A DESERVING CASE.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1929, Page 13

A DESERVING CASE.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —Would you kindly permit me to use a little space in your valuable and much read paper to set forth the claim upon our sympathy of a good and honourable mother. This good lady is a native of New Plymouth, and for years has struggled against adverse circumstances to bring up a family of eight, most of them now’ still young. For the past four and a half years she has lived with her husband and eight children in a small tent on our foreshore, only vacating it recently for a small house which will soon have to be taken down to make room for the summer campers near Belt Road. Only a fortnight ago her main source of income was suddenly cut off for a few months. Surely the cry of the poor has entered into the ear of the Lord of sabbaoth- Will those who profess to love and serve their God and make His sacred word their daily delight just turn over its sacred pages until they come to the verse, “Whoso giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord.” Ponder ovei; that text until it burns itself into the very fibre of our being. Ours not to reason why; ours just to make reply, we will help,/help and lend.—l am, etc.,

A SYMPATHISER.