The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-14

evangelical work, has brought 446 mem
| hers into the churches Of the Presbyte-
rian Synod. There has been twenty adj
ditions in the Brunswick field.
Rev. G. w. Robinson has received seven
members. built one church and organized
two Sunday Schools and one Christian
day school. The work in Wilkes, Surry,
Yadkin and Ashe counties.
Rev. ID. j. Currie, who aided in the
work at Chapel Hill, has received eigh-
teen members.
Rev. l.. A. McLaurin has continued
| the day school of Mitchell county, and
has had six additions.
Rev. A. X. Pool has organized one
church. built one and received twenty
FIVE members. In all, 592 members have
| been added; seven new churches organ
lied and II evangelists aided, who preach
in twenty-five counties.
THE ORPHANS HOME.
BY order of the Regents, DIR. J. Rumple,
president, made a complete and compre-
hensive report of the work of the Or
phan's Home at Barium Springs from
which | make the following extracts:
1--WE desire to call special attention to
our bi-weekly paper, Our Fatherless
Ones, published at the Home.
This paper has brought into the
treasury S20S.1S above the cost of its
publication, and the profits would have
been more than doubled had all arrears
been paid in. Cannot our ministers and
church members make a special effort to
enlarge it's circulation? Aside from its
earnings, by the news which it contains
concerning the Home, it brings our peo-
pie in touch with this important work
"Your superintendent reports the fol-
lowing expenditures:
Cash expenditures 80. 81 ,S50.43
Expenditures OF donations in
KIND 1,o4Z.zl
Products of farm, poultry yard,
Total ...... ......... $50, 492. ga
Deduct unused donations. 80. 275.SS
and clothing ........ 8,21e.7e
Average expenditures for each of
"A children .......... 43.4I
BY adding to the above expediture
of. 49,. ............. 3,216.76
Salaries OF all employees, viz. 1,764.20
We have total expenditure of$4, 9S0.96
Or an average per child of $50. 67.30
Last year the average was placed at
$1,000, on somewhat imperfect estimate
this year it is three dollars less upon
more accurate calculation. Friends and
benefactors of the institution have every
reason for confidence in its management,
seeing that it can furnish a comfortable
support, and a sound English education
to dependent and helpless children upon
so small a sum.
Encouraged by the resolution Of the
last Synod, declaring that every pro-
per effort be made to raise the necessary
funds for the erection and completion
of the Centre building sithin the next
twelve months your board of regents
have made repeated efforts by public ap-
peals by circulars, and in some instances
by personal application, to raise the funds
that were necessary to do the work.
These efforts have been only partially
successful, but sufficiently so to en-
courage the executive committee to APP
point building committee with instruc-
tons to begin the work, when FIVE thou
sand dollars should be on hand, or in
sight, with the hope that funds might
come in as they progressed to enable
them TO finish. Two requests were made
to the institution, one Of $1,000, by Mrs
Edwin G. Reade, of Raleigh, and one
Of $1,000 by Miss Jennie Johnson, Of
Charlotte. The latter of these was
promptly paid in by the executor, but the
former will not be available before some
time next year. Under the circumstances
the work has been begun, and at the
period of the writing the walls have
been carried up to the second floor. 1t
is the order of the regents that the walls
be put up and covered in with roof be-
+1N..r ~ rs in
Whether it shall be completed or not
depends upon the promtpness with which
our standing pledges are met, and. the
liberality with which certain churches
that have not yet contributed, shall re-
spond. Your board of regents do not
feel authorized to place debt upon the
institution under any circumstances. 1t
therefore remains for the generous people
of the Synod of North Carolina to say
whether the work shall go on at once to
completion, or whether the walls shall
stand as a monument Of those who began
to build and were not able to finish. The
additional accommodations which this
building would furnish. are urgently need
ed, and we hope and pray that our kind
hearted people will not hesitate to come
to the rescue at once. The board Of
regents have requested their president to
visit a few of our churches to secure the
needed funds, and Providence permitting,
he will endeavor to do SO as soon as prac-
ticahle.
LIST AND VALUE OF PROPERTY.
"The property of the Home has been
kept in good repair, and some small addi-
tons made to the outbuildings and fur
nishings The farm, orchard and grounds
generally are in an improved condition.
But the general state does not differ ma
terially from what it was last year, viz:
Ninety four acres of land. ....S 1000
Two furnished cottages .. ll,OO0
Infirmary and furnishings $3.50. 1,400
Outbuildings, cattle, etc. $1,000. 2,400
New building, expended about. 5000
Total $500. ...............S l3,OOO
'In conclusion, your board of regents,