New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-05-19
NEED OF PERSONAL CHARITY.
ARcHDEACoN SMITHS SERMON TO THE
BALTIMORE DELEGATES
a MAss.MEErING IN THE INTEREST OF CHAM
TABLE woRK'.-AN INDUSTRIAL
SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN.
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TELEGAAPH TO The IhibtNhl
ga,timore. NAV 1s.-Many Of the delegates TO the
Conference Of Charities and Corrections 'ooA part ia
meetings held today in the churches IN ue Interest
OF prison reform and charity ORGANIZATIONS. Inns
morning the Rev. DR.. Alexander Mackay-s smith, aich-
deacon Of the Protestant Episcopal Church OF New
York. preached the conference sermon III the fFst
PRESBYTERIAN Church. Nearly all the Delegates "ore
present and the public swelled the congregation 10
oyerfowing The archdeacon took MS teAt NUN .no
raising from the dead of the shumante womahs ei'lo
BY the prophet Elisha and urged the need OF personal
sym paty In works OF charity. The charity. he said,
which consists in paving money to others 10 DO the
work fails while individual contact with the needy
masses gives them inspiration and renewed le' Inc
church has failed 10 reaci, the masses because she
relies TOO much money machinery and pald servants
to do the work. False notions Of sefrespect have
caused deep gulf between the rich and the poor
The greatest sin of the church membership Is that OF
always seeking association with the highest society
and refusing 10 seek knowledge of the lowest. To
day the slums OF London are duplicated IN New"i0rK
where children earn ten shillings week selling
matches and thousands OF women work ten ana four
teen hours daily TO shilling. licnefactors are
needed who Will not think their work ended when
they have signed check. The archleacon said his
work among the tenementhouse population Of New
York had revealed to him the necessity of personal
interest in the Door the part of church people
He closed by saying that the work Of the conference
would be in vain unless above the word Charity
written the more effective term "Love"
This afternoon a massmeetlng was held III the
Baptist Tabernacle in the interest of charity work
The speakers and their subjects the Rev. Oscar
c. Mccullough, Of indianapolis, on The Church and
Charity; Alexander Johnson, Of Indiana, on 1.-The
Rich and the Poor" Nathaniel S. Rosenau, OF Buffalo,
~ Y, on "How TO be Charitable" and Mrs jacobs.
Of Denver, COL, on "woman's Work in Charity
Colonel Edward Daniels director OF the Mount
nd sfrla which
to look after the interests Of the little ones in the
District Of Columbia and in Virginia, spoke. lie
claims that there is great field for his work down
South, where half the negro population without
the proper care and attention at home and enjoy
slight educational facilities The new society, which
only incorporated last April proposes to afford
temporary relief to mothers with children at a place
where they may obtain country air and living; to
establish model family educational colony for all
destitute children, where they be trained to self
support and good citizenship to train there both the
body and the mind OF children OF both sexes up TO
maturity, that they may be proficient in every depart
ment Of work on the farm and in the workshop. The
the Potomac River four miles below Mount Vernon
with fine soil, extensive forests and fisheries
one OF the leading women In the conference Is
Mrs. L. NJ. \. Stevens Of Portland, Nc, who has a
commission from the Governor Of State which has
no state Board OF Charities and does not think it
ought &c Rave. Though she is the president of tie
Nsino womens Christian Temperance Union She
says that the prohibition law does work at all we'll
in large cities. that is not difficult TO obtain liquor
from speak Easies7 and 1t IS easy TO get it from the
druggists.
-. Weaver Osborn. OF Fall River, prominent mcmbc-
Of the Massachusetts, delegation Is director Of the
Tewksbury AimshOusc and l}ridgewster State Farm
lie states that the bad reputation OF the former place
nrder the administration of Superintendent Marsh
when. as II was charged the skins of dead inmates
were tanned 10 make shoes for The students has
changed and the institution is known throughout
Ncw-Englsnd for the excellent humane treatment Of
is inmates
Airs: Jacobs OF Denver. Col. In submitting the re-
port OF hor State organization to the confer
one "f the great evils VIC have to contend with is
the Eastern States making Colorado the dumping
GROUNDS for cOnsumptves. We talked seriously
year or so OF establishing National hospital and
asking all the States 10 contribute TO it, support
We think out there 1t is somewhat of imposition
upon us Tor orr state to be made 20 take of all
the SICK who are unable TO provide for themselves
ana VINO perhaps nave spent their last penny to get
IN our region"
re prison reform advocates attending the
ence had big meeting TO night in the First hide
pendent Christ Church. Many members of the Prison
ers AID Society OF MARYLAND and n number Of prom
inent cltlzens interested in charity movements at
tended Addresses were made by II. F. Hatch. Of
Jackson Miss: H. r. Rrockwav. of the Elmira Re-
sormatory; General Brnkerbof. Of Ohio: T. J.
Charlton Of Plainfeld, Ind, and A. o. Wright, of
Wisconsin.