The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-04-12
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
ttNIOrley's'' Letters from New York.
New York April y, 1879,


inhabit yonder brown-stone row. Neither /
should you infer from our gambling dens, bru- |
tai walking matches, drinking holes, and
Haunting "soclal evil" that New York lie
modern Sodom. Thank heaven, this is but
the heathcn side of what called in an earlier
letter the 'most Christian and most heather
city west of the Atlantic"
The rich centurion, and Dorcas, and Corne-
Illus. all live Just across Filth Avenue from
Dives, but all the syDagogues they have built,
all the poor people clad, and all the aims be-
slowed by them have made less noise in the
world than the blind beggar, full Of sores, ly-
ing q. Dives gate! Fair play, gentlemen
now THE WEALTH OF NEW YORK is GIVEN.
This city has nearly fire hune-ee9 churches
and chapels, costing forty million dollars to
build and Ave millions more per annum to
keep them going. We have ffty.nine hospit-
ais ind asylums for the sick, aged, blind, deaf
and dumb. lunaiics, inebrlates, orphans, and
soldiers. which have cost twenty millions 10
build, and require Eve millions year to su'-
tain. The public school edifices have cost six
millions. and four millions year TO operate.
The amount spent In private charities no man
can estimate, but 1t must be several millions
The beautiful city Of Elizabeth, containing
tweniy-eIght thousand inhabitants, is valued
at sl4 600, ,0oO-and the annual benelactions oi
New York, not counting private charities
amount to over SIS ,Oo0.-ThatS biE"l
WHAT THIS MONEY DOES.
1don't know how many missionaries there
may be in Japan. but do know how many
are at work In the slums, and among the Arabs
Of this city. Before you read further, just
stop and guess how many there are. asked
hard-working Presbyterian deacon, this
morning, and he guessed twenty-five" That
was q miserable guess. Toiling among the
tenament houses, sailors boarding houses, ten
cent lodging houses, and along wharf and
street, day and night, al no less han two hun.
dred and sixty SIX missionaries! Itis doubtful
IL any missionary field in the world can show
two hundred and slSty-six labOrers 10 mill
ion of population. The iorty-three missiona'
rles employed by the City Missions alone held
three thousand seven hundred religious meet
ings last year In the worst sections Of the city,
and gave Iccuniary aid to six thousand peo-
Pile. This regiment of untiring workers visit
and care for the sick, read the bible to those
who will listen, organize prayer meetings In
tenement houses, on street corners and ship
board, and every day and every night hold
meetings in their 40 mission churches. This
money supports, besides, 10 churches for sea
men. sailors reading rooms, 10 other free
reading rooms, coffee houses; and a "howei
MISSION" through which the sweet fragrance
and beauty of rose and lily, heliotrope and
geranlum, are brought into thousands Of slcl
rooms, in hospitals and tenement houses
, Those blessed dollars sustain whole corps o
trained missionary nurses, giving them pre-
liminary instruction in n Nurses Training
School; they support an Infants Day Nurs
cry for children of working mothers, wher'
the little one is tenderly cared for while th'
mother is out at work; and a cheap lolgini
house for women. How often this house, will
5 Its healthful moral atmosphere, has stood be
/ tween homeless girl on ~ the last Great Da,
, will unfold. Besides these there is Work
ingmen's Club, which is about selEsupporting
designed SIS an Offset to the drinking saloon
: and the Midnight Mission" for the rescue .
girls from a life of shame.
| TEMPERANCE WORK.
S The s. 900 drinking holes which the genius Q
n Chancellor Crosby has been rapidly tran:
forming into 'hotes" are not having 1t o.
their own way either. Last Sundays Herdl
contained advertisements ofseven temperate
. meetings that day, and this was but fraction
i The City Missions alone conduct go state
e temperance meetings a year; Prof. Evans
speaking to crowded houses every night Sav
yer Is working wonders on reformation an
filling the Park Theatre to overhowing ever
| f.AN I nI AAn ram
: plars and IS divisions of Sons Of Temperate
= are working mere quietly, but doing preelo,
Ia work nevertheless.
SEVEN YEARS OF REVIVAL.
Ten years ago JerryMcAul prize fghte
! thief, ex convict, was picked up by cl y mi
slonary onWater street and became change
=. man. lie could mt rest with all the wicke
" ness about him, and after few years Of pi
tient laboring mission was built for him
the worst part of that awful street. Here
"a seven years Jerry has preached and eXhort
Is and his wife (taken from the gutter, also) h
A. presided at the organ, while thieves, drum
he ards and abandoned characters have been /
he to new life. The revival has known
is break all these years, and though Jerry
lp now sick with pneumonia, and has the sec
of consumption actively at work within hi
at the work goes grandly on.
o. Besides this, there is plain, dlngy old m
ID. rlner's church down near the Brooklyn Bird
10 where q constant revival has been in progr'
over three years. A gray haired man, wi
loving kindness written all over his sweet {
no face, simply tells the ''old, old story" to
an crowd of weather beaten sailors, street roug
TE in their shirt sleeves, and Cinnamon not
rst few, and in these three years over fifteen hu
CT. dred of these men have applied for chur
IN membership. What wouldn't some Of "
:, churches give for an outpouring like that
Herod lives in New York, and TO save
golden crown of profits, DEGREES the slaugh
yer of the tenement house innocents; Dives ia
Ty sumptuously every day while Lazarus b.
" the crumbs from the rich mans tab lie;
at whoever concludes therefr, m that the cit!
without ten righteous men has something
to learn about New York! MORLEY
as Our Letter from Washington.
ter Jacle SANS Bonanza-The Great ErhiJi
OF our Financial Strength The Extra SeS,
on and its Iafances upon Washington G
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