Evening journal., 1917-05-02
REAL ROMANCE IN
THIS couples lives
MIR. and Mrs. Long, Mission
Workers, to Speak at
Epworth on Sunday
IN GREAT WORK
FOR HUMANITY

Everybody knows how dangerous it
is for woman to marry man to re-
form him. Thousands of women lave
paid we'll for this mistake.
Edna Caulkens Long. the daughter
of a wealthy Brooklyn shipbuilder,
married George Long, an outcast and
drug ridden derelict. because of the
fight he had made for his own soul
and because she feared a refusal
would send him back into the abyss
from which he had SO painfully
climbed
1t was not until she faced the altar
and answered the questions that
made her his wife did the girl love
him. Edna Caulkens Long was the
daughter of the late Daniel p Caul-
kens, of Brooklyn. Her mother Is an
English woman of refinement a mem
Der of a well to do London family.
Little Edna was reared i'm the midst
of comfort and luxury. Early her edu-
cation began for all that seemed nCces'
sary for such life.
And while all this was being done
for her another child was changing
into little thief and drunkard in an
orphan asylum i'm Rochester y. Y.
and yet these two so widely separ-
ated in every way were destined to
work together for the uplilt of fallen
humanity 10 came about like this :
Somebody told Mr. Long that God
could save him and he decided to give
Him a chance So with that determin-
alton i'm mind he drifted into the Gal
lice mission i'm Philadelphia and there
received strength TO begin his fight.
A little later he went to New York
and attended the Jerry McAuley mis-
sion In the meantime some one had
invited Miss Caulkcns to attend a ser
vice in the Jerry McAuley Water
street mission and there among others
she saw George Long with face sin
married and sin-cursed. and seemed to
be filled with hopelessness. His eyes
fiared i'm sunken sockets, and his
shoulders were bent like those Of an
old man. A faintness came over her
when she noticed that the eyes OF this
outcast were fixed on her, and some
thing i'm her heart seemed TO say.
Some day you will marry that man.
and her soul was filed with horror at
NIlf very lnUMENl vi IL. MISS A4uihNiia
kept on attending the services at the
mission and helping all that She could
and noticed the great change that was
taking place in this man. The cheeks
began to fill out. the stoOp Of the
shoulders diminished the improve
ment i'm him filled her with wonder
ment. Later. Mr. Long asked Miss
Caulkens to marry him, and she was
F-, i'm -rfuhf hn
cause she thought It might send him
back again to the old life of sin She
nut him off for a year. On March "a
1911 Mr.. Long took up his mission
work I'm Philadelphia at No. 10l1 To
Gust street. All this section was known
as Helrs half acre. His capital was
81 cents and now he has one of the
largest and best equipped buildings in
America for mission work.
Mr.. Long wrote frequently to Miss
Caulkens telling her of his great work
i'm Philadelphia. Their marriage cost
Mrs. Long all of her New York friends
her mother being the only one who
stood by her; who believed that
George Long was destined TO do a
great work i'm the world Side by side
they work day after day for the uplifi
of fallen humanity i'm the new 100000
building at No. 1Oll Locust street
Philadelphia Mr.. Long has the sup
port of such men as Bishop Rhine
lander. of Pennsylvania, and A. J
DreXel Biddle the well known philan
thropist
Mr.. and Mrs. Long will speak in Ep
worth Methodist Episcopal Church or
next Sunday night. Professor King and
the large choir of Epworth will sins
appropriate selections.