Part 3
Here then the Committee close their Review, under a conviction that they have established a claim upon the generous consideration of their fellow Parishioners. The facts enumerated speak for themselves. No force of eloquence, no appeals to sentiment are required to enhance their value. They satisfy the head—they ought to influence the heart; for if it be a duty at once acknowledged and indisputable to exercise charity by clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, raising the fallen, helping the weak, educating the young, and visiting the sick, the widow, and the fatherless in affliction, there must abide an awful responsibility on those, who not only decline to do so personally, but refuse to strengthen the hands of others dedicating time and energy to these works of love. To all such, if such there be, the Committee may reasonably say, You are living surrounded by a large and necessitous population, the representatives in their poverty and suffering of the Saviour Who died for your Redemption—He, in the wisdom of His Providential ordering, made you to differ from the meanest of that multitude, granted you ability, wealth, industry, position, character, for the express purpose of enabling you, as followers of Him, to bear their burdens. Occupation, business, pleasure, health, or feeling, may preclude you from taking direct part in the discharge of this your trust. By habits and temperament you may be unfitted for personal ministration. Let, then, this Association be your almoner. It acts under the Presidency of your Vicar, and the superintendence of a Committee of Laymen like yourselves. It is pledged to investigate the fact and cause of each alleged distress, to turn your bounty to its best account, to apply it with a cautious tenderness, a discreet forbearance. Chosen from the gently nurtured and the educated, its dispensers bear it to hearths and beds of real privation, and unsimulated disease. Witnessing the extremes of pain, and woe, and want; entering abodes whence less unselfish pity might turn away disgusted; carrying the message of peace and hope to the broken-hearted and despairing; it is _theirs_ to imitate the Divine Example, and go about doing good—should it not be _yours_ to emulate their labours, sustain their efforts, and extend their power in well-doing? Can it be right, or wise, or just, or patriotic, or Christian, to allow them, whatever be their earnestness, self-denial, or single-mindedness, to visit and relieve the Lazarus of your own door, uncheered by your sympathies, unaccompanied by your prayers, unprovided with your alms? Let each one answer for himself.
In conclusion, the Committee would humbly commend the future proceedings of the Society to the compassionate care of that Lord, who being rich unto all, has blessed its operations to the present date, beseeching Him to overrule its plans and works to His own everlasting glory and the final salvation of those who now and hereafter shall regulate, subserve or benefit by, the ministrations of that abounding charity, which it is its especial object to stimulate, develope, and control.
APPENDIX A.
All experience tends to prove a probable connection between dirt and vice. There is truth in the proverb, “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” We have the warrant of Holy Writ, for stating that men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. In every attempt to elevate the inhabitants of a neglected District, respect must be had to its sanitary arrangements. No exertion ought to be spared to procure for it water, light, and systematic cleansing; against the demoralizing overcrowding of single rooms the most stringent clauses of the Lodging House Act should be rigidly enforced. The following extracts from the Visitors’ Reports certify how these obstacles impede any permanent improvement in the physical condition of the poor in the less favoured parts of the Parish, and bring out in strong relief the existence of evils requiring the attention of the local authorities, if not the intervention of the Legislature to ameliorate or remove, as wholly unworthy of a civilized community.
“In this district there is much and constant illness in consequence of bad drainage, and the entrance of the court is almost impassable in wet weather for want of paving.”
“Five out of nine houses in my District are totally unsupplied with water, and the inmates have either to buy or borrow of their neighbours. I feel the uselessness, of impressing upon the people the advantages of cleanliness, when such drawbacks as I have mentioned come to the assistance of their naturally dirty habits.”
“In this eight-roomed house forty people, men, women and children, live. Eleven human beings are crowded into a small low-roofed garret; the walls decaying from want of paint; the mother and children a heap of dirt and rags. The landlord has been remonstrated with again and again to have the house cleaned which is in a hopelessly dirty condition.”
“This street has been much improved by being lately paved. It is now kept clearer by the people, and is quieter than formerly.”
APPENDIX B.
_The Treasurer in Account with the Church of England District Visiting Society_—1852.
1852. (DR.) £ _s._ _d._ Balance from 1851 22 16 6 To Subscriptions 247 14 0 Donations 23 16 0 Alms Boxes 41 8 3 Sixpenny Deposits 8 10 6 on Loan of Blankets for cleaning, 1851 and 1852 Sales of Bibles 1 13 0 and Prayer Books Interest from 0 8 9 Savings Bank Collections after 85 17 9 Sermons 409 8 3 PROVIDENT FUNDS:— To Deposits for Coals 185 10 4 To Deposits for Clothes 85 11 9 £703 6 10
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1852. (CR.) £ _s._ _d._ District Grants, from Jan. to Dec. 1852 289 17 0 GENERAL EXPENSES:— Stationery and Printing 20 1 9 Purchase of Books 0 15 0 Messenger 1 8 0 Ellis’s Gratuity for 1851 3 3 0 Ellis, Collector’s Commission 13 11 6 Tisdall, E., Scouring and Storing Blankets 10 2 6 for 1851 49 1 9 Haines, Mr., Wine for the Sick 1 3 0 PROVIDENT FUNDS:— By Coals 208 19 7 Deposits Returned 8 8 5 Stationery and Printing 4 2 9 221 10 9 Tradesmen’s Bills for Clothes, as per 91 19 9 Tickets Deposits returned 7 2 5 Stationery and Printing 2 16 3 101 18 5 Salary of Receiver of Deposits 20 0 0 683 10 11 Balance, 31st December, 1852 19 15 11 £703 6 10
Examined and found correct, JAMES WESTON, AUDITOR.
APPENDIX C.
Rev. H. HOLME WESTMORE, _Treasurer_, _in Account with Jennings’ Building School_.
1852. (DR.) £ _s._ _d._ Collections at St. Mary Abbott’s on the 9th of 66 4 3 May Advanced by the Vicar 24 7 0 Subscriptions and Donations as shown in the 91 5 1 List annexed £182 6 4
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1852. (CR.) £ _s._ _d._ Balance due to the Treasurer at the end of the 11 9 5½ year 1851 Bread 9 8 8 Stipend of School-Master 70 0 0 Sundries 1 15 2 Rent 10 8 0 Coal, Wood, &c. 3 7 8 Stationery and Books 5 12 9 Sempstress 6 10 0 Cleaning the School 2 12 0 Clothing 2 12 0 Repaid the Treasurer—see Statement for 1851 57 0 0 180 15 8½ Balance in hand 1 10 7½ £182 6 4
Audited and found correct by me, February 20th, 1853. HENRY GEORGE.
_Subscriptions and Donations to the Jennings’ Buildings School in the year_ 1852.
£ _s._ _d._ Archdeacon Sinclair, Vicar 3 3 0 Abercrombie, Miss, Kensington-square (Donation) 1 0 0 Abercrombie, Miss K., Kensington-square 1 0 0 (Donation) Alms-box in School room 0 4 1 Back, The Rev. Henry, Kensington 1 1 0 Bathurst, Mr., Vale place, Hammersmith, (A 30 0 0 Donation from the “Dunlop Trust”) Bell, Miss, Hornton-street 0 10 6 Boyd, Mrs., 5, Gordon-terrace 0 5 0 Clarke, Mr., 37, Kensington-square 1 1 0 Codd, Miss, 2, Campden-hill Road 0 2 6 Codd, Miss Shirley, 2, Campden-hill Road 0 2 6 Colbeck, Mr., 12, Hornton-street 0 10 0 Colbeck, Mr., ditto (Donation) 5 0 0 Cole, Mrs., The Terrace 0 10 0 Cooke, Mr., The Ferns, Victoria-road 1 1 0 Cotton, Mr., 10, Kensington-square 0 10 0 Cripps, Mrs. W., 9, Gordon-terrace 1 1 0 Croad, Major, Forest-house 1 1 0 Croad, Major, ditto (Donation) 0 5 0 Davies, The Rev. S. Price 1 1 0 Desbarres, Mr., Wyndham-villa 0 10 0 Disbrowe, Miss, Kensington-palace 0 5 0 England, Miss, by Miss Hare, Upper 1 0 0 Phillimore-place Ferrar, Mrs., Gordon-terrace 0 10 6 Firmin, Miss, 15, Hornton-street 0 10 0 A Friend, by Mrs. Paynter (Donation) 5 0 0 A Friend by Archdeacon Sinclair (ditto) 1 0 0 A Friend, by . . . ditto (ditto) 1 10 0 A Friend, by . . . ditto (ditto) 1 1 0 A Friend, by Archdeacon Sinclair (Donation) 1 0 0 Friends, by . . . ditto (ditto) 6 0 0 Gee, Mrs. 5, Victoria-road 0 10 0 Godfrey, Mrs., Douro-place 0 5 0 Good, Mr., Palace-green 1 0 0 J., by H. H. W. 5 0 0 Jackson, Mrs., 3, Sheffield-terrace 0 5 0 Jones, Mr., 18, Victoria-road 0 10 6 Kershaw, The Rev. L. 0 8 0 Knight, Mrs. Bedford-place 0 5 0 Litt, Miss, Kensington-square 1 0 0 Merriman, Mr., 45, Kensington-square 1 1 0 Merriman, Mr. J. N., 7, Kensington square 1 1 0 Murray, Mrs., 23, Newland-street 0 10 0 Prendergast, Miss Mary, Norland-square 0 2 6 Penny, Mrs., 12, Upper Phillimore-place 1 1 0 Rathbone, Miss, 15, Lower Phillimore-place 5 0 0 (Donation) Rogers, Miss, 7, Albert-place, Victoria-road 0 5 0 Sheppard, Mrs., 5, Ladbroke-place West, 0 10 0 Notting-hill Sheppard, Miss, ditto ditto 0 10 0 Thornton, Mrs. Edward, 5, Kensington-gate 0 10 0 (Donation) Tudor, Mr., Bedford-place 0 5 0 Vincent, Mrs., Upper Phillimore-place 0 10 0 Vincent, Mr. George, ditto 0 10 0 Waddilove, Mrs., Ladbroke-place West, 0 5 0 Notting-hill Warner, Mr., 9, Kensington-square 0 5 0 Watson, Miss, Bath-place 1 1 0 White, Miss, 11, Pembroke-road 1 0 0 Willis, Miss, Palace-green 0 10 0 £91 15 1
APPENDIX D.
_The_ REV. J. H. SPERLING, _in Account with the Christ Church National Schools_, _in Gore Lane_.
1852. (DR.) £ _s._ _d._ Donations and Annual Subscriptions 42 12 6 Special Donations for the Purchase of the 92 14 0 Infant School Collection at Christ Church, June 27th 18 14 9½ Share of Collection at St. Mary Abbott’s, 14 11 0 Sept. 25 Christ Church Alms Boxes 2 4 2 Children’s Pence 10 16 4 Girls’ Needlework 2 3 0 183 15 9½ Balance due to Treasurer 41 1 3½ £224 17 1
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1852. (CR.) £ _s._ _d._ Balance due to Treasurer, January 1st 24 18 1 Master’s Salary 52 10 0 Mistress’ Salary 16 7 0 Collector’s Poundage 2 2 0 Books, Stationery, and School Materials 11 1 5½ Fuel 3 15 6½ Bookcases and Table 9 0 0 Purchase of Infant School 97 0 0 Rent of Infant School, 1½ years 7 10 0 Insurance of Infant School 0 13 0 £224 17 1
Examined and found correct, February 10th, 1853. GEO. WARNER.
_Subscriptions and Donations to the Christ Church National Schools in Gore Lane_, 1852.
£ _s._ _d._ The Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair 2 2 0 Abud, W. T., Esq. 0 10 0 Browne, A., Esq. 0 10 0 Bunyon, C., Esq. 1 1 0 Bunyon, Mrs. 0 10 0 Boyd, Mrs. 0 5 0 Bannester, — Esq. 1 0 0 Cooke, E. W., Esq., R.A. 1 1 0 Cole, Mrs. H. 0 10 0 Cope, C. W., Esq., R.A. 1 0 0 Croad, Major 1 1 0 Disbrowe, Miss 2 0 0 Dodd, — Esq. 0 10 6 Dodd, Mrs. 0 10 6 Frankum, H. H., Esq. 0 10 6 Frankum, Mrs. 0 10 6 Friend, by Mrs. Mayne 0 10 0 Gee, Mrs. 0 10 0 Gordon, Lord F. Hallyburton 1 0 0 Gordon, Lady Augusta 1 0 0 Green, Mrs. 0 5 0 Hildyard, Mrs. 1 0 0 Hooper, Esq. 0 10 0 Inverness, Her Grace the Duchess of (Donation) 1 0 0 Jones, C. A., Esq. 0 10 6 Jones, Miss 0 10 0 Kidd, R. C., Esq. 0 5 0 Kite, The Misses 0 5 0 Kingdom, W. Esq. 1 0 0 Lady, — per Archdeacon 1 0 0 Merriman, J., Esq. 1 1 0 Moore, Mrs. Carrick 0 10 0 Morton, — Esq. 0 10 0 Pearse, J., Esq. 1 0 0 Philp, Mrs. 0 10 0 Plasket, T. H., Esq. 1 1 0 Ramadge, Mrs., 1851 and 1852 1 1 0 Redgrave, Mrs. 0 10 0 Redgrave, Miss 0 5 0 Rendel, Mrs. 1 0 0 Rowley, Mrs. 0 10 0 Sperling, J. Esq. (Donation) 1 1 0 Sperling, Rev. J. H. 1 1 0 Taylor, Lady (Donation) 2 0 0 Turner, Mrs. 1 0 0 Vallotton, H. L., Esq. 1 1 0 Vallotton, Mrs., for 1851 0 10 6 Vallotton, Miss 0 10 0 Willis, Mrs. 1 0 0 Watson, J., Esq. 1 1 0 Weston, J., Esq. 1 0 0 Weston, A., Esq., Jun. 0 10 6 Weston, Mrs. 0 10 0 Weston, The Misses 0 12 0 42 12 6
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_Donations in aid of the Purchase of the Lower School_.
A Lady, by Archdeacon Sinclair 5 0 0 Miss White, Pembroke-road 10 0 0 A Lady, by Archdeacon Sinclair 5 0 0 E. W. Cooke, Esq., R.A. 3 3 0 A Friend, by Archdeacon Sinclair 10 0 0 Lady Caroline Lascelles 50 0 0 Miss Watson 5 0 0 A Friend, per Archdeacon 2 1 0 A Remembrance of a beloved Wife 2 10 0 92 14 0
APPENDIX E.
_The Treasurer in Account with the Work Society_.
1852. DR. £ _s._ _d._ Subscriptions and Donations 34 6 1 Clothes Sold 59 19 3½ £94 5 4½
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1852. (CR.) £ _s._ _d._ Adverse Balance from last year 1 1 4½ Paid to Workers 26 0 11 For Materials 65 7 4½ Printing, Stationery, &c. 1 3 5 Collectors and Messengers 0 19 9 94 12 10 94 5 4½ Adverse Balance 0 7 5½
Examined, and found correct, by me, Feb. 7th, 1853. S. PRICE DAVIES.
_List of Subscriptions and Donations to the Parochial Work Society_, 1852.