The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-02
HOPE HALL
SAFE HARBOR
Columbus Haven for Dis
charged Prisoners.
PRACTICAL CHRISTIAN WORK
Home For Released Prison
ers Where Employment
Is Furnished.
A Place For Real Philanthropists TO
Furnish Funds for Saving Men and
Women From Social Menance and
Crime.

some one asked the chaplain of the
ONO penitentary this question, "What
s,he answer to practical Christ
lanityy without hesitation came the re
Iply The Calvatlon Army"
Inc presence of Maud Ballington
6ooth, The Little Mother of the Pris-
ons' ins Ohio suggested some of the
practical things being accomplished by
the Army at the state penitentary.
The greatest Influence for good with
In the grim walls Is undoubtedly the
volunteer Prison League, under the
personal supervision of Adjutant Wal
ter Collins of Columbus Special pri-
vileges were allowed the members of
the league during their Imprisonment,
but II is when the iron clangs on a
Tree man, free in name only, fettered
with the stigma of convict, that the
League accomplishes its best work.
Fearful and without resource he faces
cold world-until he faces the warm
clasp of brotherhood in an Army re-
preventative, and Is given new hope.
For Adjutant Collins and his wife meet
the discharged prisoners at the prison
gate and take them to Hope hall 50
Hosack street, Columbus. Here is
safe harbor until employment is found.
The man who has been saved from
drifting down stream eventually to b-e
come again a social derelict and
menance to his community.
Meanwhile the wife and often mother
who has drifted to Columbus to be
near her errihg one Is encouraged and
saved from poverty and despond. Chill
dren are cared for and kept in school.
At the iast Volunteer of America pic
mic given by Adjutant Collins eigh-
teen children of state prisoners were
made happy for day.
Hope Hall Is one of the most prac-
tical efficient saviours of society In the
state and shold nave the support of
every county within its borders. Any
man or woman interested in the well
fare of mis- community and the better
ment OF hurIan society can find no
surer or saner or more reasonable
method of accomplishing his purpose
than giving material support to Hopt
Hall ana the noble work of Adjutant
and Mrs. Collins.
Mrs. Booth gave the last of the
Chautauqua addresses Sunday even-
ing and our reporter has prepared
the following report:
Twenty-Five hundred people, the
largest audience ever seated i'm Ma
rion were gathered together last even
ing under the big Chautauqua tent,
70 hear the last and best numbers Of
the week that has been, with a few
Exceptions. all best. Maud Ballington
Booth conferred on Marion Sunday
evening one of the greatest honors
Il has ever known, when she spoke
to that great assemblage for an hour
and a half, concerning her life and
the work she has done in the prisons.
The Weber Glee club of Boston. ono
of the finest quartettes on the con-
tinent. preluded the lecture hour
Their harmony is unsurpassed, and OF
unusual beauty. Their base voice Is
very rare. being one of those deep,
low, sonorous ones, so seldom heard.
Never has Marion been given so
rare a musical treat Ina one week ana
the musical program of yesterday,
Furnished q fittings climax.
Maud Ballington Booth.
Mrs. Booth first told of her life.
She said that at the age OF seventeen
she had dedicated her life to God and
from that day had taken up her
work for Him. a work which had leo
her from slum to palace. She told OF
her entrance into prison life and work
Ihow she had In a way stumbled upon
| II when invited to speak to the men
I'm Sing Sing, of accepting the INVITA-
ItIon and then OF being touched TO the
Inuick by the sorrow and Tragedy that
manifested itself on every race, III
was here she saw the opportunity 10
ut,,o 20 those saddened, brokcnN lives,
a little Of the sunshine anu pIpe sly