HOME OF THE FRIENDLESS.

Of this institution and its patrons your Committee feel
they cannot speak in terms of too much praise, under the
management of charitable ladles and gentlernen, who devote
much of their time and means to benefit the "Little wail's of
humanity," who truly find a "Home," the noble charity is
admirably conducted, and seems indeed to be a "Sweet Home"
for and to those whose misfortunes have debared them from
knowing any other, and your Committee earnestly recommend
you to grant an appropriation sufficiently ample to enable
the good hearted managers to erect a suitable building on an
adjoining lot already secured for boys, who are now neces-
sarily associated in the same building with the girls; and to
secure the permanency and efficiency of this "Heaven born
Charity."

The character of this Institution appeals to every generous,
every Christian heart, and its admirable management chal-
lenges the approbation of every lover of humanity. To see
gathered into this Home, the friendless little ones, who with-
out this intervention would have been reared in misery, and
lapped in crime, to observe the cheerful industry with which
the little beneficiaries perform their several tasks of house-
hold engagement; their application ia the school room under
faithful instructors, the various little labors of household
handicraft in which they are engaged—the glad songs and
hymns which beguile their labors, would cheer the heart and
awaken the dormant affections of the veriest Misanthrope,
and remove from the brow of care, the wrinkles ploughed by
contact wit the selfishness of earth. At the meals, to see
these little ones enter the dining room in procession, their
laces wearing smiles, and when assembled around the well
provided board, with their little hands clasped and heads
bowed in grateful thankfulness to God, the giver of all good
for the provision made for them, to witness this, almost clothes
the sorrows and privations of humanity with beauty, and (
illustrates the grandeur of Christian beneficence, in the ample
protection afforded to the destitute; and to the Philanthopic,
to whose munificent donation, the institution is indebted for
its foundation, it assures the blessing of Him, who has said