The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-02-19
IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL SERVICE.
Burial Of a Noble Woman Who Devoted
Her Life TO Others


Her Life TO Others.
New York. Feb lS.-The chapel Of the
Z rev st. Luke's hospital. at One Hundred
and Fourteenth street and MCrningsidt
! drive. was crowded yesterday afternoon
at ( o'clock when services were held over
7 the body of Sister Anne Ayres, the
I founder OF the Sisterhood OF the Holy
Communion. The blue and white striped
dresses and the white caps OF the nurses
gave touch OF hopefulness to the SOL
emn scene.
The Rev Dr. Glover, assistant rector OF
the hospital; the Rev. DR.. Steen. of the
Memorial Church OF the Ascension; the
Rev Dr. Mottet, Of the Church OF the
Holy Communion, and the Rev. Or,
George S Baker. superintendent and
rector Of the hospital. participated in the
services. DIR. Baker will accompany the
body to Johnland today, where it viii be
Inferred beside the body of the Rev. Or.
Muhlenherg, who founded st. I.ul;c's
hospital.
Dr. Baker, after reading the service,
added few words of her life OF resigna
ton to help humanity.
Sister Anne's life OF devotion to charity,
which was more than fifty years in
length, was called into action by the
story Of Jephthah's sacrifice of his daugh-
ter Ia accordance with VOW The SER
mon from which the beginning of her
lifework dates was preached by Rev. Or.
Muhlenberg, the rector of St Paurs. at
College Point, In the summer of lI5.
Miss Ayres was visiting DIR. Mullen
hergs sister and niece. The picture he
drew in his pulpit Of Jephthah, the war
Iior, who in agony Of prayer for victory
promised to sacrifice the first thing on
his way home from a victorious battle
field; the greeting of his daughter as she
came outside the city walls with her
minstrels 10 welcome him home, and his
relentless fulhllment of his vow by offer
ing up the dearest possession on earth to
him, made such profound impression
upon the young woman that she decided
to consycrate her life to the church ana
its work She was ordained on All
Saints day, lS5, as Sister Of the Holy
Communion.
She established parish school at No
$50 Sixth avenue, and when Miss Bree-
wort Joined the order with the name OF
Sister Meta. an infrmary was established
in the rear tenement house in Sixth
avenue near Twenty-frst street.
Sister Anne was one of the best known
nurses during the cholera scourge of that
time. Sister Catharine and Sister Har-
riet were next 10 join the ranks, within
a few years. Both of them are still
living-Sister Catharine in charge OF the
Shelter for Respectable Girls and Sister
Harriet at the head of st, Mary's Sister
hood.
Sister Annes work was given for forty
wears to the Sisterhood in ST. LuSe's
hospital at st. Johnsland, In her later
years she was the associate and closest
companion of DR., Muhlenberg. and when
she died she left the request that she
might he remembered only as his pupil
and helper, having destroyed all her Jour-
nails and writings which might add to
her Individual memory.
She was In her eightieth year when
she died at St Lukes from the effects OF
bronchitis on Sunday morning.
The sisterhood which she founded has
been the root from which have sprung
scores of sisterhoods in the Protestant
Episcopal church, with several thousand
members. all over the world.