herself Christianized, educated and trained by Home Missions. She
speaks the language of the mines, she knows its innermost life. When
the frequent accidents, throw their desolation and fearful economic
burdens upon the homes, she comforts and sustains. She helps the
stricken wife and children to keep to decency and right. She teaches
night classes in English, and mothers' classes, sustains reading and
club rooms with games and wholesome amusements to hold the boy miner
from the lure of the saloon. She conducts the Sunday-school and is
herself a peripatetic Christian settlement, with all that it implies
of sacrifice, service and the salvation of soul and body.

A commentary on the need of Home Missions in the mining sections
is forcibly presented in the following testimony.

Before the Commission of Industrial Relations (February, 1915)
Mrs. Dominiki from the Colorado mines, speaking of the general
labor conditions in the district in which she lived, said:

"I never saw a church in any of the coal camps except Trinidad.
There were no halls where people might meet but there were always
plenty of saloons.

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"Hotels, boarding houses of many descriptions, stores, saloons
and gambling dens, are visible on every street. Everything suggested
money-making and money-spending." [Footnote: The Outlook--February
17, 1915.]

This typical mining town does not pretend to have any sacred days