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    NOTICES OF BOOKS. 337

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    {Continued From Page 283.) 1. The B Miss...

    « - from who is what not I so have competent learned as from tlie experience occasion deserves and , while nevertheless I am expressing , I can speak my

    own sentimentsI am also expressing those ; of each , member of our society , the greater part , of drawin whom are from here the present . We of bless destruction God that you have have

    preserved been have the means caused us from of us , t to he abstain odious g us totall influence , from of rap in drunkenness toxicating path li . quor By s your ; and . You sympath after y -

    you y , up that wards we are a y better ear ' s ex for perience labor , than man we y of were our memb with ever ers with so small myself a quantity aver , . tiinesshomes disre

    p Where and utab attend le , there now a was the Sunday y misery are respectable school , now ; and here . nearl Our s hap y children the p whole . are Our well of our fed And memb and were to clothed er whom s are - ,

    att are we in indebted g Divine for serv all ice these two benefits or three but times to you ever , y madam Sunday , for . your constant attention to our religious instructions in St . Alkmond ' s schoolroom , twice of

    brin a wee ging k more ; m nay any wil , you l a follow poor are sinful their daily noble creature amongst us to ! le his . You Saviour The have hearts , and been of I the all trust here means in swell God examp

    many with unbounded gratitude . May you have health and happiness , and be for spared a It long time remain to be s for amon me gst to present , to preside and this watch tea-cadd over y ; us althoug , and car h of e

    been small us purchased . value , nevertheless with the , small we all mites know of you the will many you the who more esteem value and it , since value it you has

    as their beloved president . " Mrs . Wightman first took tlie pledge herself voluntaril and then induced

    six others to follow her example . Others ¦ y enlisted , and , amid many anxious _discouragements , the little _Tband slowly but steadilincreased in numbers . Their kind leader spared neither

    y time nor trouble , —she gave them every help she could to remain firm to their ledgeshe tried to make temperance not the object

    itselfbut a p means , to an end—the conversion of the ungodly into sincere , and consistent Christians . Nor was she content with

    precept alone : she planned treats for them , she accompanied them in their excursions ; she opened night schools for their intellectual

    improvement j when the weather became hot , she devised nice cooling drinks , and taught their wives how to make them ; and not

    only that , but gave bottles as well as recipes . " Annals of the Rescued" are descriptive anecdotes connected with

    the movement . Had we space , we would , gladly cite many interesting passages . We must be content with one extract : —

    smiths " Gur strikers ranks are composed ilorstin- of late working -workers men lead of - every millers grade iron . - There moulders are ,

    tailors , shoemak , ers , railway , officials p , and some , employed , in making the locomotives d of wood , carpenters and for stone the , j same oiners bricklayers ; als turners o eng , laborers ine fishmonger -drivers , butchers , firemen soffice , , hairdressers stonemasons clerksnavvies , , tann sawyers & ers c ,

    is millwri also yers the a , chap resident ghts lain ,, paint surgeon of , the ers , county waiters in our , gaol , ranks gentlemen , and , and a ' military two s servants local , officer clergymen , grooms ; and , & , , several one c . We of whom ladies , have , ,

    who " Our do not Society live , numbers in this county upwards . ; of a thousand of whom nearly seven

    persons , hundred room to are meet adults inwhich . We holds have when no room crammed larger two than hundred St . Alkmond and twenty ' s school ; at

    our ' Headings' nearl , y a hundred , go away unable , to get in . YOJD . Till . B B

    Notices Of Books. 337

    NOTICES OF BOOKS . 337

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 337, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/49/