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liberty as other young servants. If they answered 

 to this trust it was understood that when the 

 period for which they were sentenced had expired, 

 Miss Carpenter would recommend them to good 

 situations, and so after all their failure and mistake 

 they would win for themselves an honoured position 

 once more. Miss Carpenter was known to be very 

 watchful and strict as a mistress ; she was kindness 

 itself, but she was not weak. She never gave a 

 recommendation unless it was deserved, she was 

 exceedingly quick to notice any irregularity; therefore 

 a character from her was worth having. 



This simple system of rewards and punishments 

 was a great success, and by its means hundreds of 

 girls, unhappily degraded and apparently lost to all 

 sense of self-respect, were won to the paths of honesty 

 and virtue. Their salvation was the work of Miss 

 Carpenter's life, it was to their welfare she devoted 

 herself, it was for them she worked and prayed. For 

 more than twenty years this heroic woman toiled and 

 prayed in order that she might pluck these poor 

 castaways as brands from the burning. It was for this 

 that her name is now reverenced as one of the noblest 

 of the World's Workers. 



Yet it must not be thought that the work at Red 

 Lodge, interesting though it was, occupied all her 

 time. On the contrary ; she was most energetic and 

 unwearied in taking steps to get good laws passed 

 which should benefit these helpless little ones. A great 



