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24 EMIGItANT-SHIP MATRONS.
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III.—EMIGHIANT-SHIP MATRONS.
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This is not to be a paper on emigration....
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^ Amalie Wilheimine Sieyekin© Was Born I...
she was placed in an undecorated coffin , composed of four plain "black boardswhich was carried in the early morning by the ordinary
, poor-house bearers on the poor-house "bier to the cemetery , where it was soon covered with wreaths and garlands , "while crowds of rich
and poor came streaming * out of the city and the suburbs to hear the funeral service performed over the remains of one who had renewed
the example of apostolic days . After the prayers , and a hymn sung * by the children of the parish school , the coffin was deposited in the family
grave of the Syndic Sieveking , and then pressed forward friends and acquaintancesold and young " members of the associationchildren
, , , from the classes , poor people of all kinds , all anxious to take one more look , or throw one more flower upon the coffin . _Not an eye was
dry , yet amid the universal sorrow was something * too of universal rejoicing * , for all knew and felt that the good servant had only
quitted them to enter into her Master ' s joy . Such a life as the above needs little comment . It appeals the
more fully to our sympathies , it conies before us the more brightly as an example , inasmuch as , aided by the Holy Spirit , Amalie
Sieveking made herself what she was . Endowed by nature "with no very shining qualities , it was by the consecration of her whole
being , such as it was , to the service of God and her kind , that she achieved great results . Strict conscientiousness , and a strong
desire to be useful , were her chief characteristics ; and from these two qualities , which ought to be found in every heart , grew , by
careful cultivation , everything that was lovely and of _g-ood report . She was the glory of her native city , and throughout her German
fatherland , her influence is now felt and her name honored .
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24 Emigitant-Ship Matrons.
24 EMIGItANT-SHIP _MATRONS .
Iii.—Emighiant-Ship Matrons.
III . _—EMIGHIANT-SHIP _MATRONS .
This Is Not To Be A Paper On Emigration....
This is not to be a paper on emigration . We mayor we may not
possess the most magnificent colonies , and the finest , laboring popu- , lation in the world . It may be the greatest philanthropy , or the
most arrant folly to transport such from these shores : we are not going now to discuss that question , nor yet the propriety or
nonpropriety of moving masses of Gaelic women from the drizzling mists that surround their Highland homes , to the parched arid soil
of southern shores , nor how far expediency is justified in carrying town-taught girls into the wild sheep-runs and bush farms of either
Australia or New Zealand . We are not going to contrast Canada with the Cape , nor make
comparisons between Australia and Tasmania ; to say whether we consider family colonisation so advantageous , or the dispatching
large bodies of single women so foolish , as has been represented by
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 24, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/24/
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