The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-16

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This gas-hghted, gas-inspired Christian
ity we are triumphant in, and draw back
our robes from the touch of the heretics
who dispute it. We had better get rid of
our smoke and our organ pipes at once.
Leave these and the Gothic windows and
the painted glass to the property man;
give I'D your carburited-hydrogeni host
in one healthy expiration, and look after
lazarus upon the door step. For there IS
= rue church where one human hand
laeets another helpfully, and that IS the
only Holy or mother church that ever
was or ever shall be-
Now we are learning that Christ dwells
not in temples made with hands, but that
we can best find Him in the home Of the
lowly. the neglected and sorrowing, and.
render unto Him acceptable service in
ministry to our fellow men.
This writer again says: The word
lady means primarily loaf-giver, and we
have a right to the title lady. only so far
as we communicate that help to the poor
representatives of our Master, which
women once, ministering to Him of their
substance, were permitted to extend to
that Master Himself: and we are known,
as He Himself once was, In the breaking
Of bread
1.-THE benefciencies Of the church. an
cient and modern, Catholic and protes-
tant. have been greatly enlarged and in
creased by the ministry Of its holy wom-
en-; whether as prophecies, as fellow
iaborers in the gospel, as deaconesses, as
sisters of charity, or as organized bodies
for aid and missionary work in the mod
ern church.
Francis Willard called the Woman's
Home Missionary society THAT blessed
John the Baptist, that prepared the way
for women, and opened highways to the
great causes of home philanthropy
Miss Spaulding then briefly mentioned
the many industrial stations of the
Woman's Home Missionary society:
THE deaconess work of the Woman's
Home Missionary society" she continued,
has cost the society less than the small
est bureau of the society in any other
direction because the work of the
deaconess is largely self-supporting. The
Woman's Home Missionary society has
invested in deaconess homes 1921, co., The
these thirty homes and in a few single
points of labor 3O4 deaconesses and pro-
bationers are employed. Outside the
Woman's Home Missionary society under
local organizations are fully as many
deaconesses and institutions 1t is i'm
possible to estimate what this means to
the church in rescue and relief work, and
In blessed soul-comforting, soul-saving |
service"
Miss Spaulding then rapidly sketched a |
trip through the west, pointing out on a
map the location of the deaconess homes |
at Los Angeles San Francisco, Salt Lake, |
Denver. Kansas City, Kan. and Wichita, |
giving the number of workers, and some |
incidents Of work connected with these |
homes, speaking especially of the work |
Of the Oriental bureau of the Home Mis- |
sionary society and the much needed |
work among the Chinese
Great progress has been made at Wich- |
ita in the purchase Of a home for the |
deaconesses. located at 475 St. Francis |
avenue. On this a payment of $1,000 has
been made, and another 81 001 is due in !
May to complete the final payment OF |
this several hundred is yet to be raised, |
which they hope to secure in subscrip-
tons before the home is dedicated on |
Sunday afternoon by Bishop Vincent
hoilt lueu uISbu the endowment or a |
deaconess home, stating that 5000 put
cut at moderate interest, would bring in
an income sufficient to support a deacon
ess in service during her lifetime, pass
ing on at her death to another worker
and thus supporting a perpetual service
IN this excellent work.
She said in closing: 1--WE have watched
with interest the experiment of the Rev
Charles Sheldon to learn what is one
mans idea of how Christ would manage
a great daily newspaper. Not many Of
us are called to edit great daily news
papers. but all of US are called to per-
form duty to our fellow men, and no
one is in the slightest doubt as to what
Christ would do under these circum-
stances, for He came to give Beauty for
ashes, the oil Of joy for mourning and
the garment Of praise for the spirit Of
heaviness'