The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-04-13
The New Kind Of
Church and Preacher

football team at St. Bartholomew's.
The Mems club at st. Georges. where
You can smoke in peace, read your ia
vorite pape:, a a game OF cards, lis
ten to an amusing lecture, and if the
day is hot and you feel like it. enjoy
the luxury of cooling off under a show
CT bath. Not Il few churches nave their
dancing classes. likewise glee clubs.
and likewise, again. athletic teams that
engage in cross country running and
other outdoor sports. Wrestling" Yes.
that's permissible at st. Georges n
the peoples palace, where there is a
swimming tank.
The sitting heat of the city is paling
your baby's cheelSs@ Seek out ST.
Georges; 1T maintains u roomy. airy
use of tired mothers and their little
children. Then there is the roof garden
on st. Bartholomew's parish house. You
can put your child there in the morn
ing when you start to work. and know
that all day long it is breathing in the
pure air of the upper strata, and being
delighted with q sight of green things
IN toys Well night innumerable.
Poor working girl. a year behind the
counter has given You l~lstless eyes.
You'd better get into the country for
Your vacation. Not-not the money,
SIR All. we'll. perhaps you'll have TO
stay i'm the city this year But run
sN'.iStAA away 0tlQ JOlll tlIe StillOT clup
of st. Bartholomew's Girls club. keep
up your monthly dues of 25 cents. and
next su1nmer you'll be able to spend
two jolly weeks in the open at Holiday
house, Washington. Com.
So with YOU, cocky u shaver.
Get into the Battalion club, of St.
Georges, for example, and two weeks
in camp somewhere in the country tone
OF the greatest joys that can befall a
real boy) will be your portion. Indeed.
father, mother, boy, girl. il your lungs
are crying for fresh country O sea air,
n you are at your wits ends how to
get IT. turn to the nearest institutional
church-more than likely Just AROUND
the corner-and perhaps the net day
you will be greedily shifting salt air or
luur1ously rolling in the long. sweet
grass clothing some far away
hillside.
Penny provfdent banks, clinics. day
nurseries; cobbling classes. wood yards.
coal clubs, lodging and boarding
houses. flower missions. coffee and soup
booths. legal aid societies. civic clubs,
Red cross auxiliartes, toy missions, diet
Rltchens. excursions to art galleries.
museums. factories. homes for aged
people. church services, clubs and
classes for various nationalities, shell
ters FOR little children, whose mothers
are dead or Ill, Sunday afternoon
church socials. free beds, endowed cots
n college scholarships, are to be in
Guided among the means employed by
the institutional church I'm its efforts
TO look after the whole man and all
men.
Thousands Of Persons Taken Cara OF.
That the work is not in vain a glance
at a few statistics shows. Last year the
staff OF ST. Georges received over ten
visits and made nearly thir-
teen thousand: sixty-four visitors are
employed. Five thousand books went
from the church's free circulating
library. The Mems club has a member
ship of $50, and 125 applications for
membership We're received during 1905.
The total enrolment in the trade school
exceeded $50. At its Long Island sea-
side cottage over 500 persons We're talk
en- care of for a week each, and 1900
for the day.
ST. Bartholomew employment bu-
gets positions for about 1000 per-
sons yearly. The number of CONSUL
25, 900. AS far Jack as seven years ago
its loan association received over $7O,-
600 and diSbursed ove S63, 900 at much
lower interest rates than the poor Dor
rowers could have got elsewhere. Yet
the association is so managed that 1t
it's running expenses.
In the average Institutional church
W o INS vi tC 1LIoI AGJdIlIIlSIllSs
pay for themselves. For example, eX-
cept when such extras as repairs to the
club rooms or new apparatus are not
necessary, the Mems club of St.
Georges meets all expenses out of the
ues the receipts from the billiard
room, the game being charged at %
cents an hour. The dues arc SO a year
payable quarterly, n 81 additional for
the use of a locaeryin gymnasium work.
These are the only charges. all else
being gratis. even soap and towels.
Ask. and 1t shall be given you This
may be said to be the motto of the in
stitutionat church. But what it gives
is not given IN Il way to Increase power
ty or to break down an applicants self
respect. Except in extreme cases. some
slight remuneration is usually required.
The initiation fee OF the Girls club, st.
Rartholomew's, ia IS cents, the monthly
dues a like sum-. but consider what II
member gets in return-uSe of the club
room. q library. physical culture in
struction. lectures. helpful talks. enter
tainments OF various sorts, literary i'll
struction. the rigat to participate in
penny providsnt and mutual benefit
funds, and the privilege OF joining one
class II week in either dressnlak king,
millinery, cooking, embroidery. drawn
work, or system sewing. For n small
additional fer she can receive instruc-
AAyt W SSStoeL GRIiy, ~ ipSSNIIlCJlE anu
system cutting. And AS already set
forth. membership In the club entities
to two weeks at the clubs summe
home In Connecticut. besides
dation in the clubs city boarding house.
The fees at Temple college, Philadel-
phia, where upwards of thirty courses.
Including law and theology. arc offered.
arc all nominal. and about 1000 stu
dents taka advantage of the several OPP
%portunities offered them both by day
and night to obtain a collegiate educa-
ton for next to nothing. Temple col
lege is authorized by the Pennsylvania
legis!a ture to issue degrees. and the boy
who gets his legal degree from it is
every bit as we'll qualified TO become a
member of the bar as he who graduates
from an expensive law school attached
to n we'll known university.
Millions Cor INSTITUTIONAL Work.
The mounts OF money that are yearly
spent in institutional work aggregate mil
lions. st. Georges outlay last year was
about 3llO.O0G: it has averaged over s1CO, NO
for many years. From 1880 to 1850 ST.
Bartholomew's spent 1885, Co, a yearly
average of sgt. 800. Since Then the average
has materially Increased. The s., 800, 900
were expended as follows:
Work among the 32,1 on
Parish house a,1 CN)