The daily sentinel., 1906-02-16
OF oUTCAsTs.
AND SINNERS.

A man died in New York city the
other day who had for twenty years
been superintendent of the Jerry Nc
Auley mission at BIG Water street
The Jerry McAuley mission and its
work has been known for years to
church workers and sociologist stu
ents throughout the world as furn-
ishing the best evidence TO be found
anywhere of the Tecuperative power.
in human nature to regain through
moral and spiritual conquest what
ever ground had been lost This work
was established by Jerry McAuley.
a reformed drunkard and gambler.
and II was under his leadership that
/ II first attracted the attention of the
! religions world After the death of
1 McAuley he was succeeded as sup
. erintendent by Rev. Samuel H. Had
Z ley. who has just died, and who a
/ moment of TWO before his death last
/ week was heard by one of his phv-
sicians to say: My buns. my
/ poor buns, who will look after
/ themi"
During the twenty years which
have elapsed since this man was him
self bum, love for the outcast
and The wretched had become the
consuming, all-absorbing passion of
his life. Since his death. as those
who have been associated with him
in his work In the mission tell of his
power over men, his support of those
who stumbled again and again. they
speak with unconscious pride. A di-
rect descendant Of Jonathan Ed
wards. his early home life was of the
best. II was after arriving at the
years of manhood that he~fell a vic
i'm to temptation and became him
self drunkard. As he has told the
story in his book. Down in Water
Street" in which he SAYS SLOW
ly but steadily | slipped downward.
becoming helpless drunkard and
prey to an ever increasing telapta-
-tion to commit suicide But my wife
remained faithful to me. hoping al
most against hope. and encouraging
when announcement had nearly be
come mockery. 1t was under her
influence and as a result of her faith
in me that | finally fought on NV
last temptation"
SAYS report Of this mission work
in the New York Evening Post
Under Mr.. Hadley's service at Water
street. not less than 75 900 persons
have announced their intention to
begin TO live a better life at the meet
ing conducted by converts. One of
the wealthiest citizens of Australasia
who was at the head of great sys-
TEN OF rescue work in Australia and
New Ienland. calls the Water street
mission his mother church Dr. John
II. Kellogg. head of the Chicago Life
Boat mission and other rescue agen-
cies, refers to it as My Inspiration" :"
of the South recalled that there was
time when he as one of HadIey's
dear buns
This Is only the story in short of
the life work of zone man who sa u, .
whatever covering OF sin and wrei-
chedness a human soul which could
be saved to itself to humanity and
to God through the power of human ,
love.
Standing himself as living ex-
ample OF what was possible to faith
ana love exercised to the uttermost
he loved others as he himself had .
been loved. Men talk of the practic- [
al things of life and of the senti-
mental. and among the latter love Is
placed Perhaps a quarter of a cent
ury ago Henry Drummond character
ized II as the creates thing in the
world, and the whole world applaud
ed the sentiment
There will vet come a time In the
history of humanity when all man
kind will understand this character
ization of Professor Drummond as
the statement of the most funda-
mentally vital truth OF the universe.
In that day humanity Will under
stand what Paul meant when he
said; From now abideth faith. hope
and love. these three. But the great
est Is Love. Denver News.