The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1908-08-22
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR
WORK IN FLORIDA

furens Home Society, is now having a
well-earned vacation during August
and September at As Maple Avenue,
Troy, n. Y. She has kindly sent US
the following. message. which as il
tells OF the Juniors special mission
cause, should interest their superin-
tendents, the older Endeavorers, Sun
DAY school teachers. and indeed all
who love children.
Grace A. Townsend,
State Press Superintendent
The superintendent of the Childrsn's
Home Society of Florida extends
heartiest greetings to the Florida
Christian Endeavor societies for the
blessed work they are doing along all
Christian lines of work, for the as
sistance they have rendered to the
Children's Home Society in their
special philanthropic work.
When different organizations are
touched by the struggles and necessi-
ties of humanity. in administering to
the needs of the unfortunate, they
should join hands and hearts in SYM
pathy and cooperation. The Chill
drens Home Society calls for sympa-
thetic hearts and willing hands, for
earnest effort in behalf of the neg
lected and homeless and suffering lit
tie children of our state.
The Children's Home Society is
working for the salvation of a most
helpless class of dependents, not only
to relieve their dwarfed and neglected
conditions, but for the shaping of the
state for tomorrow, the destiny of the
children in the cradle today. Chill
dren are the richest asset of the
state. Phillips Brooks says, ANY
thing that touches the life of children,
that deals with the beginning of life,
cannot help being hopeful. 1t is a
joy to do something that shall not
only touch the present but shall reach
forward to the future"
Our work is confined to Florida.
That there is great need for this or
ganiZation in the state has been al
ready fully demonstrated. The super
intendent has travelled in the out-of-
the-way places of the state. along the
maths of distress. The helping hand
of the Society has reached out its arm
to receive the babe thrown away by
its unnatural mother to the mercy OF
charity; the girl earning a mere pit
lance in the factory. deprived of the
first rudiments of booklearning, NOR
al and spiritual surroundings; the
street boy. hanging about saloon
doors, smoking cigarettes. and sleep
ing in empty packing-cases in dark
places about the city; the little child
has been snatched from dens of vice
and cruelty; the budding girl from
the wiles of deception. eyer thrown
out to entrap the unprotected home
less girl: the orphan family of chill
dren. fatherless and motherless: the
illegitimate child to whom we give {
chance in life, and place on plane
with other children; and children
rescued from vicious, depraved anC
incapable parents. All these classes
of children have been received int
the care and control of the Children
Home Society and are coming to u
in greater numbers than ever before
though we can only relieve a few oil
account of the poverty of our fund.
Voluntary gifts support the work
We have a few membership pledge
upon which We depend from month T.
month. and which identify the giver
with the Society. An appeal TO tn
many Christian Endeavor societies 70
a membership in this organization i
made The different memberships ar
as follows: Annual. 81 to $4: lif
membership, So a year for five years
patron membership, $50 a year for fly
years. So a membership of any Ju
nior or Young Peoples Endeavcr so
ciety in this organization is With
the reach of all. This would give tn
Society a christian Endeavor Fund.
and our work would be blessed wit
the gifts and with the prayers G
Christian workers behind the gift
Our work is permanent. non-sectarial
Christian, and we need you.
Yous for children's rights.
Cora Hawley SeatOn, State Supt.
Room 5, AStor Building, Jacksonvill