New-York tribune., 1871-01-11

tories we cannot but perceive are oi pu'
little practical value in her case. Inc very
eycess of the animal or emotional nature which
caused her to fall renders 1t impOsSiDie 10
reach her by any machinery OF generaiiNng
0vsto,n or rules She will not be made to see
the error of her ways by the clockwork rou-
t;ro of n decent life or instruction IN needle
a.,, Won cannot marshal her nor her like
H., ,,otoops into conversion. Ten to one,
whom she leaves the ROsne Asylum OF the
Uouse of the Good Shepherd she goes back
With redoubled zest into her old life. She IS
tbo leper mt our gates. Say what we VIII, IL Is
hardly safe or practical for many 1amliies 10
receive her within their homes, ana Dy ih,-
mate fellowship to attempt her cure. we cannot
Icpislate for her we cannot ignore her' one
ia there. night and day, an inexoraDle, opsu-
nate. death-dealing fact. We cannot even
drown and make her the picturesque SHADOW
of literature.
We find in our late English exchanges an
account of an experiment for the redemptioh
of fallen women now making at bflgnCoh'
which seems to us to embOdy 80 many ere
ments of success that we wish 10 eau 10 IL
the attention of our own refOrmers. The IDEA
originated with woman, the first essentiai OF
success by the way, in any scheme for the
helm of woman. This lady (only known to
ia bv an initial-another good sign) appears
70 have stamped her individuality upon every
detail of the plan. The house which she gov
ems is not q reformatOry, but home. a
[" girl who leaves it to 90 back to evil ways ls
"not received into it again other means are
"taken to help her, but that privilege she is
"held to have forfeited. Surely we cannot
"learn too early" says Mrs. V, THAT justice
"is the backbone of mercy, and that the most
"merciless thing you can do in the world
&" is to make sin easy to tho sinner" Opposed
10 this necessary sternness in her system we
find the keen tact and womanly tenderness by
which she makes the Home cheerful and heart
some; avoids clothing the inmates In uniform,
giving them instead wel-ftting and becoming
dress. One hint we find especially sugges-
tive in tho story Of woman VINO had
ATTEMPTED suicide, and whom she wished
put in the way of earning decent livelihood.
al want you first" said Mrs. V. to her agent,
" TO hire n room with nice sunny aspect, and
get some hower-pOts to put in the window.
Mind, the plants must be in full foper." Ano-
ther still more significant hint is to be found
in her remarks upon the benefit of vehement
religious excitement upon the women whom
she has in charge. They are, she tells us, Pc
culiarly susceptible to any such appeals. A
single. earnest, and rather sensational ad-
" dress to them on the PrOdigal Son, or some
"moving portion of Scripture, with some allu-
sion to their mothers and their early homes
I" is enough to throw them into an agony
"of Uncomfortable weeping. But what
have YOU gained7 You have only min
"istered to the very want of self-control which
"haa been one of the great sources OF all their
"misery. Satan knows well enough, that just
"as a pot boiling over, for all the noise it
"makes, will end in putting out the fire, and
"half emptying itself, so if he get but young
"convert to boil over into much talk, loud
"professions, and preaching to others, before
"he can well stand himself above all, if he
"can get him to boil over in his own estima-
"tion, and fancy himself something wonderful,
"he will soon cool down and be left half empty
with the fire gone out" In conjunction with
this sound sagacity we hear of the childlike
practical faith which prompts her. when a
butcher refused to sacrifice the rent of a night
house, and 80 prevented the reclamation of its
inmates, to go down upon her knees with him
and pray to God to show him his duty. The
quiet, earnest prayer had its effect; the butcher
yielded.
The whole story appears to us full of mean
ing. A fallen woman, to be saved, must come
in contact, not with system or rule, but
with another woman. Not only Christ-like
charity must go out to meet her, but careful,
shrewd sagacity and knowledge Of human
nature And underneath all must bo that
faith, downright and absolute, now, as in the
days of the first Magdalene, in power above
earthly effort. A faith which, in order to
accomplish Gods work, would appeal as con-
fidently and quietly that reason might be
given to an obstinate butcher, as that the
Angel of Death might be stayed in its course.