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PERSONAL INFLUENCE.
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and without the home is an individual work rather than a public missionary service.

With a careful understanding of the causes and preventives of evil there is yet a future for those who help and who are to be helped; and the "disinherited children," who now fill our asylums, crying for their unknown mothers, will become themselves in turn parents who shall find honest work for honest pay. Slowly, imperceptibly, will any change be effected; but, at a time when woman's position and duties are widening, the moral influence of the home is thereby extended, and on its teaching depends the morality of the world. Personal influence in the ball-room and the workshop, education of the young, whether poor or rich, and intelligent comprehension of other natures besides one's own, will aid in devising individual measures for individual cases, until each sufferer finds strength to stand alone.

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