been mentioned already, is, that this is the first Conference that has been held south of the Ohio. I am glad to know that you have determined to invade the South in this way. I am glad to know that you have resolved ta fight under that great banner upon which is emblazoned "Charity to all, to the utmost limits of our Union," and I hope that when your next Conference shall meet, the whole South will be with you to further the great aims that you have. Kentucky appreciates your coming. She bade you welcome to her borders, and she now fulfills the other part of the programme, and wishes each and every one of you Godspeed, as her parting guests. We wish for you all success in your grand work. Whereever you go, you will have the kind feelings and best wishes of the people of this city and state.

Judge Bullock, of Louisville, was called upon by the President, and spoke as follows:

Judge Bullock, of Kentucky: Mr. President,Ladies and Gentlemen: I hardly know, at this late hour, what line of thought I can pursue. I am quite sure that nothing that I can say will add in the slightest degree to the profound interest which we all feel in the closing scenes of this Conference. I take occasion to say that it has been good for us of the City of Louisville that we have been here, and that we have been enlightened by the wisdom displayed in all the proceedings of this Conference.

Mr. President, I recollect, many years ago, to have met in one of the committee rooms of this house with your honored father. It was during his life-time, before his visit to Europe. There were some ten or twelve gentlemen present. From that time to the present I have been interested in the great cause in which you have been engaged, and for the furtherance of which you held this Conference in the City of Louisville. From that time to the present my attention has been directed to this subject, and it is with profound gratitude that I realize the fact that great advancement has been made, that we have taken hold of the public conscience; that we are gradually yet certainly enlisting the great heart of the nation in this cause cannot be doubted. We have the promise of God that a great work like this cannot fail.

I was struck, and the thought occurs to me in this connection, that this Conference has recognized the fact that it is our duty to memorialize Congress, to send a delegation to the Congress to be held in the City of Eome some time in the year 1884. It is right. It is the duty of a great Republic to be represented in that International Conference. What are we to gain by it? What will be the necessary results of that Conference? Our delegates will return invigorated and strengthened with the best knowledge of the world on these subjects on which we are engaged. There is a grand impulse abroad, throughout the world, in favor of the great cause in which we are laboring. It is one of the intimations of the Divine spirit of Christianity itself, and if we succeed, as we must succeed, if we are faithful to our trust, the time will 6ome when our own institutions will feel the reflex influences of the deliberations of that body which is to assemble in old Rome. There can be no doubt of it.

I heard a celebrated speaker on this stand the other day, a Jewish Rabbi. He spoke of the Old Testament doctrine in reference to charity. He spoke of charity as synonymous with Justice. I recollect, in that connection, to have read a work edited by your venerable father in which he developed the same idea. I recollect his language. He was refuting the idea that we derive our notions of liberty and constitutional right from the old republics of Greece and Rome. He said that our Declaration of American Independence, that terrible handwriting on the wall of despotism, was but an echo of the deep thunders of Mount Sinai. If we would maintain our Institutions in all of their integrity we must lift up humanity. We must stop the sources of crime, barbarism, ignorance and wretchedness.

It is remarkable that this is the first Conference of Charities I have ever attended in my life, which is now • drawing to a close, and I congratulate myself that before I lay down my life I have been permitted to listen to and> participate in the deliberations of this body. I feel that in having done so I have been benefited. I feel that in thus participating in your meeting and seeing the progress that you have made and which you are destined to make, we shall be achieving a great object and be discharging the great mission in which we, as the followers of our blessed Saviour, should be engaged, and to which we should dedicate our lives. I need say nothing more.

I congratulate you. I congratulate the noble women who have participated in the deliberations of this body. We listen to their reports and suggestions with profound attention; they are the ever present ministers of mercy to our fallen race; none of these institutions of which you have been speaking and for the benefit of which you have met here could do without them. How beautiful it is, that in some churches, those women who devote themselves wholly to the good of the human race are called Sisters. Ah! Who does not know that a sister's love and a sister's mercy is the purest incense that burns upon the altar of the human heart.

May I be permitted to say something in behalf of my state and in behalf of my city. I thank you for the compliment you have paid us, and I wish here to state that my distinguished friends Dr. Bell and Dr, Blackburn, have failed to tell this convention something which ought to be told. You will be surprised, but it is nevertheless true, that the city of Louisville, with a

population of one hundred and fifty thousand people, has more charitable institutions of a certain class than any other city of the same population in the"wide world. We have no less than ten orphan asylums under a strict religious management. We have another most remarkable institution—the only one of its kind in America, the Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home, philanthropic in its character and merciful in all its ministerings. Allusion has already been made to the institution with which I am connected, the Kentucky Institution for the Education of the Blind. Then, too, we have the American Printing-house for the Blind. This was organized in 1842, and was called the American Printing-house. For many years it was sustained alone by the state of Kentucky. We did not have money enough to build a house, and we did our printing in a basement, in the Kentucky Institution for the Education of the Blind. We have now received an appropriation from the United States, upon the condition that the books printed should be distributed pro rata among the several states. Kentucky has never refused an appropriation to this institution.

My friends, when you go home to your constituents, remember this, that Kentucky, boastful as she may be of her chivalry, her people, and her state, has yet nevertheless been among the first in charity, which in her sense, means justice to the oppressed, the weak and defenseless.

I thank you my friends, on behalf of the state of Kentucky, and of the city of Louisville, for the kind words which you have spoken.

The Conference then adjourned to meet at St. Louis, on the call of the officers.

APPENDIX,

SECTION MEETING.

CHILD-SAVING WORK.

On Friday, September 28th., at 3 P. M., a number of ladies and gentlemen, specially interested in child-saving work, met in one of the committee rooms adjoining the city council chamber. Hon. W. P. Letch worth, presided. There were present Mrs. E. B. Fairbanks and Mrs. Mary E. Cobb, of Wisconsin, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Miles, Mrs. Benton J. Hall and Mr. L. D. Lewelling, of Iowa, Mr. P. Caldwell, of Kentucky, Dr. C. R. Putnam, of Massachusetts, Mr. W. G. Fairbank, of Vermont, Rev. C. H. Bond, of Connecticut, and others.

The following papers were read:

NOTES ON THE SYSTEM OF VISITING THE GIRLS AND SMALLER BOYS WHO ARE WARDS OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS.

BY MISS E. C. PUTNAM, TRUSTEE OF THE STATE PRIMARY AND REFORM SCHOOLS, AND AN AUXILIARY VISITOR OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH, LUNACY AND CHARITY.

Number of Auxiliary Visitors, (women) 83; traveling expenses paid; one salaried visitor is employed as shown later. These visitors hold three meetings per year: one in Boston, at the State House, one in each of the State Schools (Primary and Industrial Schools). Number of children visited, i. e., girls from the above named schools with others placed on probation directly from the courts, or as neglected and dependent, without passing through any institution (also boys under 12 years of age), from 400 to 450, the number constantly varying.

This would, if equal division were made, assign six wards to the care of each Auxiliary Visitor. Such is not however the arrangement, the more or less populous districts, and various other conditions, causing a larger