The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-05-22
Much Work Done in Past,
and Much More
Planned.
REV. n. c. cUsHMAN, IN DETAIL.
ED REVIEW, SHOWS MANY
GOOD PLACES WHICH THE
GROWING LOCAL SOCIETY
FRIENDLY TO THE SEAMAN,
HAS FILLED IN NICELY.
(sY Henry c. Cushman.)

Nearly all benevolent and. mission
airy work is designed for some spec
ial class. In the foreign fields there
are missions to Africa. India. China,
COrea and the islands of the sea. In
North. Central and South America
there are missions to the natives and
to nominal Christians. In our. city
we have agencies for reaching young
men. the aged, the friendless, etc. No
stronger or more important appeal
is before us than that which comes
| from the destitute seamen or lands
people. We have secured a good To-
cation and building fronting on the
south side of Plaza Ferdinand. We
desire to fit up this building so as to
embody all the latest and best things
for the mutual, moral, social AMI
spiritual salvation Of seamen and
landspeople.
For the past sixteen years the Sea-
mems Friend Society of Pensacola
has given an account of the work
done each month. The following. Is
the monthly average for the last six
teen years:
Number of deep-water vessels, Al;
number of religious services held
ashore and on vessels, etc, II; at
attendance of landspepole, 120; re
lgious visits to vessels, 80; religious
visits to hospital, 4; religious visits
to boarding houses, 9; Bibles and tes-
taments in different languages do
mated. Il; religious tracts in twenty
languages distributed, 1928; Average
attendance at the concert, %: bun
dies of literature in twenty languages
distributed, Is; free meals given to
/ destitute, 10; free lodgings to home
less, %; number Of letters written BY
seamen, 4; attendance of seamen at
reading room, 81; number Of com
fort bags given in all, 105; number Of
! temperance pledges taken in all time,
65; monthly average of religious pa
pers, etc, distributed, 127; number of
small libraries loaned to vessels that
have not been heard from, 9.
During the recent temporary de
preston in the shipping interests
many foreign seamen hearing of this
important port and OF the humber Of
vessels coming and going continual
", left New Orleans and Mobile,
walking to Pensacola. Having Worn
out their shoes an dclothing, and as
they were here in a Christian city,
we fed them and gave clothing to
.
also helped those who were not sea
men. Our plan has been to relieve
their present destitutiOn and to get
the sailors back on the ships again.
We must be good to men in tenn
poral things if we would reach their
souls. We have a paIatial hotel call
ed the San Carlos We need a larger
and better institution with all Of The
latest and best things for the men
tai, moral, social and spiritual saliva
ton of seaulen and landspep6I8 Our
civic pride, and above all things our
Christianity, should move US to pro
vide such an institution for the men
tai, moral. social and spiritual saliva
ton of the tOilers upon the land and
sea. The motto of the Seamen'S
Friend Society has been not to rest
and be thankful but be thankful and
press on. This society Is not a bust
ness, though We must be business
like. Considerations enter into our
work which do not enter into any 9th
er business and which make it unlike
any other business. We should not
count il matter for satisfaction
when We can reduce our expenditure.
for such reduction must involve in
Jury some where or other. to the