. Raleigh Christian Advocate: organ of the North Carolina Conference, Church, South. REV. J. B. BURLKY, Asrent. should be lacking in the educationaldepartment of our Orphanage neces-sary to the high quality of Chri tianwork, and the Methodist conscienceshould be made to feel the weight ofits obligation to this young instit 1-ion, and there are reasons to tielievethat it will respond to the full measureof this duty. r -t x» m I mrmmmm RALKIOH CHRTSTTAN APVOCATR, WBDNESDAY, NOVEMBKR 27 TOOT THE STATE ANi) THE ORPHAN. R. N. PAGE. To write cf any benevolent or churchenterprise and iis reUtion
. Raleigh Christian Advocate: organ of the North Carolina Conference, Church, South. REV. J. B. BURLKY, Asrent. should be lacking in the educationaldepartment of our Orphanage neces-sary to the high quality of Chri tianwork, and the Methodist conscienceshould be made to feel the weight ofits obligation to this young instit 1-ion, and there are reasons to tielievethat it will respond to the full measureof this duty. r -t x» m I mrmmmm RALKIOH CHRTSTTAN APVOCATR, WBDNESDAY, NOVEMBKR 27 TOOT THE STATE ANi) THE ORPHAN. R. N. PAGE. To write cf any benevolent or churchenterprise and iis reUtion to the State,is to venture upon dangerous ground. In your Orphanage Thanksgivingnumber you hardly want anything thatwill bring on a controversy. dren, whose childly fashions linger in are bright. To have the po^er andthe home long after the children them- disposition to earn something to helpselves have put away childish things. HON. FRANK PiGE, the First andLargest Benefactor. While the ^S:ate makes an annualappropriation^ to one Orphanage notunder church control, and what it doesis commended by every right thinkingcitizen, it cannot be expected to pro-vide for all the orphans, nor is it desirable that it should. It is right andproper that not only the State but benevolent organizations shDuld d j allthey will in this direction. S ill, it is peculiarly the wjrk of the churchPure religion and un defiled, saysJames, is to visit the wid )w and theorphan in their affliction. Childrenleft in the world and on the world,without parental restraint or direction,are likely, sooner or later, in one wayor another, to become a care and burden to the State. The church, as the individual, owesthe State something. Christ siid,Render unto Cae;ar the things thatare Cai ;ars. H>w better c m it dis-charge the obligation than by takingthese unfortunate children, many ofthem destined, if left alone, to swell t leranks of the c
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