Nazareth Orphans' Home

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Excerpt from Nazareth Orphans' Home: Founded August 13, 1903, Opened December 2, 1906, A Home for Orphan Children, Age 5 to 18, Under the Southern Synod of the Evangelical and Reformed ChurchA Vision! Out of it has come Nazareth Orphans' Home. Faith in the ability and willingness of the Church to be as a father and a mother to her boys and girls who had none. There was no land, no buildings, no charter, no Board of Managers, no Superintendent. The seed-idea had been planted two years earlier at the annual session in Lower Stone Church. In 1899 the Classis adopted: It is the sentiment of the Classis of North Carolina that something definite should be done with reference to the orphans of our Church - Resolved, that a committee of three be appointed to investigate the feasibility of the establishment of an orphans' home for our Classis.Prior to this meeting of the Classis an article in the! Corinthian called attention to two things: first, that there was no such home for which appeal could be made at Christmas for support, and second, that there must be some children who need such a home.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.