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THE ABSENT CHILD.

A Christian mother related to us, in tremulous tones, and with streaming eyes, an incident that impressed us deeply. Her daughter, a young girl of fifteen, fresh from school, and with little experience of the world, had been invited to visit a schoolmate in a neighboring city. It was with some misgivings that the mother parted from her loved child for a few weeks; but not wishing to deny her any rational enjoyment, and knowing the character of the family whose guest she was to be, she dismissed her fears. But one day, an oppressive weight settled on the mind of the mother, accompanied by a growing anxiety on her behalf. She knew of nothing on which to base such feelings, but they increased in intensity. For three days she was so much exercised that she was drawn to God in an agony of prayer, weeping and wrestling, she knew not why, for the preservation of the absent one from some fearful peril. The daughter returned home, and for a while seemed as usual, giving glowing accounts of the happiness she had enjoyed in her friend's society. At times, however, there was a care worn, pensive expression on her countenance that her mother had never before witnessed. At length, one evening, the poor child, with crimsoned cheeks and averted face, told a tale of danger, temptation, and almost of violence, too shocking to hear. A gentleman acquaintance of the family, in whom they had confidence, had flattered her with his attentions, lavished presents upon her, and finally, artfully taken her to one of those gilded haunts of vice which, alas, appear on every hand, under the seemingly innocent name of "Ladies' Ice Cream Saloons." She knew not

the character of the elegantly-furnished saloon

to which he had decoyed her, until, suddenly, she found herself locked, with her heartless, base deceiver, in a private room, away from all human aid. Then the gentleness and courtesy of the villain were all laid aside, and with brute force he sought her ruin. She was at his mercy. But suddenly an unseen hand interposed. The monster, hitherto deaf to tears and prayers, became instantly changed, and conducted her forth to liberty. That very hour the mother was in her agony of prayer,

"Oh," said she, "when my darling told me of her escape, and named the time, how my heart melted in view of God's mercy; and how plainly I saw that God had answered prayer!"

Fathers, mothers, there are times when your hearts are weighed down with anxiety for your children; never more so, perhaps, than when business or pleasure calls them from your presence. You know what life's dangers are; you tremble for them. But whatever their exposure may be, they are away from your protection and assistance; remember, however, that there is one resort for you then, ever accessible, ever powerful,-believing, effectual prayer. God's eye never slumbers; his hand is not shortened-his ear is never heavy. Go to him with your heart-fears-tell him all your desire, and trust his answering care.

It is easy to perceive, by the foregoing, that the class of society in which these parties moved, was not the ignorant and vulgar, but the refined and respected.

From our post of observation, we are as sured it but truthfully illustrates the hidden snares that beset the young and innocent, in

similar circles, not only in the crowded city, but elsewhere. Our ear is pained, our soul is sick in hearing of developments where punishment, deep and bitter, follows crime, and the less guilty become the greatest sufferers. The thoughtless child who replies to the cautions given by her careful mother, "O, you know, school-girls always have flirtations. There isn't any harm in it, I'm sure," may have her eyes opened to the snares that lurk even in seeming trifles, at a period when life's cup to her shall have become as gall and wormwood, and tears prove unavailing. The daughter to whom God has given an intelligent, judicious, Christian mother, who aims to win her confidence, prays with and for her, and seeks to guard her from even the appearance of evil, is wholly unexcusable, if she goes deliberately so near to the moral precipice that her feet may slide upon the dark mountains. Is wholly inexcusable if she do not so intrench herself by a wall of Christian principle, that no wily foe will dare presume to assail the strong defence. Milton has well said,

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Our Book Table.

One Hour a Week. By the author of "Jesus
upon Earth."
New York: Anson D. F.
Randolph. 1864.

To young mothers, desiring to teach diligently to their children the precepts and principles

of the Word of God, this excellent volume will prove of inestimable value. The work is interspersed with facts and illustrations that tend to fix the attention of the child, and impress the great truths that make wise unto salvation.

Hours with the Youngest. A year in the Infant School. Adapted to young classes, and to home teaching. By MARY HARvey Gill. Published as above.

A book of rare merit, admirably adapted to the wants of teachers in the primary school, while all who have the care and training of children, may find in it valuable suggestions. If the gifted authoress were still living, she would, doubtless, receive the thanks of its many readers-if permitted to look down upon her work from the upper sanctuary and contemplate its mission of usefulness, she will crave no higher reward.

New Stories from an Old Book. Boston: Am. Tract Society. New York: J. G. Broughton.

Another treasure for the young, designed to impart a knowledge of Scripture truth in a

The class of youth most exposed, are the orphaned, the fatherless, friendless and destitute, unwarned, untaught, pursued, deceiv ed, misled, forsaken, cast upon the charities of a cold world; their sorrows truly are multiplied, and they often feel keenly the sting of life-long regrets for not heeding the monitoring Bible narratives. within at a time when they might thus have been saved.

The base thief of virtue, destroyer of innocence, unlike his victim, passes for a time in society all unmarked. Still, he too, is the loser. He loses self-respect, conscious rectitude, manliness, and all claim to confidence and trust, when dealing with human affections. Why, when the penalty of guilt is so severe and inevitable, will not man be always just, honest, upright?

"This one thing cannot die-thy memory,
Still mountained up with records of the past,
Heap over heap, all accents and all forms,
Telling the tale of joy and innocence,
And hope, and peace, and love; recording, too,
With stern fidelity, the thousand wrongs
Worked upon weakness and defencelessness,
The blest occasions trifled o'er, or spurned,
All that hath been, that ought not to have been,
That might have been so different, that now
Cannot but be irrevocably past!"

HOLINESS.-Holiness is that which God supremely requires in all his commands. If there were anything more noble or morally excellent than holiness, we might have expected that God would have required us to pursue that supremely, and holiness subordinately. But he has expressly commanded us to pursue holiness supremely, and every thing else in subordination to it.-Dr. Emmons.

form so attractive that it cannot fail to be considered and remembered. The author has succeeded in giving new interest to the most strik

Walter Lightfoot's Pictures. By MRS. H. E. BROWN. Published as above.

A series of interesting stories, related by a mother to her children, accompanied by such instruction as every true mother will feel bound to give to her children at the right time and in the right way. Mothers will find in it, "helps over hard places." It is well written, and must prove eminently useful.

Report of the Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York.

Young men coming to this city will do well to connect themselves with this Association, the object of which is, "the improvement of the spiritual, mental and social condition" of its Members, and whose standing invitation is, "All young men, especially strangers, are cordially invited to visit the rooms and attend the meetings of the Association." Rooms, Bible House, Third Avenue and 9th Street.

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Reports of the Syracuse Home Association. 1862, 1863, 1864.

We are glad to learn, through this pamphlet, of the increasing prosperity of this kindred Institution.

the patriarch cheers them with the words, "I have been young, and now am old, yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread."

The children of that home will be shielded by the God of their fathers, from crime and reThe Atlantic Monthly, for September, has morse and perdition. Temptation shall seek its usual variety of interesting articles, chief of them only to be resisted, trials will but strengthwhich, because of the light they throw on the en their faith, hope and love, and death will problems of the times, are," Our visit to Rich-be to them the gateway of eternal life. mond," and "What will become of them?" (the freedmen.)

RIGHT AND WRONG.

WHICH is the better way, to form or reform ? The answer to this question will undoubtedly be "to form," but shall we not linger over the question awhile and see what thoughts arise from it?

From some stand-point, let us watch the passers-by-the young and the old. There go a winsome group. The father has a child in his arms, it is too tired longer to walk, and the little one rests his weary head confidingly upon his parent's shoulder. The mother has another child by the hand, and one of the older children leads another of the little flock. Ah! that is a happy family, their clothes may be plain, but they are neat and whole, and all their hearts are bound together by indissoluble ties of affection. Their home, toward which their feet are tending, after a short absence, is to them the dearest place on earth. Its rooms may be scantily furnished, but they are clean, and therefore pleasant. Some little plant has leave to grow there, even though a cracked pitcher or tea-cup may be the only thing they can afford to spare for its bed of earth.

Freely has God given sunshine and water, and only give the plant these, and it will unfold its flowers as willingly, as beautifully on the narrow window-sill as in the conservatory attached to the splendid mansion.

The well-thumbed Bible and hymn-book, lying on the mantel, reveal the secret of the brightness and charm of this home. "The entrance of thy word giveth light," and in keeping God's commandments there is great reward. "Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart." Mark these words, "Light and gladness are sown " for the children of God; they are not always given outright, but they are surely springing up somewhere for all the pure in heart.

What aged Christian, as he looks back over the way by which his God has led him, does not devoutly thank Him, as he remembers the harvests of priceless blessings he has gathered in the past, and which are still ripening along his path. The gray-haired sire, who sits waiting the return of our pleasant group, daily teaches the little ones who love to clamber upon his knee, to trust the promises that have been fulfilled to him. When sickness and misfortune threaten the loved circle, and fear and distrust knock for entrance into their hearts,

Let us take another group. It consists of children alone, there is no father or mother, kind auntie, or nurse present. These are street children, so called. Let us watch them awhile. The girls have baskets on their arms, which contain the refuse from well-furnished

tables, half-decayed fruit, old bones and crusts, &c. As they talk together, they now and then draw forth some of the disgusting fragments, and eat them. Their faces, hands and feet have caught of the dust by the way, their garments are scanty, and tattered, and soiled, their hair unacquainted with comb or brush. But see, one of the boys looks defiantly at another, who, with flushed, angry face is talking to him. Another moment, and they fly at each other, with fists and sticks, they swear, they rave, they wrestle, they reel to the dirty pavement together. Again and again, they angrily renew the combat, till a policeman, summoned to the spot, puts them in awe, and one, whom the other, with imprecations, charges with stealing, goes sulkily homeward.

We must brave unHe lives in a damp,

Shall we follow him? pleasant things if we do. foul basement; its air is stifling. Do you wonder the boy prefers the street-air, impure though it may be? His mother is lying stupid with drink on the pile of dirty rags that suffice for a bed. His sister is wandering from house to house, begging for food. His father is in the Tombs, or on the Island, or at Sing-Sing, and this boy seems doomed to the same destination. Why? Because the parents are heedless of their child's future good, and people do not like to interfere between parent and child, however wicked and besotted the former may be. The boy ought to be placed where he would learn to read, to work, and where he might also hear of heaven and learn the way. But the boy remains on the street, until, for some theft or misdemeanor, he gets into the Tombs, and thenceforth he stands on slipery places, too often plunging downward, ever downward, till on the gallows he prematurely downward, till on the gallows he prematurely ends his days. The efforts of the good to turn him to better ways seem baffled. The good seed sown in his heart does not fall into good ground, and it withers in temptation's glare, and from his career we are reminded anew, that "The Lord is a jealous God, visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children."

We have taken our examples from the lower walks of life, but in the higher ones we shall find the same contrasts between those who

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For the Advocate and Guardian. THE MARTYRS AMONG US. THOSE who struggle daily amid the direst poverty and want, with hands, and feet, and head aweary, and hearts all torn and bleeding, from the harshness of a cruel world.

Those who, through. contumely and buffetings, hold fast a sacred principle, regardless of all self-interest, if only the right which they cherish is not desecrated.

Those who perform faithfully their duty, in whatsoever state it shall please God to call them, however distasteful their occupation may be; not marmuring, restless, impatient, seeking always a different sphere, but moving calmly and quietly in their allotted space, though an host of ills beset them.

The pilot who holds the wheel and gets the boat, freighted with human beings safely to the shore, while the raging flames enwrap himself, and make him a certain victim, is not he truly a martyr? The mother, who gives to her little child the last crust in the house and herself sinks down helpless and dead from hunger; is not she a martyr?

The man or woman who bears uncomplainingly a constant domestic torture, until the secret grief preys upon the very springs of life -these are among that holy army of martyrs, who are had in remembrance by Him who will confer the immortal crown.

F. B. 8.

For the Advocate and Guardian. WILL YOU FORGIVE ME.

"WILL you forgive me, mother," said little Susie, "for having been so rude to you?"

Slowly the mother answered, "I will forgive you this time, but another time I shall not do it so readily."

This reply led me to ask myself, "Is this the way God forgives? Does he do it with any seeming reluctance? He is slow to anger-is he also slow to pardon? He is 'ready to pardon,' his Holy Word tells us, 'and of great kindness.' He 'abundantly pardons.'

The story of the Prodigal Son is a most touching illustration of the readiness of our Father to forgive his erring children. Should not mothers be equally ready to forgive their children? Our little ones need much encouragement in their efforts to do right, and in their confessions of wrong-doing. We need to draw them to us by the tenderest ties. We must never seem to them cold nor unsympathizing-needless severity is positive cruelty. There is no stronger bond than love. There is nothing which so melts the heart and molds it into goodness. We must treat our child's petition for pardon as we

would have our Father treat ours-letting our love be always manifest. It is of vast importance that our children should learn to confess their sins to God and seek his forgiveness whenever they do wrong; and by our tender readiness to forgive, we teach them to go more readily to their Father and our Father.

Forgiveness of wrong does not imply approval of it-it is only approval of repentance. "Slow to anger," "ready to forgive," let every parent be, and their dear ones may grow up more loving, gentle and obedient.

H. H.

EXTRACTS FROM VISITOR'S REPORT.

A GENTLEMAN called to see about the case of a young woman, who had been at his house a couple of days. They had seen her sitting on the church-steps all of an evening, and when ten o'clock came, sent to inquire the reason. She said she had come from a hospital where she had been ill with fever, and having no where to go, had wandered thither, and could go no farther from weakness and weariness.

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Her wan face and scanty attire so plead for her, that they resolved to invite her under their roof for at least the night. A policeman followed them into the house and said it was his duty to take her to the station-house. "I think not," was the Christian gentleman's reas she is to have shelter here to-night." ply, The next day and another night she staid with them, as they could not bear to send her ont, young as she was, and penniless and homeless, into the midst of temptation in this city, where tempters abound. But they were in the midst of preparations to go into the country, and they must dispose of her in some way. Then they remembered the "Home for the Friendless," and resolved to make application in her behalf.

We returned with the gentleman to his house, and after some conversation with the stranger, she consented to accompany us to the Home. As she bade those who had been so kind to her, good-by, her lips quivered as she said, "I'm much obliged to you for your kindness to me. May God prosper you always for it." Mrs. told her she'd be very glad to have her write to her and tell her how she got along. So kind, so considerate was this noble woman toward one whose course she had reason to think had not been above reproach. But it is such women that win souls.

Mrs. had told me the wanderer's story, and as we walked along, we questioned her further in regard to herself, and friends, and plans for the future; for that she must provide for.

She said she was married two years previously, when only sixteen, to a man forty-nine years old, quite against her wishes, but urged to it by her mother. They were divorced last winter. Her mother had not lived with her husband for some time, because the latter drank. She did not wish to return to her, and her

sister was angry with her for parting from her husband. She did not know where he was. She told him a half hour before they were married she did not love him nor wish to marry him; he was jealous and unkind.

We asked her what she planned to do. She had no plans, wasn't strong enough now to do anything. When she got strong, couldn't tell what to do, for she didn't know how to do anything; her mother had always kept help, so had she. Her chief and only desire seemed to be to get to an uncle's family in the country, when she was able to go, had decent clothes and money for her fare.

In what a place of temptation she stood. How easily now she might plunge to ruin from a reckless, desperate feeling, without principle to guide and restrain her, without friends to whom she would give heed.

She remained a few days at the Home, gaining health and strength, until, one morning, application was made for help in a small family, and she consented readily to accept the offered situation. She remained there, however, only two or three days, and was then sent to her uncle's.

Found Mrs.

-feeling quite discouraged.

She is not very strong, and she finds it no easy task to supply her five young children with daily bread. A friend had obtained a machine for her by subscription, but she had as yet been able to make only twenty-five cents a day on hospital shirts, at eighty cents a dozen. We told her about the Home and the various ways in which the children were provided for there. She wished to get places for her two oldest children, a boy and girl, twelve and ten years, old before the cold weather comes on.

A girl, about eleven years old, was brought to us to see if she could be received at the Home. She said, her father had been dead about a year, her mother much longer. Since her father died, she had lived with a family

who were not related to her, but were kind. She worked in a factory, and when she came home one evening, she found the family had moved, and no one could or would tell her where they had gone. Deserted, wandering, she knew not whither, and weeping as she went, a lady, passing, inquired the cause of her grief, and that night the little friendless one found rest and protection in the Home fold. She has since gone to a place in the country.

Called upon old Mrs. F. Found her well and her room improved in appearance. She said a kind lady (from the Home) had given her some money to clean up her room. So she engaged her neighbor to come and whitewash and scrub it, and it had seemed much pleasanter since.

She showed us a book in which she was very fond of reading. It was purchased by her brother, in 1817, and underneath his name on the fly-leaf, was written, "May God protect the owner of this book and his family." The book was entitled, "Tropology of the Scriptures," by Rev. John Brown, of Hadding

ton.

EXTRACTS FROM SCHOOL REPORTS.

A few days ago, I had the likenesses of several of the most forlorn children in the school, taken. The mother of two of them came to me one day last week, with what she said were two interesting letters from her "old man," who was in Pennsylvania. See wished me to read them for her. One, she got in June last, the other, two weeks ago. She said, "both of them were good, though neither of them had been read; but both of them had been handled a good deal, as I could tell by the grease on 'em." I read them to her, and wrote an answer, at her dictation; for which favor she pronounced me an "illigant lady intirely," and called upon several of the saints to bless me. Her oldest son ran away some time

since.

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The other four children belong to a family living in a shanty. They look quite respectable in the picture, but out of it, not so much everything she can lay her hands on. The little one, four years old, will steal She has often been found with books under her apron. When they are taken from her, she will cry, and say, "I aint the stealer, Tommy's the stealer in our family." I am often puzzled to know what to do with them.

Places have been found in the city for two of our scholars, a boy and a girl, during the past month; and they and the others who have had places found for them, are doing well.

A poor woman came to us, not long since, with a young child in her arms, saying her husband was dead. He had been a soldier. Two of her three children were sick; and as she had no money to pay her rent, the landlord said she must leave her room. Some ladies from the 29th St. mission-school coming in, her case was made known to them, and they gave her $4 50, which made her very happy. She has been in since, and wished me to thank the "good ladies."

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This is but a sample of the work going on. There is a great deal to be done. Pray that we may not become weary in well-doing. * An interesting item, during the month, to the school committee, was attending an object-lesson given to the children. The lesson itself was well calculated to excite interest and develop thought in the children's minds, and it was evident the school enjoyed it.

Another item of interest, was the visit of the assistant superintendents of the public schools, and their report after examination of the children. This report is, on the whole, favorable to the scholars, and highly so to the discipline and management of the teachers. The following note is recorded in the visitors' book.

"I have visited all the Home schools-six in number-with much satisfaction. Exercises by several classes were heard in all the schools, of a very creditable character. Good order prevails in them all. I cannot but think

they are doing a work of usefulness not to be reached by the common schools of the city. The Home schools' perform a truly missionary work."

A third feature has been the close of the month by the distribution of rewards. All the children had given such evidence of an effort to do right, that it was deemed well to encourage them by the distribution of a card to each some having been given as a donation to the schools. A list was then made of seventeen scholars-four of them boys-who numbered the highest marks. One of the girls had 236, and the others amount to nearly 200.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS of DONATIONS to the Home for the Friendless, from August 10th to August 25th, 1864.

$20 entitles the Donor to a Life-membership, and a copy of the A. & G. for life.), HOME.

Vt.-Bequest of Mrs Charlotte E. Hoyt, of New

Haven, E. G. Bottum, Executor $500 (less tax &c.) 473 82 Mrs Lot Sanford, of Shoreham, $100, of which $20 to const. herself a Life Member.

Mrs H. Mead and Mrs N. Johnson $2 each, West
Rutland..

100 00

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CLOTHING, PROVISIONS, &c., received from August 10th to August 25th, 1864.

B. I.-Rockville, pack'ge of clothing for Ind. Schools, from
Mrs L. M. Cottrell.

N. Y.-Sodus, box containing articles ofclothing bequeathed
by Mrs Barbary Wride, per Mr Robert Wride.
Ganesvoort, a package of clothing from Mrs Burton.
Brooklyn, a contribution of pop-corn from a little boy
Montgomery, package of clothing from John Brackey.
N. Y. City.-Package of clothing from Mrs Driggs.
N. J.-Newark, 8 caps, and pieces of cloth from Louisa
Tuck.

Ohio. Cincinnati, a box of clothing, basted patchwork and books for Ind. Schools, from Mrs Henry Smith.

Important Legacies have been lost to the Home through informality. It is therefore earnestly requested of those who design to benefit the Institution by giving it a place in their last Will and Testament, that they would use the following:

FORM OF A BEQUEST.

I give and bequeath to the American Female Guardian Society, incorporated by the Legislature of New York, in the year 1849, the sum of s to be applied for the Benefit of the Home for the Friendless, or to other charitable uses of said Society.

The Will should be attested by three witnesses, who should write against their names, their place of residence, and state that they signed the instrument at the request of the testator. and in the presence of the testator and each other, and that the testator declared to them that it was his or her last Will and Testament.

TO DONORS.-Small Packages, sent to the City by private hand, may be left at either of the following places: North Bro's and Gillett, Com. Merchants, Domestic Cotton Goods, &c., &c., 12 Murray St.

Jas. O. Bennett, Commission Merchant, 30 Whitehall St.

Mrs Alpheus Cady, Cambridge.

4.00 50

Mrs Jennie D. Hill, Starksboro.

1 50

B. I.-Friends in Hope Valley, frt. per Mrs Babcock

1 00

Conn.-M. A. Lindley, Bridgeport..

25

A Life Member, Jewett City.

1 00

Bequest of Frederika Weiss, of Norwich, per B. Durfee, Executor..

158 91

N. Y.-A Friend, Ganesvoort.

1 00

Julia Denison, Yaleville...

1 00

Rachel Rinel, Williamson.

2 50

Mrs J. Chapman, Little Valley.

1.00

Mr De'Lancy Bartlett, Fayetteville..

1 00

Mrs Sanford, Carlton...

1 00

Mrs Benjamin R. Griffin, Cutchogue..

5 00

N. Y. City.-James McIntosh...

5 00

N. J.-Rev A. Hopper, New Providence...

1 00

Ohio.-Mrs Maria Royce $5, Mrs M. A, Cone $1, Mrs S. A. Rawley and her little daughter $1 each.... Amy A. Delamater, $1.50, Mr Hubbard $1, Mrs Picket 50c, Litchfield..

8 00

3.00

Mrs R. H. Smith, Cincinnati, freight...

1.00

Subscribers in and near Barnesville $10, J. Livesy

$5, collected by E. R. Thomas.

15.00

H. W. Hanchett, Twinsburg.

1.00

Mich.-M. A. W., Ridgeway.

1 02

Coll. by Mrs C. Hoffman, Niles...

5 00

2.00

H. M. James, Hudson..

50

Cynthia Wheeler, Ray.

25

II.-E. D. Mills, Galva...

40

Wis.-Mrs Hannah Bland, Princeton.. ......................................

2.00

Iowa.-A Friend, Danville....

Minn.-A Friend, Northfield...

Oregon.-Mary R. Smith, Empire City.

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E. W. Smith, Moline.....

N. Y.-Little Alice Sanford, Carlton.....

J. R. W., Brooklyn.

Mrs Hulbert and Mary L. Wood 25c each, Mrs Swift and Mrs Gray 20c each, Hattie and Lillian Swetland, E. D. Benton, Nellie Prebbles, Randolph, Chattie, Millle, Polly, Matilda, Ella, Fanny, Mary and Charles, Mary and Jennie, Addie, Carrie, Ella, L. E. Winter, Mrs Palmer, D. L. Whitman, Mrs L. Peters, Mrs Baum, Mrs A. Swift, Mrs Card, Mrs Dickinson, Mrs Corwin, Mrs Hazen, Mrs Smith, Mrs Little, Mrs Dykeman and Mrs Corwin 10c each, collected by Hattie A. Swetland, with 35c from Mr and Mrs Barber, and 25¢ from Mrs Newton, Mrs Church 20c, and Mrs Mallery 15c, Mary, Julia, Tillie and Maggie, Mrs Denton and Mrs Burgess 10c each, Grace 5c, collected by Mary A. Benton....

Ohio. James Calhoun 25c, Alex.. Mary, Mary and Johnny 10c each, other children in Miss Anna Thompson's school 39c, Miss Thompson 50c Savannah

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NOTICE.

THE carrier of this paper, Mr. JOHN E. LINE, is authorized to receive subscriptions to the ADVOCATE AND GUAR DIAN and also donations to the A. F. G. Soc. and Home for the Friendless.

Packages, not letters, should be marked: HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS, 29 E. 29TH ST.,

NEW YORK.

A. Chapman, [Healey's Express, Pier 16, N. R. A list of articles, with donors' names and post-office address, should be enclosed in the package, and another similar list sent by mail, stating when and how the package was forwarded.

The only safe way of transmitting funds, is by draft, pay able to Mrs. Sarah A. Stone, Treasurer.

STEREOSCOPIC VIEWS OF "HOME" SCENES.

There have been prepared, in order to give our distant friends a more perfect idea of the institution in its details, a series of twelve beautiful pictures, taken with life-like accuracy, by the well-known photographer, E. ANTHONY, embracing the following:

1. HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS, 32 E. 30th St

2. CHILDREN'S DORMITORY.

3. NURSERY DORMITORY.

4. NURSERY CHILDREN.

5. SCHOOL CHILDREN AT PLAY.

6. HOME CHAPEL, 29 E. 29th St.,

7. CHILDREN IN SCHOOL,

8. CHILDREN IN CHAPEL.

9. CHILDREN ON GALLERY-Anniversary.

10. CHILDREN AT DINNER-Thanksgiving. 11. PLAY GROUND SCENE.

12. ADVOCATE & GUARDIAN PRINTING OFFICE Price, plain, 25c: each, the whole set, 82.50; colored. 35c. each, $3.50 the set, sent by mail free of postage. STEREO. SCOPES (in which to view them,) from $1 to $5. Profits entirely devoted to the "Home." Address: Advocate and Guardian, Care Mrs. Sarah A. Stone Box 4740. New York,

MAP OF THE UNITED STATES,

About 6 feet square, with a large amount of valuable sta tistical and other information, based on the last Census, and the Counties, &c., distinctly designated Can be sent by express. Price, $8. Address, Advocate and Guardian Office, 29 East 29th St.

WONDERFUL CRADLE! BROWN'S PATENT BABY-TENDER, a vertical, noiseless and delightful SPRING-CRADLE, easily converted into a Baby-jumper, Baby-horse, Baby-walker, High-chair, Springchair, Nursery-chair, Hobby-borse or Ottoman; the whole designed to obviate the evils of the rocking motion and TAKE THE PLACE OF A HIRED NURSE. Ornamental, compact, strong and durable. The wonder and admiration of parents and the delight of children.

MR. ANGELL, Gen. Agent of the A. F. G. S., after using it in his family for more than two years, says, "If mothers generally knew the great value of the Baby-tender in the care of children they would deny themselves one meal a day (if necessary) to procure it."

Agents wanted in all parts of the North and West. An excellent opportunity for profitable and useful employment. Send for illustrated circular, 699-708.

BROWN & CO., 483 Broadway, N. Y.

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Aims of the Am. Female Guardian Society. 1st. The Society aims to rescue from degradation, physi cal and moral, the children of want, homelessness and sorrow, wherever found, who may be committed to the Society in accordance with its Charter, and after a suitable probation in their institution, to learn to what they are best adapted, &c., to secure for them permanent country homes in Christian families.

2d. To reach as many as possible of this same exposed class of children, who, though prevented by surrounding circumstances, from becoming Home beneficiaries as inmates, may, nevertheless, be withdrawn from the education of the city street, taught habits of industry and propriety of conduct, the knowledge of the Bible, &c., and surrounded by influences that may be protective and saving.

(Several hundred of this class receive food, raiment, instruction and watch-care through the agency of the Society.) 3d. To afford a place and means of protection for destitute respectable young women, without employment, friends or home, and within the age and circumstances of temptation. 4th. To aid and encourage destitute American widows with small children, to avoid a separation as long as practicable, by furnishing apparel, bedding, etc., at discretion: securing remunerative employment as far as it may be obtain ed, and also to admonish the unwary of the moral pitfalls that often abonnd in the pathway of the lowly. 5th. To use the Press to enlist the Public mind in behalf of the several classes and objects above named.

The "Home," since it was established in 1847, has sheltered, fed and clothed, temporarily, many thonsand children and adults. It is sustained by charitable contribu tions, and is constantly needing donations of money, cloth. ing, provisions, &c.

EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE.

Dear Madam,-My mother, Mrs. C. Hoffman, who takes the Advocate and Guardian, in looking it over, saw the notice of the want of sheets at the Home for the Friendless. She immediately called on some of her friends for that object, and collected five dollars, which I now send. It is but a trifle, but will, I trust, be a little help. My mother, some years ago, called on you. She is now 81 years old, but spends most of her time in working for the Homes in this part of our land. M. A. P.

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Dear friends of the friendless,-Please accept the enclosed "mite" as a thank-offering from a heart overflowing with gratitude to my noble countrywomen, and to the Father of mercies, who has raised up such women in our country's metropolis. It is accompanied with the earnest prayer that, although an humble offering, it may be the instrument of aiding in the rescue of some unfortunate female from the "pits and snares" of the great city. In your columns of June 1st, you begged your readers to pray for New York; and here, in my quiet country home, too far removed to catch but a faint glimpse of their sights of sin, I do earnestly pray for the metropolis and capital, the Sodom and Gomorrah of our land. May God, in His infinite mercy, renovate and purify these moral plague-spots; and for the sake of the remnant who have not bowed the knee to Baal, save them from greater calamity.

And upon you, O my sisters, may the richest blessings be showered down from the inexhaustible treasures of His storehouse, is my prayer-and not mine only, but the prayer of many a loyal, Christian heart in the prairie

West.

Danville, Iowa.

A FRIEND.

Enclosed, please find twenty-five cents from little Ida Bailey, six years old. It is the fruit of self-denial for the sake of the Home children, for whom she "feels so sorry," she says. Also 60c., the pocket-money of Hubbie Bailey, her only brother, who now lies sleeping in the siHELEN. lent tomb.

Dear Ladies, who are engaged heart and hand in gathering in the scattered lambs, and rescuing those who would ever be degraded, were it not for your timely, unwearied exertions to instruct and place them under good influences; may your efforts be successful in preparing them to advance the cause of Christ here, and to sing of redeeming grace in a world of bliss. Press on, dear sisters, in your Christlike labors of love, in the strength of the Lord, until you are called to a higher and more glorious sphere, where, I trust, you will not wear starless crowns. C. B.

A noble example.—Mrs. Sarah A. Stone:— Dear madam,-Enclosed please find $100, to be appropriated to the objects of the "Home." This amount is from Mrs. Lot Sanford, of Shoreham, Vt., a widow, but blessed with means for doing good; and who says, "What I do, I must do quickly," as she is 80 years of age. She has taken the Advocate late years, and has become much interested in the things to which it is devoted. Please acknowledge the amount as coming from her, and make her a life-member, in consideration thereof. From her pastor. Yours, truly,

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THE Times, of the 29th, contains the following statement, giving a fearful illustration to what depths of depravity even children may sink, in the absence of all moral and restraining influences.

DREADFUL CASE OF DEPRAVITY.-A recent occurrence at Paterson, N. J., shows a horrible state of morals among a certain neglected class of the community. It seems that a girl, aged thirteen years, belonging to a vagabond, poverty-stricken family, picked up from the street a little child of two years, that had wandered from the home of its mother, carried it home, and after stripping the clothes from the infant, threw it into a well. A younger sister of the murderess testified that the "clothes were stripped from the baby for their own," (meaning the murderess' sister's baby.) That she (this girl of nine years) looked into the well and saw the baby kicking in the water, and ran away into the house. The heartlessness of the two girls shows either a greater degree of natural depravity than usually belongs to children, or that they had been schooled in vice and crime from early infancy by brutal parents. From the accounts published in the Paterson papers, this last would seem to have been the case, as when the murderess was arrested, the mother attempted to rescue her from the officers of justice, and fought and tore at the officers, cursing and swearing at a terrible rate. The

mother at that time had to be arrested and sent to jail, only coming out yesterday at ten o'clock, a few hours before her daughter was rearrested for murder. The destitution of this family may be understood when our readers learn that the children have been entirely naked a greater part of the day when their only clothing was being washed and dried. Two of the girls had previously been arrested for stealing shoes from better clad children in the street.

For the Advocate and Guardian.

TO THE WOMEN OF OUR COUNTRY.
TO MATRON and maiden, to children, and all,
The country is pleading-give heed to the call;
Our sons and our brothers lie scattered around,
Like leaves by the tempest, on the stern battle-ground;
Each breeze, as it passes, now bears on its breath
A missive to loved ones, of sorrow and death.
At the call of their country they join in the strife;
They sacrifice home, and they sacrifice life.
Can we fold up our hands and calmly move on,
When the crimson tide flows from brother, from son!
Will their groans and their tears unheeded pass by,
When they fight for our cause, for our country die?
Has fashion and fancy a charm for thee now,
When battle's dark seal is stamped on the brow
Of thy suffering country, whose banner still waves
Where valiant ones sleep, and unknown are their graves?
The syren of pleasure before thee may rise,
To charm thee with song, or to dazzle thine eyes,

But thy country, in tears more eloquent still,
Will rush to thy view, and the broad vision fill.
Go, when evening's dark shade has gathered around,
In dreams, child of wealth, from thy soft couch of down,
To swamps and drear plains, where the brave soldiers lie,
With nought to protect but the cold, starry sky;
In prison's lone cells-they are languishing there
For the comforts of life-for kindness and care-
For the sunlight of home which round them once shone,
Sweet words of affection-a mother's fond tone.
'Tis thy mission, O, woman, to soothe and to heal
The grief and the pangs that thy country may feel.

Thine own skillful hand must scatter away
The mists and dark clouds that are hovering to-day:
Thou canst not take arms and join in the fight,
Yet "what thy hand finds thou canst do with thy might:"
Though much thou hast done, there is much still to do;
Fresh wounds and sad hearts are yet waiting for you.
Brave ones in death fallen! the din and the roar
Of cannon will wake them to battle no more;
By mountain and valley, where'er they may sleep,
The angels above their ashes will keep.
Then work, women! work while the conflict shall last,
Till the dark, angry storm from our country has past!
Let thy soul often rise on the sure wings of prayer,
For God to protect those who now struggle there;
"God is our trust," let thy watchword still be;
With faith hail the triumph of sweet liberty,
When the foe shall be vanquished, and victory won,
And peace o'er our land shall beam forth as the sun.
East Hampton, Conn.
M. R. W.

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