New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-18
"STSTER LILY" AND HER WORh
SHE TELLS OF THE POOR AND NEEDY
IN THE sLUMS OF LONDON.


IN THE sLUMs OF LONDON
THE PHILADELPHIA Press contains the following
Interesting account OF Sister Lily the London
deaconess who will make address before the
Worlds W C. T. T. convention In Toronto next
week:
Sister LILY OF the sisterhood Of the London
Wesleyan West End Mission. made her fourth
public appearance in Philadelphia yesterday after
noon. in the First Baptist Church, Broad and Arch
SITS
TN the course OF an interesting talk TO large
congregation on the subject OF her work in Eng
land she said: The IVES; End OF London Is 50
big and varied that It is almost impossiole TOT
any one outside OF II 10 understand its scope Ihere
nre thousands there who never 20 TO churcn people
whom the church needs. and in answer 10 this
need ten years ago the Rev Mark !. Pierce and the
Rev Hugh Price Hughs founded there mission
no, for tho poor alone but for everybody who was
in need OF salvation About II lay every phase OF
life The West End includes not only dire poverty,
blu, also the houses OF the royal family. the fash
ionable and pleasure seeking population, the mid
dle-classes and the laboring people.
when Mr. Pierce and Mr.. Hughs went there
one OF the first OF their works was the founding
~ our sisterhood Nobodys teaching apart from
thor life amounts 10 much and We have had
the great personal help OF Mrs. Hughs. She has
aided greatly in the advance OF woman. We do
not wan, to 10 the work OF men; We only want TO
take the place that belongs 10 US MIS- 1fughs
felt tina, women ought 10 help their sisters
VARIED WORK.
Tho mission in which she worked with US be-
longs TO the Methodist Church. but IT is quite
non-sec,arian We have women from every church
working with us and are broader for H.
our work is wonderfully varied. Ten years ago
"a. had only three sisters We went among the
people and felt their needs. At the very first We
started a nursery. ~
81 IL ,mpOssillc 10 walk the streets OF West
London without being accosted again ana again
Iv fallen women. There are thousands and thou-
sand, OF them. We have rescue MISSION io'
we generally pursue that branch OF work most
aereea bic. TO w. We had TWO educated and cult
ured kris who worked In a Kitchen In SUM;
their own floors. and except that they were clean.
we're In every way Ike their neighbors.
DRAWING ROOM PRAYER MEETING
"st. James's Hall is the hall where come the
people from the highest 20 the middle class Mr..
tjushs once asked any one there who wanted
70 he converted 20 stand up. Among the twenty
who did so was the wife OF a famous Indian ON
cor She said that in the Eastern service II was
almost Impossible FOR women OF her class TO learn
ANYTHING OF religion. She asked me 20 call on ner
went TO see her. shall never forget the earnest
ness with which she greeted me She hau hNe
ladies' like herself 10 meet me there was a
ii,,i. nervous hut really. that fashionable West
End draw ng-room was turned into prayer-meet-
Ing. . .,.,..o, -
Another type is pretty, cultivated, young
CHI who me- in A stylish carriage 10 see me. She
ss,iI shs never could 90 anywhere without being
hainprred by her wealth. We went to St James's
Hall | prayed with her, and after that whenever
She mas been happy and bright "a she had never
been before.