The North Carolina Baptist handbook for .[serial] . ng. The total receipts for last year were$510,, a small gain over the year before. An accu-mulated debt of $89,600 now rests upon the work. Thisshould be paid off this year. To do so and maintain thework as it now is, will require at least $600,000. Will thechurches give it? It is a condition that calls for greatlyenlarged giving, but it is absolutely imperative unless ourpeople are willing to let this great cause suffer. Let usraise this amount, and even more, that we may make anadvance in the recommend: — (1) That all our peop
The North Carolina Baptist handbook for .[serial] . ng. The total receipts for last year were$510,, a small gain over the year before. An accu-mulated debt of $89,600 now rests upon the work. Thisshould be paid off this year. To do so and maintain thework as it now is, will require at least $600,000. Will thechurches give it? It is a condition that calls for greatlyenlarged giving, but it is absolutely imperative unless ourpeople are willing to let this great cause suffer. Let usraise this amount, and even more, that we may make anadvance in the recommend: — (1) That all our people help; by sympathy and prayer;by subscribing for and reading the Foreign Mission Journal;by distributing tracts which can be had for the asking; byself-denying sacrifice by all, and by liberal gifts from thewealthy; by sending in their gifts early and not waiting forthe season of pressure in March and April. (2) That we solemnly pledge ourselves to do all in our iDower to raise the amount of $ which has been asked of our Association this REV. T. J. at Warrenton. N. C, since 1885. NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST HANDBOOK. 65 THE ORPHANAGE. By M. L. Kesler, General Manager, Thomasville, X. C. HE THOMASVILLE Baptist Orphanage is twenty-sixyears old; more than twelve hundred children havebeen gathered within its sheltering arms. We havehad as many as four hundred at one time, but were over-crowded. Three hundred and eighty to three hundredeighty-five is our usual number. Our effort is to make it an all-round training school andhome combined. The far-seeing men who laid its plans pur-posed that it should be open to dependent orphan childrenwho were capable of education and training. At the endof a quarter of a century we are beginning to see a plantworthy of such an undertaking. We have four hundredand fifty acres of land, one hundred and seventy-five of itin cultivation. There are ten dormitories, central dininghall, central sewing-room and central school building w
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