The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-03-09
TWO KINDS OF CHARITY.

One a Clergyman's; the Other a Wo-
mans.
And now abideth faith, hope. chart
ty, these three; but the greatest of
these is charity That was the text
and from it one of the best-known
ciergymen in this city preached an i'm
pressive sermon a few Sundays ago.
One of the congregation was woman
whose wealth and lineage have made
her a conspicuous figure in New York
society for years.
The burden of the preachers remarks
was the obligation resting upon persons
Of wealth to relieve the wretched con-
dition of the city's poor. The woman
was greatly impressed with the sermon,
the more so, perhaps, because she is
widow and childless, and anything she
can do for others she welcomes as a
relief to the loneliness from which no
amount of social diversion can free
her. When the service was over she
went to her home, not far from Graz
mercy Park, thinking the while of how
she might carry little more of this
worlds sunshine into some home dark
ened by privation and poverty. A few
days after that, while at a reception
which presented to society one of the
seasons debutantes, she was told of the
charitable work done on the lower east
i f,f WI
women, The character of the work
was somewhat unusual, and 1t included
teaching daughters of worthy, but poor
families on the east side to become
competent servants. On certain days
Of each week these society women went
down on the east side to the school
which they established, and there they
taught the girls to do the work of
chambermaids, housemaids and ladies'
maids. Some of the teachers there
taught even the art of cooking.
When the widow heard of the work it
appealed to her, for she is practical
woman. She decided to engage in it,,
and did so. Among the pupils who
were assigned to her was particularly
bright Hebrew girl about fifteen years
old She learned so quickly, was so
neat in her personal appearance, and of
such a pleasant disposition that the wo-
man be came greatly interested in the
child. She learned that the childs fam
lily was in pitiable condition. The
father had been unable to find work
for several months, the mother was i'll,
and the small sum of money that had
been laid by for a rainy day was ex-
hausted. Starvation stared the father,
mother and five children in the face
The wealthy widow visited the girls
home. She at once became the Lady
Bountiful, and she has virtually sup
ported the family ever since What
she did for the family became known,
after time, to her fellow workers, and
through one of them it got to the cler-
gyman whose sermon started the wild
ow on her work. He lost no time in
calling at the widows house. He told
what he had heard and then said:
Mrs -, you might much better
spend the money that it costs you to
maintain that family in idleness on
the poor of our own parish. That fam
lily is composed of Hebrews, anyway. -
The widow looked at him and then
said:
DIR. -, I'm astonished to hear such
sentiments from you-you, who preach
the universal charity of Christ. Moth
ing but Hebrew indeedi DR. -, /
have to remind you. as Disraeli said
that when youra ncestors and mine
were nothing but savages, the ances-
tors of those very Hebrews were priests
| Paforn Won y,,.,,, ~,
| other sermon on charity / would advise
you to familiarize yourself with the ex-
ample Christ set."-New York Sun.