The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-08
COME TO PLEAD FOR LEPERS.
TWO SIMPLE MISSIONARIES WHO
FIND NEH YORK COLD.
20 ertainly You can't See the bishop" The,
We're Told at Bishop Potters Door
And The, Didn't See the Trust Com.
uany's Cold--Phiiadelphia Gave $500.

uany's Cold--Phiiadelphia Gave $500.
The Rev Henry T. Weiss and his wife,
! Moravian missionaries, ere in this city to
| solicit funds for the little Bet hesda Home
| for lcperS in SGrinam. or Dutch Guiana.
! They have devoted their lives to working
| for and among the lepers Of South America
and an going back to the task They were
| -,nt =" slc United States by the Leper Board
! OF the Protestant churches Of Dutch
| GUIANA.
II il the opinion Of most OF those who
have seen the pair that if simplicity and
| devotion 10 a cause were all tina, il neces-
sary TO collect money. the Leper Board
could not have done better than to select
young Mr. Weiss and his no less ent husiastic
wife. But perhaps their very simplicity
may interfere with the success Of their
! present mission.
They have been missionaries all their
| lives Mr. Weiss was born in the Barbados
where his father and grandfather were
| missionary Bishops He and his wife are
both German and have some trouble In
making English-speaking folks understand
them. Furthermore. il Is their first trip 10
! the United States and the contrast with
Surinam il sometimes a little too striking.
A rebuff by servant of Bishop Potter
| almost disheartened them. The sight of a
| stream of busy men pouring through
| quck-revolving turn-stile door confused
| them.
The turnstle door was In the North
American Trust Company's building Mr..
| Weiss met a representative of that company
| down in Surinam and heard from him about
| the great banks and trust companies and
| the wealth in this city. So when he and his
wife got 10 this city they went arm-in-arm
TO the particlar trust company they had
| heard most about TO tell their story and
| They got through the turnstile somehow
without separating and appealed TO a
| mailman. They wanted the North American
Trust Company, they said. The mailman
| didn't seem sympathetic. Mr.. Weiss
couldn't tell just who in tho North Ameri-
! can Trust Company he wanted to see, but
he told about the lepers. The mailman be-
| came almost brusque.
| So the missionary and his wife once more
watched their chance and got through
| the turnstne by budding together in the
same compartment a. the thing whirled
around Then they went to their board
ing place al 225 West Twenty-third street,
| wondering why the man they had met in
| South America hadn't told them about
| the hall man too.
! New York is so great" said Mr. Weiss,
last night. in his broken English. Per
haps 1t would laugh at our little colony
VI l'VNl NI'TN' 'lidi tilt kDIu
would be brought to my room when told
| my story But New York hasn't time
| TO even listen. A friend told lis not TO mind
| because New York hasn't even time TO die.
| at their Offices we can 60 to their homes"
Then IL will be the Wants inter
'Wc went to Bishop Potter's house.
explained her husband, and the servant
| opened thc door just a little and said No,
Cn-'t the Rilhpr1s IF
| you can't
| But this country would be interested
| in our colony II they knew about the levers.
| Our colony il at Groot Chat ilon. a little
peninsula made by bend in the Surinam
| River just below the town Of Paramaribo
| There are from 1000 to 5000 lepers there.
| If they are seen in the street they are sent
| TO the Government colony az prisoners
| We want them In our colony where each
pat will have his own little cottage
and be cared for by the nurses and mis-
sonaries of the Protestant churches.
we want accommodation for hundreds
We can have but fifteen in the colony now
Whe1, we first came we thought nothing
of telling how much money we needed,
but now | am afriad you will laugh"
Then with tears in her eyes Mrs Weiss
asked her husband to toll how much was
needed He said $4,000.
The missionaries We're in PHILADELPHIA
for a week and there secured $500 They
have been here a week without getting
cent.
'But," said Mrs. Weiss, .the Rev. DR..
Mnckay Of the Fifth Avenue Collegiate
Church and tho Rev. DR. Rurrell of tho
Marble Collegiate Church have told us
that we can have their Thanksgiving col
lections IL they haven't been already prom
ised for some other cause
The missionaries have many letters Of
hearty recommendation, including this
from Arthur Deyo. the United States Con-
suar agent at ParamaribO.
The bea ror Of this is the Rev Henry Thnodor
Weiss Of tho Moravisn Mission Church. and
resident missionary director OF tho Protestant
Teper Establishment Mt Grcot CHIT illon, on
the Surlnnm River in thia colony
Mr. Weiss visits tho United states with n
view Of interesting tho people in his work
and nlso to solicit financial aid 10 further his
purposes OF alleviatinR tho sufreringa Of the
lcpers under his charge.
MIR Weiss and his COMPANIONS are making
noble sacrifice in their efforts for these
lepors.
7 commend him 70 the people Of tho United
Stetes and feel confident that they will CON
continue the good work inaueurated 10 re-
ovc the suffering of those afflicted with such
| q dreadful sickness.
tSigned, NnTHrR DrYo,
United States consular Agent.
The British Consul, J. p W. Pigott, refers,
in his letter 10 the Rev. Mr. Weiss rs his
personal friend and to the work in the
leper colony as most praiseworthy
ANY contributions may I've given 10 Mr..
or Mrs. Weiss or sent TO the Rev G. Goedel
Of the Mary F. DrcNel Home at POO South
College avenue, Philadelphia