The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-14
THEY CHOSE WICHITA
Southwest Kansas MethodiStS
Locate DeconeSS Home.
HAVE BOUGHT PROPERTY
On Southwest Corner of Gen.
trail and Fourth Avenues.

Kansas Methodists have decided to own
and operate a Deaconess Home and
Training School for the benefit Of the
church and humanity. and Wichita has
been selected for the location. The ques-
ton of a home was voted on at the recent
conference at FL Dorado, and the home
will be in charge OF the Southwest Kan
sas conference, but it will be the only
Deaconess Home in Kansas and will be a
most important institution for the church
and for wichita The board under whose
control all the details Of the purchasing OF
a suitable property for the home was
placed, has purchased the handsome resi-
dence at the southwest corner Of Central
and Fourth avenues. The house is two
story and is said TO be in excellent condI-
ton, and there is plenty of ground on
which TO put such other buildings and ar
range such attractions as viii add beauty
to the home 1t is thought the residence
will be enlarged, modernized and rear
ranged so as to be suitable for its new
use.
Miss Spaulding, who Is superintendent
Of the Deaconess Home and College al Los
Angeles, Cal, has been in the city for
week assisting in the work in her line,
and will take charge and introduce the
work throughout Kansas, until the Wich-
tia institution will have become a perman-
ent success. Miss Spaulding is very in
telligent lady and has given her life TO this
work In connection with a committee
from the various Methodist Episcopal
churches of this city she will call upon
the people for such financial assistance
as the new home here viii require.
The deaconess work in the Methodist
Episcopal church has become to be a very
important adjunct to the church work. A
deaconess bears about the same relation
to her church as a Sister Of Charity does
to the Catholic church. Her mission is
one of mercy and help, and the deaconess
is supposed to give her life to the work,
going wherever duty calls her and minis
tering to the sick and needy, both in a
spiritual and physical manner. Some are
trained for nurses and others are trained
for evangelistic work, the latter lending
aid to pastors in their church and revival
meetings. It is necessary for them TO
complete a four years course of study
and the evangeHstic deaconess must COM
P4StE the LSS dldI anu LUZ tpulSc Al ing
ology before she can take up the regular
work. There are special colleges under
the supervision and control OF the church
for this purpose.
The Wichita institution will be simply
a home for the deaconesses who are TO
work in this section. After going out on
their errands of mercy and assisting in
meetings over the conference territory
they can return here and have home in
which to rest the only place they can call
home. This home will be a training
school, but the collegiate part of the work
will have 10 be taken at the regular col
Ieges for that purpose. Here the dea-
conesses will be given a thorough training
in all the practical features Of their LIES
work
1t is not known just when the Wichita
home viii be made ready for dedication to
its new purpose, but the property has hcen
bought and it is understood that the work
Of remodeIiug and repair VIII be com
menced Immediately. In selecting Wich-
tia as the permanent site for the Dea-
coness' Home the Methodists have shown
a kindly appreciation Of this city.