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Show FREE MEALS AT MISSION CEASE Editor Standard-Examiner V a not serving free meals at the Ensign Mission any more, but still continue to keep our doors open so that the : box car tourist may have a place to come to and find shelter from th" storm and cold. During the day vv j use the Chapel as a reading room from . 8 to 10. Every evening religious service ser-vice are conducted and after that the chapel ja used us a sleeping room. iThe building is kept warm and com-Iforlable com-Iforlable at all times, well lighted, Kan-Itary Kan-Itary and clean. Our reason for this communication lis many fold. We have carried thest men and boys over a long and hard winter, and for doing so we are now i receiving our pay in slander and1 abuse. These very men ami boys air-now air-now telling the public that the mission) has done nothing for them, la a place of no use to anybody, and ought to be Closed UP- Ws ro glud to state that the minority and not the majority l1 spreading thla report and possessed; bjH this evil spirit. Most of these are grateful ami especially those who hael corne to us sick, distressed and almost i naked, so we feel well paid for the' privilege of rendering a little service in iiee ned on. worthy or unworthy. un-worthy. This kind of work alwayej receives this kind of treatment, so we 1 are not at all surprised; In fact, we' ham been looking for It. and aston- jished at it not coming sooner. This report has caused many friends lof the mission to quit supplying us 'with foodstuff, so the feeding beoamc j Impossible and stopped automatically and without our wishes or say so It Is a case of the hack-biter biting his own head off. "The wages of sin Is death." Another reason spring Is here. I which means there is no need any longer of giving free meals. Work may be had from now on sufficient to feed these men if they will but try. and we believe it's a great wrong to lake from a hard working business man or any other worker and give to one not willing to earn his own living J ;lf any really worthy ones come to us we will do what w can for such. but .feeding Indiscriminately wo neither1 'can nor will do. What comes in will Is- h i ruled .nn as It i "in -s I. read, doughnuts or rolls we pass around' 'either before or after meeting, and lt takes lots to do that, because we al-waya al-waya have a full house, never preach1 to empty p ws. Much more could be said about the mlS8lonfl experience, about its trials.! Itroubles and difficulties, but this will I be sufficient for this time, leaving; ourselves In His hands, who is Just.) ! full of mercy, love and truth, and we! can well afford to abide by His decision de-cision and await Ills reward. I ENSIGN' MISSION. |