An Offering for the Orphans and the Aged Poor by W. T. Knox

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 14, 1912

An Offering for the Orphans and the Aged Poor

By W. T. Knox

OUR next general offering is appointed for Sabbath, April 6, and is designed to be used in the union conferences in which it may be raised, to assist in properly caring for their orphans and aged poor.

The Negro Department has recently completed a comfortable building, in connection with its school at Oakwood, for the accommodation of orphans of the Negro race. The home is beautifully situated, and comfortably arranged for this purpose, and will accommodate about twenty inmates.

In the past that department has been greatly perplexed on account of the difficulty of providing suitably for this class of unfortunate ones that naturally falls to its care. All who have given thought to this long-apparent need, rejoice that we have at last been able to make some provision for this work.

At the last autumn council, the following action was taken, looking to the support of these persons:—

“Voted, That as a provision of support for the orphanage for colored children at Oakwood, Ala., we invite the Southern, Southeastern, and Southwestern Union Conferences to appropriate fifty per cent of their April offering for orphanage work to the Oakwood Orphanage, and that we invite the other unions or conferences in America to appropriate twenty-five per cent of their funds from the April orphanage collection to this same purpose.”

There is great need for immediate assistance that the home may be thrown open at once to those who should now be admitted. With this new incentive, a liberal offering in all conferences is anticipated.

W. T. KNOX.