WHAT CHARITY CAN ACCOMPLISH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 20, 11 September 1885, Page 21

WHAT CHARITY CAN ACCOMPLISH.

(San Francisco Monitor.)

It Catholics desire to ascertain what can be accomplished by unity of action on the part of a few Catholic men, they need only read the reports of the Bt. Vincent de Paul Society. We are in receipt of the report of the Superior Council of New York, made to the Council General in Paris, for the year 1884. Two hundred and sixty (260) Conferences of this most admirable charitable association are named in this Report. During the year 1884, five Conferences were aggregated ; and mine Conferences make their first reports. Here is the excellent showing of the Society for the year 1884 : Number of poor families visited and relieved, 12,771 ; number of visits paid to poor families, 122,667 ; families on the relief roll, December 31, 3,007; situations procured, 750 ; members assisting in teaching Sunday school, 434 ; average number of boys attending Sunday school, 40,396. The total receipts for the year amounted to! 30,882 lols. ; expenditures for the relief of all kinds to the poor, 128,569d01s ; balance at the end of the year, 37,958d018.

It must be borne in mind that this vast result of Catholic benevolence has been accomplished by laymen who have to pursue their daily avocation, yet who can find sufficient time to help God's poor out of their temporary difficulties. How true it is that time we give to God ie never lost, and great will be the reward of those who earnestly and prudently share in the good work inaugurated by St. Vincent de Paul.