The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-20
Elder
of Birmingham Pisgah

told what has already been burned into
her soul, that she has committed a terri
BILE sin and is now the vilest of the vile.
A man with no home is given a home,
a man without work is given a job, a
nan without money is fed and sheltered
until he secures work, victim of strong
drink is helped to conquer himself and
his weakness, a drug fiend is taken by
the hand and new strength put into hiip
to fight the demon that is destroying
him; and all is done when one question
is answered.: do you need help?"
There are impositions Men and women
and boys and girls are aided and helped
at Pisgah Home which do not deserve
what they get and who are not bene-
fitted thereby But any student of hui
man nature or anyone knowing Pisgah
Home knows they are few and that what
few they are by far fail to compare with
those who if other methods were used,
would never get the help they need, the
bed they need, the food they need, the
love they need, the advice they need, the
shelter they need.
Located at Gerpania Park
Pisgah Home is now located at what
formerly was Germania park on the Pow
tween West End and Powderly and in
a sparsely settled neighborhood. The To-
cation is considered almost ideal, for it
seems as near complying with all require
ments and near answering all the objec-
tions that have ever been made to the
home and its work since it's formation In
Birmingham.
The park contains six acres of land In
all and is occupied by several buildings
which are now being converted into val
liable pieces of property for the use of
the home. In the experience of Pisgah
Home work In Birmingham, many objec-
tions and attacks have been made to it
and upon it. And the chief of these has
been, probably, that the inmates of the
home at different times are in such a
condition and of such an appearance that
they are not desirable sights in a resi-
dence neighborhood.
In spite of repeated assertions of late
to the contrary, this objection is en-
tirely eliminated now by the presence of
10 foot high tight board fence COM
pletely surrounding the park in which the
different buildings of the home is located.
The home not only owns this fence, but
it owns the ground for distance of 30
feet on the outside of She fence and sur
rounding the entire park. 1t is an abso-
lutte impossibility for any person, unless
he climbs a tree or ascends in a balloon,
to see the persons on the inside of this
fence at eltier uay OF nlSnt tlIne
Leaving and Entering Home
The only way in which the inmates OF
the home can be seen by persons out
side is when they are being taken to or
from the park. On these occasions they
are usually with someone and they will
be seen on these occasions no oftener
and not as often as if there was no such
place as the home and they were al
lowed to roam the streets of the city or
subjected to being put In jail.
The 'holier than thou attitude of some
of Birminghams citizens furnishes food
for serious contemplation. "a people that
say stand by thyself, come not near to
me, for / am holier than thou These
are smoke in my nose, a fire that burn
eth all the day" When one man. reared
and educated in a cultured and modern
home, a man of high intellectual and
moral attachments. a man consecrated to
the God who made him, a man whose
value to any community is almost be-
yond comprehension, when this man gives
up his entire life TO the people whose
lives are touched by Pisgah Home when
he does not find it debasing nor degrad-'
ing nor embarrassing to live and work
among these people every day in the
year, is there not some prejudice. some
seliishness, some narrowness, some lack
of compassion and brotherly love, some