St. Paul daily globe., 1892-01-28
FOR The FRIENDLESS.
Twenty-Fifth Annual. Meet
ing Of a Very Deserving
Charity.
Ladies Who Will Represent
Churches on the Director
ate This Year.
Interesting Report Of the
Operations of the Asso-..
citation.
What Has Been Accomplished
by Workers in a Good
Cause.

The Home for the Friendless associa-
tion held its twenty-fifth annual meet
ing in the parlors of the Relief Society
building, OH East Ninth street, yester-
day morning. Twenty-three ladies
were present, and the meeting was per-
haps the most interesting ever held by
the society. 1t was opened by the
president, Mrs. Pascal Smith, who read
the Thirty-third Psalm. Mrs. Fairchild
led in prayer, and the meeting proceed
ell TO elect board of managers for the
ensuing year. The following ladies'
were elected to represent the respective
churches:
First Methodist church. Mrs Pascal Smith,
Mrs. II. :. Failchiid.
Central Park Methodist, Mrs. j. A. Sabin,
hrs. j. II. Hoyt.
Tailmadge.
St PaEi's church, Mrs E. c. Becker, Mrs.
6. G. Flagg.
House of Hope, Mrs c. E Furness, Mrs
Kenneth Clark, Mrs. Frederick Weyerhaeu-
Ser. Mrs. Ida Owens. Mrs. Myron Brown.
Dayton Avenue Presbyterian, Mrs. Frank
Shepard.
Plymouth church, Mrs. c. H. Worthen, Mrs.
&. c. Andrews
St Johns Episcopal. Mrs Maurice Auer-
bach, Mrs. Edward f. Davidson. -
Park congregational church, Mrs Russell
Door.
: s.. r.
SwedenborgiRn church, {. n. Woodward.
Christ church. Mrs. Cyrus Thompson. Miss
Murphy.
The twenty-ffth annual report of the
association was presented and read, as
follows:
One by one the years pass by, leaving their
client records for good and evil behind
A massive book there is OF times firm
binding. Its pages record many weary
climbing up thorny mountain paths of sin
and sorrow and suffering.
The trend of many life lies through too
OenSely shaded paths. where CLEANS of sun
Bhine rarely come.
Now and then some helping hand is seen
striving TO cheer on the weary-hearted and
help them TO feel that there is a God who
sends sympathy ana love for the unfortunate
into human hearts. thereby embodying Him
self in the real, and giving hope of a>tivlner
pity in the world beyond.
The first meeting of this society was held
May T. 1867. in the Vestry of the First Presby-
terian church, on Third street. The minutes
of that meeting contain these words: God
has opened up The way. The command GO
forward cannot be misunderstood" God
had opened up the way. The work has gone
forward. and this morning dawns upon our
twenty-hfth anniversary with this cry Still
ringing in our ears
l am sure that among the women gathered
here today there is not q doubt in the heart
of one of the divine mission Of this work
There is no feeling of retrogreSsion or dis
couragement, but. on the contrary the feel
1ngs born of success in the past summon
new hoI es for enlarged capacities for useful
ness i'll the years to come.
With harmony in the home Under our able
matron, who moids the many discordant
elements that come before her between each
rising and setting sun into wonderful
paan of peace and comfort, surely we may
be forgiven for self-cungratuiation this
morning.
Upon the rhythm of our work depends al
most entirely our success. Let me say right
here that we must look beyond an able
ma.ron and board of managers working
with unity of
Heart and Purpose
TO the generous Christian public. who are the
source and SuStenance of our being Kind
friends we thank you. May we deserve
your help in the years to come as in the
past for experience has proven that if we
deserve 1t we shall have it.
The name of our ASSOCIATION has been
changed three times. 1t bore the name of its
birth, Ladies Christian nion.' from May
70, 1867, the date of the adoption of its first
constitution. until Jan. %, 1862 when new
constitution was adopted and the name
changed to the Ladies' Relief Association
OF the City OF 81; Paul" In February, 1870.
Mrs. j. A. Wheelock and Mrs. Davis were ap-
pointed committee to secure d charter
The following April charter was procured
and the association became an incorporated
body.
sociation felt able to provide for itself cor
porate seal economy being shown in the de-
cision, whenever the subject was discussed
that seal " would be expensive. and was not
really essential.
In January, 1877. by a special act of the
legislature, the name we now bear was given
us.
The aims of the society have virtually al
ways been the same: To give shelter to the
homeless of every nationality, religion
cline and color; rest to the weary until
strength could be recuperated: Christian
sympathy to the unfortunate and practical
help toward bettering their conoition. The
methods by which these helps have been ac-
complisheI have changed somewhat.
For time there were committees ap.
pointed who should seek out the poor and
hick, and devise ways and means for helping
them. In the beginning. before home was
possible, this method was necessary This
plan was not found to be as far-reaching as
desired, and arrangements were made to
have The yestry of the First Presbyterian
church opened every THURSDAY that applica-
tions for help might be made there. Ar
rangements were also made by missionary
committee for the regular and frequent hold-
Ing of prayer meetings, 10 which as many as
possible among the poorest classes were to he
urged to come
lady, to whom a salary was paid was
hired TO do missionary work. The efforts
made 10 retain her services show that her
labors must have been faithful. and pro-
ductive of much good. She left in june