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Show ASSOCIATION OF MEN AND WOMEN IN CHARITABLE WORK. The necessity of association ia thia labor of intelligent man and women baa already been seen in the working of the Siatp Charities Aid association. Tbeavil of working otherwise is thus depicted by an able writer : "l.ook out a clever, enlhuuUstia woman, with a strong will ol her own, and no BtroDger will to control it; mate her the lady superior of a sisterhood, without &Dy man to come, with a weigbl of years, authority and holiness, to lay to her, 'This aiual Dot be;' 'That would be very silly, or unreasonable, or improper, and I positively forbid it;' do this, and you will do tbe devil's work in frustrating a means of good as effectually as him-Belf him-Belf could do. You will gat sisterhoods sister-hoods in all the slavish misery of nuns, and with none of the protection protec-tion of couventa a par.k of unhappy women, forbidden to exercise com mon sense, and rendered morbid, sensitive,' and undevout by tbe system which tbe uncontrolled power of the lady superior exercises over them; and not rarely will you have the lady superior go crazy because of the unlimited un-limited indulgence of bur talent lor government." And now for a pendent picture, regarding re-garding this subject from another hand: "Take a house intended by Christians to be an asylum tor the poor; fill it with some hundreds ol the ruined, the reckless, the depraved; the aged, the helpless, the homeless; with wailing infants, with unwed mothers, and all the infinite grades of Bin and suffering. Bring this maBs ol human agonies together, cram them close in horrid propinquity in filth and fetid air, the evil to deprave the good, the better educated where curies and the foulest language pollute their ears; place this insti-lution, insti-lution, this Christian charitable institution, under the government of a set of men, armed with a grim authority, called, as if in mookery, '"guardians of the pooi;' let there be no woman near tuem to wnisper, 'This is wrong,' or 'That is cruel and unreasonable, and in the name of a God of mercy I forbid it!' Let there be no cheerful genial influence there, no gentle voice nor light tread, but drunken viragoes to nurse tbe sick, and insolent inso-lent officials to feed tbe hungry; do this, and you will have something as near as possible to what we can conceive con-ceive of an earthly hell you will have an ill managed parish workhouse. . We will add nothing to these Bharp pictures, save to ask all who may doubt their shocking faithfulness to visit lor themselves and watch tbe wsrking of some one establishment carried on upon the principle of eeparate government. Harper'B Magazine. |