Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . newspapers. It is agood work for any good cause to try to secure a weeklyreligious paper in every family. PHILANTHROPIES. From the outset Presbyterians have been interestedin all forms of philanthropic work. They have beenspecially careful of their own orphans, aged, sick orafflicted ministers and their families. It is only in com-paratively recent years, that this philanthropic feelinghas, in the larger cities, taken the form of Homes forthe Aged, Orphanages for Neglected Children and Hospitals for th
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . newspapers. It is agood work for any good cause to try to secure a weeklyreligious paper in every family. PHILANTHROPIES. From the outset Presbyterians have been interestedin all forms of philanthropic work. They have beenspecially careful of their own orphans, aged, sick orafflicted ministers and their families. It is only in com-paratively recent years, that this philanthropic feelinghas, in the larger cities, taken the form of Homes forthe Aged, Orphanages for Neglected Children and Hospitals for the Sick. To equip and maintain suchinstitutions, a large amount of money is charities are chiefly needed in the large commer-cial centers. These institutions in these centers supplythe needs for large districts in their vicinity, and arc-able to command the highest medical skill and the bestattendance which money can attract. Generally, Presbyterians combine with charitablepeople of all denominations, and of no denomination, inthis public work. Even where they establish such. NEWSPAPERS, PHILANTHROPIES, CHURCH UNITY. I5i philanthropies, the institutions are Presbyterian onlyin their support and management, and not in the ob-jects which they seek to relieve. In some denomina-tions, such forms of work have long been a specialpreference. In many places other denominations man-age the so-called United Charities, and Presbyterianscontribute the money for their support. More andmore the inclination among the wealthier Presby-terians is, either during lifetime or by bequest, toestablish such institutions. The only safe plan for thebenevolent donor is to establish them while he is aliveand able to manage his own outlay, and so see that itis put in satisfactory shape. Either way, however, isto be preferred to expensive monuments in a lonesomecemetery, which few see, except the other mournerswho are visiting the graves of their own dead. The following is a list of these phil
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