The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-10
RESCUED BABY WAIF
BRIGHT EYED BOY CARED FOR BY
 METHODIST WOMEN.
Evil Repute--He WiIl be Sent to, ,Orphanage at Summer

| No better sermon on the wages of sin could be heard, read. or seen, than | in the eyes of a cooing boy baby that | is being taken care of by the City Mis-
 sion Board of the Court Street Meth | odist Church at its Day Nursery on
 Monroe street.
 l The baby has no name. He will probaly never know his mothers name and stili more probably the name of l his father will never be disclosed to him. Still the baby coos and Is as happy as any baby in the most hand 1 some mansion of Montgomery. And I this baby has crib in day nursery maintained by women who have bound | themselves together in an effort to lift | the fallen.
 Several weeks ago the woman's Home
 Mission Board of the Southern Metho- | dist Church. met in Montgomery and Montgomerians heard and read with in- | terest, of the great and good work l these women are doing throughout the United States. But Montgomerians never had practical experience of the | sorrows and joys of these women ex- ago, the chance came and baby that
 was living in all its innocence. amid
 the most degraded classes of human ity was rescued by their offices. l About two weeks ago Special Officer Payne of the Montgomery police de- partment saw bright eyed baby in the lap of mother with wearied and sor-
 rowful countenance in one of Mont I gomery's most degraded dives.
 I This won't dc" thought the grizzled | policeman and he was told that from
 the City Mission Board he might re- | ceive assistance. The women of the
 board gladly informed the policeman | hat kAxs erIrr AIr | if it could be rescued.
 The policeman went to the mother | and he learned her pitifuI tale. She | is country lass about eighteen years | old. young and simple. About eight months ago. fearing the wrath of her parents she left her home in the coun- 1 try and came to Montgomery. Soon af- | ter child was born. A child was brought into the world and in the same house with the mother, lived ne- | gresses. of whom no good can be said The woman feared to return home
 to her parents with the child but | Rrasped at the suggestion that the City Mission Board would provide for the l little one. She consented to turn the l child over to the good women and | return to her country home Just as l the boy was going to be turned over l to the old policeman the mothers
 heart broke. She could not leave her nrSt born. weeping piteouSly she de- | clared that she would return to her home with the boy and throw herself l at the feet, of her parents and beg for | forgiveness for her sin for the little ones sake.
 The next day the woman left Mont gomery. With her went the child. Monday morning, Officer Payne. saw 6 familiar white baby in the arms of
 negro woman of i'll repute. He re- | cognized the child and he demanded of the woman how she came in possess sion of him. He was informed that l the mother had turned the baby over | to her at Selma to bring back to the | vile house in which he was born. Well, I guess he won't" said the | officer and he communicated with the | City Mission Board. Ja The result was yesterday afternoon at the Day Nursery on Monroe street
 while the tots. who are daily cared for there while their parents are at work, | q baby cooed in crib The baby was the child rescued by the policeman. Tn few days the boy will be sent l to the Methodist orphanage at sum merheld.