Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-28
SLUM MISSION FOR RICH
nowERY AIMS TO BRING SALIVA
TON TO FIFTH AVENUE.

NEW YORK, November 28.-Missionary
work among the fashionables OF 9Th avenue
nv redeemed drunkards and thieves Is the
pIan of Rev. DR.. Donald Sage Mackay. pas
tor of the church Of which the President Oh
the United States, Mrs. Russell sage anu
Miss helen Gould are members. TO prlhs
salvation to the society people OF NE"
York. Arrangements are being mace ny .no
minister of the Collegiate Church OF d.
Nicholas. which was founded in 1873. Tor
series of revival meetings among MS par
ishioners in which men who nave Deeh
saved from sin In the missions OF the lower
city will tell Of their conversion.
Through this agency DR.. Mackay peheVes
the spiritual lethargy of fashlonaDie anu
wealthy church LENDERS will be dissipa'eu
and that conversions IF society people VIII
be accomplished.
The Bowery Promises Aid.
Already DR.. Mackay has communicated
his contemplated action to the superintehd-
ents of several Of the missions, VINO nave
readily entered into the spirit OF the UNIQUE
project. and who will provide scores OF con-
verified men to carry their message from
the Bowery slums and old Water street u
aristocratic 9Th avenue ,.,;o,
The plan contemplateS SUM mlssloh
service
! Instead of men down in the depths OF oes
radiation through adherence to sin IN us
most vicious form the congregations WIN
consist of fashionable men ana women WHY
view sin only as IL COMES III 10 ~ -
| tractive guise. .,
| The redeemed drunkards and thieves, In
| these unique services, instead OF reaCnins
| the conscience of battered wrecks anu ueie.
| Iicts of humanity with their testimonies OF
| redemption from lives of wickedness, WI
| tell their stories to the wealthy ana conse-
quential.
Fifth Avenue Needs Salvation.
"rThese people need Christ" said Ut
Mackay. lust as much as the poor, De
prayed wretch whose constant yielding e
vice has made him an outcast, snuHiht
hopelessly along the Bowery. Christ is M
respecter of persons. He saved alike tn'
learned doctors of the law and the poo
thief that cried to him In his extremity
He Is needed here on 9Th avenue, anu VI
same spiritual power that Is required 20 re
deem men and women in the slums Will D.
required to save the most fashionable mos
exclusive and highest-bred man or Womal
on 9Th avenue
of being, as 1t ought. the supreme reality Il
Iife Is pretty much the most unreai tnin
about u.s. How can religion be reaity {
Sunday, he deliberately gives the lie {
every essential doctrine OF his faitn IN III
business transactions on Monday?
"Or to any woman If. protesting certal
fundamental beliefs on Sunday, she ais
deyotes her social life throughout the wee
TO interests that are In direct Antagonist
: to the spirit of Christ?
"Semi-Religious Emotion"
"a vague, indefinite mass of semi-reiit
/ ous emotion is about all that religio
4 amounts to in the thoughts of many toda
t Society today in fashionable churches
!. simply playing with gilt paint. 1t Is NAL
e ing too much of the frame and too little
s the picture. Fifth avenue has tendent
s to dress up sin.
"Society actually is sordiu in sin. It
q unconscious of it. 1t really glories In It
: To-day the divorce court. instead or D
q ing a tragedy, is highly spfced. damon
2 busted romance. A man told me recenl
= that 1t was easier to get into 9Th aven'
= church than 1t was to enter 9TH avenl
- club He thought it ought not to be-
= he was wrong The church Is and shou
: be free but the church needs quality, n
quantity 1t needs to be added to daily
| such as shall be saved.
:, 1.-The naked realities of sin must be shos
10 to those whose consciences are sleepir
70 These realities are seen in the slum M
d, sions."