The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-07-11
Status of the Orphans Home,
AT IAUDERDA ALE.
From Minutes Baptist State Convention.
SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF
TRUSTEES OF THE ORPHANS HOME

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fully realized Our cash receipts that time Largely IN
Of former years and inspired with the belief
would insure its permanent usefulness Our confidence how
did not lessen exeons to provide the means for carry
% l iP ftb orr wants appeals were made through
the press the claims the Home urged before every Ao
on@b to act for us and the little band Of orphans under the
direction Trimb successful last year. continued
the field and yet spite OF all these efforts the "a OF
found treasury exhausted with immediate
prospect relief The people had apparently the
cusion that 1.-THE little band Of Orphan Warbe amply
able support the Home without their aid "A few hundred
dollars all received from all other from June to
October and less than eighteen hundred dollars from this
Our appeals to the brethren We're not generally responder To-
Ne-tenhs Of the denomination gave nothing and far
could Judge used exeons in behalf Again and
again renewed our entreatles for help we plead with them
the Of the orphans themselves plead with them IN
the of the Master who said Il ahungered and We
gave me no meat was thirsty and ye gave me no DRINK was
stranger and took in naked and clothed not
that nasmuc they did the least Of these they
did it not to Him But almost in vain did thus plead the
denomination as body seemed to be mmoyabe .o cola
and a tho bnrcbas 70 The ablnt necessity of a more be-
support Of the Home These efforts entirely failed The
almost universal response that the people were tired of being
begged for money to sustain the Home
With all these facts before reluctantly compelled to
believe that the public sentiment of the denomination
rally furnishing the for the further
This apparent revolution in the feelings of
the people could understand At Crystal Springs
seemed be the high road to prosperity SIX months afterwards
of friends seemed to have deserted We could ac
count for this only on the ground that at the last session of your
based upon false premises that they excited by peculiar
success Of last year much the result Of deepseated
and permanent part people
States caused by the visits Of Mr. TrmbIes band of orphans
Whether right this the conclusion to which we
at the meeting of the Board in December last
just at this jmctme in affairs when had all
apparently we'll nigh failed and knew whether to turn to
the right hand the left the annual meeting of the Board for
the election of officers and other purposes occurred Some mem
duce at that meeting the subject Of
TRANSFERRING
The Secretary therefore in giving the usual notice of the
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member that this subject would be brought before the Board for
Hamberlm, this notice regret say given AS
quite bare quorum attendance. The subject
was introduced and fairly and thoroughly discussed No one
present wished the the Home changed if could be
avoided all decidedly preferred that it should remain in the
crisis history We could work without
funds these funds could be obtained The legal guardians
OF the institution the asts OF the State, would not heed our
for help We could not reasonably others continue
their aid unless the Baps rendered liberal aid themselves
Ana even we mgh expect the same generous on the
part of others this alone would sustain the Home 1t
plain that the Bap must do than they had been doing
or we must give up the enterprise II the bGPss would not
sustain the institution it thought that perhaps the aons
the tender expressions of regard OF such there
Lack but the time there greenback in the
them The chilling winds of wnfer were ALREADY boyno tboug
every cvce of key buildings and the children sometimes
slept with the literal snow for covering piled drifts in their
cherries rooms upon building was COM
PEELED stop for of funds purchase material When
the denomination who had been repeatedly informed with
regard to the condition OF the Home turning cody and
saving 10y their indifference, that they willing the
orphans thus suffer- rather than give of their for their
support could other conclusion than that they did
not intend sustain the Hone We do say that
believe they wished the orphans suffer but that they
preferred somebody else would relieve them. Who knowing all
the facts the case and hearing the cries nearly hundred
have hesated accept lay first feasible
plan of escape from impending Our conclusions however,
and action freely acknowledge have been
We may have read the signs of the times Alright
We may have judged too hastily We claim nfallbity 1t
be that the denomination only profoundly asleep and
that we had not used the proper means to wake them up 1t
be that they needed mighty thunderbo from the skies
place the Home deep down their hearts and so high above all
future danger that emergency whatever should be able here
after from its everlasting foundations Happy
IT, IN any we have been instrumental forging this hun
derbo and hurting redhot into the midst of the umberng
camp; happy action shall result in arousing and
uniting mghtbe invincbe denomination hearty general
systematic and successful effort to establish the Home upon
has been asked why the
Convention before acting this There time
The crisis demanded action If had been governed by
taken place among people, and the denomination would
slept on as profoundly before By our course thought has
aroused, and will be the
If the subject had been first introduced here in the Convention,
should undoubtedly with flourish of umpet have resolved
that the Home great grand noble glorious institutions
that the Baptsts deserved world of credit for originating and
that we were determined pepetuate long there
have slept the sleepo with its predecessors the orphans
might have starved for all that Something than this
The fact is denomination needed electrical
would go tngg to the very tips OF our fingers and toes If the
Board has succeeded in shocking the denomination there yet
What have thus had say of denomination may
many too 1t be said that in conclusions
pleasure speak of brethren have done But
be faithful to and the truth The facts
they exist before and leave judge whether
we have been too enien AT the time
with mfegned pleasure that say there many noble breh
and sisters throughout the State who have stood by all
darkest hours Of these may well be said they have done
what they could But compelled believe that the great
of the denomination have taken the
Home whatever They have either been reached by
appeals they have turned with cool indifference away from
few cannot bear the burden There must be wider
deeper interest manifested, its mission will end
RESOLUTION BOARD,
embodyng Its action upon this subject reads follows Re
o9 Inat IN order to secure more hearty cooperation OF the