Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-03-18

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Best Of all Charities-Moody ana
Sankey-Spring Fashions Rlitica
-Business-Healh.
! THE BEST OF ALL CHARITIES.
As there are poor people every
where who must be relieved, am
going to give your readers the meth
OIL of work adopted by the most use
fnl and effective charity In the world
st. Johns Guild is body of men
and women in this city, organized
for the purpose of helping the de-
serving poor. The officers and
workers got no salaries. Every dol,
lar contributed goes directly to the
relief of the poor, without being
pared down q particle. Any mem,
Der may recommend deserving peO,
pie, and on their recommendation
visitors call and ascertain the exact
circumstances. They get the mum.
Der in the family, its earnings, and
what they most need. Then the
head gets q ticket, and Oh presenta.
ton, u ticket is issued on which they
can draw ratiOns once week. The
Guild has an immense warehouse
on Varick St., which is filed with
meats, flour, groceries, and medi.
cines, all Of which they buy at prime
cost, and 5000 families are wholly,
or in part, supplied therefrom. At
this time $4,000 persons are living
on this charity, and there is not an
unworthy person among them.
Every one has to give a reference
before an ounce is drawn, and the
moment the pensioner gets work
the supply is stopped. In summer
their work is mostly caring for sick
children. The Guild own their own
barge, and have it fitted up for ex.
cursions up the river with sick chill.
dren, which they give every day.
1t is a sight to 60 down to the ware
house and see the crowds of hungry
people carrying away their rations.
Last Thursday over 10000 were
present during the day, and all were
supplied. The Guild shows what
organization will do, and how effec-
tive it may be. Every dollar is con-
tributed without solicitation, and
they have no difficulty in getting
funds, for every one knows that
what is given goes directly to the
object for which it is intended.
MOODY AND sANKEY.
The meetings at the Aippodrome
are increasing, if anything. Extra
services have been put on this week,
one in the afternoon to accom- Odate
people who live out of town. These
are announced as lectures, and Mon
day the streets were placarded with
huge posters in the shape at thea.
tire posters, bearing the title of the
first lecture, son the Blood" No
other intimation was given that it
was not a medical discourse, as
every one took it to be on reading
it at the first glance. The church
members who can command their
time, have given up every other pur-
suit and attend meetings at all
hours, protesting to find great en-.
joyment in them. 1t is necessary
to give up everything else to attend,
for one must 60 an hour before
hand, and there is no time left of
half a day if one attends meeting.
The great doors fanked by the
winged Assyrian figures, that saw
the Hippodrome put to other uses,
and like their antetypes, survive all
changes, are open at halfpast eleven
for the morning meeting, and the
throng which melts into the hall
half fills it at once. The audience
is unconcerned, ladies chatting with
their friends, ministers in the gal
lery seats close to the speakers rail
ing are deep In low-toned earnest
chat about the advisory council, the
prospects of Oliver Johnson's new
paper, or the latest from the inquiry
rooms, and Mr.. Moody's last meth
cd. The only thing that would dis.
tinguish the meeting from a colise-
UNI concert in jubilee time in Bos-
ton, is the number of very poor,
wretched looking people who come.
1t was the only sign that these meet
ings were called in the name of the
Christ who gathered the multitudes
and had compassion on
them because they were as sheep
without shepherd. There were
such poor, decreplt old women, in
garments barely decent to cover
them, past all decency Of neatness,
and bonnets barely rescued from
the coal-hole, children with unkempt
hair, and frowsy garments, brought
by bending grandmothers, or drawn
by curiosity into the free meeting;
men evidently out Of work, filthy,
responding and forlorn; the back
streets and alleys sitting down be-
sue IdulcS Ill luIS d1u NtIFcIS, anu
spruce young men with flowers in
their buttOn-holes.
1t was a pitiful sight, and one
onged that these poor souls, who
had no earthly hope or comfort,
might find some help and promise
TO lift them above their troubles. 1t
would have been in sympathy with
the mastar of such meetings, if one
Of those wise, devout pastors could
have stepped forward, and with
gentle feeling, told these forlorn
creatures that this unhappy lot was
not all of existence for them: and {
whispered of inward help, that
could help them drag through what {
aver was left for them to endure, {
leaving them to feel bereft
If God aud man. But instead, {
stout, quick moving man, with neck {
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