Gods Answers

God's Answers

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Title: God's Answers A Record Of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at
the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada
Author: Clara M. S. Lowe
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GOD'S ANSWERS:
A RECORD OF
MISS ANNIE MACPHERSON'S WORK
AT THE HOME OF INDUSTRY, SPITALFIELDS, LONDON, AND
IN CANADA.
CLARA M. S. LOWE
"Peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God
helpeth thee."
--1 CHRON. xii. 18.

CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I.
1861-1869.
Prayer of Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel--Residence in Cambridgeshire--
Visit to London in 1861, and first attendance at Barnet Conferences--
Visit of Rev. W. and Mrs. Pennefather--East of London, 1861--Left
Cambridgeshire, 1865--Work in Bedford Institute--1866: Voyage to
New York and return, 1867--First girl
rescued--Matchbox-makers--First boy rescued--Revival Refuge open
for boys and girls--1868: Home of Industry secured--1869: Opened.

CHAPTER II.
1869-1870.
Emigration of families--A visitor's impressions--The great life-work
--Emigration of the young, begun 1870--First party of boys to Canada
with Miss Macpherson and Miss Bilbrough--Their reception--Mr.
Merry takes oat second party out boys--Miss Macpherson returns to
England and takes out a party of girls--Canadian welcome and happy
homes-- Canadian pastor's story.

CHAPTER III.
1870-1871.
Workers' meetings at Home of Industry--Training Home at Hampton
opened--Personal experiences--Welcome in Western Canada--Help for
a Glasgow Home--Scottish Ferryman--"Out of the mouths of babes and
sucklings"

CHAPTER IV.
1872.
The need of a Home further West--Burning of the Marchmont
Home--Home restored by Canadian gifts--Miss Macpherson and Miss
Reavell arrive in Canada--First visit to Knowlton in the East--Belleville
Home restored by Canadian friends--Help for the Galt Home--Miss
Macpherson returns to England--Miss Reavell remains at Galt

CHAPTER V.
1872-1874.
Letter from Rev. A. M. W. Christopher--Letter from Gulf of St.
Lawrence--Mrs. Birt's sheltering Home, Liverpool--Letter to Mrs.
Merry--Letter from Canada--Miss Macpherson's return to England--
Letter of cheer for Dr. Barnardo--Removal to Hackney Home

CHAPTER VI.
1875-1877.
Mrs. Way's sewing-class for Jewesses--Bible Flower Mission--George
Clarke--Incidents in Home work--The Lord's Day--Diary at
sea--Letters of cheer from Canada

CHAPTER VII.
1877-1879.
"They helped every one his neighbour"--Miss Child, a fellow labourer
--The work in Ratcliff Highway--Strangers' Rest for Sailors--"Welcome
Home"--"Bridge of Hope"--Miss Macpherson's twenty-first voyage to
Canada--Explosion on board the "Sardinian"--Child-life in the Galt
Home--The Galt Home now devoted to children from London,
Knowlton to those from Liverpool, and Marchmont to Scottish
Emigrants

CHAPTER VIII.
1879-1880.

Experiences among Indians--Picnic in the Bush--Distribution Of
Testaments--"Till He Come"--"A Home and a hearty Welcome"

CHAPTER IX.
Questions and Answers--Sorrowful cases--Testimonies from those who
have visited Canada--Stewardship

INTRODUCTION
BY
THE REV. JOHN MACPHERSON,
_Author of "The Life of Duncan Mathieson."_
From East London to West Canada is a change pleasing to imagine.
From dusky lane and fetid alley to open, bright Canadian fields is, in
the very thought, refreshing. A child is snatched from pinching hunger,
fluttering rags, and all the squalor of gutter life; from a creeping
existence in the noisome pool of slum society is lifted up into some
taste for decency and cleanliness; from being trained in the school
whose first and last lesson is to fear neither God nor man, is taught the
beginnings of Christian faith and duty, and by a strong effort of love
and patience is borne away to the free, spacious regions of the western
hemisphere, of which it may be said, as of the King's feast, "yet there is
room," and where even a hapless waif may get a chance and a choice
both