The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-25

an uptown church. The workers patron
| lied us and tried TO make as feel our
own inferiority, as we thought Believ-
/ ing that I was their equal intellectually
their missionary atmosphere made me
tired.
Now. mechanics are thinking men
They read and discuss social problems
among themselves. No Roadway is made
/ therefore. by talking down 20 them, espe-
cially If the talker himself doesn't know
any more than a smattering of what he
las heard somewhere else. When we
moved 10 Brooklyn / transferred my
membership 10 a Presbyterian church
and at the age Of twenty was an
elder and superintendent OF the Sunday
school as Well"
Did you then plan TO De a clergy
man?"
Il still hoped 10 be a mechanical engi-
neer. Bur 1 started q mission in Brook
lyn. raising a little money and cOntribut-
ing myself. even though I hadn't dollar
saved. The distance 10 the factory was
long, however and / couldn't get home
until after O'Clock, which was too late
for things I desired to do at night When
my employers heard Of the mission they
let me of two afternoons each week and
! generously increased my wages, so that
my earnings were as large as they were
before.
by and by ] saw that l would be CON-
PEELED 10 give up the mission or my work
as a machinist Two college professors
had been giving me lessons in Hebrew
and Greek. had studied Latin with a
Jewish peddler. When I decided 10 enter
the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and
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worker, l told the superintendent OF the
shop.
You are foolish. he said. Remain
with Us and I shall give YOU $40 a week
and make you my assistant You will get
my place in time. There is a future here.
You will starve to death at preaching, no
doubt. Think about the matter for a
week. and then come 10 me again
Lives in n Tenement Again.
I am going I notified the superin-
tendent at the end OF the week.
Il borrowed s25 for railroad fare and
took my wife TO Chicago, I felt that I
would get work We rented one attic
room. but made it into two rooms by
hanging a calico curtain DR.. Reuben
A. Torrey was in charge of the Moody
A--@tANAth anu iAal a blDlE class OF ~
men. Technically I was chairman or the
committee of attendance. but I taught
and was paid $50 a month / had re-
turned, You see. TO the tenement condi-
tons of my childhood. NY wife and |
were hungry most of the time.
1 recollect that DIT. Torrey was great
in giving to him that asketh. He had
good authority to back him up. admit.
one day man came in, told hard luck
story and ] gave him all the money I
mad, IS cents. l followed him when he
went out. He turned the corner of the
street, bought 10 cents worth of grapes
and rode away on a car. Neither my
wife nor myself had tasted fruit for
months, nor had either OF US been inside
OF street car since our arrival at Chi
cage in a day coach
4 specialized in Bible study at the in
stitute and also took I'D theology. homi-
letics. and so on. During my first yaca-
ton l organized Sunday schools i'm Min
nesota, breaking all records with four a
week IN the rural regions. I made plans
for the work Of Hope Chapel in Mime
apoiis and reluctantly remained and car
ried them out along the banks of the
Mississippi, in a sawmill region where
there were no churches. | had a boy S
+-' VI ~ H4SiiibVA anu GRASSES III sew
ing and cooking for the girls. After two
years / came back to Hope Chapel in
New York, buts l was hampered in my
work. and went to ST. Louis as manager
Of a very large Sunday school, which
later organized intoe the Markham Me-
mortal Presbyterian Church.
4 man had given me $500. / could
nave spent it and again been hard up.
Instead / wrote a booklet telling of our
needs and asking for $500 a year in
cash. A woman in the congregation OF
my early friend, DR. McKittrick. read
the booklet and gave me the money. and
also S5G,oV0 with which to build a church.