The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-01-21
GOOD YANKEE NOTION.
The Boston COnsumptives, HON
a Wnrk n F5ifh

A Work Of Faith.
Every winter a troop of those De.
culiar creatures called "Fairs, y march
gaily into this favorite city and en-.
camp within its brightest halls. The
earliest conner this year, is the FAN
for the Consumptives' Home. II
has represented a charity, or rather
a group of charities, which are to us
who knew of them a sacred marvel.
They constitute 'WOrk of Faith"
in Boston as wonderful as Muller's
work in Bristol. Five years ago
Charles Cullis, young physician of
the city, cut to the heart by the suf-
ferings ofthose who were the victims
both of poverty and at the same time
of consumption, made a resolve to
alleviate their dying sorrows. He
opened home. 1t was to be devot-
ed, not to the cure of hopeful cases
alone, but most of all to the comfort
of acknowledged incurables. It met
an immediate want. Sad men and
woman, with hollow cough and
meagre limbs totter to its friendly
door. Sheltered in such an asylum,
medicalcare and gentle nursing fire.
quently restore them. But, generally
speaking, they come there to die.
The good Samaritan who invites
them is known well what is the
Christian life, and most persuasively
he prepares them for q Christian
death. Of the go poor people who
left that house for the grave, during
one year all expressed a hope in
Christ before the last hour. The ia
vOr of trustful piety peryades the
whole establishment. 1t may be felt
in every room, and besides every
snow-white cot. It is its character
istic feature. But the children of
these consumptives are very often
in need of care, as much as their
stricken parents. Out of this fact
grew the children's home. 1t is sit
uated just across the street. It is a
merry place. AS the daily gifts
come in, gifts of food and toys and
clothing, ''the contents of my bank"
"baby Gracie's birthday present"
etc, peals of prattling joy ring
through the house. But Willard
street is in the section remote from
the churches. 1t needed a chapel.
The elastic faith of the Doctor
bought one, trusting to the income
of his prayers to make the gradual
payment. He also engaged missio-
nary. The labor of this man, and
the tracts at his disposal-more than
100000 of which, together with
paper entitled Times Of Re
treshing, were distributed last year.
These have resulted in visible good.
But the greatest want felt from the
start of the enterprise, has been that
of skilled and Christian nurses. This
want has recently given birth to
what it is thought, will eventful |
prove the most valuable part of the
whole foundatiOn-a "Deaconess
House." 1t is modelled after Pastor
Fiedner's house at Kaiserswerth on
the Rhine-an establishment that
has sent out over 500. graduates in
to every part of Germany. Perhaps
this institution will also become a
national institution for the training
Of nurses, and of those woman who
wish to devote themselves to mission
work. 1t may tend to receive the fe-
male deaconate of apostolic times. |
1t is not just the school of prepaIa-
ton that many an earnest woman
will desire for herself? DR.. Kirk and |
Dr. Huntington have been its chief
advisers. Now, this
whole cluster of charities, to day in |
the full tide of successful operation,
have been started and sustained thus
far by the free-wil gifts alone.
They seem to rest upon the piety of
one man. He has no capital but his
profession, and no means of carry
leg on his great work, but the dona-
tion that come to him from day to
day. The address of DR.. Cullis is
Is Ashburton Place, that of the De-
aconess House is 9 Willard street.