Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27

art, or on picturesque scenes in the holy
land
There is really no lack of philanthropy
in the church or the world. There is
enough of it to make our whole people
better and happier if it was only directed
Alright. Most people engaged in such
work, however, dislike to adopt the COM
mon means of doing good They enjoy
the distinction which membership in
some society with high-sounding name
gives them. The society for the propa-
CATION of knowledge of medieval art in
the lower walks of life, or the society
for the encouragement and development OF
@stheticism among the lowly, or the
national association for the dissemina-
ton of science among the poor-the longer
the title the better-have each many pat
rons among the sick and fashionable, and
large sums are expended annually in
pursuit of the objects for which they are
founded, while really practical charities
are languishing and dying for want of
proper support. Ethics supersede the
necessaries of life; science dwarfs into
insignificance instruction in the practical
duties of every day life; vain desire to
promote art where cleanliness is most
needed courts failure for much we'll
meaning philanthropy
Art, science, metaphysics, ethics and
Mrs. Jellybyism generally may be well
enough in their way. All the art treas.
ures in the world, however, cannot STOP
the cravings of an empty stomach, no1
can hundred lectures on science OF
ethics supply the place of soap and water
A few hours each week spent in a poor
family teaching the wife and mother how
| to make proper use of the few conven-
fences she possesses-how to keep he,
children clean and well behaved and
make her little home attractive-will cost
but little either IN money or effort, and
will result in more genuine pleasure and
lasting benefit than score of treatises
that emanate so plenteously from
our philanthropic societies. A boy
taken from the streets where
he wanders in idleness, and instructed in
some useful occupation, will grow to
manhood with honorable aspirations and
in time may become a patron of that
which is ornamental as well as a worker
for that which is useful 1t should be the
mission of true philanthropy to teach
people to help themselves-to be indie
pendent, self-reliant and industrious.
When this is accomplished there will be
little real suffering and misery to ALE
viate, few INDECENT people to care for.
There is ample room at home for al
the charity that the churches are inclined
to undertake, and the results of the work
will be commensurate not alone to the
zeal but to the practically of the effort
Things must be taken as we find them
Sermons are thrown away upon empty
stomachs; art is out of place in a house
Of filth. Fashionable philanthropy
always has and always will be failure
and if those engaged in it are as anxiou.
to do good as they pretend to be-are mo-
wholly absorbed in the effort to be known
to the world as -benefactors whether they
are so or not-they should abandon al
their societies with polysyllabic titles
and seek to make their influences fell
where it is needed. When this course il
done there will be less complaint of unre.
Quilted labor, less moaning over the per.
versity of those who need but will not be
helped, and happier and more philan.
thropic set of philanthropists.