Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-02-01
Invite Tneln TO Tea.
For the kEPuBLIOAN.

, For the REPUBLICAN,.
Last summer short item appeared
In the Union Signal, coming from
Oregon, OF young man who said he
had no right TO set his foot inside any
door In the city except in a saloon. "
This was properly followed by a com.
ment on the advisabi!ity Of opening cof-
tee rooms for such wanderers throughout
the States. But, sisters, you know this
IL very slow work, aud moreover you
know 1t is not done, and u long time
will pass before it will be done. Mean
while, what? What are these young
men, and young women AZ well, to do
with themselves? Where are these
feet TO enter, and where are these boys
TO stand? This hopeless wall of no
where to go came, to b. sure, from
Oregon, but isn't it equally true of
| thousands in every town, village and
city from the Pacific all the way east
ward TO the Atlantic? Are there not
just around you young men and women
who have no Christian social life?
Are there not many to whom no
Christian home offers its shelter, to
whom no Christian door IL ever opened,
and to whom no Christian hand is
ever extended =? In our large cities are
there not young men and women pre-
senting themselves, Sunday after Sun
day, to our churches, with letters from
their country pastors commencing
them to our care, who are received per-
haps with q single hand shake, or none
ataii and after n time are seen no more
in our midst? Where are they? Where
are they gone We forget that we are
our brothers keeper, T" forget that
these boys wore accustomed to the
warmth and fostering care of home
we forget to welcome or look after
them, ard so when temptation came
and they did find those who were cor.
dial and kind can VIZ wonder that they
left our chilling atmosphere for some
thing brighter aud more friendly, even
If less pure? Oh why didnt two or
three Of us ask them once week to
tea, turn about That would have
saved them.
Is the new clerk in our husband
store? We remember when Jones, the
last one, came from the, tcouutry, look
ing just as fresh ard rosy as this one
does, but by degrees he got into bad |
company and late hours, and at last he |
had to be discharged, and we heard me
had gone TO the dogs." When his
mother came to see me about the boy,
my husband could give no information,
and knew nothiug of him, and, oh
her quiet, heart-br0ken grief was 80
terrible to zee that can never forget IL. |
| thought then that if had only asked
him to tea once in while, it might have
is all. will look after
this one, and those young men
who live ia that terrible cheap board. |
ing house opposite. The place hasn't
the slightest home look about it. know
they have no fire in their rooms, and
they are not made any too welcome in
the shabby, dark sitting room.
So where can the poor boys 20 of an |
evening for an hours comfort or plea
sure? III take one of them to tea once
u week, and ask some of the temper
ance women to do the same. That, and
the invitations to church, will be the |
means of saving them. Then YOU and
see another class, formed perhaps
from all of these those who have fallen |
into lower Or lesser DEPTHS those who
are beginning to Weld to emptation.
and those who have already INDUCED In
IL. Their need il greater. their danger
more imminent. What Ia TO be done
with them? "The church mbers; |
clerks, and respectable mechanics we
might pOssib,v manage" Won saw "but
how can can wa invite these To tea
How can We allow the sanctty of home, |
with the uurufll.d ori,t and seclusion
" hich has al says reigne,i there. to be
disturbed at ali, much more nv an ele. |
ment like this -
ON sisters sisters why are orr homes