DhananJayarao Gadgll Library Ion~ 1111111111 mil mm 1~1I1~1 HI GIPE-PUNE-0630 14 ME MOl'l\'S:O F DR. BARNARPO: '., _.,--- I Ill: L \'-,T ['OR 1 K \1 r or 1)[< B \[C'AKi>{J MEMOIRS OF THK LATE DR. BARNARDO , ""BY '-' MRS. BARNARDO AND JAMES MARCHANT SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO DR. BARNARDO With an Introduction by ~ ROBERTSON NICOLL HODDER AND STOUGHTON. , LONDON: MCMVII .J I"J() '/ II .l~ , -' __ Edinbnrlb... 1. &II<S .L CoAT....... Priat.en .. HI' "a~t' THESE MEMOIRS ARE DEDICATED TO THE TRUSTEES THE PRESIDENTS ANti VICE-PRESIDENTS TO THE MEMBERS OF DR. BARNARDO'S U>UNCIL TO THE DEVOTED MEMBERS OF HIS STAFF AND TO IDS ~REN -THE THOUSANDS OF HIS ADOPTED CHILDREN IN EVERY CLIME PREFACE NEARLY twenty years ago Dr. Barnardo wrote:- ~ 'I wonder will the connected history of this work for God ever be written! I am afraid not. It would almost be too large an effort for anyone to attempt, for it would involve, amopg other tasks, the perusal of an immense correspondence received during the past twenty-one years from loving Christian friends of my w8.ifs from all over the wide world. Sometimes i have thought that I would myself essay to record, in a connected narrative, my experience of God's guidance and goodness during the past quarter of a. century. But time, wllich, like the flowing tide, waits for no man, fails me.' This volume is an ~ttempt to 'write that connected narrative. Whenever it is possible, Dr. Barnardo is allowed to speak for himself. Naturally the chief place is given to his public work, but· at every point appears his attractive .personality. The work commences'with an Introd~ction by one of Dr. Barnarda's oldest friends - Dr. Robertson Ni~ol1. His brothir, Dr. F. A. E. J3arnardo, is largely responsible for the first chapter, and Mr. William Baker, M.A., LL.B., the Honorary Director of the Homes, contrIbutes a chapter on the ''Future of the Homes.' vii Vlll DR. BARNARDO Thanks are due and most gratefully rendered to Mrs. Howard Taylor, Dr. F. A. E. Darnardo. Dr. Mayer, and all friends who have sent IcttcrH or reminiscences, and also to Mr. William McCall. Mr. Howard Williams, 1.Ir. H. S. 'YcHcome, Mr. ~'\ M. I Scoone, and 1.Ir. 'Yynne Grenville, for their valuaLle s:rvices in preparing this work. CONTENTS J PAGE PREFACE Vll Th'TRODUCTION. W. ROBERTSON NICOLL xv CHAPTER I Bmm A....1'ID BOYHOOD I CHAPTER n rummm A...1'ID BAPTISM. 9 CHAPTER ill TIlE 1IISSIONARY MEDICAL STUDENT 28 CHAPTER IV MISSION WORK IN LONDON. CIiAPTER V 61 CHAPTER VI FOUR TURNlNG-POI~"TS 76 CHAPTER VII THE FIRST BOllE 87 x DR. DARNARDO CHAPTER VIn THE EDINBURGU CASTLE CIIAPTEU IX JUS MARr..IAGE AND ArTER . 111 C CIIAPTEU X THE VILLAGE nOME 117 CHAPTER XI THROUGH STORM TO SUNSIlINE CHAPTEH XII EMIGRATION. IG4 ()HAPTER XIII BOARDING-OUT HI5 CHAPTER XIV LITIGATION AND RELATIONS WI TIl ROltfANIST8 20l CHAPTER XV FI!iANCUL MIRACLE8 2H CHAPTER XVI .A CRISIS-AND WHAT IT LED TO • 2Z3 • CHAPTER XVII • FULL STEAM AHEAD .. CHAPTER XVIII ILLNESSES AND DEATH CONTENTS Xl CHAPTER XIX PAGS REMINISCENCES AND TRIBUTES 278 CHAPTER XX CONCLUSION 298 THE FUTURE OF THE HOMES 328 ) BY MR. WILLIAM BAKER. APPENDICES APPENDIX A- Chronological Table 332 APPENDIX B- My First Arab and other Stories. By Dr. Barnardo. 342 APPENDIX C- A Table showing the scope of the Principal Voluntary Organisations in the United Kingdom for the Recep- , tion of Destitute, Ailing, Abandoued, and Orphaned Children, 1552-1906 . 362 APPENDIX D- Table showing the Growth of the Village Home 369 APPENDIX :&- Tabular Statement of the Children boarded out by Dr. Barnardo 373 APPENDIX F- a Statistical Record of • Ever-Open Doors' since dates of Opening 374 APPENDIX G- • Material Relief supplied to Necessitous Cases not admitted to the Homes: 1895-1906 375 xu DR. BARNARDO AITENDIX 1I- tAt•• Relationa with the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 376 APPENDIX 1- Ten Yea.rs' Disposals: 1897·1906 381 AC'PENDIX J- Statistical Summary of the Work dono during tho Year 1906. 3t12 APPENDIX K- Receipts from 1866 to 1906, and l\O analysil of girta 8.8 to number and amount APPENDIX L- Complete List of Homes, BranchCl\ and Orh'IlJlill&tion. founded by Dr. Barnardo 38G APPENDIX 111- Bibliography. INDEX .. 395 ILL USTRATIONS THE LAsT PORTRAIT OF DR. BARYARDO • FAClXG PAGE THOllAS J. BAR..'fARDO AT THE AGES OF ELEVEN, FOURTEEN, Ali-D Twun-OxE,. 6 45 HOPE PLACE, WORLD'S END, 1t'lIERE DR. BARxARDO BEGAN HIS WORK; AND JIll JARVIS, ms FIRST ARAB, SHOWING Hll( A GROUP OF HollELESS BoYS .ASLEEP ON THE ROOF OF A HOUSl!: nf NoV&llBER 1866 • 77 Tim 'EDn""BURGH CASTLF..' THE PEOPLE'S MISSION CHURCH AND Conu P ALACK • 95 P ANORAKIC VIEW OF THE GIB.LS' VILLAGE HOl'LE, BARKIXGSIDE 125 • M.&. W ILLIAJ( BA.Jam, HONORARY DIRECTO:& OF DR. BARxARDO'S Holn:S. 129 THE CHILDRD'S CHURCH ST. LEONARD'S LoDGE, SURBlTON. THE HOUSl!: WHl!::&K BAR.xARDO DIED, 19TH SEPTl!:llBK:& 1905. (Page 270) FOUNDER'S DA.Y, 1905. DR. BAlUfARDO GREETING HIS 'BoYS • 0] 139 DR. BARNARDO TALKlXG TO HIS CRIPPLE LADs llEB. M.uEsTrs HOSPITAL, STEPNR CAUSEWAY 149 GROUP OF CANADIAN HOMES 170 xiii . XlV DR. BARNARDO Ttl'JCAL GROUl' (II' Evn·On.. DOOM 217 TUREE TnlcAL Lo5OO.. 1I0Ku TTPICAL GROUP or COUlITl1Y HOKES • 211 TUB WATTS NAVAL Ta..u:nNO ScOOOL, NORTH EUIH.U', Nounl K. PRUEYTltD BY THE LATE E. H. \\'ATTa 210 GROUP• or PRESIDltNT8 or DR. BARlI"Utoo'a 11OJ11:8 MRS. BARN,umo DR. BAR1U,ItOO'. GRAVE, OPPOSITE C.URS8 HOt'SE, AT TIIJ: OlltiX .., VlI.LA.OJ: HOKE, BAIUnl108IDE 271 DR. BARIUROO AT Won: l:f TOE BOARD flooK, STunT CAUSEWAY £ilO • DR. DARNAROO'S FAJfILT 3<)8 18·26 STEPNET C.U;SEWAY. 11EADQUARTEI~ or TUB bnlTUTIOU AND BoTS' HOME ML HOWA.RD 'VILLIAKS, TUA.8UUA OJ' tox NATlOlfAL Ml.ltlORIAL FUND MR. WILLIA.X McCALL, VICJ:-PRESIDUT OP TUB 1I0JoIk8 APPENDIX A CHRONOLOGICAL 'f A n J~E OF TIlE CHIEF EVENTS OF DR. nARNARDO'H La'l-; 1845, Jo1y 4. Born in Dublin. Confirmed by the Archbi¥1op 01 lJul.) in. 1862, August 26. lIis conversion. " October 19. IIi" baptism at the Abhey Strt'f't l~l'tj.,i Cbapc~ DUblin. 1866. First meeting with the llcv. Hudson Taylor lit Dr. Grattan Ouinnep.g's house in DuIJlin. I1is decision to go to China as a mis:.ionary. April. Leaves Dublin and goc" to London with the " . purpose ol studyin,g lor lhia lmrk. October 1. He enters the London UORpitaJ ft.II a f-tu(t('nt. " Becomes Superintendent ()C Ernc',t St~et " Ragged School. and re8ignll a Cew month" • later• Starts, together with a lew lcllow-6tudcntM, a " Ragged School in a di.~tl8Cd stable in Stepney. Novl!mber. Meets his firht Arab, Jim Jarvi, a.nd J.TOvid('1'! " • a home lor him. , 1867, 1.rJrch. .Assists at the Bible Stand at the FJI"~tj'IP Universclle, Pari~. " July 25. Writes an appeal in The It~fritral BIIkifl,g lor monetary help to a...~ist the rough LW~ and boys, also girls and young "'omeo of Stepney. " September 21. Passes the preliminary medical examination for Durham University. 3ilt . APPENDIX A 333 1867, October. Registers as a student at the London Hospital. Assists during the cholera outbreak in East " London. Tells the story of how he found homeless waifs " at a Missionary Conference at the Agricul­ tural Hall, Islington, and receives his first public subscription of 6!d. He dines with Lord Shaftesbury, repeat! his " story, and shows him destitute boys sleeping under roofs in the East End. Nov:ember 5. Gives a free tea-meeting to 2347 rough " lads, young men, girls, young women, and children, to inaugurate his mission-work among them, in the Assembly Rooms of the King's Arms, at the corner of Beaumont Square. December. He falls seriously ill, which stops his work for " a period of two months. 1868, March 2. He starts afrj:lsh in two cottages -in Hope Place, Stepney, under the title of the East End Juvenile Mission. Wood-chopping and Shoeblack Brigades added to the mission-work. He offers himself as a candidate for the China " Inland Mission, but is advised to pursue his medical studies further before going. 1870, 'September. He opens a Home for Working and Destitute Boys at IS' and 20 Stepney Cau~ewaYI London, E. A City Messenger.1;3rigade is added. " Shoemakers' and .Bru'Shmakers· shops opened; 1871." Ragged Schools. opened in Salmon's Lane, London,.E. Tract and Pure Literature Depot lopened in " North'Street, Limehouse, E. 187~, August. Evangelistic and temperance work carried on • in a big tent" opposite the Edinburgh Castle public-house, with Joshua and -Mary Poole as the evangelists. ' ft, "" October. Purchase of the Edinburgh .Castle public­ house. 334 DR. BARNARDO 1873, Ft'hruary U. The Edinburgh Cdstlc ol'l('noo a.A u llisl'ion Church and Coffl'e Palace. The I COffl'6 Palace' Will! the first institution o( the kind to adopt the name. June 17. His marriage with lli~ S)-rie LlJui."le Elm~)it.' " at the Metropolitan Tabt'rn~:le. October. The Home for J).·stitute Girll! I>tartl'J at. )IollSo " ford Lodge, n,uking,~iJe, J:I'\X('X, "llitil hall been 'given by ~fr. Jelhn B.uul'l ")l' a krm of fifu'CD yellrs for that pur}'J()t!('.