The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-06-11
HOME MISSION WORK IN ROME,
GEORGIA.

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send me the Jeffersonian for one
year. I want your paper for the
benefit of this institution. We are
doing great work here for the bene-
fit of the fellow who is down and out
We have the distinction Of being the
only church maintaining a Free En-
plOyment and Information Bureau in
connection with the church work.
This church believes in doing practi-
cal work as we'll as work by talk and
theory. You would be surprised at
the amount of work this institution
is called upon to do. It's original
intention was to get employment for
the fellow out Of a job, and advertise
in papers outside the State and in
duce people to move to Georgia, by
giving them free any information
they might desire about our State,
but the scope of the work has broad
ened until there is no limit to it's re-
quirements.
I am proud to say that I am the
originator Of the idea, | conceived it,
while doing Y. M. G. A. work in the
slum districts of the North.
We maintain an Office in the center
Of the city, which is open practically
all the time day and night.
Strangers coming to the city can
call on us at the Office or over the
telephone, and we locate their friends
for them, if it is a very old person
we see that they have assistance until
they get to their friends, Or to the
train if they are changing cars here.
We are called upon to give or get
legal advise for poor people and keep
their cases out of the Justice courts.
We have been asked to take charge
of convicts on parole.
We have located children, hus-
bands, and wives who have run away
from home.
We are now acting as "big broth
er" for seven hayward young men.
We have rescued girls from way
ward life on the streets.
Mrs Wolf who acts as my assist
ant calls on the poor people of the
city and teaches them how to care
for their babies and nurse their
sick family. How to keep their
homes clean, and do their sewing and
housework
She has class of feeble old ladies
she calls on at their homes and
teaches them their Sunday School les
sons, sends them flowers, and keeps
them in papers and good books to
read.
We are called on to assist in oper-
ations and care for the sick.
We have the city organized in
seven districts, with a lookout in
each district, who notifies us at once
when there is a new conner to the
city and we in turn notify a number
of people who call on them the first
few days they are in the city and
make them feel at home.
We are called upon to do many
other things too numerous to men
ton, and all this is done free of
charge by the church, and none of the
officers of the church receive a cent
of pay for their work.
We have our hearts fixed on start
ing manual training school for the
poor factory boys of the city, also
school of domestic science for the
poor girls of the factory districts Of
the city.
We have contemplated equipping
our church with free gymnasium
and reading rooms for the boys of
the city and keeping the doors open
all the time.
Take it all in all our aim is to do
good in every way we can for the
benefit of the poor, and make their
lives better, sweeter and happier.
At some future time we hope to
be able to get this work broadened