The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1890-10-11
LEND A HELPING HAND.
Abundant Opportunities for Doing Deads
That Ennob!e the Doer.

That Ernob!e the Doer.
Men and women are coming more
and more 10 recognize that Aey
arc not living solely for them
selves. Selishness is bad; sym
pathy and desire 10 help others |
are good. Never before was there
SO much charity shown to the |
SICK, the needy, the friendless.
Ana yet, charity does not end !
with the bestowal Of food, cloth
ing and shelter; it has only done
part Of Its work. The world IS
full of neglected children, OF dis
coulaged men. Of women who are
heavy laden with care and sorrow,
and others whose natrially bright
minds are starved and dwarfed.
Material chatity might help some
of them, bat their greatest needs
lie often IN the direction of sym
pathy, care, intellectual st nuus
and ards to a higher life.
An Invalid may need cheer
full correspondent; there is some
one in the world who could do
her good. There may be 4 neg
lected girl OF boy u the neighhor-
hood who IS sadly in need OF cor
rect moral training, some good
woman ought TO get lhat chlld
under her Influence. There NAV
be Il man whom sickness and re-
verses have broken down; some
one should seek INN out aud put
, him on his feet again, not by Il
gratuitous gift, but by helping
him to employment or restoring
, his confidence III himself.
There may be Il wuman-ah,
there are leglons Of women, who
bravely struggle on under power
ty, sickness aud sorrow, who need
i sympathy and encouragement ant
. way to earn something viii
which to improve the condition o
G their families. Who VIII hell
: them? They are all around 30,
i you will not need 10 look far
= VIII YOU let them do your plail
!. sewing, or bake your bread or d
your weekly cleaulng -somethlni
J. Tor which you can pay them? Ol
r If their minds are starving, wll
= you give them some Of your book
lie and papers, with the injunction {
n pass them on when they have don
: with them?
,e We know personally of poc
ii family who owned not more tina
+. two or three books. An ager
a came around and offered th
a mother, at low price, a sma
r work on civil government whe
10 she earnestly desired 70 posse
- for the sake Of instruc;ing he
ne growing boys. She had 90 money
nj but, much against the wishes
,e the father, who did not think suC
on things were necessary, she barte
a. cd some domestic product for Il
b. coveted volume. As she sat dow
MI and turned it's pages lovingly, al
Ia found there just the informatlc
IL Of which she felt herself so urgcn
- ly in need, 10 order to be an iutc
ID ligent instructor for her chlldrr
ffs her emotions overcame her aI
she wept long, influenced by Il
a privation she had undergone al
,ill the present JOY Of possessing Z
his coveted treasure.
his And that one book proved
iss very great help in the rearing
~ her sons and daughters to ar
M telligcnt manhood aud woma
~ hood. This instance IS only
4 single Que in thousand. The
nj are others who experience thu
ale for wider knowledge, soul hu
of ger that is pitiful, and win
a many. even though poor lu Z
worlds goods, could easily
III. lleve, if they would. This IS
of phase Of charity in which prol
tv who have not money can he
is There are many highly cducat
~ ladies who could not bestow ain
lies but who might gather together
sen class of women hungry for int
90 lectual things, and feed them fr'
of their rich store acquired by edu'
tho ton and travel, or who con
~ visit them and talk with TN
singly while at their work. Il
onr lanta Constitution.
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