The morning times., 1895-10-17

has been preaching to the prisoners in
Kings county prison for thirty years.
There is a lady who goes to the 5000
in the almshouse. There is a lady who
goes to the insane asylum. She says.;hat
she finds persons there who in lucid IN
teryals are helped.
The Shelter is one of the main features.
Two men were interested and gave the
means to supply a place to sleep for all
homeless. Last year $4,000 men were
given lodging, and to each meal was fur
nshed. Last month the Shelter received
about $500, which these men brought in,
many OF them having been lifted to a po-
sition of partial self-support. 1t is pro-
posed to open two more OF these Shelters.
Those who. persistently VIII not work are
refused help.
CLINIC FOR DIVINITY STUDENTS.
The university settlement in Pbiladel-
phia was represented by James p. Han.
He described 1t as a sort of clinic for
divinity students. They are invited TO come
during their vacation. The settlement is
on the edge OF a poor and vicious quar-
ter of the city. The students are shown
how money is being spent tu pauperize.
They are shown how lives are bought and
sold
The students go down to the Bedford
street mission, where in summer 200
boys and young men come down to battle.
They invite the boys into the mission
room there and give them short pSacti-
cal talks. In this way they get acquainted
with the boys and reach them in their
homes. He energetieally opposed going to
the houses of the poor with police Off
Ger and forcing a way in for the purpose
of teaching religion. He did not believe
much good could be done that way. The
only way was to get in as friends
f1g int NJ
George OF the George Industrial Camp, New
York. He said he was in business to stop
all the missions. His business was to
teach the boys and girls to earn living.
Everyone must have food, clothing. and
shelter, but everyone must earn it. There
should be no effort to get something for
nothing. That is what very many poor
people are doing. They are not succeeding
in this, but they are placing the evil of a.
bad example before their children. The
strongest force against which missions
have to contend is bad home influence.
He has taken numbers of the bad boys
and girls OF New York and established a re-
public OF the boys for the boys by the boys
at FereviIle, n Y. They govern themselves
by n congress OF their own. They have al
lowed the girls to Vote.
THE BOYS REPUBLIC.
Glasses in carpentry, cooking, dressmak-
AnE, ttt.s uBt loihicb. lhNs navy n AIohtS
OF their own In this they are paid
None need to work, but If they do not
work they are not paid. The unskilled
laborer is only paid 30 cents OF their
money each day. 1t costs 40 cents q day
TO live and there is three cents taxes. II
a boy loafs much he soon has nothing to pay
for food and lodging. At the end of the
Season the children frequently have a good
sum and IL is exchanged for zeal money,
which they take home.
The camp has its own police, court
and prison. The whole government is by
the children. All want to be "cops. ;"
They must first pass civil service examina-
ton. This teaches them the need of educa-
| ton. If n fight occurs in camp the boy
| policeman is sent to make the arrest,
and must take the risk of a fight, Just as
the real policeman does. Offenders are
| punished by imprisonment, and learn.that
| il pays 10 do right. The instruction given
| aims to give the children practical skill
| in the industries taught.
In their voting booths are put up and the
whole routine of the Australian system as
practiced in New York is carried out The
boys go back to the city able TO instruct their
fathers He heard one telling his fellows S
| that when he became n man Barney Nc
| Quade wouldn't lead him around as his
| father was led.
Maj. Hilton said there was one thing he
| never was in his life in any doubt about
| That was what to do with drunkard when
he found him. He was himself victim
| at one time. He never offered a man a
pledge. The only thing that could save
him was the religion of Christ. He put
| the drunkard on the cars and sent him
straight to the Christian Home for Intem-
perate Men in New York. He introduced as
the founder of this work Mr.. Charles A.
Bunting, a handsome gentleman with white
hair and beard.
LOOKED AT HIS OWN LIFE.
Mr.. Bunting said in February, 1876,
he was led to look into his own life He
was saved in the hippodrome meetings in
New York. He had been at times subject
to drink. In 1877 he felt he must establish
rescue work for the incorporate. Mr..
| William Z. Dodge came to him and they
| worked together. They got a house in
| Seventeenth street that would accom-
modate thirty men. In June the home was
opened. After six months the directors
were ready to give up, but he said 1t was
| Gods work and he would not let 1t fail
1t did not.
| Their plan was not by medical treatment
They simply offered a kindly welcome, a
| good home, with Christian influ ences
and seclusion from the temptations of
drink.
In eighteen years they have received B 900
men and only three have died. If any
man knows drunkard in Washington
send him to the home and he will be ia ken
care of until lie is well. Proof of inability
| to pay will be required.
They do not believe drunkenness is in
herited any more than any other sin. The
recuperative powers of nature, with good
| food, rest and Christian teaching, are re-
lied upon to effect a cure. When man
comes drunk he is put in the hospital and
given a simple sedative. Physicians are
seldom needed.
Mr.. Bunting paid a high tribute to his
wife, who stood by him when a sufferer
from drink. He said she was the most ef-
fective Christian worker he ever knew. He
warned against the use Of morphine It
was never used at the home. Many came
there to be saved from 1t. The use of
tobacco, he said, was most dangerous
The relapse to drunkenness in nearly every
case e had knownin tn e work had ca ME from
the use of tobacco. They were able to cure
permanently about go per cent.
GOSPEL WAGONS OUT.
The gospel wagons were out at $50
D. m. and many visiting delegates were
present to see their methods of work.
The Moody choir, under the direction OF
Mr.. Percy s. Foster, gave half an hour
of song at the opening OF theevening session.
The men of the choir had seats in the gal