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The Calvary Mission
in New York
(and Its Predecessor
of Sorts, the Galilee Mission
From: Samuel Moor Shoemaker, Calvary Church, Yesterday and Today: A Centennial History (1936):
"We took one word of the name from "Calvary Chapel" and one word from the old "Galilee Mission," and called it "Calvary Mission." The mission was opened on February 1, 1926, . . ."
"We took one word of the name from "Calvary Chapel" and one word from the old "Galilee Mission," and called it "Calvary Mission." The mission was opened on February 1, 1926, . . ."
From: Helen Smith Shoemaker, I Stand by the Door: The Life of Sam Shoemaker (1967):
They took one word of the name from "Calvary Chapel" and one word from the old "Galilee Mission" that had been founded by Dr. Satterlee, and called it "Calvary Mission." TheMission
They took one word of the name from "Calvary Chapel" and one word from the old "Galilee Mission" that had been founded by Dr. Satterlee, and called it "Calvary Mission." The
From: Samuel Moor Shoemaker, Calvary Church, Yesterday and Today: A Centennial History (1936):
"And so the Galilee Mission, antecedent of the present Calvary Mission, was begun in 1884, as a rescue mission, at 401 East 23rd Street. The first minister in charge was the Rev. CB Durand, but the fourth is the one best remembered for . . ."
"And so the Galilee Mission, antecedent of the present Calvary Mission, was begun in 1884, as a rescue mission, at 401 East 23rd Street. The first minister in charge was the Rev. CB Durand, but the fourth is the one best remembered for . . ."
From: Samuel Moor Shoemaker, Calvary Church, Yesterday and Today: A Centennial History (1936):
Dr. Satterlee spoke also of the need for a "Calvary Mission House" for the East Side work; and this was cared for in the buildings still occupied by the Olive Tree Inn and Calvary Mission."
Dr. Satterlee spoke also of the need for a "Calvary Mission House" for the East Side work; and this was cared for in the buildings still occupied by the Olive Tree Inn and Calvary Mission."
The following information is found on page 14 (of 21) of the
reprint of Leonard Blumberg's "The Ideology of a Therapeutic Social
Movement: Alcoholics Anonymous" in Journal
of Studies on Alcohol, Vol. 38(11), 2122-2143, 1977.
http://silkworth.net/sociology/Soc41OCR.pdf ; accessed 12/13/10
In the post-Civil War period, Rev. Henry Yates Satterless reorganized the 23d Street facility as the Galilee Mission "to save needy men" (22, p.47). By the time Sam Shoemaker came to New York in 1925, the mission facilities had been boarded up and the program discontinued. The Olive Tree Inn, founded in 1880s by Satterless, was still operating next door to the closed Galilee Mission, charging 25 cents a night for lodging (22, p.84). Shoemaker decided that he would reopen the 23d Street mission building as the Calvary Mission, using the approach of personal evangelism that had been shaped and influenced by Frank Buchman, and put Henry Hadley II in charge of it. Henry Hadley II was the son of the S.H. Hadley who had been director of Jerry McAuley's Helping Hands Mission and who was mentioned by William James; Henry had been converted three days after his father's death in 1906 and had since been traveling the country (22, p.188).
http://silkworth.net/sociology/Soc41OCR.pdf ; accessed 12/13/10
In the post-Civil War period, Rev. Henry Yates Satterless reorganized the 23d Street facility as the Galilee Mission "to save needy men" (22, p.47). By the time Sam Shoemaker came to New York in 1925, the mission facilities had been boarded up and the program discontinued. The Olive Tree Inn, founded in 1880s by Satterless, was still operating next door to the closed Galilee Mission, charging 25 cents a night for lodging (22, p.84). Shoemaker decided that he would reopen the 23d Street mission building as the Calvary Mission, using the approach of personal evangelism that had been shaped and influenced by Frank Buchman, and put Henry Hadley II in charge of it. Henry Hadley II was the son of the S.H. Hadley who had been director of Jerry McAuley's Helping Hands Mission and who was mentioned by William James; Henry had been converted three days after his father's death in 1906 and had since been traveling the country (22, p.188).
From: Directory of
Social and Health Agencies of New York City, Volume 7, by Charity
Organization of the City of New York, Community Council of Greater New York
(1896): pp. 373-74
http://tinyurl.com/25xxu4z
Galilee Mission of Calvary Church,
340-344 East 23d St.
Rev Scott M Cooke, 106 East 22d St.
Headquarters of the East Side work of Calvary Parish, which here maintains the
Boys Club, open every evening, for instruction, amusement and manual training.
Free Reading-Room, open evenings and Sundays.
Gospel Services; every evening.
Olive Tree Inn; lodging-house for men only.
Penny Provident Fund; Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evenings
District
Galilee Coffee-House, 338 East 23d St.; managed by the Coffee-House Committee of Calvary Church. Open from 5 A.M. to 8 P.M.
Tee-to-Tum Working-Men's Club,346 East 23d St.
http://tinyurl.com/25xxu4z
Galilee Mission of Calvary Church,
340-344 East 23d St.
Rev Scott M Cooke, 106 East 22d St.
Headquarters of the East Side work of Calvary Parish, which here maintains the
Boys Club, open every evening, for instruction, amusement and manual training.
Free Reading-Room, open evenings and Sundays.
Gospel Services; every evening.
Olive Tree Inn; lodging-house for men only.
Penny Provident Fund; Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evenings
District
Galilee Coffee-House, 338 East 23d St.; managed by the Coffee-House Committee of Calvary Church. Open from 5 A.M. to 8 P.M.
Tee-to-Tum Working-Men's Club,
See Dick B., The
Conversion of Bill W.: More on the Creator’s Role in Early A.A. www.dickb.com/conversion.shtml.
dickb@dickb.com.
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