Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-26
4 NOBLE WORK
Well Sustained-A Laboratory for Char
ity, Where a Battalion OF Charm
ing but Earnest
Wbite-Aproned Young women Labor
in the GOOd Cause of the Chris
Iian Mission.

To those who sneer at christIanity-those
who affect skepticism as to the practical re-
suits of the great law Of love taught by
Jesus and MS disciples, We commend a beau
tiful obiect-lesson, set forth so clearly that
''he who runneth NAV read" in the very
heart OF our city, for the past fortnight: An
acknowledgement business house, with
plate-glass and marble pillared front, Is
quietly taken possession of and converted, as
Is by magic, into a great laboratory Tor
charity. Wreathing ivies and fragrant flow
ers about Its portals testify that taste and
poetry are there; the array of spotless dam
ask and glittering silver aud glass upon the
rows of tables within, and faint odors of de-
licious cookery, prove that skill and order
are also there, while the kaleidoscope view
OF tasteful costumes, and the gay chatter of
voices, demonstrate that women are there I,
But the throngs of patrons who gather about
those stables day after day, and go away
smiling and satisfied, only to come again the
next and the next, because they are better
served there than is possible elsewhere. This
incontestable fact, coupled with that other
fact, that the bank account OF this unique
business firm grows every night like ack's
famous beanstalk, Is the beautiful proof OF
uuselhsh love and labor, of harmonious
"hand Joining in hand" that points it7 own
moral. Under and behind all the sparkling
surface OF this social exchange, where our
b6SI CnOlCcsI COuSESSdlty lISIG Is the
strong under current of earnest purpose and
self-sacritice, OF weary toll aud self-abnega-
ton. The barrels and bales ard boxes OF
supplies daily rolled into the common store
room by our merchants and dealers; the
hampers OF choice cookery, from scores OF
helpful households, that are borne into those
doors every morning; the white-aproned
battalions that fit up and down the
long dining-hall, or that toll unseen
in the hot recesses whence are evolved
those toothsome dinners. These are the cum
ming a!chemists who smilingly but labori-
ously offer themselves "a willing sacrifice
that His name may be honored, that His
"little ones" may be warmed and filled and
given the bread of life. O1e thought ami
mates every busy worker of that teeming
hive, and one hope nerves every weary arm,
many Of them little used to such toll. These
volunteer workers OF every christian name
and sect, and OF every age, from the white
haired great-grandmother to the nimble-
footed lass in pinafores, have Joined hands
to gather the children ia'--the children of
want and neglect in our own dear Bluff CITY
They have seen the made quacy Of the sup
plies furnished the ward visitors of the
Women Christian Association, who5c care
full ministry overspreads the whole city, and
the piteous applicants Tor home and refuge
gathered into the safe and tender shelter Of
the Mission Home until its narrow
walls can hold no more, and It's over
tasked managers are oppressed with
debts; and with full hearts, such as
they have they freely give to lift that debt
and open the doors yet wider. We under
stand that the labors OF the past two weeks
will cancel the debt of the association, with
something over for indispensable repairs.
etc. And now these workers propose making
last grand effort OF a few days more to run
galleries and porches along the southern
front of the Home building, where the little
ones may have air and exercise. How will.
ingly these mothers, and sisters, and daugh-
tiers will work, feeling that every dinner
served adds another foot to the blessed sun
shine accorded the pale babes Of misfortune,
and how heartily their efforts will be Sec
onded by the public the sequel will show.