This seems a long interlude to the Penny Lunch chapter, but you can see the lunch counter where five cents can buy beans, bread and coffee, saves many a man from feeling that he takes charity. The bread line was instituted to fortify a man's stomach against needing to go to the saloon in the morning for the free lunch, also to give strength to a poor fellow so he could search for work. The bread line food given each morning will not of itself sustain life, as we found out to our sorrow. One Tuesday night, as the writer entered the Mission for the purpose of conducting the service, I found the men at the door excited. On inquiry, I found a man lying on the front seat dying. The Emergency Hospital ambulance had already been called. I found a man who twenty years ago had been a leading patent attorney of this city. I saw the soul was about to depart. I said, “Mr. West, say, 'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.'” “No, I have lived wicked, I shall die wicked.” “O son, say, 'Lord Jesus, forgive me.'” “Too late, too late; I have heard you all, night after night, and I have rejected Christ. I must die as I have lived.” I motioned the choir to sing softly, “Jesus receiveth sinful men.” I bent over him, urging repentance; the ambulance men were at my side, they picked him up and laid him carefully on the stretcher. I said, “Dear Mr. West, we are praying for you, pray for yourself.” I kept my hand tenderly on his head as the stretcher was slowly carried out, but he continued to say, “Too late, too late for me.” He died within an hour, and the post-mortem showed he had died of inanition caused by slow starvation. We found he had tried to live on the bread and coffee of the bread line alone; he was too poor to buy food, too proud to tell his needs, and we were too stupid and too busy to realize his awful need. We thereby learned a good lesson, and the Superintendent and helpers now all look more carefully after the man who sits down claiming either exhaustion or sickness. No man, woman or child is ever refused food because without money, but if a man can buy whisky, we think he ought to be able to buy food, though even then we look after him.