A representative of this paper paid a visit to the mission on Friday evening, and for an hour was an interested observer among a motley crowd of men and_ boys and some most pitiable specimens of aged humanity, whose "life" experience if recorded would express the nadir of poverty. The plight most of them were in would have sent a political economist back to his books in despair. By comparison with the Dixwell Road standard the slums of the West ara places of opulence inhabited by millionaires.
Under the Christmas decorations arranged with simple att and no little ingenuity, a crowed of corns six or seven hundred outeasts—the mission is used principally by men adrift on the streets—stood facing the platform from which a Chin-
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