CHURCHES 26.
INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR BLIND GIRLS.
One of the local institutions which does a great deal of good, and which possesses an interesting history, is the Industrial Home for Blind Girls, otherwise known as "Eben-Ezer-house," at Pokfulum. Established by a worker in the German Mission nearly forty years ago (in 1896-97) it passed during the war under the control of the Church of England here: for a number of years in Kowloon, it came over after the change in control to Hongkong, to its original locality. For a while, in its earliest years, the Home was moved to Macao, but returned to the Colony in 1902.
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The actual founder was Miss Postler, and her memory will always be associated with the work of the Hildesheim Mission Blind Asylum, as it was known before the war.
For an account of the establishment of this institution, and the untimely death of its founder, we may turn to the newspaper files. The S. C. M. Post of September 2, 1904, states:
"The distressing intelligence has just reached us that Miss Martha Postler, of the Hildesheim Missionary Society for Blind Girls in China, a sister of the Order of St. John and the founder of the Ma-tau-kok School for Chinese Blind Girls, died on July 26 last, almost immediately on her arrival in Germany from Hongkong. Believing as we do that ladies like Miss Postler are the very 'salt of the earth,' and the institutions such as the school for Blind Girls established by her are the crown of Western philanthropy and the flower of Christian beneficence, we would fain pay such passing tribute as we can to one whose assiduous self-denying and successful endeavours on behalf of the outcast and suffering are worthy of fuller and more enduring record.
'Miss Postler came to Hongkong eight years ago in response to representations and appeals which set forth the truly pitiable condition of Chinese Blind girls, and the opportunity that existed both for rescue work and also for special instruction which the trained Western expert can impart to this most unfortunate class of children.'
"Commencing in the Pokfulum Road, West Point, with five girls, the new school for the blind was at the end of four years removed to Macao, where it was continued...
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CHURCHES 26.
INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR BLIND GIRLS.
One of the local institutions which does a great 'deal of good, and which possesses an interesting history, is the Industrial Home for Blind Girls, otherwise known as "Eben-Ezer-house," at Pokfulum. Established by a worker in the German Mission nearly forty years ago (in 1896-97) it passed during the war under the control of the Church of England here: for a number of years in Kowloon, it came over after the change in control to Hongkong, to its original locality. For a while, in its earliest years, the Home was moved to Macao, but returned to the Colony in 1902.
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The actual founder was Miss Postler, and her memory will always be a saotiatedwith the work of the Hildesheim Mission Blind Asylum, as it was known before the war.
For an account of the establishment of this institution, and the untimely death of its founder, we may turn to the newspaper files. The S. C. M. Post of September 2, 1904, states:
"The distressing intelligence has just reached ua that Miss Martha Postler, of the Hildesheim Missionary Society for Blind Girls in China, a sister of the Order of St. John and the founder of the Ma-tau-kok School for Chinese Blind Girls, died on July 26 last, almost immediately on her arrival in Germany from Hongkong. Believing as we do that ladies like Miss Postler are the very "salt of the earth," and the institutions such as the school for Blind Giràs established by her are the crown of Western philanthropy and the flower of Christian beneficence, we would fain pay such passing tribute as we can to one whose assiduous self-denying and successful endeavours on behalf of the outcast and suffering are worthy of fuller and more enduring record.
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'Miss Postler came to Hongkong eight years ago in response to representations and appeals which set forth the truly pitiable condition of Chinese Blind girls, and the opportunity that existed both for rescue work and also for spezial instruction which the trained Western expert can impart to this most unfortunate class of children.'
"Commencing in the Pokfulum Road, West Point, with five girls, the new school for the blind was at the end of four years removed to Macao, where it was continued i for
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