a few "Brother" Masons interested in the
same good work. It is the part of charity and justice to assume that
their superior officers were totally ignorant of their real characters.

But why should these sacred duties be relegated to the Henrietta
Mannerses and the "Brother" Masons? Are there not enough intelligent,
conscientious Christian men and women among the churches who would
consider it not only a duty, but a precious privilege, to carry the
gospel of Jesus Christ into the dark places? It is not wise to set a
thief to catch a thief, and it is worse than useless to encourage the
weak, not to say the depraved, to carry the gospel to their kind.

In the days when I could see no silver lining to the clouds I tried
going to a Protestant church, but I recognized very shortly the
alienation between it and me. Personally, I do not like to attend
Salvation meetings or listen to the mission evangelists. So I ceased any
pretension of going to church, thus allying myself with that great
aggregation of non-church-going Protestant working women who have been
forced into a resentful attitude against that which we should love and
support. It is encouraging, however, to find that the church itself
has, at last, begun to heed our growing disaffection and alienation:

"The fact must be admitted that the wage-workers of this country
are largely outside the churches. This breach has been steadily
widening; conditions are worse now than they were ten years ago.
One of the strongest reasons for this is the fact that the churches
have not recognized so clearly as they ought the equities of this
conflict. It is a grave failure. They ought never to have suffered
such an alienation to occur between themselves and the people who
constitute the very bone and sinew of our civilization," says a
prominent preacher and reformer.

"How can the Christian church clear herself of the charge that the
very people who heard her Lord gladly turn in multitudes from her
threshold? There is need of sober thought and deep humiliation,
that this most grave social problem may find a solution which shall
bring honor to the church and peace to society."[1]

Obviously the fundamental need of the worker of either sex is
education. She needs to be educated, this work-girl. She does not need a
fancy education; but she does need a good education, so that upon her
entrance into the worksho