Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-08-22

SIDE In the country. closer inspection
reveals stream Of water running down
from the gallery back Of the platform,
in a kind of cascade to the baptismal
pool.
Three thousand people attend the Fri
day evening service during hot summer
evenings Connected with the church IS
q Sunday breakfast association also,
temple college, where bookkeeping,
literature. penmanshp, geometry, etc
I'm fact. everything in science. music,
manual training and kindergarten IS
taught. After peeping into many class
rooms we got a glimpse OF the two great
engines which drive the dynamos and
furnish the power for the lights ana
drive the air through the ventilating
shafts.
The Temple College is not the realza-
ton Of a plan which sprung minerva
like from the brain OF one man. 1t was
organized to meet actual and pressing
needs. Many young men and women
i'm PHILADELPHIA left school at an early
age. because they did not care TO study;
or because they We're obliged TO so 10
work. Now they cannot, for lack or
time. or will not for shame, attend the
public schools and take their places In
children's classes. Some of them are
supporting. not only themselves, but a
father or mother Most of them are
between the ages OF 1G and 30. The
courses are not for those who can get
an education elsewhere. Temple College
aims TO reach those who could not,
through any other agency, receive the
education they need and desire The
college has the power to confer degrees.
The gymnasium, said TO be the largest
I'm the city. is a hundred feet long ana
slxty-four feet wide. About 800 are en-
rolled. The physical director Mr. {. NJ
Z Williams former pupil Of DIR. Ander-
son OF the Yale Gymnasium, conducts
advanced classes for older and younger
men. and elementary training classes
| for lads.
Miss NJ. A. Shetky has charge OF the
womans department.
STARTED BY a LITTLE GIRL.
The great temple, with its manifold
| ministrations, began in a Sunday school,
| ne ala John Wanamaker's Bethany, and
! The legend is that the Sunday school
| in the little Westinghouse at Grace ana
/ Mervine became so large in proportion
| TO its small quarters that no more
scholars could be received. Applicants
were turned away because there was
| "no more room" A 5-year-old GIRL VINO
| was thus shut out sald' VIII saw
| my money and build a bigger Sunday
/
| soon found room for that little lamb III
! The larger mansions Of His Rather
! bouee. She left all her estate-5i cents
In a little red pocket-book-as legacy
! 70 Grace church. That was only FOUR
| +een wears ago. The great plant OF the
! institution Is now worth hair mllllon
of dollars. and Temple Sunday school
is no longer obliged to turn away schoi-
! ars for lack Of room. Inc tota
| church membership is 2fl, anu TIE
largest attendance at all services on any
one Sunday 1915; average attehuahce
a. Sunday school. 100; societies in the
church, 81 Temple College enroiineit doi
1Sq7-'98 31l5; including lecture courses
& 75o cost Of the buildings and GROUNDS
| tnclnding the Temple College and nos
pital, $4,000. .,....,.. o.,
Ike all the other institutions OF
| +bo temule the Samaritan Hosplta
was the answer TO cry OF heeu
/ Iorge section OF Northern Phiiadei'
1T vras remote from the hospltais
A., offort TO supply the want mad peer
ma1e without success. DR.. ConWeH toor
/ boid Of IT, and with him there Is IL
| thought OF failure. DOCTORS anu So,
,,,o,,er were found willing 10 Cooperate
W ~ bosnital was opened in 1872. i
-tot,s maternity and childrens wares
! "a medical and surgical wards TOT eaci
sew training school for nurses give
regulor instruction as part OF the Fem
rIe College. These nurses, when called u
minister in the homes of the wei-lo-uo
rrceive pay. which goes into the treasuTS
Of the hospital, but they go gratuitousiS
into the needy homes, ana no place :, !
zoo moor for their loving ministratiohs Il
~ name of the Great Physician.
M mr. Coburn, who is in charge mas th'
o1Si.tonce of three house surgeons i9u
r,odicaI chiefs. six dispensary ch,els
nOd Twelve nurses in training. The nos
,' already has fifty beds ana IS seen
i nc, enlarged means with which 10 40
larger work. - Noo,y q,
Mr. Editor, as l turned my back OF
~. wonderful church, and its more won
SorfrI pastor and the work OF ines
aoonIe l could not help wishing II De
ion@ed in dear old Richmond' surrey
ne reproach that is so often cast %
CHRISTIAN people does not belong 10 mos mos,
80 Crace Temple; that they are So Dus'
90 ,hinking of far away Heaven Una
nv do not bestow attention upon I'M
nearbv life on earth. ~
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