The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-07-24
TENNESSEE GILL
DkEN'S HOME
Rev. ]. NJ. Jordan, Secretary, in
Columbia TO Solicit FUNDS for
The Institution.

Rev. j. NJ. Jordan, Secretary Of the
Tennessee ChildreE's Home Society,
which is located at Nashville, is in CO.
lumbis and will be here for the next
two days. Mr.. Jordan is canvassIng the
State for the purpose Of raising a fund,
with which il is hoped to put the Chill
dren's Home on a basis where it will
have all the money it needs for operat
ing expenses.
All charity is praiseworthy, but il
there be one that is worthier than
another it is the noble charity of finding
homes for cast off aud neglected chill
dren. This noble work was begun in
Nashville twenty seven years ago by
Judge John G.. Ferris, and since that
time homes have been found for over
4, 500 homeless and friendless children.
The home is no great, beautiful, costly
building erected by millionaire or
come very rich person, with big
endowment fund to sustain it. 1t
is simple building rented by Judge
Ferris for the purpose, not as
stately as some of the great char
itible institutions built by secret orders
or rich men, but it is just as neat and
comfortable. 1t is not supported by the
state or any society. 1t lives only on the
charities of the world, depending on the
noble work that is being done there i'm
pressing the people with the necessity
of keeping it going.
Judge Ferris is not rich man, and
often times the home has suffered for
lack of finances, but it has managed to
live.
1t is but recently that the people of
Tennessee have begun to awake to the
great and indispensable work the home
is doing, and there has sprung up a
strong demand that something should
be done to sustain it.. The last legisla-
ture, 1t was hoped, would make an APP
preparation for it, but il didn't; then
the county courts of the state were
appealed to and they responded to some
extent. but still the receipts of the
home barely equals the expenses and
frequently they do not do that. And the
home is growing all the time. Since
the month of January, for instance,
over 200 children have been found
homes.
The friends of the institution have
now formulated plan by which it is be-
lieved the home can be put beyond the
scarcity of funds. 1t is this: to sell GER
tifcates of membership to the home to
all who are willing to donate 70 it. Any
one can donate whatever they like for
five years and become life member and
can have child placed to their credit
in the home. Mr.. Jordan is in Column
bia to solicit donations, and will be here
for the next two days. Everyone that
is able should take membership card
and help this great charity to a condi
ton of financial stability. 1t is work
which deserves help from every citizen
of Tennessee, high or low. rich or poor.
What shall we do with the homeless and
abandoned children Of our State? The
future of our citizenship is bound up in
the answer.
There are no sinecures attached to
the home IN the way OF salaries. Judge
Ferris. the founder, is president, and
gets not a dollar out of it. On the other
hand he has gone down in his own pock-
ct nearly every month for q years to
keep the home gong. Rev Jordan, the
Secretary,is superannuated Methodist
preacher, and does not get dollar out
of the home. These noble men have de-
voted their time and money to this
institution and have never gotten any
sort of larry reward. Nor do they
want or ask it..
So when Rev. Jordan calls upon you,
try to help this great cause.