Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-28
A NEW BOOK.


.soUNDINGs. By Mrs. Lide Merriwether Mem
phis: Boyle & Chapman, Publishers
Here we have book by a lady well
known to the readers of the APPEAL as
a writer of excellent verses, and one who
generally writes to a purpose. 1t is q
little book, but speaks elOguently of the
capacity of the excellent printers who
have published it. Ia it we have q num-
Der Of very well told stories, each one Oi
them necessary in support of the
design. Mrs. MeTriwetheT has in view
of exciting the attention of the public,
and her sex in particular, to the great
labor, better than all foreign mission
work, of rescuing women from life OF
shame. 1t Will be difficult, upon read.
ing these emanations from pure,
womanly, Christian heart, to resist the
conclusions she reaches and the appeal
she makes in behalf of those who have
been too long neglected by the church OF
Him who said, ''He that is without sin,
let him cast the first stone" This ap-
peal is chiefly directed by the author to
her own sex. She thinks, and very
properly, that with them rests the bur
den of initiating and carrying out a
feasible plan for the reclamation of
while those who have made them
so are lifted up and too often exalted.
We believe this is destined to be-
come one of the questions of the age. It
will sooner than many think share the
attention Of the public, with the condi-
ton of the poor, their ameloration, and
the advancement and welfare of the
working classes. The question is every
day being asked by men and women,
seWhy am / doomed to life of Hire
Quilted toll, and why am / to perpetuate
the curse of poverty, and Sometimes
shame in my children ?" And this
question, like many others, will con-
tinue TO be asked until just and practi-
cal solution of it is reached. Something
must be done for the poor and the work.
eTs, or we may expect strikes and COM
munistic conspiracies without number,
and bloody Instructions. There is at
least the show of numbers on the side of
the people. 1t is impossible for so many
of different nationalities, making COM
mon cause. to be in error If there is
any force in the old saying that the
voice of the people is the voice of God,
there is much in this continued move
ment by the working and poor people,
" IOSE III bi1C AA1sst ltAAlt AkG
the victims of the debauched and de-
praved, 1t is worth while, in Gods
name, to make an effort for those
who were not beneath the atten-
ton of the Christ, who also said,
"Lead us not into temptation;''
and we think that better than subscrip-
tions for the conversion Of the heathen
would be collections in support of Mag
dalene asylums, wherein even ten poor
women might be rescued from the worse
than hell into which they have been
cast by the inexorable fiat of society,""
which exacts so much and gives so little.
We indorse the purpose Of Mrs. Merri-
wether, and bid her g God speed, and
we commend her book TO those whose
Christianity is of the sort that is per-
vaded by the love Of God, and the good
win to an which Christ desired His fol-
lowers to perpetuate. Boyle 4 Chap
man have aSoundingsh on sale. Every
woman should read it, and every father
ponder it.