Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-09-26

Cooking School Adiuncts to Ethical Train
 ing-Entirely Undenominational.
 Rev. John Rusk's Militant church of Chicago is to have as adjuncts cooking school, gold cure institute, boys brigade, a lecture and amusement course, newsboys' Sunday school, an orchestra of 20, as we'll as branches for the fight ing of crime, the treatment of indigent patients and the retaining of the fallen.
 Associated with MT. Rusk in this manifold work will be Rev. W. G. Clarke, who is to supervise the cure of drunkards Rev. Carlos Martyr and Rev w. H. Carwardine will be on the board of directors. The joint work of effeeting reform and providing amuse- ment will be undertaken when the Mil itant church takes possession of it's own quarters.
 At the beginning the services will be held in Willard hall in the Woman 8 temple, but in the course of a year or so the society will build church of its own, probably without a steeple and in the down town business district. The church has more than 200 members pledged already,
 This will be broad gauge church, totally without denomination or affilia- tion with any special faith. It will teach tho gospel of moral and physical purity and will stand on wide founda- tion. It will give the people entertain ment and happiness as well as religion. Music will be one of the special features of it's services This will be supple mented by large chorus choir. Enter tainments will be frequently given. Dr. Rusk believes that you should not ex- peet man to give up one sort of amuse- ment until you offer him another just as good, for he admits that amusement is as essential as religion. He will try to offer something in competition with the theaters, and to this end Will W. Milner, reader and entertainer, will arrange frequent performances In these he has been promised the assistance of a large number of people of the stage, amateurs and professionals.
 These entertainments will be free. Everything the church offers will be free, and the front seats will be the property of the early claimants The church will reach low as well as high Newsboys and bootblacks will have a Sunday school of their own. The pastor believes in beginning early, and he will make his church church that boys can un- derstand. For this reason the boys bri- gade will be formed. Dr. Rusk is chap lain of the United Boys Brigades of America, and he 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 cure of drunkenness, and the treatment will be entirely free. While Mir Clarke is retaining the drunkards in body Dr. Rusk will try to reclaim them in soul
 There will be free dispensary too. Dr. W. M. Thompson will be in charge of this, and he will have the assistance of six other physicians. Medical advice and medicines will be given free, and the physicians will not make any condi- tions that will be objectionable to those who apply. There will be a large force of trained nurses, and they will not only give their services freely to those who attend the church itself, but they will go into the slums and care for the sick who are too poor or too indifferent to insist on cleanliness and care Outcasts of the streets will be taken in and given food and assistance as we'll as salvation. There will be home established for them, and it will be in charge of 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 in 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 exposure of criminals.
 Training classes will be organized for the young, and cooking schools will be established. Edward John, one of the workers ill the church, will publish a monthly paper in it's interests.
 The first service will be held on the first Sunday in October. In the morning there will be q sacred concert. Views in the Holy Land will be reproduced by 8 stereopticon, 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 Undenominational club, of which Will w. Miner is president, has joined the church in a body. Money enough to carry the work on for one year has been secured already. Chicago Times Herald.
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