Word: missionize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thick food odors, the roar of voices and the tinkle of glass and silver at a charity luncheon at the Union League Club, Manhattan, produced a noticeable effect. The president, Banker Henry Fletcher, explained the purpose of the campaign-to raise $100,000 for the McAuley Water Street Mission. He talked about the Mission's history, activities. There was silence. Into this moment, ripe for emotional disturbance, John Markle threw his statement...
Protests, amazement, stammered eloquence. The president explained that the campaign was not altogether for money-the McAuley Mission also wanted 20,000 new friends. If Mr. Markle gave the whole amount there would be no excuse for going on. Mr. Markle shook his head. He would give $100,000-not a cent less. He told his own story, how he had been blind for a year in 1908, how Christ and a famous German surgeon had brought back his sight. "I don't want people to think I've got all the money in God's earth...
...McAuley, son of an Irish counterfeiter, and a river thief and drunkard on his own initiative, received a pardon signed by Secretary of State [of New York] Chauncey M. Depew, after serving seven years of a fifteen-year sentence for highway robbery. Eight years later this McAuley founded a mission at No. 316 Water Street, Manhattan, where wharf life is drably vile. His slogan was "The Man No One Else Wants." Drunkards, drug addicts, broken down sports, panhandlers, sick street-creatures could get a bed, a wash, a meal. It was the first city rescue mission in New York...
...thorny ways with constant anxiety about hats and the right of way. And the rules quoted above are only some of the milder restrictions. More awe inspiring were the provisions requiring Freshmen to run errands for upperclassmen and giving to the upperclassmen unlimited right of chastisement in case the mission went askew. But sufficient has been said to show the humblest Yale Freshman who walks the campus that he is monarch of all he surveys in comparison with the lot of his unhappy ancestors
...Methodists convened at Manhattan were less calm, more specific, about a similar situation in their own Asiatic mission field. Speaking before the Men's Methodist Council, Religious Dean Edmund D. Soper, Duke University, waxed satirical, pessimistic. Said he: "China, Japan, India wonder why we who would teach them have slaughtered each other in thousands, why we refuse to hold all races equal in our countries, why we will not hear both sides of questions. . . . We ask ourselves what is next, and we have no next. We have shot our bolt...