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Show MOODY CHURCH FORCED TO GIVE UP ITS WORK Milwaukee. Wis., May 1. That the Moody church in Chicago, after giving giv-ing 3S,0Oi free breakfasts to meu who were down and out, and giving hundreds hun-dreds a fresh start in life, was forced to give up this work because it does not mix with the regular work of the church, is the statement of Dr. C. A. I)ixon, who is here to inaugurato a campaign for a new rescue mission. "The Moody church," said Dr. Dixon, Dix-on, "gave thousands of free breakfasts break-fasts to sober unemplojed men. We found some strange cases in that list of down and outers. W'e found a professor pro-fessor of Greek in a western college. We found the lost son of a California millionaire railroad superintendent. But we were forced to stop, because this work would not mix with tho other Work that of providing a church for the worklngman. "The worklngman, who has a steady position and is working hard, will not be classed with the man who is down aDd out and is trying to get on his feet. This is the rock on' which tho institutional .church splits." |