Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-09-23
IN THE CHU RICH ES

Arrangements are being made for the
construction of an annex to the Sibley
Hospital, which is under the control of the
Lucy Webb Hayes Training School and
Deaconesses Home of this city, and it is
expected the corner stone will be laid in
the course of a few weeks
Speaking of this, DIR. A. II. Ames, the
superintendent of the institution mention
ed, said: The deaconess is in the high
est sense philanthropist. But philanthro-
Ply is both a science and an art. In neither
can success be looked for except by train
ing. Statistics show that in the industrial
world, while the population from 1850 to
1880 increased 90 per cent, the number of
persons engaged in occupations requiring
skilled labor increased III per cent, or
nearly double.
ITO meet this demand for skilled labor
the Womans Home Missionary Society
founded in Washington the Lucy Webb
Hayes Training School. The location was
a happy one. The questions with which
governments have to deal become more and
more sociological. The mass of informal
ton yearly gathered by our national gov
eminent bearing upon subjects with which
deaconesses deal is astonishing to those not
acquainted with the facts, and all this is
accessible to our students. The congestion
of our cities is becoming less in the slum
districts, but Increasing in the suburban.
III Ne" 1oIh from lS4O 10 i'>JO the SUM
districts increased in population only per
cent. The other wards increased 131 per
cent. In Philadelphia the slum wards in
creased per cent; the remainder increased
16S per cent The same is true OF all
large cities. The bearing of these facts
on the training of deaconesses needs little
amplification.
The national training school began in
1891 with eight students. This past year It
has had ffty-two. At the recent com
mencement twenty-three We're graduated
and sent into the fields of the Woman's
Home Missionary Society over all parts Of
our land.
The course of study is designed spe-
cificaily to prepare women for practical
Christian work. One-half, probably of the
course of instruction is given to the study
of the Bible, a proportion not too large IN
view of the facts concerning the value of
the Bible in training both the mental and
moral faculties.
while the inner life of the school is
helpful and spiritual. the students do much
outside work, conducting seven mission
kindergartens, two industrial schools, two
Sunday schools and doing much pastoral
visiting.
"A hospital belongs to the school, af-
fording practical training in nursing. One
hundred and twenty patients have been
treated during the past eight months, most
of them In the free wards. In addition.
thirty patients have been nursed in their
homes. a large number of them among the
poor.
I'VE greatly need that individuals or So
cieties shall aid by endowing a perpet-
ual scholarship. securing the education
each year of deaconess, whose works will
go on blessing the world when the donor IS
at rest in heaven
The greatest need Is a new building.
Accommodations now are insufficient to
meet the demand of applicants. The Wo-
mans Home Missionary Society has re-
Gently purchased grounds contiguous to
the school, and funds only are needed to
make Rust Hall reality. No more worthy
nj the twentieth century, donations
can be found"
which Is being signed by the Christian En-
deavorers throughout the United States for
presentation to Congress at an early period
in it's next session:
I'VE the undersigned representing three
and quarter millions of Christian En-
deavorers, do hereby most respectfully and
most earnestly call upon you to use your
utmost endeavors and to exhaust all hon
orable means te secure the prompt expul-
sion of Mr.. Brigham H Roberts of Utah.
an avowed polygamist from the House of
Representatives. in accordance with the
National Constitution In article l. section 8,
paragraph g which reads as follows:
Each house (of Congress) may deter
mine the rules Of its proceedings, punish it's
members for disorderly behavior, and, with
the concurrence of two-thirds, expel
member
1--WE also do most respectfully and most
earnestly call upon you to your utmost
means to secure the submission of an
amendment to. the National Constitution
to the legislatures of the several states de-
filming legal marriage to be monogamic, and
making polygamy and polygamous cohabi-
tation, under whatsoever guise or pretense
a crime against the United States, punish
able by severe penalties. including disfran-
chisement and disqualification to vote or
to hold any Office Of honor or emolument
under the United States. or any state or
territory thereof"
Rev. J. O. Knott, formerly pastor Of Hp-
worth M E. Church South, this city. has
returned from a trip to Europe Among
the places he visited were the birthplace Of
and grave of John Wesley. Referring to
this Mr.. Knott said:
John Wesley was the personifcation of
Methodism. He was child of Providence.
as was Methodism. Both his father and
mother were children of non-conformists.
and both became members of the Estah.
lished Church despite early training. Their
sons, John and Charles, however, had non
conformist blood in their veins and became
the most aggressive and independent
preachers of their day.
I'm what Is called the Isle Of Axholme in
northern Lincolnshire. Is still to be seen
the quaint village Of Epworth, five miles
from q railroad. and no larger now than IL