Word: chinamen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Several men are acting in the industrial and religious work at the Boston Industrial Home, an institution at which tramps are given food and shelter in return for work. About twelve men are teaching in the Chinese Sunday School on Beacon Hill. Chinamen come there at first to learn the English language but a large number of them, attracted by the spirit of the place, continue to come back for the religious teaching of the school. Through the Boston Children's Aid Society other men are meeting groups of children, usually in some room of a tenement house...
...Harvard men are assisting in industrial and evangelistic work at the Boston Industrial Home, an institution at which tramps are given food and shelter in return for work. Fifteen men are teaching in the Chinese Sunday School on Beacon Hill where from 75 to 100 Chinamen attend regularly. These men come at first simply to learn the English language, but a large number of them, attracted by the spirit of the place, continue to come back again for the religious teaching of the school. Not a few of these Chinamen have become Christians, and some have gone back to China...
...covered will be the same as in former years. It has been deemed advisable to give up the North End Mission. The work, therefore, will confine itself to three branches. Of these there are: The Davis Street Home for the unemployed, the Chinese Sunday School for the instruction of Chinamen in the English language and in the Bible, and the Sailors' Home on T wharf. Directors for these branches of work have not yet been appointed...