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 CARD FROM THE MANAGEMENT.
 Near the close of each month of the year that has passed since the donation visit at the New Haven orphan asylum in October, 1883, lists of donations have been carefully pre- pared for the daily papers and given by them | to the public. The same has been done in | many previous years. One in reading these | will notice that not money alone is acknowl- | edged but miscellaneous. articles of every | sort This steady supply of small things, 1 useful in themselves, keeps awake lively gratitude in the minds of those who re- ceive and yields that moral support which workers in large charity ever need. We will not hide from ourselves or the public that our working power is immensely pro noted by release from pecuniary anxiety. This the gentlemen of the soliciting commit tee largely do for us Their well organized plan of collection furnishes channel through which all can send their contribu- tions. The severe storm of last week on the day appointed for the donation visit inter fered with the collections and prevented many from coming to the asylum. We thank the committee for laying aside other interests and giving their time to this work. We thank those who gave through them and those who came to encourage us with their presence and their gifts. We were glad to show the school building and the alterations in the house which enable us to somewhat enlarge our work, and tend to greatly increase the com fort and health of the family. These ad- vantages would be less noticed by visitors than the increased facilities for seeing the children and hearing their exercises In be- half of the board of managers.
 ELIZA K. WINNING,
 Nov. 6, 1884. Recording Secretary.
 AT MARQUAND CHAPEL.
  ssThe Relations of the Pastor To the
 Training of the Young.''
 This was the subject of 8 lecture delivered yesterday in Marquand chapel by Rev. A. L. Chesebrough The speaker began. by a ref erence to an expression obtained by Mr. Jos eph Cook from his Fremont Temple audi ence, showing that of the Christians gath cred there nearly all had been converted in revivals.
 To the speakers mind this was 8 cause of sadness. Gan all that has been done and hoped for in Christian houses show only so poor result?
 Our Lords statement, Except ye be converted and become as little children ye cannot enter the kingdom of heaven' shows that adults in their complaeeney are not the standards of Christian character. This teaching does not imply that the sim plicity of childhood is piety, but that it is the germ of it and should be developed. Adults must be converted in order that they may start with the children.
 When the children were brought to Jesus he in full knowledge of the construction that would be put upon his words, said: "Suffer the little children x for to such be- longeth the kingdom of heavenn (reading of American revisers.) Children are, in sense, native born citizens of this kingdom, though this does not mean that they are free from taint of inherited sim In the early church a household obligation was rec ognized.
 Lydia and her household were baptized, so of the Philppian jailer and of Stephanus Paul, in his epistles, addressed children and spoke of their training.
 In the confirmation ceremonies of the Ro- man Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran churches we see traces of the beautiful, primitive reality of church work for the young.
 Children afford for pastoral work a field at once the most attractive and most promis- ing. Children will talk without the restraint of shyness or the insensibility of habitual resistance. There are also in children's lives special reasons of interest in religion.
 The buds of early piety would come to fruit if not broken off by some rude force. Compare the eager interest shown in my children's training class with the indiffer- ence of many of my hearers in the Sabbath \ service. Again, with the appearance of a group of rough, vulgar and obscene chil- | dren of rundown Yankee families, descend ants from original Puritan stock, but de generated through lack of Christian home nurture. We certainly need a form of Chris ! tianity that shall take hold of this matter. ! So long as children are allowed to grow ] up in sin to be converted in reyivals so long will there remain on hand mass of hard 1 ened material which will not yield to our ! efforts.
 There is perhaps for the present too much outside influence and allurement to sin to | hope that in every case proper home train | ing will be effectual. But in this plan lies { the hope and power of the church. Let home influence be enlarged, the Sun l day schools do all they can, and to all this I let the pastor superadd his influence, his I instruction and his care. Many converts are l the product of early Christian influence in I whom the spiritual life is quickened and brought out by reyivals
 Rev. MT. Chesebrough will lecture again on Thursday of next week at o'clock in Mar | quand chapel