New-York tribune., 1886-07-11
THE T3JBUNES SUMMER SERMON.

a rlain statement Of facts respecting TIE
TRIBUNE Frcsh-Air Fund is requisite. during
thc last week nine parties of children have been
sent into the country and arrangements have
a,ade for distributing l,S00 little visitors
among the ho.pitabc families whose homes are
opened to them Tomorrow a party number
inc between 900 and 200 will start for Cen
tral New-Yoik. The subscriptions TO the Fund
thus far received have enabled the Manager TO
provide $500 children with railway tickets
to the county homes to which they have been
assigned. This is remarkably fine beginning
of the seasons woik and we have no reason
to complain of the generous response madc to
previous appeals. Still we must take The
TIIBrNEs open handed circle of readers into oui
confidence The treasury Is 0npty-squeezed
as dly as picnic lemon. large party has
been formed for Tuesday, and thcic Is not
money enough in reserve to put the children on
thc road Hundreds of families have invited
lis TO send little ones to their homes the enter
taineIs at a distance have never before been so
promnt and literal in their calls for children :;
and the only thing that is Lacking is the money
icoul,d for transportation expenses vast
amount of work can be done this month ami
happy, if the empty treasury can be filled nj
once and steadily repleni>hcd.
On this sulty Sunday in July many OF the
,hu chcs aie closed and metropolitan congre-
cations are scattered far and wide in the
mountains and by the sca-.lde. The news
papers have to do much OF the preaching that
is done during the dog-days, and many OF the
| clergy while not convinced that 1t Is either
| orthodox or even Christian preaching, are con-
tent TO abandon the pul it for a season. But
! thc,e i, one text from which TIE TRIBUNE
| breaches the summer through that invariably
| upcns Il wide range OF Christian sympathy III
| what is pre-emlncnty city of the very nch
and the very poor. 1t is the text which old
ScYooge fancied had familiar sound when the
| Ghost led him into Bob Ciatchl's house and
pointed Significantly to the folloln mother and
destitute children seated before the lhckeiing
fire: And He took child and set him in the
midst of thcm.r This is what TIE TRIBUNE
does season after season; it take, the small
| CYatchits of the tenement world and sets them
| in the midst of a generous circle OF readers Ill
town and country and it appeals TO every one
whose heart is touched BY the pathos Of then
10, to aid it with money OF hospitality III taking
I them out of the sttamng alleys and b>terlnH
| pavtmcnts and in setting them III the midst oi
green fields and pastures new FOR Il glad holiday
after months OF sickness, privaton, sorrow and
frequently of Starvation.
That is kind OF newspaper preaching o
which clergy Of every faith and school OF
thought must heartily approve. 1t may not b'
very eloquent or ambitious sermon for th'
times, but it is i'll any event preaching adapted
to the heated term. We have no apologies
| therefore, TO offer for frankneSs in callin!
attention to the empty plates and in solictin.
as our Sunday rivals the preachers, habltualll
do full and generous response TO the ulgcn
demands OF our special parish, the tcncmcn
world of Ncwloik ud Brooklyn. Monel
is nccdcd-a great deal Of it and at once-il
order to give the poorest of poor clildrcI
health, Ie,t and unalloyed happiness.