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

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The Work of this Organization as Detailed
In the Ninth Annual RepOrts---What was
Done Last Year and What in Prior Years
"A Lecture by Rev. S. G. Smith, Jan. 4.
The ladies who are laboring SO unselfsh-
ly to do good by the means of the Minneso-
ia Magdalen society, have been fortunate
enough to secure the services of Rev. DR.. S.
G. Smith who will lecture for the benefit of
the organization on Jan. 4. Dr. Smiths
subject will be, "a Visit to1venice," and
his well-known ability is an ample guar
antee of pleasant evening. The lecture
will be given in the Opera house.
The last annual report of the officers,
which has been made is herewith appended
as indicative of the work being done:
REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.
Is it not becoming US, as we meet here
this day, in our annual gathering, standing
as we do upon the threshold of the great
unknown, already beginning to peer into
the opening door before US, to wait rever-
emily before the mysterious portal, and
offer deep, heartfelt thanksgiving to the
Oliver of all good, for guiding, preserving,
sustaining mercies? We have not been left
to ourselves, but many old friends have
been true, and few new, sincere friends
have been raised to feel an interest in the
work, and thus we complete nine years of
organized labor in this feld-a field so
| white to the harvest. and with laborers SO
few.
As board our number has been unbrOk-
en-, and sweet peace and harmony have
ever met with US.
Some of US have made long journeys and
been absent for a season, some have been
detained by illness of themselves or of
their families, yet all the regular monthly
meetings have been held, and also, several
special ones.
Though the fell destroyer has not taken
| any one who we're Of US, yet he has claimed
one who was with rs, and that one a cher
ished one, full of sympathy and tender
ness, patient, untiring, valuable physi-
clan.
Truly what DR.. Monica Mason did. she
did with her might consecrated to her pro-
fession; from her lips comes no report to-
day-but in the hearts of many, who were
sick and sorrowing, her deeds of kindness
| and words of encouragement and cheer still
live.
We are yet happy in the possession of
the faithful and most acceptable services
of DR.. Atkinson. O, that she may be long
spared to her chosen work, and to this
work we are contemplating to-day.
OF our honored and beloved matron,
Mrs. Rogers, who has entered we'll upon
the third year of her labor with US, We can
say our hearts do safely trust in her. OF
her unwearied patience with the willful
and stubborn, her tender care of the sick,
her wise counsel to those needing direc-
ton and instruction, and her frmness in
administering the many difficult affairs of
the Home, we cannoN speak in two high
terms.
At tho time of our last annual meeting
our family consisted of but four, it has
ranged from that number to seventeen
Twenty adults have been admitted and
thirteen infants been in the Home. Eleven
have been temporarily cared for, making
forty eight in all that have been housed
and fed and helped.
OF tho adults eight are now in the Home,
one Of whom was married at the Home
few weeks since, the pastor of one of the
Methodist churches Of our city officiating.
Another one is married and in a hos
pital, and two others have been married
since leaving the Home, to the fathers of
their children; six have returned to
their homes, two are at service, one is learn
ing that most merciful calling, the care of
the sick, and two went out with words of
gratitude, but have failed to communicate
with US since.
OF the children four have been adopted
into good homes, two the mothers have
taken with them, five are with the mothers
fin he Home, three the fathers are caring
ior, one of the three being now boarded
in the Home, and at this
instant of writing about the babies that
have come under our care, come again to
q great wall of difficulty, that has for some
| time past confronted US, over which we
cannot climb and around which We cannot
90. The plural pronoun means not only
the board of this society, but the boards of
all the charitable institutions in our city,
| and in fact,an who are brought in any way
| to meet with fatherless and motherless
| infant children.
l w nat SQ6ll po uOuO Will tuCAs WIZ SAoA
| care for them, are oft recurring per-
phlexities. An infants home has come to
be a felt necessity of our city, and our
board has very frequently questioned the
ways and means of establishing one in
connection with this home. Certain It is
that there ought not to be q multiplication
of institutions, though only yesterday
gentleman said, ''Why, I'd give something
for home for babies" and we doubt not
there are many others who would give
most cheerfully.
I think I am not exaggerating when
say, there have come to the knowledge of
the ladies' of the different boards fifteen
infants within the last three months, naed-
ing some one to care for them; some be-
reft of Their legitimate father, some of the
mother, and some upon whom is visited
the iniquity of the father and mother. As
one of the inmates said in writing to the
father of her unprotected child, it is just
for you and me to suffer, will not COM
plain, but my heart is breaking over this
innocent child. The Protestant orphan
asylum is filed to its utmost capacity with
children over two years of age, and as
glad as they would be to enlarge their
| ~vo,L - .aax,s ;vcnoeeihlo for them Tn do