The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-25

the lifes of men. Eleven years ago when we started this work there was the
 City Mission in this city, which had to
 do with the religious work of the poor,
 the Department of Charities and Cor
 rection, which had to do with the needy people of the city, and the Or ganized Charities which had to do with l the homeless and outcast, and we con- clude that it would be mighty good thing to open home where these men could receive religious instruction and hear the gospel of good news preached. The churches do not reach them and I they are not invited into the church. l It is not possible for them to be invi- l ted into the church. We opened the l home that the Gospel of Christ might be preached, that men might have a
 chance to save themselves and return
 like a sheep in a fold to his Savior's | house. You ask with what success
 have we met in inducing men to come l to Christ. We keep no statistics and I l find no rule in the Bible where we are | required to have success in the work, | or that we must be successful. Of the
 seven or eight hundred different men who have passed through the home in
 a year, that every one of them have
 heard the Gospel and attended the
 meetings and have had private inter I views with the superintendent or his l wife you may be sure, and have had l their faish quickened and renewed.
 And the frozen fountains of their lives ! opened, and many of them have been
 seen on the high mountain-tops of op- portunity. It is a righteous work for Il every one. I presume all of you have
 seen the light come upon the face of
 some one who has seen for the first
 time the love of God. '>'''~ :. r,
 Many of these men can live righteous
 lives and many of them do, and many
 of them have returned to their, places
 in regular work. .% s I And there is the other side of the , question. It helps those who are en-
 gagged in the work, and that is what it surely needs. We need to set the peo- pie to work. How many of the people ! when they first come into the church
 attend all the meetings, such as Chris
 tian Endeayor, Sunday school and
 prayer meeting, etc. If they are not I given work to do they do not continue
 in any regularity. A great many oi them drop out and it has done no good
 That we have something to do along this line, in lines that other people had inot at that, time undertaken, has helped us I am sure, day by day, fol no one can engage in work for Christ
 without being helped, And just one
 other thing; there is the superinten
 dent and his wife. We, speak very lov ingly and affectionately of our mission aries and the sacrifices that they make in going away from their friends. But ] bless your hearts, no missionary has ,i ever made a greater sacrifice than St- perintendent Butterfield and his wife They have no specific law how they shall do their work. Their responsible
 ities are hard and a heavy load it is fol
 these men are great trials. That is what counts at Calvary Industrial
 Home, as it counts in this church
 Whe nyou are engaged in a:3werk oi
 this kind it is of the prime necessity to have it in the immediate charge oi lsome one day after day. It is not whai
 we think or say; but what we are thai
 counts for the fen down at the home So we are here tonight to commend
 this work to you.
 While the home is Calvary Industrial
 Home, it does not mean that it belongs
 to Calvary church. That has been said
 again and again. but I feel that ii should be said time. and time again Calvary means that it belongs to the
 cross of Christ. VIII you excuse me il II tell you when the work was started il was on Crown street. The plans were
 drawn up at Calvary church. A mem
 Der of this church met me on the street
 the next day and slapped me on the , back and said put me down for one
 hundred dollars, and has, never beer able to get out of it for any less than .l one hundred dollars year. For as the years have gone, by it has simply increased in proportion. I heard this
 morning of a general of the army who
 at the time the battle was raging was found back in the rear praying. The senate was disposed to think that this !. was not the time for prayer. There is - time to pray for Calvary Home, an6
 there is a time to express our appreci
 ation for the work done at the home 5 But if it is still to grow in this Chris y tion work we have got to put our hand 6 to the plough and work. Now to show
 you that it does not belong to Dwight !, Place church or to Calvary Baptist
 church, will tell you that MT Swift
 of the Trinity M. E. church wa. brought into. the work and became sec ] retary and every denomination in tn, l. city is now represented on this board e We want all the Christian people in al
 the churches to do their share in tht 2 support of and appreciation of tn,
 work done at 679 Chapel street. w d know of no other way to reach thes, 8 homeless outcasts except in this way e Will you not become better acquainted a with the work and give 1t your heart. j. sympathy, your prayers and you + financial support as you are able?
 MT. Douglass was followed by MT Q Swift, secretary of the home, wht ? spoke in a eulogy of MT. and Mrs. But E, terfield and of their work in the home