"Something attempted, something done!" / by T. J. Barnardo.

  • Barnardo, Thomas John, 1845-1905.
Date:
[1889]
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Credit: "Something attempted, something done!" / by T. J. Barnardo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    failure, our Lord has enabled me to go forward from strength to strength; and while in this record I try to trace the marvellous succession of steps by which I have been thus far led, I would reverently and gratefully ascribe ALL' to the Divine guidance and blessing. In the strong confidence born of such an experience, I would again seek the prayerful sympathy and the active co-opera- tion of all who call themselves Christians, on behalf of this earnest attempt, under God, to apply the Gospel on its practical side to the rescue of the perishing, and to the salvation of destitute children. During 1888 the Institutions have been reaping in large measure that which was sown in the preceding year. Our doors in 1886 had been pressed wide to the Avails by the ever-increasing throngs of destitute children, and I found myself rapidly reaching the limits of the accommodation at my disposal. I must either refuse any longer to write upon our Avails “ no destitute child refused admission,” or I must face the immediate necessity of en- larging the Homes. My resources were even then heavily strained to meet curient expenses; but I felt that in such circumstances it Avas my duty to go foravard, in confident assurance that the income (which had grown from ^150 received the first year to ^76,986 leceived in i886~7)would be expanded to the needs of the Avork, rather than to yield to the promptings of Avorldly prudence, and partially close the doors of the Institutions. Throughout the Jubilee year, therefore, all the Homes rang with the sound of axe and hammer. The Stepney Home had a considerable addition made to it; Leopold House Avas more than doubled; the Labour House for Destitute Youths was extended; “Her Majesty’s Hospital” Avas built; I re- organized our Emigration scheme; the large Manitoba Farm began to be developed; a Rescue Home for young girls Avas added, as was also The Children’s Fold for destitute cripples ; Avhile many other extensions and additions took place over all our Institutional economy. To do this added enormously, as may be imagined, to my already heavy financial burdens. But even as these necessities increased, our Lord put it into the hearts of His steAvards to remember His work in my hands more liberally; and though a great fart of the load yet remains unlifted, and has had to he met by the execution of a mortgage, I am glad and thankful to record the measure of en- & A New Call. Sowing and Reaping. In a Strait Betwixt Two. Jubilee Growth.