The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-09-23

Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
mission church for Magyars VIII be
opened at Throop in building belong
ing to the PanCoast Coal company and
rendered for the purpose by Sdpcrin-
tendent Sanderson. There Will b.
preaching in the Magyar and SlavoniC
tongues by Rev. Jules Dambroszkcy.
and colleague from New York city,
and addresses i'm English will he made
by Colonel II. NJ. Poles and Rev. DR..
S. G.. Logan n general invitation ia
extended.
This mission is to be a link In the
chain of educational and religious ac-
tivites among our foreign-born element
initiated some six years ago by DR..
Logan and now conducted under the
general auspices of the Lackawanna
presbytery. With the general features
of this work our readers are already
familiar. but it may prove Of interest
to note some of the results.
Within the past year three Italian,
one Bohemian and one Magyar mis-
sionaries have been engaged in look
ing after the educational and spiritual
iterests of their fellow countrymeu in
the territory between Forest CITY and
Wilkes Barre and Kingston. More
than 100 families have given their
names to the Magyar minister as de-
string association with the American
Christians, and more than 800 Italians
have signified a similar desire to the
clergymen who speak their language.
There are in activity five kindergarten
and three night schools for the teach
ing of English to these foreign people,
and in connection with the kindergar-
ten work. industrial schools for girls
have been maintained. their purpose
being to teach the forcign-horn NOuna
women American industrial and social
ways. Meetings for mothers have been
held monthly, and in every possible
way effort has been put forth to bring
these aliens into wholesome touch with
the best aspects of American life. Con-
sidering the means at hand and the
difficulty in securing trustworthy and
efficient preachers and instructors able
to reach the dozen or more distinct
races represented in this valley, it de-
. notes very gratifying success that
since this practical home mission work
was instituted it has contributed more
than 500 children to the public schools.
The meaning of this will be more ef-
fectually grasped il it be understood
struction which they receive in these
mission schools, would not have beer
eligible to admission in the public
schools and would probably have grown
up in the most pitiful ignorance of
American ins stitutions and opportuni-
ties strangers in strange land.
The bug'c call has sounded in the
busy camps of the SalvatiOnists, and
lively preparations are being made in
the Army's ~ CORPS. stretching from
coast to coast of the United States. to
make the coming harvest celebration
an unprecedented success That time
honored custom as old as Bible history
itself to assemble together a harvest
time in order to give praise Tor the
year Of plenty, will be taken advantage
of, and the Salvationists will strive to
make it more thanksgiving in prac-
tice than in sentiments
AS the Isracltes in the days Of old
in JOYOUS procession brought their
tithes into the storehCuse, SO everybody
rich and poor alike. will be asked to
bring their gifts to the altar Of praise,
and thus. according to the dictates of
their conscience offer Thanksgiving to
the Lord Of the harvest
There is something in this idea Lhat
appeals to everybody, and as the Sal
walton Army. with characteristic up
to-dateress. has not confined its ap-
peals to the products of the field only,
but is open to receive any kind of con-
tribution, everybody will have a chance
TO participate.
The multifarlous philanthropic enter
Of hA Il. At.
for them to dispose of or utilize any
imaginable class Of goods. from mus
ical instruments or live stock to articles
OF furniture or bank notes.
Il is almost incredible what amounts
have been raised in this way by the
Army for benevolent purposes. The
secret is no doubt the willingness of it's
workers, who give their services al
most day and night gratituously. as
we'll as their splendid organization,
which insures the maximum of profit
with the minimum of cost.
The enormous amount of cocd that
has been accomplished during the past
years by these toilers of the sea Of
misery entities them to the most hearty
support.
The celebration at the local corps