The New York herald., 1870-08-15
The WATER STREET M!ssIOys..
The Works of Mercy rhat Have Been and
Are Still Being Performed-Rcscuins Fallen
Women and TeachinG the Children.

The Works of Mercy rhnt Have Been and
Are Still Being Performed-Rcscuing Fallen
Women and Teaching the Children.
There are now In Water street three missions,
each OF which is conducted upon somewhat differ
ent principles. The Water Street Mission of the New
York Port Society, corner Of Water and Dover
streets, was established seven years ago,
under the Immediate care and supervision
OF Captain E. Richardson, an old seaman who
has spent nearly his whole life upon the seas and
consequently knows how to manage the class OF
men with whom he is now daily brought into con-
tact. He s now nearly eighty years old, but not.
withstanding this, he s competent to and does per-
form more
REAL GOOD WORK
than most any two men In New York city of half
his years. At the "Misson:' he holds four meetings
a week in the summer and seven in the winter. He
supplies upwards OF $50 ships with libraries free of
all cost, and these he changes whenever they have
been read through by the seamen. or course
the money sm to fse On tss
cIety, but he performs all the work
without receiving one cent as compensation. He
where there are an average OF forty scholars in
structed daily. great proportion OF these children
are han orphans, whose condition is pltful indeed.
Besides teaching these little ones he also furnishes
them with clothing and food, and where required
furnishes assistance to their mothers such paying
their rent and providing them provisions. Mrs
Jones,
GOOD KIND LADY,
who 1S connected with the society, has visited q
great many houses of Ill repute in the ghborhood
and since January last has read the Bible to about
300 sailors found there, besides the poor fallen
women.
Yesterday afternoon at the Mission there were
large number Of persons present. most of whom
The Water Street MISSION for Women, as is we'll
known, was established last February, by
o RS H. pastor Of he unar Street
Methodist Episcopal church. Unlike the Mission OF
the Port Society. this one deals only with women
women who were
Once pure a the xnow-but fell;
fell like the snowflake. from heaven to hell;
and they are doing most noble work. They have
thing necessary for their comfort, and use every
means IN their power TO reform them and persuade
them TO
LEAD vIRTUoUs LIVES
So for they have been eminently sue cessrul, and
many Of these poor women, who a few months ago
were "dealng in shame Tor morsel OF Dread,' are
now leading good and virtuous lives and many OF
them are occupying domestic positions In Chrlstian
families. Mir. POO, holds daily MONDAY prayer
meetings, 10 which all are cordially invned but or
late they have not unfortunately, been very well
moons, and these are always well atte ndeu and are
evidently doing much good.
The third mission Is known as the City Mission,
and confines Itself Chiefly to furnishing food and
lodging to sealnen who are In a destitute condition.
These three missions have certainly done an i'm
mense amount Of good In the locality where they
are situated. When the first of them was estab-
lslied the nelgnD0rnood was one OF the very worst
In the whole metropolis Houses OF prostitution OF
the lowest order were on every hand. and street
brawls and fights were the rule rather than the ex-
ception. Now there are but three houses OF the
KIND in the vicinity, and they are for the kind eX
ceedingly quiet and orderly. the notorious
OLD SINNER KIT BURN,
who still keeps den next door to the Women's
Home, has Of late conducted his place in u very
quiet and orderly manner and has learned at least
TO respect religion, a thing Of which a few years
ago ne had never heard. II some of tue Old fogies
OF both sexes, VINO always pratng about the poor
heather on 'Greenand'S ICY mountains or in the
vicinity or "Afrc's coral strand" would emulate
the example OF these good men and women, who
have established and are now carrying on these
works Of mercy, and start institutions OF like Char
acter In various other parts OF New York city, they
might in future years be able To say the world was
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