The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-01-13

wasted, and some money inevitably
misappropriated. There might be more
good done IL the charitable and benevo-
lent people of this city could be In
duced to work together
SYMPATHY WELL DIRECTED.
Charity means sympathy. You can
not do any good to anybody without
sympathy. Organization means intelli-
gence. Sympathy does not count for
much unless 1t is intelligently directed.
Charity means good Intentions. 1t Is
beautiful thing to have good Intentions.
Organization means good intentions re-
allied. That Is still better. Everybody
knows that the most uncomfortable
place to live in Is the place that Is de-
scribed as being paved with good reso-
lutions. Charity means love, and or
ganization means light. You will re-
| member i'm Westminster Abbey there is
| a memorial to Charles Kingsley. and
| another to Frederick Denison Morris:
two names that will ever be lovingly
| remembered by those engaged In works
| of benevolence; one is inscribed God
| is Love- the other. God is Light"
! believe the great success that has
attended your labors in caring for the
| homeless and the friendless is because
| In the organization of your charity you
have brought Love and Light together.
| That is Gods way Of dealing with us.
God does not simply deal with us ac-
| cording to the principles of love. He
uses great deal of intelligence, dis
| elimination and Justice about 1t. The
sun shines on the just and unjust, and
| the rain falls alike on every one pro-
miscuously; and some argue from that
| that we ought tn be as prOmiscuous in
| our charities. But you will find that
| the soil Of the man who does not culti
| ,,ip1Jc ANYTHING from 40
sun and the rain; God does provide the
! appliances but does not make the
| things grow unless we do our share.
| You have nobly done your share in
| the purely charitable institution you
have helped to build up, and l fondly
hope and trust that this year may bring
| the people of this community In fuller
sympathy with you and your work, so
that more abundant financial sup
port may be given you to increase and
| broaden your work.
No more important subject can claim
the attention of any citizen than the
proper rearing of the children of the
state. especially those who have. from
any cause. been deprived of careful ana
loving parental training. Years of ex-
pericnce have demonstrated that the
placing OF poor, unfortunate needy ana
homeless children of the state in aim
houses, surrounded by pauper influ-
ences. and knowing nothing of family
life, was one of the most prolific sources
| from whence pauperiSm and crime were
multiplied The best moral. religious,
and even physical life of a child de-
mands that it be trained in home
| where 1t may enjoy to the full the eX-
istence God has given 1t, in the way he
ordained as the best--as one OF FAM
| lily. The needs OF one of the most I'M
portant phases of charity work has
| a ,,f int
| self-sacrificing women who brought
about the organization of the Home for
the Friendless in which they have ten
derly and effectively cared for the help
less offspring of poor unfortunates. ana
trained for future useful citizenship
those who would otherwise, doubtless.
become either criminals or vagrants,
and possibly both.
WISER THAN WE KNEW.
When we remember that these res
cued ones become the parents of future
generations, and that thus the good
work done by these noble women of the
Home widens as it passes on, we are
led to feel that you are building wiser
than you know. But the good your in
stitution has been doing has not been
confined alone to caring for the home
less and destitute children. You have
cared for fiiendess and homeless wo-
men into whose life no sunshine has
ever entered, who have been left alone
and friendless. battling as best they
could against poverty and starvation
with no one to comfort, aid, or assist
them, until you gave them a home and
brought to them a peace happiness,
and cOntentmcnt in their declining
years such as their poor, lonely lives
had never known.
| Such work Is worthy the highest COM
mendation and entitled to the most lib
eral support. Unlike most societies of
this kind, you are ever watchful of the
children for whom you are finding
homes. and even after they have left
your institution you look after them to
see that they are properly cared for
and surrounded by good influences
with that solicitude which only a wo-
man knows. I'm faith and hope the
world will disagree, but all mankind S
concern is charity" j. G. Holland once
wrote: IF God and the God-like ele-
ment in woman cannot help, there is
no help"
In this crowded world she Is no longe,
quiet: age or environment does not sus-
pend her activity, neither do the
shaclsles of fashion any longer with
hold the sensible woman from advanc-
ing into any field of usefulness where
duty calls her. All her energies and
| INTUITION are calleu lortn IN tne prose
cutiOn of the work of your society
Mahomet once said. when asked what
constituted Charity: Every good act
is Charity. Removing stones and thorns
from the road is charity. Putting n
wandercr in the right patch is charity
\ mans true wealth is the good he
does in this world. When he dies, NOR
tails will ask what property has he left
behind him; but angels will inquire
| 'Whnt good lppGS hast fhOn no
fore thee"
SOME TRIVIAL DIFFERENCES.
As things now are there must be evil
in the world, hatred among men, cruelty y
and the suffering that comes of cruelty