HOMELESS YOUNG GIRLS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4408, 30 September 1871, Page 3

HOMELESS YOUNG GIRLS.

Shivering, quivering, through the coiil street, With a curse behind and before thy feet, ; AsU.*m«d to l' ve . an( * ott.tld *« ( I*' ! 5 No home, no friend, »pd a pitifoss s"»y. TO -THE EDITOR. Sir, .- How to wissly set about the work of rescuing the fallen, is a problem waiting solution. To set about it i8 ono thing; to do rso wisely is another. The appoiutn^eat^f a woman; as missionary to the Gaol, &c, would appear to be a, step in, the right direction, and I trust, if 1 Mrs. Coiclotigh shbuld offer herself, that the' gentteraen with whom the .responsibility , of making tho appointment rests will accept of her services. Her warm woman's heart would^wm ifca way among the sick and fallen, and appeal with irresistible ,foVctQ to fchejbetter nature of the atalwarfc mah. Everybody knows what woman can do in g3ols,' and.t© very body ,ow»s that to reclaim itheJerriogiH.womau's, owa,\v6rk. And the^e is work enough for every true woman %o do, especially; ifr .helping • tboje,, /who jhave^errad' walk: houeatj jupaght paths iT .a task the ! true woman is equal ,to. ,The sickly," seniimental goodne»3 which fears to approath "dofelement'leat its purity be Garnished h id b'etjipr . .'stand 'alpipf;/ as* likewise also 'tiekind of goodness which finds vent for' it» If *in sxxpercUfpuS, 1 Wanting talk.— l am, Ac, ' - i.n,»^;ir • y "" '_ Hopb.l { .- / TO TpEfEDITOB X I qi r> __Your carneit appeals on uenait |ot fallen women .mv^t have, -set your , ttbinkipg. Babi» 4 ct,' bafe,^t <jin n«ver "«oil my pen,7 , JHi»Vw..tfy f &*»» J

I roqk oa which all onr goodly works and ways ar« split—* sentimental ahiipking from pollution. Whfct ! shall we go to them to make the contrast between purity and impunity more marked?' God forbid. , jSin and suffering so whets tKe finer sensibilities, that an the Tery nature of things those who know $opibg> of temptation cannot scud oat fei lers delicate enough to reach that very, very gore spot, deep down out of- sight— a wounded spirit. Strange; that those who h^ve faith in the efficacy of preaching down, and living down, ' the sin i for w|»ich they have no appetite should kasva suffered it to make such headway. We legislate for the hour, not for the year. Wfi »re f wading in 1 moral pollution that "Boils' v ' ( us more deeply than we know. We cannot afford to leave men and women where they are J But, honestly, I don't know what is best to be done. I think I have willing hinds and heart, and *hat one woman would do the work better than twenty, but that woman ought to be able to^ive herself in "Very deed— that is not me. I don't believe in half-and-half measures. — I have, &c, S. 0.

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