Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-06-25
IT'S LABORS FINISHED
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wears gifts was the Thanksgiving offer
ing of the churches of Tacoma to the
home. From the union service at the
First Congregational church, the appeal
being made by DIR. G. o. Brown, $500
were realized.
The physician of the home during
the past year has been DIR. w. r..
Fifieid, to whose report / ask your
careful attention. TO his skill and
faithful attention and to that of his
wife, DIR. Ella j Fifield, do we owe the
fact that during the three years of our
work no adult has died within the
home. When we remember that this
aid is given entirely without compen-
sation, we realize the gratitude due to
our faithful physicians. Arrange
lnents have been made with DIR. II. "A.
Cove, who resides near the home, to
attend cases requiring immediate at
tention or when DIR. Fifield cannot be
summoned. Demands have been
made upon his services which he also
gives most cheerfully without remuner-
alton.
The work of the officers of the board
is set forth in their respective reports.
We regret the illness of Mrs. Il. II.
Manning, who has been connected
with the work of the home from its be-
ginning, and has long served as record
ing secretary. The duties of her Office
are being performed by the assistant
secretary, and we hope before the end
of the summer that we may agan well
come Mrs. Manning to our number.
The matron of the home, Miss Z. ..
Sinsabaugh, a sister of the president of
the Western Washington union, mani
tested her interest in the work and a
spirit of self-sacrifice in its behalf by
voluntarily taking charge, without
compensation, of the building for three
months previous to the opening OF the
home, no salary being paid until in
mates were received. She also labOred
constantly with members of the board
and other friends, in the furnishing
and preparation necessary to the open
ing of the building. Neat, economical,
thorough, conscientious, faithful, fol-
lower of the Divine Master, we regard
her as admirably adapted to her posi-
ton. We are proud to show visitors
our pleasant, neatly-kept home. Under
her systematic management the house
work is done promptly and thoroughly.
Each girl is received with cordiality
and gentle but firm discipline being
maintained, the inmates quickly adapt
themselves to the routine of the home
and present the appearance of har-
monious and well-regulatesd house
hold.
Should tell you the stories of these
girls lives, tears of sympathy would
fill every eye. These histories of pow
erty, neglect and sin taking place in
our own prosperous, young state, rival
Dickens stories of the jewellers in the
dark corners of London in point of
M thfa WORK We ha IInnpr-
taken is not one of sentiment. Rather
is it a most difficult and practical UNI
dertaking, and | would rather incite
you TO heartier support and to greater
zeal, not by awakening your sympa-
thies only, but by calling your calm
attention.to these facts:
First-About $50 persons have re-
ceived the protection of the home,
twenty or more children have been
placed in excellent permanent homes,
and about fifteen are retained by moth
ers.
Second-Of the entire number of
adults only two are known to be living
lives of sin, while nearly all are posi-
lively known to be upright and virtu-
GUS
Third-There is no other institution
which could have received them and
given them the personal attention and
care there bestowed upon them.
Fourth-All having taken a down
ward step, the probabilities are that
many would have followed lives of
vice, had not Il helping hand been ex-
tended to them.
Fifth-A generous public, both
within and without the church, has
provided us with suitable building
and means for carrying on the work,
and has emphatically said: "Yours is
a good work. Go on, and we will sup
port it,"
Shall we not then at this annual con-
vention of 1892 rear a memorial
stone, saying, "Hitherto hath the
Lord helped u.s.? The many new
friends won to our work, the
large increase in the gifts of
money and supplies, the many words
of encouragement from persons in all
classes of life plainly indicate the ex-
pectation that far greater work is
looked for during the ensuing year. =