The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-12
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MIR. NEwMAN,s ENTERPRISE.

MR.. NEWMAN's ENTERPRISE.
"Mr. H. H. Newman of this city, I be-
lieve, has a good plan to save outcasts
from society in this city. The plan, [ be-
Iieve, will commend itself to you, and
will result in establishing an industrial
home and mission. In my Home 1 lave a
man who was six years in prison and was
a thief for twenty years. When he came
to me for help | took him into my house
aud prayed with him and fed I'm. He
looked about in wonderment, and finally,
being unable to refrain from expressing
his establishment at the quiet and peace
ful condition of things, he exclaimed.
is this the way all Christians live?'
Il kept this man, for l found he was
willing to work. l want nothing to do
with a man who Won't work. He is no
good. A thief who won't work cannot be
saved. There is no hope for him. Fallen
women are the same, and the reason so
few of them are saved is because the op-
p%ortunity for them to work is SO slight.
Give a thief work when he shows a sign
that he wants to reform and you can
save him Sc it is with fallen women.
An eX-thief in my home said to me one
day, Mr.. Ballow, you are SO good that
everybody here loves you Then ne
gazed in my face and his eyes fell to my
shirt front. Looking at 1T for a minute
he said. Mr.. Ballow. you ought to have a
sparkler in your shirt
i hhl uOO POOt w Ouy VIC, 4 Iepll6u,
and then with almost sadness at not hay
ing an opportunity 10 express his graft
tude for what | had done for him he
said:-'If were only in my old business
now, | would get you one before twelve
o'clock
"Now I want you gooG people to ali Mr..
Newman in his effort to establish an 1u-
dustrial home. l want you to give him
all the financial aid you can. Before doing
this pray. and while praying think of The
drunkarIs aud ouJcas5 women, and re-
member that Superintendent Byrnes of
New York says that he can arrest Grimm
ais, bu5 it remains for Christians to save
tlem."
MAJOR P~ANGBoRN's ADDRESS.
Major H.. K. PangDorn followed Mr..
Rallow and declared that .hones labor
was better than aims The speaker
said:-"Most of US are in a condition of
comfortableness. We know that there is a
great deal of suffering and vice, but we
are Indifferent. for they do not visit our
homes and we do not come in close con-
tact with them. We do not come in
close relations with victims of vice, and
we neglect very much the work we
should do. The principal thing Mr..
Newman wanted me TO being to your at
~tentiou tonight was the power of indus
try to aid the fallen. We excuse
ourselves from not actively engaging in
work of charity by q quarter here and a
half dollar there. This is not the proper
way to do good. although there are excep-
tional cases. Mr.. Newman has q method.
and be reaches the people in a way that
the most of US caunot. The best way TO
help a man Is to give him q chance to
help himself, and this is what MIR. New
mai does. Id1eness provokes wrong do
lug, and / believe in carrying industry
into penal punisnments. Every able
bodied man should work. The jail is
Kept full by the same people because
they nave no work to do. Fallen men
and women can be helped by providing
an industrial home for them. That is the
object of the meeting here tonight. When
this movement was first started, ninety
churches in this county were appealed to
for aid. Responses came from twenty-thres
of them and only seye nteen pastors
agreed 10 help the cause. OF these but
four put in an appearance when they
were needed, The others said they had
their own church work charity to attend
to. | want to say here that clergymen
ought not to confine their work to their
churches. They ought to get outside of
them.
The proposition to aid Mr.. Newman is
to have 200 persons subscribe S. each for
u wear. That is not much but it is sufhc-
Gent for his purpose for a year. That is
not sufficient Tor his purpose for a year.
The plan has been adopted in Orange
with success and it can be successful
here. AS a matter of self interest ia
payers should aid in establishing an in
dustrial home for it would take so many
people from the criminal classes which
the taxpayers now support in the jails.
etc."
MIR. scUDDER's APPEAL.
Rev. DR.. Scudder briefly begged his
congregation aud others to subscribe to
the fund. and then he directed that cards
be handed around for subscriptions. The
signers were many but the amount
guaranteed could not be ascerrained, for
many desired to take their cards home be-
fore subscribing. Each subscription en-
titles the donor 10 SIS worth of tickets to
be distributed in charity Instead of giving
the beggar the price of q meal.
Mrs. Howell of tbs Midnight Mission of
Brooklyn, made q few remarks on the
good mission s do in saving fallen women,
and then u dozen or more men
and women all belonging In this city,
who professed to have been saved by the
Newman Mission, related their ex-
periences. The stories were alike in each
case. Drink and pleasure created the
downfall of each sex
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