Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-27
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assailing them on every hand To such as 1 these as well as to all others who need the same assistance and protection, we hope to offer Chirtian home in the best sense of the word
 We do not desire to give them merely com fortable rooms and good, wholesome board, at rates within their incomes, but to afford them the care and interest which every young woman needs. Are there not those of us who in our more favored homes, surrounded with comforts feel sometimes that Gfe's burdens are too heavy to be borne who, strong and self.reliant usually, grow weary and faint hearted for lack of a friendly and sympathetic interest in our work and welfareP How then must it be with these less favored sisters? Are we free from responsibility if, because of the many who need this help and interest, and the few to whom we can prof fer it, we let pass the opportunity of help ing as many as we may ? If we can strength en, cheer and uplift ten, twenty, thirty of these weak and to ling ones, showing tkeu practically the beauty and joy of Christian service, through what is done for them, are we not directly engaged in work for the blessed Master: failing in which we shall lose the loving commendation ttShe has done what she could"
 Of the work done by us thus far, our sup erintendent says ssI often wish the generous friends who sustain our organization could see, and hear, and know, as do, the various ways in which we give rays of comfort to the struggling and toiling, and hope and rest to the weary and disheartened. They would certainly feel encouraged to go on with con- stantly increasing love and enthusiasm What can say concerning the dear Home which has been purchased and fitted up? l am sure of one thing, that to some of those who knew and loved our former reading room and it's associations, this has long seemed the one needed thing for our organi- zation to add to it's work, and now we have it, and our hearts rejoice. Some of these women have come to it's shelter, and feel al- most that they have real home and mother.
 ftOf the joy and comfort it has already given, only those can know who are inti- mately connected with 1t. It is Q happy Christian family, to which those who have been members of it return as daughters to 8 loving mother. One said to me after being with us two or three days: I have felt ever since came into this Home as If the arms of 8 loving Saviour were directly about me, drawing me back to himself Another ex- pressed herself similarly, saying her trials and sorrows end discouragements had made her feel almost hopeless and heartless, but that the atmosphere of Christian love and sympathy and trust which she breathed with us had given her renewed hope and courage.
 ''We have learned of many who need and are ready to receive just such help, comfort and advice as we can give, and feel sure that we are holding many by the tenderness of our love, whose feet might slip were they not thus held. May God grant this to be so ever, for certainly only thus can it accom- plish the high and holy work for which it was instituted.'
 If this be the record for our first three months we surely may hope that in time our influence may be widely felt as 8 power for good.
 The record for the year is good one. The number of visitors at the rooms is more than 100 per cent greater than that of last year, amounting in the aggregate to almost IF, 800. The number of books taken from our library is l, ,67O, an average of over thirty per week. About 16O persons have made application for employment, and of these more than one fourth have found it by our assistance.
 As we look back over the past year, and thankfully recognize the gracious leading of our Fathers hand, we feel that we can trust the future to him who is able to do fer us abundantly more than we can ask or think.
 By order of the board of managers.
 LUCY R. BLISS