A GREAT HORSE 



to carry out your plan in the broadly democratic and 

 all-inclusive spirit that has evidently inspired you. 



"It is quite the fashion in these days in certain cir- 

 cles to cry out against charity, on the ground that 

 'when we have justice we shall have no need of char- 

 ity.' I believe this is literally true, and I also believe 

 that from present indications it will be many decades, 

 possibly some centuries, before humanity will have 

 learned just social and political relation, and pending 

 that time, I am sure that the sweet spirit of charity, 

 whose other name is love, must represent the divine 

 impulse that is looking and longing for the better day. 



"I heartily approve your suggestions as to the make- 

 up of the committee, and in the additions that I pro- 

 pose, I have merely sought to supplement and carry 

 out the ideas that you have suggested rather than to in- 

 troduce any new ones of my own. I sincerely hope 

 that the spirit that has prompted you to make this 

 offer may inspire others who are in position to do so, 

 to co-operate to the end that the whole city for one 

 blessed day of the year, may have relief from the sor- 

 did business of getting and may devote their thoughts 

 to the joy and delight of giving, even if it be but little. 

 Those whom you have suggested as suitable persons 

 to become members of the committee to take charge 

 of this matter are: John Wright, Fred A Brown, 

 Father O'Brien, Father Hannin, George Sheets, S. C. 

 Schenck, B. A. Stevens, John F. Gunckel, Gen'l C. M. 

 Spitzer, Albert Neuhausel, Charles Hall, Negley 



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