The church and the slum; . ummer, the Wes-leyan Conference met in the glorious audi-torium for the formal opening exercises. Thefront part of the building is not yet com-pleted. It is hoped that it will be finished bythe end of the coming simamer. The cost ofthe whole building will be $180,000. Themembership, not including juniors, is nearlytwo thousand. ^The work of this mission,^^said a prominent Wesleyan, ^^touches reaches the very lowest.^^ Old MahoganyBar and Paddys Goose (public houses trans-formed into missions) will continue to rendernoble service, and many a man through them
The church and the slum; . ummer, the Wes-leyan Conference met in the glorious audi-torium for the formal opening exercises. Thefront part of the building is not yet com-pleted. It is hoped that it will be finished bythe end of the coming simamer. The cost ofthe whole building will be $180,000. Themembership, not including juniors, is nearlytwo thousand. ^The work of this mission,^^said a prominent Wesleyan, ^^touches reaches the very lowest.^^ Old MahoganyBar and Paddys Goose (public houses trans-formed into missions) will continue to rendernoble service, and many a man through themwill go to the new hall, perhaps to a concertfirst, such as I saw there on Monday evening,and then to the mens meeting or to theservice on Sunday evening. The building isnot finished yet, but when it is all completed,and the forces of the mission thoroughly or-ganized under the magnificent leadership ofthe veteran superintendent, we shall see amighty work in progress. The ^^black patchmay yet become the garden of the REV. J. GREGORY MANTLE LONDON HALLS 129 CENTRAL HALL, DEPTFORD The time of my visit to the great hall atDeptford was most fortunate. It was on thefirst Sunday afternoon in November w^henthe men^s brotherhood, some seventeen hun-dred strong, were out to give their superin-tendent, Rev. J. Gregory Mantle, a royalwelcome home after seven months absencein India, Japan, Korea, and China. Theyhave in this brotherhood a compan}^ of men,some forty in number, who call themselvesThe Miracles.^ Not a man in the companywho has not been redeemed from drunkenness,or worse, within the past three years! Oneof the number had written a welcome songfor the occasion, and another had composedthe music. I saw those miracles stand up,the whole forty of them, and heard them singthat song. Ex-gamblers and prize-fighters,they all joined in the singing, and with aspirit that brought tears to the eyes of thesuperintendent whom they thus honored, andto the eyes of many other men in that
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