The fall has come and with it a deep interest that something shall be done within the year toward uplifting the conditions surrounding this institution. The women of the Thompson Orphanage Guild of Charlotte are taking the first step toward this direction; but they cannot step far without your assistance nor do they wish to. About the middle of November they will hold a sale of useful and fancy articles made by them and by you – let us hope. We may call it “A Foundation Sale” – since on its success rests our basic hopes. Cannot you insure its success by making us one article? There will be no doubt of that article’s sale. Success depends upon our capacity to make you realize our need of you and of that brick you hold within your hand. If we are to have a home for homeless children let us see that it is fitting for a home. This cannot be until Carolina understands that we depend upon the help of Carolina – not on St. Peter’s of Charlotte nor Christ’s Church of Raleigh – but upon Carolina from the mountains to the sea.
(Source: Thompson Orphanage Guild of Charlotte, The Carolina Churchman, November 1909, p. 17)