p. 17 | A Home for Orphans by D. A. Shields

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 13, 1908

A Home for Orphans

By D. A. Shields

AFTER returning from the teachers’ summer school at Graysville, Tenn., I paid a visit to the Toluca (N. C.) Orphans’ Home and Industrial School. I met a hearty welcome at the hands of Elder D. T. Shireman and Sister Shireman. With them at present are their charges, whose happy faces and rosy cheeks betoken healthful bodies and happy hearts. Indeed, being about the home for several days, I could but remark the kindliness with which they were controlled, and the alacrity with which the little folks obeyed. A stranger on coming into the home could not tell, except for the physical appearance, but what Elder and Sister Shireman were the father and mother, and the little fellows all brothers and sisters.

Elder Shireman’s plan is to have twelve to fifteen little folks in one home, then build another home and get a foster father and mother for it, and thus have the children grow up under pleasant, homelike surroundings, and by this means keep them from so much mechanical drill.

Elder Shireman deserves not only the moral but the financial support of those who have the care of the fatherless at heart. He especially solicits aid from outside parties, but any one desiring to assist in this matter will be supplied with proper blanks arranged for that purpose. D. A. SHIELDS.