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Show I! Hel ping the Poor Brother Modem Examples of the Old-Fashioued Idea of Christian Ministry Institutions Which Cnie for the Body as Well as the Soul Far-Reaching Benevolences In Connection Wich the New Cathediol of St. John the Divine. I NEW YORK. Nov. 26 Thanksgiving H day marks th bcglniiniR Of the Season H of Kuoil will whcji (lie heart of the metropolis opens most generously to the B "Poor Brother." Jn tho month from then t.'ll Christmas the ritys Rood works and fl their name has become legion receive jiow Impetus; and as the thousands with H whom they have to do grow to be mll- hone tho problems they must face are H more nnrl mnrn pressing, oji Well SS In- reaeJngly difflcult to settle . t . h year tho jiart of Its betterment B v.oik for which tho community looks to the churches Is enlarged. As they return H to th" good. old-fahloncd meaning of Christian ministry "service, to a brother man" the mission of the different re-fl re-fl liplous socintl'-s nnd denominations Is be- omlng les3 a matter of disseminating B i reeds ond more one f uplifting hn- inanity by Increasing Its opportunities H tor self-improvi'int nt. So it Is not sur- J prising to llud that, with the building of BS the great e.tUiodral of St John the Dl- HHBJ vine there Is being laid the foundation BV for what will ultimately be one of tho BBS greatest .schemes of mission work over BBB undertaken in any city in the world. BBB It 1k thoroughly American, this dvelnp- BBB meht of cathedral, in England, with BBB all Its splendid ecclesiastical architecture, BBB the cathedra is more an Impressive BBB symlvol than a grea t spiritual organl- BBB cation. Here, the church of St. John the BBB Divine Is Intended to bo a characterise BBj tically democratic institution, seeking BB to infhienee the lives of those about BBB It. not only la the gnat city at its feet. lint wherever its name Is known the BBB l.-iiRth nnd hremth of the land: it Is to H le the church of Hie poor man :is well us 1 of tho rich, of the alien as well as of the BBB native citizen. And to do this It will BBB reach out to touch all possible sides of the lives of those It serve. I Though tile completion of the massive structure about which the cathedral organization will enter Is a generation 1 away, h beginning has hteti made already toward faking up missionary and settle- i ment work. Of the seven canon mif- j Slonarles in whose charge this side nf th. work of St John the Divine will bo, ' rive have been appointed. Together the seven will constitute a hoard which, beyond be-yond its direction t the cathedral's mi- tlonarj a tlvltlea, Will also have ad-vls.irv ad-vls.irv power In connection with similar work of all tho various parishes of the diocese. Indeed, the Office of canon mlS-slonei mlS-slonei . which has bei u created for carrying carry-ing out this far-reaching plan, will be a recognition of the usefulness each occupant occu-pant has achieved from association : with his Special Interests, and will serve as a binding tie between the diocesan liiad and the outside field. Of the cathedral structure only a few lofty columns and Impressive arches yet show themselves above the heights of Mornlngstde. Bui its mission work is even row under way, In one branch, at least, and has met with great success Last summer lh- park lands surrounding the cathedral were thrown open for Sunday Sun-day afternoon excursions of children and their parents f i om the tenements on the cast slilo of down-town New York. Hundreds Of hied and women, and little I ones Hocked tO the In. tut If ill cliff ovor-I ovor-I looking tho Hudson, many of them, to whom even the car ride would have been an unjustifiable extravagance), as guests of a generous friend of Rlsbop Potter. No restrictions were put upon the holiday-makers, for such they wi re; nor was attendance at devotional service compulsory compul-sory But In the late afternoon, from the stone steps of the famous old house Where formerly the little orphaned proteges pro-teges of the Leake and Watts asylum were eared for. a shcrt address was made ' and a prayer said and hymns were sung. J I There Is nn Indication In this llrst step : In Its mission work of what the cathedral of St. John the Divine purposes i shall be lh spirit of tho great un-i un-i dertakings In mind (or the future Indeed there Is simply to bo an expansion, expan-sion, on tho broader basis offered by the greater prestige end ampli funds that no doubt win come to th cathedral for such work, pi the activities, already remarkable re-markable In many ways, of the city's existing ex-isting similar enterprises. In con-Junction con-Junction with such ot ganlzatlons as the New York Protestant Episcopal City Mission society, of which Bishop Potter is president a Society whose scope and (Helen, y ii'i onlti' the most remarkiihl. In their way. In this country the cathedral will contribute new forces to the unending war of the churches In behalf be-half of the unfortunate and neglected of the municipality. The Mis- society alone already maintains main-tains six chapels and --veral houses of refuge and Industry, and lias a representative represen-tative In each of tin city hospitals and prisons and In the almshouse and the State reform school. Its earliest venture was the chapel of the Epiphany, still known by the familiar name of Pro-Cathedral, where Bishop Potter once lived and labored. This was. In fact, the Mrst Episcopal Epis-copal church to engage In aggressive missionary mis-sionary work In the slum". It l a church settlement In probably the most crowded district In the world. Services are held .here from daylight until almost nightfall even Saiiday. that everyone may have ,i . nance i,, worship during the d iy; there are weekday services, too; there arc clubs of every kind, for young and old. gymnasiums, bath-", day nur-M-.-s. clothing cloth-ing bureaus, dispensaries, libraries, and there Is a country house for summer outings. out-ings. There could scarcely be a more Interesting Inter-esting or useful settlement than the Pro-Cathedral. Pro-Cathedral. Within a f'-w feet of the church door ten thousand people have their homes, and those whom the settlement settle-ment workers reach are constantly changing, for It Is tho aim of the Institution Insti-tution to persuade those who come under Its influence to move uptown, or out of 1 tho city altogether, into better Hgbt and j air Beside a dozen resident workers, there are connected with the fifty or mon , organizations which th" chapel of the i Epiphany directs some 150 men and wo- , men who come from their comfortable homes all over the city to spend an after- I noon or an evening each week In the Slums; and by their process of elimination elimina-tion they are reaching a constantly lowei and lower level of society with their good Influences Almost next door to the municipal poll." po-ll." headquarters and Juki above Miilb.r-ry Miilb.r-ry Bend of unsavory reputation, In the heart of the Italian ten. ment quarter, Is ' St. Barnabas' House, which gives a tern- ; porary resting place to destitute women : ami orphan children Here th" convnles-i convnles-i "iits discharged trom the hospitals and I the friendless are cared for. regardless I of color, creed or race, till they regain 1 full strength. There Is connected With the home a dispensary when- anyoni mas get medical advice without charge; and I there Is also a clothing bureau. At God's Providence Hou-.-. which is i over between the Bow t v and the Kast river front the work Is all for children Tlr-re is a day nursery, a kindergarten, and classes for children of school age w ho are carod for from the hour When they are released from the oversight of tln-ir regular teachers tin their mothers return j from their day's work; and thi-re Is a ' vested choir of some twenty-four Ol lie youngster Which does much to attract to the Sunday evening services the "dav nursery families. " Perhaps the most concrete Illustration of the "Institutional church" Is the hlg. Hve-Storv building of Bt Bartholom. w's parish, just east of Third avenue in For-t For-t second Btreei it has in the parish house girls' clubs with a membership of I nearly a hundred; clubs for hoys and men ' with twelve hundred members; lectures and entertainments. physical culture classes. Instruction in a dozen branches oi learning, training In dress-making. millinery, embroidery, sewing ami cooking cook-ing There Is a loan b-ireau where more I than JiJO.OOO a year Is advanced to poor I folks to be paid back In monthly Installments; Install-ments; there Is restaurant where food may be had at a very low price, but not without rrk-e. for he who would share the generosity of St. Bartholomew's must show a willingness lo do something for what Is given him; an employment billed bil-led -i"ir-s situations for from '.'OCO to Where the Poor Worship A Scventy-Thou6and-Dollar Chapel on Black-well's Black-well's Island 2500 persons a year, the tailor-shop makes and makes over garments that are distributed dis-tributed by the thousands through thfi benevolent society and sold by the hundreds hun-dreds at nominal figures, No iic-d of Its neighborhood Is overlooked over-looked by St. Bartholomew's. It sup-poris sup-poris an (irli-ut.il mission, a Chinese Sun day-school, a Swedish chapel, a Rescue mission for men and women, a Fresh Air mission, a Seaside cotton.- It has a provident fund for en-ouraglng thrift, It i maintains a system of tenement house investigation, u supports kindergartens, an eye and ear dispensary, a surgical I clinic, a free wood and coal bureau, j. library, gymnasiums, and a dozen other features. Not the least Interesting of the Episcopal Epis-copal mission work of this city Is that done In prisons and hospitals, On Bl&Ck-well's Bl&Ck-well's Island there ifl a JTu.OH chapel connected con-nected with the poorhouse, but In many I of the city's Institutions tho varlo-ie re llglous workers miJ, . " Mngl., room. iTSorgS are tWo Hilars pldc by -mM Catholl, priest, the other S pal mission, i . either h,i " fr,,m S3 |