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    women's work in charity* 195!

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    seurity . It is the prerogative only of a few rare natures to find sufficient incitement to exertion in the pursuit of abstract ends

    , without the presence of exterior incentive and palpable aim . " Numberless temptations beset this life-torporfrom which refuge is

    , sought in excitements either frivolous or culpable . Impulses capable of the highest attainments , undirected to better ends , become the

    busy agents of a career of levity or vice . This is the more to be regretted , since it is to the finest capacities that inactivity proves

    most detrimental . In such cases there is a consciousness of aspiration for which no available medium of realisation appears ; and

    nothing is so deteriorating to moral force of character as the conviction of the possession of powers perpetually debarred by adverse

    circumstances from the accomplishment of their legitimate aims _. Surelit should not be the stigma of an age of civilization that it

    permits y , in any human creature , stagnation of those energies of the soul which are the pledges of our origin and destiny , as members

    of Yet a gloriou while s the humanity various . means adapted for the employment of our

    leisure , our resources , and our faculties , still remain the problem which it is infinitely desirable to solve , there is one path of exertion

    open , which , immeasurable in its capacity for good , is susceptible of a peculiar degree of improvement by women , because facilitated by

    absence of the restraints and prejudices which beset more signal courses of action . This is the exercise of charity—charity in the

    best and highest phase , which ministers to the wants of the minds and souls of our species as well as to their bodies . The poor we

    vir have tue always is ever with before us us , and . Much the requirement is to be done in for the the vin exercise eyard , thoug of this h

    too many stand all the day idle ; and never was the great work of charity more appropriate , and the neglect of it more inexcusable ,

    than in the present age , which , notwithstanding its evils , presents one oriinal and meritorious distinction in a pervading spirit of

    benevolence g , and a desire for the physical and spiritual welfare of man under every condition of existence . Want and suffering are

    now sought out as the object of sympathy in a superior degree , and the institutes of reform have proportionably multiplied . *

    The amelioration of humanity under its varied phases of misfortune has now become a science , the appliances of which are studied

    to an extent which removes many obstacles to good works . The labor spirit which of association is of late involving so much the unity character of purpose of our and social division institu of

    tions , while it offers the means of realisation to the loftiest enterprise women , , gives to become efficacy invincible to the , humblest agents efforts in the . work It is of in charity the power . The of

    very a cause attributes . Funds of the feminine and nature committees are of essential , indispensable value in thoug _siich h programmes

    they are , . form but , a slender part , , and can only partially effect the odwhich results from the comprehensive sway of charity . Kindly

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    Women's Work In Charity* 195!

    women ' s work in charity * 195 !

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1859, page 195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051859/page/51/