CHAPTER XL
THE RESCUE HOMES FOR THE FALLEN.
HERE again we have made a beginning. It is now a year since the opening of our Home in Colombo, and during that tinifc 52 girls have been l-eceived into our Home. Of these
2 have been restored to their iriends;,
4 are with others—doing well,
23 have turned out unsatisfactory, and
23 are with us in the Home, almost without exception giving evidence of being truly reformed*
Heart-rending are the tales which have reached our ears tis to the way in which many of them have been decoyed from their homes, and as to the miserable existence which they have since been dragging out.
Every Indian city teems with a too fast increasing number of similar unfortunates, for whom at present nothing has been attempted. We propose, therefore, very largely ta extend our Homes at all the large centres of population.
Connected as will be this department with the network of other agencies that we have already established, and Increased as will be our facilities for reaching this class, we 'are confident that we shall be able to carry out this much-needed reform on a scale commensurate with the evil, besides warning the youths of our cities against the terrible contamination to which they are at present exposed. All the weight of our increasing influence will be thrown into the scale for cutting off both the supply and demand of thia infamous traffic in human souls.