Evening journal., 1894-12-22
BREAKFAST FOR THE NEEDY
A PLACE ON THE EAST SIDE WHERE
THE HUNGRY ARE FED.
Religious and Charitable Work Being
Done BY the Sunday Breakfast Ansoci-
alton Of This City.

Religious and Charitable work Being
Done BY the Sunday Breakfast Ansoci-
alton of This City.
Few persons know anything about the
number Of hungry people there are In the
world until they come In contact with
them Ia every day life. There is plenty
OF thsm In Wilmington. There is an
organization located at the corner of
Seventh and Lombard streets whose
object is to reach and assist destitute
men. known as the Sunday Breakfast
Association. This being new society
its workings are not well understood by
the people generally.
The association Is not purely chRrit.
able Its aims are TO assist men to help
themselves into higher and better life.
It provides cheap but comfortable
lodgings for which the men pay. and
meals are provided at barely the expense
OF preparing them. These are paid for
either In money or by work given. Every
Sunday morning during the cooler sea.
son q breakfast Is furnished to All
destitute men who apply, consisting Of
two large rolls with meat between, and
about as much coffee as the men wait.
The same kind OF meal is served every
Sunday evening These two meals are
free AL the others they pay for. After
the Sunday meals are served religious
services are conducted Men are en-
| Joined 70 lead better, purer, Christian
/ lives. A Bible school Is held every sun
day afternoon for the men.
What q peculiar looking set All sorts
Of faces. One thing is striking, most
Of them are young. Not many old men.
Perhaps the average will not run over 81
or 32 These men are not the ordinary
genus tramp They are Of the unfortu-
| nate class brought TO their present con
dition mostly BY drink In arecent
/ meeting Of forty-nine men thirty-two
| testified they had been brought to their
| present condition BY the use Of drink
i Thirty testified they had started drink
| ing with the idea that they could and
would stop drinking whenever they
wanted TO- Two deliberately started
out TO be drunkards Thirty ak at one
time we're faithful Sunday school schol-
ars and forty-one had Christian parents
and were instructed In religious life.
Among these men are some who ars
highly educated Some Of them are
professional men One had been q
prominent lawyer and WAS at Que time
district attorney of Edinburg, Scotland
One was familiar with seven languages
Others are mRchinists and tradesmen.
Some are ordinary lRborers. Many OF
these have been helped to better livei
and positions. Quite q number have
obtained employment In this city snd Rr'
doing nicely
During last year more than 2 600 at
tended the meetings, over 200 professoc
conversion, and a large number re
ouasted prayers Services are conducted
every night In the week attended BY the
redeemed men and any others who care
TO attend. In these meetings the re
deemed men help to redeem their dnfor.
tanate brethren, and 1t Is most inter
esting sight to witness the progress o.
one Of these meetings.
Some Of these men are dirty aud
ragged. II they have any money thel
can get q bath, and II man has not beer
washed slIce his mother washed him II Il
a comfortable sensation and after he geti
something to eat it makes him feel quit
religious. And then sometimes while b.
/ IS taking his bath his clothes dissppeai
without hands. There is a chamber o
horrors somewhere below stairs and th
clothes are cremated and many lives ar
! destroyed. he Is given clean under
clothes when it is possible 70 90 So her
is q case for assistance The association
,, uses worn underclothes il can get. N
: odds If they are patched they can b
used and are alwsysin demand.
These meu must work out their Owl
salvation and must work for them
Iselves." said promoter Of the worl
this morning. "Tne association rouse
them to do it. They must be reformed
. Who can tell the evil that has been prs
I vented by the eElrts put forth to max
9 these men bettsr2 People call theI
r tramps. Some OF them are and try
I beat their way, but most Of them Al
. not. and the beats are easily detected
= This mission work is under the auspics
y of the Christian Endeavor Local Uniol
II needs friends to inspect it's work,
. assist in its general work, in its finances
Y Ia Its every department.. There Is q
Q industrial department where wood
8 sawed and many earn a meal in tn
n way. When making up lists for Chris
g mas remembrances there Is no moi
lt worthy more needy or deserving tbs
a the Sunday Breakfsst Association.
Handsome photographs in great vErie
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