to earn while working fourteen dollars a week, he could not work. They had a nice little boy, fourteen years old, who was a hoodlum on the street. This was the story; and, after I visited that case the second time, the wonderful thought occurred to me as a friendly visitor, Send that man as a patient to the hospital, and have him cured. I gave him a note, and he went down ten days, and was cured; and, I think, the city government paid eight or ten dollars a week to his family. The overseers of the poor were making that man and his grandfather and grandmother paupers. But just that least attempt of the friendly thought of the friendly visitor put him on his feet again, the simplest possible case. That is the minimum of what the friendly visitor can give. In my judgment, this work of friendly visiting has got to permeate life. It is going to begin, and go on and have no limit, until it has gone to the lowest limits of human nature and human life. We want our churches to train us, I say, the women and men, too, if you are to be friendly visitors, to know your duty, and do it and delight in doing it.

I do not see how there is any escape from the conclusion that either modern life, civilized life in great cities, has got to fall asunder, so the rich and poor shall not know or care for each other or do anything but hate each other, or else we have got to go to the other extreme, in which the rich, those who are rich and can command their time, even if it be only a small portion of it, shall do their part in the world, and in devoting that part of the time that they can command more or less to making life neighborly and happy, to bridging over this chasm, and to teach the poor, if they can, to cook and to keep a clean house, and have everything neat and wholesome and sanitary. On the whole, the most important duty of all, in my udgment, is not to give them physical relief, but to exercise that cheer and counsel which are so much needed everywhere.

REMARKS BY DR. JAMES WALK, OF PHILADELPHIA.

There is a work for the volunteer and a work for the paid officer; ind the volunteer must be of a peculiar kind, and the paid officer nust be of a peculiar kind. I do not care how far the rich and Door are spread apart or driven apart: in our modern civilization here are men and women whose natures are broad enough to bridge t; and, when one's nature is broad enough, there is no separat. Of course, if you get a young girl or an elderly lady who has hat peculiar talent, she will not make a great success. Now there is a function often suggested, amily, the teaching of cooking, and the teaching of out there is another function outside of that altogeth good visitor can perform, which often is of incalculabi hat simply is bringing in the cheer and the comfort and u ness of one who has more sunshine in her life than the perso

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she visits. I have known lots of ladies, and I do not remember that
any of them taught me to cook or keep house; but yet I have de-
rived the greatest benefit from their association. I say, sir, that I
have known in our own Philadelphia work visitors who were not ex-
of course, they were not self-conscious, and
pert in the way of giving instruction, but who have by their cheer-
ful, joyous natures
they did not set themselves up as superior-gone to visit in a
neighborly way, and told little incidents of their experience, and
talked with the poor woman and her children in a way that made
those afternoons and evenings the most delightful afternoons and
evenings in their lives for bright sunshine.

Now, a word as to the paid agent: there seems to be a notion in our discussion that the paid agent comes from some far-off land away Our paid agents, most of them, from where the poor live. That is not so certainly in Philadelphia. We talk about college settlements, about young ladies and gentlemen from the colleges and universities going in and living among the poor and learning how they live. have always known how the poor live, because they are poor people I do not mean that they are at the very bottom round; themselves. but they have always been obliged to practise those minute and careful economies, and as long as we do not give them any better salaries than we do now they will have to practise them. I will just say this: If you will take the salaries that are paid to the district agents Our agents are not very far away from and superintendents of the organized charities and associated charities, I defy any one without the practice of the closest economies to make ends meet. the poor; and, when they go into the homes of the poor, they do not feel as if some foreigner was going there. They feel as if a neighbor was going there: that makes their way very easy. But, of There are a thoucourse, they cannot spread themselves over the vast ground of the work in a large city. And, therefore, we want more volunteer help. We have great encouragement for the future in the acquisitions of the past. Of course there is outside of us a great work to be done. There is the work of better tenements, better water, better streets, all those things that attention has been called to. sand good things which the world needs and which I hope the world will get; but, in recognizing all these things, do not let us forget the great work that we have accomplished. We have a right to the satisfaction of remembering it; and do not let us go away discouraged, feeling that nothing is done because there is yet a great deal to do. There has been a grand work done in the last fifteen years by organized charity in this country; and I hope that those of us who have consecrated our lives to that noble enterprise will take to our hearts the consolation that we have made some progress, that we have not labored in vain, that our work is still as important now as it was fifteen years ago, that that work is just as true and as good, and that none of the new and model schemes have at all supplanted the advantages of organized charities.

TREASURER'S STATEMENT.

JOHN M. GLENN, TREASURER, in account with NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION:

Geo. H. Ellis, express and postage to May 1, 1895.

By Cash paid account of Twenty-second Conference:
James H. Humphrey, insurance premium on reports in
stock to Sept. 11, 1895

H. H. Hart, Corresponding Secretary, account of salary
For printing and stationery

For postage and telegrams

By Balance in Provident Savings Bank

MAY 24, 1895.

(E. & O. E.)

JOHN M. GLENN.

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LIST OF MEMBERS.

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