The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-07
A SUNDAY SUBJECT.


While the great-hearted of thi.
sand are taking care of the poor, doing
Gods own good work on earth by
bearing in mind Christ's admonition
and following its lessons as we'll as
may be through human means, how
would it do for some society of pure
women, here in this young city where
moral example is of such Importance,
60 band themselves together for the
purpose Of saving, or attempting to
save, the lost Of their own sex, who
certainly have souls-in short, for
taking the scarlet woman by the hand
and saying. Rise, sister," None of
as can know what Christ wrote in the
dust with His blessed hand but that
He commanded the sinless among the
:sccusers of the fallen woman to throw
the first stone We all know, and know
His meaning. If then the meek and
lovly Jesus, through whom, and by
Initiating whom, we hope in time to
pass through the eternal gates, cared
50 much for one of the lost among
women, could not We, at least, follow
the lesson taught by Him
80 far as to attempt to
save them Some of these females, it
Is true, have fallen so low that no re-
spectacle woman could 60 among
them without danger to herself; but
ON the other hand there are thousands
who are more sinned against than
SHINING, more to be pitied than blamed,
and this class would welcome the
woman of pure heart and mind who
came clothed in good, to help them to
a better life. In the great cities,
where the midnight missions do their
work secretly, quietly, unseen of men,
the number of women permanently
reclaimed is something astonishing.
The kitchens and millinery stores of
western cities and towns are full Of
these reclaimed women. And if it
were known that such an institution
existed in Sedalia, many applications |
from the lost would be received, ask |
ing for consolation and advice. Only |
Yesterday we read Of an unhappy
girl confined In he Atchison
al who has written TO a journal of !
hat city letter cenouncing a tele-
,raub opsra,.or employed in a local
flee as the autho, OF all her misery,
he letter indicating az, Vthlns but
|epraved heart, Suppose sues. a case
hculd occur here, in Sedalia, as II,
as occurred in Atchison, how easily
his poor creature could be saved
md as il is, there is hardly day
hat some young girl is not locked up ,
Il our city Jail whose behaviour and {
ppearance are not those of one ]
vhollv lost, and who would furnish
ripe subject for an honest and pure /
earted woman to work upon. \ I
ase in point is that of Minnie
puyer, the lost young girl, not more
nan sixteen years old, lately sent to {
rison for larceny, whose by no means
ad face, and by no means totally de-
raved demeanor, indicate that she is I.
ather some unlucky creature of un- /,
,rtunate circumstances than zone to-
,llv wicked and forever irreclaima-
lie. This girl could be saved if
nown the way to a better and purer |.
fe.
These thoughts are thrown out not !,
ecause anything is expected to be
,complished by them, but as food for
animation on that holy day on which
e 90 to church and receive our m obi .
I'm of morals to last through the
,ming week. But the fact still ;
olds that these things can be done, Z Z
nd ought to be done.