Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-26
ACTIVITIES OF THE YOUNG PEOPLES SOCIETIES.
Thanksgiving Plea for the Homeless Men
and Boys of the Bowery."

Thanksgiving Plea for the Homeless Men
and Boys of the Bowery."
The Bowery Mission shines like a beacon
in the midst of the swarming millions of
destitute men. Its grand organ notes
swell out and echo through the crowded
streets like angels music. drawing men
in to listen. Then they hear the gospel of
love. They are fed. and perhaps clothed.
and put in the way of honest work and
led to the Lord Jesus From here men
have gone out to preach the gospel or to
teach it in their lives all over the world.
There is a missionary working in the
heart of India who was converted in the
Bowery Mission. and another missionary
on the west coast Of Africa, converted at
the Bowery Mission over twenty years
ago. And thank God that is not the only
mission in the world. nor even in New
York city. But still the cry goes up to
God. because their sin is very grevous. -
1t takes much money and hard work to
run these missions and give these early
morning breakfasts that save so many
from starving to death and open the way
for the word of God to enter.
1.-TWO little girls in Philadelphia are
kept in the house in "A spirit Of careful
ness for their welfare. The house is I'M
kept to a disgraceful degree. insanitary
and ill-smeling. and the children In a
filthy court off a narrow street. and the
children have never been seen outside the
house, winter or summer. and certainly
not outside the court Their mother will
not let them go to picnicS lest they may
get into danger Nothing can be done to
give these little children an outing or a
few hours of sunshine. Opposite the win
dow of their house there is a blank wall
and this is their outlook the whole year
through. Oh, for more air and sunshine
nd cd in nitia
to buy up the tenementS and make them
more habitable!
But of all the cries that go up from the
city. the cry of the children Is the most
heartrending. AS Mrs. Browning puts it:
They look up with their pale and sunken faces,
And their look is dread to see,
For they mind YOU of their angels in high places
With eyes turned on Deity.
''How long they say how long o cruel ma
Will you stand to move the world on a child
Stife down with a mailed heel its palpitation
And tread onward to your throne amid the
Our blood spIashes upward o gollheaper.
And your purple shows yonr path.
But the child's sob in the silence curses deeper
Than the strong man in his wrath.
y little company of poor children
swarmed into a crowded car one hot day
in August. bound for two weeks in the
country They were eager. and none too
clean. One woman objected to their prox-
unity, but gentleman gave his seat to
two little girls. and lifting "a shining silk
hat respectfully before the caretaker of
the children pressed some money into her
hands.
It's all right" he said smiling at her
astonishment, II haven't forgotten how
you took me to the country when I. too.
was barefooted. and l am glad now to
have the chance to pass along some of
my good times to other little chaps such
as | was. l only hope 1t may mean to
them what It meant to me-
Parallel Passages.-Psalms. cNxvii:1; Ec-
nlesiastes. iX:1o; Amos. VIZ; Ezekiel,
xxii:22: James. v:2o; Psalms. cxli:1, t. g.:
Job, Nxiii:3; Psalms. cvi:5-7
Hints TO the Ieader.-The Endeavor
HymnaI-S7, 1876, 142, 144, 161, 16S.