The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-27
TESTIMONY OF SAVED MEN.
WHERE JERRY AAULEY BEGAN RES
CUE YORK 81 TEARS AGO.

One After Another Stands Tn to Tell How
He wns Turned From Evil Ways and
Has steadfastIy Stunned Them Since.
Jerry McAuleys old Water street mission
held all tho people for whom seating room
could be found yesterday afternoon. They
came from downtown and uptown in response
to Invitations to be present at the twenty
seventh anniversary OF the work begun and
carried on there Superintendent s. H. Had
ley said that there were In the congregation
fifty or seventy-fve converts OF the mission.
The converts missed no opportunity to get up
and speak for themselves. several OF them
sometimes being on the floor at once waitin z
for a chance to bear testimony to what the
place and the workers in IL had done for them.
r. Fulton Cutting. treasurer OF the nilsson
enterprise presided.
A clergyman who has been working In the
interior OF the State told OF his regeneration
through the efforts OF the mission. TO which he
had gone merely TO accompany a friend who
wanted to sign the pledge many years ago.
His mother had destined him for the ministry.
but he had lett his home and had no thought OF
taking orders. but instend was cursing him
eelf and everybody else for his own failures.
when his visit to the mission with his inebriate
friend changed him into n self respecting m an.
A middle-aGed. respectfully dressed Ger
man. shaking as with the palsy. arose to say:
THANK God. q Dutchman il az welcome as an
Hickman here; ! know the SPOT yet. along us;
spoke to me. used to sleep in stables lie in
Railways. don't look like It. and when ! was
e coat. had no coat to turn, am very much
afflicted, hut had rather die In the harness
than he found with whiSkey bottle in my
''Jcsus gave me beauty for ashes. when I
was 40 years old. nine years ago." said a
Christian Influences. but such life that no
one who knew mo thought wanted to he
x man who looked IKE a prosperous small
merchant said that when at the nge Of ~ he
entered the misslon four years ago he had not
had q home in eighteen years. Now he had a
Moro than A year ago wa. on my way on.
and erect. THE door Of my home had been
on and had Ss: . 1ss could
xyts = any laced irosE coat; fhsys Ss:sRsi:
child: Thank God that thi. mission receives
be ssUSn%a tn SG Hs dS
and Of his straight and proud lie since As he
rnished Mr., Cutting addressed him.
YOU were Chairman Of the Board Of WALKING
DsleGa,es there was no strike in your trader
note that the true secret Of the solution OF the
conflict between capital and labor Is found Ia
Christianity"
Not all in this mission were tramps OF
thieves" a full bearded. rudy faced man said
Il was not tramp. and never was Grim al
was. from the worldly STANDPOINT. an honest
man. / was chief officer Of one OF the fines
ships coming to this mort The Lord revealed
Himself to me after a shipwreck In keeping m,
from joining band ~ jewellers In France. ant
now for thirteen years He has kept me up"
woman with "reminiscences of the earl,
! DAYS OF the mission said In trembling voice
| ''Oh. ia lovely here now. No bricks oominl
| through the windows. n 0 stones thrown at yol
| on the way in or nut, now"
| The Rev. Dir. David II. Greer who was amonl
! the visitors ant vas asked 10 speak. said:
believe II GOD had created only one men
has spoken here to-day. Jesus would have die,
! 70 redeem him"
| Mr.. Hadley said II the people uptown woult
| only learn moro ~ the work down there the n
| would be less Of the mysticism that was drivini
| out that sort OF rel gion.