The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-12-09
MANUAL LABOR SCHOOL FOR INDI-
GENT BOYS.

expire.
MANUAL LABOR SCHOOL FOR INDI-
GENT BOYS.
We would call the attention of the benevolent
to the communication of r. L. which we copy
FROM the American. The advantage of such an
institution means ofpreventing vice, and re-
ieving the unfortunate, Is set forth in strong
and persuasive terms We learn that there are
some who would wait to see the school in ope-
ration. If all do this, their wishes will never be
gratifCd. Again, others would reserve their
charity for house OF correction. This would
be a noble charity, but how much better is it to
preserve the infant mind free from vice, than to
reserve means 10 reclaim those who are
tainted with moral pollution' Besides, this is
the work of charity; the other is more properly
the duty of the state. This is now in progress,
and in the hands Of efficient and deserving citi-
zens This S begun let it be finished, and then
those who have carried this through will be able
auxiliaries to carry through the other.
May we not hope that this Indictment season
will tend to soften the hearts of those who of
their abundance can well spare a small sum for
such purpose?
MANUAL I-AbOh pNHOOL tbk 1NDlGENI
Boys. There is now vigorous effort making
by few individuals to procure funds to estab-
lish on an efficient scale, a Manual Labor
School near this City, for the relief of helpless
Orphan Boys; and TO afford assistance to indi-
gent Widows, by taking charge of, educating
and training up in habits of virtuous industry,
theiI sons who not merely hang heavily on
them for bread, but frequently bid defiance to
all the wholesome discipline and restraint that
maternal love would exercise for the promo
ton OF virtuous habits, and which too general
ly can be achieved only by the stronger GO
vernment of the sterner parent
The object of the Institution then is liter
ally to be father 10 the orphan, and a hus-
band 10 the widow: it is one half of what the
Apostle James declares to be squire and unde-
filed religion before God and the Father, "and in
the exercise Of which in its most liberal and
extended sense, there is no danger of awaken
ing sectarian strifes and jealousies. A some
what similar Institution for the relief of orphan
girls is now in successful operation in A1ulber
~ street, and to extend its usefulness, and to
endow the one for boys, by hearty appropri-
alton of the means with which beneficent
Providence has gifted US, cannot fail to bring
divine blessing on the contributors individually
and the city aBlarge.
If we would visit the haunts of the poor, and
Contemplate tHC SQ ldillu uIlSelI Which, SUI
rounds the objects that these two noble chsTi-
ties are devoted to relieve: Where hunger I'M
til it verges on starvation is scarcely deemed
suffering, and the warmth derived from the
smoke Of a few burning or rather Wondering
chips is esteemed a luxury: the wonder in our
minds would be-not that so many Of both sex
es become abandoned to every vice and crime,
but that single brand should escape from
such pile OF ignorance and woe. Nay more,
tive there mark some children evincing more
than ordinary beauty or TALENT, the painful con-
viction is forced upon our minds, that these
bounties of nature, which, under more auspic-
ious circumstances might prove blessing to
society and themselves, can hardly fail TO en-
nance their own guilt and misery, and spread
more broadly around them the baleful influences
of vice and crime
/ am aware that there are many who give lib
orally to similar Institutions, under the exclusive
care Of their own Church, and think that this
circumstance should be sufficient apology for
refusing aid 20 the Institutions in question. To
such say with all kindness and respect blame
not your zeal for any charity that wears the
banner of your own peculiar sect, but we all
have duties and charities peculiar to ourselves as
individuals and professors of Christianity; and
If we should all adopt your policy, the great
mass Of woe and guilt, to which | have briefly
alluded, must remain unmitigated and Jmreform-
ed. But will venture to say further-that the
course you adopt naturally tends to stay the
spread of universal benevolence, and to withhold
from your own bosom the sweet consciousness
that you feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and
instruct the ignorant, through love to God, ra-
ther than zeal for your own peculiar creed. De
volon TO our own sect does not necessarily prove
our love to God; for history tells US OF too many
Who freely surrendered all things even life itself,
Ter the sake OF their own peculiar views, bat the
TENOR OF whose lives forbids even the wisest
chaflty TO hope that with their s9ctarian zeal
mihgled any OF that love for God which the
OIeaL 1eacher says Is evinced by loving our
Neighbour, (which is the fulfilling Of the Law
And what heart that eyer made the trial has
failed TO realize the sefteninq and eruandine
influences Of that love which springs in his bosom
towards his fellow man whom he meets amid
these scenes OF mercy, over which waves no ban
ner but that of Universal Love. There no sec
tartan animosities intrude; they fly before IN.
glance of the presiding AngelIove In the ex
ercise of charities like these, in generous rival
Ty who shall do most good, not for the honor G,
a sect, but for the glory of God and the sake o
humanity, we shall do lar more towards accom-
plishing that which Divine Revelation has de
clared to be its own Legitimate design, eve
seGlory to God in the highest, and on earth peace
good will toward men" than has been efecte
BY all the sectarian animosities Of the last tho,
sand years.
Let us then one and all cultivate this almo
forsaken field of disiuterested Denevolence, al
we shallreap an absnd ant harvest in the gene
Gus feelings that union in such cause vi
waken in our own bosoms towards our fello
labourers: feelings that will put to shame tn
bigots circumscribed humanity. Whilst v
fail not to support the Sister Institutionin Mu
berry street, let US contribute literally to Ell
dow the Manual Labor School for Indigel
Boys-"WitA good will doing service as to Il
Lord, and not to men; knowing that what's
ever good thing any man doeth, the same sha
be receive of the Lord, whether he be bond {
fee.-Eph'm. 81.
Baltimore, December 4, 1910. r. L.
Papers friendly to the institution are re
qaested to give the above an insertion.