The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-06-08

need. Such public gift OF love aud
sympathy will prove blessing to
the community; for it will teach us
all that however grasping or envious
or jealous we may seem, when the
cry of distress comes, we stand all
alike with uncovered heads, sym
lplthizing hearts and open purses, to
do our part according to our means.
be- IL little or much.
Such a subscription, 1t was sug-
gested, should be taken up for
Mrs. Dennis and her children. And
the movement was begun by the
DAILY HERALD last Saturday,
voluntary contributions being asked
for. The subject has been kept alive
from day to day by the DAILY
HERALD. and the town people have
given literally, as the appended
list will show. But the matter is
presented for the first time to-day to
our country readers, feeling that
they should not be deprived the OPP
portunity of helping in SO good
cause. This Is the first public
subscription fund of this char
acter Columbia has ever taken up, as
far back as we can remember.
The cry Of distress is a strange
cry in Columbia, it is so rarely
heard. God has so greatly blessed
this people that even the poor are
rarely 20 poor they cannot care for
themselves. But on rare occasions
like this, when brother who was
provident, painstaking and careful,
with his face set steadfastly towards
the right, suddenly succumbs and
falls by the wayside and leaves his
wife and little ones unprovided for,
should we not as one people come to
their relief? 1t will warm the great
public heart to see the list grow
longer and longer; to see the names
of the aged and the young; little
children helping little children !;
widowed women helping the wild
owed woman; young men and young
women, turning away from the van
tiles of life to do a deed of kind
ness; strong man stopping in the
hurry of life, and good women gra-
ciously completing work SO we'll
begun. If it can become general
what kindly feeling will pervade
the town and county; how grander
and loftier and kiudlier human
nature will seem; how much
more we will think Of ourselves and
each other. 1t is much more blessed
to give than it is to receive. TEere is
really no sweeter pleasure than the
joy of giving. Columbia has just en-
ioyed the most beautiful oc
casion and biggest success it has
ever had. Let's beat it. Let's
show our neighbors and the world
that we can excel as we'll in charity
and good works. Let's make a
notable event in the county, history.
Let's swell the more than 500
already given to $500 or more
and BUY the widow and her little
children home, and give them a
chance 10 be independent and self
sustaining.
Those who cannot give nue.
! should not refrain from Civ
, ing little. God blessed the widows
mite, and the widows mite TO the
widows fund will again receive
His blessing. Money left at the
HERALD office, will be properly ap.
piled, and list of the contributors
will be published from day to day
: in the DAILY HERALD.
The contributions SO far reported
. are as follows:
, A Brother Steward (Mr. Dem
mis- was Steward in the
First Methodist Church,. 500 OC
H. p. Figuers. Observation-Disclosures. 10 DC
F. D. Lander. ................ 500
) DR.. A. s. Page. 800
: Rev. A. Z. McFerrin. ......... 2 &c
Ed. Turner. l 0(
: Rev. Baker P. Lee ..... LOT
8 Casn. ..... OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. l.Ot
D Spence McFall ............ 10(
Charley Sharp ................. 5.O(
Casn ......... ............,.,.. w
Hardin Thomas ..........., 1.0(
w. p. Woodbridge. .......... 5.0(
J f. Lewis ............. 10(
Walter Adkisson ............ 1.0(
Moses Gross Sr. I.C,
Abbott 81 Buchanan. ...... | OF
'rhos. H. Williams. ......... U
r. &. Irvine. .................. 5.0(
J. w. Weatherly ......... 5.0t
Mrs. Will Ruttle. ........ 5Ol
DR.. A. o. Kennedy .......... l Oh
Cash. .............. 1.0t
j. M. Dedman................ Lon
n Harlan, Watkins d Evans. 2 81
A. S. James. 30
John Warfield. ........... 1.W
w. s. Fleming. .... As
Frank Swansburg ........ so
K. H. Hatcher. 90
It l. P. Padgett. 90
| Thomas Simpson. 90
H. B. Cochran. 1.0t
~ Major White. ...........
It w. J. Guest (meat card) 500. 80