The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-26

weak, cares for the household whil the days wages are being earned a | the shop. I watched over the sicl husband and father last winter during the weeks before he left them. No re quest for help was ever made. excep as their evident helplessness was reason enough for inquiry as to their need. Th' l house is always neat and clean. It i! always pleasant to call there. It would be still more so if there could be bet l ter supply of the comforts of life 1T that home, especially for Thanksgiving day.
 | A few blocks further on is a family of five-a mother and four children The man, who should be there to care for them, is not dead, but has deserted | them; and so one of the girls. who should be in school for two or three years longer, has to take work ir another family, and the boy of the household brings home and takes back the washings by which the mother sup ports the family, hardly able as she is since leaving the hospital, to do even much lighter work. Some one will surely wish to send them at least one good dinner this week.
 Several years ago a New Haven gir loved a young man better than she did her father, and so married against his will. She never complains that hel | husband is only able to earn small wages, or that her father, a wealthy resident of this city, never concerns himself as to their hardships in life; but in helping her husband to care for their four little boys she recently asked me to get her washtub and boiler and f1atrons, and she is now earning what she can with them. She has never ask ed for any other help. They would not think of asking for Thanksgiving din ner. But should not dinner for six be sent to them?
 Just lately young couple came to New Haven. Soon after the work to which the young man was accustomed failed and he went to work in the rail- road yard. My first acquaintance with them was call to come to their house, where he now lies helpless from an &C., cident with a broken leg. Worse than that. for the bones were wrongly set and he may be a cripple for life. Food and fuel will be scarce in that home. Of course, they cannot buy Thanks giving dinner for themselves.
 And besides these six families here mentioned, there are fifty or sixty more that might be named as especially need- ing Thanksgiving helpfulness. More over, all these six families are Gods people, or trying to be. It often seems to me that we might make it little easier for people to do so. To be sure, we are now erecting building for this very purpose. l should be very glad if some who are able to do so felt thank ful enough at this time to make a few one thousand dollar subscriptions to it. But for our present purpose of making Thanksgiving time of thankfulness tr as many as possible among our people, lesser gifts from larger number will be even more acceptable.
 To us who are in all weathers on the seems as if we were in whirlwind of sickness and Restitution, and no way out except to go down with all on board; or, if we be spared this fate, that fog wall of misery and distress is confront ing us, and no way through an open sea- But from time to time we hear calls, both from distance and also near at hand with offers of help, help, and we Thank God and take courage
 Respectfully yours,
 w. D. MOSSMAN,
 Missionary Pastor.
 New Haven, Nov 25, 1901.