Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-28

at the loaded tables was unbounded.
Many had never seen or eaten such a re-
past before. Many of the Bethel chill
| dren are very bright. They sang several
songs Tor the audience and gave recita-
| tons. The dinner was then heartily
partakeu of by the children after Mr..
Barcus pronounced the blessing. Some
800 people ana children filed the hall.
After the dinner at 'clock NJ. n.
A. Stedman spoke briefly OF the Sunday
school mission work and OF its remark
able growth. Children taken off the
streets and converted would save and re-
form the country. This the Bethel was
dong. The work OF the Bethel inter
ested all churches.
Rev. Mr.. Barcus spoke of the tent
GOSPEL work of the Bethel, and the
future plans of labor, and the good that
has been done.
Rev DR.. Tinnon spoke at large of the
three departments OF the Bethel-Sun-
day-school work, gospel tent work. and
the Womau's Industrial home work.
The Bethel needs a building to constitute
reading room, chapel, tract and Bible
repository. A Bible training college
will be established for city mission work
as soon As a building can he procured
The Bethel can gather thousand chill
dren in its school, if they can he accom-
modated, of families who attend no
church.
Some $3.50 was subscribed by the ladies
alone towards building fund, and 500
by the gentlemen.
a mass meeting IS to be called TO dis
cuss measures TO place the Bethel build
ing and Woman's Home on q sound
foundation as soon rs possible.
The children and audience went home
feeling grand work was done for the
children and Bethel.
The Bethel extends sincere thanks to
the merchants who SO Iiberally gave to
the dinner and to tbs ladies, who so freely
gave of their time and money 10 the
cnuse. MIR. f. Armstrong proposed to
secure meeting of business men to
forward the great work of the Bethel
ana establish 4 Bible training college for
the Southwest similar TO Moody's aud
other colleges No III By erecting suita-
bic building. Plans to this end will
later, be- adopted, it is thought.
The Orphans home was provided for
at the First Baptist church.
Union Thanksgiving services were held
there, and the church, one of the most
cOmmodious and the hHudsomest in the
state, WIS filled.
The children Of the Orphans home, for
whose benefit the services were intended,
occupied conspicuous place in the audi
toriun, being arranged in semicrcle
before the pulpit, where they could be
easily seen by all. They were dressed
neatly and tustefully, and when they re-
cited scriptural passages and sang Il
hymn Together the audience assembled
WAS impressed with the sweet reward of
charity.
The programme was very pretty. be-
ing mostly musical, The vocalists being
Messrs. Gillespie, baltimore, Martin
dale, Eli, Hall, Billings. Eisrulohr. |
Brief addresses appropriate and striking,
were rendered by Rers Graham 4 Low
Der. Tinnon, Wells and Bishop Key.
Then a subscription was taken up for |
the home, and u sum aggregating about |
$500 was raised.
The Orphans Home will be the better |
for this donation. he good accomplished !
by this institution is incnlculabie, and |
the efforts of the kindly and charitable |
have only been circumscribed |
by the means ut their hands.