The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-03
what the NTissIon nns Done

Is only to be appreciated by those who have
seen II in the days when il was first es-
tablished, and who know its record. There Is
many areclaimed drunkard, many reformed
wretch who bartered her greatest earthly jewel
for mess of pottaee, and many happy child
who has been rescued from the paths Of crime
and from the sinks OF Iniquity which SO abound
in this frightful locality. 1t has carried COM
fort to the dying hours Of many poor
despairing wretch, whose guilty soul shuddered
ere it took its fight from its earthly sepulchre,
at the enormity Of its guilt. II has carried
comfort to the sick and weary and food
to the starving. It has given nstruc-
tion to the ignorant and stood the
friend OF the triendless. All honor to these
noble men, who, in the midst OF famine and
desolatlon, drunkenness and debauchery, sur
rounded by sin and crime in all its abhorrent
nakedness, have manfully done their duty in
reclaiming the fallen of their race II is Cod
like service, and well have they earned the ap-
preciauye plaudits of all. They are engaged in
work that should stir the hearts of all to come
forward and aid them with deeds of kindness
and gifts of benevelence.
The Mission Building,
wherein the schools are situated, is neat but
unpretending three-storied brick structure On
the first floor, as you enter, is the chapel which
is capable of comfortably seating about two
hundred people. On the second floor is the
infant school-room. We paid the children a
visit. Mrs. o., the very kind and ladylike
teacher, had the little scholars, who are of both
sexes and colors, in very good order. Indeed,
there arc very few schools in which such excel
lent discipline is kept as it was in that room.
They were all orderly, and had clean faces and
hands and their hair combed. They sang a
hymn, called ''The Harvester's Hymn,n we be-
heve, and accompanied their singing with ap-
propriate gestures at the lead of their teacher.
After saying a few words to the children, we
visited the third story, where The older scholars
are taught. Miss - and Miss R., the two
lady teachers of this department, were very
kind in explaining the rules of the school to us.
We heard the children repeat the Lords Prayer
in very creditable manner, and after saying
a few words before leaving, we retired very
much pleased with the pleasant faces we saw
there and thankful that so many children were
being so well cared for.
The financial condition of the Mission is not
in very Aourishing state. In this connection
we will make an extract from the thirteenth
annual report, for the year 1865
Financially, the Mission has not prospered
during the year as we desired it should. The
school fund has suffered less than the current
expense account. We are still short to meet
outstanding obligations. Our cherished project
OF extension has consequently been retarded,
but by no means abandoned. The property has
been secured through to South street on fayora-
BILE terms, and we are ready to 60 to work. We
need the means with which to erect building
suited to our wants. We require ten thousand
dollars, and for it are dependent upon Chris
No one who has not seen the misery and
degradation of the poor fallen wretches who
i've or rather exist, in this wretched locality,
can conceive of the immense work that is to be
done in reclaiming them and reforming them,
so as to be useful members of society. And Il
is duty we owe not only to our God, but to
society at large, as measure of policy il for
no other reason, that that hot-bed Of vice and
crime should bepuri6ed and rendered blessing,
instead OF curse, as it now is. 1t is, as mere
matter of dollars and cents, expedient to aid the
Mission in preventing the still further spread o
the crime and disease that issue from its midst