Charity And Sentimentality

Now, the hard, bottom fact is, that fuss and vanity enter very largely into many of these schemes of so-called eharity. They reek withsentimentality ; and thereforc it is no wonder tliat tlios who work tlicin content themselves witti repnrts ut once jejune and nauseuting - jejunc in facfc?, naiiseatin; in phraaeolojiy. The best possible way to check these ilabby imitations of real charity would be to BUmmon them somewhatpereniptorily to t;ivesiicli facts as miglit furnish material lor a real)y scientitie study of their operations They could not in decency refusis the dciniind, if made by a curtain oumber of their respectable supporters; and yet we are convinced tliat, to coniply willi the demaiid in anythiiig liku an lionest and thorougli fashion, would be to show that their work was, in part at Ie ist, hollow and even hurtful. ye believe tliat ;i v;it auiount of 'liiirm is helns done, not only by thougfhtless private cliarity, but by IIIorganized, ill-directed, and overanibilinus corporate cliarity. However, let sciuntilic thinkers, men who have taken to beart ;ill that is implied in the frreat truth ihat tuo and two make four, settle rijrht down to work on the reports of some of tliese pretentinus concerns; and where tliey iind inforuiation lacking that ought to be given quietly ask for it. The world wonld be none the worse for the puncturing of a few of the bubbles blown by vanity and üoated by sentimentality : and the way to puncture them is to bring the " sclentiflc method '' to bearou tlieirvery nnscientfflc