The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-02
CITY MISSION WORK.
Reports of That and the Ramsey
Comfy Bible Society.

The annual meeting of the city mis-
sion committee and the executive COM
mittee of the Ramsey County Bible
society, was held in the office of H
Knox Taylor. There was a full meeting
of both committees and very interest
ing reports were presented the most
important being that of the city mis-
sionary, Rev. E. r. Irmscher, who has
now been in the work in st. Paul for
fourteen years. A brief summary of
the report shows:
Helpers have been secured from the various
churches in the city and the good work
pressed forward as earnestly as possible The
object before Us is the relief of suffering
the rescuing Of the fallen, the sympathy that
tends to stimulate to great exertion on the
part of those discouraged and depressed by
losses, want of work, sickness or deaths.
The jail has been regularly visited more
than once a week, and some have been start
ed on the right way and encouraged 90 give
up their former course of living. The num-
her of hoys found in the iail-b0ys between
and II years-was alarming. Carelessness
and Indifference on the part of parents was
found to be the cause in most cases. But
something must be done Parents should be
compelled to keep their children off the streets
after dark.
The hospitals are also visited with more or
less regularity and those who are without
friends or relatives are cared for and COM
forted. This part of the city mission work
should also be extended. Our city pastors are
kept too busy with the sick and suffering
of their own large congregations to do much
of this outside work. and yet what is more
beneficial than visit to the sick? One hun
dred and thirty-seven of such visits have
been made during the year.
twenty-five cases of great distress have
been brought to notice by our house to house
calls, and fifteen others referred to r.
Paul Society for the Relief of the Poor and
to the Associated Charities
The Bible work is connected necessarily
with this work of city missions, and more
than 200 copies have been distributed. If it
were proper to make public such things, it
would be touching and interesting to mention
some of the actual occurrences in the work
of the year as presented to the committee
How much good is sometimes accomplished by
q little effort and sympathy, Five thousand
dollars would not measure the good that our
missions have done to the city in the past
year, yet they have received less than $500
in cash.
The following will give you a statistical in
sight of the work from Oct. /, 1885, to Oct. /,
1897:
Visits from house to house .....-.........2,S $50
Visits to the sick ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 137
Visits to the Jail OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 55
Destitute cases personally aided ........ %
Business calls made Observation-Disclosures. i 161
Bibles sold and given away ............-.. 223
Persons furnished with reduced railroad
fare leaving the city ................. is
The receipts were 81, 44435, disbursements
81, $780, TO- leaving a shortage of S142.S5. This
shortage is partly secured by unpaid sub
Scriptions
deep appreciation of the financial aid rendered
to us by the public-spirited citizens of st.
Paul.
Rev. E. R. Irmscher was reelected as city
missionary and Bible agent for the ensuing
year, and is authorized to collect funds
to carry the work; also to employ an as
sstant if the needed amount can be secured.
The list of officers is follows:
Rev. A ]. D. Haupt, president; Rev. E.
! P. Ingersoll D. D., vice president; G. H.
| Slocam, treasurer; H. Knox Taylor, secre-
| tary; Rev. E. R. Irmscher, agent.
| Executive Committee-Rev. ]. w. Conley,
! chairman; Andrew Peterson, Hon. H. r. Brill,
| George N. Eillman, Gregory Bolt.
| City Mission Work-Rev. NJ. D. Edwards,
! chairman; Rev. G. H. Gamble, Rev. ]. W.
Weber, Rev. W. Mckinley, D. D., Rev. VIM.
! Oehier, S. H. Dyer, Rev. o. P. Peterson, Rev.
| C. D. Andrews, Rev. A. B. Meldrum, R. A.
! Kirke.
Committee on Publication-Alex. ]. D.
! Haupt, president; H. Knox Taylor, secretary.