The Detroit times., 1909-04-22
PREACHER WAS
C0MM0A TRAMP
Harvey Greene Furbay, Teacher, In
ebriate and Temperance Lecturer,
Battles To Save Fellow Men.

NEW YORK, April 2g.-Ltfting a
drunken man out of the gutter ana
bathing his battered head with Ice
water was The Samaritan work In
which Dr. Harvey Graeme Furbay
was engaged when a reporter came
upon the Industrial Christian worker
at the corner OF Sullivan and Bleeck-
er-sts. The former Presbyterian min
lister, tramp. teacher inebridte ana
temperance lecturer stopped bathing
the face OF the man long enough To
examine closely the battered features
and then calling to a man In the
crowd that pressed around he told him
10 call an ali bulance. Lifting the vic
tim OF intoxicatlon as IL he were
child. the man who has been read
mitted TO the fold OF the church he
left ten years ago carried him To a
doorway when the ambulance ar
rived the surgeon saw that the man
had bad wound on the back OF his
head and was otherwise battered. DR..
Furbay said the drunken man was
formerly Wall.st. broker.
When the ambulance had disappear
ed with its burden, DR.. Furbay turned
and quietly said Il know all about
that state. not only from observation.
but from actual experience. | never
knew why | drank. but | presume IL
was the old story of one glass. then
another. Domestic sorrow will drive
man almost TO anything, and II Is
brave heart that can stand by tho
wreck of the ship when the spokes or
the wheel have been broken.
A Brighter Day 10 Dawnns.
But that is the story OF yesterday,
my yesterday; | an looking forward
TO my today with hope, and with n
more secure hold on life. Drink ala
not drive me from the church.
presume | could have stopped; | felt
the spirit IL wanderiust and | answer
ed the call OF the Wild. and wandered,
east, west. north and south.
Il never had the craving for drink
that have heard drunkards speak OF.
l taught school for awhile and did not
touch drop for months, then one
day sightseeing in Chicago felt the
desire for q highball. and | became
one OF the great and useless army or
the unemployed which has In It's ranks
the best blood men who were nur-
tured carefully and Zealously. htted
for some honorable profession, aud
the ranks oil which are filled with the
worst examples of human beings.
With the pahhandlers learned how
they looked at life and why they con
sidered the world owed them liy-
ing,
Still drinking, ! yentured into New
York. where | was well known. and |
was arrested here after | had sold all
my clothing for more drink. was
sent to the island handcufred TO a
Negro
Visited the McAuley Mission.
"A few days after my release | visit
ed the McAuley mission In Water-st.,
and was taken care OF by the late Mr.. /
Hadley | expressed contrition for my
past life that night in the presence OF
three OF my FORMER classmates ana
later | applied for admission as con- !
vert TO DR. Stephenson. OF the Fifth |
ave Presbyterian church. A year ago
! applied foi admissio nto the Presby-
terry of the church. and now after ten
years OF missepnt life and one years
probation have been taken once
more into tn, ministerial fold.
THE great body OF lerelicts may be
divided into two classes. One Is the de-
fectives. who have constitutional de-
fects, either organic or traumatic ana
are subjects for treatment by the
ailenist and physician rather than the
sociologist; we do not attempt TO do
anything for that class. The other is
the undeveloped class which yields to
the operation OF the word and spirit.
as shown by McAuley, Wooley and
thousands OF other men.
las am going Co stay right In this
work OF tho Industrial Christian Al
lance, / may as well tell you OF the
other class. Man is either an asset
or liability. This proposition which
am dealing with and will continue To
deal with In cur new building at Bond