The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-12-26
The Wrssenger.
WORK AMONG THE WAITS.

The North Carolina Children's Home
Society is doing a grand work among
tho wsifs and homeless children of the
state. but not near what it could DC
had II heartier support from o u
he state who are able to contribute 10
,ts maintenance. This joyful Christ
mas time is a fitting occasion Tor thoSe
who wish to celebrate the season py
some good deed to contribute 10 the
funds of this society which Is DOING
such noble work of rescuing children
who have no homes and no way OF Sc
curing moral training, from the ives .
If sin and degradation which lie befo re
them. if they do not receive Il heF ping
hand.
Writing of this society, Mr.. Il F1abr-
brother, editor Of Every hing, of
Greensboro. says:
Lest wear we had much to say about
the North Carolina Cnildren's Home
society. Incorporated under the laws
of North Carolina n differed from
among the best citizens of the State of
North Carolina. and managed by Mr..
William b Streeter, the duly uthor
zcd superintepd dent, and we attempted
10 impress upon those who have il in
their Christian hearts to Civ to charl-
Nv that his was an organization
'sorely in need Of funds: that 1t was
doing a great work. and that Mr..
.Streeter was the right man in the right
place. During the year just closing
many new contributions have been
-~-l~ 49, ~ot nr0n1xoh Not ono hair
Or one-tenth enough. All over the
state there are helpless human beings
neglected children-childrcn whose
Parents have deserted them: children
who have been brought int the world
from beds of Sin. children who are
cold and starVing-but no less human
beings, and Mr.. Streeter is out to a
this kind of helpless humanity-but
he needs coin to do the trick. There
are in North Carolina today hundreds
and we might safely say thousands OF
men. who, if they really understood
the grand work that this society was
doing, and had done, would cheerfuliy
and quickly make ~respOnse to any aD-
peal that it might sen out-bu the
world is too busy. it seems, to hear the
cries of the neglected Orphan-the
shivering OutcaSt.
It s too often true that charity these
days wants to walk on stills and use a
II sees q cldiICe " uIop |
something in the box when a great
church is to be built. and accordingly
It drops-hoping. perhaps. to see its
name in print. The kin Of charity
we are lust now talking about is the
kind that goes about and sees in the
Sums a helpless babe, a little tot des-
tined to lead a life of sin unless a life
line is thrown her way. This society
looks out for all the neglected waits,
and after rescuing them, after send
ing them to its general
1t isn't every Tom, Dick and Harry that
can get one of these children. Mr..
Streeter. q good judge of human ma
ture ard long experienced in this work.
must know that the home offered is
an all right home; that the child will
he cared for and SchOOled and clothed
and treated humanely. This makes
the work one worth g-g as
surance to those h yield their char1-
ties that they have not yielded in vain.
y Christian home must be FOUND or the
child remains with the society.
The officers of this society are among
the most prominent citizens in North
Carolina. and it is our hope that there
will be a more general interest mani
tested in its work than has been mani
tested I'D to this time. True. many
children have been rescued. and happy
homes found for them-but the scope
is so large that more money and more
interest would double the glorious re-
suits. IF you are interested at all in
humanity, try to think seriously of this
society and see if it is nor in your heart
to do something substantial for it
Good wishes and fine words butter no
parsnips. it hath been said. and what
q starving child needs is clothing and
fOod and a place to stay until a suita-
BILE home can be found for it. The
Children's Home society is a society OF
real charity-real humanity, and 1t
should be more literally p~atroniZed by
those who are a~bundantly able to do
so.
Mr.. Streeter. the superintendent, has
recently made a report of the work of
his society from September -. 1908,
when it began work, up to October LIST
of this year. It shows that n hundred
and seven children have been received.
At the latter date there We're eleven
at the society's headquarters. OF the
remaining ninety-six, eighty-nine had
been placed in families, four in insti-
tutions, two returned to the county
and one had died.
Can any one doubt that these chill
uren, orpIdlES anu HolheleSS Vi SUI
rounded by such conditions of poverty
and vice, will make better citizens by
being rescued by this society from the
lives that were before them and placed
in homes where they will have the ex-
ample and teaching of moral, upright
and Christian people? This is the
work this society is doing. In order
to broaden it's field of labor-to rescue
more of these unfortunate children it
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