THE QUEEN AND THE POOR.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1091, 1 April 1911, Page 11

THE QUEEN AND THE POOR.

BOYAL MESSAGE. The Queen recently received at Buckingham Palace Prebendary Carlilc, founder and chief secretary of • the Church Army, in order to hear a report from the prebendary on the condition of London's homeless people and the reclamation work of the Church Army, says an English paper. It was at her Majesty's request that the report was made. Her Majesty gave Prebendary Carlilc the following message to Church Army .workers throughout:the Kingdom:— ~;.; '-■My 'bympathy' -goes ;out. to all - the ' poof'and distressed people", whom you , " ■ iiro helping, and to the great work you are doing for comforting them in their ■ distress. Give a. message 0f... encouragement from me to all your workers, and tell them that 1 sympathise with them in their arduous and difficult work. May God bless you and them, and all the suffering men, women, and lilt.lc children'who are looking to you for help this winter. In an interview afterwards Prebendary Carlilo spoke of the interest with which the Queen regarded tho work of the Church Army. When told that there was less unemployment now than during tho last two mpntlu),' her Majesty expressed great satisfaction, and she.was relieved to hear that the notorious queue of starving and destitute people who used to assemble on the Embankment near the Strand hotels and disappeared! . Tho Queen was interested to hear of i tho growth of the recently established Labour Best of tho Church Army at Marylebone Koad, by means of which destitute men can bo reclaimed, and she examined with sympathy photographs of tho various institutions and their inmates. A sphere of Church Army work in which her Majesty has taken a personal interest—namely, that among prisoners' wives —was discussed. In this direction her Majesty has rendered sympathetic assistance, and has frequently sent orders for needlework so that some "help might be given those poor people.