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266 A NIGHT IN WESTMINSTER.
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When Mention Is Made Of Westminster, The...
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by ymons and bye , place gs , religious knowledge and needlework first , and make The money meeting ma at tters Queen a ' secondary s Square Chapel consideration conducted is decided . for ly the mos time t popular solel
in "Westminster ; it was originated and some y held yards by a in poor from a dilap man the ida of Abbey ted the barn name on - a like miserable of room Allen , , which _j ) iece scrip of stood ture swampy reader a few ground , and hundred was in
ni Victoria work ght , was for Street t graduall he p . urpose At y in first , troduced of hearing a few , poor ladies the women scri invi pt ted ures ; met , to read here superintend and every exp Monday lained , clubs ,
three i proposed t prosp and ered , and four , that so hundred rap the names y and has on two the the thing ni books hts grown are now devoted , amount so thoroug to to this between hly work has g
instead of one , while the , chapel at Queen ' s Square , with its good ment ven tmosp tila upon t here ion , the bri of the g limited ht old gas rotting , and room amp barn , the le where space tenpenny , the forms first dips meetings a , decided and the w improve ere impure held - .
onl clean The a Come y mee , just the on ting aristocracy j Monday oined on , Monday and " of was the who an district nig invitation h are t is ; therefore and frequented on we Tuesday received not by yet , b the from y under those aged a very who and control have poor the .
her old cleaner " wido coun that w try , ( three who niht to . fine " , use So lads her we , " ) " own went " come words on Monday on has Monda " , and g y iven , love there her , we they Queen ' re a were deal and !
women old and g women young ; maids , matrons , widows ; odious women t marrie who d were at all married ; patient and alas peni , too tents often sufferering , mothers all who alone were !
cu Ga no ttin thered g their in groups garm ; , ents they poor and all sa jokes t wag at ging the their same needles time , and while tongues here ,
quie and t t here reading a more an seda interesting te party w narrative ere listening which to s most ome lad probabl y who y was was
y , " Minis But we tering must leave ldren Mr , " Allen " Hands and and his Homes friends . " with the earnest
meetings wish that are they held may by the go on congregations . and prosper c , onnected and after with stating , the Xtev that . Samuel similar districts of West
Martin , the Rev . Mr . Malone , and probably in other - he mins ld ter l , we mus Monday t procee ni d h t t in descri another be a part Model of Westminster Mother ' s Meeting . This " ,
was commenced aso every on the 6 t g of October , 1856 , by a committee of nine ladiesat the Pear Street and Duck Lane Ragged School ( a name , by , celebrated house of the
t pudding the hree way more - , out which -of ar - t the icu almost - l fire arl " rivals deserve of ano the t t o be coun not t iced y . ) for Of their these " nine t Draw irin ladies g - zeal - , y
and upon and destinies st whom eady perseverance p must of their depend numerous in , in endeavoring a lar children ge measure t . influence Wintry , the fu wind t t hese charac and mot rainy hers ters ,
266 A Night In Westminster.
266 A NIGHT IN WESTMINSTER .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1858, page 266, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121858/page/50/
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