THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION LIBRARY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13640, 9 July 1906, Page 6

THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION LIBRARY.

TO TIIK EUITOl:. Sin.—l hope the word "charity" has not, become monotonous. You have been so liberal in the past in publishing charitable appeals that I approach you on this occasion with no little diffidence. The Benevolent Library is in want of books. Generally speaking, the class of books donated is of the cheap variety, and wears out rapidly. When I tell you that the circulation of our little library averages 240 books per month, you can understand that the old people enjoy reading, and that (ho life of a shilling or sixpenny book is not a long one. There are a few men and women who contribute books from time to time. To those I wish to convey the I hanks of the old people. It has been said that the music of heartfelt thanks never dies. Be that as it, may, I would like to reach the conscience of a large number of people who nover think of donating a book, whose minds, apparently, are deafened to the sunlight and glow of charity, anil their mental eyes dimmed to the sweetness and purity of a, brotherly love. There is developed a perversion of mental vision by which they cannot see that it is their duly and privilege to send old or new books to the institution -a home founded for the reception and care of the old and worn-out in our midsl. To those people I would sav "Do unto others as yon would like others do to vor in like circumstances.—l am, etc, 11. L.