The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1900-02-02

and unfoldcl Il plan uf such fa-rca chiny
power and possibility that DR. Bruce.
capable and cHrcri1nced az he was. ra.t
amazed at Tie vision Of a greater soul
than his own
They sat up late and were AS eager
and even glad as ii they were planning
for IA trip together to some rare land OF
uneNplorcd travel Indeed the bishop
SAID many times alterward that The
moment his decision was reached to live
the life Of personal sacrifice he had
chosen he suddenly felt an uplifting. as
II a great burden was taken from him
He WAS exultant. So was DR. Bruce
from the same carso
Their plan as it finally grew into a
workable fact was in reality nothing
more than the renting of Il large build
ing formerly used, as Il warehouse for a
brewery, reconstrrcting it and living
in 1T themselves in the very heart of u
territory where the saloon ruled with
power. where the tenement was its
tilthiest. where vice and ignorance and
shame aCd poverty were congested into
hldeous forms. 1t was not u new idea
1t was an idea started Dy Jesus Christ
when he left his Fathers house and for
sock the riches that were his in order
to get nearer humanity and, by becom-
ing part Of its sin, help to draw hu-
manity apart from its sin The univer-
slty settlement idea is not modern 1t is
as old as Bethlehem and Nazareth, and
In this particular case it was the near
est approach to anything that would
satisfy the hunger of these two men to
suffer for Christ There had sprung up
IN them at the same time n longing that
amounted to a passion to get nearer the
great physical poverty and spiritual
destitution Of the mighty city that
throbbed around them. How could they
90 this except as they became part
OF 1t, as nearly as one man can become
part OF another miseryY Where was
the suffering to come in unless there
was an actual self denial Of some sort I
And what was to make that self denial
apparent to themselves or any one else
uElcas it took this concrete, actual, Der.
scnal form Of trying to share the deep,
est suffering and sin of the city9
- "'sy reasoned for themselves. not
. 4. ."o.n~.' ny w"r- si2Iriy keep
i%2ir -, .cI'e TO do as Je us
&c. & liz. ION ., = Judged he
"."'. ~ .Ts riG v at they ]
-" -t.@,;l :')H ,"a.'i N-"y uar.rel v .th
:. i--nltt IL,5 we're III ,e..l.bly cu.A.
p'.i'i to lo ~h"t they wc.o planu. Ii :
10 90
IAN liehco l@d money cf his own
..'Ey ore in Chi $50 l.L2W that tha
b. G"p had II hand%OEIe fortune DR.
4 see had tcguir; i a!.i saved by liter
,try v"rH CI.ricl On IN CO. ci.ayctiou W .th
h.H r.!".. d"ties ImGrc tLyn comfurta
u" competence This money. IL large
..&-t cT -. r.'1 two friends &, reed to Dct
- v,,"" i>lhn tdc work, L.o5t OF it ii. ~
tso i'1.n-s 'un% OF Il settlement house
Ai@aEN ~; Nazareth Avenue church
vas c.7r.liuncing something never
trr%p brfs'rr III all its history The
s''"":e uIp=a' "n he ps:t Of its pss.or
u A.b lHon heIS 10 90 az .Jcsas won al tio
H. Great / a sensation that still ON
e, II i!.c result Of that appeal was
vC.y n"ch to- same "a in Henry Na,;
wclia church III Raymond. only K. -
~ 3VeL 20 ChrTciI was far E!Oro a..i,
ioa&.tic. wealthy and convention
y rt!Jhct"-d wn2n one Sdaday mJin
~" i'll ealT sulnICr DT Bruce ca. nu
$50 MS pulpit ana announced his re-. :;
nai2"n ttc sensation decponed all q, q
tbr CRY, 2ltlCL2h DR.. Brace had 'aa,
: Tisad witil his boar6 of trtlsvens, end .ic
. r1ggcrcn. he inteDued was 10: liz:
ter of s.rHri. 10 th2!l
-'Jt Ni,.n j. ~ .le iu,r.iciy (. -,
, '"..i ssS v.a-,.2 also mad &nnounca,. u.
, settsemsDt trvm tAs. p9sipen hs h~d