New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-13

philanthropy. Tho love Of Christ constrainetn U.s.
CHRISTIANITY THE GREATEST oVnIzgR.
Our proposition Is that OF all the blessed agencies
which have been work for tho amehoration of the
condition OF humanity Christianity stands pre6mlnent
In the majesty Of unriyaed supremacy II has been
the OF almost every kind Of organized agency by
which men have benefited another. II learned its
lesson from the Divine Master, and caught its nspira
ton from the Cross. He who washed his disciples feet
ss have done TO w n nG Sea literally the act nS
then performed but cherish and exhibit the spirit Is
embodied.
While. as might be expected. the primary attention
OF the Church Of Christ was directed To those VINO
sought the friendly shelter OF its sacred Enclosures when
sake when those that had possessions sold them. ana
YET Christians soon understood thai they TO ex-
hiblt compassion and Kindness, and render help 20
others who not OF their fold and Ia forms anu on
"A scale 10 which men were utterly unused. In tue
pamy days OF paganism the poor and wretched fouh9
originate and foster the cruetes Of the amph'heater
hardly likely 10 create and noirish gentle ana pl
ul emotions. III the priest aud the LoFe anonS lbe
Jews could and did pass by the wounded ana hcpes'
much more did the hamen ana the priest
new WA" era IN the history of humanity When from Cal
vary cry went FORTH LAY down my life Tor the
world" and the proclamation made within the shadow
OF the AcrOpOs God bath made OF one blood an the
nations that do dwell upon the face Of the earth Ioun
was understood alike by Onesmus, the slave and by
tho rulers OF CBsas hOusehold-then as IN CHRIST Je-
there henceorth 20 be neither Greek nor Jew,
circumcision nor unolrcumcislon, BARBARIAN, nor
Scythian, bond nor free but Christ was an IN all they
loved bowels Of merccs Kindness humbeness Of ulnd
meekness. ongsufering," girding around them char,
ty the bond Of perfectness and whatsoever they Ola
in word or deed doing all In the name ot the Lofd
Jesus"
PRACTICAL BENEFITS OF CHRISTIANITY.
II be asked, "What good has Christianity done to
the world - and know from the quarter whence the
question comes what is meant by good point to tho
works Of charity and benevolence and mercy with
which the world abOunds, and answer: behold the
good for these tho genuine offspring OF the Chris
tan system. Can corrupt tree bring forth good fruits
fruit ike this 7" We ask men TO look round at the
hospitals, dispensarles, conyaescent homes reforma-
tories schools amshOuses, orphanages asylums for the
blind the deaf, dumb the idiot the insane the IN
quents and other agencies for oyertaklng and aleyi-
ating the thousand ills to which flesh is heir, and in-
quire. Whence sprang they all -. =. ,,,
Hospitals, history tells rs, owe their origin to Chris
tanty; the first the world ever was erected aJ
Constannople under the direction OF the Bishop Of that
city Neither there, nor at Athens. nor Rome tue hSh
places of civilization OF political wisdom and power
the chosen abodes OF philosophy eoquence poetry ana
artistic skill was its prototype to be found unless IL Oe
the small temple OF Eculapius on an Island IN the IlDer
where the MANNED and sick were left 10 struggle In soil
tude or the pangs Of death" Christianity showed "a
more excellent way" In all the centuries that have
passed over the earth since the first OF the
Gospel IN the so darkest as %S c SS the pa
thropy has never passed away Inc mOhas'lG instIu-
exercise OF charity the sick and that the
With the of the faith of their Inmates they at
any able to comprehend to some extent the
work OF religion that brought forth Them such fruits,
and certainly learned to esteem and share many Of the
material advantages IL secured. Men "hungered,
and they them meat thirsty, and they gave them
drink strangers, and they took them IN; naked and
they clothed them sick, and they visited them; III
prison, and they came unto them.
learned from the New Testament that Howard owed the
impulse that him forth his embassies Of mercy
through ali the countries of Europe to discover
pose the appalling secrets Of their prisOnhouses, until
the indignant cry OF lnsulted humanity lnauBurdted
change; and nothing inferior to such influence could
Ia gentle
the sedenia and personal peril to which her Visits 10
Newgate exposed her in her attempted and happily
ccssfI rfs to overcoIne the demOniac fury and wick
cdness OF ito miserable inmates.
CHRISTIAN SUCCESS IN GREAT cAIAMITTEs
In all public caamties the genius of Christian phllan
thr0phy has passed among men as an angel Of light.
when Alexandria visited with the plague during
the reign Of Gaenus the Pagans deserted their friends
on the first symptoms OF the disease They left them to
die in the streets, without taking the trouble
bury them when dead they only thought of escaping
from the cOBtaglon themselves The Christians, on the
contrary took the bodies of their brethren their arms
waited upon them without thinking of themselves, min
stered to their wants. and buried them with all possible
care even while the people Of tho community, pres
byters and deacons, lost their own own lives by
their selfdenyng generosity. And when Carthage was
of Galus the Pagaus deserted tue sick and the dying
and the streets filled with dead bodies which
greatly increased the infection. No Them
except for purposes OF punder but Cypran calling his
people together in the church, sdd III 30 good only
beathensP Animated by his words the mem
beps of the church divided the work between
labor that in short time the bodies that filed
the streets were buried Who, before Christianity
taught men do IT, thought OF redeemng captives
taken IN Warl Yet this was what churches did, and
even sold the for that purpose AS
was done by Ambrose at Milan" CRev. Mr.. Lord.)
Is not found now, that no sooner does calamity
happen by which widows and orphans are made, no
sooner II known that there Is widespread distress,
arising from famine war, or pestence, even IN other
lands than the Christian philanthropy Of this country
and OF England is stirred TO Its depths theirs
than all the world besides and do not hesitate
that because of the religion which has made the two
countries what they in all that is good and great,
and given them enyiabe preeminence over the other
In preparing this paper tried but the task
herculean for 10 accomplished ascertain what
amount Of money during the last century, had been
poured into the treasury OF our London phanthropic
nsttutionsfOr that city may perhaps be regarded
the center OF phanthrOplc actlonand essayed 10 DO
the with your own City OF New-lork, taking this,
as presume may. the counterpart OF London IN the
old country; but Jailed IRON the very magnitude Oh the
subject
CHRIsTIANIrY's ORGANIZED CHARITIES.
One fact, however, ELECTED, for which hardly
prepared, and which speaks volumes In London 1
northumberland il familiar with New York as
with the more ancient city doubt not should be able
20 assert something similar existing herethere
ono different charities formed benefit men, and she
vast majority Of these relate TO the body It's ailments
Including among them the aged, the helpless, the nfrm
the incurable. the orphan, and the widow.
with one department OF Christian pnlanthropy-that
~ aid TO the orphans OF respectable parentage-I am
pcrhaps from official position have held for the last
6 wears as Honorary Secretary the Asylum Tor Father
Iess Children at Reedham, London, familiar
than many here select eight or the oldest and best
known orphanages, five OF which are IN London
and offer the following statistics with reference TO them
- Reed from
Children the public
% nus '' ...,.,........... 5000 100000
tn nrnhan Working school ............. 1000 100000
IT, Ia5p5on Crnhan OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 31O5 635OOO
ss WsnstaaI inlnt Asylum ............. 5000 5l2OOO
Is lum for Psheress Chldren Reedham... 500 100000
The S,o S5S, rosg gave sly 300 l525Oo
'ha y, on. onJsr q cost o. 26O 900
A. an Illustration OF what the philanthropy in the
heart Of one man. and he "a Christian minister,
complsh let me call special attention TO the five
institutions founded by the late Dr. Andrew Reed OF Lon