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Fifth Anniversary of the Home of the
Friendless - Addresses by Rev. N.
West and Rev. Kingston Goddard.

rHth anniversary oil the Home OF the
Friendless - Addresses by Rev. N.
West and Rev. Kingston Goddard.
The hfth anniversary of the Home of the
Friendless WAS held last night at Union Chapel,
audience was quite large, Notwithstanding the
weather, which doubtless deferred many per-
sons from attending who, under any other cir
oumstances, would have been present.
sEcRETARY's REPORT.
The usual devotional exercises, such as read.
Ing the Scriptures, singing and prayer, opened
the meeting, after which the report of the sec-
rotary, Mrs. 8. Frankland, was read by Judge
Storer. The report was elegantly written, and
in many parts was quite rhetorical In style.
It was long and embodied relation Of the
doings Of the Board Of Managers, their visits
to the Prisons and Hospitals, their hopes and
fears, and containing many incidents and
statements from persons who had been re-
claimed through the efforts of the Society, that
must have been grateful to Its members as
they were interesting to the audience.
The Home for the Friendless has now been
In successful operation Ave years, and during
all this time has been pleading for help to en-
able the Board Of Managers to provide q suit
able place for the accommodation of the females
under their oarej but still they labor under the
disadvantage of an apparent lack of general
interest In the institution In tho community
and an almost depleted Treasury. During
the past year one hundred persons have been
received into the Home, and there has been
but one death-that of an infant.
The report closed with an appeal to the gem
erous to assist them in the work they had un-
dertsken, sincere regret for the sickness of
the President, whose counsel and aid the Board
could not spare, and remembrance Of the
sympathy it had received from the friends Of
the Institution.
TREAsURER's REPORT.
The report of the Treasurer, Miss. Mary A..
Graf, was also quite long, and was only par
tally read. The receipts during the year, In
Guiding the balance on hand at the last re-
port, amounted TO $3,9O5 81, Of which $45l
were received by subscription, and $576 4S by
donations. The expenditures, including house
rent and house expenses, amount to S., ,740 88,
leaving balance in the Treasury of $l84 SO,
ADDRESS BY REV. N. WEST.
Rev. Mr.. West opened his address by stating
that he was glad Of the opportunity afforded
him to speak in behalf of the almost aband-
oned class, whom the Association had taken
under Its charge. The female who had once
sinned was seldom reclaimed, and the fault
was principally that of society. The betrayer
was taken into the parlor and made friend,
but the victim Of his plot was crushed to the
earth. No one could deny this fact, but could
any one assert that it was the result of true
Christian spirit. 1t is, however, the spirit of
virtuous community, but was it such an one
as the brother would bear toward his sister, or
a father toward his erring child
ADDRESS Ely REV. KINGSTON GODDARD.
Rev. MIR. Goddard spoke of the cause In
which these noble women were engaged, and
was glad to see so large q number present the
fact might be denied, bat it could not be dis
guised, that the persons who were to blame for
the misery of those fallen women were our
brothers and our fathers, and with reference
to tho more advanced in age, many OF them
were to be found in our churches.
He had stood at the bed. side of the dying
girl whose life had been one of shame, and
breathed into her ear the same words of con
ISOLATION he had used to the members of his
church, and knew there was no depth the
divine arm could not reach. Their hearts
were naturally No worse than ours, and might
be touched by the same voice and restrained
by tho same love. Conversion was not merely
moral reformation, and if they were approached
with confidence and love, their hearts might
be found and changed.
Art and science always undertook the hard
est task, that they might leave the greater
monuments. The diver found the brightes,
pearl in the midst Of a mass of corruption; and
SO in this case many Of the brightest intel.
lects were clouded by shame, and angels were
often hidden beneath the tinsel and rouge o
the unfortunate Magdalen.