To the Editor of the "Norra-Cura Datty News."
Sir,—In your issue of the 10th instant there appeared an article from a kind friend of the Orphanage, under the above heading, showing the present condit that calls for immediate relief. The Treasurer of the Board of Trustees and the Superintendent would like to place a few more facts before your readers to make the situation clearer.
This orphanage was one of the many opened under the patronage of the "Christian Herald" of New York, and conducted by the se-missions, this one by the Methodist Mission, till 1918. Since then the work' has been undenominational in character, but efforts have been made to find some mission to take over the work and make it more permanent in character, and it is still hoped that this end will be reached. 1t has been exceedingly difficult to maintain sufficient interest as there is no representative in any of the home lands. To safeguard public interests in the expenditure of funds, to exercise a general overnight, and to give moral weight in statements sent out im a time of crisis like the present, a few of the resident missionaries were asked to act us a Board of Trustees.
As stated in the above mentioned article the average monthly receipts have been about one-half the average general expenditure. At the end of August the deficit was $1,000 Mex. A statement of the situation has been sent to the home lands and it is reasonable to expect a decision. can be reached by November as to the future of the work. We cannot force ourselves to the thought that all hope for the helplessly poor in these parts should be entirely cut off, as this is the only orphanage that we know of that remains in this vicinity. Within the last few days we have had appeals from other cities to receive poor children.
Roughly speaking Mex. $2,000 will care for the shortage until the end of November. The Chinese eighth moon festival occurs this year on September 24 and already the hongs are' pressing for pay-
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