The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-04-09
UNION BETHEL.
ItsTweIfth Anniversary

| twelfth anniversary meeting In the
Bethel Church Building on Front street
yesterday afternoon. The hall was tilled
with people and scholars, and the exer-
| cises, consisting of singing and short
addresses, were engaged in by all.
Alter the programme OF exercises had
been finished, Rev. Thomas Lee, Super
inteudent of the Bethel, presented his
annual report from which we take the
following:
OUR BENEVOLENT WORK.
1t must be borne i'll mind by our friends
and the public at large that, while we
have very extensive benevolent work
and accomplished much in the direction
Of Christian charity, our main work is
religious, designed to reach the moral
and religious life OF the masses and lead
them to higher plane OF solid position
and useful citizenship. And when we
iced the hungry and clothe the naked it
is that We might thereby turn their
thoughts to the Giver of every good
and perfect gift, and help redeem them
from sin and its ineyiia able results. How
far we have been successful God only
can tell, but lie has permitted us TO see
enough TO satisfy US that we have
neither labored in vain nor spent our
strength for naught. Many Of those who
have been brought under our influence,
in the Sunday-sehool and the Church,
have risen from the depths of poverty
aud vicious surroundings TO respectable
ty and usefulness in society. And in
the day Of final reckoning it will be found
that many boy and girl have been
snatched as brands from the burning,
and that many distressed families have
been held together and saved from utter
despair and ruin by the timely aid and
encouragement afforded by the Union
Bethel.
DISTRIBUTION OF CLOTHING.
The iOiloWlng arLic. es nave been dis
tributed: 5,27l yards of calico, 5,875
yards OF muslin, 1913 yards OF Jeans,
l,434 pairs Of shoes, 753 girls hats, 46l
boys' caps, 37S underga 2S5 pairs
of hose, 80 uoys' shirts, 4S dresses, IS
shawls, 81 pairs of pants, 10 coats, II
aprons, and IL secondhand garments.
In looKing over the clothing account
OF the twelve years OF our cor
porate existence we have distrib.
uted as follows: 43,B14 yards OF mus
lin, Al ,34l yards OF calico, 0,7l6 yards Of
jeans, 1.6l4 pairs of shoes, 1866 boys
caps, 2,545 girls hats, GAS pairs Of hose,
662 shirts, 3,9OS unuergarments, All
shawls, 704 dresses, 401 girls hoods, 87o
aprons, 6i4 comforts, 1913 boys coats, $50
pairs of pants, 1875 yards OF hlnnels, 499
secondhand garments, besides large
num ber of unclassitied articles. At the
very lowest figures the aloe represent
cash value o1 $36 900, and show wide
spread charity, seldom, if ever, reached
by any institution i'll the land.
THE NEwSBoYs' HOME.
This has been falfly patronlzed dur
ing the year, but not TO the extent that
we could desire. Free baths, Tree beds,
and 10 cents meal are induCement
enough TO those who need such home,
but there are many neWsboys and boot
blacks who prefer The wild, unres trained |
lie OF the homeless, with its privation |
and dangers, to the most comfortable |
home that could be provided for them. |
The class OF boys for which our home |
W as inleuded-Lhe homeiess-is not very |
large, but those who avail themselves Of |
1t, as rule, make sober, industrious,
useful NJ N, an Lonor to themselves ana |
The institution.
CHEAP DINING AND LODGING ROOMS.
In these rooms meals y furn 8 ned at |
the lowest possible price, even b, low the |
cost, and lodgings al 10 cents a night.
In this department there have deem CIV
I'll free to destitute persons five thou
sand five hundred and seventy-six meals, !
five thousand and sixty-hVe lodgings,
two thousand two hunured and for
i've loayes otlbread, besid grocer es,
meat and soup 10 FAMILIES VINO We're |
specially needy and deserving.
THE YOUNG MEMS HOME.
For nearly three years We nave been |
such home, aud all things |
with very satisfactory re-
suits. B arding and lodging are Iu!-
nished it fir I'm 81 30 to S6 per week, az
cording To Ene ability OF the boarder and |
the a., c mmo /, ion futnlsned. The |
baths are Tree to all boarders, so that |
The man or boy VINO will avail himself OF
The advantages we Offer, vii! find very
sure home, az u very mod
crate outlay.
THE sUNDAY-sCHooL.
The attendance OF scholars has been |
very large during the year, far in ad-
vance OF anything known In the past.
The actual number present during the |
six months ending March 81 is sixty-two
thousand, four hundred and forty eight,
and an average for each Sunday Of two
thousand, four hundred and twelve.
This is the largest average ever reached |
by Sunday choolin America.
MOTHERS SEWING SCHOOL.
For the past TWO winters the Young
w Women's branch OF the Young WUmen's |
Christian Association have conducted
| Mothers Sewing School every Monday
evening in the chapel Of the Bethel.
This is not simply a sewing school, but
/ school for instruction in domestic and
life, ana can not fail w be of
,reat benefit to those who attend.
Mrs. S. 8. Fisher. Mrs. DR.. John Davis,
Mrs, Z. Hitchcock, Mrs. George Fox,
Mrs DR.. Humphres, Mrs. Dr. W. b.
Davis, Mrs. WIN. sumner, Mrs. &. Y.
Roots, Mrs. Joseph Reakirt, Mrs. Folsom
md Mrs. Pyle have been specially al
entiye ana laborious in this new under
aking, and have had their abundant re-
ward in the consciousness OF doing the
Aaster's work in a field that is White
into the harvest.
LADIES BETHEL AID SOCIETY.
From Jhe seventeenth annual report
# tue above society The following lacLs
ire learned:
During the winter, distributions have
,een made as follows: 5.S75 yards OF
muslin, 5,271 yards of calico, 1908 yards
II Jeans, 1853 gTPs hats, 46l boys caps, 80
hirts, As dresses, !, l,434 pairs Of sho es, II
4prons, 75 shawls. 37S pieces OF uuuer-
wear, ~ coats, 80 pairs OF pants, 285
,airs OF hose. IL second hand pieces,
1884 tickets.
,FFICERs AND DIRECTORS OF SOCIETY.