children, I will preserve them alive.’  Nor is the orphan family merely furnished with sufficient accommodation for dwelling and moral and religious education:  the grounds afford ample room for exercise and recreation; the garden supplies them with fruit and vegetables; and there being pasture for several cows, wholesome milk is added to their simple breakfast, while the abounding river invigorates the frame by a saline bath, and by casting a net into it, furnishes an occasional dinner of fresh fish.”

The society, ever grateful to the founders, have erected a tablet on the wall of the beautiful chapel, which bears the following inscription: 

SACRED TO THE MEMORY

OF

ISABELLA GRAHAM,
WHO DIED 27TH JULY, 1814;

AND OF

MRS. SARAH HOFFMAN,
WHO DIED 29TH JULY, 1821.

THEY WERE BOTH FOUNDERS OF THIS INSTITUTION.

TO THEIR PRAYER OF FAITH,
AND WISDOM IN DIRECTING ITS COUNSELS,
THE SOCIETY IS INDEBTED FOR MUCH OF THE SUCCESS THAT HAS
ATTENDED IT.

THEY WERE LOVELY IN THEIR LIVES,
AND DURING MANY YEARS THEY TRAVELLED TOGETHER THE WALKS
OF CHARITY.

WHEN THE EAR HEARD THEM IT BLESSED THEM, AND THEY CAUSED THE
WIDOW’S HEART TO SING FOR JOY.

THEY NOW REST FROM THEIR LABORS,

PARTAKERS OF THE BLESSEDNESS OF THOSE
WHO DIE IN THE LORD: 

THEIR WORKS DO FOLLOW THEM.

The success which has attended the Orphan Asylum Society, furnishes strong encouragement to attempt great and good objects even with slender means.  God in his providence will command a blessing on exertions of this character.  It is too common a mistake, and one fatal to the progress of improvement, that great means should be in actual possession before great objects should be attempted.  Ah, were our dependence simply on apparent instruments, how small must be our hopes of success.  There is a mystery, yet a certainty, in the manner by which God is pleased in his providence to conduct feeble means to a happy conclusion.  Has he not preserved, cherished, and blessed his church through many ages, amidst overwhelming persecutions, and that often by means apparently inadequate to this end?  We must work for, as well as pray for the blessing which God has promised to bestow on our sinful race.  We must put our shoulder to the wheel, while we look up to heaven for assistance, and God will bless those who are found in the path of duty.

In this asylum, the ladies have set no limits to the number to be received; and it has pleased God also not to set limits to the means necessary for their support.  The institution is a great favorite with the public, and is frequently visited by strangers, who are delighted with the cleanliness, health, and cheerful countenances of the orphans.

The Society have received a charter of incorporation from the legislature; they have a handsome seal, with this inscription:  “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto me.”