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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 275

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    • onl would for earnestly mutual encouragement recommend the and co-operation experience of , and visitors for the with efficient each other carry , ing not y

    of their workbut for the avoidance of indiscretions and interruptions on the on '' part "We are of individuals sometimes , told , for that which visitors the whole are not number required are because held responsible the inmates . and read for themselves sometimes that the inmates

    are are too so respectable degraded to receiv can e benefit : but both objections ; are in fact arguments in tonous favor live of our and plans changed ; the condition respectable while deserve the some degraded alleviation most of urgentl their y mono need

    tary any some are and hel so p disinterested ing degraded s hand to as be kindness not held to respond out to There , elevate in are some and measur instruct women e to the them who voice will ; for of listen volun hardl to y -

    words from their own sexwho . are not accessible many to the chaplain . The Burinah following , in an rep swer ly was to an given inquiry , to a if lad they y had missionary not had by preachers a heathen amongst woman them in ? i aud dont

    path understand Oh "In , y yes that conclusion ! ' . are ' she In needed said the , we ' same but for desire so they way many to talk we acknowled of believe man our -talk poor that ge , sisters with it we is at true woman are home women thankfulness - . talk ; and we sym the '

    blessings invite succour the the alread co destitute -operation y bestowed , . We of all upon are who absolutel our would humble y raise told labors that the , hel and a blessing pless we workhouse would and awaits fallen earne inmate those stl and y

    onl who visit be excluded the sick from and the the ministrations prisoners ; wh of y , Christian then , should love and sympathy ? s their " y The efforts work they of must our Society claim the is mainl support y to of be all c ri arried ght-minded out by and women benevolent , but in

    men . " We add to this report tlie account of the evening-, which appeared

    in the daily papers . perienced gaining 1 ' Lord admission Shaftesbury bvisitors to and then the which addressed workhouses he supposed the , which meeting arose had , alluding from in some a fear to the that cases difficulty the been minds ex of

    of the inmates y would , be unsettled . Their object , however , should be not only whicli to disarm guardian suspicion s of , the but poor to conciliate had to fulfil support which . involved There were a the certain certain degree of duties this of

    strictnessand however the guardians might wish to see objects of for society hi the gh carried chap princi , lains ples out of , of they the reli workhouses did gion not and enter ben to into evolence do all their that can duties was win where . necessary confidence It was not ; but when possible ladies the

    cerned chaplain . s His totall lordshi y fail p ; then and this in touching is particularl language y the described case the women wretched are con and - forlorn condition of the children in workhouses , and the beneficial influence ier while

    in exercised the workhouse over them and by watched the lady over visitors them , who upon made leaving their it lot . happ Never before was were happy greater to facilitie say , that s afforded at no former for the period exercise had of there a wise been benevolence so large a , number and he in the

    of pious and kind-hearted ladies to come forward and assist good work . pressed " Lord a strong Lyttelton opinion , in moving that workhouses that the report should be not printed be made and attractive circulated , , and

    exthat than the that condition of the of the without paupers . He therein hadh should owever , not great be made pleasure more in support enviable - ing the _society . poor ,

    of were " expressing Tlie a Christi Bishop an his of institution London sympa / th said y , with and he was it the was anxious objects a special to of take tli and duty e thi society the of s public a destitute Christian . Workhouses opportunity nation 3 foi

    tlie to mak llot e ' orinat proper ion provision the monasteries for the infirm relieved , the the sick poor , who surrounded . J their e _^ e

    Notices Of Books. 275

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 275

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1860, page 275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061860/page/59/