The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-11-10
DROADBRIM'S N. Y. LETTER

find that she was not only the City OF
Churches, but IL the, Rev. Mr.. BaiRbridge
is not very much mistaken, was by no
means distantly related TO the cities Of Sod |
ON and Gemorrah. It's title to the City Of
Churches is exploded forever. There are
between seven and eight hundred thousand
people in the City Of BROOKLYN. 1t is the
third city Of the Union to-day, and It win
not be many years when In point Of popula
ton and manufactures It will be the first
but II every church in the city Of Brooklyn
were crammed to Its utmost capacity, the
entire seating and standing room In all the
churches would only accommodate about
seventy-slx Thousand, while the average at
tendance in all the churches, exclusive of
the Catholic churches, Is about thlrty-six
thousand In a poplation of between seven
and eight hundred thousand. And the
financial condition of the churches that are
already In existence Is one Of constant
trouble, care and anxiety, the majority Of
them begging TO keep the Sheriff from the
door, the mortgages on church property
| dtuOunbiuk W nChtlJ lOuA hAAiAOho VI aci-
lars, and this too when they are entirely
exempted from taxation. While the
Protestant churches are many Of them al
most deserted, the Catholic churches are
crammed to oYerfowing: three and four
services every Sunday morning, commence
ing at six o'clock in the morning and con-
tinuing till the high mass at hal:'past ten
OF eleven. And II was not the scarcity of
church accommodations that called forth
Mr.. Bainbridge's heavy condemnation, but
The entire community was shocked and
grieyed by the assertion that the fallen wo-
men of New York city we're largely recruit
ed from Brooklyn. This has reused the
Indignation of Brooklyn's citizens, and in
connection with the election has helped to
make things very lively. The question
now being discussed between the news
papers and the missionary is: ought we to
build more churches till we can fill those
that we have, aud is it true that the wo-
men of Brooklyn are any worse or as bad
as their neighbors? Doctor Talmage has
no difficulty in filling his church at every
service; rain or shine, hot or cold, summer
} and winter it is all the same.
There must be something radically wrong
in the administration Of a system when,
out OF nearly eight hundred thousand peo-
pie, only thirty-six thousand attend church
and seven hundred thousand are not pro-
: vided for even If they desire to attend. Mr..
Bainbridge's declaration in regard to Brook
! lyn morality has not only thrilled the COM
munity but angered It. He has only been
resident here couple of years and his
experience is that Of clergyman too ready
to accept the reports Of irresponsible per
sons second hand. There are Thousands Of
Z men in Brooklyn who have resided there al
, their lives, and whose opportunities ol
judging are infinitely better than those ol
. . Mr.. Bainbridge, who are willing to tes;if,
> under aath that the accusation of this over
3 Jealous missionary are not true. From {
. close observation of years-our observation
Q covering all classes of society which jorunal
8 ism naturally brings man In contact will
liz churches, in jails, on Change, In th,
q police courts and in private families
2 consider 1t for its size one of the most NOR
: al and best ordered cities In the world. j
is true tha: occasionally it furnishes tn
newspapers With some first-class sensations
: as might naturally be expected where eigh
;. hundred thousand people are congregate
= together; but on the whole, for safety G
life and property, for general decency an
good order, for average morality and a
the points that 60 to make life worth livin
,s Brooklyn, which before many years will b
the first city in the land in point of populs
tion, will compare fayorably with any cit
9 In the United States If not In the world
The other night at twelve o'clock tw
ladies were arrested on Bleecker street by
/, brutal policeman. and hurried of to th
police station where they were compelle
or TO remain till morning.
IN Bleecker street is not the safest or mo-
m savory locality for two women to be foun
In at midnight, for almost the only signs {
life to be found there at that time al
drunken brawlers returning from q mi,
night carouse, or thieves on the outlook fl
de prey, or those fallen women, the wretchG
outcasts whom even the Priest and IL
oh Levite pass by. The atmosphere Of th
u entire region exhales deadly poison th
re testers with sin and crime. On Mott sire
near by is the Central Police Headquarter
10 yet, under It's very eyes are the homes
he thieyes and harlots, and red-handed murd
la a., s.ha haf IL nx.n
er street was founded the Florence mi
lal sion. It was not intended rs an aid to Il
in pious and the good that were already I
d. joicing in salvation, but for the NOR
Up lepers and outcast sinners for whom the
he was no other home, and right here In Ne
York lots of religious shams and plo
'ed frauds who have done ali they could do
bring religion into contempt. But &
lat Florence mission is not of that claI
by Founded by a wealthy gentleman bY {
name of Crittenden, who had been hims
he saved from life of dissipation, it labc
A. for that class which all others forsake.
o, In some respects it is the counterpart
AN Jerry McAulay's mission. Jerry was
convict and thief who found Christ
ln- Saviour, while yet behind prison bars, a.
'et' on being released, started in to save pc
ar wretches as lost and as sin SCARED as hi
90. self. Jerry once having firmly planted
he feet upon the Rock of Ages, never we
eed back. Convict and thief as he was, natV
Ial' ally rufIian and bruiser, he lived 10
on enough 70 earn the respect and loye
the thousands who knew him and his wol
md and he died lamented b, thousands me
'on whom he had raised from lives of degraS
oo' tion and crime, and put In the way
lyl- salvation. Mr.. Chittenden's work was Ii
are Jerry McAulay's but their lives were