Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1892 — Gateway to Starving Russia. [ARTICLE]

Gateway to Starving Russia.

Why did the Missouri sail for Libau, Russia, with her cargo of flour and provisions for the starving subjects of the Czar? many people ask. What was the reason the Indiana, which sailed on the samo mission from Philadelphia also went to Libau? The reason is that Libau is better adapted than any other seaport ns a distributing point. It is the gateway to starving Russia. It is in Courland, on the bleak Uultic Sea, and 105 miles southwest of Mitau. Its harbor is artificial and it is a walled city. Its popu. lation ten years ago was 27,418 and is probably loss now. Libau has a council hall, a theatre, a hospital, an almshouse, alas! now fall to overflowing, and an orphan asylum. A railway connects it with the interior, and over its rails America's food offering will go to the famishing peasants. —[New York Herald.

The formost laymen and many Episcopal olergymen of New York have in couse of preparation a plan of city mission work entirely beyond anything yet attempted. The idea is to get at the tenement-house district of the east side, which is to be made into one groat missionary district under the general direction of a single head. In this district is to be built a ohurch, with parish house, mission house, club rooms, a Kindergarten and other branches of the work proposed. The ohurch will be located somewhere between Canal oAd Stanton streets. The church and auxiliary buildings will cost, it is estimated, about sl, 400,000. The pulpit will be filled in turn by tho rectors of New York’s Episcopal ohurehes, and services will be held every day in the week. The plan inoludea Krsonal visitation of all the houses iu ) district and ministrations to the sick.