Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-04
HOME FOR THE FR1ENDLEss.

Annual Meeting of the Board of TIan- | agers-The Finances-Need Ofa Large | Permanent Fund-Interesting Re | port by Mrs. l.. l.. Camp.
 The board of managers of the Home for | the Friendless held their eighteenth annual
 meeting yesterday afternoon in the parlors | of the Davenport church. There was very ! large attendance. The Rev. MT. Meserve | offered prayer and made few remarks. The report of Mrs. Lester Bradner, the treasurer, showed that she received during the year | s, 715.83. This included the balance, $1, ; l 300.56, in the treasury at the beginning of l the year. The subscriptions and donations I reached $1 ,46428. The largest collection | taken up in any of the city churches for the | benefit of the Home was that of Trinity, which amounted to $3O6. Center church | contributed $138. About 1925 was realized from festival held during the year. Ore of the sums paid in to the treasury was $795.- 60 for boarding inmates.
 The total expenses were $3, ,264 47. There year with of $431 46. It cost for the last twelve months $1 1899. F for household sup
 plies for the Home. The salaries amounted to $500, the cost of painting the building to $19090 and the fuel to $171.
 The report of the recording secretary, Mrs.
 L. L. Camp, was quite interesting. It was as follows: The average monthly number of inmates at the Home was thirty-one. The Home has during the year given shelter and care to seventy-fve persons, women and children Married women deserted by those {o 5 have come to the Home with their little ones asking for a home until they could find work. Mothers have brought their young children to be cared for that they might go out into the world to earn something for their sup port And, saddest of all, there has come to us another class grievously sinned against by the neglect of those responsible for their right training, young girls fallen from vir- tue, who have besought us to receive them, crying ''Save us, or we perish" To tighten the burdens of sorrow-laden women, to give them the hand of Christian sympathy, to minister to the needs most felt by them first and then to try to point them to the Christ who came to comfort the sor- rowing, to guide the erring, to seek and save the lost, has been the work of the Home for the Friendless during the time that has pass ed since God put it into the hearts of few Christian ladies to open it's doors to the many friendless girls and women of New Haven In trying to do this work the managers fully realize how little it is possible to do with our very limited means. They are obliged to re- fuse aid to many whom they would gladly re- ceive if it were in their power None so ap- peal to their sympathy as aged women, whose working days are over and who have outlived those who would naturally care for them, or who have been cast off by heartless
 children to whom they have become a bur
 den. This class, so piteously in need of care
 and comfort, they cannot receive. For, to
 properly care for them would require rooms
 and service far beyond their very limited
 means. It is out of place here to urge the
 claims of aged women upon those to
 whom God has given prosperity. Did not
 our Lord show us his estimate of this claim when in his hour of more than mortal agony
 he so tenderly commended his mother to
 the care of t he beloved discipiea
 The few old people now in the Home have been there ever since it was opened and have grown old there. These are the permanent | inmates. The rest are always changing, for ! it has always been the policy of the Home to help those women who wish to help them selves, and we do all in power to provide places for them in which they can earn an honest living.
 It is well nigh impossible to tell the whole
 story of the life at the Home. The matron,
 an earnest Christian woman, has in many
 cases won the confidence of the inmates and to her they have confided tales of sorrow and wrong which would touch the hardest heart.
 Sometimes, too, sin has been acknowledged
 and direction asked for better way of liv- ing. During the year some have found the better way and are trying to live right. At
 the request of the mothers, six little children
 have received Christian baptism.
 There came to the Home little more than
 year ago. i'll and miserable, a young woman
 who had been deserted by her husband. He
 had wronged her as only thoroughly bad
 man can wrong the woman who has cast in
 her lot with his She had become las who would not) embittered by her wrongs, and
 the early days of her stay at the Home were very trying to those whose duty it was to
 nurse and care for her, but this work was
 done with a patience born of Christian love; prayers were offered for her of which she