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March intended to be done by the Society. He invites the attention of his readers as follows:
(DEAR BROTHER !
Consider for a moment the miseries of tliose poor orphans who have lost their parents in their very infancy, who being penniless have been left to their fate by those who once were called their ' near and dear,' and who · at present are quite destitute of food or clothes.
Poor widows ! Ah, they too deserve your sympathy. To say the least their husbands' untimely death has reduced them to such a state that they get up all hungry and go to bed just the same.
Here they are : the lame and blind, destitute of life and limb, fortune's direct pray. This class, too, entirely depends upon your charity.
Gentleman! I ask you in the name of the institution which undertakes to meet the requirements of all the three classes above mentioned, is it not an institution which really deserves your deepest sympatlıy above all?
Blessed are those who out of their earnings set apart something for the help of the orphans and the needy.
Oh! Take compassion upon poor waifs and do your best to help them." Tie objects of the society are shewn in the following terins:--
"1. (a) To provide for the maintenance of the orphans, helpless widows and invalids of the Jain Community (whether Digamber, Swetamber, or Thanak Panthe &c, &c, ) throughout India, as well as to bring up the orphans belonging to twice-born classes and the Sparsha Sudra class.
(b) To impart to the orphans, religious, secular, and technical education, and to teach them other useful arts.
2. To help the famine-striken people with food and raiments.
3. To invite attention of the people of the country to the support and eare of the orphans, and to encourage such people as take some interest in this noble cause, by means of rewards and expression of good wishes. .
