The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-23

thirty per cent. go to other cities or leave to look for work, while about two per cent. are discharged as incorrigible, and about four per cent. are sent to their homes. All this work is accom- Iplished as the report shows, for cost to contributors of only about Sl,6OO, the lincome from the business being in the lneighborhood of 5000. But this insti- tuition in the third place, and this is lmost important characteristic, is a Christian Industrial Home. Its motto lis, "The soul of all improvement is the Improvement of the soul Here man may receive both moral and spiritual help to fit him for the battles of life. Self-help, human help, divine help These are it's principles. As Calvary stood for the love, the sympathy and lthe self-sacrifice of Christ for man, so must this Calvary Home illustrate these l, Christian principlts. It is an interde- Inominational institution. The men on Sunday are encouraged to attend their own churches. Olrnost half the men Iwho come to the home are Roman Catholics, and little over half are Protestants. Here they find not only mental stimulus in the periodicals and the library of some five hundred vol umes, but earnest Christian influence and teaching. Five religious services are held at the home every week and earnest personal religious work done among the men by both the superinten- dent and the foreman. These services vary in character. On Friday night the Brotherhood of St. Andrew conducts a prayer r-book service and on other nights other forms of service are used to give variety. The addresses are earnest en- deavors to declare the fundamental principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ, common to all the churches. Salvation through Christ and the inn portance of prayer and Bible reading are emphasized. Bibles either Roman Catholic or Protestant are given to the men who want them.
 The religious character of Calvary In dustrlai Home is what wish chiefly to emphasize. It is not clearing house, as important as that is. It is a Chris tian home. For it is getting 10 be more and more clearly seen that the religious element is an essential one in all re- claiming work.
 | The Organized Charities association is doing most important work for New Haven, as is also the Young Mems Christian association, but the Calvary 1 Industrial Home, while necessarily cov- ering some sides of each of these noble institutions, has a place and work of it's own as Christian Industrial Home. Some philanthropic work properly pro- vides employment for men without giv- l ing them any moral tonic and religious Inspiration. Some religious work very properly provides moral tonic and ap- peals to religious feeling without mak- ng provision for bodily needs. The Cal vary Industrial Home endeayors to do both of these for homeless men, and therefore deserves the support of the community. The results of the reli- gious side of this work are encouraging. Not over one-half of one per.cen would have to be put down as incorrigible terminals and frauds. An effort is made to keep in touch with those who go out from the home. Some come to the meetings after they have left the home. | koUlll6 WIlO IdNE SOllctt pOolllUliS LQhC an interest in those left in the home and help them to get positions. The home is indebted to the Y. M. c. A. employment department and the State Free Elm ployment office for much assistance in securing positions for men.
 I The superintendent is sometimes noti- l fled of men arrested for the first time who seem to be worthy of chance to do better, and some are turned over to the home by the city attorney or by the Judge of the city court and are given a chance to prove their worthiness. Full fly ninety per cesnt. of these men have turned out well; in fact, not one of them has ever betrayed the trust put in him. For instance the superintendent was notified not long since of a young man who was arrested for defrauding his lboarding house keeper out of nine dol- liars due on board. The superintendent finding him to be in many ways worthy Iappeared in his behalf and furnished a bond of fifty dollars guaranteeing the payment of the bill, and the young Iman was turned over to Calvary Home He went to work the next morning al HIS OlQ pOSillOu= WILL d liTIil III llllS Clly lpayed up his board bill and remained al the home for some time, until finally This sister in New York sent him clever I dollars and secured for him a position
 in New York city, where he receive sixteen dollars per week.
 Men who secure positions are allowed
 to still board at the home until they have enough to pay board in advance
 at some respectable boarding house
 This is worth great deal to the mar
 for they are thus kept in touch with tht religious spirit of the home when they
 receive their first weeks pay, and whel they often need religious council ant
 help more than at any other time.
 The home is fortunate in having fo it's superintendent a man of such earn
 est religious principles, and who ha
 been made a strong Christian optomis
 by twelve years experience in sinlila work.
 Calvary Home not only keeps man.
 men from falling into a worst condi tion than that in which it finds them
 but it sends out large numbers not onl
 into positions of self-support and self
 respect, but, best of all,iwith earnes religious convictions and faith in tn
 Lord Jesus Christ.
 Who shall estimate the spiritual re
 ward of those who assist in so good work? We can get glimpse of the an
 swer when we rernember our Lord