Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-14
Report of the Board of Managers Of the
Washington City Protestant Asylum for
Orahans and Destitute Children.

Report of the Board of Managers Of the
Washington City Protestant Asylum for
Orahans and Destitute Children.
'Through thee the orphan owns parental care,
Bend the glad knee and breathe the fervent
prayer"
Citizens of our community-friends of hu-
manity, again we come, again we make our
humble appeal. Orphans and destitute chill
dren there always have been, and orphans and
destitute children there always will be; and
We, the Board of Managers, feel it privilege
to minister to their wants; to be almoners of
your bounty; to rescue them from misery and
to train them for usefulness.
1t may be, the sameness may weary the ear
unaecustOmed to the calls Of charity. We con-
Tess there is little to vary 'our oft told tale .
Sorrow and entire destitutiOn, must necessarily
De our theme. Would that we could present
brighter picture. Would that we could say,
our treasury was filed, our Golfers overfowing !;
but no, we have no such report to give. To the
many who have aided us, we return our sin
cere thanks-it has enabled US to do much.
We have fed the hungry, clothed the naked,
and sheltered 65 destitute children.
From the little one, unable to lisp its name
to those more advanced, and becoming useful,
all are watched with the most tender solicitude
The public are aware. many are brought from
the most wretehed abodes of misery, and young
as they are, there is difficulty in training them
as We would wish. They require frmness
so to direct their management, as to prepare
them, when of a suitable age, for usefulness
There have been insidiOus attacks upon the
management of the Institution. An anony-
nous statement has appeared. We know not
who to answer, but we say to those who would
poison the public mind, come to the Board of
Managers-we meet on the lst Tuesday of eve
~ month-come and make your complaints
Visit the Asylum. 1t is public Institution
and we earnestly request that you will do so.
Varied are our calls-varied are the forms
In which sorrow and want are presented from
the cellar of the destitute, from the dying bed
OF the hectic, and from the homeless, to be
housed. Some, most interesting in their story
some with poverty alone to recommend them.
All that come within the limits of our Institu-
tion are taken and cared for.
For such objects as these, again we come
again We plead. Many give, and give literally;
but many, very many, have lived in this com
munity for years, perhaps, who have never
thought of an Orphan Asylum, or have given
trihe when a collection has been taken in our
churches. But look at our subscription list
Whose names are there? Very, very few. 1t
must be for want of thought. Can it be, there
breathes man, so wrapt up in self so insensi-
bic to the wants of others as when his own
children cluster around his freside, to forget
that destitute and helpless infancy and child
hood must be provided for? Can il be, they
do not sometimes think of those almost out
casts of society," born to inhabit the same
beautiful world that we do, to breathe the same
air, with the same wonderful FRAME and equally
precious souls, with no mothers eve to watch
their many wants, no mothers lap TO rest their
little limbs perhaps a pallet on the floor their
only portion, till rescued by the hand of char
lty or II left, left to degradation and crime,
ana We, the citizens of this community are re-
ssponsible The poor are a legacy" left to
those whom God has blessed with means; and
If that aid is refused, to God, and not to man.
We must answer. But man of wealth-tbou
tnat art deaf to the entreaties Of the DOOR and
for the poor-dost thou remember Thou bear
est thy heavy riches, but a journey and death
unloads thee -
We commenced the year with debt of one
thousand dollars. The collections in our
churches enabled us to pay that sum but, of
course, our expenses continued, so that at times
the cloud is dark indeed but faith is the sill
very lining that brightens our pathway, and
again we trust
''fe whose cup is filled with gIadness, who
know not what 1t is, in your voyage through
life, to skirt the bleak lee shore of necessity
we could go on and 60 on, and tell you of scenes
we pass through, of the langud frame, the
fearful eye, that asks our aid and breads re-
fusal-for The miserable have no other medi-
cine but only hope"
The house is in good order. We have a
matron, woman of kind feelings, piety and
uo'OuOn I'D tne cnlldren, and In the manage
ment oil the house, may truly be said ''to have
done what she could - teacher an assistant
IN the family and cook, compose our number.
But that Is not enough for the many wants of
sixty children. We urge the public to supply
US with means to add another to our household.
to assist In the work of the family.
1tco girls and foWr boys have been removed
by friends, or placed in such situations as were
thought best for them. !Seren boys have been
received and eight girls
We would most gratefully acknowledge the
following sums of money, collected i'm diffe rent
churches, the month Of February having been
kindly proposed, and since that time. colIec.
tons have been taken in other churches:
Rev. DR.. Cummins, Of Trinity Church. $3.50 90
Rev. Mr.. Hall, Church of the Epiphany, 1877 90
Rev Mr.. Sunderland. 4. street Presby-
terian Church, I5O 90
Rev. Mr.. MOrsell, of Christ's Church
Navy Yard, ,............. 30 81
Rev. Mr.. Samson, Baptist Church, 81 90
Rev. Mr.. Pyne, St. Johns Church. I2s 90
Rev Mr.. Carothers' Church Al 40
Rev Mr.. Flnckell's German Church, 40 90
From the Mckenzie Chapel, ...... ia so
From the Wesley Chapel. ........... 63 90
Dr. PInckney's Church of the Ascension. 10 az
DIR. Gurleys Church on + street. AZ no
Rev. Mr.. Hills Baptist Church, 1900. N 90
To DIR. Palmer we return our thanks. for
medical attendance, when required. To Drs