The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-09

Editor Of The Tlmes-Dispatch:
Sit would Ike to make q few re-.
Wife and Taxpayer" in The Times
! Dispatch of December q, 1907.
| She says. II have long thought that
there was too much organized charity
Its effect was to encourage shiftless-
| ness and qauperize numbers who other
wise would look out for themselves and
become self-respecting and self-sus-
tanning"
1t is necessary that charity should
organize In this day of Intensive or
Eanization. for without 1t how could
charity reach out and save the lives
done in the cases of famine IN India.
China. Japan. and Russia, and In other
calamities.. as the San Francisco earth
quake? These are only sporadic cases.
thousands Of poverty-stricken in our
surely "a farmers Wife" has never
abe wn IN our cities II she
gaunt poverty in the poor sections Of
our cities. where they have little or no
chance to make living In competition
with their better fed and better dressed
fellow beings.
l have walked the streets and seen
these poverty-strfcken. hunger-bitten.
l';od-forsaken (no. Christian forsakenN
| little children upon the streets In the
dead of winter. the snow about eight
inches deep. yet these little ones were
barefooted and had not enough of rags
on their backs to hide their nakedhess.
| In many cases It Is not due to shift
| lessness, but to sickness. death of the
father or mother and In some cases Of
both father and mother.
Again. IA Farmers Wife" speaks OF
the giving OF Christmas presents TO tho
children Of conyicts as charity run
mad" Paul. In his day, was also ac-
cused OF a like madness. for preaching
Christ. We pray. God that charity may
/ only starting.
AS to the charity women Of Richmond
sending presents to the children OF the
convicts, will say they are thrown
these little ones, and naturally, cannot
| forget the children. besides there is
not that neighborhood prejudice that
surrounds the children at home. where
| they are neglected and sighted on
nearly every occasion.
Why should not charity reach out to
these forsaken and neglected little chill
dren? Did not Christ come to the
If He could reach out to. the convict
| 1t seems to me that we. His followers.
should not hesitate to hell! e! these little
come come unto Nc ana forbid them not"
! Wfe's" scriptural quotation applies to
the case at all for In jeremiah ~; TX \;
/ ", III says. III IIOSS way Viii
| tan dispensation) they shall say no
more The fathers have eaten sour
grape. and the children's teeth are set
on edge. But every one shall die for
| his own iniquity; every man that eat
eth the sour grape his teeth shall be
set on edge See also Ezekiel xviii.
"a. So. why neglect those that God
| does not condemn? !, too, am a tax
payer, but that has nothing to do with
IA Farmers Wife, does not even
give the merchants OF Richmond and
| The Times Dispatch credit for SINGER
ity for Their, part in this charity but
would make It appear that, their mo-
4 tives were sordd, PROMPTED by avarice.
A Gnd forbid that We should ever be-
grudge or envy the crumbs, that arc
swept from our tables torganzed char
/ itles) and given to these title children.
4 I Will close with a quotations:
"Now the end OF the commandment
Is charity. out of a pure heart and i
good conscience and Q faith unfeigned,
From which some having sWeryed, have
turned aside unto vain Jangling; de-
string to bs teachers Of II 9 ] W; tun-
derstanding neither what they say nor
whereof they AFFIRM" (1 Tim. 5-7)
5L Yours truly, a. F.
R Yancey Mills. Va, January 9th. ~
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