Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1920-03-11
Gracehanl Letter.

milk slipped and fell on the ice on Sat
urday. He received a very painful
wound on the knee.
Our people are commencing with the
spring moving.
Mr. Kelly goes to farm near Fred
erick and Mr.. Snurr will move to the
house he occupied.
Mr.. Charles Collifower has moved to
his new home purchased from Mrs. Nc
Sherry, and Mr.. Crawford will come to-
his place in the town. III.
Mr.. Charles Boiler is very seriously
indisposed and there are new cases OF
the "flu" in rhe town in mild form.
The Ladies' Aid had very pleasant
meeting at the home of Mrs. Conner.
Owing to the inclemency of the weather
not as many were present as usual. 1t
was resolved to defer the giving of the
play until the anniversary of the found
ing of the Society about April Is.
A very interesting letter from the
Deaconess Home at Niesky, in Germany
was read, thanking the Society for the
package of clothing. that had been sent
in December The letter shows that the
bonds that unite Christians in America
and Germany have not been severed
while the Potsdam Gang. consisting of
the Emperor and the military class of
Germany, wanted war with all its hor-
rors, the great mass of the plain people
of Germany were humble followers of
the Prince of Peace. Animperfect trans
lation of the letter. breathing the spirit
of prayer, of peace, of love is appended.
The ladies Diet ermined to collect clothing
and at some future time send another
package.
Feb. 3, 1920
Beloved Sisters:-
We received your kind letter on Dec.
10, and now there has safely come to
hand your kind and beautiful package.
You can not imagine our happiness when
we urpacked the beautiful and useful
articles that you sent. We wish to ex-
press our warmest and most heartfelt
thanks to you, whom God has raised up
to be our friends across the ocean. We
have use for every thing you sent us.
Much can be used at our own great
settlement at Emmaus that at present
has 100 persons connected with it. The
remainder can be distributed through
the hands of our Deaconesses where
they find there is special need. Thus
will your love bring happiness to many
places.
You probably would like to know some
thing of our work. We shall be very
glad to send you our yearly printed re-
port, as soon as it is issued. We can
give you some account of our own home
settlement. In that way you may have
a mental picture of the work we are try
ing to do in other places. At the pre- sent
time our settlement house has enrolled
lis sisters. Connected with our Breth-
ren's Church they are known as in many
places, throughout the world. as The
Moravian Sisters, or the Sisters of
Heernhut. One of our distant outposts
is manned by the sisters, who labor in
Surinam, South America, among the
lepers, at the hospital at Bethesda, and
also among the negro children at Sharon.
Still farther away, our sisters filled with
the love of Christ, labor in the leper hos
pital in Jerusalem, beautiful but also
difficult work.
Here in tn" homeland our sisters are
La, MI in hur it.h
of the churches. They labor in COM
munities near the churches among the
sick. the poor, the children, and infirm
old people, without inquiry concerning
their faith or church relations. This is
an especially interesting work. Often
as our sisters care for the suffering ones
they can point out to them the way to
God. They can thus in the serious
moments of life or in the hour of death
minister to both body and soul.
Our sisters also labor in the kinder
garten schools, or hospitals or in the
homes for aged and infirm men and
women.
In the mother establishment at Emmaus
we have hospital with so beds. Here
the young sisters. on probation, receive
their first training In addition we have
kindergarten school, where some of
the sisters are trained, that they may
be fitted for educational work. Lastly
we have a home Tor little babies. This
was built and opened during the late
war. This is the browning work and
care for the smallest and weakest After
this frghtful war it is especially nee
essary to gather in and care for the
stricken and smitten ones.
AS you will see the Lord has ntrusted
to US many kinds of work. and great
responsibilities. in laboring for him.
Our sisters all go to Him that He may
impart to them the needed love and zeal
for all this work. 1t is the m ost heart
felt wish and earnest desire of our moth
er establishment that you will give US
your prayers, and your earnest thought.
that we may be faithful. Is it not won
derful that in the greatest need of this
dark hour there has come a new bond