The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-10-22

rare smile. '~'But God blessed the seed
and caused the harvest and not I. You
see" turning again to the visitors, 1--WE
saw such need for better Bible educa-
ton on the part of our young people.
During the three or four years of nv
travelling Sunday-school work in Illi-
nois and other states, became greatly
impressed with the astonishing, and to
me alarming, ignorance of the Bible on
the part of our church people, Sunday
school teachers and Christian workers.
My own knowledge of the Word of
God was superficial enough, but when
saw people looking for Jude in the Old
Testament or for one of the minor
prophets in the new, I realized the
great need of more thorough and com.
prehensive Bible study on the part OF
those who were or might become re-
Egious teachers"
Then, too," remarked Dr. Meyer
who had come in at the dismissal of the
noon class, "she had seen how MANY
OF the workers in the field, both al
home and in foreign lands, had failed
through lack of knowledge Of ways to
act and how to meet emergencies They
had met with many things they did not
expect, and grown faintrhearted be-
cause of them. Here may be secured
thorough training in Bible study,
nursing the sick, house-to-house visita-
ton, Sunday-school work and all the
many branches of religious teaching"
Producing here the annual report of
the school, he showed with great pride
what he considered all the work Of his
wife, keeping himself generously in the
background.
The report showed over 1000 calls
made in the work, more than that num-
Der OF tracts distributed, and over 2,O09
children taught in the Sabbath school
over 5000 in the industrial school, be-
sides numberless cases Of distress and
destitution relieved the count of which
they left with the All-seeing Eye.
The young ladies in the school are re-
quired to be over twenty years of age,
to furnish few articles necessary to
the equipment of their rooms, to pay So
a week for board, lights and fuel, the
house being heated by steam and lit by
gas. This, excepting IS or $40 for the
years books, is all the expense neces-
sary, no charge being made for tuition.
In addition to this, each lady is ex.
pected to assume her share of the gem
eral light house wosk of the home, the
time allotted to each girl being one hour
daily, except in case of sickness or great
emergency. Those who desire 20 be
excused from the hour of house work on
account of health, or for any reason, pay
IS weekly instead of 49,
The students of the school do not
wear uniform, only the deaconesses
and the nurses being required to do so.
Deaconesses are of two kinds-nurses
and visitors or evangelists. Both are
educated fully ip Bible doctrines. The
training usually occupies two years,
the course beginning in September and
ending in May.
1t is band of noble, true women do
ing great work.
Apropos of the visiting, several anus
ing anecdotes were told. One teacher
tried toimpress her class of boys that
they must pray for the Holy Ghost, and
one of them replied, promptly: "My
pa don't believe in ghosts"
A visitor found woman one day
struggling with two babies. She urged
her rather abruptly to be Christian
and was electrified by the response, in
an aggrieved tone of voice: ''Be q
Christianl Look at them twins!"
Lillian G. PAsCHAI