The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-08

the audience. AS Bishop Joyce said they are
the sisters OF mercy of the protestant
Church. and they therefore appeal to the
During the afternoon Mrs Lucy Rider
School, told from the platform what a dea-
coness is. She said she is free woman
a woman who is free from the duties that
employ most women in family life; There
are some women who are thus providenttai-
ly free and who can therefore take up the
life of deaconess. She is free woman,
quired of her and she can relinquish her
position at airy time. She is a trained
woman" continued Mrs. Meyer, land cos
TUNED woman, set-apart woman, whose
duty it is to do the woman's part in the
church work. Her work is spontaneous in
its nature. She visits from house to house.
brushes up the floors, washes the children's
faces, speaks kind words, nurses the sick,
writes for the papers, works in hospitals
kindergarten. does evangelistic work, and
in short does anything and everything that
into the Shiny ways of city's pollution
and holds out her gentle hand Oh, how
many have gone down, all for the lack of
plemented his wife's remarks by saying that
it is the spirit of love for those beneath
us that actuates the heart of a deaconess.
There are about six hundred deaconesses
in the Methodist Church. Bishop Joyce says.
There are thirty-five, deaconess homes in
where the deaconesses live. One of the best
homes in the country is the Elizabeth Gam
Die nome, or CINCINNATI, of winch MISS Kate
Rawls Haynes is superintendent. Rev. H.
c. Weakley, who is superintendent of the
work there. says there are fifty-eight dea-
conesses in the home. There is also q hos
pital conducted by deaconesses in Cincin-
natl, and recently steps have been taken
for the acquisition of home for the aged
in Yellow Springs o., under their guidance.
Tho deaconeSSes of other cities are doing
well as those of Cincinnati, and Mr.: Weak
deaconess board of the Indiana Conference
In reference to the establishment of home
in Indianapolis. He is sanguine that such
a home will shortly be instituted.
The Rev. Andrew J.. Coultas, of Provi-
dence, r. T. delivered q discourse in the the
to the deasoness and her work. His sub
ject was Who Is Sufficient for These
Things?" He said it was not mere chance
command of the Pacific fleet when the hour
of emergency came. His being there was
say who is SUFFICIENT for these things?'
but God answers with a man. The social
question of the twentieth century. said the
question universally asked is Who is suffi
cient for these things?' But God has al
the masculine woman, but the refined, edu-
Gated Christian woman, who with the
great force of heart goes out like the dea-
is greater than the Intellectual force, but
the latter is also necessary in the changed
age in which we live The age OF indi ,a
place to the age of .collectivism or the fac
tory. The model deaconess should. there
fore, have broad knowledge OF ethics, OF
social theories and similar subjects to as
sist her. not because they alone accomplish
the. social regeneration, but because they
the heart. Continuing, the minister spoke
of the motive actuating the deaconess in
motive was that contained in the words
for Jesus, sake" the motto Of the deacon
ess Look not at the glory OF the work,
deaconess first begins she feels that she
could work forever merely for the JOY there
is in it, but time comes when the sensa-
lions of pleasure are bunted and realiza-
ton of the fact that the poor and distressed
are not the idols she first took them to be
often return her ingratitude, and she
learns that ignorance is often Self1Sh ana
Der that what she does is for Jesus sake"
1.-The deaconess's work is applied Christian
ity," the speaker continued. The deaconess
is the incarnated gospel. She is OFTEN called
the angel of mercy, and she is; but first of
all she is woman, a woman with a. conse-
Grated heart, strong courage, an edmcat ie,
telligence to ignorance; refinement to Vul-
garity. There is nothing ethereal about her
she is plan, free woman, Transforming
the world into a nobler form of life"
Bishop Joyce in his morning sermon also
spoke of the deaconess: His discourse was
an hour and half in length and held the
undivided attention of as large an audience
as could possibly get within hearing of his
voice. He said that deaconess was wom-
an who by order of the church was set
apart for distinctively Christian work
among the poor and to do work that nobody
does as @ general thing. The bishop then
set forth the principles of Christ under
which this work is done. Having recently
been around the world he illustrated the eff
fects of the principles here enunciated as
he has seen them In China, Corea, Japan,
India and other lands.
Last evening Miss Margaret E. Todd who
is the Superintendent of the Deaconess
Home, in Providence, r. l., addressed the
convention on the subject of THE Effect Of
the Work Upon the Deaconess Herself.
Miss Todd said that when she first went
same experience that scores of others had
had; she gave up a splendid position with
a fine salary to enter the deaconeSS work
and live on an allowance of 50 a month. But
she said she felt that what she had gained
in the work more than compensated for
what she gave up. Contact with all classes
of people in all conditions must broaden
ones mind" said Miss Todd; lone learns to
have compassion for the weak, poverty
stricken sinful creatures among whom we
work We learn to look for the little grains
Of good and disregard the harvestS of chaff.
OF course we are sometives deceived. But
after all 1 think that as band of women
united for the uplifting of weak, sinful
humanity, we have singular hopefulness
DR.. Rev. Henry w. Bennett. of Ander-
son, also delivered an interesting address
in the evening. The programme for to-day
includes a discussion of the theme, THE
Deaconess in Her Relation to the Sick at
the Tabernacle in the morning; the discus
sion of the theme, THE DeaconeSs in Rela-
ton to Neglected Fields" in the afternoon,
closes the deaconess assembly. There are
numerous sneakers the programme.