Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-10-28

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a thing that it succeeds. Success at
tends many an enterprise that by every
other token is wrong. The blind IT,
GER succeeds in secret wrong as well
as though it had a hundred eyes for
seeing. 1t has that many for seeing
chances to spoil and destroy. A crop
of nut grass, if not a ''howling sue
cess is a success that makes farmer
and gardener howl" But the Geor-
gia Industrial Home succeeds without
injuring a good cause or embarrassing
faithful work anywhere on earth.
Recently 1 had the rare pleasure OF
going to the home with the president,
Rev. w. E. Mumford, and inspecting
both. the plant and its fruit. While
there, noting the work or matrons,'
teachers, instructors in farming and
housekeeping, viewing the poultry, the
cattle and the crops, and STUDYING
the faces, the bearing and the temper
of the reclaimed little outcasts, saw.
through eyes though often dimmed
with emotions Of gratitude to human
benefactors and of thankfulness to
Providence, that another great public
charity had found its birth and its be-
ginning! There are about fifteen or
phan homes in Georgia. Were the In
dustriaI Home Identical with the other
fifteen, 1 would hail 1t as I would the
advent Of a sixteenth angel to the
earth already blessed by fifteen other
angels. There is room, also work ana
glory for twice as many as we have at
present The other homes are for or
phan children; this is, distinctively,
for orphans whose parents are living!
The children OF dead parents can get
in here. but those of parents, worse
than dead, are especially sought after
f,,1f e fhn OfIfCQGtgt
nursery. 1t is their home. It Is an IN
dustrial institution. 1t Is a great school
for training children, mentally and
morally and physically, for the respon-
sibilities of future citizenship here and
hereafter.
The conditions OF success are appar-
ent.
Like CrumIey and Muller, Mumford
is a predestined man and worker. I've
no more doubt of his divine call 10
this undertaking than have OF How
ard Crumley's to the orphan home;
no more doubt OF either than Of Abra-
hams. He is indefatigible. wise and
tender hearted-remarkably equipped
for the call and it's difficulties. He
has heard 1t. and he is obedient to the
heavenly vision out of which 1t was
spoken for the help OF outcast child
rem.
The topography Of the location Is
striking. Streams and valleys ana
plains and a great backbone ridge,
made me exclaim, as l swept the
range of its two hundred acres OF
cleared timbered lands: 1T was Gre
ated for this very thing" II that Is
not true. then, the search for fitting
location ended in the happy discovery
of a place for childhoods homings
not only fitted in itself for that oenig-
nant service, but close enough to Ma
con, the states Central City, 10 De
easily accessible and remote enough
from It to be safe. Slightly northwest
of Vineville on a great plateau, ana
four miles deep in the safety ana
sweetness of the country, II Is doing
and 1t will continue to do, great WORK
for earth and heaven.
1t is the gospel that invites the out
cast children. but the gospel concrete
in vale and stream and plain, ana
woodland, and to it's bosom they are
rushing as they are rescued from de-
Element and misery to be fitted for
service and God.
The success Of the work is amaz-
ing. It's growth Is a surprise. Only
80 months old, it has increased from
one little cottage to i've large ones,
from three inmates to 81. Well fur
nished dining room, printing establish
ment and paper, barn, modern farming
implements, academy where the boys
are taught in the forenoon, and the
girls in the afternoon, well con-
Quoted farm, and two hundred acres
of fertile land. bring the market value
of the plant to fully $4,000. Over the
brow of the singular and singularly
beautiful hill that rises commandingly
out of the stream bounded fields, the
buildings are wisely Distributed.
IT is a home for the children, but
thew are required to make 1T theirs by
the proprietorship of service. The boys
learn the books of a grammar school
education, as do the girls, and they
are taught lessons of practical sos-1.
CARPENTRY, shoemaking, shop work,
farming, printing, etc, are taught the
bovs. while the girls learn sewing,
fitting, cutting, cooking, washing, iron
ing. neatness of dress and person. All
of them are also taught the gospel and
the principles of righteousness. The
home is entirely upsectarian and alto
gether religious in its design and man
agement.
The uplifting force that is pushing to
higher usefulness the outcasts here
they don't appear outcasts indeed, but
happy children-is explained by the
motto fronting the door that adj
mits visitors and inmates into Faith
cottage. 1--WE have faith in God and in
humanity"
Only faith in God. could have con-
ceived of the feasibility of this enter
rriza he1fnninR "a If did without a