On location at Dover Street

A man singing “Jingle Bells” staggers up Dover Street in Boston. In his dirty brown overcoat pocket is a half-quart of liquor. This man had no specific destination, except to find a shelter to protect him from the cold falling snow.

He stops, leans on a telegraph pole and stares across the street where he sees other people moving into a small, lighted building. Maybe drawn by the warmth of the lights, he moves through the slush across the street. Edging through the door he finds a small hall filled with people. A neat, well-dressed young man directs him to a seat in the last row.

The chapel grows quiet as this same man who directed him to his seat walks upon a small stage. The young man, Jim Tasker, the pastor, looks at his audience, bows his head and speaks, “Let us pray.”

This is a familiar scene at the Boston Nazarene Chapel, a small building situated on a street described by a police sergeant as a haven for every derelict, vagrant, and ….. in Boston.” The officer says that he has seen some of these derelicts enter the chapel and emerge changed men.

The sergeant’s greatest praise was for the work with the children. Children that would be roving the streets and getting into trouble were busy working for the Lord Jesus Christ. In the last five years the juvenile delinquents in this area have decreased almost 50% policemen stated.

The sergeant wishes that there were more Nazarene Chapels and more students to participate in this great work.

That all too often go unnoticed. Let’s take time to say “Hats off” to the display of initiative that we are continuing to witness. Let’s say “Thanks” for the extra effort and time involved in these co-curricular activities.

~From below newspaper article