Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-03-10
THE CITY.
House Of tho Good shepherd.

ltcannot but be gratifying to our citizens
when they understand the object, to learn
that the Religious or Sisters of the order Of
our Lady of the Good Shepherd are about
establishing one of their houses In this city
A property for their use has been purchased
of John W. Brown, Esq, for the sum OF
$500, and the deed for the same entered for
record. Possession is to be given OH the
lst of May next. The property is thus de-
scribed in the deed:
All that part of lots Nos. and in La
tham's addition to the city of Columbus
beginning at a point on East Spring street
"a feet west of the intersection of Spring
and Latham streets, south side; thence
southwark, at right angles with Spring
street, 100 feet; thence westward, on the
south line of lot No. 8, A feet; thence north
ward, at right angles, 100 feet to the line of
Spring street; thence eastward, from the
center of the wall dividing the houses num-
bered 15l and 153 East Spring street, to the
place of beginning, with the house and i'm
provements thereon, as the east house of
McKee's building on Spring street, Colum-
bus, Ohio. r H..
The aim of the Sisters of the Good Shep-
herd, in establishing their Houses of Refuge,
as they may be called, is nothing less than
to reclaim and thoroughly reform the most
abandoned and hardened of their own sex.
In order that the reader may understand
more fully the object aimed at by the Sis
ters and their mode of procedure to attain
it, we make the following extract from the
Report of the House of the Good Shepherd
in New York City, dated Feb. 20, 1865:
1t is House Of Correction, attempting
by moral means alone to reform the worst
abuses and to provide home, quiet and
happy retreat for the inmates of the houses
of infamy. Although the Sisters live in
separate houses, yet one or more of them
are always present, night and day, to direct
and control the penitents, in their various
duties, striving always to gain their affec-
tion, in order to be able to bring them to
contrition and remOrse.
On application to the Institution, as long
as any room remains to accommodate them,
young women coming from any part of the
country, or Of any religion whatever, are
received without being questioned, and the
same uniform kindness is paid, and the
same accommodations and training provi-
ded for all, witht ut the least regard being
paid to the particular religion to which
they have been educated.
AS no force is used to compel persons to
enter the Institution, so they are under no
restraint to remain; but on application to
the Mother Superior, can at any time leave,
though while under protection, they always
remain within the enclosure, where they
are trained, educated to useful occupations,
and when thoroughly reformed, the Religi-
GUS give them perpetual home, or send
them into the world safe, useful and virtu-
Gus members of society.
The labors of the Sisters have been at
tended with the happiest results, not only
on account of the number who have been
received into the establishment, but be-
cause, in most instances, those who have
entered have been entirely and thoroughly
converted.
The Institution is divided into three
Glasses, each of which is entirely separated
from one another, excluding alLcommuni-
cations between the respective inmates.
The first consists of Magdalens, who are
penitents who have been converted, aud
are leading the life of Religious, under the
rule of the third Order of st. Theresa.
The Second Glass is that of the pentent
women and girls who have been received
into the Asylum in order to be converted.
The Third Glass is that of the Preserva-
tion, composed of children who are in dam
ger of falling, and mostly those of bad pa
rents