Arizona republican., 1909-03-08
FORMAL DEDICATION
 OF RAILROAD MISSION
It Is Launched Burdened by a Very Small Debt.

Yesterday afternoon the new Rail
 road Mission building on South Second
 avenue was formally dedicated The
 work in connection with this rairoad
 mission was begun one year ago and
 has been pushed vigorously. till now
 there is commodious building erected
 on lots owned by the mission itself and
 the building was dedicated with only
 a small debt upon it. Friends of the
 mission feel much encouraged at the
 opportunity presented in this field at
 the progress that has been made and
 the hearty support received.
 The dedication service was held at
 1 o'clock. After a short program rem dered by the members of the Sunday
 school that has been carried on for the past year, pr Francis H Redewill
 made a short address on mission work in general. He spoke of mission work as it is carried ~on in New York City and of the results obtained in that field, telling of the methods used to reach those who come to us without the knowledge of Christ. The great success of that work is due in large measure to the fact that the gospel of Christ is presented to the people in such a practical and businesslike' way. They will listen to talk of that kind when they could not be gotten into a church to hear a sermon. He also spoke of the Chapman meetings that are being held in Boston and of their great success.
 J. NJ. Creighton, in introducing c. H. Davidson, spoke of the work of the saloon, telling of ways that young peo- pie are brought under its influence and led to the downward path. He pointed his talk with an illustration of how five young girls, here in the city within the last few days, had been taken into a restaurant and served with Tight whiskics."
 MT. Davidson made a short address on the influence of the saloon on the lives of men and women while they were yet children. Following is anl abstract of his talk:
 Great men of history have been great because of their environment, es- pecially while they were young. Some times people do not have much charity for boys and girls when they are bad, but such boys and girls are not alto gether to blame, for it is almost always the case that their environment helps them to be bad. The future of this country is dependent upon the little boys and the little girls of today, who will tomorrow be the men and women of affairs. What they will be depends largely upon their surroundings. It behOOves the grown people tO create that kind of an environment that will make it as easy as possible for these little folks to grow up into good man hood and womanhood. The churches should be more evenly distributed over the city, and it is the object of the Railroad Mission to make church serv- ice more accessible to make.
 We have many little boys in this town. If we keep the saloons here for the next ten or fifteen years. the little boys of today will be the drunkards of that time Please God, there shall be no saloons then. for we are going to vote them out shortly. I have never | known a boy to go wrong out that there was brought to bear on him the influence ot the saloon. The i sons of as good mothers as have ever i lived have gone wrong through the ! evil influence of this agent of the devil | We are going to have another election ! in Maricopa county. and let every man ! and woman remember never to fail to | strike the saloon power a blow, when ! the opportunity is offered. Now, this l is not personal against the saloon . Keeper: he is the creation of his en- i, vironment. He may be a pretty good fellow. but he is a pretty bad man when he runs a saloon"