Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1913 — Give With Your Heart. [ARTICLE]

Give With Your Heart.

In these days the squalid regions of our great cities are being explored and improved by various 'methods of systematic beneficence. “Christian Settlements” are established; bureaus of charity are formed and associations for the relief of the poor are organized. A noble work; but, after all, the most effective bureau Is one that, in a waterproof and a stout pair of shoes, sallies off on a wintry night to some abode of poverty with not only supplies for suffering bodies, but kind words of sympathy for lonesome hearts. A dollar from a warm hand with a warm word is worth $2 sent by mail or by a messenger boy. The secret of power in doing good is personal contact. Our incarnate “Elder Brother” went in person to the sick chamber. He anointed with his own hand the eyes of the blind man and he touched the loathsome leper into health. The portentous chasm between wealth and poverty must be bridged by a span of personal kindness over which the footsteps must turn in only one direction. Heart must touch heart—Theodore Ledyard Cuyler.