Excerpt from Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Ministry at Large, in the City of Providence: Presented and Read at a Public Meeting Held in the Westminster Congregational Church, Sunday Evening, January 23, 1870The need of an institution that does not exist among us is coming every year to be more sensibly felt. I refer to a Home for Aged Men, to be established essentially upon the princi ples of that excellent charity - the Home for Aged Women. Attention has for several years been turned to the establish ment of a Free Public Library. Such an institution 1s called for by the growth of our city and the spirit of the age. It is to be hoped that in the midst of increasing material activity and prosperity, a measure so calculated to advance the intel ligence and refinement of the community, will not for a mo ment be lost sight of, and that at no distant day it may be consummated on a scale honorable to the wealth and public Spirit of our city.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.