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w r The Orphans’ Friend. jnui>AY, .ITJNE 1, 1883. BOAED OF ST/^TE CHARITIES OF OHIO. SEVKN’i'Il ANNUAL.KBl'OKT. We print below an extract from the Report of the Secre tary of the Ohio Board of State Charities. The work of the J3oard is to“inve8tigate the wliole system of public char ities and correctional institu tions of the State, examine into tlie condition and man agement tliereof, especially of prisons, jails, infirmaries, public hospitals, and asy lums.” Among other chari ties, the Board considered the condition of the “Children’s Homes,’’ with reference to their general operations and their financial management. The average cost per cajiita, of the inmates of the Chil dren’s Homes is S117.33 per annum. Our own Orphan Asylum in this particular presents a very favorable contrast with the Ohio institutions. The cost of feeding, clothing and instructing the children in the Oxford Orphan Asylum is on • ly $60 a year per capita. We call special attention to this statement. We believe that ny similar institution in the country is more economically managed. Tlie report of tiie Ohio Board indicates a great deal of careful and painstaking work. Much good will follow the circulation and reading of this document. It would bo a very important advance move mont to create such a Board in North Carolina. We shall have occasion to make further references to this subject here after. But to the extract: Cir.lLUKKN’S HOMES. 'riioso iastitntions are slowly niultiplying, aud the work they have accomplished iu removing children from the miserable and degrading surroundings and asso* ciat.ioiis of our county iiilirmaries; in .siii)j)lying educational advan tage's, with social and moral train ing for t.hesc cliiUlren ; in the res cue ol' other cliildren from Llie streets or homos of poverty and vi;e; in t iding over, by temporary caie and relief, children of sick ami disabled parents, and espe cially in the accoin])lishment of tile olu^ important (md contem- plaltsl in t he organization of these homes, that of iiUicing homeless and (le.i)eMdeiit children in families; in Jill these things a great work has heeu accomplished, and cannot be t.oo highly spoken of. If all has nob been done that would seem possible, or if there are aiipareJit defects in the organ ization and management oi these homes, it sliould be remembered, that as public institutions these Homes for Children are of recent dale. Mxpiirienco thus lar has just i lied every riglitful expectation ot success, and would encourage progress, and yet there are serious liabilities involveil in tiro organi zation and management of such e.haiities,and no small danger that 1lu‘ County Home may bo so man- •aged as to become burJensome to the people without accomplishing a corresiionding beneht to the children. If they shall to any extent be come [lolitical in their organiza- lion, or iu any degree subject to partisan political iulltieiice—sjioils over whie.h unprincipled men shall wrangle in the interest ol party or for sct-lariau puiposes—tlien to such extent will the design of this organization be irustrate.d, ami t lieii' usefulness liimlered. Tlie possibility ol such a danger is al ready apparent, and cannot be too speedily or too strongly denounced. Misapprehensions of the real ob jects of those IJoincs, is another danger which it will be well to (jonsider. It was no part of the original idea that these Homes were to be come simply asylums into whicli children could be gathered for care and training, and where they were to remain until ot age suffi cient to care for themselves. There will, of course, be more or less children for whom places in fami lies may not bo found, but this number will be small if right ideas prevail and proper diligence is given to jilacing children in fami- lie as fast as good families can be found, willing to receive them, either by adoption or indenture, No child should be kept in an institution of any kind, charitable or correctional, a single day be yond the time when a good fami. ly, made acquainted with the hab its and disposition of ^nch child, «'ould be willing to take it under family protection and care. PLACING Children. While wo may insist on “put ting the children out,” it is not presumable that everybody that wants or that may be willing to take a child, is therefore a proper custodian. No public duty in volves greater responsibility, none demands greater care. Tliere are great interests at stake, public as well as private, lie wlio lightly esteems such guardianship, or who fails to con sider the sacredness of such obli gations, is unfitted for trusts so Important. Private institutions, such as the Protestant Orphan Asylum, at Cleveland, and the Protestant Or- ])han Asylum and Children’s Homo, at Cincinnati, exercise great care and accomplish great success in placing children. It may be that the dependence of these institutions upon private benevolence furnishes a needful in centive to activity in placing them; and on the other hand, when the support is derived from taxation, and can be had upon the proper warrant without farther trouble, iudiflorence to cost may result with positive harm to the child, as well as wrong to the public. If it is at all probable, as it seems to be, that for every home less child there is a childless home, the best work that can be done for the home, and for the ehild^and for the community, is to brine: the two together as speedily as possi ble. h2 did not slip all day. I’etor and John met their lame man at the gate Beautiful of the. Temple. I first met mine at the gateway of a place whore prayer is wont to be made. lie is not so lame as the alms-seeker of Je rusalem, for ho can hobble about with the help of a crutch. But he is almost as poor, although, I think, ho never asks alms. He sells a few religious newspapers, and keo{ s house for himself and his son, tho latter a lad in the employ of a business firm. The housekeeping is on a limited scale, indeed, for the lad’s wages are small, and a dollar or two a week would cover all the profits realized by selling newspapers. Sometimes I miss my friend from his place at the gateway. Last winter, the cold weather was at times too much for him, especial ly when the streets were slippery. On one very slippery day he was out and about, and unusully ac tive. So next day I asked him how he had managed to get around with so much confidence. “Oh,” said ho, “I just prayed to to God before I loft to keep me up, and I did not slip all Tliat was his secret, and one worth finding out, surely. How many of us are prone to slip along life’s dubious ways ; how soon we fall into evil! One of old, who realized this, prayed to God, “ Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my foot-steps slip not.” I'hat is a good every-day prayer, and surely if we prayed more we should bo saved many a sUp.- Jiev. H. M. Ojford, in N. Y.Oliseroer DOGS OR ORPHANS. An editor crossing the At lantic was led to moralize up on the usefulness of pet pood-: les, as without them some women would seem to have ‘nothing in this world to live for.’ A writer in the India Watchman has a few word’s o.'i V ^ .^abject. It is pretty evident that he speaks truly when he says, ‘I am not fir ing into the air.' Tn the • Deccan, a lady adopted a dog. It was her pet; she loved, caressed, and nursed it. After some years the darling dog bit her finger. A tew days of anxiety, and she showed symptoms of hy drophobia. Before the ex treme madness came on, the Lord in mercy gave her re lease in death. The broken'* heai ted' husband came to live next door to us, and long hours we spent in trying to point him to the Saviour and the Comforter. ‘Another lady tcok ana tive be,;. He grew up to be a comfort to her old age. We visited her in sickness, and saw the noble young man do ing for his kind benefactor what ten thousand of the best bred dogs could not have done. We were there when the good old body lay dressed for the grave; and tho deep love and gratitude of the rescued or phan and his young wife could not be told. We would not attempt to compare these holy heart affections with the helpless animal instinct that can only lie and die upon the grave. Which would you rath er have with you in glor> - -a dear fatherless one saved, or the remembrance that you had taken the orphan’s por tion and cast it to dog^ ‘Brother and Sister Blank tried hard to be good Method ists We knew them well, and have enjoyed their hospitality. They had no children. With more love for their brute fel low-creatures than even the most devout Hindoo ordinar ily possesses, they kept seven dogs, with myriads of fleas. Day and night, dining-room and bedroom, everywhere and all the time, dogs and fleas. Did I say we enjoyed their hospitality? I mean their hospitable intentions. Bro. Blank was an Englishman of classic attainments; his wife a lady of good culture. The smallest pup in their family was sick. Sister B* would feed it from a child’s feeding bottle, and excite our sympa thies at tlie dinner-table by telling of tho doar little dog gie’s health! it is a I act, too, that thou sands of orphans are in great need of food, clothing, educa tion, and most of all, in want of pure human love, and the salvation of the Gospel, while many professed Christians are lavishing their time and moans upon dogs. ‘Dear reader, what will you do? Leave dog-feeding to the heathen. Give to God’s poor. If not able to adopt an orphan you can at least send to help those who are doing this blessed work. You and I are soon to appear before tiie judgmen seat of Christ. ‘With out are dogs.’ Within, those who have ministered unto the least of His needy brethren. Matt. 25.31-46.’ An honorable member proposed, in view of the fact that there was a oousulerablo surplus in the treas ury,that an appropriation be made for the construction of a bridge. “Of a bridge!” echoed another honorable member, scornfully. “Why, there is no river here!” “Never mind that,” cried tho proposer ot tlio motion; let ue get tho bridge lirst, and then we can appropriate the money to get a I’iver.” God.—Freemasons have al ways been worshipers of the one true God. ‘This,’ says Hutchinson, ‘was the first and cornerstone on which our originals thought it expedient to place the foundation of ma sonry.’ While the world around them was polluted with sun-worship, and brute- worship, and all the absurdi ties of polytheism, masonry, even in its spurious forms, as the ancient mysteries have appropiately been styled, was alone occupied in raising al tars to the one I AM, and de claring and teaching the unity of the Godhead. Josephus, in his defence of the Jewslagainst Apion, sums up in a few words this doctrine of the mysteries, and its conforriiity witii the Jewisl) belief, which was of course, identical with that of the Freemasons. ‘God, perfect and blessed, contains all things, is self-existent and the cause of existence to all, the beginning, the middle, and the end of all things,’ Immortality of the Soul— A belief in this doctrine is in culcated in masonry by sevs eral expressive emblems, but more especially by the second round of Jacob’s ladder, and by the sprig of acacia. Its inculcation is also the princi pal symbolic object of the third or Master Mason’s de gree. The teaching of this doc trine was one of the most im portant of the Ancient Mys teries. They symbolized the resurrection and new birth of the spirit by that final part of the ceremonies of their legend which celebrated the res toration of their hero to life, as in the case of Bacchus among the Dionysians, or the finding of the mutilated body, as in that of Osiris among the Egyptians. Such was the groping in darkness after truth amnog the disciples of the spurio 8 Freemasonry; and we now teach the same truth in the Master’s degree, hut aided i'y a better light. On this subject a learned brother thus describes tlie differences between the spu rious and true Freemasonry: ‘Whereas the heathens had taught this doctrine only by the application of a fable to their purpose; the wisdom of the pious Grand Master of the Israelitish Masons took advan tage of a real circumstance which would more forcibly impress the sublime truths he intended to inculcate upon the minds of all brethren.” Lawful INFORMATION.-One of the modes of recognizing a stranger as a true brother, is from the “lawful information” of a third party. No Mason can lawfully give information of another’s qualifications un less he has actually tested him by the strictest trial and ex amination, or knows that it has been done by another. But it is not every Mason who is competent to give ‘lawful information.’ Ignorant and unskilful brethren cannot do so^ because they are in capable of discovering truth or of detecting^ eror. A “rusty Mason’’ should never attempt to examine a stranger, and corlaiiily if he does his opin ion as to this result is worth nothing. If the information given is on tile ground that tbe party who is vouched for, has been sitting in a lodge, care must be taken to inquire if it was a “just and legally constituted lodge of Master Masons.” A person may for get from the lapse of time, and vouch for a stranger as a Master Mason, when the lodge in which he saw him was only opened in the first or second degree. Information given by letter, or through a third par'* ty, is irregular. The person giving the information, the one receiving it, and tlie one gf whom it is given, should all be present at the same time, lor otherwise there would be no certainty of iden tity. The information must be positiv0,not founded on be lief or opinion, but derived from a legitimate source. And, lastly, it must not have been received casually, but for the very purpose of being used for masonic purposes. For one to say to another, in the course of a'desultory conver sation, “A. B. is a Mason,” is not sufficient. He may not be speaking with due caution, under the expectation that Ids words will be considered of weight. He must say some thing to this effect, “I know this man to be a Master Ma son, for such or such reasons, and you may safely recog nise him as such.” This alone will insure the necessary care and proper observance of pru'* dence. Committees on Orphan Asylum Lily Valley Lodge, No. 252—John R. Hill, William H. Hiddick, Eras- tus Bairley. Eureka Lodge, No. 283—G. A. d. Sechler, S. G. Patterson, Charles W. Alexander. Fulton Lodge, No. 99—A Parker, W, Taylor, J. Samuel McCub- bins. Mount Energy Lodge, No. 140— Henry Haley, Job a Knight, H. F. Parrett. Hiram Ijodge, No, 40—George M. Smedes, Theodore Joseph, John Nichols. Evergreen Lodge, No. 303—M, Morrison, H. P. Harman, L. MoN. McDonald. Fellowship Lodge, No. 84.—Jo- sepli Parker, C. S. Powell, John T. Cobb. Wayne Lodge, No. 112.—E. A. Wright, Augustus Edward, E, W, Cox. Cumberland Lodge, 364—Rev. A. R. Pittman, • GRAND LECTURER—Dr. C. D. Rice, Raleigh, N. 0. MOSELEY’S Is the place for ladies and gentlemen to take refreshments. Oysters and Ice Cream Call and see what is in store, as we cater to first-class trade, and furnish families, pic-nics and parties at short notice with all the delicacies of the season. Soda water and ioe cream will be specialties this season. S®*Everythmg on the European Plan, A few rooms to let. M. J. MOSELEY, Proprietor, Fayetteville St., Raleigh,|N. C. REASONABLE AND RELIABLE The Valley Mutual Life Association of Virginia. For particulars address" GEORGE 0, JORDAN. State Agent, No, 6, Mahler Building, Raleigh, N.C ON THE ASSESSMENT AND BESEBVE FUND PLAN. One Thousand Dollars Will cost upon an average as follows: At 21 years of age, $6.26, At 30 years of age, $7.20. At 40 years of age. $9.50. At 50 years of age, $12..50. 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