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VOL. V KANSAS CITY, MO., JANUARY 1913 NO. 4 A Prayer These are the gifts I ask of thee, Spirit serene-- Strength for the daily task; Courage to face the road; Good cheer to help me bear the traveler's load; And for the hours of rest that come between, An inward joy in all things heard and seen. These are the sins I fain would have thee take away-- Malice and cold disdain; Hot anger, sullen hate; Scorn of the lowly, envy of the great; And discontent that casts a shadow gray On all the brightness of a common day. -- Henry VanDyke. 2 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS WHAT IS IT THAT COUNTS? Miss Blank's cozy little room shown in the fire- light which lingered hero and there and gave such If sense of rest that the tired girl curled up in the big chair unconsciously lost, some of the tension with which she had entered it a few moments before the others came from the dining room, "How cozy you look, Miss Orr," said Miss Blank ns she entered. "Shall I turn on the light?" she in- quired as the others arranged themselves in their fa- vorite resting places. no!" they cried. "I love the firelight on your added Miss Redmond as she picked up some from the table at her side. I"0, days since Christmas had been so full of business that the little band of workers had a chance to visit since then and each was her own thought for a few moments. Miss Redmond sat lovingly turning the pages of a Hi little book and reading an occasional sentence with such an interested face that Miss Orr said, "What's EJj that you're enjoying all by yourself!" Leaning to- - H; ward her she continued, "0, that's 'The Mansion;' read it to us, won't you?" "Do," urged the others, and Miss Blank turned on the light, and Miss Redmond read the exquisite lit-t- ie story by Van Dyke, while the others listened with fl pleasure to her musical voice. Soon the story came to a close. "Well, that's true to life," cried Miss Orr. "I know ji some people just like John Weightman." ij "Yes, and some of the other kind," said Miss Blank, thoughtfully. "I should say so!" exclaimed Miss Zaring. "I haven't been able to think of one of my Christmas presents without an ache in my throat. You remember poor little Martha? Do you know that child gave me a handkerchief she had found on the street and M washed so nicely. I call that giving." "Yes," said Miss Orr. "That is. .One of the j things about my Christmas this year was that my plans all went awry and I couldn't do what I wanted to. If we can't plan inexpensive things the gifts are very few. I couldn't even write all the Christmas let-te- rs I wanted to." "Too bad, dear," said Miss Blank. "But the thought and desire were there and your real wishes for your friends' happiness found lodgment in the ear of the Father, don't you think?" "Dr. Allbright said the other day that after his mother's death in looking over her things they found put away among her treasures a Christmas letter he 1 had written her years before. Of all the costly and H beautiful gifts .he had given her that alone was treas- - Hjj ured," said Miss Orr. "We only give the gift worth H while when we give of ourselves." H9 "There was one couplet on my December calendar HI that has clung to me ever since I turned the leaf," said HI Miss Zaring. "It is this: HI 'You may give without love, HI But you cannot love without giving." HI "My, and you can tell the difference, too," said H Miss Orr. "I've noticed that when folks make me H presents because they love me, they make me feel a H whole lot more thankful than when they are given H from a sense of duty." H "We don't get very many of that kind," said Miss H Blank, with a smile. "People have always been so H much better to me than I deserve." "Yes," said Miss Zaring. "I almost feel as though I . I were obtaining things under false pretenses." S I t There was a general laugh at this, then Miss '' I Blank inquired, "What was the guide's answer to John I Weightman's question? I can't quite remember. It I seems to me there is a wholesome truth in that," she I added as Miss Redmand hastily turned the leaves in I search of it. "He asked, 'What is it that counts here?' "Only I that which is truly given," answered the bell-lik- e I voice." Only that good which is done for the love of I doing it. Only those plans in which the welfare of I others is the master thought. Only those labors in I which the sacrifice is greater than the reward. Only I those gifts in which the giver forgets himself." ' I There was a silence ns she placed the little book I on the table. Then Miss Blank said slowly, "Girls, I suspect if we took that as our standard it would sim- - H plify our Christmas giving and many other services ' H and expressions of love. There is always danger, in H our work especially, of the other motive creeping in. H I am glad you read us the little story, Miss Redmond. H I shall try to profit by it," she added as she arose, for H it was growing late. "I'm going to," spoke up Miss Zazing. "I wouldn't H know what to do with a mansion if I did build one H here. H "I'm wondering where we'll find any labor where H the sacrifice is greater than the reward," said Miss H Orr as she stumbled stifFly to her feet. H "We may not find it," said Miss Blank, "but may be we can apply some of the other things," she added H as they separated. A NEW HOPE. I "As the dead year is elapsed by a dead December, H So let your dead sins with your dead days lie. H A new life is yours, and a new hope! Remember H We build our own ladders to climb to the sky. Stand out in the sunlight of promise, forgetting fl Whatever your past held of sorrow or wrong; We waste half our strength in a useless regretting. We sit by old tombs in the dark too long. H Have you missed in your aim? Well, the mark is still shining; H Did you faint in the race? Well take breath for the next; ,H Did the clouds drive you back? But see yonder the lining; H Were you tempted and fell? Let it serve for a text. As each year hurries by,.let it join that procession V H Of skeleton shapes that march down to the past, H While you take your place in the line of progression, H With your eyes on the neavens, your face to the blast. H I tell you the future can hold no terrors For any sad soul while the stars revolve, If he will but stand firm, on the grave of his errors, And, instead of regretting, resolve, resolve! It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seem hurled. For look ! how the light of the New Year is gilding The worn, wan face of the bruised old world !" Christianity means not only the perfecting of personality, but the energetic diffusion of good. Per-fectio- n, indeed, is possible only through diffusion. No grace of God is given us for our sole use and bene- - fit, but only that we may share it with our kind. We fl are ourselves, truly saved only in propotion as we help to save others. Rev. Henry Haigh. H V SOURCES OP STRENGTH FOR THE NEW YEAR. We ought to make something of our new years. They should be like new steps on the stairs, lifting our M feet n little higher. The best of Christians grow faint and weary in M their very faithfulness not weary of, but weary in, their duties and tasks. But we can be strong. God has strength for us. His strength comes to us in many ways. Every good fl and perfect gift comcth down from the Father of fl, lights. No matter, then, how the strength comes to M, us. it really comes from God. We may find it in a book M whose words freshly inspire us for struggle or service. We may find it in a friendship whose companionship H fills us with new courage and hope. Far more than we 1 understand does God strengthen and bless us through H I human love. He looks into our eyes through human H ' eyes and speaks into our cars with human lips. Hi But God's strength is imparted in other ways. HI' Some day we are discouraged, overwrought, ml vexed by cares, fretted by life's myriad distractions, H weary and faint from much burden-bearin- g. We sit HI down with our Bible, and God speaks to us in its H words of cheer. One who reads the Bible H as God's own word, and hears God's voice in its prom- - H ises, assurances, commands, and counsels, is continu- - H ally strengthened by it. But there is something better than even this. God is a real person, and he comes into our lives with i his own love and grace. There is a direct impartation of divine strength for God's fainting and S weary ones on the earth. He giveth power to the faint. How can we make sure of receiving this strength? "They that wait upon the Lord, shall renew their strength." This means to trust God patiently, to ac- I. cept God's guidance, to keep near God's heart, to live in unbroken fellowship with God. Prayer is part of waiting upon God. As the waters of the sea pour into every smallest indentation along its shore, so God's strength fills every heart that is linked to him. Note also the word "renew" in the promise. As fast as the strengt his exhausted, it is replenished. It is like the widow's barrel of meal and cruse of oil. We are to go on with our work, our struggle, our doing and I serving, sure that, waiting upon God, we shall ever ' renew our tsrength. Thus it is when we give to others in Christ's name, he fills the emptiness. Ij Over all the unopened year God casts his light. There can be no experience till the year ends for which there will not be strength. We need only to be sure that we wait upon God, and then all the strength we shall need will be given, as we go on, day by day. The Sunday School Times. THE OLD, OLD WISH. "I like to catch th' sperrit that is back of every word, Th' sperrit that th' shepherds felt th' minute that they heard Th' whole sky full o' music. Oh, they understood it then Jest as we do at Christmas if we mean 'Good will to man.' It aint jest for your nebbers an' your fambly, but it 1 starts Right from your soul an' takes in all th' world o' human hearts." mmmmmmmmmmmmmm "HAPPY NEW YEAR." I "Happy New Year!" I "Happy New Year!" responded little Mary Ann I as she placed her basket of launry on the sidewalk and I looked up into the cheery face of the elderly lady who I had greeted her and received a pleasant smile. I "Happy New Year!" she said a minute later as M Tim Graham ran by her. "Humph," responded Tim, stopping quickly and H turning round. "Aren't you putting on airs, Mary H "They're not airs, Tim," said Mary Ann, "they're I just things to pass along. Before I came out this morn- - H ing, mother said, 'If you get anything good while H you're out, just pass it along.' " I got a real pleasant H 'Happy New Year' from the white-haire- d lady you H just met, so I'm passing it along to you. It's your H turn now." H "Mebbe," said Tim, as he turned away and pushed H his bare hands deeper into 'his torn pockets. "But," H he added to himself, "I wonder who'd care for my H 'Happy New Year!' Guess I'll try it though." "Happy New Year!" he said in a half-bashf- ul H way a minute afterward, as he met an officer of the Mm Mm "Happy New Year!" responded the big policeman MM cheerily. "It seems good to have a chap like you speak MM up so free and honest." "Say, will you pass it along?" M asked Tim, looking up into the face above him. "That's M what Mary Ann said to me, sir." M "That's what I'll do, my boy, and be glad to. It's a good thing." "Happy New Year," ma'am, he said, cheerily, as M he approached a stand behind which an apple woman M stood shivering. "Happy New Year!" said the apple-woma- n, as Mm Mrs. Murphy stopped to buy some apples. MM "A 'Happy New Year' is it, you're giving me?" exclaimed Mrs. Murphy. "Sure if it's a happy new MM year to the loikes of you behind that apple MM stand, what moight it be to me sick man at home who Mm has a hot fire and plenty of hot gruel? I'll take that MM home to him, and sure he'll stop fretting because he H can't get out to work till next week." The Christian H Advocate. H A NEW YEAR AND A NEW MAN. "Have you begun the new year as a new man? H What have you brought over with you from 1912? H What did you leave finally behind, that you might start H fair and free with the dawning of 1913 Did you leave H behind your guilt? Did you let go dispositions that H have spoiled you, habits that have coarsened or weak- - H ened you aims that could never ennoble you? Did you H take Christ as your Saviour, and submit to thim as MM your Sovereign? Do you now, at the beginning of MM this year, stand pledged to His causes, and do you MM count life of value only as it fulfills His ends? Are MM the loves and 'hates of your life, its preferences and MWM repulsions, to be henceforth conditioned and controlled MM by Him? Then, indeed, has the new man been born in you, and the year you have entered on will be as- - suredly new." Rev. Henry Haigh. MM Laying down the volume of Wordsworth, of whom MwM she was an earnest disciple, the precocious child turned to her mother with a sigh. "If 'heaven lies about us in our infancy,' as the poet says," she queries, "what will happen to us when we grow up?" Life. i THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS I THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS Published monthly in the interest of the Knnsas City National Training School of the Woman's Home Missionary Society. Editor: Anna Neideriieiser. Associate Editors: Ethel Adkins, Elizabeth Curry, Minnie Pike, Eva Ricg, Ada Wiebe. Subscription price, 25 cents. Any one sending in I 10 subscriptions at one time may send in the 11th name, to whom the paper will be sent free for a year. If you see a blue mark Expired. here your subscription has All correspondence concerning contributions, and subscriptions should be addressed to the Editor, Miss Anna Neiderheiser, Cor. E. Fifteenth St. and Denver Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Entered as second-clas- s matter, Oct. 27, 1908, at the postoflice at Kansas City, Mo., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. KANSAS CITV. MO.. JAN. IQI3 D 1 TOR I A L AT KENSINGTON MISSION. planning to visit Kensington so were very glad of the Christmas program to see the Christmas was in the air, but how differently the season As we neared the Mission was brightly lighted and men, flocking in at every door, many IE seeking the cheer to be found Christmas that means to the at home! building the room is bright and the children with and their bright faces make a As more children come of delight, for the Christmas trimming is but partly hidden has arrived for the program. The interested fathers and mothers, all in their best, for this is march out, and in their earnest child-lik- e manner sing Joy to the World," we are H glad that Christ remembered the children; as one of ml the workers reads the Christmas lesson, the old, sweet II story, we are glad Christ came with Christmas love I for just such as need Him. I One little boy came in late, and thought he was I too late for his part on the program, so when his name I was called he rushed upon the platform and gave his I piece with all his might. So the program went on. At I last each one has done their part and the time has I come for the unveiling of that wonderful tree, the H children anxiously expectant of some beautiful gift. I The eager faces so confident made us glad that so I many kind friends had remembered these needy ones I and had made it possible for the workers to have a I! gift ready for each one. A very practical and much Ij needed gift for each child was a pair of stockings, con- - I taining candy, nuts, and a toy or doll. Toys, games, dolls, clothing, fruit, and other supplies had been sent 11 in for this work, making it possible for the workers , f I to provide in a very helpful way for each child and to I reach many homes. Some friends contributed cash, so I that needed clothing was bought for some specially I needy ones. In one family the ten-year-o-ld boy was I provided with clothing and so could be kept in school. I Several widowed mothers with little children were sub- - I stantially helped; while the sick and aged were cared I for. Because of the terrible curse of drink many of the I children come from places which it would be a travesty J I to call home, and as we looked into their faces we could I but wonder what sorrow each heart held, what longing I for better things, and we were thankful that through I the teaching and training and personal effort of the 1 Kensington Mission workers ideals of better living are ( 1 being brought into these homes, and that a knowledge 1 of the Great Christmas Gift so freely given for all, is I brought to these hearts. With a prayer for the workers, the children and I the homes, that the Christ may mean more in that dis- - trict than ever before, and that we may all be faithful B in doing our part in uplifting and saving, we watched H the happy crowd disperse, and then went to our homes. H Kansas City National Training School, I Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 1, 1913. Dear friends at home: Mm A Happy New Year to all! School beings tomor- - H row, and I want to take the opportunity this New H Year's Day offers, to tell you or our Christmas here. H When so many of the girls went home for the Christ- - v H mas season my heart sank, for, as you know, I had H never been away from home at that happy season ; but lmm I determined to have a happy time anyway in helping MM make others so. .Mm For days before plans were being made as to what mm each of us could do for the needy in our districts, in mW with those interested with us, both in and out of the city. Supplies came in early this year, mak-in- g it possible for all preparations to be' completed and distribution of food, clothing, and other needed gifts jH the day before, so that Christmas eve found us with mWg our minds at ease. jH The silence of slumber had at last settled over the house when through the stillness came the sweet tones as of angel voices, "Silent night, Holy night, All is calm, all is bright," and a sense of peace and calm repose came to each listener. 'm Early on Christmas morning we were all awakened by a triumphant Christmas carol sounding through the halls, calling us to a merry, happy day in honor of our King, and soon joyful greetings were heard every-wher- e. As quickly as possible we all gathered in the parlor mm for the early morning Christmas service, of song, mW praise and prayer, and a blessing came to each heart as we each gave the message that Christmas brought to our own hearts, and when we united in prayer it was truly a loving adoration of our Christ. The parlor was beautifully decorated with fes-too- ns of evergreen, bells, holly, mistletoe, a poinsettia plant, and some flowers, and the dining room was brightened with festoons of red, with the bells, and i mwm With hearts aglow and atune for the joys of the day the Christmas breakfast was eaten with a zest, in THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 5 I eager nnticipntion of whnt was to follow, for myster-ious preparations had been going on. Up stairs again we trooped, and passing through the clnss room each was handed a bundle of nondescript appearance, which had the name of some one else on it, and a merry time we had finding the owners and getting our own pask-age- s. But we were all settled very soon in the class room or parlor, and the silence was broken by the rust-- ling of wrappings and the exclamations of surprise and delight as the remembrances of friends and loved ones were brought to view, for you know our packages are all carefully kept for us until Christmas morning and are indeed a surprise. We were all children together after a visit from Santa Claus. We spent an hour or longer laughing and looking, and then the family scattered as duty called, i A number of the deaconesses and several of us girls had a jolly time helping with the Christmas din-- ( ner. Friends from out of the city had sent in chick- I ens, fruit, and other provisions, making possible a ' bountiful dinner, and it was such fun helping get everything ready for our small Christmas family. Of course thirty seems large to you, but fully half of us were away, so it seemed small to us here. After dinner some members of the family called on the sick or shut-in- s, others visited quietly together at home, or took a long walk, for it was a glorious day, while others read their Christmas books or wrote to the home folks. It was a real "home" Christmas, and instead of being sorry that I had to stay here, I feel as though 1 should have missed one of the sweetest experiences of y my two years at "Fisk" if I had not been here for the Christmas time. The clays since have been so full, with visiting, sewing, reading, and other duties, that the time has been too short; but we are all glad to welcome the regu-lar work again. With love to all, your friend. A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE. Dr. Chesteen Smith conducted our Christmas ser- - I vice, Saturday evening, Dec. 14. I After an opening service of song and prayer, he I asked each one to give a reason why Christ should re- - I ceive universal homage. A large number of reasons I ' " were given. The Scripture for the evening was Matthew's ac-- I count of the visit of the Magi. Dr. Smith then read a I poem descriptive of that scene and its meaning, after III ' which he showed how the Christmas season and the I Christ whom it commemorates are influencing the in- - tellectual, business, governmental, social, educational and home life of our times. He who does not give evidence of kindly feeling and good will at this time is considered to be lacking in the spirit which all should have. This is in truth the Spirit of the Christ. This Spirit of Christ shows itself in humble, loving service for others. In closing, Dr. Smith gave briefly "The Story of the Other Wise Man," by VanDyke, as embodying the true Christmas spirit, that which seeks to be of service to the humblest of His needy ones. I We wish to say thank you to all the friends who I ( added to the happiness of our Christmas by gifts either I I for the School or for our Mission work. Our hearts I were made to rejoice many times through your kindly thoughtfulness. By the will of Mrs. Mary Denton, of Denton, Kan- - I sas, who went home December 12, our Training School receives $1,000.00. Mrs. Denton will be remembered I as the good friend who gave us an annuity of $2,000.00 I four years ago. The influence of her unselfish life and I her good works will long be felt in the world. I COST OF VICE. I That Americans arc mulcted in the sum of $3,-- I 000,000,000 annually through the drain upon the coun- - I try's resources traceable to the white-slav- e evil, trans- - 'missiblc diseases, and general immorality, was stated I by Vernon M. Cady, lecturer of the American Fcdera- - I tion of Sex Hygiene, at the health exhibit in conncc- - I tion with the International Congress on Hygiene and Demography. H He declared that there are 300,000 registered H white slaves in this country, and that the police of the H various cities estimate that there are 1,000,000 more H not registered. He threw upon the screen a table show- - H ing how Americans spend $3,000,000,000 annually H through the social evil and the diseases of vice. Other H principal expenditures of the American people were H given as follows: H Intoxicating liquors, $2,000,000,000; tobacco, $1,- - H 200,000,000; jewelry and ornaments, $800,000,000; automobiles, $500,000,000 ; church work at home, $250,- - 000,000; .confectionery, $200,000,000; soft drinks $120,000,000; tea and coffee, $100,000,000; millinery, $90,000,000; patent medicines, $80,000,000; chewing gum, $13,000,000; foreign missions, $12,000,000. In placing the cost of immorality at $3,000,000,- - H 000, Mr. Cady did not include the cost of the care of H the sick, blind, insane, paralytic, or the expense of in- - H fant funerals, which, he declared, result from immor-- H ality. He made a strong protest against connnon ig- - H norance in matters of sex hygiene, declaring that the H time is fast coming when such ignorance in either sex H will not be regarded as innocence. Homiletic Review. H WRONG PRESENTATION IS ESSENTIAL UNTRUTH. A friend of John Ericsson, famous as the builder H of the "Monitor," was giving an illustrated lecture H upon the great inventor in the city .of Philadelphia. A number of military men were present. One of H the pictures shown represented Ericsson as a Swedish H chasseur. At the conclusion of the address a Danish H officer came up to the lecturer and asked: "Why did H you. show Ericsson in disgrace? That picture shows H Ericsson in arrest, was that a fact?" "But, my dear H sir," said the surprised lecturer, "I did not show H Ericsson in arrest." "Yes, persisted the Danish gen-- H tleman. "Your slide showed him with 'his sword on H the wrong side, and that means that he was in arrest." H A conference with the operator showed that that H worthy had reversed the slide in placing it in front of H the lens. Ericsson was dishonored by the presentation given of 'him. So is Christ by that of many of His followers. H Selected. A NEW YEAR. Set an ideal today. Set it so high it will seem somewhat dimmed by a sense of inability. Then by patience, and willing acceptance of discipline, and never tiring industry, and never failing trust in God, see to it that twelve months hence all doubt shall be gone, and you shall stand assured that you have done your best. Rev. M. S. Rice. I A UNIQUE SANIT0R1UM. The Survey of December 7th gives a very intcr- - I eating account of the new Tuberculosis Snnitorium at Arcquipn, Calif. This institution is unique because the patients work from one to four hours per day, live days of each week at making pottery. There is a large demand ior the pottery, and the patients earn the cost of their maintenance. Arequipa is an hour's ride from San Francisco, and vs lnenfpd in one of the loveliest spots in California. Patients can sit at ease out of doors all the year I around. The superintendent gets eggs, milk, butter, 1 cream, etc., directly from the farmers of the neighbor hood. This, with the warmth of the climate keeps the total cost oi care at 37 a week, including laundry. I Frederick II. Rhead, who is at the head of the pottery department. !t of the fifth generation of a III family Eng. of pottery makers, and comes from Stafford-shire, Dr. Philip King Brown is the founder of this in- - stitution. As a rule he accepts only incipient cases. The sanitorium is self-supporti- The buildings are of the best modern type, the table excellent, and the patients more cheerful and lively than in most other tuberculosis sanitoriums. The knowledge that they are paying their own expenses contributes largely to their cheerfulness. Cured patients do not want to leave and go back to stenography, telephone operating, and the like, but prefer to remain and make pottery. This is the best way to prevent a relapse, and has suggested the build-ing of a large pottery, distinct from the sanitorium workshop, but under the same management. Here ap-parently cured patients, the deaf, the partially crip-pled, and other handicapped persons will supply the labor and reap the benefits. "WE ARE NOT DIVIDED." The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ I! in Chicago. America has recently held an important session in The Council was comnosed of bishons. secretaries of benevolent societies, pastors, college presidents and teachers, editors and other laymen. It represented fifteen or sixteen million Christians. "Many thincrs wove discussed. Great addresses were heard and there were great debates. The churches are united in the war against sin 1 and self and ignorance and sorrow. We are sure that a self-center- ed church is a standing insult to the Head of all the Churhes. The battle now is not against any theological gates of hell, of whose exact location we cannot H convince one another. It is against the gates of Vjj hell which the Churches have located beyond question the saloon gate, the slum gate, the child labor gate, the disease gate, the gates of greed and lust and am- - bition and folly. Through these issue the forces which war against H the soul. Against them the Churches set themselves, H with mingled sternness and yearning. H The Federal Council is a sign of great times com- - H ing. It is wonderful to be a Christian in these days, H when the world seems more than ever ready for H1 the Christian word, yet more ' than ever insistent, on H testing the reality of the Christian's profession by H new standards. H The Federal Council will meet again in two years. Hj And, when it meets, the distance between that to morrow and to-da- y will be greater than the four I years between the first Council and now. So swiftly do ' I God's purposes run when men set themselves to work I with him." Dan B. Brummit in Epworth Herald. I "The manufacturer who stands a woman twelve I hours a day for six days in the week in an unsanitary I workshop cannot be convicted by law as a murderer. I Yet he is a murderer in every sense of the moral law. I I do not care how much the prominent member of the I church may give to missions and to charity. If I am I convinced that he got the money from the blood and I sweat and toil of his weak brothers and sisters, or if B he made it by transgressions legal under the law, but I not moral under the laws of God that man is no Christian." Vice-Prc- s. Elect Marshall. Bishop Roots, of Hankow, says that when he first j went to China he had a good deal of difficulty in re- - , H membering faces. "I'm getting over my difficulty H now," he said one day to a mandarin, "but in the be- - w ginning here in Hankow you all looked as like as two , peas." "Two peas?" said the English-speakin- g man- - H darin, smiling. "Why not say two queues?" The H Argonaut. H "For showing the white feather at the battle of H Kirk-Kilcss- eh the handsome young prince, Aziz Pasha, H was shot on the spot. He was the soul of courtesy, H apparently. When the company of school teachers H from America was in the Mediterranean the young H prince entertained them on his yacht, which was stock- - H ed with a remarkable library as well as music. But s. H nothing has been invented that can take the place of H courage." H West Virginia's prohibition victory at the recent H election was the most sweeping ever won in this coun- - H try. Ninety-on- e thousand eight hundred majority in H a total vote of less than two hundred and fifty thous-an- d. And it was not a temporary, statutory victory. It was a permanent constitutional victory. All hail West Virginia! Marion Record. PERSONALS. H Miss Bertha Cowles spent Christmas with the . home folks at Sibley, Kas. Mr. Geo. Garretson of Baker University, visited his sister, Miss Aletta M. Garretson, Jan. 2. Miss Velma Forbish of Marshfield, Mo., has en- - y rolled as a student and taken up her work among us. v Rev. H. A. Cook of North Ottawa, Kansas, visited his sister. Miss Nellie Stevens of the Senior Class, not long ago. We were delighted by a visit from Rev. Thos. M. Harwood, Sunday School Missionary of Albuquerque, N. Mex., in December. Many of the students went home for the holiday vacation, but all are back, full of enthusiasm for the work of the New Year. Miss Bernice Lough, '10, has been elected kinder-garte- n teacher in the public school of her home town, Osborne, Kansas, for this year. Miss Blanche Kinison, deaconess for Independence Avenue Church, spent Christmas at the parental home in Kane, 111., as aigtf from her church. Miss Mary Ryan, '11, has recently been appointed J deaconess for First Church, St. Joseph (the White Temple), much to the joy of that congregation. v High Grade Photography LARGEST and FINEST A STUDIO m the CITY POPULAR PRIGES y V TAKE YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS TO I OWEN BROS., Druggists I S. E. Cor. 18th and Jackson, and 40th and Troost I A Complete Line of Drugs and Sickroom Necenitiei I DOTH PHONES PROMPT DEUVERr Bush Brothers I REAL ESTATE AND LOANS H We eichanter&nehes for city property. We trtde Irms for merchandise. Woca for H the property ot We do i rental business. We mike loans. We solicit your business. i02 Cund A.. nut Ttplt KANSAS CITY. MO. H The Methodist (took Concern Carries a full line of DOOKS as well as SONG DOOKS, H BIBLES, and miscellaneous religious and secii-religiou- s rending. JENNINGS & GRAHAM, Publishing Agts. i i2i McGee Street. KANSAS Q1TV, MO. eeeeeffeeeeeeeffeeeeeee USE THE BEST I Re-screen- ed and Washed Coals I Central (oal and Coke (o. I Phones 2430 Main KANSAS CITY, MO. H Jacoby Furniture Store I 918, 920 and 922 GRAND AVE,, 3d and 4th floor H Low Rent Factory Agents Factory Prices PHONES 161 MAIN H FURGASON-TABB-SIMOND- S I INSURANCE AND LOANS H FIRE' 8$f$ Real Eitate Mortgages I???icc 1Mn.in Bought and Sold autcobile 409 Dwight Building - LIABILITY Kansas City, Mo. Building Loans ASK FOR OUR PRIGES H Home Phone 2972 Main Tingle --Titus Printing Co. H MUSIC, COMMERCIAL, CATALOGUE and COLOR PRINTING A SPECIALTY. 808-81- 0 Grand Avenue Kansas City, Missouri f . Mr. Elmer Lnkey wlio is attending Southwestern College, Winfiehl, Kns., visited his cousins Julia Lnkey i and Nellie Closely, of the Junior Class during vacation. l I We enjoyed very much a visit from Miss Ethel Ilerren, '10, enroute from her home in Oklahoma to her HI work in Oil City, Pa. We hear excellent reports from Miss Herren's work in Oil City. Kf Miss Eunice Britt went to Warrensburg, Mo., for H Christmas, and will spend the month of January in H Garnett, Kansas, assisting in revival work. December H 29 she spoke at Muscotah, Kns. H Miss Alice Walton, '10, was home from St. Joseph, H Mo., for the holidays. She is now serving six of the H St. Joseph churches as deaconess; a large undertaking, H but Miss Walton is doing good work. I Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Henslee of Salina, Kas., made HI us a much appreciated visit at Fisk Hall last week. It HI .s' was their first visit at the School, though they have H been interetsed friends for some time. H Miss Nettie Harris spent Christmas at her father's H home in Bunker Hill, 111., and is now making an itiner- - I ary in the North Nebraska Conference. Dec. 15 she H represented our work at Pretty Prairie and Castleton, I and Dec. 22 at Burrton, Kas. I Rev. J. Willard DeYoe, pastor of London Heights H Church, Kanass City, Kas., and efficient teacher of the I Life of Christ in the Training School, led our chapel I services Thursday morning, Dec. 19, bringing us a very helpful message fr6m I Cor. 3 :21-2- 3, "All things I are yours." I The Methodist Churches of Kansas City, Mo., are H engaged in a union revival meeting at the Grand Ave-- I nue M. E. Church, under the leadership of Rev. Milton H I S. Rees and wife, of Rochester, N. Y. This meeting I has opened under very encouraging circumstances, and H we hope to have more to say concerning it in our next H issue. Rev. W. R. McCormack, faithful member of our I faculty, and pastor of Oakhurst church, led the open-ing chapel service for the New Year. His lesson was based on Isa. 1 :19 : "If we be willing and obedient yi. shall eat the good of the land," and Gen. 24 :27 : "I being in the way the Lord led me." It was a message we will long remember with profit. It has for some time been the privilege of the dea-conesses and students to make a love offering at Christ-mas for some one less fortunate. This year it was used to send a little orphan girl in whom we are much in-terested, to our Cunningham Children's Home, at Ur-- j bana, 111. It was a great treat to buy her small trunk and provide the ticket, while other friends helped I prepare her wardrobe for the coming winter. I "The horse always quits pulling before he kick." I I I Kansas City National Training I I 1 School i - i I I For Deaconesses and Missionaries I ife ' I ' ' I H j fW' F1SKIIALL SCHOELLKOPF HALL H I Scholarship $125.00 a Year I I COURSES OF STUDY I I Bible course, Social Workers course, Domestic Science and Jlrts course, Sunday School, H I Junior and Epworth League course, Kindergarten course. 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Title | The Kansas City Deaconess (Kansas City, Mo.), 1913-01-01 |
Year | 1913 |
Volume | 5 |
Number | 4 |
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Kansas City National Training School for Deaconesses and Missionaries Methodist Church -- Education Home missions Deaconesses -- Education Women in missionary work Women -- Education -- Missouri -- Kansas City Kensington Mission -- Kansas City National Training School |
Table of Contents | A Prayer; What Is It that Counts?; A New Hope; Sources of Strength for the New Year; The Old, Old Wish; Happy New Year, A New Year and a New Man; Christmas at Kensington Mission; A Christmas Message; Cost of Vice; Wrong Presentation Is Essential Untruth; A New Year; A Unique Sanitorium; We Are Not Divided; Personals |
Description | VOL. V KANSAS CITY, MO., JANUARY 1913 NO. 4 A Prayer These are the gifts I ask of thee, Spirit serene-- Strength for the daily task; Courage to face the road; Good cheer to help me bear the traveler's load; And for the hours of rest that come between, An inward joy in all things heard and seen. These are the sins I fain would have thee take away-- Malice and cold disdain; Hot anger, sullen hate; Scorn of the lowly, envy of the great; And discontent that casts a shadow gray On all the brightness of a common day. -- Henry VanDyke. 2 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS WHAT IS IT THAT COUNTS? Miss Blank's cozy little room shown in the fire- light which lingered hero and there and gave such If sense of rest that the tired girl curled up in the big chair unconsciously lost, some of the tension with which she had entered it a few moments before the others came from the dining room, "How cozy you look, Miss Orr," said Miss Blank ns she entered. "Shall I turn on the light?" she in- quired as the others arranged themselves in their fa- vorite resting places. no!" they cried. "I love the firelight on your added Miss Redmond as she picked up some from the table at her side. I"0, days since Christmas had been so full of business that the little band of workers had a chance to visit since then and each was her own thought for a few moments. Miss Redmond sat lovingly turning the pages of a Hi little book and reading an occasional sentence with such an interested face that Miss Orr said, "What's EJj that you're enjoying all by yourself!" Leaning to- - H; ward her she continued, "0, that's 'The Mansion;' read it to us, won't you?" "Do," urged the others, and Miss Blank turned on the light, and Miss Redmond read the exquisite lit-t- ie story by Van Dyke, while the others listened with fl pleasure to her musical voice. Soon the story came to a close. "Well, that's true to life," cried Miss Orr. "I know ji some people just like John Weightman." ij "Yes, and some of the other kind," said Miss Blank, thoughtfully. "I should say so!" exclaimed Miss Zaring. "I haven't been able to think of one of my Christmas presents without an ache in my throat. You remember poor little Martha? Do you know that child gave me a handkerchief she had found on the street and M washed so nicely. I call that giving." "Yes," said Miss Orr. "That is. .One of the j things about my Christmas this year was that my plans all went awry and I couldn't do what I wanted to. If we can't plan inexpensive things the gifts are very few. I couldn't even write all the Christmas let-te- rs I wanted to." "Too bad, dear," said Miss Blank. "But the thought and desire were there and your real wishes for your friends' happiness found lodgment in the ear of the Father, don't you think?" "Dr. Allbright said the other day that after his mother's death in looking over her things they found put away among her treasures a Christmas letter he 1 had written her years before. Of all the costly and H beautiful gifts .he had given her that alone was treas- - Hjj ured," said Miss Orr. "We only give the gift worth H while when we give of ourselves." H9 "There was one couplet on my December calendar HI that has clung to me ever since I turned the leaf," said HI Miss Zaring. "It is this: HI 'You may give without love, HI But you cannot love without giving." HI "My, and you can tell the difference, too," said H Miss Orr. "I've noticed that when folks make me H presents because they love me, they make me feel a H whole lot more thankful than when they are given H from a sense of duty." H "We don't get very many of that kind," said Miss H Blank, with a smile. "People have always been so H much better to me than I deserve." "Yes," said Miss Zaring. "I almost feel as though I . I were obtaining things under false pretenses." S I t There was a general laugh at this, then Miss '' I Blank inquired, "What was the guide's answer to John I Weightman's question? I can't quite remember. It I seems to me there is a wholesome truth in that," she I added as Miss Redmand hastily turned the leaves in I search of it. "He asked, 'What is it that counts here?' "Only I that which is truly given," answered the bell-lik- e I voice." Only that good which is done for the love of I doing it. Only those plans in which the welfare of I others is the master thought. Only those labors in I which the sacrifice is greater than the reward. Only I those gifts in which the giver forgets himself." ' I There was a silence ns she placed the little book I on the table. Then Miss Blank said slowly, "Girls, I suspect if we took that as our standard it would sim- - H plify our Christmas giving and many other services ' H and expressions of love. There is always danger, in H our work especially, of the other motive creeping in. H I am glad you read us the little story, Miss Redmond. H I shall try to profit by it," she added as she arose, for H it was growing late. "I'm going to," spoke up Miss Zazing. "I wouldn't H know what to do with a mansion if I did build one H here. H "I'm wondering where we'll find any labor where H the sacrifice is greater than the reward," said Miss H Orr as she stumbled stifFly to her feet. H "We may not find it," said Miss Blank, "but may be we can apply some of the other things," she added H as they separated. A NEW HOPE. I "As the dead year is elapsed by a dead December, H So let your dead sins with your dead days lie. H A new life is yours, and a new hope! Remember H We build our own ladders to climb to the sky. Stand out in the sunlight of promise, forgetting fl Whatever your past held of sorrow or wrong; We waste half our strength in a useless regretting. We sit by old tombs in the dark too long. H Have you missed in your aim? Well, the mark is still shining; H Did you faint in the race? Well take breath for the next; ,H Did the clouds drive you back? But see yonder the lining; H Were you tempted and fell? Let it serve for a text. As each year hurries by,.let it join that procession V H Of skeleton shapes that march down to the past, H While you take your place in the line of progression, H With your eyes on the neavens, your face to the blast. H I tell you the future can hold no terrors For any sad soul while the stars revolve, If he will but stand firm, on the grave of his errors, And, instead of regretting, resolve, resolve! It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seem hurled. For look ! how the light of the New Year is gilding The worn, wan face of the bruised old world !" Christianity means not only the perfecting of personality, but the energetic diffusion of good. Per-fectio- n, indeed, is possible only through diffusion. No grace of God is given us for our sole use and bene- - fit, but only that we may share it with our kind. We fl are ourselves, truly saved only in propotion as we help to save others. Rev. Henry Haigh. H V SOURCES OP STRENGTH FOR THE NEW YEAR. We ought to make something of our new years. They should be like new steps on the stairs, lifting our M feet n little higher. The best of Christians grow faint and weary in M their very faithfulness not weary of, but weary in, their duties and tasks. But we can be strong. God has strength for us. His strength comes to us in many ways. Every good fl and perfect gift comcth down from the Father of fl, lights. No matter, then, how the strength comes to M, us. it really comes from God. We may find it in a book M whose words freshly inspire us for struggle or service. We may find it in a friendship whose companionship H fills us with new courage and hope. Far more than we 1 understand does God strengthen and bless us through H I human love. He looks into our eyes through human H ' eyes and speaks into our cars with human lips. Hi But God's strength is imparted in other ways. HI' Some day we are discouraged, overwrought, ml vexed by cares, fretted by life's myriad distractions, H weary and faint from much burden-bearin- g. We sit HI down with our Bible, and God speaks to us in its H words of cheer. One who reads the Bible H as God's own word, and hears God's voice in its prom- - H ises, assurances, commands, and counsels, is continu- - H ally strengthened by it. But there is something better than even this. God is a real person, and he comes into our lives with i his own love and grace. There is a direct impartation of divine strength for God's fainting and S weary ones on the earth. He giveth power to the faint. How can we make sure of receiving this strength? "They that wait upon the Lord, shall renew their strength." This means to trust God patiently, to ac- I. cept God's guidance, to keep near God's heart, to live in unbroken fellowship with God. Prayer is part of waiting upon God. As the waters of the sea pour into every smallest indentation along its shore, so God's strength fills every heart that is linked to him. Note also the word "renew" in the promise. As fast as the strengt his exhausted, it is replenished. It is like the widow's barrel of meal and cruse of oil. We are to go on with our work, our struggle, our doing and I serving, sure that, waiting upon God, we shall ever ' renew our tsrength. Thus it is when we give to others in Christ's name, he fills the emptiness. Ij Over all the unopened year God casts his light. There can be no experience till the year ends for which there will not be strength. We need only to be sure that we wait upon God, and then all the strength we shall need will be given, as we go on, day by day. The Sunday School Times. THE OLD, OLD WISH. "I like to catch th' sperrit that is back of every word, Th' sperrit that th' shepherds felt th' minute that they heard Th' whole sky full o' music. Oh, they understood it then Jest as we do at Christmas if we mean 'Good will to man.' It aint jest for your nebbers an' your fambly, but it 1 starts Right from your soul an' takes in all th' world o' human hearts." mmmmmmmmmmmmmm "HAPPY NEW YEAR." I "Happy New Year!" I "Happy New Year!" responded little Mary Ann I as she placed her basket of launry on the sidewalk and I looked up into the cheery face of the elderly lady who I had greeted her and received a pleasant smile. I "Happy New Year!" she said a minute later as M Tim Graham ran by her. "Humph," responded Tim, stopping quickly and H turning round. "Aren't you putting on airs, Mary H "They're not airs, Tim," said Mary Ann, "they're I just things to pass along. Before I came out this morn- - H ing, mother said, 'If you get anything good while H you're out, just pass it along.' " I got a real pleasant H 'Happy New Year' from the white-haire- d lady you H just met, so I'm passing it along to you. It's your H turn now." H "Mebbe," said Tim, as he turned away and pushed H his bare hands deeper into 'his torn pockets. "But," H he added to himself, "I wonder who'd care for my H 'Happy New Year!' Guess I'll try it though." "Happy New Year!" he said in a half-bashf- ul H way a minute afterward, as he met an officer of the Mm Mm "Happy New Year!" responded the big policeman MM cheerily. "It seems good to have a chap like you speak MM up so free and honest." "Say, will you pass it along?" M asked Tim, looking up into the face above him. "That's M what Mary Ann said to me, sir." M "That's what I'll do, my boy, and be glad to. It's a good thing." "Happy New Year," ma'am, he said, cheerily, as M he approached a stand behind which an apple woman M stood shivering. "Happy New Year!" said the apple-woma- n, as Mm Mrs. Murphy stopped to buy some apples. MM "A 'Happy New Year' is it, you're giving me?" exclaimed Mrs. Murphy. "Sure if it's a happy new MM year to the loikes of you behind that apple MM stand, what moight it be to me sick man at home who Mm has a hot fire and plenty of hot gruel? I'll take that MM home to him, and sure he'll stop fretting because he H can't get out to work till next week." The Christian H Advocate. H A NEW YEAR AND A NEW MAN. "Have you begun the new year as a new man? H What have you brought over with you from 1912? H What did you leave finally behind, that you might start H fair and free with the dawning of 1913 Did you leave H behind your guilt? Did you let go dispositions that H have spoiled you, habits that have coarsened or weak- - H ened you aims that could never ennoble you? Did you H take Christ as your Saviour, and submit to thim as MM your Sovereign? Do you now, at the beginning of MM this year, stand pledged to His causes, and do you MM count life of value only as it fulfills His ends? Are MM the loves and 'hates of your life, its preferences and MWM repulsions, to be henceforth conditioned and controlled MM by Him? Then, indeed, has the new man been born in you, and the year you have entered on will be as- - suredly new." Rev. Henry Haigh. MM Laying down the volume of Wordsworth, of whom MwM she was an earnest disciple, the precocious child turned to her mother with a sigh. "If 'heaven lies about us in our infancy,' as the poet says," she queries, "what will happen to us when we grow up?" Life. i THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS I THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS Published monthly in the interest of the Knnsas City National Training School of the Woman's Home Missionary Society. Editor: Anna Neideriieiser. Associate Editors: Ethel Adkins, Elizabeth Curry, Minnie Pike, Eva Ricg, Ada Wiebe. Subscription price, 25 cents. Any one sending in I 10 subscriptions at one time may send in the 11th name, to whom the paper will be sent free for a year. If you see a blue mark Expired. here your subscription has All correspondence concerning contributions, and subscriptions should be addressed to the Editor, Miss Anna Neiderheiser, Cor. E. Fifteenth St. and Denver Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Entered as second-clas- s matter, Oct. 27, 1908, at the postoflice at Kansas City, Mo., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. KANSAS CITV. MO.. JAN. IQI3 D 1 TOR I A L AT KENSINGTON MISSION. planning to visit Kensington so were very glad of the Christmas program to see the Christmas was in the air, but how differently the season As we neared the Mission was brightly lighted and men, flocking in at every door, many IE seeking the cheer to be found Christmas that means to the at home! building the room is bright and the children with and their bright faces make a As more children come of delight, for the Christmas trimming is but partly hidden has arrived for the program. The interested fathers and mothers, all in their best, for this is march out, and in their earnest child-lik- e manner sing Joy to the World," we are H glad that Christ remembered the children; as one of ml the workers reads the Christmas lesson, the old, sweet II story, we are glad Christ came with Christmas love I for just such as need Him. I One little boy came in late, and thought he was I too late for his part on the program, so when his name I was called he rushed upon the platform and gave his I piece with all his might. So the program went on. At I last each one has done their part and the time has I come for the unveiling of that wonderful tree, the H children anxiously expectant of some beautiful gift. I The eager faces so confident made us glad that so I many kind friends had remembered these needy ones I and had made it possible for the workers to have a I! gift ready for each one. A very practical and much Ij needed gift for each child was a pair of stockings, con- - I taining candy, nuts, and a toy or doll. Toys, games, dolls, clothing, fruit, and other supplies had been sent 11 in for this work, making it possible for the workers , f I to provide in a very helpful way for each child and to I reach many homes. Some friends contributed cash, so I that needed clothing was bought for some specially I needy ones. In one family the ten-year-o-ld boy was I provided with clothing and so could be kept in school. I Several widowed mothers with little children were sub- - I stantially helped; while the sick and aged were cared I for. Because of the terrible curse of drink many of the I children come from places which it would be a travesty J I to call home, and as we looked into their faces we could I but wonder what sorrow each heart held, what longing I for better things, and we were thankful that through I the teaching and training and personal effort of the 1 Kensington Mission workers ideals of better living are ( 1 being brought into these homes, and that a knowledge 1 of the Great Christmas Gift so freely given for all, is I brought to these hearts. With a prayer for the workers, the children and I the homes, that the Christ may mean more in that dis- - trict than ever before, and that we may all be faithful B in doing our part in uplifting and saving, we watched H the happy crowd disperse, and then went to our homes. H Kansas City National Training School, I Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 1, 1913. Dear friends at home: Mm A Happy New Year to all! School beings tomor- - H row, and I want to take the opportunity this New H Year's Day offers, to tell you or our Christmas here. H When so many of the girls went home for the Christ- - v H mas season my heart sank, for, as you know, I had H never been away from home at that happy season ; but lmm I determined to have a happy time anyway in helping MM make others so. .Mm For days before plans were being made as to what mm each of us could do for the needy in our districts, in mW with those interested with us, both in and out of the city. Supplies came in early this year, mak-in- g it possible for all preparations to be' completed and distribution of food, clothing, and other needed gifts jH the day before, so that Christmas eve found us with mWg our minds at ease. jH The silence of slumber had at last settled over the house when through the stillness came the sweet tones as of angel voices, "Silent night, Holy night, All is calm, all is bright," and a sense of peace and calm repose came to each listener. 'm Early on Christmas morning we were all awakened by a triumphant Christmas carol sounding through the halls, calling us to a merry, happy day in honor of our King, and soon joyful greetings were heard every-wher- e. As quickly as possible we all gathered in the parlor mm for the early morning Christmas service, of song, mW praise and prayer, and a blessing came to each heart as we each gave the message that Christmas brought to our own hearts, and when we united in prayer it was truly a loving adoration of our Christ. The parlor was beautifully decorated with fes-too- ns of evergreen, bells, holly, mistletoe, a poinsettia plant, and some flowers, and the dining room was brightened with festoons of red, with the bells, and i mwm With hearts aglow and atune for the joys of the day the Christmas breakfast was eaten with a zest, in THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 5 I eager nnticipntion of whnt was to follow, for myster-ious preparations had been going on. Up stairs again we trooped, and passing through the clnss room each was handed a bundle of nondescript appearance, which had the name of some one else on it, and a merry time we had finding the owners and getting our own pask-age- s. But we were all settled very soon in the class room or parlor, and the silence was broken by the rust-- ling of wrappings and the exclamations of surprise and delight as the remembrances of friends and loved ones were brought to view, for you know our packages are all carefully kept for us until Christmas morning and are indeed a surprise. We were all children together after a visit from Santa Claus. We spent an hour or longer laughing and looking, and then the family scattered as duty called, i A number of the deaconesses and several of us girls had a jolly time helping with the Christmas din-- ( ner. Friends from out of the city had sent in chick- I ens, fruit, and other provisions, making possible a ' bountiful dinner, and it was such fun helping get everything ready for our small Christmas family. Of course thirty seems large to you, but fully half of us were away, so it seemed small to us here. After dinner some members of the family called on the sick or shut-in- s, others visited quietly together at home, or took a long walk, for it was a glorious day, while others read their Christmas books or wrote to the home folks. It was a real "home" Christmas, and instead of being sorry that I had to stay here, I feel as though 1 should have missed one of the sweetest experiences of y my two years at "Fisk" if I had not been here for the Christmas time. The clays since have been so full, with visiting, sewing, reading, and other duties, that the time has been too short; but we are all glad to welcome the regu-lar work again. With love to all, your friend. A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE. Dr. Chesteen Smith conducted our Christmas ser- - I vice, Saturday evening, Dec. 14. I After an opening service of song and prayer, he I asked each one to give a reason why Christ should re- - I ceive universal homage. A large number of reasons I ' " were given. The Scripture for the evening was Matthew's ac-- I count of the visit of the Magi. Dr. Smith then read a I poem descriptive of that scene and its meaning, after III ' which he showed how the Christmas season and the I Christ whom it commemorates are influencing the in- - tellectual, business, governmental, social, educational and home life of our times. He who does not give evidence of kindly feeling and good will at this time is considered to be lacking in the spirit which all should have. This is in truth the Spirit of the Christ. This Spirit of Christ shows itself in humble, loving service for others. In closing, Dr. Smith gave briefly "The Story of the Other Wise Man," by VanDyke, as embodying the true Christmas spirit, that which seeks to be of service to the humblest of His needy ones. I We wish to say thank you to all the friends who I ( added to the happiness of our Christmas by gifts either I I for the School or for our Mission work. Our hearts I were made to rejoice many times through your kindly thoughtfulness. By the will of Mrs. Mary Denton, of Denton, Kan- - I sas, who went home December 12, our Training School receives $1,000.00. Mrs. Denton will be remembered I as the good friend who gave us an annuity of $2,000.00 I four years ago. The influence of her unselfish life and I her good works will long be felt in the world. I COST OF VICE. I That Americans arc mulcted in the sum of $3,-- I 000,000,000 annually through the drain upon the coun- - I try's resources traceable to the white-slav- e evil, trans- - 'missiblc diseases, and general immorality, was stated I by Vernon M. Cady, lecturer of the American Fcdera- - I tion of Sex Hygiene, at the health exhibit in conncc- - I tion with the International Congress on Hygiene and Demography. H He declared that there are 300,000 registered H white slaves in this country, and that the police of the H various cities estimate that there are 1,000,000 more H not registered. He threw upon the screen a table show- - H ing how Americans spend $3,000,000,000 annually H through the social evil and the diseases of vice. Other H principal expenditures of the American people were H given as follows: H Intoxicating liquors, $2,000,000,000; tobacco, $1,- - H 200,000,000; jewelry and ornaments, $800,000,000; automobiles, $500,000,000 ; church work at home, $250,- - 000,000; .confectionery, $200,000,000; soft drinks $120,000,000; tea and coffee, $100,000,000; millinery, $90,000,000; patent medicines, $80,000,000; chewing gum, $13,000,000; foreign missions, $12,000,000. In placing the cost of immorality at $3,000,000,- - H 000, Mr. Cady did not include the cost of the care of H the sick, blind, insane, paralytic, or the expense of in- - H fant funerals, which, he declared, result from immor-- H ality. He made a strong protest against connnon ig- - H norance in matters of sex hygiene, declaring that the H time is fast coming when such ignorance in either sex H will not be regarded as innocence. Homiletic Review. H WRONG PRESENTATION IS ESSENTIAL UNTRUTH. A friend of John Ericsson, famous as the builder H of the "Monitor," was giving an illustrated lecture H upon the great inventor in the city .of Philadelphia. A number of military men were present. One of H the pictures shown represented Ericsson as a Swedish H chasseur. At the conclusion of the address a Danish H officer came up to the lecturer and asked: "Why did H you. show Ericsson in disgrace? That picture shows H Ericsson in arrest, was that a fact?" "But, my dear H sir," said the surprised lecturer, "I did not show H Ericsson in arrest." "Yes, persisted the Danish gen-- H tleman. "Your slide showed him with 'his sword on H the wrong side, and that means that he was in arrest." H A conference with the operator showed that that H worthy had reversed the slide in placing it in front of H the lens. Ericsson was dishonored by the presentation given of 'him. So is Christ by that of many of His followers. H Selected. A NEW YEAR. Set an ideal today. Set it so high it will seem somewhat dimmed by a sense of inability. Then by patience, and willing acceptance of discipline, and never tiring industry, and never failing trust in God, see to it that twelve months hence all doubt shall be gone, and you shall stand assured that you have done your best. Rev. M. S. Rice. I A UNIQUE SANIT0R1UM. The Survey of December 7th gives a very intcr- - I eating account of the new Tuberculosis Snnitorium at Arcquipn, Calif. This institution is unique because the patients work from one to four hours per day, live days of each week at making pottery. There is a large demand ior the pottery, and the patients earn the cost of their maintenance. Arequipa is an hour's ride from San Francisco, and vs lnenfpd in one of the loveliest spots in California. Patients can sit at ease out of doors all the year I around. The superintendent gets eggs, milk, butter, 1 cream, etc., directly from the farmers of the neighbor hood. This, with the warmth of the climate keeps the total cost oi care at 37 a week, including laundry. I Frederick II. Rhead, who is at the head of the pottery department. !t of the fifth generation of a III family Eng. of pottery makers, and comes from Stafford-shire, Dr. Philip King Brown is the founder of this in- - stitution. As a rule he accepts only incipient cases. The sanitorium is self-supporti- The buildings are of the best modern type, the table excellent, and the patients more cheerful and lively than in most other tuberculosis sanitoriums. The knowledge that they are paying their own expenses contributes largely to their cheerfulness. Cured patients do not want to leave and go back to stenography, telephone operating, and the like, but prefer to remain and make pottery. This is the best way to prevent a relapse, and has suggested the build-ing of a large pottery, distinct from the sanitorium workshop, but under the same management. Here ap-parently cured patients, the deaf, the partially crip-pled, and other handicapped persons will supply the labor and reap the benefits. "WE ARE NOT DIVIDED." The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ I! in Chicago. America has recently held an important session in The Council was comnosed of bishons. secretaries of benevolent societies, pastors, college presidents and teachers, editors and other laymen. It represented fifteen or sixteen million Christians. "Many thincrs wove discussed. Great addresses were heard and there were great debates. The churches are united in the war against sin 1 and self and ignorance and sorrow. We are sure that a self-center- ed church is a standing insult to the Head of all the Churhes. The battle now is not against any theological gates of hell, of whose exact location we cannot H convince one another. It is against the gates of Vjj hell which the Churches have located beyond question the saloon gate, the slum gate, the child labor gate, the disease gate, the gates of greed and lust and am- - bition and folly. Through these issue the forces which war against H the soul. Against them the Churches set themselves, H with mingled sternness and yearning. H The Federal Council is a sign of great times com- - H ing. It is wonderful to be a Christian in these days, H when the world seems more than ever ready for H1 the Christian word, yet more ' than ever insistent, on H testing the reality of the Christian's profession by H new standards. H The Federal Council will meet again in two years. Hj And, when it meets, the distance between that to morrow and to-da- y will be greater than the four I years between the first Council and now. So swiftly do ' I God's purposes run when men set themselves to work I with him." Dan B. Brummit in Epworth Herald. I "The manufacturer who stands a woman twelve I hours a day for six days in the week in an unsanitary I workshop cannot be convicted by law as a murderer. I Yet he is a murderer in every sense of the moral law. I I do not care how much the prominent member of the I church may give to missions and to charity. If I am I convinced that he got the money from the blood and I sweat and toil of his weak brothers and sisters, or if B he made it by transgressions legal under the law, but I not moral under the laws of God that man is no Christian." Vice-Prc- s. Elect Marshall. Bishop Roots, of Hankow, says that when he first j went to China he had a good deal of difficulty in re- - , H membering faces. "I'm getting over my difficulty H now," he said one day to a mandarin, "but in the be- - w ginning here in Hankow you all looked as like as two , peas." "Two peas?" said the English-speakin- g man- - H darin, smiling. "Why not say two queues?" The H Argonaut. H "For showing the white feather at the battle of H Kirk-Kilcss- eh the handsome young prince, Aziz Pasha, H was shot on the spot. He was the soul of courtesy, H apparently. When the company of school teachers H from America was in the Mediterranean the young H prince entertained them on his yacht, which was stock- - H ed with a remarkable library as well as music. But s. H nothing has been invented that can take the place of H courage." H West Virginia's prohibition victory at the recent H election was the most sweeping ever won in this coun- - H try. Ninety-on- e thousand eight hundred majority in H a total vote of less than two hundred and fifty thous-an- d. And it was not a temporary, statutory victory. It was a permanent constitutional victory. All hail West Virginia! Marion Record. PERSONALS. H Miss Bertha Cowles spent Christmas with the . home folks at Sibley, Kas. Mr. Geo. Garretson of Baker University, visited his sister, Miss Aletta M. Garretson, Jan. 2. Miss Velma Forbish of Marshfield, Mo., has en- - y rolled as a student and taken up her work among us. v Rev. H. A. Cook of North Ottawa, Kansas, visited his sister. Miss Nellie Stevens of the Senior Class, not long ago. We were delighted by a visit from Rev. Thos. M. Harwood, Sunday School Missionary of Albuquerque, N. Mex., in December. Many of the students went home for the holiday vacation, but all are back, full of enthusiasm for the work of the New Year. Miss Bernice Lough, '10, has been elected kinder-garte- n teacher in the public school of her home town, Osborne, Kansas, for this year. Miss Blanche Kinison, deaconess for Independence Avenue Church, spent Christmas at the parental home in Kane, 111., as aigtf from her church. Miss Mary Ryan, '11, has recently been appointed J deaconess for First Church, St. Joseph (the White Temple), much to the joy of that congregation. v High Grade Photography LARGEST and FINEST A STUDIO m the CITY POPULAR PRIGES y V TAKE YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS TO I OWEN BROS., Druggists I S. E. Cor. 18th and Jackson, and 40th and Troost I A Complete Line of Drugs and Sickroom Necenitiei I DOTH PHONES PROMPT DEUVERr Bush Brothers I REAL ESTATE AND LOANS H We eichanter&nehes for city property. We trtde Irms for merchandise. Woca for H the property ot We do i rental business. We mike loans. We solicit your business. i02 Cund A.. nut Ttplt KANSAS CITY. MO. H The Methodist (took Concern Carries a full line of DOOKS as well as SONG DOOKS, H BIBLES, and miscellaneous religious and secii-religiou- s rending. JENNINGS & GRAHAM, Publishing Agts. i i2i McGee Street. KANSAS Q1TV, MO. eeeeeffeeeeeeeffeeeeeee USE THE BEST I Re-screen- ed and Washed Coals I Central (oal and Coke (o. I Phones 2430 Main KANSAS CITY, MO. H Jacoby Furniture Store I 918, 920 and 922 GRAND AVE,, 3d and 4th floor H Low Rent Factory Agents Factory Prices PHONES 161 MAIN H FURGASON-TABB-SIMOND- S I INSURANCE AND LOANS H FIRE' 8$f$ Real Eitate Mortgages I???icc 1Mn.in Bought and Sold autcobile 409 Dwight Building - LIABILITY Kansas City, Mo. Building Loans ASK FOR OUR PRIGES H Home Phone 2972 Main Tingle --Titus Printing Co. H MUSIC, COMMERCIAL, CATALOGUE and COLOR PRINTING A SPECIALTY. 808-81- 0 Grand Avenue Kansas City, Missouri f . Mr. Elmer Lnkey wlio is attending Southwestern College, Winfiehl, Kns., visited his cousins Julia Lnkey i and Nellie Closely, of the Junior Class during vacation. l I We enjoyed very much a visit from Miss Ethel Ilerren, '10, enroute from her home in Oklahoma to her HI work in Oil City, Pa. We hear excellent reports from Miss Herren's work in Oil City. Kf Miss Eunice Britt went to Warrensburg, Mo., for H Christmas, and will spend the month of January in H Garnett, Kansas, assisting in revival work. December H 29 she spoke at Muscotah, Kns. H Miss Alice Walton, '10, was home from St. Joseph, H Mo., for the holidays. She is now serving six of the H St. Joseph churches as deaconess; a large undertaking, H but Miss Walton is doing good work. I Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Henslee of Salina, Kas., made HI us a much appreciated visit at Fisk Hall last week. It HI .s' was their first visit at the School, though they have H been interetsed friends for some time. H Miss Nettie Harris spent Christmas at her father's H home in Bunker Hill, 111., and is now making an itiner- - I ary in the North Nebraska Conference. Dec. 15 she H represented our work at Pretty Prairie and Castleton, I and Dec. 22 at Burrton, Kas. I Rev. J. Willard DeYoe, pastor of London Heights H Church, Kanass City, Kas., and efficient teacher of the I Life of Christ in the Training School, led our chapel I services Thursday morning, Dec. 19, bringing us a very helpful message fr6m I Cor. 3 :21-2- 3, "All things I are yours." I The Methodist Churches of Kansas City, Mo., are H engaged in a union revival meeting at the Grand Ave-- I nue M. E. Church, under the leadership of Rev. Milton H I S. Rees and wife, of Rochester, N. Y. This meeting I has opened under very encouraging circumstances, and H we hope to have more to say concerning it in our next H issue. Rev. W. R. McCormack, faithful member of our I faculty, and pastor of Oakhurst church, led the open-ing chapel service for the New Year. His lesson was based on Isa. 1 :19 : "If we be willing and obedient yi. shall eat the good of the land," and Gen. 24 :27 : "I being in the way the Lord led me." It was a message we will long remember with profit. It has for some time been the privilege of the dea-conesses and students to make a love offering at Christ-mas for some one less fortunate. This year it was used to send a little orphan girl in whom we are much in-terested, to our Cunningham Children's Home, at Ur-- j bana, 111. It was a great treat to buy her small trunk and provide the ticket, while other friends helped I prepare her wardrobe for the coming winter. I "The horse always quits pulling before he kick." I I I Kansas City National Training I I 1 School i - i I I For Deaconesses and Missionaries I ife ' I ' ' I H j fW' F1SKIIALL SCHOELLKOPF HALL H I Scholarship $125.00 a Year I I COURSES OF STUDY I I Bible course, Social Workers course, Domestic Science and Jlrts course, Sunday School, H I Junior and Epworth League course, Kindergarten course. H I Large Faculty of Experts I Aim: World wide vision, H Preparation for world wide service I Young women wishing to work their way, or to avail themselves of the privileges of a I scholarship will find it to their advantage to write to I Miss Anna Neiderheiser, Superintendent I I Corner East Fifteenth Street and Denver Ave. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI H |
Creator | Anna Neiderheiser, ed. |
Publisher | Published in the interest of the Kansas City National Training School for Deaconesses and Missionaries, 1908- |
Publisher.digital | Saint Paul School of Theology |
Contributors | Preparation by State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO. Digitized by iArchives, Provo, UT. |
Type | Newspaper |
Format.digital | |
Identifier | KCD 1913-01-01 |
Language | Eng. |
Rights | This work by Saint Paul School of Theology is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. |
Note | Digitized 2012 with funds from a Library Services and Technology Act grant award administered by the Missouri State Library. |
Location | HERITAGE BV4176.K35 A53 |
OCLC number | 70992408 |
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