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It did not spread much beyond England, and had at the time of the suppression of the monasteries twenty-one well endowed convents, with orphanages and houses for the poor and sick.
At the present time there are women directors of hospitals and orphanages in Amsterdam who are called by the title of deaconesses.
From the two orphanages at Beirut and Jerusalem over forty have gone out as teachers in girls' schools in Palestine and Syria.
In the course of our residence in India we have seen many of the missions in the North-West, but our acquaintance with them is too slight to enable us to mention the number given by orphanages to the higher class of native agents.
We remember cases where children were committed to well-ordered Christian families with happy results, but for many years after orphanages were founded there were no such families to receive them.
With these causes operating to produce the class from which orphanages are recruited, there is no likelihood of the time coming when they will not be needed.
Some have come out of orphanages well equipped for the highest work by character and attainments.
While admitting that the Government was making great efforts to carry on the work of education in the camps, General Botha said he could not help sharing with his colleagues many objections to the large orphanages which had been referred to.
Large orphanagesare already in existence at Irene in the Transvaal, and Brandfort and Springfontein in the Orange River Colony; and suitable provision is also being made for widows.
At the age of twelve, the boys who are not claimed by relatives, are placed at the orphanages of Montfort or of St. Arsène, or adopted by respectable families.
In cold fact, orphanagesdo not present any perplexing resemblance to an earthly paradise.
These girls were called "les filles du roi," since they were maintained at the charge of the king's bounty in the philanthropic orphanages of France.
Such children are put in orphanages under the supervision of nuns, and taught a trade which afterwards enables them to provide for themselves.
Recently a few orphanages were built where children, abandoned by their parents, are being brought up and trained for some useful vocation.
The orphanages are most successful, and the leper establishments--where those living dead are cared for by the nuns at the sacrifice of their own lives--cannot fail to excite universal admiration.
Not only are orphanages established, but missionaries use many other means to provide for helpless, dependent, or neglected children who are thrown on their care.
That severe and epidemic disease should find its way into the orphanages at all may seem strange to those who judge God's faithfulness by appearances, but many were the compensations for such trials.
This child showed a genuine interest in sport in Friesland, in excavations in Maastricht, in ships and quays and docks in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and in hospitals and orphanages everywhere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "orphanages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
