Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-10-05
/" ANGELS VISITS.

Wherever works of mercy are traced, wher-
ever the tear of sympathy is needed, the gen
tie voice, the tender hand and the loving face
of woman is seen. BY the side of the wound
ed and dying on the battle field, by the couch
of the sufferer in the hospital, in the garnet
amid poverty and rags, in the refuge where
the daughters of shame have found friendly
shelter and christian sympathy; womans
Nursing care and gentle voice and loving
heart brings hope and peace and blessing.
Some nine years ago the idea "of admins
tring to the mental wants of the poor, the
sick and the n6rm" engaged the attention of
O lady in Boston, and the fundamentally OF
flowers flashed to her mind, and she at once
put the idea into execution, establishing what
she named the Glover Mission" Since then
these missions have spread to all the large
cities, and are now in successful operation,
carrying rays of sunshine, bound up IN the
petals of the flowers, into the homes of the
sick and the sorrowing.' We quote from the
report of the "Philadelphia Flower Mission"
which is before us, and which was established
May Is, 1874, and has ever sine been in active
operation. The work is distributed among
the various hospitals as well among the
helpless poor of the city, and their donations
consist of fruit and flowers, and the means OF
riding out for open air exercise, and best
of all, the sweet faces and loving sympathy OF
Al E.. rlS in
work. Money furnished the Episcopal Hos
pital enabled the incurable invalids i'll The
female ward to go on river excursions, while
some of the very aged were furnished car
distinction made in race, color or religion,
every nationality is represented on the list of
suffering, and all receive the same care. A
member of the mission writes to us regard
ing the work: 81 am perfectly delighted with
it; it is such a pleasure to see the faces of
people, who have some of them, been confined
to bed for weeks. brighten up as we take the
little punches of sweet flowers in to them.
The fruits and flowers distributed by these
missions, are usually contributed by the citl-
sens who have gardens and lighthouses. They
are sent to the hall in the city, where stad
matrons arrange the bouquets and distribute
them to the young girls who carry them in
baskets full to the hospitals and the novels at
the poor; but We can imagine that the pres
ence every week, of bright young faces and
the sound of CHEEKY voices, counts for quite
as much as the fruits and flowers dispensed
These are truly angels visits and carry
with them angels blessings. The number of
friendless sufferers in the hospitals and aims
houses of city of million inhabitants is
always very great, as the following statement
of FIVE months work will show. Bouquets
distributed, 6,799; baskets of flowers, SO;
hot plants, 80; baskets of fruit, %. Who
shall say in these seven thousand visits how
many springs of hope and love were
opened upl How many of the tender mem-
cries of better days came floating back amid
tears of gratitude, and on how many hearts
white winged peace settled down Woman's
mission is the grandest of all missions, and
carries with it more blessings than any other
merely human agency.