The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-25
4 DECLARATION OF PRINCIPALS.

The Directors of Calvary Industrial Home
 Make a Statement to the Public-Their
 Aims and Their Work.
 In view of the statements and intima- tions derogatory to the Calvary Indus trial Home and misleading as to fact, which have recently been made current, and in justice to the large number of people who are cordial supporters of the home. we deem 1t proper to make this declaration of principles and statements of facts:
 I've are first and last and all the time an undenominatienal, Christian mission, preaching the gospel to the un- saved. Our aim is to reach those who are most certainly unreached by other Christian effort. If we are asked by what authority we have undertaken this work, our reply is Jesus Christ. whom we acknowledge as Savior, and obey as Lord, and who in the days of His flesh was reproached for His sympathy with outcasts.
 2-But the preaching of the gospel to those whom we hope to reach is attend- ed with peculiar difficulty. There is the saloon with its open invitation to fall away, and after the saloon the filthy lodging house. We judged, and we have seen no reason to change our judgment, that if we could keep our hearers in- doors, and furnish them a clean bed in q distinctly Christian institution, they would more certainly come under the influence of the gospel Moreover, at the time when this home was opened there was from many quarters and in View of many facts 6 clamant de- mand for Christian lodging house.
 3-But lodgings and meals could not be furnished for nothing. They must Joe paid for. And as many of those com ing to us would certainly not have the cash to pay, 1t was necessary to devise some means by which they might rem der an equivalent in work for the priv 1leges received. Hence a woodward, l which also serves the purpose of sitting out those who are willing to work from those who are unwilling. The latter, by | our rules, are excluded from the home.
 4-Still a third pecunarity of our ef- fort required to be borne in mind, viz: l That so comfortable place might easi- 1 ly be monopolized by one set of men, Our aim was to reach as many men as | possible, and hence we placed a time | limit upon the residence of inmates and | made the institution a temporary home | That this character has been maintain ed is evidenced by the fact that 1900 | different men came under our influence | in our first year of work.
 5-The idea persists in some quarters 417rrt f tar ..1r ii. , above antagonizes other charitable work in the city We desire to bear our emphatic testimony to the indispensa- bleness of the work done by other insti- tutions, and especially by the Organ ized Charities association And we con ceive that our work is auxiliary and sup plemental to theirs; auxiliary in that 1t supplies a lodging house which they have long wanted, and supplemental in that we preach the gospel to these men, a thing which they--a confessedIy non Christian nstitution-distinctly dis claim in their publications any inten- tion of doing. And we say in all can dor and simplicity that our aim is not primarily to protect society at the ex- pense of men, but to save men for the protection of society.
 6-We record the net practical results of our first year of work with the ut most satisfaction. We provided, in round numbers, 14,0OO lodgings and 25,000 meals at cost to the contribu- tors of only $45G. Of the thousands who attended our gospel meetings many have gone on their way, we know not where concerning whom we take com fort in the thought that we have done our duty by them. Others have re- mained in the city under our observa- ton, and are not only saved themselves but are actually engaged in trying to save others. Some have become mem bers of the church of Christ
 Tour home is not the result of sud den spurt of zeal without Knowledge. ' It is modelled after similar institutions In many cities, and has been developed in conference with the most useful and workers in the country in their field of evangelism. We cordially { invite the Christian public to inspect our principles and our plant and our work. And for the rest, we commend afresh our institution to Him who, we believe, inspired it and has directed it 
 Board of Directors of Calvary Tndus- z
 trial Home.