Litchfield enquirer., 1877-09-13
What one Woman may Do.

What one woman may do even though she, be fallen sister, is illustrated in Q story from Louisville. Two years or more ago an anonymous letter signed !" "Magia. len" appeared in tho COo9ierSAS SASoaWssGtsOf that city which detailed in leingularlY sim- Eple but eloquent, words the hapleas life of Ither class, appealed to the kind d-heafted for something more than a merely Cnarit&- l ble interest. in. these Outcasts and exprass- 1 ga the writers own sincere intention to re-i form. The letter was so exceptional of its kind that the usual newspaper custom of refusing to print anonymous contfibu. tions was waived, and the appeal was giv- en a prominent place. It at once aroused very great interest, and vigorous but fruit less efforts were made to discover the au. thor But it had it's effect in the organ. ization of society for the succor of the fallen which met with such prompt re- sponse from the good people of the town that house was secured, ample means provided for it's support, and system of personal visits to the homes of these poor, creatures was inaugurated. These efforts, we see by recent report of the society, have been crowned with pronounced suc- cess. "The york;" says the President of the society, ''began with but one inmate for the Home. The number is now seven-
 
 Der received during the year has been larger; but from time to time they have either married or been returned to their homes. The most successful work ia with young girls, who, after their first rnisstep, seeing their folly, go to the Home broken. hearted and anxions for the offers of mercy. There are also within the Home Q number of women who have for years lived an abandoned life, and they also exhibit the deepest symptoms of con- triton. One day in each week - the Home is visited by delegation from the Young Mems Christian As. sociation, and at 3 o'clock every Sun. day afternoon sermon is preached by one of the city pastors. These services have had the effect of leading the girls to think about religion, and within the past two weeks three of the inmates have made confession of faitl, in Christi" Of her whose appeal led to all this it was after ward discovered that she was the daugh- ter of a most respectable gentleman in neighboring town, who had been educat. ed with great care, was betrayed when mere girl and thought to find refuge from, her shame in the city. There she, sank lower and lower until, in a chance deten- tion beforeFhe door of a humble mission ary church, she was attracted by the music within. Entering the door. she was given a seat, and. by coincidence, the preach CT talked that day of the story of Mary Magdalen and it's lessons. That night she wrote the letter, and the next morn ing she had disappeared, and not until the society she had inspired was well es- tablished did she make her identity known. Meanwhile, under another name, she had been teaching a school in a quiet Indiana village. "Now," says the report, ''she is a devoted Christian woman, going about doing good. She is serving as among the miserables of her sex, and during the term of her brief ministration she turned many stray feet back to the path of virtue."-N r. World.