The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-07-25
To ESTABLISH
4 PERMANENT
MISSION HERE
Is TO HAVE WHAT
HAS LONG BEEN NEEDED-PRo-
lection OF GIRLS UPON THEIR
ARRIVAL IN THE CTTY-WILL
BE OPENED AUGUST I.


sion" for want of some better and
more appropriate name. 1t IS being
! encouraged and endorsed by many
| prominent citizens and the large
building at the corner of Government
| and Reus streets has been leased as
! a mission house and will be opened
Aug. /
1t might be asked, What is this
| Mission for?" The answer would be
| to relieve, to protect, to aid, to edu-
| cate any person who is ii need of
| such help, irrespective Of religion or
/ anything else. Briefly, a Mission
! with the golden rule for its motto,
/ Whatsoever We would that men
should do TO you, 40 ye even so to
| them"
The Mission will be fitted up with
an auditorium for entertainments,
lectures, etc. The upstairs will have
reading and writing rooms, and the
ladies of the city will furnish bed
room for the use OF young girls getting
off the trains OF late boats. not know
ing where to stop, and which will be
in charge of Mrs. LoTinda II. Herr,
who has had d great deal of expe-
| rience along this line of work, and
! who will, with her assistants. meet
the incoming trains and boats.
The White Slave Traffic.
There are few people that have
taken the trouble to study the extent
to which the white slave" traffic is
being carried on, and so quietly and
effectively that before anyone knows
of it a life is cursed and a soul is lost
before help can be obtained. We do
not mean to affirm that such is the
case here, but in a growing city it is
better to be prepared and safe AN
e in, hot n
pound of cure" 1t is a recognized
fact that 50 per cent. Of the women
in houses Of shame are from the
cOuntr,', and they are obtained both
/ by fair means and foul, hence the ne
cessity of meeting unprotected and
unescOrted women upon arrival, and
Offering an immediate shelter until
| located in some respectable home or
boarding house, or to direct them TO
such. The L. & \. railroad have al
ways had this in view and afforded
| every facility for such work to be
/ carried out. These young people
| come in from the country to business
! college or for positions, leaving home
| for the first time, with its restraints
and influences. to meet the world for
| the first time, and how easy it is to
| go along the broad road that leads to
/ destruction of morals. health, and all
! else that goes to make a young man
| manly, a young woman wOmanly.
With what fear fathers and es-
pecially mothers heart is filled at this
/ starting out Of their child, and how
| glad these hearts will be when they
| know that there is an institution
| whose management asks to have the
! privileges of looking after that son,
| and placing before him a better way
/ of spending evenings than in some
/ pool room; or that daughter, by intro
! duCing her to the minister of the
! church of her choice and to the young
! people of the same as well as see
| that she is in a good house.
What the Mission Does.
This is a small part of what the
| Mission does The Rev r. W Simp-
! son, who has had experience along
/ the lines of Mission work, and who is
! organizing these missions in the gulf
! coast cities, has just returned from a
visit to the adjacent points Where he
! has been placing this branch Of the
/ work before the people, and obtaining
/ their support with good success, the
/ more so, as each neighboThOOd had
/ its example of some spoiled life re-
turned from the city.
The Alabama Baptist Of June 30th
/ says regarding this: Into the at
/
! Of the country are going When the
/ young man goes TO the city shall he
! he lost to the church and religion
s.ld Christi Shall he become world
/ ~, perhaps sensual, possibly devil
/ iSh2 In a thousand cases this has
/ happened, and viii in a thousand
| more. Hearts are breaking in the
/ country because of what has happened
| to the boy-to the sirI-the beloved
| son-the darling daughter-in the
city"
To Establish Free Night School.
| The Mission will as soon as pos
| sibIe, establish a free night school a
! free employment bureau, and other
! features from time to time. 1t hopes
/ to be a distributing point for articles
/ of food; offers have been made from
/ peddlers TO leave their unsOld Yegeta-
! bleS at the Mission sooner than take
! them home. These will be sold at
small value to those who can afford
! to pay a little, and given away where
! there is absolute poverty. The young
/ lady and geut'smGu clerks Will be N
/ vited 10 make .s- Of the rooms to eat
/ their lunch, vuen either iced or hot
! tea. according to the season, will be
/ served free, while the time will also
! be utilized by some selections of mu-
. sic or songs 4 constant series of
meetings. entertainments, lectures,
etc, Will be held to make it a place
/ Of interest, and everything viii BE
/ done TO make the peOpIe feel at
/ home.
/ Rescue Work Among the Children.
There is a class Of work which will
! also be taken up by the Mission
! though it will be kept in the back
! ground, but Will be vigorously prose-
] cuted. This is the rescue Of children
from the homes OF negro women ana
! immoral parents, and placing them in
/ an oTphanage: also those women who
( have just started on a downward step.
but are willing TO TefOTm-these can
. be taken care of by the Hephzibah
/ orphanage and Tabernacle Rescue
| Home until such time when it Is