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Heacock's Son, UNDERTAKER and EMBALMER ESTABLISHED 1860. No. 1313 Vine Street, Phila. Established 1844. The Journal, 1473.} PHILADELPHIA TENTH MONTH 29. 1898. A GOOD WORD EACH WEEK. XLIV. MAY those who have much of this world's goods remember they are but stewards, and what they have has been received from him who is Lord of All; we bring nothing into this world, nor can we take anything out of it. From a letter signed by Sarah Hunt and Sarah Hoopes, to the members of Darby Monthly Meeting, 1863. PEACE. THERE is a peace that cometh after sorrow, A peace that lives not now in joy's excesses, But in the unerring strength the heart possesses, A peace there is in sacrifice secluded : A life subdued; from will and passion free. 'Tis not the peace that over Eden brooded, But that which triumphed in Gethsemane. -Rose Gates, in the American Friend. RICHMOND CONFERENCE PAPERS. XII. HELPFUL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN. BY BERTHA JANNEY, BALTIMORE. "Do you hear the children weeping; O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers; And that cannot stop their tears. "The young lambs are bleating in the meadows; The young birds are chirping in their nest; They are weeping in the play-time of the others, Volume LV. {Number 44. True reach and help the children, says: "It can be done only by individual effort, and by the influence of personal character in direct contact with the child, the great secret of success in all dealings with the poor." charity may sometimes mean, not the giving of alms, so much as the withholding of it. The most useful, most valuable gift we can bestow is education, which in its broad sense must include teaching the child to love God, and realize his universal Fatherhood. The fullness of the meaning of these pitiful words must come to anyone who truly enters into work for the children of the poor. We know they suffer "ere the sorrow comes with years," and we see the happiness it is to them to be a few days among the birds and flowers. Experience has taught us to expect care and sorrow with maturity; but childhood should be playtime, and we grieve that with all our efforts so little can be done for the great mass of children who throng our streets. Jacob Riis, in his book, "The Children of the Poor," in speaking of how we can most effectively In this day of the multiplication of organizations, scarcely any period of the child's life is left uncared for by some kind-hearted philanthropist. Beginning with the earliest years, we find Day Nurseries, where mothers who are obliged to work away from home to eke out the scanty living provided by the father,and sometimes because there is no father,—may leave the helpless little babies, and feel assured that they will be fed and cared for carefully. A kind matron is in charge of each nursery, with supplies of food and clothing always at hand. By this means the older children are enabled to attend school; and the girls are often spared serious physical suffering caused by lifting and carrying a heavy baby when far too small for such work. One little girl of seven or eight years, whose mother was in the hospital, and whose father was incompetent, was found the sole caretaker of three younger children—one a baby-and living amongst people from whom no help could be expected. Another little girl of about the same age had three younger children and a sister a little older, but totally blind, to care for. The mother had lately died, and the father was away from early in the morning till late at night. Mr. Riis seems to regard day nurseries as most successful helps in dealing with children. "Relief more practical," he says, "could not be devised. Sometimes a small fee, usually five cents, is charged for each baby. But this means a day's work and wages to poor mothers in dire need of both, and a good clean healthy start for the infants, much better than the tenement could give them." It is most important in this as in all departments of charitable work, where children must be dealt with, to have deeply interested and conscientious women to stand between those who give and those who receive. Matrons have been known to be cruel and mercenary, and have so dissipated the good intended and planned for the little ones under their care; but we should not condemn the system because of failure in one or two instances. When the children grow too old for the toys and games of the nursery, the Kindergarten naturally suggests itself as the place for them. Sometimes the children go from the Nursery to the Kindergarten, and back again, the matron and teacher working together for the child's good. In describing the Kindergarten, we can do no better than quote again from Mr. Riis, who has made children and their needs the study of his life: boys and girls alike learn self-government and consideration of others, and from which so much is hoped in the effort to make good citizens from most unpromising material. It is here that the Social or College Settlement does most effective work. supplies a place and interested helpers both for play and study. Classes on various subjects, including It begins at the very begin-housekeeping and sewing, drawing and music, are "Without doubt the Kindergarten is one of the longest steps forward that has been taken in the race with poverty; for in gathering in the children, it is gradually, but surely, conquering also the street with its power for mischief. ning and in the best of all ways, with the children's play. What it does counts at both ends. Very soon it makes itself felt in the street, and in what goes on there; while, by imperceptibly turning the play into work, it teaches habits of observation and industry that stick. Beyond all other considerations, beyond its now admitted function as the right beginning of all education, whether of rich or poor, its war upon the street stands as the true office of the Kindergarten. There is no theology, though there is a heap of religion in most of them. Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Theosophists, and Ethical Culturists, men of one or of various opinions, all make use of the Kindergarden as a means of reaching and saving the shipwrecked of the present. A clean face is the ticket of admission. A clean or whole frock is wisely not insisted on too firmly at the start; torn or dirty clothes are not so easily mended as a smudged face, but the Kindergarten reaches that too in the end, through the home. Once he is let in, the child is in for a general good time, that has little of school or visible discipline to frighten him. He joins in the ring for the familiar games, delighted to find the teacher knows them too, and can be "it" or his "fair lady" in her turn. He does not notice the little change the game has undergone, the Kindergarten touch here and there, that lifts it out of the mud, but the street does presently, when the new version is transferred to it, and is better for it. Order and prompt obedience are the cardinal virtues taught there, but taught in such a way as to make the lesson seem all fun and play to the child. Then he is taught to make pretty things for Papa and Mamma to keep, so reaching directly into the home, where the teacher, if she is the right kind, follows with encouragement and advice that is not lost. No door is barred against her who comes in the children's name." Here also the child is taught the first principles of patriotism. He is required to salute the flag, and sing "My Country." Who can tell how far all this may go toward making American citizens out of the many little foreigners who throng our free schools. When the child of six or seven years of age leaves the Kindergarten, he starts out in life to make his way alone. In the nursery and Kindergarten he has been guarded, cared for, helped over hard places, soothed, even petted. Now he must learn that the price of success is hard work. Sometimes only a few years of school are allowed him, in places where compulsory education laws are not enforced, and he is sent in to the store or factory, or worse, sweat shop. Just here we find most helpful the Reading Room for boys, and Neighborhood Guilds and Educational Classes for both boys and girls. These form the nucleus of the Clubs in which It carried on in connection with the Clubs; sometimes the Classes take the form of a Club, the possibility of "holding office" being an especially attractive feature. "On Sundays, with singing, talks on serious and religious subjects, in a vein the children can follow, they try to give the proceedings a Sabbath turn of which the impression may abide with them." Jane Addams, of Hull House, Chicago, writes: "The Settlement is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the Social and Industrial problems which are engendered by the modern condition of life in a great city. The resident must be content to live quietly side by side with his neighbors until they grow into a sense of relationship and mutual interest. Robert A. Woods, of Andover House, Boston, requires the same unselfish devotion in the resident, and realizes that the work is more for the future and the hope through the children. "He must be content that the generations of the future shall see his work in its true light; joining with his brother in loving emulation of what is strong and true, making him to know the weakness of the lower life, showing him in himself, all unconsciously, a version of the better life, giving the man a name to express the promise of the future and leaving him with a heavenly benediction." "So others shall Take patience, labor, to their heart and hand, From thy heart, and thy hand, and thy brave cheer, And God's grace fructify through thee to all.”' To supplement the winter work of Nursery, been most successfully carried on. Kindergarten, and Classes, Fresh Air Societies have The idea of taking poor children from the crowded city houses into country homes, which came from the heart of one man, Rev. Willard Parsons, resulted in that first summer of 1877 in a happy vacation of sixty children; but it has grown now to be a health giving agency for thousands each summer. Many of our friends know practically of the working of this charity, but if more of the sweet country homes-such real true homes as they are-could be know more of a home than the four walls of a squalid opened to welcome these little strangers, who seldom tenement, the good might not be only for the children. There are sweet loving little hearts among them, whose coming would be a blessing in any family. One kind friend has said: "They have left a rich blessing behind them and actually gave more than they received. They have touched the hearts of the people, charity. The people had read about the importance and opened the fountains of love, and sympathy, and of benevolence, had heard many sermons on the beauty of charity, but these have been quickly forgotten. The children have been an object lesson that will long live in their hearts and minds." Mr. Riis thinks that, "Not least among the blessings of the Fresh Air Work, has been the drawing closer in a common interest and sympathy of the classes that are drifting further and further apart, as wealth and poverty both increase with the growth of our great cities." Nothing could be better for the child than to be taken into a true home, really taken into the heart of the home, made one of the family for the time, and to be taught by kindly example how people live, to whom the little every-day courtesies of life are important, and who consider "Cleanliness next to Godliness." But though the kind hearts and open homes are many, the children who want and need to go, more than fill the number to be taken. The realization of the need of some plan, by which more children could be taken to one place, led to the establishment of Summer Homes in the country, but near enough to the city to make transportation easy by car or carriage. In some places they are at the seaside, in others, near large rivers, still others among the hills. At the Hollywood Home, in which a number of the members of Baltimore Yearly Meeting are interested, about thirty children are taken each week. The House is under the care of a matron with servants for the housework, but the children are cared for by the managers, who take turns of one week, living, two at a time, at the Home, and doing all things needful for the little ones. They try in every way to make the two weeks' visit of the children a happy remembrance, a real physical and moral help in their lives. It is only two weeks, but new impressions are lasting sometimes, and we cannot estimate what may be accomplished by the faithful sowing of good seed. Play is the order of the day, but helpful service is sometimes asked for, just enough to make the play more enjoyed. There are similar Homes within the limits of both New York and Philadelphia Yearly Meetings, one on Long Island, and one near Riverton, N. J. Though not under the care of the Meeting, the officers and managers of these Homes are largely members of our Society, and a great many other members help by interest and contributions. (Conclusion to follow.) For Friends' Intelligencer. INDIANA YEARLY MEETING. (Concluded from last week.) erty of others in jeopardy, and are led into doubtful paths. The hope was expressed that the saying "as honest as a Quaker" would ever be a true one. The report of the Philanthropic Committee showed that they are alive to the pressing needs everywhere manifest. We felt that much effective work had been accomplished by the dedicated ones engaged for the uplifting of humanity. In keeping with the beautiful custom of our Society, a short season of silent devotion was observed, during which all seemed to inite in the solemn supplication to God that the efforts of our President in the interest of peace and good will to man might be blessed to the furtherance of that great cause. At its close many expressions of faith in the efficacy of the silent petition were given. At 8 o'clock on Fourth-day morning, the second meeting for ministers and elders convened, which proved to be a season of spiritual refreshing. We were baptized into a feeling of nearness with the Divine, where all differences fade as fades the darkness before the noon-day sun. We went from the meeting feeling our spiritual strength renewed. We The second meeting for public worship assembled at I o'clock. The silence was broken by the words, "My sheep know my voice and follow me; a stranger they will not follow." An illustration was presented of a shepherd in a far-off country, who desired to move his sheep to another pasture. But an objectionable place lay between, over which he made many unsuccessful attempts to lead them; finally, taking a lamb in his arms he stepped over this place, and the sheep looking up saw the lamb and followed, forgetting their fear. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world." It is our duty to establish this Christ within, this Son of God as our leader. It will lead us over difficult and dangerous places unto the Father. Let us extend the same freedom to others as we desire ourselves. We grow in grace and the knowledge of the Father. know God by the evidence within, and he who has the love of God in his heart sees the evidence of God everywhere, in the leaves, the grass, the trees, and reads it upon the rocks beneath his feet. "Behold the fields are white unto the harvest and the laborers are few." We need to realize the need of more faithfulness. To the inquiry, What is truth? it was shown that there are physical truths and spiritual truths; the latter lift the soul into higher realms. We near the great fountain of Truth each day, but do not reach it until the Christ spirit enters our souls s; then we can "love our neighbor as ourselves," and not till then. He is a free man whom the Truth makes free. "Though Paul may plant and Apollos water, it is God that giveth the increase." We must enter into the closet with the Father, and he will supply our needs. supply our needs. If we endeavor to live a daily life of righteousness, we will be happy and comforted the glorious light of God. and will be lifted up, and shall also draw others unto THE searching query in regard to intoxicants brought a deep exercise over the meeting. It was queried whether it could ever be right, under any circumstances to license an evil? Which all must acknowledge in the negative. As we cannot see eye to eye, may we ever exercise that "love that suffereth long and is kind," and ever seeketh the highest good of our fellow-men. The importance of a free gospel ministry claimed our earnest thought, and it was queried whether we truly encourage this ministry if we suffer those whose lives correspond with their teaching to minister in our meetings without acknowledging their gift. We were exhorted to emulate the honest, upright life, being careful not to live The sun appears in the east every twenty-four beyond our means, for by so doing we put the prop-hours; hunger repeats itself at stated periods, and "Over and over again, no matter which way I turn, I always find in the Book of Life some lesson I have to learn." |