New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-06
EMBODYING THE GOSPEL.
DR. DUFFIELD SAYS THAT THIS is TRUE
OF THE CHILD'S HOSPITAL

AT TIE FORTY FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING THE
GOOD WORK DONE rs REVEALED.
IN the handsome little chapel Of the Nursery and
Child'e Hospital. at Lexngton-ave. and Fiftyhrst-
st. Yesterday the forty fifth annual meeting OF
tho institution was held. The Rev. DR.. Howard
II Dufreld delivered address. In which he
praised highly the good work done for mothers
and babies
He told how Christ wept over Jerusalem. and said
that II the Master looked to-day at the great cities
of the world full OF sin and its consequent results.
suffering and sorrow there no doubt that
His sympathetic heart. divine and yet 80 truly
human would send up the same cry. How often
would have gathered thy children together. even
as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings.
and We would not" Helping the fallen and the
helpless lie the embodiment Of the Gospel. he said.
and the Nursery and Childs Hospital was there
fore Gospel work.
Many people remain pure and good simply be-
cause they have never been tempted, he con-
cuded. and It is great temptations and great
victories that make great characters But be-
cause there are those who fall slip II does not
follow that they should be helped to rise. nor
that they cannot remain standing afterward
s. The hospital a member OF the Board Of Man
ayers explained takes. Of course great many
respectable but INDECENT women as well as tho
Unmarried mother but the latter seemed 10 be tho
one that touched the chords of DR.. Dufhed's heart
most and he dwelt largely on her case i do
not see" he said why the wealthy people who
aided so generously the hundred days war would
not do likewise for a work that has blessed New
York FOR nearly half hundred years.
The secretary's report showed that during 1898
aas women and 800 children admitted to the
hospital that l35 women had been trained as
n,l;sery maids sent out as wet nurses and two
children adopted. The vegetable garden connected
with the hospitals country home. on Staten lsIahd'
supplied the patients with an abundance OF sum
mer and winter vegetables. and the home school
Was divided into four grades and carried on under
the supervision OF the Board Of Education. One
hundred and thirty-nine children who were over
age were given to parents and guardians. Because
Of the war II was said. many mothers entered
the hospital for shelter who would not have done
so had their husbands not marched away under
the country's flag ,
The treasurer's report showed that during the
last year s67 las G6 had been spent for the hospital
and s32 1870 50 for the Staten Island home leaving
Dr. Augusta Cawood who is Of the resident
wb,sb stated tba e on January J. 1885 there we're
in the home "a women and 211 children, ana tna az
little ones had died. The rate Of mortality was vas
said to be per cent There , are at present IN 'o
Il was Announced bv DR.. Thomas S. Southworth
ha, new instead OF s Ths is called
formaldehyde gas.
OFFICERS FOR 1899.
The entire stan OF officers was reelected. They
are as follows: Mrs Algernon s. Sullivan mist
directress, Mrs. William NJ. Kingsland. second d.
rectress Mrs William c. Egleston th'rd di-
rectress; Mrs. Frederick y. Goddard, treasurer
Mrs Henry Mills Day, assistant treasurer; Mrs
Edward Oothout. secretary, and Miss caroline ii.
Patterson. assistant secretary. , l..
Mothers who enter the hospital are required 10
remain there with their infants for three months.
and the plan has been found TO be an excellent
one. 1t was said. in that time the maternal love
is reused and often becomes the salvation or
mothers who had intended deserving their niue
ones and going back TO the world with impehi'eht
hearts