The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-14
PREACHERS UP AND DOING
,oVEL ENTERPRISIS MARKING
 THE WORK OF CHURCHtS'

Free Lunch at Cripple Creek, Checks
 for Babies in Chicago-Advertising Found to Pny-VarIed Home Mission
 work-Early Church Societies in America.
 Church organizations of the United States have sometimes been accused of lack of enterprise, but innumerable in- stances of extraordinary endeavor may be cited in refutation of this charge. The pastor of a church at Cripple Creek, Col has introduced the free lunch feature in connection with his church work. He announced In the pa- pers that all who attended his service ould afterward be provided with free food in the Sunday school room. For the sake of novelty New York preacher employed a whistler and later a vaudeville artist to enliven the ser vices at his church. Not long ago the writer had occasion to make an eXten- sive trip over the United States, and in eleven different cities pastors of vari- ous denominations went to the trouble to copy his name from the hotel regis | ter and send invitations to attend their meetings.
 I many cities church advertisements now appear in the street cars and oth- CT public places The conviction | seems to be growing that it pays to advertise religion as well as anything else
 A Chicago minister hit upon a plan to encourage housewives and young mothers to come to the Sunday morn ing service at his church. He estab- lished a creche, or day nursery, in an | adjoining building, where he installed a corps of nurses under the charge of competent matron,
 Mothers of babies and young children are now invited to bring the little peo- pie along and check them free of charge in the creche, while they attend church next door. Their minds can thus be free from worry In the thought 1 that their children are near and are be- | ing we'll cared for.
 The man who objects to foreign mis- sions and thinks that nothing is being done to spread the gospel al home will be surprised to know that a great or ganization is at work establishing churches and Sunday schools in the out of the way places of this country | There are missionaries of the various denominations still traveing much af- | ter the fashion of old time circuit rid CTS or with mule teams hitched 10 gos- l pei wagons.
 There are also a number of chapel cars which the western railroads haul on their trains free of charge. The car Emmanuel runs on the Pacific coast the Goodwill makes one night stands in | Texas, the Evangel is in the Indian Territory. the Messenger of Peace in 1 Missouri, while the Glad Tidings and the Herald of Hope come as far east as Wisconsin and Michigan.
 Whenever a new region is thrown open for settlement the field workers of the different churches are there with their forces to start an early cam palgn against the vice that follows in the wake of all such movements. Ok lahoma Territory was opened to the public on a Tuesday, and by the fol- lowing Sunday the Methodist recruit CTS had organized ffty-four Sunday schools. The saloons opened in tents and so did the churches.
 Out in Minnesota one missionary, Martin B. Lewis, has been travelling about for nearly fifty years, during which time he has been in every corner of the state
 One feature of the work of tne Salvt- tion Army is the effort 1t makes to en- courage self-respect and self-help among the unfortunates whom 1t as- sists. The old clothes gathered from the various sources are sold to the de- serving at ridiculously low prices, but the purchaser has the feeling that he has preserved his manhood by paying for them.
 Tn most of the large cities wagons are sent around to collect old papers and rags for the industrial homes. The man in charge of this work in one city declares that if everybody would save his papers and rags and give them to the army collector, the simple task of pdeparing this rubbish to ship to the mills would furnish occupation for practically all the homeless vagrants in the city. While such work Is not very remunerative, 1t pays enough to put a shelter over a mans head and good food in his mouth until better paying work can be found.
 While the Salvation Army Is busy all the year, its rush season Is just prior to Christmas, For days and days be- fore that holiday it's representatives collect money for free dinners, Last year the army fed over three hundred thousand people nn Christmas day.
 No definite name was chosen for Sal-
 vation Army workers until some time
 after the idea of slum work had been put into effect. The manner of giving the organization the name 1t bears was as follows:
 A handbill advertising certain ser vice had been printed, which styled
 the workers at Rugby as the Halle
 lujah Army" In preparing a new
 circular for another meeting one of the
 secretaries changed the name from the
 'Hallelujah Army" to the volunteer
 Army" General Booth the leader of
 the work, looked over the secretary
 shoulder, thought for a moment then
 took a pen and crossed out the word
 volunteer" substituting salvation ir
 it's place, And it has been known as
 such all over the world eter since. A worker in the Presbyterian Board
 of Foreign Missions states that it has
 established twenty-seyen mission fields
 on four continents and has dlsLrihutef