The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-06-29
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY
OF ASSOCIATED CHARITIES

The work of the Charities is set out with dis
tncness in the following submitted the
ing:
To worthy manager falls the task OF telling YOU of
our home work. of the lights and shades of local
to relieve the poverty and suffering in of unusual
qlf TONS involving many pePlexng problems
deavor to give you glance at the grand work which
being done through Charity Organization in the great land
to which we belong.
is only now about thrty-four years since the first
society OF this kind established in London Eight years
later in 1877 Buffalo followed by Philadelphia
accepted nethod Tor meeting the great problems OF poverty
restitution and crime The natural instinct help those in
relief the suffering afflicted
1t is the nobest aspect of humanity kindness
divine impulse which brought the
upt humanity that through his poverty might be rich
possession OF this instinct prompting us to help those in
brute The thorough and practical study the best
present generation That great problems
day who reads the literature debit
Nor doubt that the study is undertaken with
aruistic motiveno find how give the least but
best to give the charity which willing and glad
AS illustration of agreed upon
convention held Atlanta Georgia. the National
Conference OF Charities and Correction lasting week.
have meeting enthusiasm for
great work Delegates came from all the states and
learned read treating almost topic
relating to charitable and PhIantIopc work The opening
full OF interest He said of the object
will notice by our program that this conference OF
nomenclature for while deal with prisons and reform
it is only from the point of of charity
their unfortunate inmates With the detection of
with that of the criminal which
and tooth for tooth this conference has nothing
to do Not respecting their reclamation That is
work of love Therefore this conference of charity and
of charity its original and senseove for fellow
expressed in action
This sentiment have been the keynote the
whole conference in which such subjects the following
treated in carefully prepared papers "Vagrancy,
individual Migrants The Defective Treatment of the
Criminal, Reformation of the Offender, Public Depend
ents But the of interest in all similar gather
ings work for the chdrenespecialy reference
Child Labor" and Destitute and Neglected Children.
paper upon the latter topic said This the chdrens age
No better history be written of mans growth wisdom
than of the thought and learning regard
child life This nation has deal with social question
so important and the individual with vital The
of the child affects the solution of all other social
problems
the conference the Sunday of the convention from
the text and they to Jesus and him that
possessed of devil and had the legion sitting and clothed
and in his right mind SIS. DR.. Parkhurs closed
the discourse with the following sentiment Darwnism
teaches the doctrine of the survival of the ttes which
the scientific formula for Devil take the hindermost Christ
steps forward, relieves the devil and says will take the
He always the under dog That is the genius
of Christianity far the matter of humanitarian effort
concerned Christ reached down and pulled up the
that the bottom In his scheme of regard and help
fitness there exceptions He about the only
Christian that lived that not fastidious.
MARY S. WHITNEY