| Description | In this paper Elizabeth Taylor remarks that, like London, Paris needed 'real hard work' towards social reform. She describes the work of the medical mission where she was volunteering, commenting that the mission provided medical treatment for patients from France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Describing the work she was undertaking at the mission Taylor remarks that she was responsible for dispensing medicines and providing religious guidance to patients. The mission also provided employment for women, offering them work making clothes for orphaned children in return for bread or meat. In addition, Elizabeth Taylor remarks on her involvement with the night schools for young men and women provided by the mission which included Bible lessons.
Elizabeth Taylor remarks on the poor condition of the patients she had seen, many of whom were suffering from consumption and on the verge of starvation, owing to a great scarcity in employment. She writes that almost fifteen thousand men were out of work in one quarter of Paris alone. Taylor's account refers to the suffering of starving families and includes a number of stories relating to her experiences with patients at the mission.
At the conclusion of her paper Elizabeth Taylor remarks that 'though Charity certainly should begin at home, those of us who acknowledge the Word of God as the rule of life should remember we are to go into "all the world".' |