The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-05
HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY
 HELD YESTERDAK.

Vice Presldent-- fficers and Committees EIected-Br eff Address by Rev. Dr. Phil ups-Honorary Members Euralled-In- teresting secretary's Report.
 The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the Home for the Friendess society was held yesterday afternoon at the Church of the Redeemer. Rev. pr. Phil lips, pastor of the Church of the Re deemer, was present and spoke briefly of the good being done by the society and congratulated the members on the great success being met with.
 Mrs. T. B. Osborne, the secretary, then read her report and it was ac- cepted.
 Mrs. William Hillhouse, who has been president of the society for many years, tendered her resignation, which was ac- cepted with expressions of regret, Res- olutions were offered and adopted thanking Mrs Hillhouse for her long and valuable work in the interests Of the society as its president.
 Mrs Justus S. Hotchkiss also resign ed her position as vice president and was placed on the honorary list
 The following officers were elected for the coming year:
 President-Mrs Charles E. Graves.
 Vice president-Mrs. William Hill- house.
 Treasurer-Mrs Timothy Cowles.
 Secretary-Mrs. Thomas B. Osborne.
 Advisory committee-Mr. John c. Hol- c In Charles E. Graves, MT. T. Attwater Barnes.
 Executive committee-Mrs. William EIillhouse, Mrs. T, H. Bishop, Mrs R' c. Stiles, Mrs. Charles E. Graves, Miss E. s. Hotchkiss, Mrs. Timothy Cowles, Mrs Walter Mcfarland Mrs. sherman F. Foote, Mrs William H. Thomson, Mrs w w Rodman, Mrs. F. H. Brown, Mrs Fred R. Cooper Mrs. Thomas B. Osborne, Mrs J. S. Farren, Mrs. T. F. Gibbons, Mrs. Henry T. Blake, Mrs. D.. Thurber Salisbury.
 Honorary memberships. John B. Hotchkiss, Mrs. George w. Staples Mrs Eli Whitney Blake, Mrs. H. w Broughton, Mrs. Justus S. Hotcihkhes Mrs Alexander McAlister.
 Bible class teacher-Miss Mary Grif- fing.
 The secretary's report, which con tained many interesting facts in egard to the society and it's work, is publish ed in full as follows:
 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.
 The work of the Home during this the twenty -ninth year of its eXi stence, has followed it's usual course, simply broadening and deepening its channels, as such work inevitably will, if it be real and needed.
 Our twenty old women have been well cared for, The only disturbing occur encss in their uneventful lives were the deaths of two of their number. There are now in the Home sixteen women over seventy years of age; six of these have passed their eightieth birthday, and one is nearly ninety. Our increas- ing expenses are in part due to the age and feebleness of so many of our house hold yet We assume this cheerfully, for in nearly every instance we stand be- tween these old women and certain misery and privatioF. They look to 'the Home for the Friendaess as the only earthly home open to them in their old age, and they are very happy to rest there, after a long life of poorly re- duited toll.
 During the year ten young women have entered the Home, each pledging herself to redeem her past by life of future good conduct. We have care fully trained them in domestic duties a love for which is a weak woman S best safeguard, and after months of wise and loving oversight, added to careful spiritual instruction, We have sent them out to good homes, better armed than ever before to battle witt, the world and to resist temptation.
 Nearly every young woman whom we receive lays the foundation of char acter while she is in the Home, which ena bles her to live: in the future sn upright, self-respecting Christian life and very few relapse in later years Our special work is to give help to such cases as these, to- women who have sinned, but who are not hardened crim- inals, and we have cause to be thankful that the Home is so often permitted tc be an instrument for salvation.
 Several women have been sheltered through convalescence, and after some weeks of rest have gone back to work grateful for the timely aid.
 Twenty-three little children have been inmates of the Home a some time in the year, the number bn the nursery at any one time seldom exceeding four teen Just now there are only eight
 In August 1S93 little girl was ad- mitted to the Home for the Friendless as it was the only institution open to her. She was diseased and crippled and worse than homeless. Her life had been passed in terror of one who should have protected her, and the sur roundings for the two years before she came to us had been of the lowest and most degraded kind She was familiar with vice and brutality, and had ex- perenced cold hunger and i'll treat ment. From the first day of her en- trance into the Home the sweet purity of her soul was recognized by all around her, and she speedily became the sum- beam in the household. Helpful to all and loved by all, she spent her days of ever increasing suffering in doing for others all that he frail body would per nit She amused the little children she willingly performed any household
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