Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-01-28
On motion, it was
REPORT.

The Board of Managers of the Orphan Asy-
lum and Female Free School Society of Alex
andria, in presenting their second Annual Re-
port do it with lively emotions of gratitude to
that great Being who has designated himself as
Father to the fatherfess, and husband to the
widow, and who has sustained and supported
the Society in their exertions through another
year, affording them grounds for the assurance
that he will never leave nor forsake them. The
success which attended the first efforts of the
Society to benefit the interesting portion of our
community, it was their province to seek out
and provide for;s though far exceeding the ex-
pectations of many friends of the institution
was scarcely considered a pledge on the part Of
the public to carry forward this good work. or
to maintain it through all future time. Whate-
yer might have been the hopes of the Managers,
1t required the experience of the past year to
justify them in saying the Orphan House would
be sustained, aud that the hearts of our widow
ed mothers might be hghtened by the assurance
that permanent home was provided for their
little ones, whenever, in the providence of God
they might be called upon to leave them. The
hopes of the Managers have been sustained
aud the assurance so necessary to many wi
dowed heart may now be considered as given
by the public Another year has found ample
provision made for all such individuals as in
the Judgment of~your. Board, could properly be
received as objects of this charity
At the last annual meeting il was stated to the
scripions did not exceed FIVE hundred and
forsy-eight dollars and ninety-four cents. and
that We're all punctually paid, there would still
remain deficiency of two hundred and seven
ty-hve dollars and seventy eight cents but the
receipts of the past year have, through the ge-
nerous libcrality of the public, and the conf
dence excited by the first years operations
amounted to niue hundred and sixty-four dol
lars ninety five cents, meeting the expenses both
of the Asylum and School, and leaving ba-
lance in the hands of the Treasurer of one hun
dred and fifty-four dollars and twenty-one cents.
Will not this fact justify the Managers in saving
the Asylum and Free School are no longer ex-
periments; that the obligations of the benevolent
public are felt, and may be safely calculated on
Tor all coming years But whilst the Managers
state this fact with gratitude to the public whose
agents they are, and to Him in whose hands are
the hearts OF all men, they look upon it only as
an incentive 10 extend their operations. and as
furnishing arguments of the most powerful kind
to induce that public which has done co rnncb
to go still further in this most ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
OF all charities. The Board have StetaS 49,
all such children as came fully within tbs No.,
of this Society have been received: their o,,asa
tons have nevertheless been restricted far he
yond the limits their wishes and feelings Uon,d
have assigned to these operations had thew con.
Sidered themselves justified in exceedinp- even
the smallest amount the sums placed in rho
Treasury by their friends. Cases often occur