Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-11

died. When dying he made mention of the
kind words of prayer that had helped make
him a better man and told his little girl they
were "such sweet words OF prayer inc ING
circumstances.
Visiting one afternoon in a dark, 1oisome
alley, it was rather hard to get up flight Of
narrow, winding stairs. When we got up we
knocked and went into O little room, whose
walls had once been white, but now were al
most black, and whose dirty windows were
broken and stuffed with paper and rags.
Facing us as we entered was an old table
and on it a dry crust Turning to our left
we saw; sitting on an old bench, a poor man
in the last stages OF consumption trying to
SO broken that he could only use a
little wood in it. Looking into his
pinched face l tried to say few
words of kindness but it was hard to keep
heart took in so much at glance OF what he
must be suffering. In few minutes said,
looking around, "Where do you sleep at
night?" for there was not SO much as bed.
He answered, "On that" pointing to an old
broken mattress doubled up in the corner,
and someone else shares it at night"
Sold Sunday Beer for Living.
We sang OF Jesus love and prayed, which
he enjoyed very much as smile came over
his poor white face. We visited him contin-
ually, brought him beef tea and milk Cruel
regularly and attended to his room each
week. One day he told the slum officer OF
the only way he had of getting the rent.
Every Saturday he bought case OF bottled
beer and sold it to his neighbors Sunday
morning, the profits on which paid his rent.
He was too sick to work and had no other
means of getting his rent, but knew he must
give this up before he could get saved. He
said lie would do IL that day, and did, and
got savedand really accepted Christ.
The slum officer promised him he should
not want for Iood and she would also pay his
rent and did for months. as his sickness
to sleep on and did what else we could dur
ing his last days on earth. We found he had
brother living and hunted him up. Al
man to his house just before the end came.
Prevention of Decentralization.
For such as these we gladly live and
spend our lives, and it brings joy Now,
We wish it distinctly understood by all that
there is nothing We have stronger objec-
tion to than the pauperizing or demoraliz-
ing Of those classes whom this organization
specially seeks to relieve and reclaim. We
deem it in infinitely preferable for a man
who applies to us with an empty stomach,
after having been supplied with food, to be
put to work at once, that he may have some
opportunity of earning sufficient means for
securing his next meal, and, consequently,
we hold that money given to the Salvation
Army is used in the best possible manner
for the immediate relief of suffering human
ity. The Slum brigades and the Food and
Shelter depots, in which our men and
women officers are engaged, afford magnifi.
cent facilities for preventing this pauperiz-
ing and demoralizing OF such people.
OF one thing we are increasingly conf
dent-that any help given will bring not
only blessing to the Roor, needy ones, but
will rebound in multiplied blessings to
those whose hearts have been touched to
respond.
Yours faithfully, on behalf of the tinpro-
tected and unrescued of our cities,