Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-13
MOTHER KATHERINE KRAUSsLACH AND TWO OF HER CHARGES
PRAYER, CAPITAL OF THIS FIRM
DEALING IN DERELICT LIVES
By M'LISS

Ask anybody OF your acquaintance II he
Aprays Ask him quickly and unex-
pectedly. before he has time to arrange
See him squlrm. Hear him wriggle out
an: "Er, ah. well not often"
Do this frequently and you'll come to
self-suflclency In almost II not quite obso-
lete. To suppllcate anybody for anything.
IL woul5 seem, Is weak.
But ont on a farm beyond Hatboro.
206 happy children are being fed. clothed.
housed and educated all by the simple
means OF prayer. II you don't believe It
take n train out there and talk 90
Mother" Katherine Krausslach or DR..
Albert Oetinger
The Christ Home for Homeless and Desti-
tute Children is n high-soundlng institu-
tional name for one OF the most humanity
philanthropic places have ever visited. II
Is run by the machinery of faith and
prayer makes the wheels go round II is
nonsectarian
PRAYER ONLY RESOURCE
Without an endowment, without any of
the avenues OF financial resource upon
which most charitable homes call. this lit
tie farm has kept itself wonderfully alive
and growing for thirteen years by daunt-
less belief TO quote Mother" Krausslach, in
the literal truth OF the biblical words III
We abide in Me and My words abide in you.
ye shall ask what ye will and II shall be
done unto you"
When they need cake of soap out there.
or cow, or corn field, or new building.
they get down on their knees. from the
tiniest child to the oldest worker, and ask
God for II.
Then they get 1t. To the skeptic that is
strange
Thirteen years ago Katherine Rrauss-
ma tO h.
ert Garrett. OF Baltimore, and had travelled
the world over with her. felt imbued with
the desire to work for others. with no
thought OF remuneration rather than for
herself She was In Philadelphia visiting
her sister when she met Doctor Oetinger,
who at the same time entertained a similar
desire. They started a homo in the 900
block of North Fifth street for destitute
children. The personal savings OF these
two constituted the exchequer. Two chill
dren were taken in. Now there are zoe.
There were many times when the ship
rocked. Once there was not enough to eat
In the house and the children were down on
their little knees asking for food One
youngster murmured something about po-
tatoes.
Il got up from the ground" Mother"
Krausslach told me in her German ac-
cent, 'and went out in the kitchen and
put a pot OF water on the stove. What
did you do that for. motherr one Of the
olueT BHlb dHhcu oechuoc Tcpiltus
I believe that when God sees our need He
will send us the food we require We're
going TO get those potatoes"
The sublimity of such faith merits re-
ward. II got II. The potatoes and a whole
wagonload Of other foodstun were sent to
them by some neighbors out of the abund-
ance of harvest celebration they were
having. The boiling water was ready.
The children at the home are taken from
the gutter. the Juvenile Court, the Chill
dren's Aid--from anywhere. There Is little
Mary half blind and deformed In body.
Where she came from no one knows. but
she was rescued from an organ grinder
who literally owned the child and would
take her on his daily rounds. stand her up
in front OF his music box to incite the pity
which his wheezy playing did not. u.
There is Frank. half Armenian. who still
bears on his back the marks OF the hot
poker with which his unnatural mother was
wont to beat him. There Is four-months-old
John, a wee thing. whose arms are just
now beginning to lose the aspect of pepper
mint sticks. He was left on the doorsill
when he was only n few days old and,
although the home was crowded 20 the gun
wales, he just had 20 be taken In. They
hadn't prayed for an infant at that par
ticular time. their hands being full. but a
baby left on doorsill is sadly In need of
a helper came forward and offered her
services in caring for II and the baby ls
getting individual attention. Some day II
win grow up and advise all other little
babies 70 be left on doorsills because II