single dollar may sometimes effect in the garret, the 

 cellar and the hovel, when properly distributed and 

 seasonably applied. It is not so much the common 

 beggar, whose home is in every street and at every- 

 body's door, who claims the attention of the Chari- 

 table Committee ; it is more frequently the silent 

 sufferer who has seen better days ; assistance to 

 whom, when administered with delicacy, comes nearer 

 the heart of both him who gives and him who receives. 

 Benevolence is the avowed purpose of the Society, 

 the every-day work of the Charitable Committee, 

 and may it not shine forth once a year through the 

 fellowship of that band, united for the perpetuity of 

 the means which may keep the hands of Charity in 

 constant exercise." 



The address concluded with an appeal to all who 

 were charitably disposed to assist the Society, either 

 by becoming members, if eligible, or by donations to 

 its funds ; but the success attending its circulation was 

 apparently limited, since at the April quarterly meet- 

 ing of the same year the question of "how to fur- 

 ther increase the membership " was again considered, 

 and a committee of eighteen was appointed to pro- 

 mote this object. At this meeting a committee of 

 five was selected to devise means for increasing the 

 Permanent Fund, to which the President was subse- 

 sequently added. The records fail to show what 

 success attended the efforts of the first named com- 

 mittee, but the second would seem to have taken up 



