The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-07-08
ORPHANS' JUBILEE. ADDRESSES
Address of j. L. HIathewson,

Address of j. l.. mathewsOn,
TIE OCCASION THE ORPHANS JUBILEE. JULY A. 1885,
In the name of these Orphans address you 1t has pleased
the All Directing God lay his hand heavily upon these
already bereaved children Sickness and have come
and sat down at the HEARTH which tended by pOus and de-
voted Sisters and which your municen charity has butor
them. The wrung heart has filled the Orphans eye with
ear-poveity has thrown its dark shadow them, and
they have upon this occasion ask that sympathy
which viii dry those tears and to appeal to that charity
which viii drive away those
The old Eruscan superstition, which made their ancestors
gods, and their homes temples, was beautiful Coiecrang
with the hoe love those feel ngs which bound them TO the
hears which they and their fathers loved it charmed them
with holy affection the land in which those homes
reared The love of home is the precious of the
love of country and that love of home and those who made
it home feeling common 10 all our race so simple IN
its Ovenes, almost to create astonishment that supe
ton should have wrought into so beautiful shape
For these children no household gods have been enstned
for these Orphans ancestral homes have been consecra
We look in vain for of those natural ties which would
bind them any particular spot OF earh particular
country. They the victims which have been thrown out
to be crushed by the chariot wheels of society, it flies
headong in its of pleasure They the Orphans of
the world. They emphatcaly the children of God.
Denied all those endearng ties which bind favored
beings that sacred spot called home and reared unfamiliar
with the lovely associations which haow it, the heart of the
orphan compelled seek for other objects around which its
affections cluster Beneiacor friend, and country, all
gather up those affections of the homeless child he wandeFs
have felt the glowing sunlight Of parent al love, bright
ened up beneath the kind smile of the generous fend the
poor child of soow who has been stranger to home and
its manifold endearmen feels B loss almost supplied by the
muncence Of benefaco and the parental guardianship OF
civil government
And to those friendsto those beneacors-o that country,
the Orphan grateful Grateful 1t is too cold a word.
Who can say what is Orphans gratitude Who can tell
what word OF love lavished in return for kind
smile? What estimate the affection felt for those who
have filled the void Occasioned by the loss of and
home An Orphans gratitude! In its depths, it
athomabe as the uneasured An Orphans grattude
In its richness unimagnabea the love of angels An
Orphans gTatitude In its wealth. it is nexhausbe
| the teeming earth.
And this untold this priceless gratitude is all yours HI
charity which you comparatively nothing, bfepa
more than thousasd fold The kindness which your heart
threw off It's ordinary pulsatons like the eNhalaons wc
unnoeed from the earth back in kind and refresh
ing Showers making The Eden of souls bloom in richie
| uxunance.
These Orphans have out upon this interesting occasion
to show you what your kindness have enabled them do
and to prove you that your charity has been misplace
| and not been in vain.
They have too, upon this the great birth day Of ou
Nations freedom to hold Jubilee in honor of that c0nntr
under whose protecting their institution has been Sustained
70 te1e is something beautiful in the associations whc
spring up the mind, the thought of this Orphans Jublet
We are rresistiby carried back N day, -four yea
ago. when bade adIeu ancestral homes-when "
drowned the parental power that had ceased to love
without government without friends and alone we bega
our existence as netoan orphan people Like these CHI
dren we were dependent upon the kndns Of friends wi
heard aiaT off our Of saerins and who came TO ming