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When spurred by tasks unceasing or undone You would seek rest afar And cannot, though the rest be fairly won Rest where, you are. Not in event, restriction, or release, Not journeyings near or far, But in the heart lies restlessness or peace; Rest where you are. --Charles Poole Cleave. VOL. XXXIII KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. AUGUST, 1941 No. 8 LIVE THE WAY YOU PRAY I knelt to pray when day was done, And prayed, ''O Lord bless everyone, Lift from every saddened heart the pain And let the sick be well again" And then I awoke another day, And carelessly went upon my way. The whole day long I did not try To wipe a tear from any eye. I did not try to share, the load Of any brother on the road. I did not even go to The sick man just next door to me. Yet once, again when the day was done, I prayed, "O Lord bless every one" But as I prayed, into my ear There came a voice that whispered clear, "Whom have you tried to bless today? Whom have you helped along the way? God's sweetest blessings always go To hands that serve Him here below." And then I hid my face and cried. "Forgive me, Lord; for I have lied. Let me but live another day, nd I will live the way I pray." --Sel. Kansas City, Missouri, August, 1911 Training School Interests and Activities Mrs. Gustafson gave a buffet dinner on the front porch of Schoellkopf Hall, at 6:30 Wednesday evening, July 30, in honor of Miss Mary F. Smith. Miss Smith, who has been a member of the faculty of the Training School since her graduation in 1912, is taking up new work as deaconess-pastor on the Pavillion Reclamation Project, with headquarters in Riverton, Wyoming. The best wishes of her Training School and many other Kansas City friends go with her as she begins this new venture, the latter part of August. Miss Doris Devore, '36, deaconess, began her work July 28 as field representative with the National Training School. Miss Devore came to us from parish work in Frederick, Maryland. Personal interviews with prospective students have kept her busy so far. HERE AND THERE On August 10 Mr. Gustafson dedicated the Hadley Methodist Church at Hutchinson, Kansas. Misses Ruth Decker and Florence Koch attended the con ference on disciplined life and service called by the National Council of Methodist Youth, August 3 to 10. It was held at a cooperative camp, Circle Pines Center, in the Yankee Springs National Park. Some of the leaders were Jay Holmes Smith, Wade Crawford Barclay, Owen Geer, Herman Will, John Swomley, James Farmer. Young people dedicated to a more thorough-going Christianity, A Way of Life calling for discipline and service, worked, studied, worshipped, and played together. They also formed the Conference on Disciplined Life and Service through which to carry on their purposes. PERSONALS Miss Marion Conrow, Wichita, Kansas, returned missionary from China, was a Training School guest July 12. Mr. Ernest W. Peterson of The Journal, Portland, Oregon, spent some hours at the Training School, July 30. Dr. and Mrs. C. R. Yost of Lebanon, Illinois, and Mrs. B. L. Wease, Decatur, Illinois, visited the Training School, July 12. Janet MacFnrlnnd, Whittior, Cnlifornin, Mamie Cook and I Vera Plunkett, of Los Angeles, were over-night guests of the Gustafsons, August 1. Rev. Nelson Wurgler, pastor of the Methodist Church, Las Vegas, N. M., accompanied by his mother and sister Naomi, I of Knnsas City, was dinner guest nt the Training School, the I evening of July 30. H Mrs. Ross W. Adair, of the Goodwill Industries, St. Louis, I Mo., and Mrs. Goedckc and little daughter Joanne, drove over H from St. Louis Aug. G, bringing with them Misses Lucile Baird, B Helen Hill, Lola McKinnoy and Rctty Moore, Training School H students who were on the staff of the Goodwill Summer Camp, H out from St. Louis, this summer. H For: 1911-- 12 Community Fund Campaign. . . . "There'll be sonic changes made " is no longer nppropos when applied to the Charities Fund of Kansas City. The Charities Committee, the governing body of the annual fund raising campaigns, ever on the alert for new sound ideas to promote the social wcllfnre and health work of our city, 'H to sec that each contributor in this "million dollar business" is assured of "double or nothin'" for each penny so spent, after due deliberation, that from now on this organ'- - 'H zation will be known as the Community Fund rather than Charities Fund. E. Sanborn Alumnae and BenVHauen Helps H As has already been stated, Mary MMBBHiH F. Smith is giving up her work in the B National Training School, to take up '9 other work, after twenty-nin- e years of KjL V successful teaching and Ht She became identified with the Kan- - MEJjjH sas City National Training School for EPfcB Deaconesses, Missionaries, and other kRH Christian Workers the pioneer days HH days when a rapidly growing student body and an increasing demand for trained workers called for now buildings, equipment, and a larger faculty. There was no pattern or technique for the Training School to follow it came into being through necessity. It was need-e- d it grew rapidly and naturally. Faith in the wisdom and power of God to guide in its development brought marvelous results in needs supplied and results secured. IH Eager young women were coming from all parts of the United States, and from other lands not only with a desire to study and learn, but eager to become and to do. It was an adventure in Christian living and fellowship a call to heroic abandonment into this challenging task Miss Smith put all the strength of a keen mind and a willing heart not only in her teaching field, but in the creative, duties of a living, growing School. A world outlook which began in Kansas City a love for God and folk which did not count the cost a friendliness every one has made her a valuable woman in a King-do- m task. H She received her B. Ed. Degree from Columbia University, New York, and her M. A. from the University of Iowa. In her new work she has much to give to a people who need much. A. N. H It was n merry group of in K. C. N. T. S. days, who took possession of Beth-Have- Wednesday evening, Aug- I ust Oth, to celebrate the birthday of their former president v and friend, Anna Nciderheiscr. Good fellowship, singing, gifts and reminiscences, with plenty of .cc cream, made H a very happy evening one which will long be remembered. Mission, Mcerut, India, April 2,'lrd., 1911. n year I have been on the Mcerut District. I a few months but in July I engaged an come and work with me. She is a experience and a very definite call She lives in my homo and when we sho shares the Public Inns where I have Her ability with the simple people so far foreign missionary that it is a joy to response to her teaching. For a month I.Methodist used the picture of the Crucifixion and in every village giving the scene in appeal. In one village an nctor whose face of her recital became so impressed altered and he was ready to pledge to Christ. We had such n fine leaflet in two languages and people of nil religions to read or to have read to them. Some pictures of the Crucifixion. In ever did not leave until we had called at each walking-stic-k was drawn n cross on the the home. This was outlined in color and marked the home as that of a Christian as do the idolatrous ( markings on the Hindu homes. Wc have stayed in some of the preachers homes this year where there has been happy and fruitful fellowship. In this way there arc many contacts with the pagan neighbors. Under ideal conditions wc leave here on Monday morning nnd return on Friday evening after one or two weeks. You should sec our retinue. Usually on top of everything else there is a huge boquct of flowers for the village worker's wife and a gift of fruit or meat from the City. She may live where not even the inevitable goat-me- at is available. In many villages wc have chicken and sometimes pigeons and even pea-cock- s. This week wc had a gift of deer and I have ordered a peacock for a curry-dinn- er to be given for the Girls' School Staff. All in all there arc many pleasures with our work which add to our happy adventure. After three months of village touring I decided that I would take a trip to sec some other Stations. I went to Hissar which is a desert place but a very good work to observe. A lovely Indian lady is the head-mistre- ss and in the home there is a missionary from Texas, one from Norway and a German girl from America. One of the most impressive things was the prayer-platfor- m with a cross cut of red stone with a rock canopy over it. H' I then went to Muttra where I had been Principal of the Training School. For two days I visited with girls who are now going out to teach for the first time and shared with a new District worker many of my experiences on this Dis-tric- t. One little village girl who come into Meerut when I lived here before goes this year to take a responsible position fl in the Scottish Mission. My first love in India was Brindaban Hospital where I spent a year. I found there a refugee Doctor 1 who has just been released from a Concentration Camp by grace through prayer. Two Kansas ladies and a laboratory-technicia- n doing such highly professional work and yet inte-rna ested in the quiet evangelistic services for the nurses, found time also to tell me of their hopes and plans as they build n new unit. I have n part in a memorial to my dear mother. I Someone has said that I do not tell enough of the hard I things to make a missionary appeal. I think that it is because I when things are too hard the mood is not on to write letters. I Two days ago wc seemed to stand in the presence of Death I ns wc nursed a little boy with typhoid. Last night I was called I to comfort if I could the breaking hearts of a soldier and his I Eurasian wife as they sat by their wee baby's bed at the I Hospital. Day after day we face the fact that our young I people are still very pagan ns wc go among them to teach nnd H sing. The poverty nnd beggary of India is depressing. But H there are so ninny signs of revival nnd awakening one enn H not help being encouraged. The fact that the Lord blesses H our feeble attempts to heal all kinds of illness in the villngcs H keeps us cheerful and going forward. With almost no proper H remedies the lives of three people were saved in one week. H But in that same circuit the next senson we were not allowed to touch n small girl's foot because the gods were angry nnd nothing would heal the open sore. One child whose body was burned with ashes suffered so from the exhaustion of the treatment I gnvc and the- poison from filthy leaves applied to an open abeess that she died soon. Her parents said that it was her fate. The time is slipping around toward another furlough. I have a comfortable home, a choice companion, a challenging task, a host of devoted friends, good magazines, a radio and a car besides numerous other blessings. If it should not bo possible to come I feel that I could accept whatever might come and I hope as bravely as a Scotch friend who is going to Australia, and an English girl who is going up in Kashmir lor six months ns a substitute furlough. You cannot imagine the thrill wc received when wc knew that you were being challenged to help the British Methodists ns we were by the desperate need of our stranded Norwegian friends here Inst summer. In two weeks I go to take up the position of Hostess to our Language School group of new missionaries who gather in Landour. I shall take two weeks vacation later because of having worked six weeks this summer. I shall study Hindu Do write even though the time of mails is uncertain. And above all pray that we may be faithful and strong through the days to come. Your grateful and loving friend, Letah M. Doyle ('17) Mrs. C. H. Anderson (Alice Haskins, '20), writes of a change in their work. Their address is now 2117 Cliftwood Avenue, Baltimore, Md. H Mrs. Lew Griffing, R-- 4, Topeka, Kansas (Mablc Mcrkle, '17) writes from Colorado, telling of an interesting trip she and her husband are making by auto through the west, with California as their objective point. Mary Carol Cone, '35, made a brief visit in Kansas City early in August in the home of Alice Virginia Brown, '33. They were guests at the Training School and Beth-Have- n, August 5th. Mary Carol is transferring from the Lessie Bates Davis Settlement in East St. Louis, where she has been a worker in the Nursery School, to the Engle Community Settle- - ;ilH ment in Fairmont, W. Va. Alice Virginia returns to her work in the Highland Boy Community Settlement in Bingham iJ Canyon, Utah. Word comes from Hanna Anderson, '21, that her mother passed into the "larger life", July 9th, after an illness of two months. She lost her father less than six months ago. The love and sympathy of all alumnae friends is extended to her in her loneliness. H Rev. and Mrs. Roy C. Murray (Miriam Cloud, '24), have 1 been transferred from biCrosse, Washington to Kcndrick, Idaho. Mrs. Richard Bauer (Elcunni- - Nye, '.'15), tells us Hint they arc settled in a very comfortable apartment at 0110 Kennedy Avenue, Kennedy Heights, Cincinnati, Ohio. Her husband Ik a layman connected with the Procter and (iambic Company, active in Church and civic affairs; also the Y. M.C. A. Pearlo McKccman, 'Hi, has transferred from her work in the Omaha Methodist Hospital to the Wall Street .Mission in Sioux City, Iowa. Her address is 1308 Nebraska St. An orpin is to be installed in the Church of All Nations, pari of the Wall Street work, in memory of .Martha Younglovc, MB, who gave 25 years of faithful service in the Wall Street Mission, and the Church of All Nations. It will be dedicated, Septem-ber I A 14th. card from Edith M. Curl, M.'l, brings word of the diath of her grandfather, in whose home she has lived since a child, on May 25th. She wrote from Forest Home, California wheie she was teaching in a Girls' Camp; 202 girls and leaders. She had a class of '10 in Hymnology, and 21 in Lift) Service. Her address is 181 Norton Avenue, Lone; Heach, Calif. H. Elizabeth Dalbey, '.'12, is in Scarritt Collect, Nashville, Tennessee, taking work for her A. B. device. A very interesting letter was received recently from Ethel Wcisz, '2-1- , Deaconess in the Philadelphia Deaconess Settle-ment, telling of her vacation, which included a motor trip through the New England States, and the summer activities in her work all very interesting. Mrs. Christian F. Rcisner and her sister, Mrs. Mary R. Carson, now of Atchison, Kansas, were very welcome visitors at ueuwiavon, Jiny izin. Rev. Paul Sherwood, who with Mrs. Sherwood (Shirley Smith, '21), are engaged in a very successful work with the Japanese people at Lahaina, Hawaii, called at Beth-Have- n, H. July 14th, when passing through Kansas City enroute to the parental home of Mrs. Sherwood. It was a happy surprise Leila Dickman, '22, a member of the staff of the Kate Bilderback Neighborhood House at 2001 John Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and four year old Cornellia Rysiowa, one of the Nursery School Children priviliged to go home with her to Basin, Wyoming to experience all the thrills of a visit in the country, were week-en- d guests at Beth-Have- n, July 12-- H 13th. We all enjoyed the visit. Ethel M. Graves, '.'!0, B. R. E., who has been the Deaconess at Epworth-Eucli- d Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio for a number of years, has accepted a similar position at St. Paul's Methodist Church, Wichita, Kansas. Marie Brod, '39, has spent the past two years in Eagle Community Settlement, Fairmont, W. Va. Feeling that she j could add strength to her work with a course in practical nursing, she entered the St. Louis Institute of Practical Nurs-- H ing, 4523 W. Pine, St. Louis, Missouri, August 11th. While in St. Louis her address will be 5GG9 Ca'bonul Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. She spent August 8th in Kansas City, and visited both her Alma Mater and Beth-Have- n. Naomi Coger, '31, was a guest at Beth-Have- n July h. She was returning from Jesse Lee Home, Seward, Alaska, after two periods of very successful service totaling ten years. It was a privilege to have her with us. She was H supper guest at K. C. N. T. S., July 25th. She is now in Toledo, Ohio with friends and relatives. Mrs. H. E. Sortor (Ruth Oldham, '21) called at K.C.N. H T..S., and was a dinner guest at Beth-Have- n, July 22nd. Her H husband is pastor of the Signal Hill Methodist Church in East Hr St. Louis, Illinois, a growing Church in a growing section H of the city. H Edna Ruth Hayes, '25, of Detroit, Michigan, made her H Kansas City friends a surprise visit, August 11-- 1 5th. Her H Alma Mater and Beth-Have- n appreciated their share of the H visit very much. It Is a long time since we had seen her. L Hnrriet Clayton Cuffclt, A.H., R.N., M.'l, sent Beth-Have- n u gift recent y from t.ie first fruits of her garden and orchard at Powersite, Missouri. We mv enjoying it greatly. , 1 Kntherine IJohn, '30, Deaconess at Broadway Temple Metho- - M dist Church, New Yoik City was nn overnight guest at Beth- - II Haven Augiut 1.1-- 1 1, and a supper guest at her Alma Mater. 1 Mary lllnschko, '08, for long yenrs the Trinity Methodist ffi Church Deaconess in Kansas City, Missouri, is spending her vacnt.on, in company with friends from her Church, at the Glenn Clark Camp, Lake Koronis, and in other points in Min- - r ncsotii and Wisconsin. ' Lulu Patterson, '20, spent August 7th in Kansas City, where she was a guest at K. C. N. T. S. and Beth-Have- n. Mis3 iatterson will be a with Mary F. Smith in ihe Pavil-ion Rstamation Project in Wyoming. One of her pleasures Will be to drive the new car being provided. A rare treat came to the Beth-Have- n family in July wlidii they received a crate of fresh pineapple from the plan- - ' tation or Mr. and Mrs. Soon Nam Kang (Flora Cho, '27, Ed. B.) at Wall awn, Oahu, T. II. We are grateful indeed to these f.ne friends for the courtesy of the gift, and for letting us know how large pineapples grow in Hawaii, and how delicious H they are when really ripe. H Margaret Lawson, A. B., '31, a teacher in the public school H at Granby, Colorado, spent two weeks at Beth-Have- n, August H She visited a number of her friends while in the city. H Avis Wallace, M.A., '21, teacher of music in the Brown- - H Home and School. Camden. S. C. visited at the Training H School and Beth-Have- n, while spending a few days with rcla- - H tives in the city. Miss Wallace attended summer school in the Pittsburg, Kansas Teachers College, earlier in the summer. H Dorothy Gleason, '28, has received the appointment as financial secretary, secretary and pastor's assistant at the First H Methodist Church of Modesto, California. She began her work, July 21st. We hope for her a fruitful service. Her address 's Box 272, Modesto, California. H Pauline Goodwin, '40, was a week-en- d guest in Kansas 1H City recently, visiting K. C. N.T. S., Beth-Have- n, and other friends. She is a member of the staff at Harwood Girls School, Albuquerque, N. M and finds her work a great op- - portunity. Mrs. Lewis Hoppock (Ina McKean, '10) of Waco, Texas, was in Kansas City, visiting relatives and friends, in late July. Wo were happy to have her at Beth-Have- n, July 28th as a dinner guest. Such visits are very precious. V Bessie Estcp, '37, K. C. N. T. S. '40, Bethany Hospital, H now nurse in Freeman Clinic and Newark Maternity Hospital V in El Paso, Texas, was our guest at Beth-Have- n, July 29-3- 0. She was returning to El Paso, after a delightful vacation spent in Detroit, Michigan, and in her home state of North BVfl Carolina. Darla Brown, '2G, kindergarten worker with the Deaconess V Home Settlement in Wilmington, Del., visited her Alma Mater and Beth-Have- n, July lGth, enroute to her home at Iola, Kansas BVfl for a vacation. Mrs Cecil Hockensmith Horton, '34, of Seward, Alaska, KVfl with her little daughters, Audney and Carla, gladdened the KVfl hearts of their Kansas City friends by a visit, July 19-2- 4. BwAfl Headquarters was kept at the home of Dorothy Brown Wilder- - iH dyke, 915 Riverview, Kansas City, Kansas, where a class re- - VVJ union was planned for the 20th, with a picnic dinner. Did VVJ we eat? Five members of the class were present. All privi- - KVAVJ leged to enjoy the day pronounced it a day of happy fellowship. K. C. N. T. S. was not forgotten and Beth-Have- n enjoyed an VVJ over-nig- ht visit. The children are getting the benefit of the RVAVJ Kansas sunshine, and all will return to Seward in the early lVVJ
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Title | The Kansas City Deaconess (Kansas City, Mo.), 1941-08-01 |
Year | 1941 |
Volume | 33 |
Number | 8 |
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Kansas City National Training School Methodist Church -- Education Home missions Deaconesses -- Education Women in missionary work Women -- Education -- Missouri -- Kansas City Swomley, John M., 1915-2010 Missions -- India |
Table of Contents | Live the Way You Pray; Training School Interests and Activities; Here and There; Personals; Alumnae and Beth-Haven News |
Description | When spurred by tasks unceasing or undone You would seek rest afar And cannot, though the rest be fairly won Rest where, you are. Not in event, restriction, or release, Not journeyings near or far, But in the heart lies restlessness or peace; Rest where you are. --Charles Poole Cleave. VOL. XXXIII KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI. AUGUST, 1941 No. 8 LIVE THE WAY YOU PRAY I knelt to pray when day was done, And prayed, ''O Lord bless everyone, Lift from every saddened heart the pain And let the sick be well again" And then I awoke another day, And carelessly went upon my way. The whole day long I did not try To wipe a tear from any eye. I did not try to share, the load Of any brother on the road. I did not even go to The sick man just next door to me. Yet once, again when the day was done, I prayed, "O Lord bless every one" But as I prayed, into my ear There came a voice that whispered clear, "Whom have you tried to bless today? Whom have you helped along the way? God's sweetest blessings always go To hands that serve Him here below." And then I hid my face and cried. "Forgive me, Lord; for I have lied. Let me but live another day, nd I will live the way I pray." --Sel. Kansas City, Missouri, August, 1911 Training School Interests and Activities Mrs. Gustafson gave a buffet dinner on the front porch of Schoellkopf Hall, at 6:30 Wednesday evening, July 30, in honor of Miss Mary F. Smith. Miss Smith, who has been a member of the faculty of the Training School since her graduation in 1912, is taking up new work as deaconess-pastor on the Pavillion Reclamation Project, with headquarters in Riverton, Wyoming. The best wishes of her Training School and many other Kansas City friends go with her as she begins this new venture, the latter part of August. Miss Doris Devore, '36, deaconess, began her work July 28 as field representative with the National Training School. Miss Devore came to us from parish work in Frederick, Maryland. Personal interviews with prospective students have kept her busy so far. HERE AND THERE On August 10 Mr. Gustafson dedicated the Hadley Methodist Church at Hutchinson, Kansas. Misses Ruth Decker and Florence Koch attended the con ference on disciplined life and service called by the National Council of Methodist Youth, August 3 to 10. It was held at a cooperative camp, Circle Pines Center, in the Yankee Springs National Park. Some of the leaders were Jay Holmes Smith, Wade Crawford Barclay, Owen Geer, Herman Will, John Swomley, James Farmer. Young people dedicated to a more thorough-going Christianity, A Way of Life calling for discipline and service, worked, studied, worshipped, and played together. They also formed the Conference on Disciplined Life and Service through which to carry on their purposes. PERSONALS Miss Marion Conrow, Wichita, Kansas, returned missionary from China, was a Training School guest July 12. Mr. Ernest W. Peterson of The Journal, Portland, Oregon, spent some hours at the Training School, July 30. Dr. and Mrs. C. R. Yost of Lebanon, Illinois, and Mrs. B. L. Wease, Decatur, Illinois, visited the Training School, July 12. Janet MacFnrlnnd, Whittior, Cnlifornin, Mamie Cook and I Vera Plunkett, of Los Angeles, were over-night guests of the Gustafsons, August 1. Rev. Nelson Wurgler, pastor of the Methodist Church, Las Vegas, N. M., accompanied by his mother and sister Naomi, I of Knnsas City, was dinner guest nt the Training School, the I evening of July 30. H Mrs. Ross W. Adair, of the Goodwill Industries, St. Louis, I Mo., and Mrs. Goedckc and little daughter Joanne, drove over H from St. Louis Aug. G, bringing with them Misses Lucile Baird, B Helen Hill, Lola McKinnoy and Rctty Moore, Training School H students who were on the staff of the Goodwill Summer Camp, H out from St. Louis, this summer. H For: 1911-- 12 Community Fund Campaign. . . . "There'll be sonic changes made " is no longer nppropos when applied to the Charities Fund of Kansas City. The Charities Committee, the governing body of the annual fund raising campaigns, ever on the alert for new sound ideas to promote the social wcllfnre and health work of our city, 'H to sec that each contributor in this "million dollar business" is assured of "double or nothin'" for each penny so spent, after due deliberation, that from now on this organ'- - 'H zation will be known as the Community Fund rather than Charities Fund. E. Sanborn Alumnae and BenVHauen Helps H As has already been stated, Mary MMBBHiH F. Smith is giving up her work in the B National Training School, to take up '9 other work, after twenty-nin- e years of KjL V successful teaching and Ht She became identified with the Kan- - MEJjjH sas City National Training School for EPfcB Deaconesses, Missionaries, and other kRH Christian Workers the pioneer days HH days when a rapidly growing student body and an increasing demand for trained workers called for now buildings, equipment, and a larger faculty. There was no pattern or technique for the Training School to follow it came into being through necessity. It was need-e- d it grew rapidly and naturally. Faith in the wisdom and power of God to guide in its development brought marvelous results in needs supplied and results secured. IH Eager young women were coming from all parts of the United States, and from other lands not only with a desire to study and learn, but eager to become and to do. It was an adventure in Christian living and fellowship a call to heroic abandonment into this challenging task Miss Smith put all the strength of a keen mind and a willing heart not only in her teaching field, but in the creative, duties of a living, growing School. A world outlook which began in Kansas City a love for God and folk which did not count the cost a friendliness every one has made her a valuable woman in a King-do- m task. H She received her B. Ed. Degree from Columbia University, New York, and her M. A. from the University of Iowa. In her new work she has much to give to a people who need much. A. N. H It was n merry group of in K. C. N. T. S. days, who took possession of Beth-Have- Wednesday evening, Aug- I ust Oth, to celebrate the birthday of their former president v and friend, Anna Nciderheiscr. Good fellowship, singing, gifts and reminiscences, with plenty of .cc cream, made H a very happy evening one which will long be remembered. Mission, Mcerut, India, April 2,'lrd., 1911. n year I have been on the Mcerut District. I a few months but in July I engaged an come and work with me. She is a experience and a very definite call She lives in my homo and when we sho shares the Public Inns where I have Her ability with the simple people so far foreign missionary that it is a joy to response to her teaching. For a month I.Methodist used the picture of the Crucifixion and in every village giving the scene in appeal. In one village an nctor whose face of her recital became so impressed altered and he was ready to pledge to Christ. We had such n fine leaflet in two languages and people of nil religions to read or to have read to them. Some pictures of the Crucifixion. In ever did not leave until we had called at each walking-stic-k was drawn n cross on the the home. This was outlined in color and marked the home as that of a Christian as do the idolatrous ( markings on the Hindu homes. Wc have stayed in some of the preachers homes this year where there has been happy and fruitful fellowship. In this way there arc many contacts with the pagan neighbors. Under ideal conditions wc leave here on Monday morning nnd return on Friday evening after one or two weeks. You should sec our retinue. Usually on top of everything else there is a huge boquct of flowers for the village worker's wife and a gift of fruit or meat from the City. She may live where not even the inevitable goat-me- at is available. In many villages wc have chicken and sometimes pigeons and even pea-cock- s. This week wc had a gift of deer and I have ordered a peacock for a curry-dinn- er to be given for the Girls' School Staff. All in all there arc many pleasures with our work which add to our happy adventure. After three months of village touring I decided that I would take a trip to sec some other Stations. I went to Hissar which is a desert place but a very good work to observe. A lovely Indian lady is the head-mistre- ss and in the home there is a missionary from Texas, one from Norway and a German girl from America. One of the most impressive things was the prayer-platfor- m with a cross cut of red stone with a rock canopy over it. H' I then went to Muttra where I had been Principal of the Training School. For two days I visited with girls who are now going out to teach for the first time and shared with a new District worker many of my experiences on this Dis-tric- t. One little village girl who come into Meerut when I lived here before goes this year to take a responsible position fl in the Scottish Mission. My first love in India was Brindaban Hospital where I spent a year. I found there a refugee Doctor 1 who has just been released from a Concentration Camp by grace through prayer. Two Kansas ladies and a laboratory-technicia- n doing such highly professional work and yet inte-rna ested in the quiet evangelistic services for the nurses, found time also to tell me of their hopes and plans as they build n new unit. I have n part in a memorial to my dear mother. I Someone has said that I do not tell enough of the hard I things to make a missionary appeal. I think that it is because I when things are too hard the mood is not on to write letters. I Two days ago wc seemed to stand in the presence of Death I ns wc nursed a little boy with typhoid. Last night I was called I to comfort if I could the breaking hearts of a soldier and his I Eurasian wife as they sat by their wee baby's bed at the I Hospital. Day after day we face the fact that our young I people are still very pagan ns wc go among them to teach nnd H sing. The poverty nnd beggary of India is depressing. But H there are so ninny signs of revival nnd awakening one enn H not help being encouraged. The fact that the Lord blesses H our feeble attempts to heal all kinds of illness in the villngcs H keeps us cheerful and going forward. With almost no proper H remedies the lives of three people were saved in one week. H But in that same circuit the next senson we were not allowed to touch n small girl's foot because the gods were angry nnd nothing would heal the open sore. One child whose body was burned with ashes suffered so from the exhaustion of the treatment I gnvc and the- poison from filthy leaves applied to an open abeess that she died soon. Her parents said that it was her fate. The time is slipping around toward another furlough. I have a comfortable home, a choice companion, a challenging task, a host of devoted friends, good magazines, a radio and a car besides numerous other blessings. If it should not bo possible to come I feel that I could accept whatever might come and I hope as bravely as a Scotch friend who is going to Australia, and an English girl who is going up in Kashmir lor six months ns a substitute furlough. You cannot imagine the thrill wc received when wc knew that you were being challenged to help the British Methodists ns we were by the desperate need of our stranded Norwegian friends here Inst summer. In two weeks I go to take up the position of Hostess to our Language School group of new missionaries who gather in Landour. I shall take two weeks vacation later because of having worked six weeks this summer. I shall study Hindu Do write even though the time of mails is uncertain. And above all pray that we may be faithful and strong through the days to come. Your grateful and loving friend, Letah M. Doyle ('17) Mrs. C. H. Anderson (Alice Haskins, '20), writes of a change in their work. Their address is now 2117 Cliftwood Avenue, Baltimore, Md. H Mrs. Lew Griffing, R-- 4, Topeka, Kansas (Mablc Mcrkle, '17) writes from Colorado, telling of an interesting trip she and her husband are making by auto through the west, with California as their objective point. Mary Carol Cone, '35, made a brief visit in Kansas City early in August in the home of Alice Virginia Brown, '33. They were guests at the Training School and Beth-Have- n, August 5th. Mary Carol is transferring from the Lessie Bates Davis Settlement in East St. Louis, where she has been a worker in the Nursery School, to the Engle Community Settle- - ;ilH ment in Fairmont, W. Va. Alice Virginia returns to her work in the Highland Boy Community Settlement in Bingham iJ Canyon, Utah. Word comes from Hanna Anderson, '21, that her mother passed into the "larger life", July 9th, after an illness of two months. She lost her father less than six months ago. The love and sympathy of all alumnae friends is extended to her in her loneliness. H Rev. and Mrs. Roy C. Murray (Miriam Cloud, '24), have 1 been transferred from biCrosse, Washington to Kcndrick, Idaho. Mrs. Richard Bauer (Elcunni- - Nye, '.'15), tells us Hint they arc settled in a very comfortable apartment at 0110 Kennedy Avenue, Kennedy Heights, Cincinnati, Ohio. Her husband Ik a layman connected with the Procter and (iambic Company, active in Church and civic affairs; also the Y. M.C. A. Pearlo McKccman, 'Hi, has transferred from her work in the Omaha Methodist Hospital to the Wall Street .Mission in Sioux City, Iowa. Her address is 1308 Nebraska St. An orpin is to be installed in the Church of All Nations, pari of the Wall Street work, in memory of .Martha Younglovc, MB, who gave 25 years of faithful service in the Wall Street Mission, and the Church of All Nations. It will be dedicated, Septem-ber I A 14th. card from Edith M. Curl, M.'l, brings word of the diath of her grandfather, in whose home she has lived since a child, on May 25th. She wrote from Forest Home, California wheie she was teaching in a Girls' Camp; 202 girls and leaders. She had a class of '10 in Hymnology, and 21 in Lift) Service. Her address is 181 Norton Avenue, Lone; Heach, Calif. H. Elizabeth Dalbey, '.'12, is in Scarritt Collect, Nashville, Tennessee, taking work for her A. B. device. A very interesting letter was received recently from Ethel Wcisz, '2-1- , Deaconess in the Philadelphia Deaconess Settle-ment, telling of her vacation, which included a motor trip through the New England States, and the summer activities in her work all very interesting. Mrs. Christian F. Rcisner and her sister, Mrs. Mary R. Carson, now of Atchison, Kansas, were very welcome visitors at ueuwiavon, Jiny izin. Rev. Paul Sherwood, who with Mrs. Sherwood (Shirley Smith, '21), are engaged in a very successful work with the Japanese people at Lahaina, Hawaii, called at Beth-Have- n, H. July 14th, when passing through Kansas City enroute to the parental home of Mrs. Sherwood. It was a happy surprise Leila Dickman, '22, a member of the staff of the Kate Bilderback Neighborhood House at 2001 John Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and four year old Cornellia Rysiowa, one of the Nursery School Children priviliged to go home with her to Basin, Wyoming to experience all the thrills of a visit in the country, were week-en- d guests at Beth-Have- n, July 12-- H 13th. We all enjoyed the visit. Ethel M. Graves, '.'!0, B. R. E., who has been the Deaconess at Epworth-Eucli- d Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio for a number of years, has accepted a similar position at St. Paul's Methodist Church, Wichita, Kansas. Marie Brod, '39, has spent the past two years in Eagle Community Settlement, Fairmont, W. Va. Feeling that she j could add strength to her work with a course in practical nursing, she entered the St. Louis Institute of Practical Nurs-- H ing, 4523 W. Pine, St. Louis, Missouri, August 11th. While in St. Louis her address will be 5GG9 Ca'bonul Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. She spent August 8th in Kansas City, and visited both her Alma Mater and Beth-Have- n. Naomi Coger, '31, was a guest at Beth-Have- n July h. She was returning from Jesse Lee Home, Seward, Alaska, after two periods of very successful service totaling ten years. It was a privilege to have her with us. She was H supper guest at K. C. N. T. S., July 25th. She is now in Toledo, Ohio with friends and relatives. Mrs. H. E. Sortor (Ruth Oldham, '21) called at K.C.N. H T..S., and was a dinner guest at Beth-Have- n, July 22nd. Her H husband is pastor of the Signal Hill Methodist Church in East Hr St. Louis, Illinois, a growing Church in a growing section H of the city. H Edna Ruth Hayes, '25, of Detroit, Michigan, made her H Kansas City friends a surprise visit, August 11-- 1 5th. Her H Alma Mater and Beth-Have- n appreciated their share of the H visit very much. It Is a long time since we had seen her. L Hnrriet Clayton Cuffclt, A.H., R.N., M.'l, sent Beth-Have- n u gift recent y from t.ie first fruits of her garden and orchard at Powersite, Missouri. We mv enjoying it greatly. , 1 Kntherine IJohn, '30, Deaconess at Broadway Temple Metho- - M dist Church, New Yoik City was nn overnight guest at Beth- - II Haven Augiut 1.1-- 1 1, and a supper guest at her Alma Mater. 1 Mary lllnschko, '08, for long yenrs the Trinity Methodist ffi Church Deaconess in Kansas City, Missouri, is spending her vacnt.on, in company with friends from her Church, at the Glenn Clark Camp, Lake Koronis, and in other points in Min- - r ncsotii and Wisconsin. ' Lulu Patterson, '20, spent August 7th in Kansas City, where she was a guest at K. C. N. T. S. and Beth-Have- n. Mis3 iatterson will be a with Mary F. Smith in ihe Pavil-ion Rstamation Project in Wyoming. One of her pleasures Will be to drive the new car being provided. A rare treat came to the Beth-Have- n family in July wlidii they received a crate of fresh pineapple from the plan- - ' tation or Mr. and Mrs. Soon Nam Kang (Flora Cho, '27, Ed. B.) at Wall awn, Oahu, T. II. We are grateful indeed to these f.ne friends for the courtesy of the gift, and for letting us know how large pineapples grow in Hawaii, and how delicious H they are when really ripe. H Margaret Lawson, A. B., '31, a teacher in the public school H at Granby, Colorado, spent two weeks at Beth-Have- n, August H She visited a number of her friends while in the city. H Avis Wallace, M.A., '21, teacher of music in the Brown- - H Home and School. Camden. S. C. visited at the Training H School and Beth-Have- n, while spending a few days with rcla- - H tives in the city. Miss Wallace attended summer school in the Pittsburg, Kansas Teachers College, earlier in the summer. H Dorothy Gleason, '28, has received the appointment as financial secretary, secretary and pastor's assistant at the First H Methodist Church of Modesto, California. She began her work, July 21st. We hope for her a fruitful service. Her address 's Box 272, Modesto, California. H Pauline Goodwin, '40, was a week-en- d guest in Kansas 1H City recently, visiting K. C. N.T. S., Beth-Have- n, and other friends. She is a member of the staff at Harwood Girls School, Albuquerque, N. M and finds her work a great op- - portunity. Mrs. Lewis Hoppock (Ina McKean, '10) of Waco, Texas, was in Kansas City, visiting relatives and friends, in late July. Wo were happy to have her at Beth-Have- n, July 28th as a dinner guest. Such visits are very precious. V Bessie Estcp, '37, K. C. N. T. S. '40, Bethany Hospital, H now nurse in Freeman Clinic and Newark Maternity Hospital V in El Paso, Texas, was our guest at Beth-Have- n, July 29-3- 0. She was returning to El Paso, after a delightful vacation spent in Detroit, Michigan, and in her home state of North BVfl Carolina. Darla Brown, '2G, kindergarten worker with the Deaconess V Home Settlement in Wilmington, Del., visited her Alma Mater and Beth-Have- n, July lGth, enroute to her home at Iola, Kansas BVfl for a vacation. Mrs Cecil Hockensmith Horton, '34, of Seward, Alaska, KVfl with her little daughters, Audney and Carla, gladdened the KVfl hearts of their Kansas City friends by a visit, July 19-2- 4. BwAfl Headquarters was kept at the home of Dorothy Brown Wilder- - iH dyke, 915 Riverview, Kansas City, Kansas, where a class re- - VVJ union was planned for the 20th, with a picnic dinner. Did VVJ we eat? Five members of the class were present. All privi- - KVAVJ leged to enjoy the day pronounced it a day of happy fellowship. K. C. N. T. S. was not forgotten and Beth-Have- n enjoyed an VVJ over-nig- ht visit. The children are getting the benefit of the RVAVJ Kansas sunshine, and all will return to Seward in the early lVVJ |
Creator | Anna Neiderheiser, ed. |
Publisher | Published in the interest of the National Training School for Christian Workers |
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 1941-08-01 |
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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