This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... ing on Sunday evening in Central New York, was introduced to the wife of one of the deacons of that church, by whose side stood her little innocent daughter twelve years of age. Six months later that fond mother died, and the daughter was sent among strangers to attend school. Without a mother's protecting care she drifted into temptation and fell. In less than four years after her mother's death her heart-broken father brought her to the Anchorage and begged us to help him save his child. Before she was sixteen she was a mother, but was kindly cared for and her child adopted into a good family. She is now a faithful wife and Christian. Such in brief outline is the sad history of a few eases representing thousands of young girls today. Taken before they are utterly lost by debauchery and disease, they may become good, useful women, and a blessiDg to the world. Shall the means which make this soul saving work possible be lacking? Friends of humanity, will you not lift this work to security? May Our Father prompt you to give now as He has prospered you and also in your last bequests to remember this most worthy charity, that your works may follow you, even after you have entered into that rest that remains for the people of God. Who would not consecrate a portion of their means to sxich a work as this? We do all in our power to make this institution as (nearly self-supporting as possible and our girls work early and late without a murmur anxious to do their part, but to give the time it requires to instruct them in order to make them self-supporting, true women, we must largely depend upon our friends to give us the means to carry on this soul saving work. Most of our girls have little or no home training and by the time they are competent...