. Christian herald and signs of our times . he Homemay be made. There are some of the girlswho have become at various times inmatesof the Home who might have succeededas milliners or dressmakers, if they hadreceived competent instruction. Othersagain were better qualified to become clerksif they could have been taught shorthandand type-writing. Possibly during thecoming season experts in these arts maybe found with the desire to aid in theglorious rescue work, who will give theirservices as a contribution to the under-taking. It lias also been suggested that a laun-dry might be established, wh
. Christian herald and signs of our times . he Homemay be made. There are some of the girlswho have become at various times inmatesof the Home who might have succeededas milliners or dressmakers, if they hadreceived competent instruction. Othersagain were better qualified to become clerksif they could have been taught shorthandand type-writing. Possibly during thecoming season experts in these arts maybe found with the desire to aid in theglorious rescue work, who will give theirservices as a contribution to the under-taking. It lias also been suggested that a laun-dry might be established, which woulddo something toward replenishing a treas-ury which is necessarily afflicted withchronic emptiness. Any enterprise thatpromises this result will be eageriy adopt-ed, for there is no lesson more conspicu-ously obvious than the one that there areunlimited opportunities for usefulness, ifthere were means to take advantage ofthem. At the present time every bed inthe house is occupied every night, butthere are empty rooms which might be. A LESSON IN SEWING AT THE BETH ESOA HOME. filled if they had anything in them besidethe bare boards. Nor is there any lack ofcandidates for admission. In New Yorkalone there are said to be over twentythousand women of the class the Homeseeks to rescue, and there are over tenthousand in Brooklyn, and it is the testi-mony of the girls who have been receivedthat large numbers would gladly quit theirlives of sin if the way could be opened tothem. It is sad to think that so small asum as that which would fully furnishand equip such an institution as theBethesda Home is all that stands in theway of the salvation of more of theselost souls. The Home has fully provedIts efficiency, and God has given it a richblessing, but the harvest of souls mightbe still greater than it has yet been, andthe fields are white with it, if there werethe means to gather it. During the past season over sixty girlshave been rescued by the Instrumentalityoi the Home, and
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