The Stoke Orphanage

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 25, 18 June 1903, Page 1

The Stoke Orphanage

The strong appeal made by the Archbishop of Wellington and reported in our issue of last week should loosen many a purse-string and bung in a bo/unteous stream of clinking coins to that great national work of Catholic charity, the Orphanage and Industrial School that is to be re-erected at Stoke. This noble institute has, for almost a generation, cateied for the spiritual and temporal needs of the fatherless bo;vb nnd the waifs and strays of our Church irom every corner of New Zealand. It has passed through the furnace of persecution, it has been devoured by maleiial fiie, and the spirited effort now being made by the Archbishop and his priests and laity to raise it up in beneficent operation once more rightly claims the hearty co-operation of the Catholic body in every part of the Colony. There is none so poor but he may put a brick or two into the new Orphanage, and thus ha\e a shaie m the good work of instructing our neglected children unto justice and training/them up to be creditable citizens of New Zealand Here, indeed, is a rare opening for the exercise of that true charity which is ' Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the " blessed three." '