Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-04-06
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RELIGION BY HUMAN TOUCH.
Il want three things i come 20 st.
Georges: You must make the church
free. discharge all TIE Committees ex-
cept the vestry, so as to leave me en-
tirely free lands and give me $4,000
year for three years to use in parish
work as see fit without asking any
body's consent" These We're the con-
iditions made by the Rev. w. S. Rains
ford when he became rector Of St
Georges. New York. eighteen years
aga. What he has accomplished in this
l,eriod is recorded by Jacob A. Riis in
the March Worlds Work.
He found fourteen families N the
church roster. Sin three weeks he said
% me in one of his rare reminlscen,
moods, with a grim little laugh, Il
Preached seven of them out. Then he,
was down to hard pan and was ready
70 begin building. Eighteen years have
passed since he could say with the child
IN the song. We are seven." have
the St. Georges year book for 1900 be-
fore me. The number of families re-
ported therein 5 in care of the register
IS l,snr The interest upon the endow-
ment fund that has taken the place of
The church debts equals pretty nearly,
according 70 my reckoning. the old bur-
len. Sunday morning congregations in
which the neighboring tenements are
hopefully in evidence fill every seat
that was vacant in the old days. taxing
The. capacity of the great building The
rector no longer tolls alone. A staff of
half score of clergymen and desc
esses labor With him early and late in
his parish Of tenements, while an army
Of more than 400 volunteers from up
town and down town attend diligently
10 the vast array of social. philan-
thropic. educational machinery that has
wrought these changes. The memorial
buildingais a busy parish workshop un-
der whose roof churchmanship anu citi-
zonship are welded into the neighborly
Christianity that alone has help for our
democratic day.
Mr. Riis says that ST. Georges has
made good her claim that the people
Will supper. a church that IS theirs ii.
Yield a greater revenue fer church work
than pew rents. however opulent. The
i,5o0 cornmun:cants are nearly all young
working niSn and women from the ,ene-
nents, the Very class whose failing
away from the church pessmists are
loudly oewailing. Mr.. Ri:s thus de-
scribes the Parish machinery that
reaches the ives Of fully 5000 persons,
Who are nest in need of such minis
trations:
lis operations range from the KINDER
sarten for TIE little shavers. which is
conducted under st. Georges roof by
the Nav York Kindergarten Assecia-
ltion for the benefit of perpiexed
mothers no ess than for the little ONES
themselves. q the secret society Of the
Golden G upstairs that caps The whole
structlre with tbs soaring ambition 10
be somebody There is a kitchea gar
der whore the girls are trained 10 be
heusekeepers. an employment office for
those needing work. I. summer cottage
by the SEA. which last year sheltered
5l2 women ard children for week and
1880 for day al a time: a grocery
store that sells a wholesale prices and
gives supplies free To those who have
10 money; a relief department with
medical aid nd stores of clothing given
% the church and mended and made
over b. poor women who thus learn
useful ession While earning a dayss'
wages, q circulating library of 1900
volumes, a dramatic society with end
less resources of fun and enjoyment.
and last but not least. a trade school,
Which alone 81 them all is crawded out
farfba ~, ci,,ts..t {
-. 'tsls
hold They are taught carp ntry.