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ury Box of the Society. If sometimes at a meeting 

 the social glass and the national song have found 

 a place, all will agree that it was in good keeping 

 with natural feeling, and few will be found to con- 

 demn the practice. For the more extensive useful- 

 ness of the Society the great want is, in plam 

 language — money. There are other means, how- 

 ever, by which great service may be rendered, 

 such as seeking out proper objects and examining 

 the cases of applicants for relief, certificates of 

 which will always be cheerfully attended to by any 

 member of the Charitable Committee, whose duty 

 may be thereby rendered less burdensome and its 

 performance facilitated. 



" The great claim on the members, and on those 

 who may, by becoming members, or in any other 

 way, enjoy the privilege of doing good, is — their 

 countrymen in distress, strangers in a strange land, — 

 and although few have it in their power to relieve 

 every case, to the credit of humanity be it said, 

 fewer still is the number of those who can look on 

 such a scene with cold indifference, Tt need hardly 

 here be stated that the cases which call for charitable 

 aid are numerous. Those who, urged by philan- 

 thropy, or in the course of their duty as officers of 

 some charitable institution, have made a winter's 

 walk through the narrow streets and by-lanes of this 

 large city — those and those only can duly appreciate 

 the value of a few dollars, or what good even a 



