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HOITE FOR ORPHAN CHILDREN. Rev. ilorrow of the Kansas Childrens Home Society Talks. perience for them. They get money from time to time and we will see that they keep up their payments.

James was not present but Lizzie brought a handful of dimes and nickels just as they had accumulated in the childrens treasure box, all amountingto one dollar, their first payment. This is training, learning by doing. This is only one thing of many that may and should be done by children in the home. Can the orphanage do as well along such lines? Is it probable that it would do as well? F. E.

Sherman. WHO DID SIN? Four waifs of the street, all equally ragged, unwashed and uncombed, stood before the. judge of a Chicago police court. They had been arrested for stealing chickens from' a market wagon. That they were tough one could never doubt, looking into their faces, and the three older ones were -promptly consigned to the boys department of the bridewell.

The youngest, though this was by no means his first acquaintance with police courts, was about 9 years old, and his honor hesitated oyer his sentence. But with the one redeeming trait of loyalty to his comrades he pleaded to be allowed to share their misfortunes: I want to go wid de bunch, jedge; it dont make no dif where dey goes; its me as wants to go wid em. Who did sin? These boys? They are simply what pre-natal influence and lifelong training in the street school has made them. Their parents? Quite possible the parents are the legitimate fruit of similar conditions, with allowance for the natural law of degeneration. Society? That is composed both of the weak and the strong, those who can help and those who can only suffer and endure.

If the helpers help themselves alone, the weak must go the wall. Who did sin? Perhaps a part of the responsibility rests upon you and I. South Western Advocate. LITTLE THINGS. Only a drop in the bucket, But every drop will tell; The bucket would soon be empty, Without the drops in the well.

Only a little penny, It was all I had to give; But, as pennies make the dollars, It may help some cause to live. A few little bits of ribbon And some toys; they were not new, But they made the sick child happy And it helped him on his way. God loveth the cheerful giver Though the gift be poor and small. What doth He think of His children, Who never gave at all? Mary Louisa Butler. modating a large number.

Orphanages are Christian institutions and have done much good when well managed, but they have not always been so well managed as they ought to bave been. Many children, varying greatly in badness, have freely associated together. Dr. Strong says, Disease, not health, is contagious. He speaks of the body, but the same law seems to operate in the spiritual world and in the realm of moral character.

If one child knows a bad thing that the others do not know, the others will probably learn it. The cottage system for such institutions seems to be considered the best. This is a long step in the direction of the position held by the Childrens Home Society. Let the cottage belong to a Christian man and his wife and let them take one or two or three or even four children if they will, not temporarily, but to train them as they would children born in their home, and you have the perfection of the Cottage System, i. e.

the Christian family home. Few homes probably do all that a home might do for the children. Most of our homes might be better than they are. The Childrens Home Society cannot get some children away from surroundings that are bad and so cannot put them in good homes. But the work of its superintendents and other yoke fellows, should help tQ make existing homes better, homes where the children of the nation are growing into the men and women of the near future.

One woman told me that she took a boy into her home who is now a soldier in the Phillipines. Probably he was one of the boys from New York brought to Kansas a few years ago, I do not now remember, but I do remember Ojs womans testimony to the benefit she received. Nothing ever took the selfishness out of me as did the presence of that boy in my home. I visited a Christian home to talk about the work and needs of the Childrens Home Society. The mother and some of the children were present and listened as I explained the work and the common form of subscriptions, the patron membership, life membership etc.

The mother said, I will talk with my husband about it tonight and tell you tomorrow what we will do, if you will call. morning the mother said, The children would like to have a part in this work and we would like to encourage them in Their desire. May a subscription be paid once in six months instead of onoe a year? Certainly. Then you may put down James and Lizzie, aged maybe ten or twelve, for fifty cents each now, and fifty cents each at the end of six months from now. And how long will they continue to do this? Five years.

It will be a valuable ex Says there are Ilore Homes for Or phan Children than there are Children--Is Organizing Local Boards to Help in the Work. From the Leavenworth Times. Rev. 0. S.

Morrow, state superintendent of the Kansas Childrens Home Society, has been in the city the past few days in the interests of the organization which he represents. He is very enthusiastic Over the work being done by the Childrens Home Society and is organizing local boards to help carry on the work of finding homes for orphan children and those whom their parents do not feel able to support. The Society bases its work upon the theory that there are more homes for orphan children in the state of Kansas than there are children for them, said Mr. Morrow and that fact is true. He continued: It is not generally believed that all the orphans in the state can be found good homes, but they can.

In the history of the society nearly 400 children have been found homes and we have had over 650 applications for children. The Society is opposed to reform schools and orphan homes, believing that they are not the proper training for children. The association is not such as to encourage the better traits of character and it is most certainly not a home life. We believe the worst boy or girl placed in a home with the proper influences thrown around it, will develope into a good citizen, where a reform school or orphans home would not benefit the child. We are constantly organizing these home boards, which are auxiliary to (he state society in all the cities of Kansas.

We not only find homes for the children but take children from parents where they petition andmake Jhe legal surrender of them to the Society. DUTIES. There are some duties which should be performed to-day, yet they will wait as patients in the ante-room of a physician. The ante-rooms of 'many souls are filled with duties that have been waiting, one two hours, another a month, a third a year; and old grave duty, leaning on his crutch says: Ah, I have waited forty years for audience, and have not yet found it! Some duties come at last, like the bailiff with his warrant, or the sheriff with his writ; they will follow you and dog your footsteps until you shall give them audience. There are some duties that can only be done to-day tomorrows duties being -those of reparation.

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