The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-25
SECOND ANNIVERSARY.
That OF Randall Square Mission
Observed Last Night.
Fire Caused by Lamp-Late Notes From
the North End.

lnerc WIS RhtncIihe az en~ -" -
Street Free Baptist church last evening
In honor of the second anniversary OF the
Randall Square Gospel Mission that can
not fail TO be of benefit TO the mission.
There was "a large attendance ana inc
pastor of the church and other ciergymen
gave the workers in charge OF the mission
warm words Of encouragement ana also
urged the cause Of the mission upon al
present.
Superintendent william q. Lawton of
the mission presided over the meeting
and Rev. Mrs Fenner led In prayer.
After the singing Of some hymns the pre-
siding officer called upon Rev. Mrs. Fen
ner who is an ordained minister OF tho
Baptist church and assistant superin-
tendent of the mission. Her description
of the work of the mission was viviu,
pathetic and eloquent. She said II was,
she believed, ones duty to stay where
there was work TO be done. After describ-
ing briefly the men who came TO the mis-
sion Rev, Mrs. Fenner stated she had been
engaged I'm church work for years before
she went TO the Randall Square Gospel
M Mission, but the work was of far dif1er-
ent kind from that which she had done at
the mission. She remembered when ~
years ago she stated TO the great mission
AIRY to India, DIR. Phillips, that she de-
sired to engage in missionary work that
he told her he would like To have her go
but her ago was against her ana at the
same time remarked THAT there was
mission work To be done In America. as
well as in India and she believed then
as well as now that IL ever there was u
woman Intended for missionary work 1t
was herself aud then in pleasing way
she told Of her labors for many years in
the mission field.
Ii was quite while after she had been
worker In the mission that she took
in mo Inn uv I'M ~
work of feeding the needy. This branch on
the work, however soon became attractive
to her. The men who came there in many
instances came for their breakfast, but
there was In this way an opportunity to
reach them and the way some of the men
listened to what was said made her
greatly interested In their behalf. There
could be no greater work than the uplift-
ing of souls and she would rather preach
TO the poor men who came to the break
fasts than i'm any church in the city.
Mrs. Fcnner next gave some touching
held mt the Mission last summer and the
attractions flowers had for the children
living near the Mission.
Miss Nora B. Gushing, who for the
last six months has held the position OF
superintendent Of the Sunday School at
the Mission, read her report. She de-
scribed the growth of the school, saying
that at first IL consisted of few grown
men, but as the weather grew cooler after
last summer the children In the neighbor-
hood of the Mission began attending the
school and by Christmas there was an
average attendance of 40
The number of pupils that attended
the school last January was 2S3 ana In
February the number was 260.
The superintendent of the Mission then
made his report. 1t was an interesting
one, showing that clergymen of various
denominations, not only in this city and
state, but from all over New England, had
either i'm n spiritual or financial way
aided the Mission in its work. The total
receipts by the Mission trustees, were
| S642. AZ and the total expenditures s607. -
| balance, $500. Last year the balance
| was but 81 cents.
j. T. Mcclure, recent Mission convert
whose home was formerly in Australia
| told of the great assistance the Mission
| had been TO him. He also stated that the
| Mission worked in harmony with the
| churches. Mr. Mcclure will be baptized
| by Rev. Mr.. Wesley next Sunday.
| Rev. Ernest NJ Wesley made some very
| bright and interesting remarks and in the
| course of his address said that while some
| of the preaching in missions was hum
| bug yet when a mission taught the Bible,
| the full gospel Ii was worthy of all IN
| couragement The one thing for the
church of Christ TO do was to seek and
save the lost. To do this something more
than talk is necessary for the hungry
must he fed, the naked clothed and the
needy sheltered. There was little use try
ing to teach the gospel to the hungry foi
| any one who has ever been hungry knows
their one desire In that condition Is q
supply their immediate wants. He said IN
| teaching religion the bible must be taken,
Jonah and an, and then after telling an
appropriate story about clergyman who
was always criticising the texts in the
Bible. Rev Mr.. Wesley said he had come
| to the conclusion that the best test was
the life led and that goody goodism wa:
| worse than Goo-Gooisnl, of which Provi
dence newspaper had much to say. The
trouble with the church today was that IL
was organized to death. The speaker next
| dwelt on the great power one rescued
soul might have for the doing of God
| work and cited some instances of the
| great good done by former outcasts. One
| incident related TO the conversion of the
manager of one of the directors of the larg
est missions i'm East London whom The
speaker had been an instrument in con
| yerting in South America.
Rev Mr. Palmer of jefferson street
| church and Rev. l.. :. Woodworth o
Highland Congregational church alsc
spoke.
FIRE CAUSED BY A LAMP.
| There was considerable of fire at a..
| Webster street, mt 6;l5 o'clock last even
ing The bracket in which Jacob Gold
stoins family put lighted LAM
was not strong one, and afte
| vain efforts TO keep i'm position the lamI
| pulled the bracket down and the carpo
on the floor caught fire. Neighbors, whI
were attracted by tho screams of th'
| Goldsteins, extinguishcd the blaZ'
without sending in general alarm o.
| fire. The damage did not exceed $40, bu
| there was more than little excitcmen
| on the street near the house. Philil
FalslSy Is the owner of the building
NORTH END NOTES
There were but few arrests made n,
the police of the Second station las
night.
A very enjoyable entertainment WA
held by the sunday School of the Second
| United Presbyterian church, Tucsda.