Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-04-24
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Thursday, April "A. 1884.
City Missions
| MR.. Mossman,s Annual Report-The
Work of the Year-The Various Most
NOtabTe Features OF the WOrk-Ita
| New Phases.
MIR. Mossnan has submitted his annual re-
port to the New Haven Board of City Mis-
sions. During the year he made or received
between 1000 and 6,ooe calls and over 600
different fanailies or persons living alone re-
ceived his personal attention in various ways
More than 1000 persons of 15 different ma
tionalities are there included. This forms
his general case list which ia carefully in
dexed with name, street, and number of each
family given, together with dates Of the calls
upon them and note of their condition and
needs. From this list is made out his parish
list of families without pastoral care whom
he serves as pastor until such time as they
come under the Christian care of some
church. Upon his own parish list for the
year there are 419 cases numbering 924 per-
sons The report continues: Some of the
results of my Iabors with these persons whom
I have found without any other pastoral
care are as follows:
Conversation, Bible reading or prayer, once or
more, with different personsl 362.
Became Christians while under city misSionArys
Baolsliders partly or wholly restored. 81. 49,
Other persons aroused to an interest in religious
Promised to attend church (prsviousIy non-Atten-
dant), families, 1856; persons included 3sS
Different denomiaations 8. Different churches ~.
Children out OF Sabbath school promised to at
Reported for permanent pastoral cars 1e4 Cases in
Guiding BIZ persons, to IS pastors of different de-
Reported for church membership; on profession 49,
Remaining on pariah list at the end the year.
Continued pastoral care of city missionary, 251
(lnostIy fanflies) with 663 persons included.
Some other items of interest from the general case
On Gck list during year, different 80. calls
! made 1888. Christians without other pastoral care
all $40 cases of Distress including 96 persons
ttute Christians assisted in ether ways 1885, Their
of restitution cared for wholly in part 1856.
Deaths among people under city misaionarys care
6 Funerals conducted 7. Others provided for .
Total Different streets of the city reached during
the year 124. ~--1
Included in additional personal work dur
ing the past year may be mentioned the fol-
10 wing: Guardianship of neglected or or
phan children assistance to begin better
life to both men and women on their release
from the jail addresses in the churches, in
regard to the missionary work Of the city, as
re quested visits to the sick at the hospital.
almshouss and jail assistance at temperance
meetings and personal attention to the ex-
penditure of the fresh air fund, the loan
fund, the relief fund (for special cases), and
the students fund for mission work.
Under the head of other work of the board
of missions done by others under bis direc-
ton, in return for his general oversight of
the work of the board of charities as chair
man of it's committee in charge, part of
its house, No. 70 Church Street is used as q
mission house for the missions board free
of charge. Thus an Office now Is afforded
and place where mothers meetings and a
girls school are held and committee meetings
In addition MIR. III. g work embraces the
follow ing departments under his charge. viz:
l, paid workers; 2, volunteer workers. 8, a
| training class for Christian workers As
paid workers during the past year they have
| had on duty for a part of this time lady
| missionary and four students of
the Theological school. The former WIS.,
1 tied chiefly women and girls in families al
ready on the city missionary list and calling
upon women prisoners in jail, with endea-
vors to reinstate them in self support and
| self-respect upon their release. The estab-
lishment of -omen's branch of the board
| of city mission is urged, as there is an evil
dent need of it. The work of the students
has been mainly going out into the by-waJs
and hedges of the city working with people
| Who are strangers to the sanctuary and who
feel that they are not cared for by the
churches. Bibles are given them and Other
books when needed. Between twenty and
thirty Theological students have helped ir
this work, which the city missionary says
has been fraught with good results.
The volunteer workers include five classes
First, friendly visitors to the poor, who worh
as they have time and opportunity with such
families among the poor as are known to the
city missionary. The object is to provide
not '.alms but friend, - and to show them
the way to a better condition of life. The
list of visitors varies from fifty to one hun
dred, mostly ladies. Second, hospital visitors,
comprising Christian people who are willing
to give part of their time to the care of the
sick and dying at the hospital, where there is
no regularly appointed chaplain. One or
| more of these visitors is on duty in the hos
1 pital wards every day, and it is intended to
| provide similar visitors for the almshouse and
| Jail il desired by the chaplains there. Third,
| neighborhood prayer meetings and district
visiting. As a result of this work
| many have been brought under the
| care of the churches some of them perma-
| nsntly as members. In this and the hospital
work nearly half the junior GLASS in the sem.
mary has been engaged. 4. The mothers
| weekly meeting at the mission house. 5.
The training school for girls, held at tie
mission house every Saturday forenoon.
Sewing and Homework are taught here.
The training class for Christian workers is
/ not yet fully organized, but it is to include
| those persons who are already at work and
| such others as are willing to undertake any
| form OF Christian work A number of the
| city pastors will from time to time give in
| struction to this class by lectures or other
| wise. In conclusion, wish to acknowledge
| the favor of God in prospecting as, and to
suggest to the board the necessity of provid-
| ing for three ways of further Strengthening
1 the work. First, an assistant missionary who
shall be constantly engaged in visiting and
notifying either the pastors of the churches
| or myself of all persons without permanent
pastoral care. Part of the money to secure
| such q person for the present year has al
ready been pledged. Second, a lady to visit
in cases of sickness in the homes of the poor
and to give them such knowledge of simple
remedies as she will have previously obtained
at the training school for nurses. She will
also minister to the needs of the souls of the
sick. In this way she would include the
duties of lady missionary. Nearly half the
amount needed for a years service of this
Kind has already been offered. Third. it
seems to me especially important that the
board should establish several missions in
different parts of the city to hold district
time to time assume the charge
of such meetings as this board
shall establish for them, there will in this
way be opened new doorways into our
churches, into which we may hope to see
coming many whose souls shall be saved by
the power our Lord puts forth through his
church upon the multitude who are now all