wenty to
thirty years of age are preferred as students in the training-school.
The sum of three hundred dollars is charged for the year's expenses at
the training-school, medical students paying one hundred dollars
additional.

Our study of the Mildmay Institutions has been somewhat extensive. As
was said at the beginning of the chapter, the great freedom and
simplicity of the Mildmay methods, as well as the happy faculty that its
directors possess of utilizing all varieties of individual talent, make
this deaconess establishment one that is full of valuable suggestions to
the similar institutions that are now arising in American Methodism. No
working force is wasted; if a deaconess possess a special talent, she is
given a field in which to exercise it; and if exceptional conditions
arise workers are found ready to meet them. This training provides
well-equipped missionaries for the foreign field, and equally
well-prepared missionaries for the great field of the present hour--the
home mission work in the crowded wards of great cities.

The annual expenses of the Mildmay Institutions vary from one hundred
and ten thousand to one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Sixty
thousand dollars are received in voluntary contributions, and the
remaining sum is generally obtained from friends who are immediately
concerned in the work.

It is certainly a marvelous tribute to Christian faith, although it is
never heralded as such, that an establishment of the extent and
magnitude of Mildmay has been maintained for years with no permanent
endowment to fall back upon, and that annually the renewed self-denial
of constant friends has to supply the large amount of money needed to
meet the entire expenses. Besides those outward and visible services
which it renders "for the love of Christ, and in his name" Mildmay
furnishes a constant testimony to the fidelity of the Christian faith in
the hearts of many believers.

[65] _Life and Letters of the Rev. W. Pennefather_, p. 279.
[66] _Ibid._, p. 305.
[67] _Life and Letters of the Rev. W. Pennefather_, p. 435.
[68] _Life and Letters of the Rev. W. Pennefather_, p. 471.
[69] _Life and Letters of the Rev. W. Pennefather_, p. 471.
[70] _Mildmay Deaconesses and their Work_, p. 7.
[71] _Mildmay Deaconesses and their Work_, p. 6.
[72] _A Retrospect of Mildmay Work During the Year 1887._
[73] _Mildmay Deaconesses and their Work_, p. 13.
[74] _A Light in a Dark Place_, p