“Charity” in Wellington.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 64, 8 November 1887, Page 3

“Charity” in Wellington.

This world reeds to be raked over pretty carefully if one wards to find any bowels of compassion in a Ladies’ Christian Association. For instance, a poor woman was recently lying pick unto death in h miserable hovel at Wellington, and around her bed, her children, starving, and almost naked, were crying for bread. -Borno poor Christiatl ass came to their assistance, and when his means gave out he appealed to the Ladies' Association to take the matter up. Then a deputation waited on the dying woman, and dredged up her character, and sifted her morals through the hair-sieve of aggravated piety, and raked her all over to , see if the seeds of righteousness had been implanted in her and were showing any signs of coming and finally they presented a report in which they stated that " although she was undoubtedly in urgent need of relist she was not a fit subject for benevolence," And then, in a Christian outburst of wrath compounded of many elements, the Association resolved that the poor sinner and her infants might scramble on as best they could, but that the exhilarating cocktail of charity was not for such as they. This resolution being passed the Christian ladies went home to their tea, and wondered how that dying woman in the back slum could have sunk so low as to sin for the sake of bread.—Bulletin.