Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-21
CITY INTERPRETATION.

aE the First NJ. E. Church Last Night-The Success of the Differ ent Missions In the Cisy-Need of she
 Homes Being Reached.
 The service at the First Methodist church last night was on city evangelization, and four young men, students of the Yale semi nary, told of the work and it's prospects, at the different missions in the city.
 The church edifce was only partially filled, and Rev. Dr. Chapman, the pastor, in re- marking on the subject, said that either the novelty of the exercises or the terror of the home.
 Rev. Dr. Harris of the Yale Theological school, took charge of the services after the preliminary exercises were over. He urged the churches to take hold of this city evan gelization, as it is in every sense a fresh work. ''I hope this evangelization will be taken up by every church with the idea to make it a success. Let us have faith, hope, and wisdom, and have the work thoroughly done. What have we to carry to those out side the churcha That which is old, but ever new-the Bible. It is for us to unfold to those which church influence the manifold riches of Gods spirit"
 E. O. Webster was the first one introduc- ed by Dr. Harris. Mir. Webster gave a gen. eral outline of the work as it is and as it has been. He referred to the two rooms the City mission had on Meadow street, and on May IA part of it's consolidation with the Gospel union, with headquarters now at English Hall. The average attendance each night of the week is about 125 or 150, ex- cepting Sundays, when it is larger. The re- suit of the union of the two different organ izations, although doing the same work, has lan- kt,n&k kh,-oo G., c., lies are reached now as formerly. This work reaches out, not so much to young men, but to families. Last year Rev. MT. Mossman, who has charge of this evangelical work, made two thousand calls. There are many volunteer workers, and one of the aids has been the Womens Missionary society. MT. Webster spoke of the students from Yale who had done much to help the work along.
 Stephen T. P. Penrose gave clear and forcible representation of what is going on at the Goffe street mission. HIt isn't the size of the mission that will attract your atten- tion," he said, "but the prospects that we have in view for it. We have there nucleus of faithful attendants, and in that nucleus are situated the homes of many. Those who attend this mission are not the idle class who drift about, but those who have families and who need to be brought to Christ. Stop moment, and think of the in- huence of the homes. When you put your uhuu Ou luon you LOucQ tue IOunlalQ QeaQ of all that is pure and virtuous. We hope to get many who will do personal work, who will go about among the homes, for this mis- sion is situated in the midst of the homes in that section of the city,"
 Clifford Pinehot spoke on the Grand ave- nue mission. A mission was started there because it was thought in that locality there would be plenty of material to work on. From one to two hundred people attend the meetings every evening in Washington hall, and they are nearly all persons who are in abject poverty. Boys have to be kept out as there is not enough room for them. The speaker thinks there is grand good work for some chnrch to start Sunday school there for these boys. The work at this mis- sion has been most successful, but there is plenty to do yet and more workers are needed.
 T. H. Root, one of those who took the re- cent canvas of the city in the interest of evangelization, profusely apologized for the manner in which the coterie of students of Yale seminary went about the city ringing door bells, ask- ing all sorts of questions and lastly the deli cate one about each one's religion. He ex- plained that it was his intention to find out those who did not go to church and let those who did go alone. By this canvas a birds eye view of the city was obtained. "What we need. :" he said, land you and can constituted of worshippe1s, but of workers. the one who is now called minister to stand at the head of band of so-called ministers. We can't worship by proxy. Every child should be in Sunday school. We can and will accomplish it. This is a personal work We want you all to join with us, irrespective of denomination"
 marks and Rev. Dr. Harris pronounced the benediction.