The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1920-06-24

are in absolute need. As long as
Christianity holds sway in the lives
Of men there will be that desire to
help, that courage to dare to fight for
the weak, that sympathy that will
renew the strength Of the fallen. A
spirit Of loving kindness should fiji
the heart Of every Christian. Love
invites its own response; service in
spires service so the work Of charity
IS ushered on.
All charity is worthy-it may be
that the helpless are unworthy of the
help given,i may be that the sick
are unworthy Of care but still the
Charity of the heart" is worth some
thing.
The charity that can reach and help
the greatest number of people is or
gained charity Sometimes charity
creates the very conditions it is sun
posed to cure Benefits TO be obtain-
ed for nothing produce ac rop Of ap-
plieants greedy to obtain an unearned
share of the provisions made for the
poor.
In olden times beggars and deform-
ed people were to be seen everywhere.
Today by regulated system Of state
and city charity such pople are mer-
eifully taken care of.
The first movement toward organ
lied charity in the United States was
begun in Boston in 1859 There are
many degrees Of poverty. In many
Of our large cities money is appro-
priated to pay officials who take care
Of the poor and those who are depend
ent. Assistance is given to aged per-
sons, to little children, to cripples who
cannot support themselves and to the
chronic sick and diseased, who have
no one to care for them. All such
cases are placed in institutions or
asylums or hospitals.
There are many people who need
temporary aid. Sometimes misfor-
tunes suddenly reduces people in cir
cumstances. The bread winner of
family becomes helpless. Sometimes
help in a family becomes necessary,
food, fuel, and clothing NAV be need
ed for a season,
Often through advice and help work
can be procured for the fit members
of the family, this is true charity,
helping a fellow-being to help himself
Charity Organization is simply a
distance recognition Of the facts that
real misfortune as rule is but tenn
porary One great thing that organ
ized charity does is to help people who
are looking for employment. Often
there are boys and girls that come to
a city without money or friends. Then
these charities prove themselves wor-
thy by looking after them until they
have found employment. Another
great thing done by these charities is
helping the little children of the poor
in our large cities. II is charity that
sends the nurses down into those
crowded tenement houses and shows
the poor mothers how to care for their
little ones; its the same charity that
furnishes milk for those babies and
sends both mother and children to the
country for a few days. If it were
not for our worthy charities many
thousands Of little children would die.
These children by the help Of chari-
ties will grow to be useful men and
women.
Charity does her best TO give homes
and educations to the helpless orphans
The old ministers who have lived for
others, the soldiers who have fought
for their country, and many other old
and unfortunate people arc made
comfortable and happy in their old
days by the generous charity of our
worthy people.
There are charity hospitals IN our
large cities where poor people can go
for help when they are sick, they get
the best Of treatment and caro- The
insane asylums are all kept up by
charity, there the poor get the same
treatment as the rich; all these char
tiles are worthy.
It's the love Of God and man that
makes people charitable.
VERNON G. HARTWIG, Jr.