Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-21
CETY MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
Review of the Society Work for the
 Past Near In Hts Various Depart

CITY MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
 Review of the Society Work for she
 Past Near ln Hts Various Depart
 ments.
 Below is the annual report of the super
 intendent of the City Missionary society, giving a review of the work done by the
 society in it's various departments for the | year past:
 To the City Missionary Society of New Ha- | ven:
 During the past year ending October 1st, 1 1885, as during the two years previous, a
 careful record has been kept of the mission
 ary work carried on by your board of mis-
 sions in behalf of the churches of the city | For convenience in statement the work as- | signed to he as superintendent of missions | will be presented under the headings of First, personal work; second, other work un- der care, the latter being in turn divided into
 paid work and volunteer work.
 For the past year from October 1st, 1884,
 to October 1st, 1885, would report the fol- | lowing as part of my
 PERSONAL WORK.
 Upon my general case list for the year are
 the names and addresses of 1,21S families Cor persons living alone.) Of these there are 921 included on my parish list, showing that I
 have been able to exercise religious inf1u-
 ence upon more than three thousand persons
 during the year, in addition to the general
 influence from meetings that have been held
 have taken under my pastoral care 598 of
 those families found without the care of any other of the pastors of the city. the number of persons included being about two thou sand. From this list I have during the year reported to twenty eight other ministers of the city (of six different denominations) 256 families, with 9S9 persons included, as ready for the Christian care of themselves and their churches. Included in this number were 101 persons who were brought to the notice of eighteen churches of five denomi- nations for membership.
 During the year I have made or received between five and six thousand calls I have had religious conversation, Bible reading or prayer, once or more, with six hundred and forty-four different persons. As result thlrty-two persons professed conversion, six weight backsliders were wholly or partly restored, and one hundred and thirty eight other persons were aroused to personal inter est in 8 religious life. On my sick list for the year there were two hundred cases six teen deaths occurred among people under my pastoral care, and I have conducted eighteen funeral services. Several marriages were solemnized, baptisms were administered in a number of instances of approaching death, and other baptisns provided for through the pastors of churches where people desiring these services were persuaded to attend or join. 1 have assisted in various ways eighty destitute Christian people, and provided wholly or in part for one hundred and seven ty-five other families. 1 have also during the year brought one hundred and fourteen cases of Restitution to the notice of the board of charities other relief agencies. More than one hundred different streets of the city were visited in mission service, and sixteen different nationalities are represented upon my visiting list for the year.
 My personal attention has also been given during the year to variety of miscellaneous work, among which may be mentioned the l presentation of the work of this board in the churches whenever desi1ed or as seemed ! needful, conference with pastors and mem bers of churches in connection with the visi- l ting of families or individuals without Chris tan care, the establishment and maintenance of training classes for Christian workers mission stations, district visiting, hospital W2rk e2nr friendly 3 i visiting ot the poor to department of mission work, ,apd the organlZa- tion of a woman's branch of city missions. Ihaye had as heretofore, the general over sS-r, :ss5 Church street, in return for | Mich the use of an office and mission rooms at that place is secured without cost to this ! board I have also given personal attention | to the care and expenditure of the various funds belonging to the mission work, viz: | the special relief fund, the loan account, the l students fund, the fund for woman's work, l the city mission expense account, the fresh l air fund and the building fund. WORK UNDER cARE-FIRsr--PAID
 WORKERS.
 In continuation of the work of the preyi | ous year, during which the Sixth, Seventh | md Eighth wards were thoroughly canvassed | to find if possible, all who were without | Christian care, we have this year gone over he Third and Fourth wards, from house to | house, in similar manner. For the months | of February and March, 1885, the services of Mr. Joseph Irons were secured, and as a re suit of his work one hundred and ten fami ies, numbering between four and five hun lred persons, were found in the Fourth ward without church attention or pastoral care By permission of the Third Methodist church on George street), mission meetings were at | once established there and held in February very night during the week, when their ooms were not occupied for other meetings ] ,f the church. The subject was also brought before the church at its meetings, and as a esult training class for Christian workers ! vas organized, numbering twenty members, if which number twelve were upon active luty as ''pastors helpers" Many families l were visited, some of whom were brought | nto that church, while others were brought ! o the notice of the pastors of the churches where they naturally belonged. Some of the hildren in these families were also brought nto Sabbath schools, and in some cases of tisordered lives there was an honest effort | made to do better. MT. Irons removal from he city to enter the work of the ministry elsewhere brought this form of work tempo arily to an end, just when we had hoped to ,e able to make it increasingly successful.
 In July of the present year MT. c. H. | oease commenced the work of district visi- | ing where MT. Irons had left it, and during he months of July and August visited from louse to house through the whole of the Third ward. and in some eases revisited fam lies several times.
 In connection herewith mission meetings were held under the direction of the mission l board in the open air and in private. houses turing the month of July three or four times ,ach week The Howard avenue Congrega ional church then offered the use of it's ,hapel for meetings on any evening when not otherwise in use by the church. This offer being accepted, five evening meetings each week were held at this chapel during the month of August, with average attend lnce of forty persons; besides which the ,pen air meeting near the west side of the ,lty was conducted every Sabbath afternoon, with an average attendance of three hundred persons; in all forty four mission meetings were held in five different places in the sec ion where families were visited. Over 300 visits were made upon forty-four different trests and more than two hundred families were found without any church home or pas or's care Some of the results of work in his part of the city and not elsewhere re- l ported are as follows: Hopeful conversions, tight; backsliders restored, twelve; other persons aroused to interest in religious life, nore than three hundred; requests for pray