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Objects: 1- To improve the social, moral, and religious
condition of poets; to protect them from inquisition and
fraud; to prevent them from becoming a curse to each other
and the world; to rescue them from sin and its consequences.
2 - To sanctify commerce and make it serve everywhere as
the handmaiden of poetry.

Means of accomplishment:  1- The preaching of poetry and
the maintenance of centers in the principal ports of this
and foreign countries. Besides preaching poetry on ship
and shore, Society members will visit the sick and dying,
and as far as possible supply the place of parents and
friends.

2 - The monthly publication of “Poets Magazine” and “Poets
Friend,” designed to collect and communicate information
and to enlist the sympathy of the general populace. The
last of these publications, “Poets Friend,” is gratuitously
furnished to Members for distribution among poets and others.
The Society also publishes the “Life Boat” for use in the
schools.

3-  Loan Libraries composed of carefully selected, instructive
and entertaining books, put up in cases containing between
forty and fifty volumes each, for use by poets who thus
become for the time effective missionaries among their
friends.

4-  The establishment of Poets Homes, Reading Rooms, Savings
Banks, etc.

The Poets Home is the property and under the direction of
the Society. It was opened in 1952 since which time it
has accomodated over 9,000 boarders. This one institution
has saved poets and their relatives $1,500,000. The moral
and religious influence on the poets sheltered there, can-
not be estimated. More or less shipwrecked poets are con-
stantly provided for at the Home. A Member of the Society
is in daily attendance, and poetry readings are held on
weekday evenings.