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    316 PARK AND PJLAYGHOUND.

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    But this has been done : how , is narrated in the simply and earnestly written book compiled from a private diaryand containing *

    , many of the letters of the poor men to the narrator . It is good for those who wish to influence the poor , to see the singleness of heart ,

    the warm sympathy , and perfect absence of cant or condescension , with which she won the erringuntaught men , childlike in their

    , feelings , and childlike in their failings and temptations , to leave the besetting sin which had been their ruin and misery , and to become

    happy , humble , hopeful Christians , strong to bear and forbear , and trustingnot in their ownbut in a higherholier Power . A few

    words convey , an idea of , the spirit with which , she worked . She had spoken to one of the men of the redeeming love of the Lord ,

    ending with the words"He is speaking these words of His own bfeeble liAre u

    y my ps . yo of willing Him before to let Him but save as an you ?"— Grod " I : am , I make am ! " Him he said out , a " Friend I never ! " thought y you

    , angr And so she went on , " making Him out a Friend" to all ;

    cheering the weak , encouraging the hopeful ; entering into their sorrows , their wants , their trials ; and when , as frequently occurred ,

    her poor friends relapsed into their besetting vice , she hastened to the fallenas a good physician to the suddenly sufferingand remained

    , , with him , not allowing him to despair and fall lower , but using , ¦ with untiring patience and courage , argumentsentreaties , prayers ,

    , till she had re-assured the failing faith , and induced a fresh determination to forsake the evil and choose the good .

    Heading the Scriptures , and improving and interesting books , conversation and prayerwere the principal means used ; and not

    , only were the spiritual , but the physical wants of the poor fellows , who suffered manyattended to ; and beautiful instances are given

    , of their fortitude and self-denial in hardships . On the last day but one of 1853 , the sergeant of police called to

    thank the authoress for what she had done for these noble fellows . He said that his duty had never before been so easy in Beckenhain ,

    for their example had restrained the wilder young men of the place , and had even shamed a few into attendance upon public worship .

    Most uneducated persons like listening to an interesting book , when the reader also enters into his subject . Much may be done in

    this way , and it is true Sunday work . A little experiment of the kind just commenced in a low district of St . Pancras , where the

    most profligate men of the neighbourhood have been assembled between church hours by a young lady , to listen to a short portion of

    Scripture and a few pages of the Pilgrim ' s Progress , seems likely to be successful ; and the hour formerly spent in pitch and toss , has

    led , in a few instances , to an attendance on evening prayer . Here , as elsewherewe find the power and the need of the sympathy of the

    , higher classes . One of these men said , " I have plenty of

    acquaintances , but not a friend in the world . " A lady in Westminster has

    316 Park And Pjlayghound.

    316 PARK AND _PJLAYGHOUND .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 316, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/28/