Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . ultraining. TheChurch Army hasfacilities for visitingprisoners in gaol,and it welcomesthem on their dis-charge into itshomes in order thatthey may work out their social redemption. The SalvationArmy has its Prison Gate ^Mission, and ithas the proud distinction of having beenserved as missionaries by seven ex-criminalswho themselves were in durance vile foran aggregate of 210 \-ears. An unsectarianPrison Mission to Women is one of thephilanthropic agencies founded by Mrs. Mere-dith. It is now under
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . ultraining. TheChurch Army hasfacilities for visitingprisoners in gaol,and it welcomesthem on their dis-charge into itshomes in order thatthey may work out their social redemption. The SalvationArmy has its Prison Gate ^Mission, and ithas the proud distinction of having beenserved as missionaries by seven ex-criminalswho themselves were in durance vile foran aggregate of 210 \-ears. An unsectarianPrison Mission to Women is one of thephilanthropic agencies founded by Mrs. Mere-dith. It is now under royal design of the lady benefactress wasto pro\-ide work for every female dischargedprisoner, and to give her sufficient payment tosupport herself Ever) morning in theLondon police courts, before magistrates taketheir seats on the Bench, the missionaries ofthe Police Court Mission are seekingthe prisoners in cell or waiting room, listeningto their stories and .s)-mpathising with theirmisfortunes or their self-induced Mission, whose splendid success in the. POLICK COURT MISSIOX.\UV \ THE CELLS. .salvage of human wrecks has excited wide-spread interest, is a branch of the Church ofEngland Temperance Society. It has nowa boys country home for first religious missions and philanthropicagencies have regard for youthful waifs—notably the Ragged School Union, Dr. Bar-nardos Schools, and the Field Lane for the moral and physical disciplineof respectable lads are there not the various Boys Brigades?The saddest, but,perhaps, the noblest,work in which goodand sensitive womencan engage is rescuework amongst theirown Yet fromthe DominicanSisters of theRoman CatholicChurch to the Quakeresses ofthe S o c i e t) ofFriends, the woman-hood of variousreligious bodies isengaged in it. Thereis also a MidnightMission, independ-ently and devoted tothe compassionatereclamation (if the Magdalen. One of t
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