GIFT TO THE POOR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13919, 2 June 1909, Page 2

GIFT TO THE POOR.

The Lord .JUayor of London (Sir George H\att iruseott) was on April (3th last, the recipient of an mteiusijng communication, containing a uiarc lor £2U on the lianK of Montreal.. 'J inwriter is a miner in V ancouver, iSritisii L-oiumbia, and he writes 'anonymously ironi there as follows:

••Dear Lord Mayor,—Are there any Christians in England now:- If &o how is it that 1 read of 14U0 or IoUJ Hungry starving men aiid boys tramping the Ihame.s Embankment all tue winter nights, and kept- moving on by the police without shelter, food or rest . J And i read that three-of them died while .waiting lor bread tickets. This is terrible. My heart goes out to them all, and;! send you luu dollars (T-U); that may help a little. •• As a worKing man 1 get paid once a voar, and 1 have to worK.ali night lor my bit, of money. But I hear tnat those "who give, the charities away keep halves, or tnat it laKr.-i half to pay them. Thati ain't right. Oh! it' there were any Christians going aoout doing good like their -Master did. and give Lhe chanty away tree—how much good they might do. . Well, 1 hipe mine gets do» n to", bedrock, or to those poor iellows. ."1 come fron. a one-room tenement myself, wall three, and sometimes four in it, but we never have to sleep out in the cold, .tor myself, 1 don't reckon to be rich in this world, but U do want, to be rich in good works.. Please write if you get this safe to ' W atcbman,' at the above address, never mind niv name. *"P.S~.—I hear that the noblest men in England are not those with titles, but county councillors and aldermen wno work many hours and very hard, and lor nothing—only honour. And they deserve the very highest honour and praise. How much more should Christians do so for Him who died ior them."