The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-10

phans' Home Who Have Gone Forth
From Her.
Knowing, my dear children, your deep
attachment Tor the Home of your child
hood and how interested you are in all
the homefolks are doing | wish to tell
you what lies nearest our hearts just
now.
Many of you know how we have often
talked about a church Of our very own.
One on the campus where all the child
rem could go without being so tired by
long walk
We thought some big-hearted servant
of the Lord would give us that church
some day but our Heavenly Father seems
to have had another plan HE SENT A
LITTLE BOY. LITTLE JOE Chose of
you who have recently visited us know
joel TO u.s. THIS LITTLE ONE TALK
ED so MUCH ABOUT BUILDING A
CHURCH WHEN HE WAS A big
NAM that we felt impressed in the pc
culiar wish of so small a child JOE
WAS A FRAGILE CHILD AND MUCH
BELOVED. He was always happy and
could sing anything IN FEBRUARY
LITTLE JOE DIED, WITHOUT SICK
NESS, so CALMLY, so SUDDENLY
THAT OUR ORPHAN HOUSEHOLD
FELT DRAWN VERY NEAR THE
SPIRIT LAND.
We felt that little Joe's wish could not
die with his body and told our friends
Of it and Immediately one and another
commenced to send gifts to the church
until now $191.6 has been received. Our
own household wanted to do something
for the erection of the church, 'collec-
ton was taken here and $205 was sub
scribed to our church. You who have
lived here and seen how bravely our
faculty makes sacrifices for the good of
the Home, will know that real sacrifice
is made to give so much and the child
rem are doing all they can, not only CIV
ing what they have but striving to earn
more to give.
You, my children, would feel aggrieved
if not given an opportunity to contribute
something to the church. No one knows
better than we that gift on your part
means sacrifice and none know better how
gladly that sacrifice will be made You
are beginning life, and all unaided, the
gift must necessarily be small. Let that
not discourage you, remember the wild
DDS mite" and our Savlour's commenda-
ton Even a penny from our own orphan
household is a peculiarly precious gift.
The superintendent was inexpressibly
touched at the results of the collection
taken among us for our church. Thought
full people must know that the amount of
s2O5. 90 could not be collected here with
out immense sacrifice on the part of
somebody. This is how 1t was-managers
ion
that can not be understood by outsiders
subscribed to this cause so near their
hearts, to the very utmost limit of their
means, some giving what it will take
them almost two months to earn. Boys
and girls with a like spirit of devotion
have pledged themselves each to give
some small amount and with Gods help
they will do it.
Raleigh, n c., March II, 1903.
To Rev. R. w. Boyd,
Barium Springs, N. c.
Edward Carver Seawell, of Raleigh,
nearly five years old, was very much i'm
pressed by the pathetic story of Little
joe in the February number of "Fa-
therless Ones and announced at once his
determination to assist in carrying out
Little Joe's" idea Of church with a
perch.
Next day he requested his aunt to
make him some sugar candy. He then en-
gagged the service of his three year old
sister and another ''chum" who is about
a year older than he, and he and they
went around to the neighbors and sold all
the candy the proceeds amounting to
one dollar. Some days thereafter he paid