start, success attended this project,
and the idea spread rapidly.
Seventh-day Adventist Welfare So-
cieties are today operating a chain of
“Penny-a-Dish”’ cafeterias extending
from coast to coast. These establish-
ments are well known in San Fran-
cisco, Sacramento, Fresno, and San
Jose, on the Pacific Coast; Ogden and
Salt Lake City in Utah; Des Moines,
Iowa; Indianapolis, Indiana; Battle
Creek, Michigan; Shreveport, Louisi-
ana, and many other places. In addi-
tion to these cafeterias, our Welfare
Societies are operating “soup kitchens”
which are patronized by thousands
daily.
Christian institutions are established
whose wide-open doors afford shelter
to unemployed women and girls, and
every effort is made to assist them in
finding employment. In some cases,
county authorities send needy cases to
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“Penny-a-dish’’ cafeteria, Des Moines,
Iowa, operated by the S. D. A. Wel-
fare Society. It served 10,000 meals in
the first month’s operation, of which
989 were meals given for some labor.
these homes, making a small appropria-
tion toward the expense of providing
food and lodging until employment is
obtained. Within the suburban area
of one of our midwest cities there has
stood for more than a score of years a
lighthouse of hope for unwed expectant
mothers, and hundreds of transformed
lives stand as monuments to the work
of this philanthropic institution.
It will readily be seen that this vast
work of relief involves large outlay of
time and expense, but our workers
gladly give their service for the com-
pensation of the joy which attends un-
selfish ministry to needy humanity.
We owe a debt of gratitude and appre-
ciation to the general public, who have
manifested great interest in our Wel-
fare work and have rendered us assist~
ance in many ways. Seventh-day Ad-
ventists propose to stand by the job
until it is done, or until the Kingdom
of Christ shall be established, where
there will be no more sin, no more sor-
row, and no more pain and distress.
May God hasten that day!