THE SEMIANNUAL COLLECTION FOR THE HASKELL ORPHANS' HOME.
October 5, the first Sabbath in the month, has been designated by the General Conference as the time when a general collection shall be made in all the Seventh-day Adventist Churches for the benefit of the Haskell Home for Orphans, located at Battle Creek. The Home, at the present time, including the James White Memorial Home and the Widows' and Orphans' Home, which are under the same management and supervision, contains 110 inmates. All of these persons are most worthy cases; not one case has been received without the most careful scrutiny and inquiry. The maintenance fund is empty, and here are more than a hundred hungry mouths to be fed. The children are doing all they can to help themselves. They are putting into practical use the instruction which they have received. Little girls of twelve to fourteen years help about the cooking. The children do most of the housework, and they also assist in washing and cooking. During the summer the boys of ten to twelve years of age have rendered valuable service on the farm in hoeing and cultivating potatoes and corn, helping to care for the cows, and in every way endeavoring to lighten the burden of their support. The girls, also, as well as the boys, even including the smallest child, have helped in the berry picking, in the preparation of fruit for canning, etc. The aged inmates of the James White Home have most of them shown a commendable willingness to help as far as their strength would admit. We hope the friends of the cause everywhere will remember the Haskell Home in the donations October 5. Any sum will be very much appreciated, but $1.00 and $10 bills are very much needed in the work just now. “Blessed is he that considereth the poor.” Please keep this matter in mind, and bring it before friends who are likely to be interested in the cause, and see that the matter is not forgotten on the date appointed for the special collection.