Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-11-18

INCIDENT AT THE FIVE POINTS
HOUSE OF INDUSTRY.


Rescue Of a .Mfher and THREE Children
from .Stucation and Htimy.
Last week attempted faint sketch of
Mr.. Pcase's labors at the Five Points House
of Industry. 1t was only sketch. To
lie able to appreciate Mr Pcase's tolls and
sacrifices and .fdenying labors, one must
visit the locality: one must wind through
those dirty streets and alleys, and see the
wrecks of humanity that meet him at every
step; he must see children SO dirty and
saualid that they scarcely resemble human
beings, playing in filthy cutters and using
language that would curdle his blood to
hear from chRlhood's lips: he should see
men, 4" made in Gods own imogc," tru-
talized beyond his power to imagine; he
should see women girls of not more than
twenty years. reeling about the pavcments
iu a state of bcastly intoxication, without
a trace Of feminity in their vicious faces
he should pass the rum shops, where men
and women are quarrcling and fighting and
swearing, while childhood listens and learns
he should pass the secondhand clothes
cellars, where hard featured Jewish dealers
swing out faded refuse garments, (pawned
by starving virtue for bread, to sell to the
needy, halfnaked emigrant for his last
penny; he should see dccayed fruit and
vegetables which the most ravenous swine
might well root twice over before deyouring
purchased as daily food by these poor
creatures; he should see gentlemen G.
threading these streets, not 10 make all
this misery less, God knows, but to sever
the last thread of hope to which many
tempted one is despairngly clinging.
One must see all this, before he can form
JUS: i;.ea Of the magnitude and import
ance of the work Mr. Pease has single
handed and nobly undertaken remember
ing that men of wealth and influence have
their own reasons for using that wealth and
influence (in opposition to Mr.. Pease) to
rerpetna.e this modern Sodom.
One should spend an hour in Mr.. Peascs
house, to see the constant drafts upon his
time and strength, in the shape of calls
and messages, and especially the applica-
,ions for relief that hjis slender purse alas ..
is often not able to answer; he should see
his unwearied patience and activity, admire
the kind sympathetic hcart-unatlected by
toll or the frowns of tcmporizng theorists
ever warm, ever pitiful, giving not only
"the crumbs from his table," but often
his own meals to the hungry-his own
wardrobe to the naked !; he should see
this, and 90 away ashamed to have lived
so long and done so little to help the
manned, and sick, and lame to Bethesda's
Pool
l will relate an incident that occurred,
some time since, at the House of Industry,
and which serves as fair sample of daily
occurrences there.
One morning an aged lady, of respect
able appearance, called at the Mission
House and enquired for Mr. Pease She
was told that he was engaged, and asked
II some one else would not do as we'll.
She said respectfully, "No; my business
is with him; will wait, if you please,
till he can see me-
Mr. Pease Immediately came in, when
the old lady commenced her story:
Il came, sir" said she, "in behalf Of
poor unfortunate woman and three chill.
'EEn She is living now and th. tears