The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-06-29
The EFFECTIVENESS Of Charity.

Inc - Lonuon GOSSIP" Oh the Dublin NatiVh
gives this instance of the great cost among
our Protestant friends of distributing charity
to the poor. How cheap! just think of it, it
only costs about s5,240 in gold, to distribute
$7e5 among the destitute-or seven dollars to
give away one. The man who recently dropped
into the collection plato for converting the
heather, q one dollar note aud n nickel, en-
veloped in paper stating that the nickel was
for the heather and the one dollar note to pay
the expenses of getting it to him, had evident
ly had some experience in Protestant charity
| organizations
=, word of praise is due to the operations of
J the Lambeth Branch of the Charity Organi-
| cation Society. This famous body upon which
the light of 80 much clerical encouragement is
obliqnely or directly reflected, is indeed doing
| good by stealth and Flushing to find it fame.
From a recently published balance sheet, the
public are invited to learn the whole history
of its ways and means for period of two
years and nine months The figures are 50 en-
PERTAINING and so pregnant with the wisdom
Of the serpent, let apart the simplicity of the
dove, that beg you will find room for them.
B bsssPss in Charity
That is, the administration of Gl57 lbs l1td
cost 81 ,04s 13s Ida fact which would have
| fallen like the balm of Gilead on the bead of
| the late Joseph Hume! But how account for
the expense of administration detail! No
| thing can be simpler; here are the figures in
| black and white:
Salaries :'..-.....---. fa5s l9
| Collector q poundaSe ............ sSi7s
Postage '7isss
Debts of Society to Treasurer and 9th.
Printing and Advertising: -: 90 -
| CHARITY. sL57 - LIT
| After this satisfactory statement no gener-
Gus Christian will refuse to open bis purse
calls tor funds to enable it to pursue it's bene-
! fcent and meritorious career. Even calumny's
self will pass before discharging an arrow at
such immaculate institution. Not only does
| 1t abstain from encouraging the poor by gifts
which might save them from the undertaken
and be the means of destroying their sense of
self respect, but it also maintains q staff of
| officials who show in themselves that poverty
| is crime, and that to do well. Lyon must have
| no connection with anything bearing the re-
hottest affinity to doles and bonnties, walls and
perqs, palm faying and commisserate tips.
The last word is pure slang, to be sure, but it
| will be Ineligible to the organization gentle
men whose arduOus duties bring them often
| in contact with the necessities and argal vul-
gar classes of the London poor and the cir
cumstance spares me the trouble of apologizing.
The same Gossip who, by the way, is
| remarkably interesting correspondent gives
also the following item:
1.-THE Church is again danger" Yesterday
| the York shire Association of Baptist churches,
| opened its annual conference at Sheffield, and
was treated to an " inaugural when will
the dictionaries abolish this barharous word
address by the President the Rev. Mr.. Best.
| Mr.. Best, W no seems to be q Cumming aud n
Mother Shipton rolled into one, took gloomy
view of the religious situation. and justified
his depression by copious references to &C
| knowledged humiliating facts. Ritualsm is
making havoc in the establishment, aud now
judicial legislation has so changed the Prot
estant character of the Church that demand
for its discs adjustment should be made, on the
ground that q majority of her ministers aud
practises are thoroughly ritualistic" AS to
| Popery, there could be question: the rever-
end gentleman said, to the giant strides it
is making day after day month after month,
yea, year after year, for, in truth, it is secu-
RUG privileges which are denied to the Church
of the country. Government ought no longer
to bc trusted in dealing with Roman Catholics
for every step they take is further from the in
terests of Protes tantisn and nearer to the in
| terests of Romanism Mr.. Bests story is in
deed disheartenipg, yet its obvious moral !
seems to have escaped his abnormally acute
perception. If the disestablshment is falling
to pieces of its own weight and rottenness, it |
is because its paid guardians are completely
indifferent so long as it does not fall on them
selves. They dislike hard toll, and, with rare
exceptions, are filled with rctcent scorn for
the work in which they engaged.