New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-31
MEETING OF DEACONESSEs
DISCUSSING THE WORK OF THE NEW OpDrp
AT CHAUTAUQUA.
AN IMPORTANT AID TO THE CHARITIES OF TIM
CHURCHES IN CITIEs-TALKIyG ON
HOME EDUCATION.
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HOME EDUCATION.
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Chautauqua, July 30.-This has been Deaconess
Day al Chautauqua Women in the sombre oart
OF the order have been on the platform at all
the EXERCISES and have told OF their work N in
terested audiences. Bishop F. X Ninde and BIshop
D. NJ lhoourn OF Calcutta, took part In the exercises
deaconeSs, according to the adopted by the
House OF Bishops OF the Episcopal Church last year.
Is an unmarried woman, at least twenty five years
OF age OF devout character and a church coMmuni-
can't Her duty is To assist the minister in the care
Of the poor and sick, the religious training of the
Young and Others, and in the work Of moral reforma.
uon. the Congregational, Presbyterian and Baptist
churches are considering the recognition If the order.
ana deaconesses are already informally employed by
Isolated churches. The Methodist Episcopal Church
has twelve homes and one hundred deaconesses. In
the Chicago Training school Of this Church there are
twenty four practitioners and six deaconesses. SIX
deacOness homes have been organized this year at
II. Louis, Cleveland, Washnc tOn and other places.
The present IS the third annual conference Of the
order The reports Of the deac0ness homes in various
parts Of the United states by their respective super.
ntendents show that the New England Home and
Training school, in Boston, which opened on
November 90 1859, has eight members; 1879 religious
calls were made in the first six months Of this
year, and COZ days were spent in nursing The New
York DeacOness Home and Training school was in.
stltuted by the New York City Church Extension and
Missionary Society. The first meeting Of the
BOARD on November IS, 1o55. Miss
NJ. f. Layton was made superintendent The
home was formally opened May 10, 1889. in a houss
in Fourteentst. II has been supported by voluntary
contributions. There connected with the home
twelve workers, trained nurse and three who
are taking the nurses course OF instruction Work
haS been done in eight churches. Four hundred
children lave been brought into sunday one
hundred non-chuchgoers have been induced TO attend
Christian services. Many Bibles have been dis.
tributed Two thousand visits have been made and
1000 calls. Three hundred poor families have OBJ
tanned aid and 200 sick persons have been cared for.
seventy eight destitute grls we're sent IN groups TO
tie Chdren's summer Home az Rutherford, " j.
some excellent work has been done through the medical
missions and SIX Industrial schools The home Is
not incorporated. The superintendent OF the home,
Miss ". t. Boyd works among the French ana ltalidn
poor In Philadelphia conducts a sewing-cass for
French and i-1lian girls saturday Afternoons
hold, meetings for them in the evenings during the
week and works In the oabbathschool which she
and the Italian missionary, Dr.. Maan, OF the Pllk-
dclph,. Conference have established MIS- H. Ne
Lawton, an associate deaconess, has worked III ths
central part Of the city, making over zoo cans ai'o'
holding temperance band and sewins-school on sst
urday afternoons. a dcaconess for o0uth fmiiuc'
pha reporrs that she entered the deaconess home Oh
has made Az calls met u steamers held - mothets
meetings. taught 80 sewing classes. distributed l'Oo
tracts Bibles, u Testaments. l. religious BOOKS anu
no. yrit,ep AZ letters Tie immigrant homo
Of which this dcacouess has charge Has nv
tered 66 persons since February To- fIOVeS'"h''
"A Catholics women and children, reptese"u"7
natlonaltes. Tlirty-six nights lodging nave O'o'
given and 63 free meals twenty sl'u"e'0'i' ~
cirrs have been obtained The Buffalo Deaeohe''
Home OF the Methodist Episcopal Church mas super
lntendent and one licensed dcaconeSS Az CINCINNATI
In the Elizabeth GAMBLE Home there are H''e''
ceaconesses on probation OF whom elsH' art Nu-
Three more have gone 10 the otleF HoHeS JAW "
colorado Strings. one to Detroit and one to kaheo",
Hulrlah The nurses have been cheHy e"P'9'"
In the hospital where they are receiving uieF ""'"
inc and have seldom been spared for district hu'p'
or me fsfttnu dcaconesscs her rirne TO work
among criminals the city jail and "oFAhouSe' so
speud, sunday at the prison, attending the mor''ns
service and afterward talking personally WIN u''
inmates either in the general hall or from cell "
cell In the afternoon the men come together LOT lHo
sunday.school lesson voluntary service winch
large number attend. she has weekday service
with the women al the workhOuse Another deaeoness
rive, most of her time % the City Hospital, WHO
,rother Et, spent the last five months III cIuirs'
If il lunch room for factory girls. hospital was
opened in september and fourteen patients nave oeeh
admitted Al Cleveland. Mrs. Cornela PTosser na'
f,vcn house for the work IN East AadlsoA-asg,,
Mr., LYDIA Haskell is superintendent Deaeoness SoTh
Was introduced IN Minneapolis by Dr. W. n MdIsnatui'
Alr, Abbic Morrow j. superintendent o. inc 'Va,.,
Western Home, which now contains one AuEse @''N
four visiting dcacOncsseS - ~, d.. ,,,.,,r,
Ui-Eop r. y. Nlnde chairman OF tHe nl0ruhS
,,.'fin- Al which Miss Jane VI. Bancroft, OF wash
H., ION oIrlincd the history Of the movement slhco
IN. revival m l-49, when Dr. Iheodore Fleduer C'Ho
Nm fur nurse, from kaiseTsWeriA. IN Germany, 10
III ,.lntry and DR.. Lucy Rider Meyer, the super
rtruaut II the Chicago Home, spoke o TIC nee" LUZ
dcacop">- work. ,t., - ..,a,,o.o, 81,
a, The afternoon meeting. which was conducted Dy
r,.bon I VI ThDburu, OF India. DR.. u. u, CraNiON,
=. ~. V,r spoke about Dcaconc>>t~ IN the CITY
u,r ,u,eth IF IT. Johns German Lutheran Church.
piilaaelpA!a about Deaconee-e> ana u1e SICK anu
Nj. Isabella Thoburn Cincinnati, on Deaeohcsss
and the Hcathrn. .,,-..-u.
To uieht bishop rhoburn talked Of "DeaconeSses
and fhe church. and DR. scott /. Hershey, Oh WASH
layton. made an address .. ,o,,o p,sho,
The delegates TO the conference Include Bshop
1b5,uru Miss l.. \. Oaddls, superintendent Oh lno
n.lr,it Home. Miss Isabel ThOnurn, superintendent
OF the Cincinnati Home, Miss l. -'irle'' superintendent
- he 4 Louis Home: Miss Foot. superintendent Oh
he cleveland Home: Mr. and Mrs. Myers, snpcrln-
cndcns OF the Chicago Home, Miss MarSae'Ii pEcp,
Cbicacn Miss jefferson, Chicago, Matte >"dl 's-i-
,at: Mrs \. A. Brockway, Cu'a-O, Ms s.A'o as,
Drt,o.t Mrs. II. II. Waggoner, II. Lon>; Mls, lou>e
Ricl,rd II Louis Miss Mary and William ana James
camille Cincinnati and W H. Ncdkey, supeTli-
tend,ut of Chust's Hospital, Cincinnati u,
ON the Assembly programme today were eotrp
ON lIeinr' 10y Leon H. Vincent and conference az
the Woman ; club on Home Education ProWncAe
arrival, include Mrs. {. Judge, of jersey NHE'
" Chambers. ~ Oh city, Penn George .. koDhsoh'
OF Detroit samuel p. scwell Of Philadelphia, ana AEs
:. IL. Root, OF Buffalo.