| Show AN ADDRESS BY THE GOVERNOR IN AID OF A CHARI charitable institution Last evening at ac them the benefit beho t entertainment tain ment of the orphans Orp haals home Oo governor vernor aceb W west delivered the following address ladies and gentlemen 1 1 esteem it a high privilege and honor to meet you hereupon here upon this ois occasion to enjoy the charming and agreeable entertainment that is furnished famished us by these noble ladies and gentlemen in 1 a aid of such a noble charity the people of this community are greatly blessed you have mountains fountai ns surrounding you filled with the richest treasure you have a valley that needs but the enterprise of tile the husbandman under the beautiful giver of all good who holds in store score in these moun lans jhb reservoirs that iTri irrigate gate the fields so that ibe husbandman needs merely but to tickle ehfe ground with his plow to haat it laugh with the harvest your business enterprises extend abroad and your merchants are blessed with prosperity your manufactories manu factories and every industry that I 1 heat beat from or that I 1 see is blessed with plenty ana aban abundance dance and through these choice blessings you have made here beautiful homes nestling in these mountains receiving of gods sunlight sunlight and in these homes you have cherished ch loved ones and alid all the pleasures and joys that cluster around the home altar you have the smiling face of wife and children to bless you to comfort you and how much of s sweetness wo etness how much of happiness bap is in this single word home in all the blended harmonies beneath the skies sides there do they all combine to give ex expression jesston to the and exquisite happiness that Is contained ln in the word woid home applause one of our own laud land animated by poetic has sung a sons song that hig baa echoed around the world and in the sentiments that his poetic heart gave un utterance to there was so much sweet sweetness iless there was so much expression of df this charm that while he be found foun d a conw a last home of ret rest IQ ip a far distant land that oong be had bad sung called attention to his name and be was wafted wafred from that distant shore to sleep in his own home borne land applause now kow think why I 1 am here tonight to night why are you called here how came you to be here why are we here in your midat ml tet the great god gobi who rules above has moved some noble hearts with sympathy and love to do what to provide a home for the homeless applause Ap pause but to make a home for the homeless they need your aid they need they need your encouragement and 1 I am glad to see io so many kind faces be ber fore me me I 1 snow know where there are so many kind faces that in these there are kind hearts who will aid who will encourage who will give strength and uphold the arms th that are engaged in this noble work applause now in the world there are hospitals and coar charitable institutions of many and various kinds here in your own city the proudest buildings that you have are those thos that are devoted to the relief of sorrow and the care of ofte toe helpless and add 1 unfortunate and white that is true do you vou think that these hospitals that axe are in our midst are for temporary relief they are to reli relieve elve some of the dis eases that are of a temporary nature in character they are huma humane nef they are the homes of the old and infirm they are to assuage some sorrow they wipe away many a tear they smooth many ro rough ugh places to the weak aud and the unfortunate who have sought nought their ho hospitable 1 table walls but it Is bucior a time 1 but here remember this work begins at the beginning it takes from the shoulder of the mother the care of the infant that Is too I 1 heavy fo rAer with the burden barden of labor that she has vo to heart of the mother and gives to ber time to sustain life and to provide for her guste narlee remember also that this is the beginning be inning of a work that Is not for a day not for a year it takes those children and it gives them the oare care the love the protection of a home and it elves them the influence of botne to ine inether to paths of virtue and rectitude to u make of them citi worth yand virtuous Virt udus rather than to leave them upon the streets to trow grow 0 up criminals to be contaminated by the vicious influences that surround them to cause them to grow vp p cright vals idour in our midst midat and instead of be bd coming a protection and a safety to society become lawbreakers criminals the violators of the sacredness of home ot of loveana love and of propriety apala applause age no now w biad ladies ies and gentlemen I 1 am afraid that I 1 have already talked too long to you upon this subject I 1 had simply come expecting expecting to say that its as I 1 know you feel t that at I 1 was with mhd peo pie in this community in this noble work work and and that so lar far as I 1 I 1 could give hid aid and encouragement to it now then in closing clo sinz remember this that now this people have haie A chance to make a wave upon the searf gods lave that will never break in time or eternity and that the wave so made macle constant freighted with wit b human souls will be carried to that upper brighter beigh ter world |
