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“To comfort the desponding parent with the thought that, without

diminishing the stock which is imperiously demanded to furnish the

more pressing and homely wants of our nature, he has disposed of one

or more perhaps out of a numerous offspring, under the shelter of a

care scarce less tender than the paternal, where not only their bodily

cravings shall be supplied, but that mental pabulum is also

dispensed, which HE hath declared to be no less necessary to our

sustenance, who said, that, “not by bread alone man can live”: for

this Christ’s Hospital unfolds her bounty….”