The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-08
CHILDREN,s HOME.

The entertainment given tonight and
,o.morrow,night, at lll7 Main street
,,r the benefit of the Children's Home,
under the supervision of the lady man.
s,ers of ths. institution, deserve the pa.
,ronsge of our citizens. We are aware
Of the fact that there is kind of senti-
mental benevolsnce prevailing, which is
.lways longing to do. some charity. but
il. usefulness is arrested, if not entirely
.mpeded, by lot of ianciiul notions
which the would-be benevolent individ-
uals cherish for their own sskes. There
is nothing, however, connected with this
charitable institution suggestive OF
sny such false sentimeut but
il is based upon principle
of true charity. That class of persons
who are afflicted with what We are
pleased 70 term sentimental benevolence,
will 20 into courts before whom poor
inen and women are begging to be COM
mit,ed IS psapers, and yet their pocket
books remain closed because they do not
see Interesting objec,s of charity, or some
attractive face, and will 60 away neglect.
ing to contribute 10 the wants of some
wretchrd mother whose every lneament
snd every rag of C, vering is eloquent of
woe; or if they visit asylums with view
OF adopting sn orphan child, they de-
msnd .ome one with grsces and vir-
taes Aot expected to be found this side
Of heaven. The would be philsnthro-
phist mistakes the true nature OF charity
when he lets women and children suffer
because the head OF the family
nav be q drunken brute, TO neglect
shivering children because they carry
dirty faces and outrage grammatical
rules, or to permit a starving man to
suffer because his face Is unshsved or his
gsi. Is shsmbling. True charity Is as it
was understood and administered in
Judea nineteen hundred years ago; the
hungry were fed because their stomschs
were empty, not because they were
pleasant to look upon; the sick were
healed because they needed to be made
well, even if their malsdies were self
inflicted; the prisoner was visited be-
Cause he was in jail, even If there was
no extenusting circumstances in
hi: villsiny. 1t is with q proper
understanding Of this true charity
that this benevolent institution, the
Children's Home, has been established
IN this city, and those who have the
money and the charitable impulse will
hnd = work to do here to relieve at least
one depressing feature of the prevailing
distress among the poor. The children
congregsted here are little waits picked
up IRON the great sea Of poverty, and,
Under proper culture, are grown into
Useful members of society. They are
children OF destitute parents as well as
those WHO have been left orphans and
aapfovided for. II left 10 themselves
Without either mental, moral or physical
strength to grapple with life and its cares
and responsibilities, they would utterly
perish in the battle, or drift into cur
fent Of evil leading ultimately to worse
'a'e than if they had died from sheer
poverty in childhood. -
A number of our charitable people
" iheir own credit as well Is to the
credit OF the city, have established this
'nlldren's Home for the purpose Of res
'4ihg these little outcasts, and the sue
ess which has already attended their ef-
'0rs Is the most gratifying evidence of
'le go0d they are TO do. Being public
'nAfiIy as q matter of course the public is
relied on 10 support it, and the mana.
gers nave from time to time given public
e''ainmsnts for the double purpose of
''hg 10 their revenues to further the
a work, and of giving the public an
ppO''anity to see what work they have
''mp mplished. We therefore confidently
pPeA' 70 the liberal citi1sns of Whssl-
IN 0snalt Of the Home, knowing that
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