Evening star., 1907-11-10
Notable Church QQorker8
Some Remarkable Instances of What MAY Be
Done by Those Who Labor Diligently.
Two Winning Bishops.

pr- os .4- men IN the church world who
dos tL.ngs IS Rev. DR.. John Wesley HuI,
vlo IS known from Sprague, Wash. to
BOSTON, and though young has done more
than many twice his age who have had
more opportunities. His ancestry is
Scotch. Irish. English and Welsh. The
fghting blood Of one Is mingled with the
tenacious purpose OF another, and the
vieor of American life has impaired 10
his work what the blood of four peoples
laid foundation for. He has just as
suned charge of the Metropolitan Temple
Of New York, which is destined to be one
Of the great Institutional churches OF this
country.
It's doors are open all the time. On
for the discussion Of public questions.
Tuesday evenings there are illustrated
lectures, and on Saturday night high-class
concerts are furnished. The other days
of the week are given over to the religious
side OF life, Now it is planned 10 add
dormitory for young men. a gymnasium,
comes Dr. Hill with love for humanity
and a wonderful understanding of its
needs Twenty-Five years in the ministry
have led him into all phases of life. His
first work was TO organize church In the
state Of Washington. but the field was too
small for him. He accomplished his pur-
pose there and then moved on. At Ogden
Utah. he built a $4,000 church, which he
left In a f1ourishing state. Next he was
at Helena. and then in Minneapolis. Bos-
ton also knew of his activities. and Hi
nois. Missouri. Kansas. Indiana, Mime
sofa and Michigan all heard his voice In
powerful speeches in behalf of William
Mckinley during the campaign Of 1896,
ha being a warm personal friend of the
republican candidate. In Brooklyn where
ha was stationed for three years previous
Ia taking up his New York work, he re-
/; of a debt of long standing and installed
a $4,000 organ. Now he is on his way
toward still higher work.
Matching Dr. Hill in activity is Mrs
Clinton B. Fisk. who has just been re-
elected president of the Methodist Wom-
ems Home Missionary Society. For six
teen consecutive terms she has filled the
office, and it was her desire TO round
out the seventy-ffth year of her life at
the head of an association that now
numbers 92 GO9 workers. of whom $4,000
are young women, besides large force
of deaconesses and trained nurses.
Mrs Fisk is the widow of the general
who was the prohibition candidate for
President in 1855 and since his death has
given her whole time TO the betterment o.
social conditions. She makes regular
visits TO the forty missions in the vari-
Gus parts of the country, labors almost in
defatigabIy over her correspondence and
declares she finds it her one joy in life to
know that the organization of which she
is the head has never been doing a more
splendid work than at present.
The work of the home missions helps
solve the immigration problem she de-
cared few days ago. Think of the So,
N,t people cared for iast year at Ellis
island there is no immigration problem
vae"e there is an active home mission.
Iose who have beautiful homes should
,rk for the betterment of the homes that
tGGot be beautiful, for the education of
G!dren under none but the best condi-