DR BARNARDO.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 53, 1 May 1895, Page 2

DR BARNARDO.

By the English mail just to hand wo have received Dr Barnado’s publication, “ Night andJDay ” for March last, from which wo take the following : —The age of miracles, we are told, is past, and in this prosaic age it maysesm that we must not expect any special interference of Providence in things financial and temporal. But whatever may be the com - mon view, readers of the March number of Night and Day, now before us, must feel that Dr Barnurdo has undoubtedly given us in “ Personal Notes,” a record of experiences which many will be disposed to call *• latter-day miracles ”; marvellous interventions, as he believes, of providential care often at periods of the greatest anxiety and extremity, on behalf of the sweat fainilv of outcast jmd nwiLn

great, tamiiy ui outcast, ana orpnan children under his care. It is little wonder that with such reminiscences fresh in his mind, he contemplates the enlargement and extension of his work to an almost indefinite extent. His first party of 250 trained lads for Canada are, he announces, to sail on the 21st of this month. Meanwhile, every 24 hours, he is admitting 8 or 0 fresh cases of child misery, so that the Homes, with 5000 inmates, touch the great world at many points, their records becoming increasingly national in their character. Of course Dr Baruardo dwells upon the recent crisis arising out of want of work and destitution, aggravated by the severe cold, in the East End. where ho has such a net-work of Mission effort ou behalf of the adult poor. Night and uay would

hardly what wt> have been be led to expect, if a large share of its space wore not given up to placing before its readers the suecussful outcome of the work of childrescue and training, undertaken by the Homes. So, in an article entitled “ Living Pictures,” the value of the Institutions in transforming the lives of the Waifs and Strays with whom they deal, is fully demonstrated. The illustrations, which are taken from photographs, aro ad mil-' able. The picture of “ Job,” for instance shows on one side the little fellow as a “full-blown tramp,” and on the other as “ one of our Canadian donors.” Dr Barnardo, indeed, appears to have a practically unlimited faith in emigration, carried on under strictest supervision, and among carefully selected boys and girls. The party ho proposes to send on the 21s( will cost .UO per bay, or a total of £2,500; but if that means OS per cent, of successes, it is cheap at that price. Altogether a number to bo heartily commended to all who are interested in social questions, and J who ought therefore to he ready to put their hands in their pockets to help to ; them. Dr Danwrdo’s address is, ty gfy Stejmuyj Galway, Liadoa, (