Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-21

of city mission work: The Humphrey stree
 Congregational church, in which a training
 class of twenty-four members estab
 lished, and good work done by eighteen pas
 tors helpers in visiting among the forty fam
 lilies in the vicinity of that church that were 1 brought to their notice destitute of Chris
 tlan care. The George street Methods
 church, of whose training class of twenty 1 members and work by twelve pastors helpers
 honorable mention has already been made
 The First Congregational church of Fair Ha
 ven, where training class of twenty-six per
 sons included in their mission work hospital ! visiting, flower mission and 8 mission sta 1 tion. The Davenport church. twelve of whose members carried on 6 successful mis 1 sion station at two different places during l the winter and also a part of the summer. | The Dwight Place church, fifteen of whose ] members have maintained a chapel service in ! a mission district nearly every Sabbath of the present year, together with house-to- | house visiting in the vicinity of their mis- sion station. The Howard avenue Congre- gatlonal church, twenty-five of whose mem bers assisted in various ways in the 1nis- sion meetings held in the chapel of that church, as already mentioned, and by whose members other mission meetings in the open air CT in private houses were held in four different places during the year. This church has also visited eighty of the three hundred families found in the Third and Fourth wards in need of Christian care. At the conclusion of the special work in
 the Third ward in August the mission chapel Of the United church in the Ninth ward was offered for the use of the Board
 of Missions, and meetings were being held
 at that place every Sabbath evening up to
 the end of the year for which this report. is made.
 (2) By students of the Theological school.
 Twenty students of the seminary were en-
 gagged n I11iGs z, +l year. Excellent service was rendered and
 their ministry was highly appreciated at the
 hospital (where it was arranged for each of a
 committee of six to act chaplain one day of each week., and at the six mission stations
 that were in their charge during the winter and spring. A summary of their work is as follows: Different cases under care, 339 to-
 -al number of calls reported, 17OO; conver- satlon, Bible reading or prayer once or more
 with 3SS different persons; hopeful conver- slons, eight; backsliders restored, eight: oth- CT persons aroused to interest in religions
 liFe, thirty eight; on sick list, 259; calls on sick, ,5o9; different streets visited in mis- ion service, twenty two: 106 mission meet lngs held at ten different places and over one hundred persons persuaded to attend; more than 300 books, papers, etc, distributed at the hospital and elsewhere. During the last seminary year meetings were held weekly with such students as were engaged in city mission work and others desiring to know more about it as related to the work of the churches. One Of those then present, 8 member of last years senior class, is now in London for years study on the same sub ject, and with the intention of making city missions his life work.
 (3) By the Woman's Branch of City Mis- sions organized in February, 1885, This part of the work has naturally included within itself the mothers meeting and the chil dIens s meeting, and has added to these a training school for girls. Each of these is held weekly and all in a very prosperous condition, except for lack of room, for the comfortable accommodation of all who wish to attend Visits have been made to all the families represented at these meetings and needed aid rendered whenever it was possi- bie. One hundred and thirty new articles of clothing have been made at the Mothers meeting, the women who make them being allowed to keep them at about one-half the cost of the material. The families connected with the Mothers meeting were each provi- ded with Thanksgiving dinner, the chil- dren had New Years entertainment and also an Easter service at the mission rooms and the members ot the Mothers meeting were given tea-party during the winter. In the summer the children were all sent to all days outing. Extra excursion tickets were given to mothers with younger children to be used when most convenient. Ten aiAfI sasaaanun fallasf1es among the poor, connected with the meetings that are held, and ninety-two fami- lies, including 392 persons, were on the visi- ting list of sixteen members of the Wo mans branch during the eight months from its organization to the close of ths missiona " year. There is also q special committee appointed for work among the women at the jail, with the hope of helping them to Q bet ter life after they are released as well as while they are there.
 [1 P,r i,,1i ln5, fha guidance of the superintendent of missions. This includes Christian workers who are con nected with the churches where there is not yet any organized work in city missions, and also persons who prefer to be friendly visi- tors to the poor.
 The list of the latter is variable, but gene rally numbers from fifty to one hundred persons who are each visiting, not as relief agents, but as friends. from one to four fam flies among the poor. Those who have eX- pressed desire to learn how to do such work as city missions should include, either for the benefit of those in temporal trouble or in spiritual distress, are in this more private manner given such instruction and guidance as they may need in order to do good to those about them, and at the same time gain great good for themselves.
 It only remains for me to make reference to such meetings as have been under my care during the year, some of which have already been referred to, but which for gene ral survey may be brought together as fol lows:
 Open air meetings held on Morris street, on the corner of Goffe and Orchard streets "a children's service), on Washington street and on West street; chapel services on the corner of Orchard and Oak streets and on Dixwell avenue near Eaton street. Mission in private houses Hamilton, Franklin, Collis, Chapel, Greene, Rosette, Wilson and Elm streets, in Pierpont court and on Howard avenue. Besides these there were the meetings of the Woman's branch, the Mothers meeting, childrens meeting and the sewing school for girls, with the meetings of four training classes portion of the year This shows meetings connected with the mis- sion work at twenty-four different places in the city during the year.
 By the accompanying schedule 1t will be seen that at the time when it was prepared March 18th of the present year,, fourteen meetings were being held each week by the l City Missionary society, one or more meet 1 ings of various kinds every day or evening of l the week. On Sundays, two Mondays, one; | Tuesdays, one; Wednesdays, five; Thursdays, 1 three; Fridays, one; Saturdays, one. From the reports of average attendance at the diff | ferent mission meetings held during the year l it would probably be low estimate to say that on an average at least three hundred people were reached in this way each week, | which would give over fifteen thousand as | ;he number of persons in attendance at our | mission meetings during the year. This may | also be proper place to state that in all | more than two hundred volunteer workers l nave been connected with this society by en- l ,aging in some form of it's mission service | turing the year, for which report has now 1 been made. Respectfully submitted,
 W. D. MosMAN.
 New Haven, Conn.,, Dec. IS, 1885.