The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-09-13
IT is UT0P|AN IN IT'S PLR:
The Militant Church EstabIishe
by DR.. Rusk in Chicago.
All Kinds Of Amusements. Free D
pensaries. Gold Cure 'ns,itut,
and Cooking School Adjuncts
TO Ethical Training. en-
tirely undenominatior al

brigade, lecture and amusement course.
newsboys Sunday school, an orchestra
of 20. as we'll ms branches for the fight
ing of crime, the treatment of INDECENT
patients and the retaining of tho fallen
Associated with Mr.. Rusk i'll this
manifold work will DO Rev. W. G.
Clarke, who is to supervise the cure of
drunkards. Rev. Carlos Martyr and
Rev. ". II. Carwartiine will he on the
board of directors. The joint work Of
effecting reform and providing amuse-
ment wih'be undertaken when the Mil
liant church takes possession of its own
quarters.
AT tho beginning the services will be
held III Willard hall i'll tho Woman $
temple, but in the course of year or so
the society will build church of its
own, probably without steeple and III
the down town business district The
church has more than 900 members
pledged already.
This will be IL broad gauge church.
totally without denomination or aifilia-
ton with any srcciai faith 1t will
teach the gospel Of moral and physical
purity and withstand ON wide founda-
ton. 1t will give the people entertain
Ipent aud happiness us vol MS religion
Music will be one of, the special features
of its services This will be supple
mented by large chorus choir Enter
tainnents autobiography given DIR.
Rusk believes that you should not ex-
pect man to give up one sort Of amuso-
ment until you offer him another lust
ms good, for he admits that amusement
Is as essential rs religion. He will try
TO offer something i'll competition with
the theators, and to this end Will w.
Miner, reader and entertainer. will
arrange frequent performances. In these
he has been promised the assistance of Il
large number of people of the stage,
amateurs and professionals.
These entertainments will he free.
Everything the church offers will be free.
and the front seats will bo the property
of the early claimants Tho church will
reach low as we'll AS high Ncwsboys
and bootblucks will have n Suudnv
school of their own. The pastor believes
III beginning early, and he will make
his church II church that boys can I'M
derstand For this reason tho boys bril-
gade Will be formed. Dr. Rusk is chap
lain OF the United Boys Brigadcs of
America, and lie expects to have the
largest and best brigade in Chicago at
his new church
The church Will reclaim drunkards.
There will be an institute for the cpro
OF drunkenness, and the treatment will
be entirely free. While Mr.. Clarke is
retaining the drunkards in BODY DIR.
husk VIII try to reclaim them in soul.
There VIII be a free dispensary too
III. w. NJ. Thompson will be i'll charge
OF this, and he will have tho assistance
OF SIX other physicians. Medical advice
and medicines Will be given free, and
the physicians Will not mako any condi-
lions that will be objectionable to those
VINO apply, There will be large force
OF trained nurses, and they will not only
give their services freely to those who
attend the church itself, but thoy will
so into the Sums and care for the sick
VINO arc too poor or too Indifferent to
insist ON cleanliness and care. Outcasts
OF the streets will be taken in and given
1000 and assistance as VOL as salvation.
There VIII DO "a home established for
them, and it will be in charge of n ma
tron.
One OF the high aims of the church
Will be TO fight crime where it exists, as
We'll as to prevent it from spreading.
There Will be no sympathy for criminals
III any quarter or Of any class The su-
perintendent of police will be aided in
enforcing laws against crime by the col
lection Of evidence and the eyposure of
criminals
Training classes will be organized for
the Young, and cooking schools Will be
established. Edward John one of the
workers i'll the church, Will publish "A
monthly paper Ill its interests
The first service will be held on the
hrst Sunday i'll October IN the morning
there will be a sacred concert. Views
IN the Holy Land Will be reproduced bv
astoreopticon, and at other times scenes
In the life of Christ will be portrayed
and explained. The views will not AL
ways be wholly of a religious nature. as
scenes of travel in foreign lands will Of
ten be reproduced on the canvas.
The Junior DETERMINATIONS club
OF which Will W. Miner is president,
has Joined the church in body. Money
enough to carry the work on for one
year has been secured already. Chicago
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