Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-11-10
HOMES FOR
THE HOMELESS
North Carolina Orphan Association
Makes Annual Appeal for Thanks
giving Contributions Nor Support
of Orphanages of State

one such little child in my name
receiveth me-"
This from the lips of the Man of
Galilee has been handed down
through twenty centuries and its
significance will be recognized until
the declaration shall emanate from
the portals of heaven that time shall
be no longer. 1t is clarion call to
the aid and protection of innocent
childhood, and the North Carolina
Orphan Association pleads the cause
of children bereft of parental care
and the tender sympathy of a moth
er's love.
The association again calls upon
every man and woman in the state
to contribute on or near Thanksgiv-
ing Day at least one days income to
the orphanage of his or her choice.
For dozen years a similar appeal
has annually been made and the gen
erous gifts to the twenty-five or
phanages listed hereafter have re-
vealed the tender and practical
sympathy which our people feel to-
ward the thousands of fatherless
children who are being trained in
them for citizenship and the King
dom. May the gifts of the approach
ing Thanksgiving show a greatly in
creased interest in this worthy cause.
Few situations in life are more
distressing than that of children
without homes. No loss seems so
great as that of parental love. Be-
reavement inflicts its stroke with
acutest anguish when it cuts all the
tender ties that bound the loving
live: of father and mother to our de-
voted heart. Other sorrows, other
losses, we, may bear with fortitude.
Otter bereavements, even, sem not
to fill our spirit with such bitter
humiliation; for they come to us in
after life, when we have somewhat
learned to bear the lessons of grief,
and when manhood or womanhOod
has brought us increased power of
endurance.
Childhood with all its ignorance of
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frailty of spirit, is overwhelmed by
tribulation of being orphaned. The
orphan, therefore, is entitled to Pc
culiar sympathy and protection. The
child bereaved of its natural guardi-
anship and left, in its innocency and
tears, to the tenderness of cold
world, becomes the very symbol of
defenseless affiiction; and as such, it
should receive the protection of ev
cry mans arm and the affection of
every woman's heart. We have seen,
perhaps, the actual exemplification
of all the suffering home pictures
We remember the dark and fearful
day of burial. We seem again to see
the child with strange fear and grief,
twining its little arms about its par
ent's neck, and covering with kisses
the cold cheeks. We think of the
passionate outburst of sorrow when
the loved form was borne away.
Then more sad even than all this,
we call to mind the long years of sor-
row, suffering and loneliness that
followed Maybe some of our own
parents were thus taken and are now
among the sainted host of Heaven.
Surely, then, we do not need to be
convinced by the cold force of argu
ment, nor won by the warmth of
glowing rhetoric, in order to induce
us to feel for the woes, and to re-
ieve the privations of the orphans in
our midst.
To this association, it is the solemn
consideration that God Himself has
made especial promises of protection
to the orphan, friends who will
"stick closer than brother" Friends
who come softly when their eyes are
wet and their hearts are heavy and
become the vehicle of mercy. Truth
and Justice, flashing from its centre
no rates of stocks or pageantry of
kings, making the circuit of the
world with help for the destitute and
honor for the lowly. If you can
estimate the value Of the life of a.
child bereft of the blessings and
comforts of home, you can begin
to realize what it means to enlist in
the movement to sewll our orphan
age treasures at Thanksgiving. If
you fail to experience pleasure and
satisfaction out of rendering the
service suggested in this appeal you
have failed to catch the inspiration
from the words of the Master, "It is
more blessed to give than to re-
ceive."
In order that more adequate
equipment and support for our or
phan homes may be provided we
make our appeal to
The prince of business to give out
of his abundance the actual or esti-
mated income of day;
The landlord and money lender to
give one days rent of his houses
and lands, or one days interest on
his money;
The professional man to give one
days earnings, specifying the day or
taking the average day;
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