Lutheran Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing - Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Lift Up 'Your Eyes Wliat jesus Said I said: Let me walk in the fieldf' God said: Nay, walk in the townf' I said: There are no flowers there: He said: No flowers, but a crown. I said: But the sky is black, 'There is nothing but noise and ding But He wept as He sent me back, There is more, he said, there is sin. I said: But the air is thick, And fogs are veiling the sung He answered: Tet souls are sick, And souls in the dark undone. I said: I shall miss the light, And friends will miss me, they say, He answered me, Choose tonight, If I am to miss you, or they. I pleaded for time to be given: He said: Is it hard to decide? It will not seem hard in Heaven To have followed the steps of your Guide. I cast one look at the fields, Then set my face to the town: He said: My child, do you yield? Will you leave the flowers for the crown? Then into ,His hand went mine, And into my heart came He: And I walk in a light Divine, 'The path I had feared to see. -George MacDonald. Page Thirteen

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Lift Up 'Your Eyes The Parish Deaconess A few of the privileges inf eluded in the life of a Deaconess and especially the parish sister are the many and varied opportunities she has in administering to the sick, comforting the sorrowing, and helping the needy-and in doing this she has the door opened to her by which she brings these souls closer to the Master. She is often needn't come to I'rn too far gone, of this Jesus you In . - . p -af-1' '1:: ' JP., f- - 7 -:la . S' ' ' ,, ,A .I ,V ' QQ,- , f - 'bl met with you pray for me- I have no need speak of- and yet often, very often these same individuals greet her later with a cheery HI am so glad you came -won't you read a message to Deaconess Magdalene Klippen Page Twelve si Deaconess Lillian Groh me from God's Word? Thanks for your prayer and singing. Thanks for your kindness in help' ing me. Come again. God bless you, dear Sister. She comes home late at night but happy-for hers has been the privilege to visit a dying patient who was hungry to hear the Word of God and longing for eternal life in heaven. Hers too has been the privilege to bring comforting words to several members of a family who have just had a dear one taken from them, messages strengthening their faith and hope for eternal joy through the merits of our Savior jesus Christ.

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Lift Up 'Your Eyes Six Sisters working in Chicago among the poor, the sick, the broken homes and at the Day Nursery, bringing and proving Christ's love to the lowly and forsaken Lutheran Deaconess Day Nursery y The Day Nursery exists for the purpose of SAVING the home. Orphan Homes take the children from broken homesg hut the Nursery takes little ones in order that their homes may be continued and hettered. In order that a mother may go out to earn a livelihood, and at the same time keep her home for her loved ones, the Nursery cares for the little children during the day. From those few but descriptive words, we sense a vast field for cultivation-a iield bearing social, economic and Christian fruits. Thus, it must have been that our kind deaconesses, back in 1911, seeing the fields of poverty about them, set out to root out the weeds. Mother Superior Ingeborg Sponland has been in the very heart of the service from its inception. Our Day Nursery had its first beginning in 1911, when a small Christian kindergarten was opened at Hope Mission, Mrs. Bruun's old temperance hall. Our kind sisters went out to seek poor children in needy homes-homes, needy not only from a material standpoint, but Page Fourteen