LIFE IN NEW YORK TENEMENT-HOUSES
 

and a X3lace of shelter for the present, and trouble themselves but
little about the future. The fact that the church is beginning to
take an active interest in
the temporal Avelfare of the
Avorking x^eox3le is already
X3roducing beneficial results.
The daily x^ress exerts as
great an influence over the
parents as the x^ublic school
does over the children. The
workingmen in the tenement-
houses constantly read the
newspapers, and they
read almost nothing
else. What AA^e need
is not more learned
lectureship founda¬
tions on the evi¬
dences of Christian¬
ity, but endoAA^ments
to secure a large
number of short, con¬
cise, x^opular prize
essays on moral and
religious sub¬
jects, especially
adapted in lan¬
guage and style
to the working
people. If these
prize essays
wxre published

in the Sunday papers they would be read by tens of thousands
of workingmen, and be a most x^owerful means of doing good.
 

A  Missionary Workshop—De  Witt Memorial  Church (non-sectarian).