the conference
there are held Sunday services throughout the year. The hospitality of
its rooms is readily granted to every good cause with which the mission
has sympathy. During 1887 "temperance society meetings, railway men and
their wives, Moravian missions, Pastor Bost's mission at La Force, the
MacAll Paris missions, the Sunday closing movement, young men's and
young women's Christian associations, a Christian police association,
the Children's Special Service mission, the Christmas Letter mission,
Bible readings for German residents, and various other foreign and home
missions have all in turn been advocated here."[72]

The larger number of the deaconesses at the central house, as well as
the twenty-five at the branch house in South London, are employed in
twenty-one London parishes, where their work has been sought by the
clergymen; they go to all, undertaking every kind of labor that can
give them access to the hearts and homes of the people. While
co-operating with the clergyman in charge of a parish their work is
superintended from the Deaconess Home. They visit from house to house
among the sick and poor, hold mothers' meetings, teach night-schools,
hold Bible-classes separately for men, women, and children; hold special
classes for working women and girls who are kept busily employed during
the day, and during the winter months have a weekly average of more than
nine thousand attendants on their services. They are solving the problem
of "how to save the masses" by resolving the masses into individuals,
and then influencing these individuals by the power of personal effort
and love.

But a few steps from Conference Hall is the Nursing Home, where about
one hundred "nurse sisters," nurses, and probationers make their home in
the intervals between their duties, and are presided over by a lady
superintendent of their own. Adjoining is the Cottage Hospital, a
beautiful building, the gift of a lady in memory of her son. The walls
have been painted and decorated throughout by some ladies who delight in
using their skill to make beautiful the homes of the sick.

A large hospital and medical mission also exist in Bethnal Green, a
densely populated part of London that in some portions can vie with the
worst slums of the city. It was so necessary to provide better
accommodations for nursing the sufferers than could be found in their
poor homes that a warehouse was fitted up with beds and transformed into
a small ho