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Mission Accomplished NO CHURCHES can be prouder of their tradition than those who trace their descent from the Pilgrims. But proud as we are, we also know humility. We do not pretend that of the many fellowships that call themselves Christian, God has chosen to work only through us. nor do we believe that 1,300,000 members can by themselves do all the work the Lord needs done. Wherever the churches can do more by joining hands than by working separately, the Congregational Christian churches are always among the first to say, "Let's do it co-operatively." A Mission to the "Underloved" of New York City. The railroad tracks from Grand Central Station after running 54 blocks under some of the world's most fashionable apartment houses, come out into the light of day at 96th Street, at that point Manhattan suddenly turns into the kind of slum area that only the nation's greatest city seems able to produce. Packed as densely as 4,000 persons to a block, successive waves of newcomers have tried to make home there and get a foothold in the city's competitive life. Germans, Hungarians, Jews, Greeks lived there. Then it became Little Italy. In the last few years it has become a suburb of Harlem and San Juan Suburbs are usually good places for church extension, but not this one/ Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists had made heroic efforts here, but a survey showed that after decades of work their separate individual enterprises were growing weaker rather than stronger. Here was a mission that has to be done cooperatively, or it would not be done at all. A small group of seminary students, looking for a really tough job, saw this one and asked for the chance to tackle it. To them it meant working as a group, each contributing his particular talent to a diversified ministry of teaching and preaching and healing. It meant living - and bringing up families - in some of the worst conditions the city can provide. It meant living daily with the problems of dope, rackets, run down, rat infested housing, political exploitation, family disorganization, prostitution and all the too typical evils of slum neighborhoods. And it meant building a Christian fellowship from the bottom up - out of the kinds of people, in fact, the Master loved to work with. And it meant the churches had to work together. The Board of Home Missions, we are proud to say, was the first to offer its support, in cooperation with the New York City Association. Our help has continued and will continue - for the need will not cease until we learn how to have cities without slums.
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Mission Accomplished NO CHURCHES can be prouder of their tradition than those who trace their descent from the Pilgrims. But proud as we are, we also know humility. We do not pretend that of the many fellowships that call themselves Christian, God has chosen to work only through us. nor do we believe that 1,300,000 members can by themselves do all the work the Lord needs done. Wherever the churches can do more by joining hands than by working separately, the Congregational Christian churches are always among the first to say, "Let's do it co-operatively." A Mission to the "Underloved" of New York City. The railroad tracks from Grand Central Station after running 54 blocks under some of the world's most fashionable apartment houses, come out into the light of day at 96th Street, at that point Manhattan suddenly turns into the kind of slum area that only the nation's greatest city seems able to produce. Packed as densely as 4,000 persons to a block, successive waves of newcomers have tried to make home there and get a foothold in the city's competitive life. Germans, Hungarians, Jews, Greeks lived there. Then it became Little Italy. In the last few years it has become a suburb of Harlem and San Juan Suburbs are usually good places for church extension, but not this one/ Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists had made heroic efforts here, but a survey showed that after decades of work their separate individual enterprises were growing weaker rather than stronger. Here was a mission that has to be done cooperatively, or it would not be done at all. A small group of seminary students, looking for a really tough job, saw this one and asked for the chance to tackle it. To them it meant working as a group, each contributing his particular talent to a diversified ministry of teaching and preaching and healing. It meant living - and bringing up families - in some of the worst conditions the city can provide. It meant living daily with the problems of dope, rackets, run down, rat infested housing, political exploitation, family disorganization, prostitution and all the too typical evils of slum neighborhoods. And it meant building a Christian fellowship from the bottom up - out of the kinds of people, in fact, the Master loved to work with. And it meant the churches had to work together. The Board of Home Missions, we are proud to say, was the first to offer its support, in cooperation with the New York City Association. Our help has continued and will continue - for the need will not cease until we learn how to have cities without slums.
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