The remedy is equally necessary for the help of institutions and for women.
I would suggest, therefore, that there should be a Training or Deaconess institution,[1] or Parish House, or House of Charity, in every district or large parish, which would form a centre for all works of benevolence in that parish or district. In it there would be residents, or constant workers, as well as another class consisting of associates, or assistants, who should not live in the house, but attend for a few hours daily, as their parents or other relations could spare them.[2] There would be an opportunity of learning all the useful arts of life, useful equally for the future wife and mother, as for the parish helper or assistant in an institution. In the house there would be teaching in cookery, needlework, keeping of stores, accounts, and all domestic occupations, besides visiting the poor at their own homes, under the care
- ↑ This suggestion is quite compatible with that of a central institution, like that at Kaiserswerth, from which women are sent out to all parts of Germany and other countries. There is some hope of this plan being shortly begun in London on a small scale, under the sanction of the Bishop, the Rev. Canon Champners, etc. Further information about it can be obtained from the Rev. T. P. Dale, 5, Woburn-square.
- ↑ The obvious and natural beginning of this plan would be for the bible or mission-women and some of their lady-superintendents to be gathered into such a home.
