to receive not more than twenty-five Inmates of a particular age and class of character.

8. To teach Adult Females to read the Scriptures. 9. To provide cheap and comfortable lodgings for Young Women of good character, in which they will be shielded from temptation.

10. To employ competent Females to give themselves wholly to the service of the Mission, and remunerate them according to their respective merits.

11. To establish Libraries, and distribute Tracts adapted to benefit Females; and to adopt such other means as the Managers may, from time to time, think most likely to promote the object of the Society.

In furtherance of their plans, the Mission has rented and fitted up a Probationary House (3 Princes' Street, Red Lion Square) for Penitent Females, in which, from a short time after its commencement, in January 1837, twenty-five Females, on an average, have been accommodated. This house has the benefit of the superintendence of a Committee of Ladies, with competent Matron and Sub-Matron.

Fifty pounds have been voted to encourage a New Asylum, opened in Camden Town on the principles of the Mission, which has already received Twelve Females from the Probationary House; and a similar sum has been voted to the Westminster Penitent Female Asylum, just formed.

A house has been hired and fitted up (3, Millman Place, Bedford Row) as a home for females of good character. Indigent Females of good character who may, from any cause, be without a home, or without one that is safe, will here be maintained and employed, and also instructed in what may be of use to them for time and eternity. A Register

office will be kept, with a view to secure suitable situations for domestic servants, and other females of approved character; and respectable females will be provided with comfortable lodgings on moderate terms, and will be shielded from the contaminating influence of corrupt example, as well as from the villanous arts of designing characters, of both sexes, at a time when, from want of a situation, and the apprehension of penury, they are more especially exposed. The indigent, and those who pay for their accommodations, will occupy different portions of the house, and will come together only at morning and evening worship.

A Lady of experience, and otherwise well qualified, is employed in forming and superintending Maternal Meetings.

A Lady has been engaged as Secretary to that branch of the Society's labours which contemplates the restoration of Penitent Females: she has, in some cases, experienced disappointment, but has had the satisfaction of finding a temporary or permanent home for several, who are at present conducting themselves with propriety.

A Lady has also been appointed to devote herself wholly to the formation of Associations among young Women of good character, and little Girls, and to carry out the general objects of the Mission in districts assigned her for that purpose.

Four Libraries have been procured for the benefit of Females, and three of them are now in circulation.

Meetings of Mothers in the humbler ranks of society have been held weekly, under the superintendence of married Ladies.

Meetings of Young Women of good character,

and similar Meetings of Girls under 14 years of age, are also held weekly, and conducted by Young Ladies.

"Todd's Lectures to the Young," and other Tracts, have been distributed amongst Mothers and Children.

Adult Females are now learning to read the Scriptures in connexion with the Mission.

It is presumed that no one who has given any serious attention to the condition of Females in London will hesitate, for one moment, in admitting the necessity of such efforts as those above described, but will wish that they were increased a thousandfold. The Mission has made a beginning, and it remains with the Christian and benevolent Public to say how far it shall be enabled to carry out its designs.

Philanthropists, the tears of ten thousand Mothers, and of twice ten thousand Daughters, as well as the miseries of untold numbers of human beings of all ages, claim your sympathy, and demand your interposition.

Patriots, you cannot confer a greater boon on your country than that which would be conferred by elevating the moral character and directing the energies of her Female population.

Parents, the prosperity and happiness of the members of your Family may be closely connected with the maintenance of this Mission.

Masters and Mistresses, the safety of your property, and the comfort of your Domestics, may be deeply involved in the success of this Society.

Christians, shall stumbling-blocks be taken out of the way of the church's prosperity ?-shall Mothers in Israel be multiplied?-shall our Daughters be as polished stones, fashioned after the similitude

of a palace? To the accomplishment of these objects our efforts are directed, and to you we look with confidence for the means of extending them.

Let all who have a heart to feel for human misery, who regard the present and eternal happiness of their fellow immortals, consider the claims of this Mission to their prompt and liberal support.

AFFECTING NARRATIVE.

"There is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth."

M. M., aged 21, being left an orphan at a very early age, was brought up by distant connexions. Having several young relations of her own age in the family, and a distinction being made between them and her, her home was by no means comfortable. She felt that she was a dependent, and her feelings, naturally very acute and susceptible, were frequently wounded. She would gladly have taken a situation, but this was not approved of by her friends. On one occasion, when she had experienced much unkindness, she made application to a lady who was about to travel, and who was in want of an attendant; her services were accepted, and every arrangement was entered into, when her relative, under whose roof she resided, insisted on its being given up. Under these circumstances, and destitute of any solid religious principle, she became a victim to the arts of the seducer. A gentleman who visited the place, happening to see her, contrived to meet with and address her. This course be persevered in, and, as he assured her bis intentions were honourable, she listened again and again; her affections were gained, he of course making use of the customary excuses for secresy, &c. The prospect of marriage, as it would render her independent of her friends, was a source of much satisfaction. The gentleman in question proceeded to London, whence he wrote frequently, and, in an evil hour for her peace, she complied with his invitation to meet him there prior to their union. She came, and was deceived. Apartments were ready to receive her, and no expense was spared to make her thus far comfortable. Day after day did she entreat for the performance of his promise; but fresh excuses

were pleaded for its postponement, whilst she endured when alone all the bitterness of disappointed hopes and torturing remorse. At length, wearied it may be with her restless importunity, he confessed that there was an insurmountable barrier to the accomplishment of his promise: he was already a married man! To convince her of this-for she fain would have believed it false-he brought her a lovely boy, the child of his wedded wife. Alas! the agony of suspense which had for months been her portion was far exceeded by the overwhelming sadness of despair. Whither could she fly for refuge? He counselled her to go home, but this she could not do. More than once did she make the attempt; more than once did she convey her things and herself to the coachoffice; but each time her courage failed; she dared not throw herself on the mercy of those who, even in the days of her innocence, had not been so tender of her as their circumstances warranted. She returned to her cheerless apartments, resolving to seek employment. Her betrayer did not leave her destitute; and, whilst she had wherewithal to live, she made application for several situations as shopwoman; but, alas! although possessing every qualification desirable in such an employ, her services were scornfully rejected for want of the necessary recommendation as to character, and the queries to which her search exposed her overwhelmed her with shame and confusion. Agonizing, indeed, was the apparent hopelessness of her situation, when the London Female Mission was unexpectedly presented to her notice. She lost not a moment in responding to its generous invitation. She called on the Female Agent in connection therewith, was immediately received into its fostering bosom, and, under the divine blessing, has recently been placed in a Christian family, where she will have opportunity of recovering her character and becoming a useful member of society. We have every reason to believe that she has been led to experience the unutterable value of the Redeemer's atoning sacrifice. May she, through the invigorating influences of the Eternal Spirit, be enabled henceforth to "live unto him who died for us, and rose again, that he might purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." And, oh! may we, one and all, be encouraged to give ourselves faithfully and unreservedly to the work of the Lord.

This is not a solitary instance; if it were, who can estimate the value of one soul? "Work while it is called to day; the