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Title: Missionary Visitor, The (1905)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Brethren's General Missionary and Tract Committee
Subjects: Church of the Brethren Priodicals Church of the Brethren- Missions
Publisher: Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House
Contributing Library: Bridgewater College, Alexander Mack Memorial Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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ings, for the aid will do a great goodand will be appreciated. The Chicago Boys Club is primarily amissionary effort. Situated in the veryheart of the congested slum district ofthe third largest city in the world, itoccupies a vantage ground for the spreadof the Gospel of Jesus Christ that noqther institution other than Christiancan possibly possess. The field of workis most complex and calls for an infi-nite degree of study as to how the prob-lems of converting the boy life of to-dayinto the citizenship of to-morrow are to be solved. The Club has been estab-lished that it may be used as a means todraw the boy of the slums away fromhis haunts of vice and poverty and at-tempt by pleasant surroundings andpractical teaching to divert his mind to-ward the fact that there is somethinghigher than the life he has known. Howgreat this difference is can only beknown by in turn going to study thehome life of the boy. Different perhaps than any other prob- April, 1905) THE MISSIONARY VISITOR 227
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Rough, Ready and Untaught Young America. lem of metropolitan boy life is that inthis city very few boys do not possesshomes, but the sad fact is that the homelife is nothing higher in ethical charac-ter than beastly existence. This state-ment can never be understood only inthe light of the knowledge of facts. Theend of the work does not stop in thussecuring the means and equipment todeal with this social problem, but thegreater end is sought by definitely try-ing to lead these young souls to realizethat in Jesus Christ is the highest pos-sible life that can be obtained and thatHe is their only means of salvation. How necessary it is to reclaim theselives is evident in the sinful, ignorant,selfish manner of their dealings witheach other. Prone from their birth, andfostered by their environments to lie,steal, gamble, swear and fight, nothingcan even hope to change their careersexcepting that a new way of living berevealed unto them and the great power of that life unfolded by the teachi

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