Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-11
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| dcacOneSSeS was hardly known III
America. Now in the Methodist Epis-
| copal church alone we have from 30
to 90 deaconess Institutions and over
12tr 'ieaconesses. Not less than 80 per
cent # the people of the United States
live III cities with $4,000 population or
more, and year after year the influx to
the cities is greater. on the one hand
bers most Of them in comfortable cir
| cumstances. on the other hand, the
embittcred and impoverished masses,
! most of whom are not only Indifferent
to the church, but often times look
upon it's members with positive hatred.
The only hope and possibility of serv-
ing and eleVating this class of people
lies in the unselhshness and devotion
| of those who are willing to go to them
i'll their homes. our deacomcsses SO
into the homes where there is sickness,
or poverty or acknowledgement to nurse
the sick, to counsel, to assist, to find
work for the unemployed, gather the
children in the kindcrgartens or day
nurseries, i'll fact to go anywhere where
| help is needed, and everywhere carry
| with them the Masters spirit of COM
| 1Ort ana Cntet-
"A poor little boy found his way into
n mission school one day and after
| coming for some time and hearing
about Jesus, decided that he would be
Il Christian boy. one day some one
| tried to test the child's faith. If God
loves YOU. why doesn't He tell someone
to send you shoes or an oVercoat SO you
can Keep warm, this winter? The boy
thought a moment and then said, as
teh tears came to his eyes: Il guess
, He does tell somebody and somebody
forgets." The saddest thing about this
story is, that it is true. God does not
forget his little ones. He calls someone
to supply their needs, whether it be
| that hey are in want of food, clothing
| or fire, or of advice and sympathy. He
says too, that every need of helpful
css done for one of His, He counts it
as done 70 Him. He tells somebody
and they forget. That is the reason for
so many sad, cheerlesS homes, for half
clad. shivering bodies and for the
| pinched faces which we see sometimes
and which haunt us for days after
wards. oh, tch hearts taht are break
ing. The sorrow, ruin ana death! The
| many who have no food, no fire. no
work. no friends, no hope, no Saviour,
because somebody forgets. Let each
one ask now, Am / one of those who
forget? Dear friends, have you looked
| out on the white, white fields that all
| unGarnered because the workers are
SO few? Do YOU know that our great
cities are full of neglected ones that
need your help? Do you, fathers and
mothers, know that while the little ones
| in your homes are tenderly cared for
and protected, there are those who are
I helpless with no one to care for them?
| Do you young women know that while
you are almost afraid to ask: Lord,
| what wilt thou have me to dO?" Girls
on our city streets are daily going
/ down to ruin ana death, just for lack
Of a friend? Do you realize how
! MANY unchurchcd ana unsaved ones.
men, Wcmcn and helpless children to
| whom no kind Christian sympathy is
! extended are herdcd together in the
city slums. More effectively than any
pastor you can reach these people if
| you are consccratcd to special Chris
| ian work. ana we believe that nowhere
| can young women do more effective
| Christian work than by entering the
| ranks Of the dcaconeSscs. We must
have moro young women who will give
| Themselves. strong, cultured, cpnsc-
| cr.ttod young women, to be trained for
| s ice as missionaries and hospital
rur g. The calls are coming to us
GO, tdnty. Whom shall we send?
| What will YOU do to meet the need?
| Sympathy and prayers all may give