The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-01-05
Brief History ofheLo-
cal Branch Of a Grand
Organization.

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their immediate utility, depends much
upon their brevity, therefore, / shall
endeavor to Gull the most pertinent
points from the masses of statistics,
and give succinctly my impressions,
after careful consideration, of the
Kings Daughters of Greenville Circle,
No. 2, as a whole.
From its incipiency it shows the
mustard seed OF real life. To the
warm-hearted women of Greenville
there came sudden realization of an
important work given them TODD. BY
persistent effort, overcoming dlscour-
agement that, at the outset, might
have seemed paralyzing, they have
done the work pre-fgured in the lines
of Sir Sens Minis:
"There shall come time when eaca
shall to another
Be as Christ would have him, broth-
er unto brother:
When the laws of creed, and speech,
and war which sever
Shall be fused in our humanity for
ever"
This thought has verified the sue
cessful work done in Greenville, by
true women, having on their shields
the loftiest desire-'I serve" Their
struggles. SO guided, despite some pre-
liminary pain Of effort, have been
singularly successful. There is no
doubt Of this progressing work being
ever lifted into higher fields Of useful
fitness, wherein time shall surely reg
lister its rich fruits. At present the
scope and the typical divine practicali-
ties Of the hospital work include feed
ing the hungry, clothing the naked,
nursing the sick and offering moral and
physical support to those in the dark
of c.uel mischance,
The flowing tide Of public sympathy
is with the ever increasing band Of
workers in the particular service OF So
curing and fitting the hospital for
Greenville, making 1t place Of refng g
from the ever increasing food of want,
An equal rate Of progress will give
this beautiful charity, in the coming
years, the honor and facu lty to initiate
| q greater and more monumental work
through the benefcent strength be
queathed it by simple and direct labor
the dignifed persistence of devoted
women. In the pleasant list of socia
obligations that Greenville owes IT.
women, there is none for which i
ought to feel so profound gratitude al
ltor the establishment and maintenance
Of this home for the homeless sick
The absence of such home in com
munity means the condemnation o
modern society, Of society where tht
old allegories yet have a meaning al
through the streets of Vanity Fail
march Christian and Faithful.
Let me give more concrete examples
of the wor k of the circle in the hospit
al: Organized in 1884, through the ct
Yforts of Mrs. Joshua Skinner, Mrs
Walton Shields, Mrs. Deaton, Mrs
lWnl Yerger, Mrs. Harvey Miller, Mrs
is. r. Geise, Mrs. J. M. Jayne, Mrs
iCoppee, and other lovely women. Thu
circle numbered the usual ten. IT.
most ambitious aim was to furnish
lemons and ice, during the heated term
to the absolutely needy. Little thu
circle dreamed Of all their labor was t.
achieve. The story is word for word
lchapter by chapter, like that OF al
work done for others in Christ's name
The little house taken back OF Tn.
Times, Office, furnished by donations
where the first poor patients and waif'
were housed, soon became inadequate
lfor the growing needs Of the institu
Ition. calls came repeatedly from new
eases Of destitution. Prominent mer
and the general public fell at once intc
lime to bid God-speed and to render
Iheln az soon as it became known thai
Ithe small band of women meant to pro
vide. at the city's EXPENSE for the sicA
and homeless. In the early days the
Ilittle home, so meagrely furnished
bsheltered a hundred patients. Thi'
outerown. the circle strong in numbers
with funds increasing at the need, fell
eoual to securing more spacious quar-
ters. to work in broader way. a
suitable building, with larger grounds
was secured in 1897. With these i'm
Iproyements made, the hospital now
nossesses a comfortable bathroom
complete in its appointments, q room
for the trained nurse, q commodioui
kitchen, and other large, airy apart
lments that in comfort and hygienic ar
engagements are faultless. In those
rooms many moving sights have beer
witnessed The little child, the CIR
En- her broken womanhood, the boy,tht
man and the woman; all, all handicap
ped by accident, pauperism and dis
ease have passed here, through loving
and careful hands, some to stronger