Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1877 — Religious and Temperance Tract Mission, [ARTICLE]

Religious and Temperance Tract Mission,

R. B. Nordyke, Superintendent of the Religious and Temperance Tract Mission at St. Anne, Kankakee County, 111., has issued an appeal in behalf of said mission, in which he states that “the alarming prevalence of immorality and . intemperance, numbering its victims by many thousands, among the rich and the poor, the high and the low, begetting untold sorrows, frightful disease, premature death, and numerous startling crimes,” makes this mission an urgent necessity. The objects of the mission are—to promote the cause of total abstinence from the use, manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages; to suppress the publication and dissemination of obscene and Immoral literature, disreputable books, lithographs, photos, etc.; and the hope is expressed that the mission may be the means of winning many souls to Christ The circular says: “We distribute tracts (religious and temperance) in the Sunday-schools, at the Public Temperance Meetings, on the streets, etc., and shall co-operate with Young Men’s Christian Associations, Temperance Societies and ministers of the Gospel, of all denominations, who will circulate them from house to house. We shall also arrange for Bible readings in public rooms, passenger depots, town halls, etc., and for occasional temperance lectures. /. -t “This mission commenced, and has been obliged to continue, its labors without a working capital or endowment fund. What it has accomplished, with God’s blessing, has been under pecuniary disadvantages and difficulties. But the need of its beneficial labors were never mote urgent than now. Its work ought to he largely increased, certainly not lessened; and, on any account, must not stop.”

The reader to appealed to to send at Ei by check or otherwise, a contribu- , to the extent of his ability, of whatever amount to aid In carrying forward this important mission. Address Mr. Nordyke.aa above. , { ■/