The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-14
SCRANTON CHURCHES.
MISS s. c. KRIdBAUM Editor.

work and talk there followed fairs and
festivals. large and small, for the sue
cess Of which every woman's home in
terest was temporarily put aside.
BY skillful management and no small
financial ability $4,000 was accumulated
and applied toward the building and
furnishing of the beautiful church now
| occupied by st. Luke's congregation.
The building finished, thereafter the
same busy hands and brains turned
their attention to the growing city's
| need of charitable work.
A Woman's Guild was organized.
committees We're appointed for visiting
the sick, helping the poor and welcom-
ing strangers, to which have been ad-
| ded those on hospitality, on Sunday
school work, on the Hospital. on the In
dustrial school, on ST. Luke's kinder
garten, the one that works as the centre
of the parish work for the Woman's
Auxiliary of the Church's Foreign and
Domestic Missionary society, the one
forming the now well-known Needle
work Guild, and others, all actively en-
ployed.
One Of the best works, successfully
inaugurated, Is the establishment OF the
Free Kindergartens on the South Side.
which gather in from the street. chill
| dren too young to be admitted to the
public chools. In connection with the
| kindergartens mothers meetings are
held for the encouragement of worm
| out, despairing mothers. Only those
| who know can understand the effect OF
the steady grind of daily labor upon the
| mind and body of overburdened
mothers. No one can calculate the
good accomplished by the Industrial
school with its various departments
sewing, mending, cooking, housekeep-
| ing, during the six winters through
| which 1t has now been held. Furnish
ing and conducting a summer home for
| invalids, provided by the Mems Guild
is another item added to the list and the
| providing Of food for use for the many
hundreds taken by the Mems Guild on
| the annual Free Excursion, also the
| serving of 1t at Lake Ariel.
The committee on missions, now lead
| ing the Parish work of the Woman's
Auxiliary has for many years made
| large contributions in money and in
boxes for missionaries. In this they
| have also the aid of the Girls Friendly
| society which takes special portions Of
| the mission field to aid. The Guild Of
st. Hilda is chiefly occupied with hos
pital and home mission work, besides
| its duties as an "alter guild" in en-
| broidery and care of the altar linen.
| The Girls Friendly society also sus-
tains the Room for Shelter for friend
less girls and women temporarily
stranded in the city, and makes many
scores Of garments annually for the
hospital. 1t also ministers weekly to
the old ladies at the Home for the
Friendless, and has other special work.
The Woman's Guild Of st. Marks, that
Of the Church of the Good Shepherd, st.
Agnes Guild, Dunmore, and st. Cath
crimes, Of the Good Shepherd, are each
and all doing actively and earnestly all
that comes to their hands in parish
work, in city charitable work and in
the wide field of missions.
1t would be an omission to close this
article without a word of praise for
those "who have borne the burden and
heat of the day" from the very begin
ming Of the parish. Strong under diff
culties from first to last, their earnest
spirits have led the way. guiding, in
spring and encouraging the faint
hearted. They will work while the day
lasts and the day is always long for the
"Willing Worker"
| MARION NJ WARREN,