American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1912-09-26

Christian church itself because tht
work Of charity and mercy, as it /:
founded in the world today. origin.
ated in Him who came, not to be
served but to serve and give His
life for many. Since the Man OF
alice walked Judea's plains. He
raised the standard of womanhood
from degraded slavery to a higher
and nobler plane. The Prince OF
Peace, therefore, also came as a
redeemer Of womanhood. There
fore, through all ages, woman, like
those who served Him through His
earthly journey, have served Him
in humble devoted life and have
gladly, in times of epidemics and
plaques, surrendered their lives for
their Lord and Master and their
fellow beings. The word Deaco-
ness comes from the Latin to serve.
The Deaconess. then, is a servant,
first for the Lord for all His lov-
Ing kindness she daily receives from
His hand, aud second, she Is a
servant of mankind, be they high
or low people of all nationalities,
all creeds, or no creed, every one
who comes in her way. The mother
houses train their sisters in three
specfalities-the nurse training the
oib'e training and the economical
training for sisters often do house
work In private training. The
mother house is no money making
plant. 1t just asks enough for sup
port. So the mother house has no
liked charges for the sisters, when
in private duty, it always varies
according to the circumstances The
sister works with the idea that the
work 's charity work. The mother
mouse has to charge enough to
support itself. The Deaconess re-
ceives no compensation except a
little pin" to cloth herself and for
a her other needs her mother housa
cares and abe may say In truth The
Lord 10 my shepherd l shall not
want" A. stated before the Dea-
coness work u a. old a. the Chris
tan church. At first she worked in
all humility n all the different fiead
Of the parish work, where We also
find Phoebe when Paul .ecommends
her 80 highly to the Romans. For
several centuries we find her in
the differ Mt phases of parish work
till in the fifth and sixth centuries
the work Ia changed somewhat and
the Catholic sisters take her place.
In the 18th century Theodore Thid-
ner revtves the work into never dy-
Ing activity. Today we find sal
mother houses and 1s.107 sisters in |
germany; Is German motherhouses |
with 500 sisters in America and
about 500 Deaconesses. The Men
nonite church at present owns two |
very prosperous institutions. one at 1
Newton, Kansas and the other at /
Beatrice, Nebraska. Soon there is
to be another of these at Amer
lean Falls. Most of our prosperous
mother houses today have grown I'D I
from very small and primitive be-
glnuings. AS the sisters own their
home they work and save for it,
and the good Lord has usually bless
ed their work and crowned II with
success. The Bethany Deaconess
association and its sisterhood re-
loices to transplant the first
institution of the kind in the state
OF Idaho and hope that the sprout
may grow in wisdom and grace by
God and man, as it's years roll on.
There are still some rooms unfur-
nished in the hospital and any one
wishing to erect himself a momu-
ment would find beautiful living
one in furnishing the room for long
after the one or the other b as pass
ed away into the better land, there
will patients still be cared for
bodily and spiritually in that little
room and many a one will on a
bed of sickness, remember and be
to the kind giver. AS yet
there is very little fruit in our
cellar, very few vegetables in our
little money in our treas
ary and every little gift would be
appreciated by the sisters and help
to lift the burden and care of one
Afflicted. Dear Reader. do you
know the little proverb; I'm help
Vou and you help me- and then what
1 great big mass We will be-" Don't
'ou want to try, We shall stick to 1t.
The Sisters.