Kansas Children's Home Finder from Topeka, Kansas • 4

JHE Kansas Children's Borne Finder. taking children from state institutions; a committee also appointed to report on a basis of salary for District Superintendents instead of a percentage, as heretofore. The annual meeting was also arranged for. A fair attendance was present and a good interest mani- fested. 1 Over 8,000 placed In Good Homes.

I WANT TO GO HOflE. ence over us all. But suppose that this little one in question, crying out there in the street, had had no home to go to; the spectacle would have been a hundred times sadder. The cry of the homeless child for a home is the Maddest and most heart touching, and at the same time the most frequent spectacle met by the worker in the Childrens Home Society. With more than a thousand of such homeless children in Kansas crying day and night.

want to go home, and standing face face with the fact almost every day of year, is it any wonder that we sometimes urge upon the Christian public the of these little ones with a zeal not fully tempered with prudence. If our readers or hearers could only see and hear what is constantly before our eyes, ringing in our ears, they would never think of charging us with being over zealous or carried away by a single idea. the writer of the above article could feelingly and tenderly say, there was much meaning in the cry of the little child, weeping on the street, so much humanity, so much of nature-what might our workers say of the cry of the hundreds of homeless children, I want go home, when there is no home to go to. Hunger, cold, rain, and darkness only intensifies the bitterness of that cry and multiplies the obligations which we all owe to these unfortunate little 0, Christian people you who OTIC. Help a Child to find a Home.

WboFO shall Tecehe ere such little child in my name receiveth me. Math, xviii.5. Published' Monthly by The Kansas Childrens Home Society '621 Kansas Topeka, Rev. O. Editor and Manager.

TERMS: 25 cents per annum reEntered at the Post-office at Topeka, as second-class matter, the 15th day of March, 1898 RATES OF ADVERTISING: One inch three months $5 One inch six months JfJ One fourth column three months One fourth column six months 5-5 The other day there was a little, fat-faced, chubby-fisted fellow, of about five years old, on the street in front of Ken-nett, Matson Scotts store, crying for dear life. He was evidently lost and when Judge Sturges, who happened along then, took an interest in him and asked: What is the matter allthelit-tle fellow would say was: I want to go home, which he repeated over and over again. It seemed odd at first, to hear the little fellow so distressfully crying for the home that, very likely, was not so far away, but it meant, 0 so very much to him. And there is no great difference after all between the little child and every other gradation of age in the humhn family. When the hour of childhood trouble comes the child wants to go home.

When dissapointment comes to the young man or woman their first thoughts are of mother and home. When sickness or distress befall the father in some distant state or land his first thought is of home and a desire to be taken to it. The soldier cares little for the privations and incidents of discomfort of the camp and field, but when wounded in body and pained at heart his first wish and last desire is: I want to go home. And when the old patriarch of four-score, who has outlived all his earthly comes to the end of his journey of disease, of distress and discontent, his last moments are made cheerful in the expression and the hope of the little child: I want to go home. The golden streets and the angelic attuned harp's would have little charm were they any thing but auxiliaries of that glorified institution of human happiness home.

There was so much meaning in the cry of the little boy we heard weeping on the streets so much of humanity, so much of nature. It is no wonder that the sweetest song of all the world is Home, Sweet Home, because in its simplicity it fathoms every heart in every land and on every sea. The crying child touched the tender chords of every heart in his one weeping expression: I want to go home. The above article, taken from The Clifton News, suggests what we have been constantly pleading for all these years, i. e.

a home for every body and every body in a home. This cry of the little lost child suggested to the writer of the above the beautiful thoughts on home and mother influ I to the care and If so so of to haye been blessed with a home of your own and who have no children to beautify and perfect the sacred domestic relation, open your hearts to the ciyr these hundreds of homeless children, desolate, shivering, starving alone; open your doors to these shelterless outcasts lives. Say to these ones, Come in and share heart and home with us. And you will hnow as never before what Jesus meant when he said, Whosoever receiveth one sueh littlechild my name receiveth me or again Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethern, ye have done it unto In the name of Him whose we me. LA1C COLORED CHILDREN.

We know of four little colored children needing homes, three boys and one girl; all under eight years and two of them about three months pld. Who wants a bright little child of color? Dont all speak at once. 0 CHANGE AT THE CENTRAL OFFICE are and whom we serve, I beseech you give to these homeless children what they need more than all else, a home and in doing this you will add to your home that which is more precious than the richest treasures of this world, the influence of child life upon your manhood Id The Childrens Home Society will gladly furnish the child to any one who will furnish the home Thousands of homes in Kansas need these little children. Friends report these needs to us and allow us to bring to your home the sweetest benediction of heaven a little child. Miss Neta Fulton is our new Corresponding Secretary at the Central Office.

Miss Moore on the 18th day of April became Mrs. A. J. and instead of presiding over the typewriter in our office, she will hereafter grace her own home in Leavenworth, Kansas. The Home Finder joins the many well-wishers, in wishing the newly wedded couple a long and happy future.

BOARD flEETING. WEDDING BELLS. The Board of managers held a meeting at the state headquarters the 3rd of April, reports were the order. A committee was appointed to confer with the State Board of Charities in relation to .0 Once more, and within less than a year the Childrens Home Society is again.