Mission Work in Colorado, Iowa, and Milwaukee
On the 22d ult., four members were received into the church at Denver, Colo., and five others were baptized., then at the close of the meeting still another candidate applied for baptism. BROTHER J. M. REES, president of Colorado Conference, gives this report of the Denver Mission for the first two months of its existence: “November and December—No. of free lodgings, 384; paid lodgings, 64; No. of treatments, 300; treatments given outside of the mission, 40; No. of articles of clothing given to the poor, 75; penny meals served, 2,000.” THE new mission at Clinton, Iowa, is now under headway, and is in charge of Brother and Sister A. J. Stone. They sell a bowl of good soup and three slices of bread for a penny, and many poor people patronize the place. A report of the work says, “The other evening a little girl about 11 years old lingered and asked that we pray for her, as she wanted to be a Christian.” THE Reporter gives an itemized report of the work of the Helping Hand Mission in Milwaukee, in which we note that in two and a half months there were held 75 inside and 73 open-air meetings; 59 professed conversion; No. of beds paid for, 691; beds free, 406; baths, 375; lunches paid for, 5,485; lunches free, 1,912. Of the meetings, the report says: “They can not well be described. Among those who attend are the poor, lonely, and discouraged ones; the hopeless and those hardened by crime and drunkenness, also many of the working class who feel themselves too poorly dressed to attend the city churches. Women as well as men attend these meetings. These people find friends here who are interested both in their temporal and spiritual welfare.”