The Richmond palladium., 1874-02-07
WAYNE COUNTY, INDIANA, FEB I. 1874.

that they can have no sympathy what
ever for woman who has sinned, and
that they will make no effort whatever
to save her from the depths of perdi-
ton. They doom these erring women
to forever wander in the downward
road, lost, plague smitten souls, dis
owned by earth and Heaven. This
sentence is not like unto that pro-
nounced by the purest lips that ever
spoke on earth, which said, Neither
do ] condemn thee; go and sin no
MORE" 1t is not like Him who said,
1T is not the will Of your Father in
Heaven that one of these little ones
should perish" It is unlike Him
who said, Thou shalt forgive seventy
times seven.''
The woman who has been born in a
happy, christian home, and who from
her cradle has been protected, educa-
ted, loved and provided for, knows,
and can know nothing Of the life of
poor girl born in poverty, brought up
in ignorance, thrown upon her own
responsibility, and turned out into the
vices of the world, utterly ignorant,
weak, young and unfit to struggle with
temptation and hardship. I say that
woman having had all advantages of
Christian training and education is
incompetent to Judge the poor. weak
sister woman, who has had no advan-
tages, and who has been exposed to
all temptation. Let such virtuous
Christian women, standing in the
presence of God and the angels, fear
to pass their easy condemnation upon
her to whom Christ said, Neither do
condemn thee go and sin no more"
Let such virtuous women also cease
to welcome to their homes men who
have sinned more deeply, and whose
lives are far less pure than that of
many a deserted woman. There are
men, smiled upon in society by such
virtuous women, who have led many a
weak woman into her first sin, and
who have stained their own souls with
guilt so black that the redeeming love
of God can scarcely wash them white
again, yet these men are permitted to
touch the hand of the purest wife or
daughter in our land.
Many a young girl has been tempted
into the first awful step of sin, and
has then recoiled with an agony Of
heart that would rend the dumb
Heavens in prayer for forgiveness.
AS society now is, if this unfortunate
girl have home and friends and wealth,
her sin is forgiven and forgotten, and
she walks evermore in the path of vir-
tue. But if this unfortunate girl be
poor and friendless, society unites its
awful ban of disgrace upon her brow
and leaves her stricken, helpless, con.
demned and deserted. It is the great
aim of the Home of the Friendless Il
take such deserted girls and help then
to bury their dead terrible past, ant
to take firm hold on the living, hope
full future. Then again, the Home o
the Friendless aims to save and car,
for the friendless little children, VIII,
open their innocent eyes on worlt
where they are already disinherited-
little ones who may, in fighting th'
battle with poverty and sin, fall int,
wrong ways. and become paupers ant
criminals, unless guiding hand is hel,
out to them. They are now of tina
class of whom Christ said, "Of such j
the Kingdom of Heaven" Shall the
be left helpless in land Of professe,
followers of Christ? What man o
woman can turn indiferently ava
from the fate of these childxen, an,
then pray Gods blessing upon thei
own little ones at home?
Then it is not only present hel
that this Home gives, for its influenc
goes on and on through many a lif
yet unborn, by the lives it now save
to virtue. No human being can linn
| the influence, or estimate the extcr
, Of one single good act. A pebbl
, thrown into the ocean moves the va
ter in overwhelming circles. A goo
, act thrown into the ocean of huma
, life spreads in overwhelming circles I
. the shores of eternity. A single wor
. or glance may sometimes change th
: whole current Of life, and save so,
. from ruin. So would say to the NJ
bic men and women who are workin
, for and sustaining this Home, be
good cheer, for God and all His hol
, angels will help you. The way ms
6 often seem steep and dark-discoul
!. agement and difficulty may rise up [
!, meet you-your feet may be wea,
. and your hearts sorely tried-but Fl
ture men and women will rise up an
call you blessed. And when yo,
generous work is done, and the ligl
/, of another world than this touch,
!. your eyes, you shall see how divine
. is to have been co-workers wi,
Christ. Here you shall never see Il
: full extent Of your work; you you
: selves can never measure its result
but the angel Of the Lord shall wri
!. its record in the Book of Life. Al
i, when you, and I, and all of us, star
! before that throne that is dark vii