The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-20

serves and shall have both the honor
 and the gratitude. She has discovered
 the need, her conscience has furnished
 the motive she has produced, the con
 science has furnished the motive, she
 has produced the workers, and has in
 large part supplied the funds, and un-
 der God, to her shall be the glory of
 what s done.
 Let us all then clear away any quib- Die or theory as representatives of 'churches and consider that this is our
 work, it Is we who are doing it through
 the City Mission, our handmaiden the
 nearest our home of all home missions,
 and we will cease representing ourselves
 because we are not doing it in some oth- l CT way and we will do it this way and
 with our might.
 In projecting our new building we
 have been compelled to consider afresh
 the aims and future work of our Asso-
 citation. We have assured ourselves that
 there is in our city a great work for us
 to do and one which will not be done
 unless we, or some similar agency,
 shall do it.
 We have begun building which will
 be admirably equipped for these ends.
 will not describe the building in detail. l will only say that we are to have of- flee rooms and assembly rooms which will not only be vast improvement on what we have now, but will afford room for needed additional features.
 On the third floor a spacious hall known as Children's Hall is to be used for all our children's work except the Sunday school which will meet in the main auditorium on the first floor. This hall will also be admirably adapt ed for possible use as a girls gmy- nasium. We hope some generous wo- man may offer us say $1,000 to provide apparatus so that generations of our girls, especially from the stores and shops, may have the pleasures and ben efits of physical culture.
 When our building is complete, which we hope will be in June, we think it will be approved for it's combination of economy and good taste, for it's conl- plete usableness, and still it's provision for room for growth.
 A year ago we had but $10,000 in cash and owned our lot. Within the year we nave ldlSeu lillS sum lO dllllUSl @oU,VuV, cash and pledges, have perfected our plans, and gotten in our foundation walls. What has been done is a tri- umph of faith in God and faith in the generosity and cooperation of the Christian people of New Haven. What remains to be dorc is to raise the bal ance of what 1t $ to cost-viz. $15,000, making $45,000 in all, within the next few months so that we may dedicate without handicap of debt and send this work on and out as the represen- tative of the churches, to exercises all its institutional appliances on that great and growing duty of seeking and saving the common people.
 In the future as in the past the City Mission will stand for thousands of calls every year made upon the sick. the afflicted, for an open door, daily ard nightly for the whole seven days of the week where the tempted the re- claimed, the humble stranger, may get hold of a helping hand and hear word of exhortation to better things. Some thing shall be open beside the saloon light and warmth for weak ! and wandering men, while every other member of the family--the mother, the boys, the girls, find some class or or ganization provided for such as they, ! save only the young man, who is hand ed over to the Y. M c. A.
 Various parts of our work, such as the Children's Saving bank, the dis of coal, flour and tea at whole sale cost on small weekly payments, the mems and children's work, will all | be handled at far greater advantage in our commodious quarters, while a medi- cal dispensary, perpetual rummage sale as means of helping people with put injuring their self-respect, are pos abilities that have been talked of.
 Provision Is also to be made for class ,s in cooking and home nursing and .hese additions, taken in connection with the sewing classes which have all along been an important feature of the work will afford much promise for the nome life of present and future genera ions of girls who can avail themselves ,f such advantages.
 Over the increased and expanded work the directors are planning to place an executive officer, who shall at- end in a general way to the business ide of the work thus relieving the mis- ionary pastor and lady missionary of considerab ble burden of annoying ares and at the same time giving urther assurance both to the churches nd the outside contributors that our fairs are handled in a business way.
 We cannot be mistaken, such work as urs is demanded now and will be'more nd more as the city grows It is right hat a Christian public provide it, and t should be properly supported, prop rly house and in time properly en- owed. All this Is coming about in