The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-20
FOR CHRISTMAS.
Appeal From the City Missionary AS
ISOLATION.

ISOLATION.
City Mission Hall, Court and State
Streets.
| TO the Editor Of the Journal and Courier:
Dear Sir-It is only week until
| Christmas, and while the response by
your readers to my brief Thanksgiving
| letter was more than l could have ex-
pected, and also more than enough for
our Thanksgiving needs, it will not in
addition quite cover our Christmas
wishes for others. / have sent written
Acknowledgements to all previous con-
tributors ana so will take space here
only to say, thank you, one and all,
who make it possible for US in your be-
half, to add so much to the happiness
of others.
I would now like to ask of your
readers just two questions. First
Would not some of you like to put
little money, Qittle or large, as you
please, as a Christmas gift for some
one else in little private bank OF
which [ am treasurer, and which has
no other officers The treasurer has no
salary, for he has nothing to do except
pie as he knows are liable to need it,
two, three or five dollars or more, and
then to save them from getting into
hard place that seems almost in front
of Them and which they have done
their best to avoid, surprises them by
telling them that they have money in
the bank, which they can draw, all or
in part, at any time Perhaps you
think they would draw it all out at
once, but they hardly ever do. The first
one l ever told he had money in this
bank did not call for it for several
weeks, struggling along meanwhile at
work quite different from his own work
of carriage making, and only used it
finally when he had to move
This is quite different from loaning
money, or giving money or other help
in ordinary relief. No one asks that it
be done, no one knows when it is DONE
and no one ever knows for whom it is
done except the one who finally has the
benefit of it. And it is not done by any
means for everybody. 1t is just plan
to help worthy, respectable people in
way that shall save their self-respect
and without their feeling under obliga
] would like at least $l00 to put my
bank in good order for the winter.
And, Second-Would not some who
may not have any more money than
they need for home use just at this
Christmas time like to send to me, or
to Miss Hume our lady missionary, for
use If needed during the winter, an or
der on their coal dealer, or grocer or
marketman, for half ton of coal, or
half barrel of flour, or one or two dol
lars worth of meat and vegetables?
These orders to be good only until May
/, 1900, unless otherwise stated, and
even then not to be used unless in our
judgment the giver would certainly
wish it done If the existing need was
known.
This is not intended to take the place
of ordinary relief work, and therefore
should not influence anyone to give less
than is already being given to such
agencies as the Organized Charities,
where there is a constant call for help
from all parts of the city. The pur-
pose of this plan is to do a little more
than is absolutely necessary, not for
everybody who may be in need, for it
- HCL llle lIltGLtIOl 40 USE THESE OTueTS
for those who are in the habit of APP
plying for help, but when upon in
curry among the fathers and mothers
of New Haven families already we'll
known in our mission work, we find the
through the winter is getting
to be beyond their strength, then to add
this strength from others.
An order for IS has just been handed |
to me for this use as needed. Would |
It be too much to expect that from fifty |
to one hundred dollars in such gifts |
might be given us at this Christmas |
time, to be kept as strength in reserve |
Tor some of our weak, but worthy New |
Haven people who may sometimes |
shrink from fear Of the future, as the
winter settles down upon them, quite
rs much as from the winters cold
Respectfully yours
w. d, MOSSMAN
Missionary Pastor.
New Haven, Dec. IS, 1899,