The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-12-10
Homes for the Homeless Chill.
dreB-Che Children's Home
of Cincinnati.

nreu-Ine ChfIOren'S Home
of Cincinnati.
The Superintendent of The Chill
DREN's HOME of Cincinnati, Mr.. w.
I. Haydock, called upon us a few
days since, ard informed us that he
is expecting to bring company of
children into this part of the country,
in order to find suitable homes for
them.
He will hold meeting at the Mt.
Zion Reform Church, five miles west
of Hillsboro, on Sunday, Dec. Is, at
one o'clock P. NJ. where he will speak
more fully than we are able to do,
of the work which is being carried on
by the institution, of which he is the
chief manager.
AS we understand it is the object
of the CHILDREN's HOME to rescue
neglected and homeless children,
provide for their necessities, and
transfer them to country homes as
soon as such disposition can be suit
ably made of them.
These children are required to be
surrendered fully and legally to The
HOME, which is an Incorporated body,
either by their parents, guardians, or
some competent authority, so that
the institution acquires full control
of them, and has the same power to
dispose of them that a parent has
under the common law. Persons who
receive them from The HOME, are
expected to sign an agreement, by
which they pledge themselves to
care for the children in all respects
in reasonable manner, and to pay
to girl $3.50 and to boy $3.50 up
on their becoming of age-provided
they remain steadily at their homes,
and prove to be dutiful and obedient.
The CHILDREN's HOME is supported
entirely by voluntary contributions
and has no endowment fund, or any
State or municipal assistance what
ever. It is one of the well organized
benevolent institutions, which has
been established and is maintained
wholly by private philanthropy, and
there can be no more question of it's
utility, than of the noble spirit in
which plan of its work was conceived
and is executed.
It has been in operation little
less than ten years, and about SEVEN
HUNDRED CHILDREN have, through its
instrumentality, been transferred
from condition of pauperism, and
distress and vice, to comfortable
Christian homes.
Who can estimate the good which
has thus been accomplished? Boys
and girls saved from vagrancy, want,
and suffering, vice of every descrip-
ton, and what is more than all to be
feared-confrmed habits of pauper-
ism, the fruitful soil in which all nox-
ious weeds of human nature grow
and thrive.
But besides these, hundreds of poor
sufferers have received temporary shell
ter and care. Nearly two thousand
children in all have been the recipi-
ents of the benevolence, which has
been provided at The CH1LDREN's
HOME.
But we need not attempt to tell
the whole story-we could not if we
should try. Our advice to our read
ers is, to go and hear Mr.. Haydock,
who knows all about it. To those
who can do so we would say: You
cannot do a more Christ-like deed
than to open your homes to receive
one of these waits, for the care and
training of whom there is peculiar
reward in store for you.
The HOME publishes monthly pa
per called "IHe Chiz0zren's Home
Record" the subscription price o.
which is so cts. per year. We should
think thatit ought to have very large
circulation. Address The Children
Home, 1S0W. 3rd st. Cincinnati, o.