Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-22


watches the shiveripg creatures. and casts
about for some way to raise boom for them
and many shekels. and he goes. wise man that
he is and enlists the women in the cause, and
behold the beneficent consequences! Soirees,
concerts, festivals, raffles-all the various and
countless means by which the daughters OF Eve
have been wont to extract the cleaning dol
lar and no less precious nickel from the pockets
of the sons Of men. But the season has been
so mild and genial, there has been such low
ing, lingering OF Indian summer over the land,
that as yet there can have been no very sharp
Euffering among the poor. and 1t would appear
that the streams of sympathy are unusually
ready 20 flow. There are ct present under
way two noble charities under the patronage
Of the Protestant Episcopal Church. destined
to be lasting ornaments to the city and q credit
to rhe church. First and foremost is the
Church Home and Inflrmary now being built in
the extreme eastern end of the city, near Cave
Hill Cemetery the corner stone of which was
laid on All Saints Day. IL is 70 be built on lot
donated for the purpose by MI. John p Morton,
head of the old and well-known publishing
firm Of John P Morton & Co, which formerly,
as a still older business partnership,
was better known as the firm of Morton
q Griswold. Mr.. Morton, to his honor
be it spoken, not only gives the lot,
but out of his private fortune builds the homo
at a cost of $4,000, and also endows it. He
whatever cost 1t may be. The history OF this
charity would be interesting il it could be
heard as the donor loves to tell it, MIR. Morton
is childleSs and upwards of twenty years
ago conceived the idea of this institution.
He had not sufficient means then to commence
even on a small scale, but he laid aside fund
which, well invested, was the nucleus of the
magnificent appropriation now devoted to its
worthy end Many times through the years Of
panic and depression did it seem that the fund,
handled with so much forethought and care,
" ould dissolve into thin air. But all Obstsc' 'es
were overcome. and, at last, the grand project
is TO be realized
At the laying of the corner stone Southern
minister, Rev. David Morton, thanked God that
Southern man had founded this institution on
Southern soil with money earned in business
south of Mason's and Dixons line The pro-
jector has travelled everywhere inspecting diff
ferent institutions of the kind, and
Sfs oSservations One feature IS that
there will be no room in the building
into which the sun does not freely shine. 1t
is to be Eve stories in height with attic. the
building proper to be PAS by 157 feet and to
contain nearly three hundred rooms. The
house will be almost entirely flre-proof, all
halls, staircases, passages, etc, being abs
lutely So There will be at the front entrance
a carriage porch, so that patients may be
lifted from conveyance to a car with ru bber
covered wheels, and easily rolled over the hall
floor on to the elevator, and from there raised
to any designated floor or ROOM 1t is to he a
refuge for old and infirm men and women of
I'll creeds as well as an infirmary, in this re-
spect looking to the large Protestant patron
age bestowed upon the Catholic ln1rmary up
to this time, the only institution of the kind in
the city.
AS though this newest thing is to be fashion
in infirmaries another, the John N. Norton
memorial is to be built on Third and Oak streets,
the most elegant and fashionable section of the
city. This building, though not on quite so
large scale as the Morton Home, is TO be
quite an elaborate, expensive and beautiful
structure. 1t had its origin with the Young
Ladies Guild Of st. Paul's Church. they con-
ceiving the idea and collecting by their own
handiwork as well as their petitions, the sum
that laid the foundatinn for the larger dona-
tions that soon followed Remember this We
who despise the day of small things Their
idea was in working order long before M
Morton's project was known to the public.
The Rev. John N. Norton, assistant rector
Of Christ Church. and a minister of great
wealth. took an active interest In the project
and gave it large material assistance In the
midst of it all he died last winter, and his
widow donated their elegant Broadway resi-
dence to those who had the affair in hand, pro-
vided the inflrmary would be called by her
husbands name. This residence was found to
be too illadapted to the purpose and its value
In money was given to the fund.
What occult influences permeate the Louis
vile preachersl They seem bent on deserting
us in body for greener fields and pastures
newer. They have evidently laid their clerical
heads together and concluded among them
selves that our souls are not worth saving. or
perhaps that it is a tough task, involving too
much labor. the first to set the ball rolling
Church, and since then designations have be-
come the order OF the day Mr.. Yancey of
the Second Christian Church followed suit He
Is the minister who made fame unto himself
by initiating Talmage-frequenting forbidden
places in person that he might learn their true
inwardness and preach it up in fiery dis
courses la Falmage exceedingly. Dr. Pratt,
DIR. Stuart RobinSon's successor, deserts for
st. Louis, and Mr. Guerrant, of the First
Presby terian pastorate, also resigns Last
and most to be regretted perhaps of ALL DIR. J.
L Burrows, of the Broadway Baptist Church
sewers his connection with his charge No one
could be more sincerely missed either in his
church or outside. His beautiful old face and
hearty, CHEEKY voice have made him beloved
sight, and his popularity with all denomi-
nations attests his broad and liberal sspirit of
real Christianity. These ministers have almost
all been seiZsd with the evangelizing craze,
and pror ose to become clerical tranDs The
professional hand might give them few points
in the game such as advising them to wait for
the balmy airs OF spring and TO make sure Of
the Christmas presents and the annual pound
party before starting forth on their tramp
1t has been given Out that the work Of tear
ing down and building up, Phoenix-like, will
shortly begin on the ruins which mark the un-
Warren Memorial CHURCH, the most beautiful
temple In the city, the shattered walls of which
now lift their delicate tracery of Gothic arch
and dainty fretwork sharply against the deem
autuMn SKY. Perhaps the only portion OF the old
material available in rebuilding will be the
stone work, as the fires licked out every trace
OF inside work 1t was found that there was
an additional insurance Of sac 00O. which added
to TO- the ne original sun. will bring the fund up to
$oOOVu. SiIeiy this ought 20 rear q Inagnif-
cent ediice, aad leave the congregation out Of
debt as well. At the time Of its destruction
the church was the only one in the city not
saddled with an immense debt, eating itz life
away. and had it not been for the snunihcence
or one OF its members it tco would still he
groaning under its load. It's erection was a mis-
TaAT IN ;ns nrst place Its former pastor, Rev.
ID: ID. simpson, became thoroughly enthused
with the idea Of evangelical work sew
eral years since, when Bliss and Whit
tie, the evangelists. were drawing such i'm
mense crowds daily 80 their Bible readings and
exhorsations at the Opera House. Mr. Simp-
son worked his congregation up to building an
immense structure in the most elaborate man
ner Tor the purpose or drawing in the masses
put Ine masses never came-a costly structure
in the most exclusive and fashionable district.
with the reputation of fashionable church.
was not likely to draw them, notwithstandine
tne popularity OF the pastor. So the congre-
gatlon, who had left a handsome and commo-
dious edihce, found they had an elephant on
their hands and shrunk together in the new
tabernacle and looked lost in its immensity.
IN tne meantime Mr.. Simpsons ortho-
dox views were becoming modified
and the rumor gained ground that he was
deranged. Whenever a man steps away from
the beaten track thereis always faction ready
TO grasp bin by the coat-tafls and incarcerate
him in a lunatic asylum. He left this charge
and went to New York, and almost simulta-
neously with the destruction of his work here
comes the news Of his uniting with the Baptists
BY immersion in New York and his expulsion
from the Presbyterian body. Last summer an
elder in the Tabernacle, Mr.. L L. Warren, a
merchanE millionaire of this city, who has given
largely toward building it, and who still holds
q mortgage OF $40, 900 on the property, released
It, and the name of the church was changed in
his honor to the Warren Memorial.
Kemenyi comes few nights hence to give
grand benefit concert under the auspices Of the
Flower Mission. Last spring he was here and
the President of the Mission as well as its
founder, who has been for years and years
helpless invalid, wishing so to hear him. and
unable 20 go to him, he heard of the case vis-
tied her and performed some of his most ex-
quisite selections at her bedside. When it was
nrst meBtioned that there should be a charita- |
BILE concert here during the autumn tour he |
was broached upon the subject and wrote from |
New York to the Mission President the sweet |
est Quaintest, kindest letter, full of all sorts of
oddnesses and wonders of phraseology and ex-
preston. Joining heart and soul in the project,
like great man with an overhowing child
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