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    PARK AND PLAYGROUND. 315

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    life addressed I broug yon ht . a Bible I asked into you my to house lend me a Bible Author That , Bible and for be I the still first retain time in my

    Of its influence over me , none but its great can aware . " She then reverts to her subsequent sufferings in the hospital ; and

    goes on : — witnessing admission " During to the the its utterl charity time y I friendless the was filth in the condition light hosp of ital of their many I had poor frequent and outcasts clothing opportunitie who proving soug s ht of

    the need of a female hand , to rectif y p y disorder . persons them "I know I would , sir , wish that . to . . dedicate . you meet the with time many I have such to , who have .... to none the lo to st hel and p spare

    degraded . of my own sex , whom , from their vicious lives , no tenderly reared female would approach ; but to me , who , by Grod's mercy matter , w how as preserved from she

    a like fatesuch scenes will have no terror . No degraded washing may be . her , It will and be repairing enough her for her garments to require If my she aid can , obtain such as admission cleansing into and

    endeavor an hospital to , win , I will such take erring care sister that she back has to . a virtue change and of peace linen . , " and in all ways

    Marian has rendered signal service to the Committees for the distribution of _BiblesTby her ability to go into dwellings which , from

    , their character , are not accessible generally to gentlemen of the laity and to ladies , and , it has been thought , hardly to clergymen ; and ,

    though frequently attacked , abused , and insulted , she has persevered . She reads to , instructs , and comforts those whom she visits , her own

    experience giving her the truest sympathy . From one of ner objects as a Missionary being to sell the Bibles at a very low price , she goes

    by the name of " The Bible Woman . " It was soon apparent to Marian that temporal as well as spiritual instruction might be given

    to the objects of her care ; and in the autumn of last year she began to teach the poor ignorant mothers to cut out and make children ' s

    clothes , which teaching they received thankfully . But still more was wanted , and she found time for more . Her mornings being

    occupied with her Bible visits , and her afternoons with needlework , was Marian made began ( I a do soup not know kitchen whether on a very this humble is continued scale . throug The h soup the

    summer months ) chiefly from the compressed vegetable , price twopence per packet . It is said to have been good : at any rate her

    customers liked it , for she sold it quickly at a price which just paid the expense of cooking .

    This necessarily imperfect sketch of ways and means would be still more imperfect without a reference to the writer of " English

    hearts and English hands . " This lady , as is generally known , began when the foundations of the Crystal Palace were laid , to make

    herself acquainted with the laborers , or navvies , employed upon the work . As Mr . Chalmers , the rector of Beckenham , and her near

    relative , says , in his short preface : — expected country " It was village that little two for thoug two or three ht winters whereunto hundred _^ and instead navvies this work of could spreading would take grow up moral their . It contag abode was little in ion a , set good le to its inhabitants "

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    Park And Playground. 315

    PARK AND PLAYGROUND . 315

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/27/