The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-15


10 be too evanescent 10 do much good
and the sunday-school was therefore
changed into a day-school. The great
majority of such adults as, by slow
degrees were induced 10 attend were without
work, TOR the larger establishments which gave
sop.work to the poor we're afraid TO trust their
n aterials in the hands of the Flve-Pointers. At
lenptb the resioent missionary tnen offered to
become personally respoosible for the safe
return of such material, and selecting house,
oleansed and re6tted it, made it the hone of
bimself and wife, and of such OF the Inhabitants
who chose 10 come there and work. and so ayall
themselves OF its advantages. In 1852 1T was
decided to purchase the property known rs the
Old brewery. On the I'd of December of that
year the demolition OF the Old Brewery was com
mpnced, and in one weeks time not one stone was
lett standing on another. The property was
purchased Tor $4,000, an appeal beiug made to
the publ which responded more generously
than it often does TO such appeals, aud much
money being gathered in by various entertain
meDts in which Mr.. Cough, Mr.. Beecher, the
Hutchinson family and the Alleghenans took
part. On the 9th of January, 1858, the corner
stone of the new Mission building was laid, and
at the conclusion OF the initial services a collec-
tion OF $500 was taken up. In less than five
months the building was completed, its
ded cation taking place June 1S, 1853.
This date marked the crisis in the moral fever
which, for generation past, had been Staying
it's thousands at Five Points. Tue Mission Is
FIVE stories high, built of brick, with frontage
of twenty-five feet, and a depth OF forty-dve
I,s entire cost amounted to S3G 900. The prin-
cipal building Is the chapel, which seats 500;
services being held there three nights during
the week, and on Sundays at l0t A. NJ, and 3
and Z p. VI. Tue hours for day-school are from
0 to IL, and from l TO 3. Adjoining the chapel
is parsonage, when the missionary, Mr.. Shat
fer, and his family reside. Over the chapel are
twenty tenements, consisting OF three rooms
each, where poor families are very comfortably
provided for at an extremely low rent. Under
meath the chapel is the, school room, which Is
handsomely provided with desks, each pupil
being furnished with one. The lest of the base
ment is occupied by bathrooms and watdrobes,
and school tor the infant Glass; of which 15O is
the average attendance.
Immediately opposite the Five Points Mission
stands its twin companion in the good work, the
Five Points House of Industry, and with whose
rise and progress is intimately associated the
name of the Rev. Lewis Morris Pease. 1t Is
has a frontage Of dfty-io feet, and is most sub
stantialy built. Mr.. Pease was at first the agent
of the associa ion of ladies TO whom is due the
establishment of the Five Points Mission. The
cause of the difficulty between HIM and tha
association appears to be enveloped in m ystery
which both parties seem equally anxious to
preserve, for neither public report nor private
INQUIRY furnishes the least clue. Quarrel they
did, however, and Mr.. Pease went on his own
hook, and the ladies went on theirs.
They have the Mission House to show
as the result of their endeavors; he has the
House OF Industry as the result of his. The
Five Points children who attend the House o
Industry are known respectively as the 'in'
sldersn and "outsders;" the insiders being
those who live in the institution and the
outsiders those who merely attend during the
day and at evening return TO their parents.
In winter the average attendance of insiders
and outsiders is four hundred and twenty-five;
at present there are two hundred insiders and
one hui dred and twenty-five outsiders. Not
uufreauently some OF the ungratetul mothers
and fathers of Five Points, willully misconstru
ing the benevolence of Mr. S. B. Holiday, the
Superintendent, in harboring their children,
| get up action against him and have him
brought before Justice Bowling on the charge
of kidnapping their children. An instance of
this occurred only last Saturday, in the case
| OF a boy in whom Mr. Holiday had taken a
particular interest. Daily religious services are
held in the House of Industry, at half past six,
mornings and evenings, the day school lasting,
| as in the Mission House, from nine to twelve
and from one TO three. In fact the House of
Industry does for children what the Mission
House does for families. Both are equally
necessary, and each, in its results is beautiful
exponent of the faith which is as grain OF
mustard seed. Standing upon the roof of the
seven storied House of Industry. lanes and
courts and alleys may be seen, swarmiLg out of
one another, and forming still one vast dark
honeycomb OF suffering, poverty, and sim But
| the black shadows of unnatural and enormous
wee have long ago been swept away. The
inside, as well as the outside of this moral cup
and platter, has been made comparatively
clean, and that tie Five Points that rs has been
rescued from the Five Points that Iols, is due to
The efforts of a little band of Christian ladies
put forth not twenty years ago. ALI BABA.
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