The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-14
/ NUMBER
OF FREE LUNCHES.
Monthly Report of Nineteenth
Street Mission Shows
Marked Progress.
CARE FOR 7TWEN1Y-N s MEN !: n
Will Insure Property Of Mission
for Sf,ooo'ro Have Pic
turc Outfit.

The hoard OF control of the Methodist
1rstitnte for christian work held dts IT'S
regular monthly meeting recently. MT J.
Thompson Brown. president, was IN the
chair. Those present we're ]. thompson
I Brown, Dr.. II. W. stiff, 4. A. Harrelson,
C.. W. Hardwicke. I. Hansen, j. g. TIL TIL
Ter, F. G. Jones. s. P. Jones' G. Is. Wills.
III. g. Osterbind. The standing commit
tees we're called and reports OF a general
character were made by the chairmen OF
each comnitte
C. w. Hardwicke presented the report
OF the Finance Committee. which was
adopted. The superintendent. Mr.. Arthur
B. Sharpe. submitted two reports, one for
the three weeks ending February 9Th and
one for the four weeks ending March
sth. The latter follows:
I've have been extremely busy at the
mission during the past month, as
you will see from the figures II shall
submit Every department OF our work
here shows increased activity and cor
responding results In our religious work,
n report that our every-nlght services
which had been running for seven weeks.
were discontinued about the 1st Of the
month. Since my last report, however, we
have held sixteen services. attended by
about seven hundred and fifty persons,
seighty-seven have requested prayer and
Gtwenty-t three have made profession OF re-
rligion. At the Sunday morning break
fast services, two hundred men wore pres
$ent, five OF whom declared they were
converted. i.5a TN &
Our Sunday school attendance Is also
{ good, though on fine, clear Sabbath after
moons the children do not come as we'll al
when the wea Their is bad.
Have Fed Many.
we are now holding three services
Sweekly-on Sunday, Tuesday ana Friday
4nights-tha inmat les OF the institution.
being required to attend a brief family
prayer service on al nights. In the lunch
and lodging department we have sold 5lS
free. and redeemed nineteen tickets. We
have rented 2a2 beds, furnished s142 for.
work done, given III men free beds, res
deemed eighteen tickets and accommo-
dated fifty mon In the chapel, ana Sall
this In addition to boarding and lodging
"a number Of men, who. being strangers
and pennilesE, were unable to obtain
boarding houses. There are twenty-nine
men Of this class In tho house now, who
Nv 1t1u
am caring for them until they have
earned enough money to set a decent suit
of clothes and pay else here two weeks
board In advance, Had I the necessary
plant ! could easily care for as 1 many
sorStwice as many more. On Sunday last
Il had the pleasure OF seeing six young
men, who httye been with US for periods;
ranging from five days to three or four
weeks, give their hearts to God I 3ih-s
&terpret this MS the hand OF God for good
upon tho new charity venture, Mr. o..
81 Morton has given us another complete
bed, the fifth since II took charge The
School of Domestic Science has donated
seven beds to- tho mission. s
rllc FREQ Dispense ny lad los have nj
lowed me to use8 u two he'd In tho hosnl-.
TIA. and have rugged m three wooden
the lookout for moro beds and n bed
CLOTHES. The Ventura thus 10 r Is "a sue
cess finan olnll y, " Some men have AIKEN