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98 she set on foot plans to preserve the prisoners, on their release, from the temptations of drunkenness and idleness, and was the means of reclaiming many from the ranks of crime to tread the path of honesty.

The Sabbath day of course was hers to spend, as the Lord appointed, in doing good to the souls of men. In her case we see what a blessed institution the Lord's-day is; how it affords to the worldweary and the criminal a means of spiritual refreshment and enlightenment; how the Christian, who has to toil for the bread that perisheth, may on this day break the bread of life, and rescue, from the hard grip of worldly. business, time to do and to get good. Oh, dear young reader, cherish your Sabbaths!

Twenty-three years of continued usefulness were permitted to this devoted woman. For the first half of these her services were unnoticed by any of the influential of the earth. She did them to the Lord—that was enough for her. Fees, reward, or praise, she never sought. Of course she had the inward recompense of an approving conscience; and the sweet tribute came to her of the tear of repentance, the smile of humble gratitude, and the blessing of those who were ready to perish.

But at length public sympathy was aroused. Inspectors of prisons and town councillors were startled into attention to her methods of reformation. The prison and its inmates were so altered.