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"This is the victory that overcometh the world, even your faith." VOL. XXIV KANSAS CITY, MO., MAY, 1932 No. 5 COMMENCEMENT CALENDAR - - COME May 20, 9:30 A.M.--Class Day Address...Rev. D. E. Fields, Pleasant Hill, Mo. May 22, 11:00 A.M.--Baccalaureate Sermon...Rev. I. M. Hargctt, D.D. Linwood Boulevard Methodist Episcopal Church, Linwood Boulevard and Olive Street, Kansas City, Missouri. May 22, 8:00 P.M.--Annual Sermon...Rev. George A. Fowler Pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. Bancroft Chapel, Kansas City National Training School. May 23, 8:00 to 10:00 P.M.--Open House May 24, 2:30 P.M.--Communion Service...Rev. Wilbur N. Mason, D.D. Superintendent of Bethany Hospital. May 24, 8:00 P.M.--Commencement Address...Rev. W. E. Lowther, D.D. Pastor of First Methodist Episcopal Church, Lincoln, Neb. At Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, corner Kenwood and Armour, Kansas City, Mo. May 26, 2:30 P.M.--The Brotherhood of Man: A Fellowship Service. Dr. J. B. Bisceglia, Pastor Italian Presbyterian Church. Mr. W. Robt. Smalls, Secretary, Urban League. Dr. Nicholas Jaime, Mexican Physician. Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg, Congregation B'Nai Jehudah. Dr. Irvin E. Deer, Secretary, Council of Churches. MORNING MEDITATIONS Saturday, May 21, 8:45 A.M........................Rev. H. O. Holter, D.D. Pastor of Quayle Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, Kansas City, Kansas. Tuesday, May 24, 8:45 A.M.........................Rev. Raphael H. Miller, D.D. Pastor of Independence Boulevard Christian Church. Wednesday, May 25, 8 :45 A.M...................Praise Service. Thursday, May 26, 8:45 A.M........................Rev. Frank Lee Roberts, D.D. Pastor of Grand Avenue Temple. 2 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS The Kansas City Deaconess Published Monthly in the interest of the Kansas City National Training School of the Woman's Home Missionary society. EDITOR; ANNA NEIDERHEISER. Subscription price. 25 cents. Anyone sending in ten subscriptions at one time may send in the eleventh name, to whom the paper will be sent free for a year. If You See a Blue Mark Here Your subscription Has Expired. All correspondence concerning contributions, and subscriptions should be addressed to the Editor, Miss Anna Neiderheiser, corner East Fifteenth Street and Denver Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. Entered as second-class matter, October 27, 1908 at the post-office at Kansas City, Mo., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, October 3, 1917. KANSAS CITY, MO., MAY, 1932 EDITORIAL A MODERN MIRACLE "I wish you would tell me how a group of one hundred and six students and deaconesses in the W. H. M. S. Auxiliary of your school could have as your missionary gift for a year like this $1,511.40! I have often heard of your wonderful Mite Box work. Does the family do all of its missionary giving through this one channel?" "No ; we could not do that, with all the interests we have through the W. F. M. S. and the church. However, when we visualize the folk that we reach through this offering each year we find that we almost encompass the world Alaska, Honolulu, the fl Chinese, the Japanese, the Greeks, the Mexicans, the lepers; and at Bingham Canyon, Utah, and Rock Springs, Wyo., we touch almost every known na-- H tionality. And best of all, approximately a dozen deaconesses and missionaries have received training H through the scholarships we have paid. H "Two girls have been kept in school from little H children until they were grown. We call them our H daughters. One is happily married in Hawaii and H is mother in a fine Christian home. The other is H using a wonderful musical talent for others. We go H by proxy to so many places that we are thrilled with H the privileges that come to us." I "Do your faculty receive a large salary that you I can do so much? Or are your girls from wealthy homes?" I "Neither. Our resident faculty, including the I president, are all deaconesses working on the regu- - I lar deaconess plan of room, board and laundry with I $35 a month allowance. Many of the students have I worked for all or half of their scholarship this year." "You arouse my curiosity. How do you do it, I anyway?" I "Sometimes we feel that God does it for us when I we make ourselves a free channel through which He I can work. When school opened Inst September and M we faced our pledges, which were almost fourteen B hundred dollars, it seemed insurmountable. Some of I the new students, who hadn't had their mite boxes H during the summer, I am sure felt that we were H little less than crazy to think of accepting such a H pledge. When we had our first Mite Box opening it H looked as though we had been presumptuous in our H faith." "Please do not keep me in the dark longer! How H did you do it?" "I think the first opportunity to do something 1 together came when we had our lovely Family Birth- - H day Party and each one put as many pennies in the H table mite box as she was years old. Next, the whole H family agreed that instead of giving Christmas gifts J to each other we would play the Christmas Sister Game, and put the money into a white gift." " 'Christmas Sister Game' what is that?" fl "All the names of the family were written on slips of paper and we each drew one; and for a whole month she was our Christmas sister and we did all sorts of nice things for her without revealing our identity. It was a delightful game, full of mys-ter- y and ingenuity. Just before Christmas we had a lovely Christmas party for which not a penny was spent and we all discovered through some ingenious method who our Christmas Sister was." "Intensely interesting, wasn't it?" "Yes, much more so than material gifts would have been. Later, a lovely concert given by the Music Department yielded over a hundred dollars, twice as much as we had dared hope for, and so much appreciation from those who heard it that we felt doubly repaid. "The girls besieged me for ways of earning money until I finally let them do some of the things I had formerly hired a man to do. They cleaned and varnished chairs that needed refinishing; they paint-e-d the lawn seats and porch chairs and such fun as they had doing it in their recreation hours! It took them out doors and they came in rosy and hungry. j "Almost every member of the family had some unique way of serving the needs of other members of the family, and steadily the nickels and dimes found their way into the mite boxes. Each one had assumed such portion of the whole pledge as her faith gave her courage to take; and occasionally with shining face and eager yoice someone would say, 'I have my goal !' or 'I had a letter from So and So and she sent me a check for my mite box.' 'Did you ask her for it?' 'No; I just told her what we were doing.' " "Wonderful!" "Yes, I think the family really came into the of sharing, which goes deeper than tithing. H 9 I THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 3 The home folk caught the enthusiasm, too, and in-stead of sending a cake or candy for Easter sent a gift for the mite box. Friends wrote saying, 4I am enclosing a small gift for your mite box.' A spirit of unselfishness grew. No one thought of buying candy, gum, ice cream, or going to the picture show. Even the ten cent store lost some of its charm." "Do you really enjoy it, or do you do it from a sense of duty?" "The family certainly has experienced the joy of venturing with God ; and out of it has grown a new interest in and understanding of those with whom I we share our gifts and ourselves. To think of others has become a natural expression of the life and love of God within, sometimes to the degree of real sac-rifice, which, after all, is only refusing to give to higher." the lower that we may have all to give to the "Almost you convince me that the day of miracles is not past. I don't see yet how you could do it; but it also." makes me want to go into partnership with God, "You will find it a glorious experience." Anna Neidcrheiser. A house party ANNOUNCING for Missionary Maidens of Meth-odism, to be given at the Kansas City National Train-ing School, 15th street and Denver avenue, Kansas City, Mo., June 11-1- 8, 1932. Under the leadership of the Missionary Women of the Kansas and the Mis- I souri Conferences; Dr. Anna Neiderheiser, President of Training School; Mrs. Sol D. Dice, Dean of the House Party, 1715 Hogeboom avenue, Topeka, Kans. A week of spiritual, mental, social and physical de-velopment through Bible study, morning watch, home and foreign study books, story telling, dra-matics, pageantry, methods., recreation. KENSINGTON WEEK DAY CHURCH SCHOOL The graduation exercises of the Kensington Week Day Church School were held in the Kansas Building of the Kansas City National Training School the evening of April 29. Thirty-seve- n boys --.and girls received the diploma. The attendance for - It the year was the largest in the history of the school. Miss Corinne Clough, principal, reported that sixty-si- x I had a record of perfect attendance for one year; and twenty, a record of perfect attendance for two years. Fifteen denominations were represented in the enrollment. The teachers, all members of the Class of 1932 of the Training School, were as follows: Kathleen Bell, Marien Holbert, Ethel Lehn, Eureath White, Effie Thomas, Electa Schaefer, Elizabeth Dalbey, Hettie Mae Parsons. Miss May Faulkner spent May 2-- 9 in the District W. H. M. S. Conventions of the Northwest Iowa Con-ference. She also spoke at Sac City on Sunday, I May 8. MAY THE FIRST I Sunday was May the first. There must be some- - I thing very special, else why the pretty baskets an- - H nouncing an early rising-be- ll and an early meeting H in the chapel. No, not May Day, even though May 1, for the Juniors had let us know that their celebra-- tion was to be May 2. H The opening of the chapel doors made it evident H that it was indeed something very special the 1932 H "Shield" was about to appear. H A processional of the staff, white-cla- d singing H of one of the Shield songs prayer, by Miss May H Faulkner, a former Shield editor presentation of H the Shield by the present editor, Carolyn Haffner H another Shield song the recessional and then, at H last, each had a Shield in her hands, to examine, to H read, to exclaim over, to treasure! H Yes, something very special the completion of H a task the beginning of a chain of influence. H TRAINING SCHOOL GARDEN PARTY You never heard of one? H That is why I am suggesting it to you. Then, H when Training School Garden Parties, have become "just the latest thing ever," you will have the fun H of saying, "Why, yes, of course, I knew of them long H ago and suggested the very first one ever held in this town." How do you do it? First. Plant your garden with the Training School in mind. Just plant a few extra rows of peas, beans, beets, carrots, corn, tomatoes, or whatever does best in your locality. Then tend them faithfully till rain, soil and sunshine have done their part in getting them ready for the "Party." Second. Invite your women friends and neigh-bo- rs (the more the merrier) to spend the day, or the afternoon, at some convenient place, and put these products into cans for the Training School table. Yes. Miss Neiderheiser will be glad to send the cans, if you will only let her know about your "Party." M To be sure, many things, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, parsnips and the like, will not need to be canned. Just send them as they are. The cabbage will be very acceptable, too, if made into kraut, that lovely home made variety that tastes so good with sausage on a cold winter's day. The men will want a part in this "Party"? Yes, 'H indeed. And they may have it, too. They can hoe jH the garden and pull weeds and help to gather the jH vegetables. 'H Now, do you not think that a garden party worth 'H while? Maybe the Epworth League or the Young People's Sunday School class will want to help also. jH Best of all, it need not lessen, by so much as one onion, the number of good things you will have to eat next winter and you will enjoy yours even more because of the share you have sent to others. Miss Eunice Britt, field secretary, drove to At- - 'H lantic City with Rev. and Mrs. William I. Hastie. Mrs. C. B. Spencer also went with them. They found JH the trip very interesting. I TRY IT Do you want to rend something that will make you reluctant to lay it down before it is finished? Try the 1932 "Shield." I Here is a bona fide conversation: "Mr. V., have you read your Shield yet?" "No, Miss C, I haven't had a chance. When I took it home last night my wife began to read it and read it for three hours. I hope she will be ready tonight to let me have it." Price, $1.00. FROM CASTLE GARDEN TO SANCTUARY The Spirit of Festivity The Beauty of a Castle Garden The Glory of God's Sunset The Castle Sanctuary May Day of 1932. Everyone eagerly awaited any word concerning the plans of the Juniors because May first came on Sunday, but when Monday evening arrived we all were repaid for the thirty-ho- ur wait. The first scene was laid in the Castle Garden on the Campus be-tween Schoellkopf Hall and the Kansas Building. Two trumpeters heralded the coming of the queen of 1931 and her attendants, bringing us with one fleeting glance again, as it were, into the May Fes-tival of Greek Maidens. A procession in all white made way for the May Queen, Dorotha Dickerson, and her attendants. The Queen's gown was of a simple flowered pattern and her two small attend-ants were in dresses of pale green. One of the tiny tots came before her bearing the Crown of Pearls; the other gracefully bearing the Queen's train of filmy white. The picture of the Castle Garden was now complete a high background of green shrub-bery a velvet carpet of grass the Queen with her attendants and the Ladies of the Court on either side of the throne. In honor and devotion one of the Ladies of the I Court placed the Crown of Pearls upon the Queen as she knelt before the throne, in festival spirit the mes-sage of the class of '34 was given in poetry, with fit-ting words of tribute from the Class of 1932 a cor-sage was presented to the Queen, and, an expression of appreciation was voiced by one of the staff the Glory of the Castle Garden vibrated with every tone of the violinist's tribute solo, "When You Come to the End of a Perfect Day," and the regal procession led the way to the Castle Dining Hall. Light from tall tapers, flowers and happy music graced the room. During the dinner which made one really think he was the Queen's guest there were songs and music a mingling of solemn and gay notes. Then upon the group wild with joy and thrilled with the sacred beauty of the occasion came a breathless hush!. . .In the hands of an artist the violin poured forth a holy benediction. No heart failed to beat in responsive rhythm to the strains "Abide With Me." Into the Castle Sanctuary, our Bancroft Chapel, to follow Sir Gregory to Bethlehem in the Crusade where we, too, might hang the lamp of our devotion near the birthplace of Our King. Following this story the Class Gift was presented a pair of bronze candelabra for the Sanctuary. When the candles I were being lighted we felt our love rekindled and I as we left the Castle Sanctuary a new zeal burned I in our hearts. 1 II. S., '32. I PERSONAL TESTIMONY The following is the testimony of a group of sixth grade girls who have been attending the Ken-sington Week Day Church School conducted on the Training School campus every Wednesday afternoon from October to May. They were asked to write on "What This Year of Study Has Meant to Me." "I have learned lots more about Jesus." j "It has taught me to be kind and it has taught me not to talk back to my mother and father; to go to church and to pray to God and to obey his com- - mandments, and to try and help every one to learn about Him." "This year of study has reminded me of all the Bible stories I have known, and shown me all the mistakes I make and have made. Also what a Chris-tio- n girl is and should be, and that I would like to be a Christian girl." "This year of study has taught me to be kinder." "It has taught me to follow God. It has taught me to pray when I am in trouble. It has taught me to love everybody in the world. ,i It has taught me to go to Sunday School and not fuss about having to go. It has taught me not to fight with other chil- - , dren." J "I have learned many things out of the Bible. He has taught me to be a follower of God. He has taught me to pray to God. He has taught me to love one another. He has taught me to go to church." "I have learned where I can find the Kingdom ,of Love. I can help in the affairs of my neighbor-hood to build on the Kingdom of Love." ' "This year of study has helped me in my Chris-- tian life. I have learned lots more about Jesus." Are these not evidences of real "growth in grace?" What pastor would not be delighted if his hearers could give such testimony? A. M. G. Miss Mary F. Smith, of our faculty, broadcasted l over WOQ recently in behalf of the Eighteenth jfl Amendment. ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. I President Aletta M. Garretson il Vice-Preside- nt Grace Hutcheson I Recording Secretary Grace Vause I Corresponding Secretary. May Faulkner Treasurer Minnie Pike i, Treasurer Love Gift Anna Neiderheiser I Historian Bertha Cowles I Editor K. C. Deaconess Anna Neiderheiser I ! I THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 5 A PROMISE "Mother, mother, guess what? Tlie nicest tiling has happened. The Queen Esther Standard Bearer girls are having a banquet out at the Training School Friday night and they want me to sing," said sixteen year old Celia, as she rushed into her humble home. Celia was a Greek girl, very beautiful, with a mezzo soprano voice, her notes were clear and strong, she loved to sing and her one dream was to some day study voice. Somehow the fates had been against her, so it seemed, and all her life she had had to live in a squalid little home in the slums of a big I city. "Now that is nice, and what will you sing?" said her mother, who had the kind, tender face of a mother and yet it was lined and wrinkled with care. Sorrow, disappointment, and hardship each had left its mark. "Oh mother, I know you'll like this; they want me to sing in Greek." "My mother tongue," said the mother, smiling. "How glad I am I have taught you and sung to you. the Greek lullabys that my mother used to sing to' me! But tell me, Celia, why were you asked?" "I don't know. I stopped by the Mission on my way home from school and Miss Riley said they had asked her to ask me. And oh, mother, the best part of all I haven't told yet!" "What is that, dear?" "Miss Harding, you know, she is one of the Train: ing School girls, asked me to stay all night at the Training School! May I, mother?" "Yes, dear. But I wonder what you will wear?" The intervening week was a very happy one for Celia and her mother. Mrs. Kasbob had found in her trunk a dress she herself had worn many years ago, and together they fixed it into a very becoming frock for Celia. At last the night arrived. Miss Harding and Miss I Riley called for Celia in their car and soon they were at the Training School. There were so many boys and girls of Celia's own age, as well as some older, all so jolly, so full of life that she felt as if she were in a dream, a dream that she had dreamed for a long time. Then when all were around the dining tables, singing, laughing, talking, she did not dare to speak for fear it would all fade away. That night as Celia and Miss Harding were get-ting ready to retire, Miss Harding said, "Are you happy, Celia?" A light shone on her face as she answered, "Oh, i Miss Harding, if you only knew how happy I am! I can't tell you. I don't have the word to express it." I "Don't try, dear; I know how you feel." I "But, Miss Harding, when I sat there in the din-- I ing room and listened to the girls of the Training I, School sing, those girls that I knew had consecrated II their voices to the service of Christ, and I knew that I their singing came from a heart full of peace and I happiness, you didn't know and no one knew, but I right then I humbly bowed my head and said, "Oh, I Christ, if thou canst use my voice, I, too, shall conse- - I crate it to Thee." "I am glad, Celia, because you can do much for I our Master with your voice," said Miss Harding, I softly. H "If I could only come here to study! Everyone I js so happy, and the atmosphere here is so wonder-- I ful, so calm, so peaceful! Why, Miss Harding, you H just know that Christ abides within these walls. I Then, too, you girls out at the Mission have given me I a vision. You are my ideal, and I, also, want so to I live that I can be an example to my brothers and H sisters and to other young people. I want to give to H them, also, a vision." H "Yes, dear, Christ does abide within these walls I because each girl here has consecrated herself, as H you are consecrating yourself tonight. Perhaps some H day you can attend here. Let us pray about it." H So the two girls knelt and prayed to their Heav- - I enly Father, one that He would guide her and give H her strength and wisdom as she guided the younger H girl; the other that she might keep true to her H promise. H LORA BELL DENNISTON, '34. THE CHALLENGE I Daughter, will you meet the challenge, H "Carry on?" Can you smile when all is black? H Can you give when much you lack? H Take my task where I have left it, H Carry on. H Though the way is dark and dreary, H Make the days bright, sunny, cheery, H Carry on. H I have lived my life complete, H Now I go my God to meet, H Carry on. H When discouraged, sad and lone H Don't give up ; you're not alone, H Carry on. H Sow the seeds of joy and love, H Store your treasures up above, H Carry on. H Live that life that's hid in Christ, H In the midst of pain and strife, !H Carry on. H Later on when work is done H At the setting of the sun, H I'll meet you over there. H Carry on. I DORIS M. ROBE. We wish to express our thanks and appreciation H to the friends who have been so graciously supplying 'H our eggs the last two months ; and also to those who H have sent chickens for our Alumnae banquet. These H things help to relieve financial anxieties and increase H th6 joy .in our good times. We will have a large H family for six weeks longer. 1 H H " 6 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS I STORY HOUR AT SHEFFIELD When I first went out to Sheffield Neighborhood Center, early in October, I found the children just as eager to see me as I was to see them. They had been playing around the Mission, but when I came in the door there was a general chorus, "Are you I the story teacher?" Then, of course, there was a scramble as to who would sit next to teacher during the circle stories. That first afternoon our stories were for the main purpose of getting acquainted. Their silver laughter floated like the echo of bells. Even the little girl who had been severely burned and had to lie in a buggy forgot her pain. I certainly became acquainted that afternoon. I learned the little ones who had more energy than they could use, those who liked to act, and those who loved games. The boys and girls had made room for me in the circle, now to make room for lovely thoughts and deeds in their hearts. The children have done many things in the two hours each Saturday afternoon. They love the stories and then they love to act them out, sometimes im-personating a character a whole week and doing things that character would do. I! So far we have used a certain theme for a whole month; such as Kindness to Animals, Helping Others. They have greatly enjoyed stories of other races and countries and the games that they use. Among the Character stories have come many stories of Jesus. Each interprets in his own way, the Mexican as he sees it, the Greek as he sees it, the American as he sees it, and our one little Negro boy as he sees it. Many of the lessons have become a part of the children. One day a boy with whom I had been hav-ing some difficulty, came into the group with some candy. As I had been trying to make him see that it was wrone to eat in front of others unless he could share, I was wondering .what I could say that would make an impression, when he came up to me, saying, "Here, teacher, put this away till afterwards. I'm trying to be like Robert, but I almost forgot." (Rob-ert was the boy who would not make others want by eating things in front of them.) They have learned to appreciate the library books and to keep them in order in the bookcase. ', Of course, they have to be reminded, but last fall even reminding did no good. One of our Greek girls is bringing her baby brother to Story Hour and letting him play on the floor while she watches him, rather than to leave him under the feet of their sy mother. I When I first began the Story Hour at Sheffield our little Negro boy not only felt out of place, but he was continually acting up in order to get atten-tion. The other children would not play with him. But through our stories of other races he has be-come a member of the group and is very welcome. He is no longer misbehaving. At Easter time they made little baskets in whioh they put an egg they themselves had colored and some candy eggs, and presented them to their moth- - I ers. Giving was a joy. Then the next week they all I told how the baskets had been appreciated. I These boys and girls are becoming more and I more interested in doing the things which are going I to make someone else happy, instead of continually I thinking of themselves. I The Story Hour has meant much in the lives of I these children. I J. B '32. QUITE BUSY Clara Swain Hospital, I Bareilly, India, --.,1 March 27, 1932. Dear Friends: I This weather reminds me of Commencement and I when you receive this that time will soon be. I wish H so much for you and am sure that it will be a blessed H time for all who attend. I shall think of you during H that week. H This is the time of year that we look for snakes. H A cobra was killed out on the compound the other H night, but I have my first one to see yet. In each H room is kept a long stout stick, and a few nights H when we have been talking about snakes, or when H I have been suspicious, I have taken my stick with H me. Miss Westrup gave me her technique, so when H Mr. Snake appears I shall be quite a heroine. H We have been quite busy the last few weeks H taking care of eye patients; in one week we saw over H seven hundred. Many of these were given medical H care; 170 were operated on; then there were many, H many who had eyes that could not be helped. Then H they would cry and beg some more and finally we had to send them home to a life of blindness. I shall never forget some of the scenes. There was a continual line of old men, young men, children and women of every caste. They passed through one door of our dispensary and out through another, the Hindu woman with long, full skirt; the Mohammedan woman in purdah; the long-haire- d Sikh man all came that they might be able to see. Each brought their family, their food and bedding. Since this is a woman's hospital and we knew that if our clinic was to be a success we would s.l have to care for the men also, four tents were put up, with young men of our Sunday School as nurses. Many of these patients have gone home now, but the days never lack work. I love the work and am finding many places to wedge in some help. The problems are many and I am finding that people are similar the world over. Tomorrow the Bareilly Convention begins. This is an inter-denominatio- institute which lasts for a week and is characterized by its spiritual atmo-sphe- re and is for spiritual uplift. The tent is only a few feet from the hospital and we shall entertain some of the out-of-to- guests. !' It is a wonderful challenge to have to be a jack-of-all-trad- es. My latest is that of anaesthetist. Every type of disease imaginable is here and we are finding much use for our knowledge of medicine, much opportunity to be friendly and to show by our personality the Christ-lik- e life lived aright. Everywhere one goes beggars are very much in I evidence. Yesterday a new group were around. They are usually dressed quite attractively and hand out a letter which has been typed, saying that they need a certain amount of money to go and see their dying mother, or something similar. They become quite a pest if they are given a chance. Give greetings and love to my friends. ALTA M. TUCKER, '31. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE t Several times students here at K. C. N. T. S. have said, "I did not know Mexican people were like Miss Garcia and Miss Guerrette. Why, you know there is a difference!" Most Mexican people would resent this. I do not like to think there is such a difference. Yet Jesus Christ makes a difference in Mexican folks' lives. As I look into the faces of my Sunday school class of adult Mexicans, I realize that Jesus is stead-I ily and surely making a difference in these people. To see this difference I have had to know, visit, pray, work and love them. In turn, they have little by little grasped the great principles that have been so obscure in their minds. Some of the messages that they gave me to give to a young people's meeting were such as these: From a man who has not had a job for over two years, "I thank these people for helping me through the Mission with food, clothing and shelter. I am deeply thankful that I have learned to know Jesus n i i h as my oavior ana can sing praises to Mis name. H A neat, clean little lady, whose oldest son is very ill with tuberculosis, said: "Because my boy can H have milk and eggs, I am thankful." H Another fine faithful woman calls her garden "her sanctuary;" believes in feeding folk and she said that "her cup was overflowing and that if they H ever came to visit her she would have something H there for them to eat." I One member of my class is in the hospital, in a H ward with American women. She cannot read or H , write, neither can she speak English, yet she keeps H the ward bright with smiles. It is because Jesus is in her life. I How they enjoy a good time! We are planning a party for them and their anticipations know no H bounds. I Like every child of the Heavenly Father's, the I consciousness of sin is there, and like the rest of us I they try to hide it. It is so wonderful to have them I look you straight in the face and to know that they are doing their best. I We have been studying such national problems ' I as the "liquor question," "world peace," and local problems as the "pool hall" and "bootlegging." I Through the aid of the missionary magazines I have I been trying to give them the message of "Missions." GRACE E. GUERRETTE, '32. In WANTED MISSIONARIES TO THE I THOUGHTLESS I She was a country girl in a city school. That I statement means the same thing in China that it I does in America. She registered in school late in I the term; and on her first day she entered the class- - I room after the tardy bell had rung always an em- - I barrassing situation for a new girl. As she clumped I across the room in her heavy country shoes, twenty I sleek heads were lifted from their books to survey I her. Yes, Chieh Lan was right. Chieh Lan had seen I the new girl clamber out from under the load of I boxes, bedding rolls and string-tie- d pacnages wnicn almost engulfed her and the richshas; then Chieh I Lan had run to the court where the girls were stroll- - I ing after lunch to tell them, with many laughing I tosses of her black bobbed head, of the very funny H new girl who had just gone into the principal's of-- I fice. ... H The new girl really was funny in dress and ap- - I pearance. And her face lacked that eager play of H expression, that quick responsiveness, so characteris- - H tic of the girls in the Chinese-Wester- n School. Com- - H pared to her schoolmates in their slim, tight-fittin- g H garments of blue, their trim bobbed heads facing the H world with assurance, she was "different" indeed. Her name was Pao Chen, and from a distant vil- - H lage in Central China her father had sent her to the H Chinese-Wester- n School to learn many things he H could not teach her at home. "Teach her science, H history, English, and many other things that she H needs to know, but do not require her to go to church H or to study in the Bible classes," he wrote. The prin- - H cipal had pondered and wondered as she had read H his decided words. H The heart of the new teacher sank as Pao Chen H enrolled in her English class. How could she add H another girl to an already full class! And such a H stupid, dull-looki- ng creature! Her heart was to re- - H proach her later, but on that dusty afternoon she H knew only irritation and dismay. H The term moved on. A change began to be ap- - H parent in Pao Chen. She no longer clumped; her H hair was smoothly braided and her bangs were H trimmed so that she no longer peered through them H like a Shetland pony through his mane. In other H ways, however, she apparently remained the same. H When called on in class she shouted back a half- - H intelligible answer as though both teacher and class ,::H were deaf. She laughed raucously whenever embar- - rassed, which was frequently. 'H "Oh, dear!" sighed the new teacher to the prin-- H cipal as she stopped in the office on her way from H class one day. "I can't seem to do anything with ijH Pao Chen She just sits and looks dumb. I've .H talked and talked right at her, and I've explained H things to her after class; but all she does is giggle H and act silly." H The principal, who always understood, looked thoughtful. "You know," she said, "that child needs friends and she doesn't know how to make them. I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea to change her room and give her Lu Te and Ai Chen for room-- mates. They are sucli happy girls and such loyal Christians; I'm sure they'll help her." So Pao Chen was moved, and with the help of roommates soon found herself a real part of the school. At last she seemed to be enjoying life. On Thursday morning, when regular chapel exercises gave way to Bible classes and discussion groups, Pao Chen appeared at a Bible class. "My father sent me here to learn," she calmly Ii said ; "and right now I think it is most important to learn about Christ. My father has already taught me much mathematics and history, but he has not taught me about Christ. Now I shall learn." Surely it was a matter for consideration. Her father's orders had been explicit. No religious teach-ing. Yet who should deny her the full knowledge and the satisfied heart that she desired so eagerly! Shortly before Easter she came again. "I am going to be a Christian," she said, "and I want to join the church on Easter Sunday." H "Have you written your father?" asked the prin-- H cipal, after a moment of hesitation. "It is only right H to do that, you know, before taking such an impor- - H tant step as joining the church." H "To be sure I have written to my father. I have H told him how I love school and the teachers and the H girls. At home I am very lonely for I have no one H with whom to study or to play. Here I have two H roommates, and I am never lonely. They help me H study my lessons; they show me how my clothes H should be; they teach me to play games and they H talk to me of Christ. My father writes that he is H glad for me to have good lessons and to learn the H outdoor games why should he not be glad when H I learn the best thing of all?" H The principal breathed a prayer that such might be the case. H The time was drawing on to Easter, and still no word had come from Pao Chen's father. One morn-in- g the gateman ushered in a strange man who an- - H nounced himself a trusted servant from the family of Pao Chen, sent to escort his young mistress home; Pao Chen and all her belonging were to leave im- - H mediately. A few hours later the principal and the new teacher stood at the front steps and watched two rickshas wheel out of the school gate carrying a weeping Pao Chen and her bodyguard. How keenly the new teacher wished she had crowded more of help and inspiration into her few months with Pao Chen! H "Why, oh, why does the father feel this way? How can he be so heartless!" she wailed aloud. H Then the principal quietly told her of the father's letter. Years ago he, too, with eager heart had set out to get an education. He had gone to the United States. There, homesick and alone, he had looked for friendliness, for kindliness, for other evidences H of the Christian graces of which he had heard mis-sionar- ies in his own country tell. He found prejudice, disdain and coldness. "These Christian Americans, they arc all hypocrite," he had summed up his ex-- I pericnce. And he had returned to China hating the H very name Christian. Never should his daughter be H permitted to become one of the hated hypocrites. H Because of this he sent for her to come home even though it meant taking her away from all the new H joy which was opening up for her. There was noth- - H ing to be done, the principal concluded; the matter H had all been settled in America years before. The new teacher walked silently to her room, H thinking soberly of the missionaries that are needed H in her own country; missionaries to the intolerant; H missionaries to the careless; missionaries to the H thoughtless. H FRANCES A. MILNES. (Condensed from Womnn's Missionary Friend for Mny.) Ol PERSONALS I Miss Bertha Saville, R. N., '07, is now connected H with the McCune-Brook- s Hospital in Carthage, Mo. H Rev. E. C. Horn, D.D., of Mankato, Minn., spent H a few moments at K. C. N. T. S. on April 27th. Miss Mae Greer, '23, began work March 15 in H connection with the Methodist Orphanage, Lake H Bluff, 111. Rev. John P. White, superintendent of the Chil- - H dren's Home, Newton, Kans., was the guest of his H daughter Eureath, '32, April 27, 28. Miss Arabella Newton, of our Sophomore Class, H had the pleasure of a visit from her friend, Mrs. H Elizabeth Creveling, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, over May H Miss Grace Wasem of Girard, Kans., who was I with us as a student the first semester of this year, H made us a little visit over the week-en- d of April H 22-2- 4. On April 29 a group of ten W. H. M. S. members H from First Church, Ottawa, Kans., with their pastor, Rev. L. F. Waring, took dinner at K. C. N. T. S. and became better acquainted with us. H Carl J. Webb, pastor of Arlington M. E. Church, H Kansas City, Mo., and a student at Baker University, ,H accompanied by Anna Mary Eastwood, John N. l Green, Marjorie Long and Vincent Hall, also of H Baker, called at the Training School on May 24th. I On April 20th Mrs. Solomon Dice and Mrs. A. J. I Warner of Topeka, Kans., came up for a meeting at 1 the Training School, together with Mrs. Geo. W. Mil- - ler, Mrs. F. E. Bush and Dr. Neiderheiser, of Kansas 1 City, to make plans for the Queen Esther-Standa- rd 3 'I Bearer House Party, to be held at K. C. N. T. S. June 11-1- 7. I On May 24th a group of twenty young people f.H from First Church, Lawrence, Kans., drove over to H Kansas City in time to attend church at Grand Ave- - H nue Temple. After the service they came out to the I Training School, where they were dinner guests. il The afternoon was spent in visiting Mercy Hospital. M Miss Gladys Hobbs, '21, whose home is in Lawrence, H accompanied the group on their rounds. I . v . "Lord, give me eyes that I may see, I Lest I, as people will, I May pass by someone's Calvary I And think it just a hill." I
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Title | The Kansas City Deaconess (Kansas City, Mo.), 1932-05-01 |
Year | 1932 |
Volume | 24 |
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Description | "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even your faith." VOL. XXIV KANSAS CITY, MO., MAY, 1932 No. 5 COMMENCEMENT CALENDAR - - COME May 20, 9:30 A.M.--Class Day Address...Rev. D. E. Fields, Pleasant Hill, Mo. May 22, 11:00 A.M.--Baccalaureate Sermon...Rev. I. M. Hargctt, D.D. Linwood Boulevard Methodist Episcopal Church, Linwood Boulevard and Olive Street, Kansas City, Missouri. May 22, 8:00 P.M.--Annual Sermon...Rev. George A. Fowler Pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. Bancroft Chapel, Kansas City National Training School. May 23, 8:00 to 10:00 P.M.--Open House May 24, 2:30 P.M.--Communion Service...Rev. Wilbur N. Mason, D.D. Superintendent of Bethany Hospital. May 24, 8:00 P.M.--Commencement Address...Rev. W. E. Lowther, D.D. Pastor of First Methodist Episcopal Church, Lincoln, Neb. At Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, corner Kenwood and Armour, Kansas City, Mo. May 26, 2:30 P.M.--The Brotherhood of Man: A Fellowship Service. Dr. J. B. Bisceglia, Pastor Italian Presbyterian Church. Mr. W. Robt. Smalls, Secretary, Urban League. Dr. Nicholas Jaime, Mexican Physician. Rabbi Samuel S. Mayerberg, Congregation B'Nai Jehudah. Dr. Irvin E. Deer, Secretary, Council of Churches. MORNING MEDITATIONS Saturday, May 21, 8:45 A.M........................Rev. H. O. Holter, D.D. Pastor of Quayle Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, Kansas City, Kansas. Tuesday, May 24, 8:45 A.M.........................Rev. Raphael H. Miller, D.D. Pastor of Independence Boulevard Christian Church. Wednesday, May 25, 8 :45 A.M...................Praise Service. Thursday, May 26, 8:45 A.M........................Rev. Frank Lee Roberts, D.D. Pastor of Grand Avenue Temple. 2 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS The Kansas City Deaconess Published Monthly in the interest of the Kansas City National Training School of the Woman's Home Missionary society. EDITOR; ANNA NEIDERHEISER. Subscription price. 25 cents. Anyone sending in ten subscriptions at one time may send in the eleventh name, to whom the paper will be sent free for a year. If You See a Blue Mark Here Your subscription Has Expired. All correspondence concerning contributions, and subscriptions should be addressed to the Editor, Miss Anna Neiderheiser, corner East Fifteenth Street and Denver Avenue, Kansas City, Mo. Entered as second-class matter, October 27, 1908 at the post-office at Kansas City, Mo., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in section 1103, October 3, 1917. KANSAS CITY, MO., MAY, 1932 EDITORIAL A MODERN MIRACLE "I wish you would tell me how a group of one hundred and six students and deaconesses in the W. H. M. S. Auxiliary of your school could have as your missionary gift for a year like this $1,511.40! I have often heard of your wonderful Mite Box work. Does the family do all of its missionary giving through this one channel?" "No ; we could not do that, with all the interests we have through the W. F. M. S. and the church. However, when we visualize the folk that we reach through this offering each year we find that we almost encompass the world Alaska, Honolulu, the fl Chinese, the Japanese, the Greeks, the Mexicans, the lepers; and at Bingham Canyon, Utah, and Rock Springs, Wyo., we touch almost every known na-- H tionality. And best of all, approximately a dozen deaconesses and missionaries have received training H through the scholarships we have paid. H "Two girls have been kept in school from little H children until they were grown. We call them our H daughters. One is happily married in Hawaii and H is mother in a fine Christian home. The other is H using a wonderful musical talent for others. We go H by proxy to so many places that we are thrilled with H the privileges that come to us." I "Do your faculty receive a large salary that you I can do so much? Or are your girls from wealthy homes?" I "Neither. Our resident faculty, including the I president, are all deaconesses working on the regu- - I lar deaconess plan of room, board and laundry with I $35 a month allowance. Many of the students have I worked for all or half of their scholarship this year." "You arouse my curiosity. How do you do it, I anyway?" I "Sometimes we feel that God does it for us when I we make ourselves a free channel through which He I can work. When school opened Inst September and M we faced our pledges, which were almost fourteen B hundred dollars, it seemed insurmountable. Some of I the new students, who hadn't had their mite boxes H during the summer, I am sure felt that we were H little less than crazy to think of accepting such a H pledge. When we had our first Mite Box opening it H looked as though we had been presumptuous in our H faith." "Please do not keep me in the dark longer! How H did you do it?" "I think the first opportunity to do something 1 together came when we had our lovely Family Birth- - H day Party and each one put as many pennies in the H table mite box as she was years old. Next, the whole H family agreed that instead of giving Christmas gifts J to each other we would play the Christmas Sister Game, and put the money into a white gift." " 'Christmas Sister Game' what is that?" fl "All the names of the family were written on slips of paper and we each drew one; and for a whole month she was our Christmas sister and we did all sorts of nice things for her without revealing our identity. It was a delightful game, full of mys-ter- y and ingenuity. Just before Christmas we had a lovely Christmas party for which not a penny was spent and we all discovered through some ingenious method who our Christmas Sister was." "Intensely interesting, wasn't it?" "Yes, much more so than material gifts would have been. Later, a lovely concert given by the Music Department yielded over a hundred dollars, twice as much as we had dared hope for, and so much appreciation from those who heard it that we felt doubly repaid. "The girls besieged me for ways of earning money until I finally let them do some of the things I had formerly hired a man to do. They cleaned and varnished chairs that needed refinishing; they paint-e-d the lawn seats and porch chairs and such fun as they had doing it in their recreation hours! It took them out doors and they came in rosy and hungry. j "Almost every member of the family had some unique way of serving the needs of other members of the family, and steadily the nickels and dimes found their way into the mite boxes. Each one had assumed such portion of the whole pledge as her faith gave her courage to take; and occasionally with shining face and eager yoice someone would say, 'I have my goal !' or 'I had a letter from So and So and she sent me a check for my mite box.' 'Did you ask her for it?' 'No; I just told her what we were doing.' " "Wonderful!" "Yes, I think the family really came into the of sharing, which goes deeper than tithing. H 9 I THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 3 The home folk caught the enthusiasm, too, and in-stead of sending a cake or candy for Easter sent a gift for the mite box. Friends wrote saying, 4I am enclosing a small gift for your mite box.' A spirit of unselfishness grew. No one thought of buying candy, gum, ice cream, or going to the picture show. Even the ten cent store lost some of its charm." "Do you really enjoy it, or do you do it from a sense of duty?" "The family certainly has experienced the joy of venturing with God ; and out of it has grown a new interest in and understanding of those with whom I we share our gifts and ourselves. To think of others has become a natural expression of the life and love of God within, sometimes to the degree of real sac-rifice, which, after all, is only refusing to give to higher." the lower that we may have all to give to the "Almost you convince me that the day of miracles is not past. I don't see yet how you could do it; but it also." makes me want to go into partnership with God, "You will find it a glorious experience." Anna Neidcrheiser. A house party ANNOUNCING for Missionary Maidens of Meth-odism, to be given at the Kansas City National Train-ing School, 15th street and Denver avenue, Kansas City, Mo., June 11-1- 8, 1932. Under the leadership of the Missionary Women of the Kansas and the Mis- I souri Conferences; Dr. Anna Neiderheiser, President of Training School; Mrs. Sol D. Dice, Dean of the House Party, 1715 Hogeboom avenue, Topeka, Kans. A week of spiritual, mental, social and physical de-velopment through Bible study, morning watch, home and foreign study books, story telling, dra-matics, pageantry, methods., recreation. KENSINGTON WEEK DAY CHURCH SCHOOL The graduation exercises of the Kensington Week Day Church School were held in the Kansas Building of the Kansas City National Training School the evening of April 29. Thirty-seve- n boys --.and girls received the diploma. The attendance for - It the year was the largest in the history of the school. Miss Corinne Clough, principal, reported that sixty-si- x I had a record of perfect attendance for one year; and twenty, a record of perfect attendance for two years. Fifteen denominations were represented in the enrollment. The teachers, all members of the Class of 1932 of the Training School, were as follows: Kathleen Bell, Marien Holbert, Ethel Lehn, Eureath White, Effie Thomas, Electa Schaefer, Elizabeth Dalbey, Hettie Mae Parsons. Miss May Faulkner spent May 2-- 9 in the District W. H. M. S. Conventions of the Northwest Iowa Con-ference. She also spoke at Sac City on Sunday, I May 8. MAY THE FIRST I Sunday was May the first. There must be some- - I thing very special, else why the pretty baskets an- - H nouncing an early rising-be- ll and an early meeting H in the chapel. No, not May Day, even though May 1, for the Juniors had let us know that their celebra-- tion was to be May 2. H The opening of the chapel doors made it evident H that it was indeed something very special the 1932 H "Shield" was about to appear. H A processional of the staff, white-cla- d singing H of one of the Shield songs prayer, by Miss May H Faulkner, a former Shield editor presentation of H the Shield by the present editor, Carolyn Haffner H another Shield song the recessional and then, at H last, each had a Shield in her hands, to examine, to H read, to exclaim over, to treasure! H Yes, something very special the completion of H a task the beginning of a chain of influence. H TRAINING SCHOOL GARDEN PARTY You never heard of one? H That is why I am suggesting it to you. Then, H when Training School Garden Parties, have become "just the latest thing ever," you will have the fun H of saying, "Why, yes, of course, I knew of them long H ago and suggested the very first one ever held in this town." How do you do it? First. Plant your garden with the Training School in mind. Just plant a few extra rows of peas, beans, beets, carrots, corn, tomatoes, or whatever does best in your locality. Then tend them faithfully till rain, soil and sunshine have done their part in getting them ready for the "Party." Second. Invite your women friends and neigh-bo- rs (the more the merrier) to spend the day, or the afternoon, at some convenient place, and put these products into cans for the Training School table. Yes. Miss Neiderheiser will be glad to send the cans, if you will only let her know about your "Party." M To be sure, many things, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, parsnips and the like, will not need to be canned. Just send them as they are. The cabbage will be very acceptable, too, if made into kraut, that lovely home made variety that tastes so good with sausage on a cold winter's day. The men will want a part in this "Party"? Yes, 'H indeed. And they may have it, too. They can hoe jH the garden and pull weeds and help to gather the jH vegetables. 'H Now, do you not think that a garden party worth 'H while? Maybe the Epworth League or the Young People's Sunday School class will want to help also. jH Best of all, it need not lessen, by so much as one onion, the number of good things you will have to eat next winter and you will enjoy yours even more because of the share you have sent to others. Miss Eunice Britt, field secretary, drove to At- - 'H lantic City with Rev. and Mrs. William I. Hastie. Mrs. C. B. Spencer also went with them. They found JH the trip very interesting. I TRY IT Do you want to rend something that will make you reluctant to lay it down before it is finished? Try the 1932 "Shield." I Here is a bona fide conversation: "Mr. V., have you read your Shield yet?" "No, Miss C, I haven't had a chance. When I took it home last night my wife began to read it and read it for three hours. I hope she will be ready tonight to let me have it." Price, $1.00. FROM CASTLE GARDEN TO SANCTUARY The Spirit of Festivity The Beauty of a Castle Garden The Glory of God's Sunset The Castle Sanctuary May Day of 1932. Everyone eagerly awaited any word concerning the plans of the Juniors because May first came on Sunday, but when Monday evening arrived we all were repaid for the thirty-ho- ur wait. The first scene was laid in the Castle Garden on the Campus be-tween Schoellkopf Hall and the Kansas Building. Two trumpeters heralded the coming of the queen of 1931 and her attendants, bringing us with one fleeting glance again, as it were, into the May Fes-tival of Greek Maidens. A procession in all white made way for the May Queen, Dorotha Dickerson, and her attendants. The Queen's gown was of a simple flowered pattern and her two small attend-ants were in dresses of pale green. One of the tiny tots came before her bearing the Crown of Pearls; the other gracefully bearing the Queen's train of filmy white. The picture of the Castle Garden was now complete a high background of green shrub-bery a velvet carpet of grass the Queen with her attendants and the Ladies of the Court on either side of the throne. In honor and devotion one of the Ladies of the I Court placed the Crown of Pearls upon the Queen as she knelt before the throne, in festival spirit the mes-sage of the class of '34 was given in poetry, with fit-ting words of tribute from the Class of 1932 a cor-sage was presented to the Queen, and, an expression of appreciation was voiced by one of the staff the Glory of the Castle Garden vibrated with every tone of the violinist's tribute solo, "When You Come to the End of a Perfect Day," and the regal procession led the way to the Castle Dining Hall. Light from tall tapers, flowers and happy music graced the room. During the dinner which made one really think he was the Queen's guest there were songs and music a mingling of solemn and gay notes. Then upon the group wild with joy and thrilled with the sacred beauty of the occasion came a breathless hush!. . .In the hands of an artist the violin poured forth a holy benediction. No heart failed to beat in responsive rhythm to the strains "Abide With Me." Into the Castle Sanctuary, our Bancroft Chapel, to follow Sir Gregory to Bethlehem in the Crusade where we, too, might hang the lamp of our devotion near the birthplace of Our King. Following this story the Class Gift was presented a pair of bronze candelabra for the Sanctuary. When the candles I were being lighted we felt our love rekindled and I as we left the Castle Sanctuary a new zeal burned I in our hearts. 1 II. S., '32. I PERSONAL TESTIMONY The following is the testimony of a group of sixth grade girls who have been attending the Ken-sington Week Day Church School conducted on the Training School campus every Wednesday afternoon from October to May. They were asked to write on "What This Year of Study Has Meant to Me." "I have learned lots more about Jesus." j "It has taught me to be kind and it has taught me not to talk back to my mother and father; to go to church and to pray to God and to obey his com- - mandments, and to try and help every one to learn about Him." "This year of study has reminded me of all the Bible stories I have known, and shown me all the mistakes I make and have made. Also what a Chris-tio- n girl is and should be, and that I would like to be a Christian girl." "This year of study has taught me to be kinder." "It has taught me to follow God. It has taught me to pray when I am in trouble. It has taught me to love everybody in the world. ,i It has taught me to go to Sunday School and not fuss about having to go. It has taught me not to fight with other chil- - , dren." J "I have learned many things out of the Bible. He has taught me to be a follower of God. He has taught me to pray to God. He has taught me to love one another. He has taught me to go to church." "I have learned where I can find the Kingdom ,of Love. I can help in the affairs of my neighbor-hood to build on the Kingdom of Love." ' "This year of study has helped me in my Chris-- tian life. I have learned lots more about Jesus." Are these not evidences of real "growth in grace?" What pastor would not be delighted if his hearers could give such testimony? A. M. G. Miss Mary F. Smith, of our faculty, broadcasted l over WOQ recently in behalf of the Eighteenth jfl Amendment. ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION OFFICERS. I President Aletta M. Garretson il Vice-Preside- nt Grace Hutcheson I Recording Secretary Grace Vause I Corresponding Secretary. May Faulkner Treasurer Minnie Pike i, Treasurer Love Gift Anna Neiderheiser I Historian Bertha Cowles I Editor K. C. Deaconess Anna Neiderheiser I ! I THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS 5 A PROMISE "Mother, mother, guess what? Tlie nicest tiling has happened. The Queen Esther Standard Bearer girls are having a banquet out at the Training School Friday night and they want me to sing," said sixteen year old Celia, as she rushed into her humble home. Celia was a Greek girl, very beautiful, with a mezzo soprano voice, her notes were clear and strong, she loved to sing and her one dream was to some day study voice. Somehow the fates had been against her, so it seemed, and all her life she had had to live in a squalid little home in the slums of a big I city. "Now that is nice, and what will you sing?" said her mother, who had the kind, tender face of a mother and yet it was lined and wrinkled with care. Sorrow, disappointment, and hardship each had left its mark. "Oh mother, I know you'll like this; they want me to sing in Greek." "My mother tongue," said the mother, smiling. "How glad I am I have taught you and sung to you. the Greek lullabys that my mother used to sing to' me! But tell me, Celia, why were you asked?" "I don't know. I stopped by the Mission on my way home from school and Miss Riley said they had asked her to ask me. And oh, mother, the best part of all I haven't told yet!" "What is that, dear?" "Miss Harding, you know, she is one of the Train: ing School girls, asked me to stay all night at the Training School! May I, mother?" "Yes, dear. But I wonder what you will wear?" The intervening week was a very happy one for Celia and her mother. Mrs. Kasbob had found in her trunk a dress she herself had worn many years ago, and together they fixed it into a very becoming frock for Celia. At last the night arrived. Miss Harding and Miss I Riley called for Celia in their car and soon they were at the Training School. There were so many boys and girls of Celia's own age, as well as some older, all so jolly, so full of life that she felt as if she were in a dream, a dream that she had dreamed for a long time. Then when all were around the dining tables, singing, laughing, talking, she did not dare to speak for fear it would all fade away. That night as Celia and Miss Harding were get-ting ready to retire, Miss Harding said, "Are you happy, Celia?" A light shone on her face as she answered, "Oh, i Miss Harding, if you only knew how happy I am! I can't tell you. I don't have the word to express it." I "Don't try, dear; I know how you feel." I "But, Miss Harding, when I sat there in the din-- I ing room and listened to the girls of the Training I, School sing, those girls that I knew had consecrated II their voices to the service of Christ, and I knew that I their singing came from a heart full of peace and I happiness, you didn't know and no one knew, but I right then I humbly bowed my head and said, "Oh, I Christ, if thou canst use my voice, I, too, shall conse- - I crate it to Thee." "I am glad, Celia, because you can do much for I our Master with your voice," said Miss Harding, I softly. H "If I could only come here to study! Everyone I js so happy, and the atmosphere here is so wonder-- I ful, so calm, so peaceful! Why, Miss Harding, you H just know that Christ abides within these walls. I Then, too, you girls out at the Mission have given me I a vision. You are my ideal, and I, also, want so to I live that I can be an example to my brothers and H sisters and to other young people. I want to give to H them, also, a vision." H "Yes, dear, Christ does abide within these walls I because each girl here has consecrated herself, as H you are consecrating yourself tonight. Perhaps some H day you can attend here. Let us pray about it." H So the two girls knelt and prayed to their Heav- - I enly Father, one that He would guide her and give H her strength and wisdom as she guided the younger H girl; the other that she might keep true to her H promise. H LORA BELL DENNISTON, '34. THE CHALLENGE I Daughter, will you meet the challenge, H "Carry on?" Can you smile when all is black? H Can you give when much you lack? H Take my task where I have left it, H Carry on. H Though the way is dark and dreary, H Make the days bright, sunny, cheery, H Carry on. H I have lived my life complete, H Now I go my God to meet, H Carry on. H When discouraged, sad and lone H Don't give up ; you're not alone, H Carry on. H Sow the seeds of joy and love, H Store your treasures up above, H Carry on. H Live that life that's hid in Christ, H In the midst of pain and strife, !H Carry on. H Later on when work is done H At the setting of the sun, H I'll meet you over there. H Carry on. I DORIS M. ROBE. We wish to express our thanks and appreciation H to the friends who have been so graciously supplying 'H our eggs the last two months ; and also to those who H have sent chickens for our Alumnae banquet. These H things help to relieve financial anxieties and increase H th6 joy .in our good times. We will have a large H family for six weeks longer. 1 H H " 6 THE KANSAS CITY DEACONESS I STORY HOUR AT SHEFFIELD When I first went out to Sheffield Neighborhood Center, early in October, I found the children just as eager to see me as I was to see them. They had been playing around the Mission, but when I came in the door there was a general chorus, "Are you I the story teacher?" Then, of course, there was a scramble as to who would sit next to teacher during the circle stories. That first afternoon our stories were for the main purpose of getting acquainted. Their silver laughter floated like the echo of bells. Even the little girl who had been severely burned and had to lie in a buggy forgot her pain. I certainly became acquainted that afternoon. I learned the little ones who had more energy than they could use, those who liked to act, and those who loved games. The boys and girls had made room for me in the circle, now to make room for lovely thoughts and deeds in their hearts. The children have done many things in the two hours each Saturday afternoon. They love the stories and then they love to act them out, sometimes im-personating a character a whole week and doing things that character would do. I! So far we have used a certain theme for a whole month; such as Kindness to Animals, Helping Others. They have greatly enjoyed stories of other races and countries and the games that they use. Among the Character stories have come many stories of Jesus. Each interprets in his own way, the Mexican as he sees it, the Greek as he sees it, the American as he sees it, and our one little Negro boy as he sees it. Many of the lessons have become a part of the children. One day a boy with whom I had been hav-ing some difficulty, came into the group with some candy. As I had been trying to make him see that it was wrone to eat in front of others unless he could share, I was wondering .what I could say that would make an impression, when he came up to me, saying, "Here, teacher, put this away till afterwards. I'm trying to be like Robert, but I almost forgot." (Rob-ert was the boy who would not make others want by eating things in front of them.) They have learned to appreciate the library books and to keep them in order in the bookcase. ', Of course, they have to be reminded, but last fall even reminding did no good. One of our Greek girls is bringing her baby brother to Story Hour and letting him play on the floor while she watches him, rather than to leave him under the feet of their sy mother. I When I first began the Story Hour at Sheffield our little Negro boy not only felt out of place, but he was continually acting up in order to get atten-tion. The other children would not play with him. But through our stories of other races he has be-come a member of the group and is very welcome. He is no longer misbehaving. At Easter time they made little baskets in whioh they put an egg they themselves had colored and some candy eggs, and presented them to their moth- - I ers. Giving was a joy. Then the next week they all I told how the baskets had been appreciated. I These boys and girls are becoming more and I more interested in doing the things which are going I to make someone else happy, instead of continually I thinking of themselves. I The Story Hour has meant much in the lives of I these children. I J. B '32. QUITE BUSY Clara Swain Hospital, I Bareilly, India, --.,1 March 27, 1932. Dear Friends: I This weather reminds me of Commencement and I when you receive this that time will soon be. I wish H so much for you and am sure that it will be a blessed H time for all who attend. I shall think of you during H that week. H This is the time of year that we look for snakes. H A cobra was killed out on the compound the other H night, but I have my first one to see yet. In each H room is kept a long stout stick, and a few nights H when we have been talking about snakes, or when H I have been suspicious, I have taken my stick with H me. Miss Westrup gave me her technique, so when H Mr. Snake appears I shall be quite a heroine. H We have been quite busy the last few weeks H taking care of eye patients; in one week we saw over H seven hundred. Many of these were given medical H care; 170 were operated on; then there were many, H many who had eyes that could not be helped. Then H they would cry and beg some more and finally we had to send them home to a life of blindness. I shall never forget some of the scenes. There was a continual line of old men, young men, children and women of every caste. They passed through one door of our dispensary and out through another, the Hindu woman with long, full skirt; the Mohammedan woman in purdah; the long-haire- d Sikh man all came that they might be able to see. Each brought their family, their food and bedding. Since this is a woman's hospital and we knew that if our clinic was to be a success we would s.l have to care for the men also, four tents were put up, with young men of our Sunday School as nurses. Many of these patients have gone home now, but the days never lack work. I love the work and am finding many places to wedge in some help. The problems are many and I am finding that people are similar the world over. Tomorrow the Bareilly Convention begins. This is an inter-denominatio- institute which lasts for a week and is characterized by its spiritual atmo-sphe- re and is for spiritual uplift. The tent is only a few feet from the hospital and we shall entertain some of the out-of-to- guests. !' It is a wonderful challenge to have to be a jack-of-all-trad- es. My latest is that of anaesthetist. Every type of disease imaginable is here and we are finding much use for our knowledge of medicine, much opportunity to be friendly and to show by our personality the Christ-lik- e life lived aright. Everywhere one goes beggars are very much in I evidence. Yesterday a new group were around. They are usually dressed quite attractively and hand out a letter which has been typed, saying that they need a certain amount of money to go and see their dying mother, or something similar. They become quite a pest if they are given a chance. Give greetings and love to my friends. ALTA M. TUCKER, '31. THERE IS A DIFFERENCE t Several times students here at K. C. N. T. S. have said, "I did not know Mexican people were like Miss Garcia and Miss Guerrette. Why, you know there is a difference!" Most Mexican people would resent this. I do not like to think there is such a difference. Yet Jesus Christ makes a difference in Mexican folks' lives. As I look into the faces of my Sunday school class of adult Mexicans, I realize that Jesus is stead-I ily and surely making a difference in these people. To see this difference I have had to know, visit, pray, work and love them. In turn, they have little by little grasped the great principles that have been so obscure in their minds. Some of the messages that they gave me to give to a young people's meeting were such as these: From a man who has not had a job for over two years, "I thank these people for helping me through the Mission with food, clothing and shelter. I am deeply thankful that I have learned to know Jesus n i i h as my oavior ana can sing praises to Mis name. H A neat, clean little lady, whose oldest son is very ill with tuberculosis, said: "Because my boy can H have milk and eggs, I am thankful." H Another fine faithful woman calls her garden "her sanctuary;" believes in feeding folk and she said that "her cup was overflowing and that if they H ever came to visit her she would have something H there for them to eat." I One member of my class is in the hospital, in a H ward with American women. She cannot read or H , write, neither can she speak English, yet she keeps H the ward bright with smiles. It is because Jesus is in her life. I How they enjoy a good time! We are planning a party for them and their anticipations know no H bounds. I Like every child of the Heavenly Father's, the I consciousness of sin is there, and like the rest of us I they try to hide it. It is so wonderful to have them I look you straight in the face and to know that they are doing their best. I We have been studying such national problems ' I as the "liquor question," "world peace," and local problems as the "pool hall" and "bootlegging." I Through the aid of the missionary magazines I have I been trying to give them the message of "Missions." GRACE E. GUERRETTE, '32. In WANTED MISSIONARIES TO THE I THOUGHTLESS I She was a country girl in a city school. That I statement means the same thing in China that it I does in America. She registered in school late in I the term; and on her first day she entered the class- - I room after the tardy bell had rung always an em- - I barrassing situation for a new girl. As she clumped I across the room in her heavy country shoes, twenty I sleek heads were lifted from their books to survey I her. Yes, Chieh Lan was right. Chieh Lan had seen I the new girl clamber out from under the load of I boxes, bedding rolls and string-tie- d pacnages wnicn almost engulfed her and the richshas; then Chieh I Lan had run to the court where the girls were stroll- - I ing after lunch to tell them, with many laughing I tosses of her black bobbed head, of the very funny H new girl who had just gone into the principal's of-- I fice. ... H The new girl really was funny in dress and ap- - I pearance. And her face lacked that eager play of H expression, that quick responsiveness, so characteris- - H tic of the girls in the Chinese-Wester- n School. Com- - H pared to her schoolmates in their slim, tight-fittin- g H garments of blue, their trim bobbed heads facing the H world with assurance, she was "different" indeed. Her name was Pao Chen, and from a distant vil- - H lage in Central China her father had sent her to the H Chinese-Wester- n School to learn many things he H could not teach her at home. "Teach her science, H history, English, and many other things that she H needs to know, but do not require her to go to church H or to study in the Bible classes," he wrote. The prin- - H cipal had pondered and wondered as she had read H his decided words. H The heart of the new teacher sank as Pao Chen H enrolled in her English class. How could she add H another girl to an already full class! And such a H stupid, dull-looki- ng creature! Her heart was to re- - H proach her later, but on that dusty afternoon she H knew only irritation and dismay. H The term moved on. A change began to be ap- - H parent in Pao Chen. She no longer clumped; her H hair was smoothly braided and her bangs were H trimmed so that she no longer peered through them H like a Shetland pony through his mane. In other H ways, however, she apparently remained the same. H When called on in class she shouted back a half- - H intelligible answer as though both teacher and class ,::H were deaf. She laughed raucously whenever embar- - rassed, which was frequently. 'H "Oh, dear!" sighed the new teacher to the prin-- H cipal as she stopped in the office on her way from H class one day. "I can't seem to do anything with ijH Pao Chen She just sits and looks dumb. I've .H talked and talked right at her, and I've explained H things to her after class; but all she does is giggle H and act silly." H The principal, who always understood, looked thoughtful. "You know," she said, "that child needs friends and she doesn't know how to make them. I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea to change her room and give her Lu Te and Ai Chen for room-- mates. They are sucli happy girls and such loyal Christians; I'm sure they'll help her." So Pao Chen was moved, and with the help of roommates soon found herself a real part of the school. At last she seemed to be enjoying life. On Thursday morning, when regular chapel exercises gave way to Bible classes and discussion groups, Pao Chen appeared at a Bible class. "My father sent me here to learn," she calmly Ii said ; "and right now I think it is most important to learn about Christ. My father has already taught me much mathematics and history, but he has not taught me about Christ. Now I shall learn." Surely it was a matter for consideration. Her father's orders had been explicit. No religious teach-ing. Yet who should deny her the full knowledge and the satisfied heart that she desired so eagerly! Shortly before Easter she came again. "I am going to be a Christian," she said, "and I want to join the church on Easter Sunday." H "Have you written your father?" asked the prin-- H cipal, after a moment of hesitation. "It is only right H to do that, you know, before taking such an impor- - H tant step as joining the church." H "To be sure I have written to my father. I have H told him how I love school and the teachers and the H girls. At home I am very lonely for I have no one H with whom to study or to play. Here I have two H roommates, and I am never lonely. They help me H study my lessons; they show me how my clothes H should be; they teach me to play games and they H talk to me of Christ. My father writes that he is H glad for me to have good lessons and to learn the H outdoor games why should he not be glad when H I learn the best thing of all?" H The principal breathed a prayer that such might be the case. H The time was drawing on to Easter, and still no word had come from Pao Chen's father. One morn-in- g the gateman ushered in a strange man who an- - H nounced himself a trusted servant from the family of Pao Chen, sent to escort his young mistress home; Pao Chen and all her belonging were to leave im- - H mediately. A few hours later the principal and the new teacher stood at the front steps and watched two rickshas wheel out of the school gate carrying a weeping Pao Chen and her bodyguard. How keenly the new teacher wished she had crowded more of help and inspiration into her few months with Pao Chen! H "Why, oh, why does the father feel this way? How can he be so heartless!" she wailed aloud. H Then the principal quietly told her of the father's letter. Years ago he, too, with eager heart had set out to get an education. He had gone to the United States. There, homesick and alone, he had looked for friendliness, for kindliness, for other evidences H of the Christian graces of which he had heard mis-sionar- ies in his own country tell. He found prejudice, disdain and coldness. "These Christian Americans, they arc all hypocrite," he had summed up his ex-- I pericnce. And he had returned to China hating the H very name Christian. Never should his daughter be H permitted to become one of the hated hypocrites. H Because of this he sent for her to come home even though it meant taking her away from all the new H joy which was opening up for her. There was noth- - H ing to be done, the principal concluded; the matter H had all been settled in America years before. The new teacher walked silently to her room, H thinking soberly of the missionaries that are needed H in her own country; missionaries to the intolerant; H missionaries to the careless; missionaries to the H thoughtless. H FRANCES A. MILNES. (Condensed from Womnn's Missionary Friend for Mny.) Ol PERSONALS I Miss Bertha Saville, R. N., '07, is now connected H with the McCune-Brook- s Hospital in Carthage, Mo. H Rev. E. C. Horn, D.D., of Mankato, Minn., spent H a few moments at K. C. N. T. S. on April 27th. Miss Mae Greer, '23, began work March 15 in H connection with the Methodist Orphanage, Lake H Bluff, 111. Rev. John P. White, superintendent of the Chil- - H dren's Home, Newton, Kans., was the guest of his H daughter Eureath, '32, April 27, 28. Miss Arabella Newton, of our Sophomore Class, H had the pleasure of a visit from her friend, Mrs. H Elizabeth Creveling, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, over May H Miss Grace Wasem of Girard, Kans., who was I with us as a student the first semester of this year, H made us a little visit over the week-en- d of April H 22-2- 4. On April 29 a group of ten W. H. M. S. members H from First Church, Ottawa, Kans., with their pastor, Rev. L. F. Waring, took dinner at K. C. N. T. S. and became better acquainted with us. H Carl J. Webb, pastor of Arlington M. E. Church, H Kansas City, Mo., and a student at Baker University, ,H accompanied by Anna Mary Eastwood, John N. l Green, Marjorie Long and Vincent Hall, also of H Baker, called at the Training School on May 24th. I On April 20th Mrs. Solomon Dice and Mrs. A. J. I Warner of Topeka, Kans., came up for a meeting at 1 the Training School, together with Mrs. Geo. W. Mil- - ler, Mrs. F. E. Bush and Dr. Neiderheiser, of Kansas 1 City, to make plans for the Queen Esther-Standa- rd 3 'I Bearer House Party, to be held at K. C. N. T. S. June 11-1- 7. I On May 24th a group of twenty young people f.H from First Church, Lawrence, Kans., drove over to H Kansas City in time to attend church at Grand Ave- - H nue Temple. After the service they came out to the I Training School, where they were dinner guests. il The afternoon was spent in visiting Mercy Hospital. M Miss Gladys Hobbs, '21, whose home is in Lawrence, H accompanied the group on their rounds. I . v . "Lord, give me eyes that I may see, I Lest I, as people will, I May pass by someone's Calvary I And think it just a hill." I |
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 |
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Identifier | KCD 1932-05-01 |
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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