Sorrow's circuit, or, Five years' experience in the Bedford Street Mission, Philadelphia . aid and seats placedthereupon for them. The exercises consisted of singing,prayer, and addresses, by the Rev. Dr. Hodgson, Chambers, Rev. Mr. A. Manship, Rev. W. Kenney,and others; and a collection was taken up to aid in theconstruction of the building. The tin box placed in thecorner stone contained a copy of the Bible, Act of In-corporation, names of officers, contributors, teachers ofschools, religious and all the daily papers of this city,gold and silver coin, &c. The Mission was established
Sorrow's circuit, or, Five years' experience in the Bedford Street Mission, Philadelphia . aid and seats placedthereupon for them. The exercises consisted of singing,prayer, and addresses, by the Rev. Dr. Hodgson, Chambers, Rev. Mr. A. Manship, Rev. W. Kenney,and others; and a collection was taken up to aid in theconstruction of the building. The tin box placed in thecorner stone contained a copy of the Bible, Act of In-corporation, names of officers, contributors, teachers ofschools, religious and all the daily papers of this city,gold and silver coin, &c. The Mission was established in May, 1853, by anumber of young men connected with the M. E. Church,and a small frame house in Bedford street was rented bythem for the use of schools attached to the the degraded character of many of theinhabitants in this immediate section, the Mission flour-ished beyond the most sanguine expectations of itsfounders, and now a new building is necessary to accom-modate the numbers flocking to the Mission. The building to be erected will have a front of 26. NEW MISSION BUILDING, A. D. 1857. THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. 879 feet and a depth of 53 feet, and -will be three stories first floor will be devoted to the use of the Mission-aries and officers; the second story for public preaching andSabbath-school for white children; the third story forthe uses of a day-school. At present, one hundred andthirty children attend the day-school, and one hundredand fifty white children the Sabbath-school, and aboutsixty colored in another building. Much good has al-ready been efiected by the Mission, and with a new andenlarged building, and new friends, much more will nodoubt be accomplished. The collection taken up on theground amounted to ^528. The house thus auspiciously commenced was com-pleted the following winter, and on the fourteenth dayof February, A. D. 1857, was dedicated to the worshipof Almighty God by the Rev. Bishop Scott. The following descrip
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