Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-24

Deen raised and we were seriously cues
tlonlng as to what We should do, when this
house was offered to US, and on such reas-
enable terms, that after consultation with
our advisory committee of gentlmen, we
felt justified in undertaking its purchase,
feeling confident that if all will do what
they can to aid us, we can meet our pay
ments promptly and in a short time secure
for ourselves a local habitation, even
though just as it is, it does not accommo-
date our family or our work as we'll as did
the other house. We are free to confess
that even now. we are looking still further
on$believing that at no distant day, this
institution will have the house and grounds
needed in the work. We also believe no
tax-paying citizen can reduce his per cent
of taxes in a more beneficient way, than in
making generous donation to this Home.
where disheartened, unfortunate or sinful
sisters can be helped, comforted, taught
the plan of salvation and the way of etern-
al life.
The question is not infrsquently asked
US, do the ladies of your board ever visit
any of the houses of ill-fame?'' and when
we reply that we do, then further ques-
tions, as, what in the world do you say"
''hOw are you received" and so on. AS to
what we say, we have no set forms of
speech. We pray to go in the spirit
love for immortal souls-of invitation
from the paths of sin and death to the path
of purity and peace-of confidence that
the spark of the divine is not utterly
extinguished in the human breast, though
buried so deep beneath the accommodating
weight of unnumbered transgressions.
As to how we are received. speak ad-
visedly when I say, there has never been
other than kind reception and often we are
invited to come again. Some times I be-
ieve they are hunk ering for word from
one, who is living as they themselves
nearly always admit they know they ought
to live and wish they were, yet so often
adding, sit is too late,'' cit is of no use for
me to try to be good now.' And when We
have pointed them to the Lamb, that taksth
away the sin of the world, and could feel
that the waves of temptation were rolling
over them and the surgss of remorse beat
ing them back, back, and we standing in
the very presence of that soul and its God,
how unequal to the work and how unworthy
have we felt ourselves.
We will not enter into any discussion
as to the causes of the existing state of
things, but we may remember with profit
that all the long list of gifts that Paul
enumeratss are as nothing without that
last and Growing one-charity.
Some are aware that in the spring this
society received a proposition from Rev.
Henry Kittson, in which he asked for
the management, both material and spiri-
tual, of the Christian Home. After con-
sultation with Mr.. Kittson as to his plans
and purposes, and after prayerful deliber-
alton among ourselves and consultation
with our advisory committee and several
of our pastors, lone of whom said, You
Christian women cannot afford to lose the
reflex influence of that work upon your
own hearts and lives,) we decided to de-
cline the proposition; but knowing full
we'll that it meant much WEAKNESS of the
flesh, sleepless nights, unnumbsred heart
aches and anxieties, sacrifices of social and
homo delights-but we dare not SO lightly
lay down the work we believe the Lord has
committed to our hands. Respectfully
submitted, MRS. 81. D. GATES,
President.
TR&AsURER'S REPORT.
Minnesota Magdalen society in account with
G. E. VanDu1ee, treasurer, for the year end
ing October l, 1882: