It shall be their particular duty to visit and instruct the distressed orphans, and wretched females in the Betteringhouse, Hospital, and Prison; if permission to that effect can be obtained. The Governess is to appoint suitable members to pray with the sick, and exhort the healthy to seek the Lord while he may be found, &c. The Visiting Committee are to use their utmost endeavors to seek the abodes of ignorant, and defenceless females, especially such young orphan girls as are most liable to be enticed from the paths of virtue. It shall be their particular duty to use every prudent means to bring such lost sheep to the fold of Christ, and for this purpose to establish social meetings when they think good may be done thereby.

VIII. Females of every christian denomination shall be admitted as members of this Society; each member to pay as a sense of duty may direct; even two cents per week or twenty-five cents a quarter will be thankfully received.

X. As the spiritual and temporal relief of poor, needy, and desolate females, who have no eye to pity, nor hand to help them, is the particular object of this Society, it shall be the duty of each member, as she has opportunity, to give general information of the object of this charity, so that the children of affliction, while on sick or dying beds, when under concern for their souls' welfare, may know where to send for relief."

The members of this truly benevolent institution are indefatigable in their labor of love. Many thousands of distressed families, and individuals, have already been relieved and comforted through their instrumentality; but, alas! their funds are nearly exhausted, and the objects of their charity are numerous. Hence they are retarded in their philanthropic endeavors for the comfort of their distressed fellow-mortals.

Out of many classes of speculators who get rich on the labor of the poor, I stigmatize those who force poor honest widows, with orphan children, to make shirts for eight and twelve cents; and bind shoes for six, which they sell for, from one dollar twenty-five cents, to two dollars. In order to stop this shameful imposition, a disgrace to the city, I would entreat our humane citizens to establish a clothing manufactory, and employ, at reasonable wages, such helpless injured indi.

viduals, hundreds of whom are reduced to want and misery. On this subject, I quote the following appropriate article from the Pennsylvania Enquirer.

MEETING OF LADIES.

"A meeting of Ladies friendly to the establishment of a Society for improving the condition and elevating the character of Industrious Females," was held on Thursday, the 1st day of March, 1838, in one of the rooms of the Sunday School Union, Philadelphia. The object was, to devise the best means of co-operating with the citizens who are engaged in the laudable attempt to rescue from oppression and wretched. ness those females whose faces are ground to the earth, by working for wages inadequate to support human nature, many of whom working six days in the week, twelve or thirteen hours per day, receive, beyond the rent of their miserable lodgings, less than six cents per day for their unceasing toil, for food, clothing, fuel, soap, candles, &c, and provide means, to improve the condition of that large portion of females in our city, who are compelled to support themselves and their little ones by their needles and other cheap employments. This meeting came about in consequence of the efforts of Matthew Carey and many others of our benevolent citizens. It is known that a society has been established, by these efforts, to improve the condition of females thus employed—that is, to endeavor to augment the avenues for their employment and at better prices, proportioned to what they do. If there was ever a cause that should awake the spontaneous aid of those who are able to give, this, it strikes us, is one.

The ladies, at their meeting, we are gratified to learn, took efficient measures to aid the cause, and, when the ladies of Philadelphia join in a cause of philanthropy, there is little doubt of its entire success.

Let those who object to out-door aid to the poor, think over the condition of a poor widow, with five or six little children dependent upon her needle for support. She has been accustomed to better days, perhaps, when her husband was alive, to provide food and garments for them: and must she now go with her little brood to the Alms house? Will she not wear her fingers off, over the midnight lamp, to pre

vent this last step, which will break all ties of social intercourse and take her offspring away from her motherly counsel and affection? And yet are not our large cities filled with such cases? With all our hearts we wish success

to this society, and we rejoice that the ladies, who are the ministering angels of charity, have come to it with pure hearts and ready hands."

TO ALL CAPITALISTS OF COMMON COMMISERATION.

Gentlemen,-With the very same commiseration I now humbly beg for others, and respectfully address you. Because of all men in existence, you lay under the greatest responsibility to the Almighty searcher of all hearts, and observer of all our actions, and will have to give the most strict and awful account of your stewardship. I now solemnly, not prophetically declare to you and all the royal, rich, wise and mighty men of Christendom, what I declared to the Emperor Alexander of Russia, nearly twenty years ago, namely; "The period, I foresee, is not far distant, when reformation or desolation must be the order of the day in Europe. The agonizing groans of millions of his suffering, starving creatures, the victims of our moral corruptions, hourly pierce the heavens, and reach the throne of the Creator."

-

I would humbly ask you, if you had a number of children arrived to manhood, and one part, the cunning few, had all the necessaries of life in their possession, and kept it hoarded up perfectly useless, while they beheld without common com. miseration their brothers and sisters starving for want.You answer in a moment, I would command them to distri bute their superfluous possessions and provisions, and punish them with severity if they did not immediately obey my mandate and is God less just and generous, less compassionate and considerate for his children? Then you, out of your own mouth have pronounced your own condemnation, if you refuse to grant my present request, the little, trifling, almost no favor, I beg in behalf of the most injured, unpitied and insulted victims of our moral corruptions on earth, one other class only excepted; and I have vindicated their cause, while advocating the rights of man in fifty thousand copies of my books. To revive the subject here I know would be more

injurious than beneficial; suffice it to add, few have written and published more on their behalf, not many seen more of their sufferings on the land, and on the ocean, and I am sure not one has, does and ever will pity them more than myself.

Next to them I pity the many thousands of our common courtezans, their number has increased perhaps one hundred per centum, since I first publicly advocated their cause.

A few years ago I published two gratuitous pamphlets of thirty pages, and circulated hundreds, wherein I exerted all my simple eloquence, exhausted all my artless argumentation, to command the people's pity for them, but, alas! it was all in vain.

It may be asked, and would not one even listen to your tale of woe with tender sympathy; (a philanthropic and phi losophical unbeliever excepted!) No not one! And what a sight is this for the King of kings, whose mercies are over all his works, to behold a city as full of Meeting-houses and Steeple-houses, Missionaries and Ministers, as Jerusalem was a little before its destruction by the Romans, and yet totally destitute of all moral obligation, tender sensibility, or even common humanity.

I have had it on my mind this long time, to send a letter to some one of the richer men in America, with one of the above pamphlets, and to tell him he could build a house of industry, and manufactory, as recommended in that pamphlet, and after this be still the richest man in his country, and be able when he died to leave all his relatives and friends independent, with princely fortunes. If Mr. R. would only for a moment consider, that parents leaving their children immense fortunes, has very often plunged them into the laby. rinth of dissipation and destruction, hastened them to a premature grave, and finally proved their everlasting ruin; and that the same cause will produce the same effects, as it has often done before. If he would consider with what tormenting remorse and eternal regret, they look from the other world, with all their conscious sensibility at the fatal consequences of their unaccountable folly in this. Surely he will not refuse to grant my request, and give the historian an opportunity to present in the historic page, these words: "What all his fellow-citizens combined had not moral courage or magnanimous sympathy to accomplish, though earnestly and

eloquently entreated so to do, the patriotic and public spirited M. R. out of his own private funds has done, namely: Built and founded a house of industry, manufactory, &c, &c, for the reformation and employment of the most injured, insulted, although previously innocent persons on earth, namely: penitent prostitutes."

This brings to my mind our Saviour's great compassion for Mary Magdalene; who, of all his followers, was the most grateful and affectionate. For instance: she was the last at his cross, and the first at his sepulchre. And what a proof of the most supreme love did she manifest, when she washed his dear celestial feet with tears of penitential sorrow; those feet that went about doing good, to those in whom he beheld his future murderers!

Ah! I wish I dared to paint in living and true colors the mighty mass of misery which has compelled multitudes of such victims of our moral corruptions and degeneracy of public opinion, to seek in premature death the pity they implored in life, but implored, alas! in vain: so that even the unfeeling editors who have compelled me to take up my pen again, might feel some of the plenitude of their selfish insensibility and disregard to all moral obligation.

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that I am appointed or appoint myself to guard a certain part of the river, where passengers, and particularly the blind, are in danger of falling in. Through my inattention one falls in, and is drowned without my knowledge, while I am attending to other superficial concerns: but suppose a child points out to me the person struggling in the water, in time for me to save his life with a very little exertion, and I refuse to do it would I not according to every principle of common justice and common sense, be truly reprehensible, if not punishable, in the first instance, and the man's cruel murderer in the second? With

out any manner of doubt. But admitting it is out of my power to save his life, but by merely putting the speaking trumpet of my profession to my mouth, and calling for help, I could accomplish this valuable object, and I, through the immensity of my selfishness, refused even to use this little trifling, almost no exertion, to save human life, would not his blood be on my head? Would I not be at your bar-at the bar of