DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3065, 8 March 1892, Page 2

DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES.

Archdeacon Willis has asked us to publish the following reply, which he has received from Dr. Bamardo, acknowledging a remittance sent at the close of last year

Waifdoin, London, 7th January, 1892. My Dear Sir,—l very gratefully thank you, and the numerous friends with whose names you supply me, for your cheering and helpful co-operation in the Lord's work in my hands, as shown by your kind letter with its enclosure duly to hand. You will be able to measure the extent of my gratitude for such a timely and welcome addition to our needy funds when I tell you that at this new year season I find myself with the unprecedentedly large number of 4,300 boys and girls to be provided for in their every want, and to which fresh numbers are being constantly recruited from the ranks of the poor, suffering, homeless children who throng our great cities, and whose sole means of support comes, under God, from the voluntary contributions of the benevolent. In handing the receipts, which I enclose herewith, to the respective donors, may I ask that you will kindly convey to them this expression of my heartfelt thanks tor their Christian sympathy an< aid. Last evening wo held our annual supper for waifs and strays, when some 2000 children from the slums and alleys of the lowest haunts of the metropolis were gathered together for one ovening's warmth, food aud shelter. At the close of the meal all those who were actually destitute were offered the permanent benefits of the homes. On the several occasions during the 17 years for which this has been an annual fixture, more than 100 children have been thus added to the resident family of the institutions. lam sure nobody could behold one of these gatherings without being stirred to sympathy for, and their purse-strings loosened in aid of, this flotsam and jetsam in the gre.it sea of social misery and destitution. Of course, I will see that publications are sent, as you wish, to the different friends diiv.ct, and not through yourself. With heartiest good wishes for success in your own sphere of labour in the Masters vinoyard,—Believe me to be, very faithfully and gratefully yours, in Christ's service among the children. Thor. J BARNAItnO. The Van. Archdeacon Willis, Tho Parsonage, Cambridge. Auckland, N.Z.