Mercifully she
heard of the Refuge, and came to beg a home for these deserted lambs.
"A widowed mother, whose failing eyesight prevents her sewing, and
whose earnings by charing cannot support herself and four children,
heard Miss Macpherson speak at the Moorgate Street Hall Noon
Prayer-Meeting, and was led to bring little Alice to her, pleading for
Christian care. Amid many tears she tells of the wayward wilfulness of
the elder girl, out at all hours of day and night, and whose pernicious
example is too likely to ruin the little sisters."
Could such cases be sent away, or a deaf ear turned to the cry of
these "young children asking bread, and no man giving it them?" (Lam.
iv. 4.)
Miss Macpherson also writes:--"Many of those, once the little match-box
makers, are now Christian girls taking our counsel and going as
servants into Christian families.
"Thus our child-loving hearts cannot refuse to rescue the sorrowful
children that come to us to escape the atrocities of the almost
unacknowledged bloodless war that goes on in our midst. Most of the
fifty rescues now under our care are here through the slain upon the
battle-field of drink, shaven heads telling the tale of neglect.
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