Evening star., 1898-10-07

tho e,aneraI convention and the pro-
ceediugs of the board OF m1ssloils aie ies9,
lutions reports of committees anu ISroi 10
Of attempted legislation on woman u
eraDizad work in the church, resulting III
the establis shment of the woman auALiiai
at the semi-centennial meeting OF the poat q q
of missions in 1871, and IN the passase VI
the canon of deaconesses at the ceiitei!ilLai ntd
meeting of the general convention III looS'
the Introduction of the subject 10 tlie III coi-
sideratIOn of general conNelt!oil &c "e 'Iile
been due to the Right KEY III Se,oiiNo
Potter bishop of Pennsylvania, IN leND,
..F'or thirty-nine years. extending throus II
thirteen successive sessions OF the genera
convention the idea of womans WORK, uh-
der canonical law and protecuoh, hau tilua fI..a
heen kept more or less prominently belore
the mind of the church; but, meanwhile
without waiting either for law or LOT pro-
lection the women themselves nau peen
going steadily on, in every "edh p'ti - -
and mission where their services were re-
ouired collecting the offerings OF the pep
ple for the support of the minister, teach-
ing in the Sunday schools, preparing tMne M
children for confirmation, Vlsltlhg the SIN
and ringing the church bell.
Voluntary Work Organized.
.eBeginning with the year 1915 we have
the voluntary work OF women Al 'ie
church organized, under the clergy, into
sisterhoods. first parochial, next diocesan,
and finally, general with affiliated branches
homes of their own, both in cities and in
country nlaces They are too well known
r. need enumeration-the Holy Communion,
Ct Marv's the Good Shepherd. st. Margar-
ats All Saints st. John Baptists, st.
John the Evangelist, the Holy Child Jesus,
the Holy Nativity, st. Monica's, the An
nunciation, the Epiphany, the Resurrec-
ton, the TRANSPORTATION ana oeners, mo- nos
less than twenty-five in all, scattered
through the twenty-one dioceses or Aipany'
California. Chicago, Delaware fIorlaa'
Fond du Lac Georgia, Long Island, LOUIS
lana. MARYLAND Massachusetts, MilWau-
kee, Missouri, Newark, New Jersey, New
York Pennsylvania, southern Ohlo, spring
| field Tennessee and Washington.
"These sisterhoods have developed ato-
eether new lines of womans work in ano
| for the church. They have the charge OF
admirable church schools and of lnstitu-
| tions of all kinds-hospitals, orphanages,
penitentiaries homes for the ased ano
| shelters for babies, and they do mission
| work of the very best quality in several
parishes and with especially marked sue
| cess among the colored people In Balti-
| more The record of the Sisters of st.
| Mary In Memphis during the yellow fever
| of 1875 as told by the Rev. DR.. Dix, Is
| sufficient of itself to win for such workers
| the lasting love and gratitude of a church
| honored and blessed by such devotion
| ..In close connection with sister'hood work
| we have the practical revival of the order
| of deaconesses, long before the actual ca
| nonical legislation on the suDJect was
| reached by general convention In 1SS9.'
| The report gives a history or this move,
| ment. discussing in detail the question OF
| community life
| None Exempt.
| After giving an account of the training
| school for church workers projected in The
! diocese of Massachusetts, the report con-
| tinues:
| And so we come round again to the
| original proposition of all these triennial
| reports, that every church woman is cx-
| pected to be church worker. the only
| difference between now and earlier days
| being that, today, she is expected to be q
more thoroughly trained church worker