -<hr class='c018' /> - -<p class='c000'>The sterilizer later was the gift of Dr. Jesse Ramsburgh, -and we have a complete set of lenses for testing -the eyes of school children.</p> - -<p class='c000'>It would break your heart to see the women with -babies, the aged on crutches, the hosts of children, the -aged victims of every vice, now broken and often repentant, -seek the aid of these good men. Often we run -short of remedies. “What do they do then?” you ask. -Well, they simply go down in their own pockets and buy -the necessities, and no one is turned empty away.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Think of a procession of sick and needy persons, 2500 -human beings in line, and you will see in your mind -what that blessed dispensary has done for the sorrowful -of this city in one year.</p> - -<p class='c000'>I wish I dare to tell you the particulars of one of these -great physicians who had not been living close to God, -seeing our work of faith, seeing how the Mission people -lay their many needs before a patient God, who meets -every demand in answer to their prayer, and possibly -feeling that in a mission he could not minister to a mind -diseased without himself being in touch with the living -God, was led to revise his views, make public confession -of his faith and enlist in God's organized method of -<span class='pageno' id='Page_93'>93</span>evangelizing the world by joining the church. We all -need God, but the hand that reaches down to help sinful -men must have the other hand clasped close in God's -strong hand if he would do effective work.</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_94'>94</span> - <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER X<br /> <span class='sc'>The Power of the Gospel</span></h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>St. Paul says, “I am not ashamed of the gospel of -Christ, for it is the <em>power</em> of God unto salvation.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>Yes, the gospel is the <em>power</em>. The soul is as dead as a -street car with the power gone, till it is touched by that -special power. I could kneel at the side of a sinner and -quote the very best things of Shakespeare or Milton, -and the soul would step to no higher ground; but when -the right verse of God's word is shown with the New -Testament in hand, and the Holy Spirit makes that soul -see that the passage before him is God's recorded wireless -message for his soul alone, the power comes on and -that verse again proves true, “But as many as received -Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, -even to them that believe on His name,” and a soul is -born into the kingdom of God. Dan Crawford, the great -missionary to Africa, says not Livingstone, not Taylor, -not Dan Crawford, are the real pioneer missionaries, but -the Spirit of God Himself, and when the word is brought -to a prepared soul it is a spark of powder. He tells of -one besotted Negro who read John's Gospel. The Negro -said, “I was startled that Christ could speak Chulba; I -heard Him speak out of the printed page, and what He -said to me was, 'Follow me.'” Mr. Crawford says, -“When the guncotton of John's Gospel came in contact -with the tinder of his rebellion, he was literally exploded -into the kingdom,” and by continuing to study St. John's -<span class='pageno' id='Page_95'>95</span>Gospel the transforming power of the gospel made him -a good earnest Christian man, fit for the companionship -of good people.</p> - -<p class='c000'>At a rescue mission we have such scenes almost every -night of the year. In our case it is usually the word first -implanted in the human heart either at a mother's knee -or by some Sunday school teacher, or by a faithful -preacher in early life, then the very room of the Mission -is filled with the Holy Spirit in answer to the prayers of -God's people. Now, when a heart-broken, world-buffeted -sinner comes into the room, the words or music of some -song, or the presentation of God's word, is used by God's -Spirit to bring to memory all the sinner has known of -these things; he hears redeemed men tell how God cured -them of lust, of alcoholism, of gambling, of profane language, -of all sin; he sees these men well clothed, radiantly -happy, and sees and feels his own degradation; is -it any wonder he drops on his knees and cries out, “Men -and brethren, what shall I do to be saved”? When he -wants God more than he wants deliverance from his besetting -sin, when he wants God more than he wants his -deserted wife and children, when he wants God for what -God can do for his poor soul, the God of his soul comes -down, and at that second the soul passes from death unto -life eternal, for that soul the decisions of the judgment -day have been settled, for Jesus said, “Verily, verily, I -say unto you, he that heareth my words and believeth on -Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not -come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto -life.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>That verse comprehended and lived has power enough -to carry a soul through all besetments into the very presence -of God.</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_96'>96</span> - <h3 class='c012'>THE CASE OF MR. ABBOTT</h3> -</div> - -<p class='c013'>During the winter of 1910, there came into the Gospel -Mission a man, ragged, soiled, blear-eyed, doped and -utterly down and out; he came only for the coffee and -rolls given Sunday night. Before coming up the steps -he had said to a friend, “I don't want to hear any of their -blank sermons, but I am starving.” He heard no sermon, -instead he received a warm hand-shake, he heard bright -singing, but, best of all, he heard redeemed men tell how -God had saved them from the alcohol habit, till he cried -out, “If God has power to save me from the sin of drink, -I want God!” He kneeled and poured out his soul in -prayer. As soon as he began to pray aloud, we saw he -was an educated man. The Spirit came upon him in -great power, he really had the searchlight of God on his -soul, and he saw himself for a short time as God saw -him. Then God forgave him, he rose justified, strong, -happy, a new man in Christ Jesus. The Mission gave -him a bed for the night, and the next morning this man, -who had not worked or desired work for two years, -begged that we should find a place for him to earn his -way. He obtained a situation to solicit business for a -laundry, about as hard work as one can imagine, but he -made good, and in six months he was made foreman of -the laundry in which he was employed. He modernized -its methods and doubled its business by the end of the -year, and the company made him a present of five -hundred shares of stock and elected him president of the -company. Then he received $3000 a year salary, besides -his percentage of all gains made by the house. His -friends claim his income is now about $5000 a year. In -the meantime, after he had been redeemed, probably four -months, his wife, a most beautiful and accomplished -Philadelphia woman, brought their lovely son, aged about -eight, and they began housekeeping again. The home -has given needed physical comfort, the companionship -has given the mental and the spiritual help needed to -make this former tramp into a first-class citizen. At -night, during the last winter, he has been studying law -in one of the university law schools, and on Sunday he -acts as usher and vestryman in one of the largest Protestant -Episcopal churches. As a child he had been a -choir boy in a church in Philadelphia. Doubtless the -knowledge gained there as a child made him able to understand -his duty to God and man after his conversion -better far than an ignorant, uninstructed person could -have done after months of instruction.</p> - -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_107a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p>CHILDREN OF ALL NATIONS</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id004'> -<img src='images/i_107b.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p>SETTLEMENT HOUSE</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_97'>97</span> - <h3 class='c012'>THE PSYCHOLOGY</h3> -</div> - -<p class='c013'>of just this case is worth considering. This man was -spiritually dead, so far as we could see. He did not desire -to live. The people of the Mission had been more -or less in prayer from three o'clock to eight when this -man came in. He saw religion in action in the person -and speech of redeemed men. But even if these testimonies -were factors it was the Holy Spirit that did the -work. It was the divine spark to human tinder, or, as -Henry Drummond better puts it, “The spiritual world -reached down and carried this worldly soul into the -world above it.” “He that hath the Son hath life, he -that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” Life depends -upon contact with life, it cannot develop out of -anything that is not life.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Even as the physiologist cannot explain how the human -seed generates in a human body eventually becoming a -new-born man child, neither can theology fully explain -<span class='pageno' id='Page_98'>98</span>how the Holy Spirit can touch a human soul out of which -will be born another soul in the same body with marks -of its divine parentage in every line, or, as St. Paul says, -a new creature in Christ Jesus.</p> - -<p class='c000'>I heard a distinguished man who had long been in official -connection with prisons and reformatories, say, “A -reformed man is always in danger; he may stand twenty -years and then fall back into sin, but a regenerated man -is as safe from his sinful besetments as if they had not -been the weakness of his life.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>I fancy I can hear some preacher say, “If it is the word -and the Holy Spirit do the work, why does not the -church have as many conversions as a mission?” The -very first element of spiritual power is lacking in most -churches. If the preacher, the official members, then -every member of the church first sought God's special -blessing in private, then came together offering first -praise, then united prayer to God from the very depths -of their hearts, there would be conversions every Sunday -in every church.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Spurgeon and Moody expected conversions every Sunday, -and they had them.</p> - -<p class='c000'>In presenting a soul to Christ no perfunctory Christian -can do it and have that soul received. To present a person -to the King of England, let us say, the presenter -needs to be acquainted with the king; so a person unacquainted -with God has no power at the throne; he even -impedes the soul coming into the light. I have seen many -a dancing, card-playing Christian at the side of the penitent, -praying earnestly, then rise baffled, troubled, helpless; -not able to reach the throne, they had no access to -God.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Often people from the States write me to present such -<span class='pageno' id='Page_99'>99</span>and such a paper in person to the President of the United -States. I am obliged to reply, “I have no access to the -President of the United States,” but I daily thank God -that I have access to the throne, for I am acquainted with -God.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>RELIGION WITH THE DEFECTIVE DELINQUENT</h3> - -<p class='c013'>I venture to take the two following short articles from -the November numbers of 1913 of the <cite>Survey</cite>, the most -valuable weekly magazine which comes to my desk on -all social questions:</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c010'> - <div>“WHAT ABOUT JEFF?”</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c011'>“Jeff is a white boy sixteen years old. I am estimating -this, as Jeff says he doesn't know how old he is and -doesn't know his surname. He has every appearance of -being a little less than half witted.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“I found Jeff this morning working, with two other -white boys and ten or twelve Negro boys, as an inmate -of the County Workhouse. He was carrying stone on -a public hitch-lot. One of the white boys and two of the -Negro boys were in chains.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“Jeff has been in the workhouse for sixty days. He -was placed there for beating a ride on a railroad train. -Next Monday Jeff will be released. He will have not a -cent to his name, not very good clothes, not a relative in -the country, no place to sleep and nothing to eat.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“I have put this predicament before our city inter-church -organization, and we have seen no solution. About -the best thing we can see for this half-witted boy is that -he will do something that will again bring him within the -clutches of the law in order that he may be immediately -sent back to the workhouse. At the age of sixteen he is -<span class='pageno' id='Page_100'>100</span>a human derelict, yet he has capacity to work, to love, to -respect, to enjoy, and to feel sorrow.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“There is another mentally weak boy in this same -gang. If we knew what to do with Jeff we might be -able to do more for the other one. What do you suggest?”—<em>W. -H. Swift, Greensboro, N. C.</em></p> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c010'> - <div>“SUE AND JEFF”</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c011'>“'What about Jeff?' was shown to a New York settlement -worker. 'Print it,' he said, 'in the hope that -someone may stir up the inter-church organizations of -Greensboro to find another solution. The question is: -What about that organization? rather than poor Jeff. -He is a victim of wrong social conditions, plus his weak -head; but if there is no one in his neighborhood who can -see any other solution than the workhouse for a lad who -has the “capacity to work, to love, to respect, to enjoy -and to feel sorrow,” then I suggest that the community -is worse off, a good deal, than poor Jeff. To begin with, -why don't the inter-church organization take him under -its own wing?'</p> - -<p class='c011'>“Now, it would be very easy for the inter-church organization -of Greensboro to take care of Jeff if there -were only one of him. Unfortunately, there are many -hundreds of him. How many of the boys of sixteen sent -to the island from the New York City courts are of -Jeff's class? Nobody knows for certain, because nobody -tries to find out. Those of us who have lived for years -among defectives and have visited reform schools know -that the number is large. Yet the inter-church organizations -of New York City do not take them under their -wings.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“The proportion of the feeble-minded Jeffs in various -<span class='pageno' id='Page_101'>101</span>reformatories has been to range from twenty to fifty per -cent of all the inmates. Every intelligent worker with -prisoners knows there are many weak-minded among -them; yet the usual method of treating the defective-delinquent -(and every defective is a potential delinquent) -throughout the United States is to do with them just -what our Greensboro friend hopes to do with Jeff—send -him to the workhouse as soon as he commits his next -petty crime. And we keep on doing it over and over and -over again.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“Meanwhile the proper method with the Jeffs and the -Sues is so simple and plain, so patently economical in -this generation, and so tremendously profitable for the -next, that its very simplicity makes it neglected. The -colony at Templeton, Mass.; the one just organized at -Menantico, N. J.; the farm colonies at Fort Wayne, -Ind.; Lincoln, Ill.; Faribault, Minn.; Columbus, Ohio; -and Letchworth Village, N. Y., all point the way with -greater or less success.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“Yet Letchworth Village was enacted by the legislature -of New York nearly five years ago. Its first commission -reported 29,000 suitable inmates pressing for -care. To-day it has only 100 inmates; and the Inter-church -Federation says nothing.</p> - -<p class='c011'>“It is not worth while to get all stirred up and excited -about Jeffs in North Carolina. What have we to say -about the defectives in jails, workhouses, penitentiaries, -reformatories, and prisons under our noses in New -York? Is our beam so big that we cannot see it?”—<em>Alexander -Johnson, Director Department of Extension, Vineland, -N. J.</em></p> - -<p class='c000'>Now, that was the churches' opportunity. Federation -<span class='pageno' id='Page_102'>102</span>work should see that a religious school should be started -in each community for its Jeffs and Sues. A city rescue -mission could easily find work for Jeff.</p> - -<p class='c000'>I saw a Jeff come into the Sunday school of my own -church. He was a great lumbering chap of eighteen years -of age, he was not quite clean, there was the odor of the -unwashed about him. He immediately went to the class -of about thirty young men of his own age. I was gratified -to see that youth seek the society of the church people -rather than the saloon, but he was not welcome with -the young men. The teacher visited his home, there -was no help to be expected from the home, so the teacher, -or the class, whether by actual request or by treatment, -caused Jeff to stay away. Now, in the great day of accounts, -of whom will that soul be required? If the defective -intellect, what there is of it, can be turned to believe -God, the defective is prevented from becoming a -criminal. We have them at the Gospel Mission. The -very first thing is to have the physician talk to Jeff of the -sacredness of his own body to absolutely prevent all -secret habits which injure the body and brain, and the -motive of self-restraint both for physical habits and for -drink must be that these things offend a loving Saviour -who walks with each one of us.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Each year I meet Dr. H. M. Freas, of Philadelphia, at -Northfield. His work as a physician frequently takes -him to the asylum for the insane. He feels most keenly -that these institutions should be in the hands of Christian -people only. Many a brilliant intellect could be restored -to perfect sanity if the loving care of some saintly Protestant -sisterhood or brotherhood were in charge to bring -the human love, which even the sanest of us need, to -bear on the tottering brain. These human deficients are -<span class='pageno' id='Page_103'>103</span>found in the public schools; as soon as discovered they -should be transferred to a religious school where they -can be scientifically studied, what intellect they have developed, -and the religious side of each one fostered. If -then they are found permanently deficient, especially in -the moral sense, or in physical self-control, then they -should be segregated on farms for the sake of the race. -People of deficient brains become fanatics; now, if these -unbalanced people become filled with an enthusiasm of -righteousness they absolutely do much good. They constitute -three-fourths of the street preachers, and they -reach many a soul who never enters a church. Religion -prevents insanity. There is no doubt that fanaticism run -riot leads to the asylum. We had one man who was insufficiently -fed, badly clothed, who spent the entire night -in prayer, two or three nights of the week. Of course, -he was<a id='p103'></a> brought up in the insane asylum, but when he had -food enough at the asylum where he was not permitted -to pray aloud, he soon became normal, and was set free. -It taught him a needed lesson.</p> - -<p class='c000'>But religion sustains us through the breaking ties of -life, through the loss of fortune, through the defection -of friends, through blasted hopes, through the anguish -of children going wrong, and their punishment by -the State which follows.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Religion holds many a woman whose son is a wanderer, -either criminal or otherwise, from insanity. I -know a woman who has not looked into the face of her -wandering son for six years. She stands up and sings -with radiant face, “I am going through whatever others -do, I am going through with Jesus,” and in spite of what -looks an unbearable sorrow, leads a useful and apparently -happy life. A mission is a blessed thing for enthusiasts. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_104'>104</span>It sends them with flowers and literature to hospitals -and jails, it sends food to private families in need, -it gives the enthusiasts tracts to distribute, it puts musical -instruments into their hands and says, “Praise the -Lord with pleasant sounds,” it sets women to repairing -clothing for the poor, to caring for little children, while -mothers earn money for food. As we do these things -we talk religion, we tell of Jesus, the friend of sinners, -we make a steady effort in very many directions to have -each soul brought into harmony with God. In almost -every instance where sorrow in a family has been the -result of sin; and Jesus is allowed to become to each of -them a personal Saviour; the home is electrified by a new -enthusiasm; the parents become efficient, self-supporting, -happy; the children become self-respecting; are taken -from the class needing help; and become helpers. Religion -eases the burden of life and heals the welts of adversity.</p> - -<p class='c000'>We have in Washington a club known as “The Monday -Evening Club,” a clearing house for all forms of philanthropy. -At the different banquets and at their -monthly meetings all forms of reforms, from purely a -humanitarian standpoint, are discussed, but we, who go -at the open sores of the world with the only sure cure -earth has yet received, the religion of Jesus Christ, we -receive no recognition, we are given no hearing at banquets, -and are never spoken of as part of the city's force -for betterment, yet we comfort the prisoner, we bring -hope to the hopeless, and we are the real protection of -the city. No hungry man is turned from our door unsatisfied. -A hungry man is a danger, a man with a hungry -family is a menace. He will get food even if it costs -a life to obtain it. Like Him whom we serve we are rejected -<span class='pageno' id='Page_105'>105</span>of men. We work amid the social dynamite of a -great city. Unless the religious part of this nation assumes -its rightful place as arbiter in all labor troubles, -saying to the rich man, “Thou shalt not defraud,” and -to the poor man, “Thou shalt do no violence”; unless -Christian people see to it that remunerative labor can be -had by every person willing to work; unless Christian -people close the saloons (the author of seventy-five per -cent of the sufferings of the poor), on some sad day our -great cities will be systematically dynamited. As Christians -we must go down among them and make the broken -man feel that he is only temporarily sidetracked from -the great highway of success. That the grace of God -and his own will can and will bring him back to the great -highway of prosperity.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The Church is waking up to its full duty in social service. -Bishop Simpson, even in his day, eloquently described -the mission of the Church in the world: “The -Church must grope her way into the alleys and courts -and purlieus of the city, and up the broken staircase, and -into the bare room and beside the loathsome sufferer; -she must go down into the pit with the miner, into the -forecastle with the sailor, into the tent with the soldier, -into the shop with the mechanic, into the factory with the -operative, into the field with the farmer, into the counting-room -with the merchant. Like the air, the Church -must press equally on all the surfaces of society; like the -sea, flow into every nook of the shoreline of humanity, -and, like the sun, shine on things foul and low, as well as -fair and high, for she was organized, commissioned and -equipped for the moral renovation of the world.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>In closing this chapter we cannot do better than to -quote from the fourth volume of the Jewish Encyclopedia, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_106'>106</span>which pays this remarkable tribute to Christianity:</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Christianity, following the matchless ideals of its -Christ, redeemed the despised and outcast, and ennobled -suffering. It checked infanticide, and founded asylums -for the young. It removed the curse of slavery by making -the humblest bondsmen proud of being a child of -God. It fought against the cruelties of the arena, it invested -the home with purity and proclaimed the value of -each human soul as a treasure in the eyes of God, and it -so leavens the great masses of the empire as to render the -cross of Christ the sign of victory for its legions in place -of the Roman eagle.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“The Galilean entered the world as a conqueror. The -Church became the educator of pagan nations; and one -race after another was brought under her tutorship. The -Latin races were followed by the Celt, the Teuton and the -Slav. The same burning enthusiasm which sent forth -the first Apostles, also set the missionaries aglow, and -brought all Europe and Africa, and finally the American -continent, under the scepter of an omnipotent Church. -Christianity is not an end, but the means to an end, the -establishment of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood -of God.”</p> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_107'>107</span> - <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XI<br /> <span class='sc'>Hereditary Sin</span></h2> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>It was an exceedingly cold night when Jake Grossman -burst into the mission, having on the apparel of a hotel -cook. He did not take a seat, but marched to the front -and prostrated himself at the altar, crying, “God be merciful -to me, a sinner.” In such cases, no difference what -we are doing, all formal program is suspended and we go -at once to prayer. Jake was in deep earnest, men and -women acquainted with God kneeled all about him, presenting -his case to the Saviour of men. We did not then -know his special need, but a soul in the depth of conviction -wanted God, not for one sin, but he needed -cleansing from all the sins of his past life. It must have -been an hour before that soul received light. The choir -had sung softly, “I'm coming home to-night,” and like -melodies; others had come to the altar, been forgiven -and gone to their seats, when Jake Grossman rose to his -feet and rejoiced that he had found peace and pardon -through the blood of Christ.</p> - -<p class='c000'>We found afterwards that Grossman was the son of -the great Swiss engineer, who had planned the great tunnel -through the Alps, whose genius had built bridges over -roaring, impassable canyons, who had planned the electric -roads in all parts of Switzerland, until he was wined -and dined by scientists not only in his own country but in -many countries, so that he had acquired the alcoholic -habit, after which his brain became sluggish and at last -he fell from his high estate, became a common drunkard -<span class='pageno' id='Page_108'>108</span>and died poor. The memory of the wicked shall perish.</p> - -<p class='c000'>While he was yet prosperous, using expensive wines, -his only legitimate son was born. The mother noticed -that, as a child of six or seven, Jake wanted a sip every -time wine was used on the table; by twelve he could drink -a large glass of wine and not show drunkenness. By his -twentieth year Jake was a drunkard, the father dead, the -mother poor and heart-broken. Friends and relatives all -advised sending Jake to America, where wine is not used -on the table, and also to get Jake away from old companions.</p> - -<p class='c000'>He came with letters to good people, but alcoholism is -not baffled by change of location. His money gave out, -the people to whom he had been introduced refused to -receive him. Fortunately his mother had taught him to -cook, so he obtained a place as an assistant cook in a -Washington hotel; later he developed into a first-class -chef. When he came to the Mission he had been discharged -for drunkenness, and now, being a redeemed -man, he went back to the hotel, gave up his white clothing, -gathered up his belongings, and sought other work.</p> - -<p class='c000'>That was five years ago. Jake has often been asked -by the hotels of this city to cook for them at a salary of -$100 or more a month, but Jake daily prays, “Lead us -not into temptation,” and he does not knowingly walk -into it. He shovels coal at a wage of $10 per week. He -says, “You see, it keeps me in the open air; I do not have -to taste wine or smell it; I get black on the outside, but -I keep white within, which was more than I did as a -cook.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>All the heroes are not in high places. “He that ruleth -his spirit is better than he that taketh a city.” We believe -God cleansed Jake Grossman from inherited sin.</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_109'>109</span> - <h3 class='c012'>HEREDITY</h3> -</div> - -<p class='c013'>I see that scientists are now claiming that a tendency -to use alcohol is not hereditary. We who work among -alcoholics know that it is. God says that the sins of the -fathers shall be visited on the children unto the third -and fourth generation, and they are. God gives a high -premium for virtue to all who would take the responsibility -of bringing another life into the world.</p> - -<p class='c000'>I remember a man converted at the Breakfast Association, -Philadelphia. I had spoken on the power of God -to take away even inherited tendencies of sin from our -souls. A young chap in the audience sent an usher to ask -me to see him in the after meeting. I went down the aisle -till I stood by his side. He said, “Can God save me from -drink? My father was a saloon-keeper and died drunk. -My mother died a drunkard; she fed me beer as an infant. -I am now twenty-two years old; I do not remember -a day in my life that I have not used beer.” Looking -over that blear-eyed crowd, he said, “I do not want -an old age like these wretches. Do you know that I -recognize among these bloats at least twenty men who -are the sons of saloon-keepers? You Christians have not -yet discovered that no man puts liquor to his neighbor's -lips without destroying his own family. Now, can God -save me from the sin and shame of the old age of an -alcoholic paralytic?”</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Well, let us go to the altar and ask Him.” We knelt -long at the altar. At last he claimed that he had been -accepted of God. As he started to leave the hall he came -back and said, “Do pray for me; I am afraid of the smells -of the street; I am afraid of my old companions. Pray -for me.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Well,” I said, “you come home with me, you are -<span class='pageno' id='Page_110'>110</span>young enough to be my son. If you were, I would want -some good woman to mother you.” The next day I took -him to Lancaster, Pa., where at that time I had a number -of acquaintances among business men. I took him -to quite a number before I came to a man who -would take him at all, and to a number who would -take him but not agree to help save a soul. At -last I came to a Christian man in the leather business, -who agreed to take him into his family, instruct him in -the very rudiments of religion, take him to church and -Sunday school with him; in fact, to nourish this new-born -soul in Christ. We prayed together, then I left him. -For a very short time I received a postal-card each week, -which I failed to answer; then, amid the cares of a very -busy life, I forgot him. About three years after that I -was walking along a street in Lancaster when a fine-looking -chap came rushing from behind me, and, placing -his arm over my shoulder, said, “Oh, God bless you! -God bless you!”</p> - -<p class='c000'>I turned and found a fine-looking man with tear-dimmed -eyes blessing me. “Son,” I said, “what is your -name?”</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Oh! do you not know me? I have prayed for you -every day for three years, and you have forgotten me.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>“Well,” I said, “I fancy you are so much better looking -to-day than you were then so that your own mother -might not know you now.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>I walked back to the leather store with him and found -my friend behind the counter. “Mr. S.” I said, “is John -Schmidt a good man?”</p> - -<p class='c000'>He did not wait to go around the counter, but, coming -right over it, he placed a hand on each of John's -shoulders as he said, “I am glad to bear witness that -<span class='pageno' id='Page_111'>111</span>John is a true, good man. At first he was sorely tried -to associate only with our kind of people, but he has -worked all day, gone to school at night, gone to church -and Sunday school every Sunday, and he is about to -marry one of the best young women of our church.” -God had done a perfect work of grace, and the hereditary -drunkard became a good man and a useful citizen. It -must be so, for the word says the blood of Christ Jesus -cleanses from <em>all</em> sin.</p> - -<h3 class='c012'>MR. KLINE'S TESTIMONY</h3> - -<p class='c013'>On the evening of September 16, 1913, Mr. Kline, our -Superintendent of the Gospel Mission, gave, in substance, -the following:</p> - -<p class='c000'>“It is ten years ago to-night since God, for Christ's sake, -forgave my sins. It was a day like this has been, a perfect -day in September. I had become a confirmed drunkard, -so that every waking moment I kept myself under -the influence of whisky. I was a good workman, but I -was conscious that my strength had gone. Three days -before I had been attacked with a trembling which -seemed like palsy. As I looked in the glass I saw the -face of a dying man. The barkeeper saw it. He said, -'Kline, take a drink; you will shake to pieces.' It took -four or five drinks to make my hand steady enough to -work. Then the barkeeper said, 'Now you need work -to bring you to strength. You may paper and fix up -this bar-room.' I went to a paper house, selected my -paper, and had the man make a bill four times what it -should have been. The bill was paid and I went back to -the paper store and got my rake-off. You see, I had become -dishonest as well as a drunkard. I had been -brought up in a Lutheran household in Harrisburg by a -<span class='pageno' id='Page_112'>112</span>Christian aunt, who was a member of old Zion Lutheran -Church.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“My mother had died in my infancy. I never saw her -to remember her appearance; I never saw a likeness of -her, a lock of hair or a garment which she had worn; but -when dying she left a message with my aunt, a message -which never left me, even when I was farthest from -God. It was these words, 'Bring up my boy to meet me -in heaven.' It was those words which really brought me -back to my mother's God.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“When I quit work in that saloon that 16th day of -September, 1903, I was all in. I saw my face in the -mirror over the bar, and when I am dead I shall not be -more colorless. The barkeeper filled my bottle, and instead -of going, as usual, to my home in the southwest, -I made my way up Four-and-a-half Street. I was simply -impelled by an unseen force. Behind every tree I took -a nip from the bottle, till I came to Pennsylvania Avenue. -Then I knew I dared not drink where a policeman -would see me; so, hardly knowing where I was or what -I was doing, I staggered to the old bank corner at -Seventh Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. They tell me -I disturbed the meeting, but when they adjourned to -the Mission Hall I followed weeping and crying, 'I shall -not go out of this hall till I am dead or saved.'</p> - -<p class='c000'>“I have been told by Brothers Gordon and Wheeler -that no drunkard we have ever seen disgrace himself in -this mission ever behaved worse than I did. God gave -them that night the grace of patience.</p> - -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_125a.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p>BOY SCOUTS</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/i_125b.jpg' alt='' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p>CAMP FIRE GIRLS</p> -</div> -</div> - -<p class='c000'><span class='pageno' id='Page_113'>113</span>“I cried to God, 'This poor man cried, and God heard -him.' I rose to my feet, sobered and in my right mind. -I gave the bottle to Brother Bratz, and when I got out on -the street I threw away my cigarettes and tobacco, and -from that day to this I have not touched or tasted either -liquor or tobacco. The next morning my hand was as -steady as it is this minute. While I was wondering what to -do, a rap came to the door. It was the saloon man's messenger, -telling me to come and finish my job. I was -weak, but I was praying. In the meantime Satan was -giving me the battle of my life. The devil is a hard loser. -He said, 'Well, if God could keep Daniel in the lions' -den, and the Hebrews in the fiery furnace, He could -surely keep you in the saloon.'</p> - -<p class='c000'>“But God has done better than that for me. He has -kept me out of the saloon. In my distress of mind as to -whether I should finish that job or go for my tools, I -picked up my wife's Bible and I opened at these words, -'Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee -by thy name, thou art mine. When thou passest through -the waters I will be with thee, and through the rivers, -they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through -the fire thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame -kindle upon thee.' It was a message straight from -heaven to my soul. I so accepted it.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“I never finished the job. I never went after my tools, -and from that day to this I have not entered a saloon. -Satan has camped on my trail many times. I have had -trials and temptations, but God has delivered me from -the sins of the flesh, whisky, tobacco and their accompanying -sins. No man who has been a drunkard can ever -again safely use tobacco. An experience of ten years in -mission work, where I have seen thousands of souls born -into the kingdom, convinces me that the convert who -retains tobacco will surely slip back. Christ's redeeming -blood cleanses from all sin.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“I was a good workman and I soon had permanent -<span class='pageno' id='Page_114'>114</span>work. I never failed to make the arrangement before I -entered into a contract that I was not to be expected to -enter a saloon or any other disreputable place.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>That was Mr. Kline's testimony, and I would like to -say for him that God greatly uses him and his testimony -to bring fallen men back to God. He is an acceptable -preacher of righteousness in almost any pulpit in this -city, and he has done acceptable evangelistic work in -many large eastern cities. His presence in the Gospel -Mission, we believe, is helpful to all the men who come -under its roof. He is an honored member of the Luther -Memorial Church.</p> - -<p class='c000'>I reaffirm, as long as one man dead in sin can be transformed -into a living, active, aggressive Christian, the -words of the Scripture are as true to-day as when the -angel said, “Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall -save His people from their sins.” Nothing now known -to science can accomplish what happened to Mr. H. W. -Kline that night; that is, as Prof. James so pertinently -says, “Conversion is the only means by which a radically -bad person can be changed into a radically good person.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>Harold Begbie, as a psychologist, says: “Whatever -we may think of the phenomenon itself, the fact stands -clear and unassailable that by this thing called conversion, -men consciously wrong, inferior and unhappy, become -consciously right, superior and happy. It produces -not a change but a revolution. It creates a new personality.” -We would say a new creature in Christ Jesus.</p> - -<p class='c000'>The religion of Christ differs from all other religions. -They take the rich, the happy, the successful, as their -expositors, but Christ takes the broken, the sorrowful, -the beaten in the race, and makes them the rich, the successful -and the happy expositors of His religion.</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_115'>115</span> - <h3 class='c012'>EMOTION IN RELIGION</h3> -</div> - -<p class='c013'>Prof. H. W. Wynn, D.D., one of the great writers of -the <cite>Lutheran Observer</cite>, has these wise words concerning -the elements of emotion in religion:</p> - -<p class='c000'>“We have discovered that religion as a purely emotional -experience may have no religion in it at all, though -kindled by the emotional stimuli that religion commands. -There is an emotional element in religion, of course, deep, -powerful, pervasive; and when you give way to it, enveloping -your whole being as in an atmosphere of flame. -Those tender feelings which enter so largely into the -deeper currents of our domestic and social life—love, -pity, joy, hope, the striking of the glad hand, comradeship -locking arms under the same great banner to do -deeds of heroism in the same great cause—religion calls -them all up, and fires them all with a conquering zeal.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“But, manifestly, the zeal may burn out before the -deeds of heroism have been begun. We have learned -to know that the same emotional fires may be kindled -when religion is not the theme. A great crowd, an -orator of fluent and persuasive speech, music filling the -air with the imaginary shouts of an “<span lang="la" xml:lang="la">Io triumphe</span>” come -to stay—it matters very little what may be the occasion -that has called these people together, the emotional part -of their campaign has been achieved. But, whether in -religion or in politics, it would be stupidly unwise to conclude -that the excitement itself was the end to be attained—emotion -being set down as the deed itself; or, in -some way, an assured equivalent of the deed.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“In all such cases fanaticism is the result, and fanaticism -has never been an aid, but always, in the long run, -an embarrassment to any great cause. Fanaticism stops -<span class='pageno' id='Page_116'>116</span>with the excitement—absurdly confounds excitement -with the cause to be maintained.</p> - -<p class='c000'>“In religion, especially, this unhappy 'transvaluation of -value' is likely to be made. For long ages it has been -systematically taught that the emotional element in religion -either summed it all up or was an unmistakable -token that, then and there, it had been all summed up for -us in the exchequer of the skies. The great transaction -had passed, the thing was done when your religious -ecstasy swelled to the highest, and you found yourself, -as you confidently believed, borne on its billows to the -bosom of God.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>Now, we all recognize this emotional element only as a -helpful factor in religion, but not a permanent element. -I have seen a few men accept Christ without any emotion -whatever. I remember a blue-eyed, fair complexioned -man saying, “I have no especial emotion. I am -truly sorry for my sins. I confess them now and here, -and I claim 1 John 1:9, 'If we confess our sins He is -faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse -us from all unrighteousness.' I ask God to cleanse me. -I need it and accept it, because He has said so.” Tracy -lived all right as long as we knew of him. If converts -made in evangelistic meetings were taken into careful -Bible school, they would develop into useful Christians, -and there would be no backsliding.</p> - -<p class='c000'>Now, religion, in the sense in which we use it, is a -“building” process, not “inflation,” as the aeronaut would -inflate his balloon. We all know the class of religionists -who hop, jump and shout in religious meetings; they are -so busy they do not see the basket as it passes; they give -no money, they do nothing that the world would call -religious except these physical manifestations. They are -<span class='pageno' id='Page_117'>117</span>intolerant to all who do not believe as they do, they are -simply to be tolerated and petted along as deficients who -mean well but cannot be counted as part of the great -organized force of believers which God is using to bring -about the kingdom of God until by training and experience -they can be used among their own class. But, -among these, every now and then there comes a man of -good mentality but without education, whom God can -use. His church has no room for him, yet he has the -same orders that Jesus gave to the eleven, “Go ye and -preach the gospel to every nation,” and we find him -preaching on the side streets, later a hall or church is -hired, and we have a new sect.</p> - -<p class='c000'>You remember Jane Addams tells of the young college -graduate who had taken a course in a Bible training -school and in a school of philanthropy, who, on her return -home, asked the rector for religious work, and he -replied, “You might arrange the flowers on the pulpit -each Sunday.” Think of that to a soul aflame with -God!</p> - -<p class='c000'>Macaulay touches off this kind of blindness in his -essay on “Ranke's History of the Popes,” in this way: -“Far different is the policy of Rome. The ignorant enthusiasts -whom the Anglican Church makes an enemy, -and, whatever the learned and polite may think, a most -dangerous enemy, the Catholic Church makes a champion; -she bids him nurse his beard, covers him with a -gown and hood of coarse dark stuff, ties a rope around -his waist, and sends him forth to teach in her name. He -costs her nothing. He takes not a ducat away from the -revenues of her beneficed clergy. He lives by the alms -of those who respect his spiritual character and are grateful -for his instructions. He preaches not exactly in the -<span class='pageno' id='Page_118'>118</span>style of Massillon, but in a way which moves the passions -of the uneducated hearers, and all his influence is -employed to strengthen the church of which he is a -minister. To that Church he becomes as strongly attached -as any of the cardinals, whose scarlet carriages -and liveries crowd the entrance of the palace on the -Quirinal. In this way the Church of Rome unites in herself -all the strength of establishment, and all the strength -of dissent. Even for female agencies there is a place in -her system for devout women; she assigns them spiritual -functions, dignities and magistracies.”</p> - -<p class='c000'>How different from these enthusiasts who have not -entered a church for years; their stock in trade is largely -vituperation of the churches until they are trained into -a better understanding of relative social service. The -Church is doing the real Christian work of the world in -keeping people from going wrong. Missions and their -branches only hope to catch the driftwood of humanity -before it floats out into the great ocean of eternity.</p> - -<p class='c000'>But every church in the land should have an investment -in money or personal representatives in the nearest -city rescue mission. The young people of the churches -should be the choirs of the missions. They will get inspiration -as to how to do work for God in securing -the conversion of every soul committed to their care in -the church and community work.</p> - -<div class='tnotes'> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 class='c005'>TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES</h2> -</div> - <ol class='ol_1 c003'> - <li>On p. <a href='#p51'>51</a>, interest on $17,000 at 5.5% would be $935 instead of $850. - - </li> - <li>Added “was” between he and brought on p. <a href='#p103'>103</a>. - - </li> - <li>Silently corrected typographical errors. - - </li> - <li>Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed. - </li> - </ol> - -</div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Twice-born Men in America, by -Harriet Earhart Monroe - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TWICE-BORN MEN IN AMERICA *** - -***** This file should be named 53014-h.htm or 53014-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/3/0/1/53014/ - -Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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