The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-03
GREAT WORK OF WOMEN
MEETING HERE ON APRIL 14 or
 MISSION SOCIETY.
Various Departments of Methodist Church Work In All Sections of the South are to Be A

South. which will convene in Montgom- | cry. April 1920. is an organization about which clusters a number of in- terests. It came into existence in 1886, and the work enterprised groups itself naturally about different departments. One of the most important phases of | work is that known as the Parsonage Department. The object of this de- partment Is to help build parsonages | in frontier sections of the South. and also to aid In those sections of the old | CT States where the churches are un- able to provide a suitable home for the preacher. It is said that there are | more than 1000 Methodist preachers who have salaries varying from $100 to $500. so that the home in which they live counts for a great deal since they pay no rent for the parsonage. it re- duces the cost of living wherever ther is one.
 Since these women have been at work they have helped very nearly 1,700 par sonages. granting to the same moro than $150,000. Indeed, they have help ed one-third of all of the parsonages of the church.
 The Supply Department is closely allied to that of the parsonages, in that all of the auxiliaries throughout the connection send boxes of supplies to those preachers who have what Is known as hard appointments. It can be easily seen the help this department becomes to a minister whose salary is meagre when one realizes that these boxes are arranged with an understand ing of the needs of the families to which they are sent Through the Pre- siding Elders these needs are present. ed to the superintendent of this depart ment, Mrs. J. H. Yarbrough. of Nash vile. Tenn, and when an auxiliary de- IL. IL .A e- prepared to state all of the needs and the auxiliary has even the measure ments of the various members of the families to whom the box Is to be sent, so that no goods are sent out at chance of being a misfit.
 More than $90,000 has been sent out in this way to make comfortable the homes of the preachers, orphans homes and mission schools.
 In 1892 the Educational Department was created by the opening of schools in Florida for the Cubans and Italians who moved into this country. Four l schools, with a pupilage of more than 500 are enterprised at Tampa and Key | West. On the Pacific coast four night schools for Chinese and Japanese are enterprised, having more than 250 stu dents. who are taught not only the
 English language. but the principles
 of the Christian religion. This organi- zation also has mountain schools,
 where more than 300 children are given | a chance for an education. These
 schools are in the mountainous coun- try of Kentucky and North Carolina. | At Augusta, Ga, these women main
 tain an industrial department to Paine
 College, where negro girls are taught the arts of domestic economy. More than 150 negro girls are learning to | cook. wash and iron. and sew, as well | as learning practical lessons of Chris
 tianity.
 This society also supports a large
 training school at Dallas. Tex, for the | rescue of fallen girls. Last year III girls, whose ages varied from 13 to 20,
 were admitted into this home. They
 are pledged to two years of training
 in various industries. by which they
 may be able to support themselves | when they go out into life, Ninety
 five per cent of the 700 who have been gathered into this home since its or-
 ganization have been saved to virtue, and many of them arc today respectable
 women. living lives of virtue and
 purity.
 A system of organized city mission 1 work is one of the most important phases of work established and main-
 tained by the Woman's Home Mission Society. There are twenty-four Mis- sion Boards, composed of representa- tivcs from various auxiliaries in the various communities. and the imme- diate object is to reach and bring back | to the church that large class of in different non-church going people who l live in our slums.
 There are forty-trained workers en- gagged in this work, and their services are augmented by 210 voluntary work | CTS, who give their services Kinder urfn iSh m la schools, mothers clubs, free reading rooms, and doors of hope represent the features of activity. The institutional phases are carried on in seven settle ment homes. two deaconess homes, one door of hope, and one home for girls who are too old to enter orphans homes, and yet at that tender age wher they cannot be turned adrift into the world.
 As result of this work. many homes have been made purer and better, new life and hope have been given to the lost and wayward. and vision of higher ideals placed before those who are sometimes known as the sub merged tenth"
 This organization issues monthly leaflets for its constituents. giving an account of the work. It also issues a monthly bulletin, where the latest facts and figures are given out to the church and secular press, and the official or gan Is known as Our Home"
 The editor of this bright paper Is Miss Mary Helm of Elizabethtown, Ky, | daughter of Governor Helm. and sister | of the founder of the society, Miss Lu- cinda Helm. This paper is one of the | brightest organs Of its sort in the 1 South. One has a fair share of socio- | logical and Bible knowledge who fol- | lows this monthly visitor.
 Three years ago the General Confer | ence of the Southern Methodist | Church created the office and work Of | deaconesses. and committed it's devel- | opment to the Home Mission Society. | A deaconess in this church is one whose | whole time is given to service for hu- manity, either as city missionary, teach | CT or district nurse. The difference be- | tween a deaconess and the accepted city | a recognized officer of the church, must | have had training for the work before being set apart. and also wears uni | form SO that she may be recognized as a servant of the church. which Is pledged to care for her after ten years of active service, in the event her health | should fail The stipend paid a dea coness is $10 per month over and above | her living expenses. so that she Is known to be literally a servant of the | church. There are nine consecrated 1 deaconesses already at work, and on Sunday, April Is. in Montgomery, Bishop Galloway of Mississippi. will set apart four more of these young wo- men.