Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-24
babes, to find homes in comfortable houses

babes, to find homes in comfortable houses
and in warm hearts, to be
saved from pauperism and crime
and reared to lives of usefulness,
and in most instances, we trust, to the
glory of God, it seems very fitting that
this society should reach out its hands and
enlarge its work and provide for the
needy. True in our new location we are
limited for room, but we think, if our
friends will rally about us, we can make a
beginning in this direction.
To some who remember that there have
been from thirty to forty adults admitted
each year, the smaller number we report
this year, will be surprise; but during the
year just closing, we have not admitted in
mates for less time than six months, unless in
the judgment of the board it seemed wise
to dismiss them in less, and so have not
been able to care for more on account of
limited room; could we carry out our ideas,
we should extend the time to one or two
years in many instances, thinking it better
to care for a smaller number, a longer time
and more thoroughly.
In the family during the past six months,
there has been cause for even an unusual de-
gree of interest. A deep sense of the need of
changed heart and life has pervaded the
entire family, and a number give good
evidence of conversion. One who went out
a few months ago, said during the first
part of her stay at the Home,if she should
be converted and go to heaven she would
not know any one there, and when the
matron asked her if she had had no friends
die who would go to heaven, she said, mo,
l never saw a Christian until I saw you"
Not long ago she came back to tell the ma
tron how peaceful and happy she was in
the assurance that her sins are forgiven.
She said when she went from the Home
she was not sure, but now she knows they
are, and that if it were becoming woman,
she felt she could stand On The street and
tell every passer-by that if they would be
happy they must love Jesus. When she
came to the Home little less than two
years ago, one who saw her said to the ma
tron, "What do you suppose can ever be
made of her?" One going out to-day, and
bidding us 'Good-bye," said with voice
choked with emotion and eyes filed with
tears, II shall think of you kind ladies as
long as ive.'' Another, who had con-
fided to her father the dreadful secret of
her life, felt when she came to the Home
that her mother must mover know it, for if
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she is 80 unyielding and unforgiving. But
since being in the Home she has learned,
in degree, the blessedness of confession
and forgiveness, and in a few days intends
to go to her mother and confess all her
waywardness, and beg for pardon and
reconciliation, confidently hoping tor both,
and eventually to take to her fathers
house her worse than fatherless child.
Though there have been fewer cases of in
tense, thrilling interest than during some
years, yet on the whole we feel that the
year just closed has been one of as good
work accomplished as any in the existence
of the society.
Just how much had really been accom-
plished is not for us to know here, for the
searcher of hearts does not look at figures
as we do. But for lack of more accu-
rate knowledge, we will gather up few
of the figures that have been accommodating,
remembering that the reports of two
months in 1875 and two months in 1873
were lost:
Admitted as inmates. .270