El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-10-13
A YEARS WORK.
What City Miss iOnary L. l.. Adams Has
Accomplished in Ell PasO.

ACCOMPLISHED Ill I'll dSO
Rev. L. l.. Adams, the city mission
ary who has for TIE past twalve months
been earnestly laboripg with his wife
at the Door OF Hope N ission on South
Oregon street, left with his family on
this mornings Santa F'e for Magde
lena, N. NJ, where Mr.. Adams has
been stationed rs the resident Meth
odist pastor by Bishop Duncan.
However, ere going away, Mr.. Ad-
ans prepared the following statement:
Twelve months ago when we reached
the city we found the ladies running
mission far down on South Oregon
street in little hall which proved too
small and no. suitably located 10 reach
the masses. Thirty days la.er we came
up the street to No. 2l2, and rented
the pre- sent hail now occupied as the
Door of Hope Mission. Here we went
into business for GOd-the sOul-Savlug
business, having 10 Other object in
view than to help the erring, raise the
fallen, and point all TO tbs Lamb OF
God which taketh away the sins OF the
world" God nao graciOusly hooored
Us ~ his presence and cooperation IN
this imL Ortant wO1 k.
Drunkards of both sexes have thrown
away their liquor bottles and beer
buckets and joined their redeemed
voices in salvation songs, in praise TO
Goa and his Son. During the year,
about 81 protested to have received
pardon of past sins from God, in and
through the influence of the mission,
and ten have received the blessing OF
heart purify, 5ancti tication, or perfect
love- We can but thank the officials
ard public generally for The kind atteL
ton and good order given US even in
our services on The streets. 10 our
open air services, many have doubtless
BEARD the word, thought seriously, AID
some profe ssed to have been saved in
these services.
The poop have kindly supplied US
money-with out fair, festival or cnurc q
entertainment-Dut, so far rs we
know, by freewiil offerings as follows:
Hal reaJ d bout. "a w
Furnishing hail. 100 w
Incident tai expenses. ....... 80 w
sending one rescued girl home IL w
Food ETC., donated to mis-
sionary and family about. 80 90
Total S431. 90
This sum may look large; but COM
pare 1t with the sum annually expend-
ed in the city to degrade. debauch and
destroy in soul aud body the masses
about US.
Again, dou btless you would think it
not wasted could you enter the homes
once blasted by sin, now dominated by
virtue, love AID harmony. And be.
hold the lives once wrecked and
wretched-'' w hose steps take hold on
HE'LL now found in the way of life,
living for their own good and the good
of others. One man rushed out OF
saloon, as we stood singing on the
street corner, gave his heart to God,
fOrsoOk his prohigate life and declared
~; A. hnponfnrtb L. 1 q
Christian life.
A woman who had gone TO the very
bottom in sin, degradation and shame,
who hadn't been to church in Is years,
hearing the songs in the mission, ven
tured in, fell on her knees, gave up her
had life, gave her heart to God, was
saved, turned her home into house OF
prayer where sever al others have since
been saved Another woman WHO had
wandered far from God, saw her
earthly career was drawing to a close,
and send ,ng to the mission requested
prayer. She was visited by cOnsecrat-
ed workers time after time, her hopes
for eternal life tecame bright, and
when death came, she left sati factory
evidence that all was well with her for
ever.
Another poor friendless girl who
had been dragged and robbed of her
v1rtue-that pearl OF greatest PRICE
in early life, and who had drifted for
years in shame, poverty ard drum ken
ness, till pile of SACKS on a dirt floor
under the cruel abuses Of friend OF a
lower natiouality than she, Was her
portion. She was attracted by the
music, stopped on the sidewalk, came
in, fell on her knees at the altar, con-
fesse6, and received pardon for her
sins. The ladies took her in hand, pro-
vided her bath and change of cloth
ing, and kept her for week during
which time she gave Satisfactory evid-
ence of not only reformation but re-
generation She was sent to her mother
in New Orleans, whose subsequent let
ter showed much gratitude and appre-
citation.
One other with q dime and beer
bucket in hand was hailed near the
mission by yonng cOnvert-whO her.
self had been saved from like
wrecked life, and induced to SCI X sal
walton. God blessed her soul, she put
the money in the collection bask ct, left
her bucket on the steps and returned
home to live right life, and one week
later she came back looking Ike new
woman.
But some one asks, do they all hold
outfn In sadness we say ''No." The