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BRISTOL IFEMAMS MISSION. 149
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we and Reg have istration Factory here Home Office an . and As A the gent of number , less "Visiting than of girls A ten gents assisted shillings , Training exceeds a head School 1000 for , ,
affording them a guardianshi average p which we may safely trust has been the means of preserving numbers of them from a fate which the
costliest penitentiaries can do little to remedy . Surely these simple details are enough to excite some desire to
imitate in other cities a work so singularly successful in the first without trial others given I would to outlay it p ! lead There of , and is for one onl whom class by much of the girls devotion good for may whom of be the above achieved leisure all
time of any any lady who would money give , them y guardianship similar to that service of Miss from Stephen the ' s Workhouse agents . I . speak I shall of the not girls attemp who t to are discuss sent out here to
under the subj the ect best of workhouse ices the education education ; of let irls it i suffice n lar to e masses observe with that - gg ,
out individual love ausp and care , has never yet been other than a grievous failureIt is all in vain to teach reading and writingand to
gabble formularie . s of theology , while every element is absent , through which woman's nature can develohealthfully and beautifully .
It will not answer to treat a human p being as one of a herd of cattlehowever carefully fed and housed and driven from yard to
yard us so . , but "With with all individual reverence care let us and say love it , God and Himself out of does our not belief treat in ;
this manner personal , it is love the springs parent ' s all love that for is the deepest child in as reli an gion individual . In like _Tby
which the , germs of affection in her nature are kindled , and through such human love she learns to conceive the existence of the love of
God . But the poor workhouse girl is the child of an institution , not of a mother of flesh and blood . She is nobody ' s " Mary" or flock
" Kate" to be individually thought of—only one of a dreary driven , about at certain hours from dormitory to schoolroom and from into
schoolroom to workhouse yard . The poor child grows up womanhood crushed , perhaps down , without and carelessl one g y leam tramp of led affection on . She , and has with had all no her dom nature estic to soften
dutiesno care of a little brother or an old grandparent , hideous her ; no , dress freedom and of her any cropped kind to hair form are her not moral her nature own ! . Yet Even she her is
expecte loyer d to able go to out check inspired her childish with respect _coyetousness for the property of the unknown of her
to luxury emp liht of a , varied fireand food cook , and a clever dinner enoug and h dress to guess a baby at a , moment and clean how a
house g for the , first time in her life , . What marvel is itthese hapless , creatures constantldisgust their employers by their ,
ignorancethievishnessand foll y y , and fall , poor friendless children ! under , the temptations _, which the first errands in our wicked streets
will have sufficed to set before them ! I will not pretend to speak
concerning the Irish poor-house girls , of whose condition such coa-
Bristol Ifemams Mission. 149
BRISTOL _IFEMAMS MISSION . 149
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1861, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111861/page/5/
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