[Recollections of a Long Life by Theodore Ledyard Cuyler]@TWC D-Link bookRecollections of a Long Life CHAPTER XVI 33/38
In order to do our part in giving the bread of life to these worthy people, Lafayette Avenue Church has always maintained two, and sometimes three, auxiliary chapels.
Of these, the "Cuyler Chapel," built and supported entirely by our Young People's Association, is a fair representative.
It has an excellent preacher, who visits the plain people in their homes; it has a well-equipped Sunday school--prayer meetings, kindergarten--its own Society of Christian Endeavor, and King's Daughters, its penny savings bank and its temperance society--in short, every appliance essential to a Christian church.
Many others of our strong Brooklyn churches are working precisely on the same practical, common-sense lines.
If all the wealthy churches in New York would illuminate the darker quarters of that city with a hundred well-manned light-houses, well provided with the soul-saving apparatus of the poor man's Gospel they would do more to silence the cavils against Christianity, and more to bridge the chasm between the rich and the poor than by any of the superficial methods of the "Humanitarians." What a poor man wants is not only a clean shirt, a clean home, and a clean account on Saturday night; he wants a clean character and a clean soul for this world and the next.
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