New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-04-29
WHAT A CITY PASTOR SEES.
ITEMS OF PERSONAL INTEREST TO
CHURCH PEOPLE.

More than five thousand men and women, mostly
heads Of families and therefore. representing 5000
people. have had employment In the last I'VE months
through the East Side Relief Work Committee.
Many OF the tenement houses below Fourteenth-st
have been whltewashed. and the streets have been
kept clean for five months II one wishes to see now
Hester Rivngton Ridge and Ludlow SITS look when
they are clean let him take stroll through them
today Providing work for thousands OF the I'M
employed and keeping them at it has been no slight
task for those upon whom the responsibility mas
rested since November. But the volunteer workers
have been cheered in their effort by the thought
that they were lessening suffering in thousands Of
homes and saving many lives and also doing much
10 raise the standard OF health in tenement-houses
The work will stop week. not because the COM
mttee feels that the need of the relief has ceased
but because the money Is nearly exhausted.
Mr. Moody and Nj Sankey have declined the
prcssing invitation from London to carry on an
evangelstlc campaign there next fall For many rea-
sons they would like to go abroad again, but while
the work is opening so widely in this country they
feel that they should remain here. and they nave
therefore sent their declinaton to their friends IN
England. Their services in the South this winter
have been remarkably successful, and Just now they
are resting few days before beginning another
series OF meetings in Massachusetts,
The following editorial paragraph from recent
OF the action taken upon W. T. Steads new book by
one Of the news companies: THE impression which
he has made I'm this country has been anything but
good. Tnquestonaby n genius he Is eNtraVaglh''
Inaccurate whimsical with an itching for notorety
which IS almost mania, and credulous 10 degree
seldom. II even In this case, seen In thoroughly
sane man. Those who naturally sympathized with
him when he began his crusade against Vice ana
intemperance have most Of them found him out
lie belongs to a class OF roformerS Of whom 1t may
be said that. by their excess and want OF equilio-
rum. they leave things worse than they find them
and are in the way Of those constructive reformers
who may work hand in hand with those who swing
the battlc-axe when the strokes OF the latter are
directed by sincerity and good sense
movement has been started 70 erect Deems
Memorial Church. The Church 81 the strangers,
which Dr. Deems founded. has worshlppcd for
twenty-five years in the building In M"rccr-st'
which Cornelius Vanderbilt presented personally 10
Dr. Deems Il has been supported and Kept free
over since by voluntary subscriptions. but the tease
o. the ground on which the building stands is soon
to expire. ana unless the friends of Or. Deems ana
the church come - the rescue. IA" congregation
VIII have - disbanl and ~ ben"lccnt work VIII
cease Wrhln iq communion are representatives, ~
nearly every evangelical denomination united upon
the broad platform OF tho Apostles creed. rs KS
name implies 10 IS n church for strangers. ana many
thousands have been helped hy rs warm Weic mo
Hni Christian influence during the last quarter %!
century The sunday school ~ the church OF m"
Strangers has used number ~ souvenirs, whlch
% selling - ail 20 its fund These includ. IN"
memorial number - "thrIstlan Thought ph'to-
graphs ~ Dr psofns AMI %" church building. ana
fac-simii" - Lizzie poem hy d. Deems.
The people attending the New-fOrk Iresby-
ioriau Church. iu Harlem. hav" been greatly an
royrl for some time pnst hf a. sort ~ r'N"rh'ih-
ton or echo ln the aufeucc-roOm. which maj" u
almost impossible 20 hear preacher 10 N" pulpit
Thor pastor the Rey Dr & Robinson mas an
unusually clear voice f1r speaking. and h" has been
ahl. o. manage 30 iu such way as 10 reach those
who wer- vi.llng % hc attentive. But II was be-
COMING tedious even for him - keep s"lfconS'lou'
nll th. time. as 20 mn3ullt" the tones ~ every
sentence ard word Recently 'urrs" or l'ri'If's
with tho ASA of a. sf"rrrpflcon. was given. ana
curious benefit has followed Tn" exhibition - IN"
Photographic usol f'r Illustration made u necessary
fD have j. wile curtain ~ screen stretched across
ti. rlrpyc occupied ns ID" fpar" h"hnd m" pull',
fh.r fh, speaker stood In front ~ this. with MS
POINTER Tho very first Uori uttered mad" II pain
'laf tho acoustic properties ~ %" room "ef" COM
f.f,y rircl NJ their previous p"rftrslir. IN" open
cave from which the echoes rushed mp into N"
ceiling and so fuuR themselves down upon the
news was closed no. AMI the revcrherntlon was tx
tlrrtflshed nlfoccfhcr The discovery was most de-
lfrhfril and since that the trustees have been
win ff'lng IN proper upholstery Tor per
fnnnrrf'v dea1eufng tho surfac" in the renr or
III, speaker. whore the trouble has been hitherto.
y is amusing t. discover that such a little thing
would cnus" much vcNauon. and then ma so
cnsv n va 20 remedy tho whole matter IN the
same Instant