The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-02-15
j. B. Barnaby CO.
MEMORIAL MEETING.
Anniversary of Oath OF Mary A.
Hopkins.
Exercises at the Clemence Street. MISSION
Last Evening.

The second annual servico commemora-
the founder OF the mis- ion on Cl.mence
street. WAS held last evening in It's small
and Inadequate home quarters.
lt was gratifying TO the friends OF the
late Miss Hopkins, some of whom had felt
while she was living the magnetic touch
Of her uplifting Christian character TO
see SO many present and 10 note tue deep
feeling or love which was manifested for
the dear departed one, and the sympathy
for the inmates Of a home 10 which Miss
Hopkins hal bsen blessing from her
early ohildhood's years. Mingled with
this thess was the feeling of the Rrsat
loss TO the mission ard to Christian work
throughout our whole city.
Ministers and prominent Christian lay
men OF the oity representing vsrions
branches Of the Churs h OF Jesus Christ
were drawn together by admiration, re-
spect and love for woman whose hands
and heart took up most willingly In her
Masters name Christian service from
which many coed women would instinc-
lively shrine with the thought that they
co lid be more prohtably employed than
in Spending their time and hazardi q
their henltn In casting pearls before those
who bad lost all seEss Of shame and stood
eyer rsady 10 barter their souls to whoever
would buy. IL was scene such as good
Bishop Brooks had in mind when be
wrots Let TIE Quaker al q rhe Romanist
stoop together To lift the drunkard from
the gutter Let the churchman and the
agnostic struggle side ty side against the
pestilence of the dram shop ard the 1ltn
Of the tenement housa Nav. more; Lst
men who are widely at variance about
great points of theology still plead with
tbs same stricken soul. that IL shall know
the first great truth Of ihs love Of Christ
ha atf iyC or IN al irif
Some one has said rs illustrating a
growing sentiment in our day: "we do
not reed n certificate of church member
ship from one who would risk his life To
svve our CHILD from drowning
DIR. ;. X Hartman presided at the
meeting and hspp lysintrcdcecd the var
ious speakers. Rev. w :. McIntire Of
st. lauls M. i. church, who had another
engagement. was introduced before the
meeting had ieen formally opened
There were moist eyes as he spoke Of his
many interviews with Miss Hopkins
when the thought of founding the mis-
sion was near her heart. Considering the
prospect of financial aid, the outlook wss
not promising, but the gUcd womsn's
topefulness was wonderfully great and
by PRAYER and work she melted the cl 1uds
which seemed to hide the sun from view.
At the close OF Mr.. McIntire's remarks
MISS $. j. Williams lnts of the sophia
Llttio nome, VINO from frf CHOSEN WORK
seemed we'll qualified 10 lead as she did
in prayer, said that the Lord wonld re-
member the mission, and there was many
an inward amen when she prayed that
God would sauctify Miss HOPKINS death
TO the cause che rad AZ heart. and raise
up friends In ue faithful workers for the
Masters cause, FOR which the dear do.
parted one rer derod up with entire viii
lingness her life when her future seemed
promising.
DIR. Hartman read from / Cor Kill.
Perhaps Miss Hopkins cbaraCt. + never
came cut In the chapter letter than In the
fourth and seventh VERSES, Charity, or
love, suifereth long ntd is kind. charity
sinDeth not, charity Vaunteth not itsslt
is not ppffed up. Bearath all things. TO-
lievsth oil thugs, endursth all things.
Rev. W. III. PGlmsr spoke OF the
motherly feeling whish Miss Hopkins had
for those for whom her soul yearned. H.
A. Ibeit Daniel A. Cook and Kev. Mr.
Hunt spoSe briefly tf Miss Hopkins.
Rev. f. u. Wesley and kev. Floyd ".
lomkiDs, Jr., came into the meeting late
owing To other engagements.
Zach rad kindly and nppreointivs
words as TO Aiiss Hopkins character,
and hoped the mission might in the
thought OF her deGth do still greater
work I'm the future than it had done I'm
the past
Ibo misslon now in charge of Mrs.
Lev, whu seems well nuapitd f,r her
WORK. and 10 IL Eopsd she will be aiL ed
fiHat cially and ty Cnristian workers 50
that the mission may be success aud
great good 10 this city come tberefrom.