The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-19

Good Shepherd and its nature can best be ex-
planned by the following summary of opera
tions during the year from the second annual
report:-
meetings have been held on Thurday evenings at
If O'Clock also, Sunday evenings The attend
This is easily accounted for. The novelty has worn
off, the hostility OF those whose interests have been
crossed by our effort has been exerted in many
ways to deter the girls from attending AT one time
scarcely any girls were to be met upon the streets
on Thursday evening. We changed our night OF
tious feelings of the girls have been played upon
so that many times our cards OF invitation are re-
hands have been tied by the want of helpers. In
all this great city not enough gentlemen have come
forward to give to this effort at undoing the
ruin man has wrought. any fair chance
OF success. However each week the Cos
lost and it is satisfaction to find that those seek
ing our Home this year have come purely of their
led by the influences exerted In the meetings, but
still coming under no peTsuasions Of the moment
ghe Home has been wen filled nearly all the time.
Under the efficient matronship of Mrs. Phoebe
Brooks, the domestic economy has been most salts
factory, and marked Improvement is manifest In
tons Of each day are well systematzed The
sewing room has begun to make some return
of the household has been done by the
girls, thus saving considerable expense and giving
practical training IN domestic duties. Almost each
day some one of the lady managers visits the Home
to read to the girls assist in their instruction.
The General superintendent has also visited it each
day, conducting family prayers, Bible class has
been held each Sunday morning; prayer meeting
on Tuesdays and Saturdays, and occasionally ser
mons by clergymen of different denominations have
been preached to the family. During good part OF
the year the services of an assistant matron were
employed in order that qualified directress might
always be with the girls in their sewing hours, to
train them to the skiful of the needle and the
machine. At times there have been evidences Of
religious interest and we trust not without some
permanent effects
With regard to the amount of work accom-
plished, the report states that ''the percentage
of genuine reformation will bear favorable
comparison with that of any difficult reform
ing work, and even if less had been accom-
plished than the above figures show, this
mission would still be entitled to the cordial
support of the public. The Midnight Mission
must be supported by the public if it is to
continue. At the end of 1869 it was $500 in
debt, and the lowest estimate for the neces-
sites of the present year was $2500. This is
a very small amount for great city like this
to raise for the support of such an object.
Last year New York gave upwards of
$4,000 to the Midnight Mission, besides
sustaining one or two similar institutions
and several Mogdelen Asylums, and there
certainly ought to be no difficulty in furnish
ing the mission in this city with all the
funds it may require. We have called the
attention of our readers to the claim of the
Midnight Mission, with the hope that liberal
pecuniary and other aid will be extended to
it. 1t should be remembered that it is con-
Quoted entirely upon an unsectarian basis, SO
that its appeals are made to all whose hearts
may be moved to aid in restraining the
spread of vice and in encouraging those who
have gone astray to turn from the ways of
sin and lead decent and respectable lives
The Secretary and Treasurer of the Midnight
Mission is Samuel S. Corey, Esq, No. 332
South Seventeenth street, to whom all contri-
buttons may be sent.