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the occasion was an intercessory meeting and the Ball room lent by the Management. My own poor efforts paled in the company of two magnificant speakers, one a Dr. of Divinity, and the other a Jewish Rabbi. But my audience was most sympathetically responsive, and if time had permitted I could have spent many days in New York accepting invitations.
On my only Sunday there I went in the morning to "The Little Church round the Corner" so called from the fact, that years ago a New York actress was dying, and one of her friends seeking for her spiritual consolation went to a clergyman in the neighborhood but he curtly said he did not attend actresses, and suggested that he should go to the Pastor of the little Church round the corner, and of him help was not sought in vain. This became so widely known that this church has always retained the name, and the theatrical profession adopted it for its own. They assist very largely in its maintenance and all marriages are conducted there. The interior adornment is beautiful, and the morning of my visit there was a special service and a presentation ceremony of a Cuban flag, to be added to the Allies already in the Church, by the Spanish Consul. A number of Spanish residents were present and these gave an unusual and interesting note.
In the evening I accepted an invitation to the home of Doctor and Mrs. Warren, who used their large house for the entertainment of soldiers and sailors every Sunday, and were assisted by a number of private friends, who provided a most appetising supper, sparing neither trouble nor expense.