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vagrants who might be brought under training. There 

 was a Workmen's Hall, containing a lecture hall and 

 library, intended to provide a place of simple enter- 

 tainment and recreation ; near this was a Boys' Home 

 with lodging for between twenty and thirty boys. 

 There was the Reformatory School at Kingswood, and 

 the Girls' Reformatory in the Red Lodge, with the 

 cottage adjoining, to which girls were promoted who 

 showed that they were deserving of trust. There was 

 the Certified Industrial School for Boys, which had 

 been established and conducted for two years by Miss 

 Carpenter herself, and the Girls' Certified Industrial 

 School, established by a band of ladies at Miss 

 Carpenter's suggestion just before she sailed for 

 India. Each of these had been most useful, and all, 

 with the exception of the Workmen's Hall, had been 

 planned to rescue destitute and neglected children, 

 who but for her would have been left to perish. 



In early life, her biographer tells us, Miss Carpen- 

 ter had longed for the happiness of being a wife and 

 a mother. Later she became content that her affec- 

 tion could be freely given to those who needed it 

 " There is a verse in the prophecies," she once wrote, 

 " ' I have given thee children whom thou hast not 

 borne/ and the motherly love of my heart has been 

 given to many who have never known before a 

 mother's love, and I have thanked God for it" In 

 another letter she said : " It is quite striking to 

 observe how much the useful power and influence of 



