Annual Report of the Refuge in the City of Boston and the Bethesda Society, 1912 [selected pages]
This document details information regarding the Refuge's and the Bethesda Society’s yearly financial expenses, donations, and membership, while also documenting the number of “refugees” under their care. <br />Additionally, this annual report and the <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/422" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Annual report of the Refuge and Bethesda Society ">annual report of 1911</a> (also available in the Image Portal), display the mission statements of the two societies and explain how, though being two separate organizations, their specific goals function in harmony with one another. <br /><br />A "Time Schedule" (p. 12) outlines daily activities by day of the week, including sewing, school, gymnastics and recreation.<br /><br />Excerpts: <br />p. 17 "However beset with difficulties any human life may be, whether from evil inheritance or corrupt surroundings, we believe there is no human being who with the grace of God cannot be reformed, if that grace be accompanied by human forces. This belief must always be the foundation stone of all successful efforts against evil in this world, and it is nowhere more needed than in just the work we are trying to do here." <br />"The great motive of all our efforts is to reform the transgressor, not to punish."<br /><br />p. 18 "We offer them first of all a cheerful, comfortable and refined home, and bring them under the influence of kind and judicious matrons....Here are combined the influences of a home, a school, a church--the three great forces of changing character."<br /><br />p. 20 "During their sewing hours, and often in the evening, the matrons read aloud to the girls from books which are received from the Pulic Library Deposit Station--fifty books of suitable reading matter being left at a time, that the girls may be supplied with desirable books which they can read during their leisure hours."<br /><br />pp. 20-21 "To secure the best results, it is considered necessary for the girls to remain with us at least two years and then, unless relatives or friends have provided for them they are not allowed to leave our home until desirable situations are found for them where they can still be under our watchful care."
Refuge and Bethesda Society
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1912
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/collectionguides/CharitiesCollection/CC016.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="finding aid to The Orchard Home School records">Guide to the The Orchard Home School (Boston, Mass.) records, 1828-1948</a>, Simmons University Library <br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Penitent+Females%27Refuge+Society+(BOSTON,+Massachusetts)%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="publications available through Google Books">Penitent Females' Refuge and Bethesda Societies</a> publications, Google Books <br /><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044024455495;view=2up;seq=60" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Section listing charitable and beneficient organizations assisting "fallen women"">Fallen Women</a>. A Directory of the Charitable and Beneficient Organizations of Boston, 1886, HathiTrust
Annual Report of the Refuge in the City of Boston and the Bethesda Society for the Year Ending February 1911 [selected pages]
This document details information regarding the Refuge's and the Bethesda Society’s yearly financial expenses, donations, and membership, while also documenting the number of “refugees” under their care. Additionally, this annual report and the <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/423" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Annual Reports of the Refuge and Bethesda Society, 1912">annual report of 1912</a> (also available in the Image Portal), display the mission statements of the two societies and explain how, though being two separate organizations, their specific goals function in harmony with one another. <br /><br />List of Donations and Report of Work (sewing) are included.<br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />p. 2 "In our 'House of Mercy' we offer a 'Refuge' to those fallen women who desire to return to the paths of virtue. <br />We desire to do greater good in the future than has been accomplished in the past, and for this purpose we ask the co-operation and the pecuniary aid of all who approve of and are willing to help forward this peculiar charity." <br /><br />p. 8-9 Donations listed on these pages include a variety of necessities and treats including <br />24 Bibles, barrel of apples, an evening's entertainment with Victor machine [phonograph], ice cream, year's subscriptions to <em>Ladies' Home Journal</em>, <em>Outlook</em>, and <em>American Magazine,</em> 12 boxes of strawberries, and many presents at Christmas time.
Refuge and Bethesda Society
<a href="https://www.simmons.edu/library/archives/collections/charities" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Charities Collection description">Simmons University Archives Charities Collection</a>
1911
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NO COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE ONLY<br /><br />This Work has been digitized in a public-private partnership. As part of this partnership, the partners have agreed to limit commercial uses of this digital representation of the Work by third parties. You can, without permission, copy, modify, distribute, display, or perform the Item, for non-commercial uses. For any other permissible uses, please review the terms and conditions of the organization that has made the Item available. <br /><a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/">http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/</a>
Learn more: <br /><a href="https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/collectionguides/CharitiesCollection/CC016.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="finding aid to The Orchard Home School records">Guide to the The Orchard Home School (Boston, Mass.) records, 1828-1948</a>, Simmons University Library <br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Penitent+Females%27Refuge+Society+(BOSTON,+Massachusetts)%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="publications available through Google Books">Penitent Females' Refuge and Bethesda Societies</a> publications, Google Books <br /><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044024455495;view=2up;seq=60" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Section listing charitable and beneficient organizations assisting "fallen women"">Fallen Women</a>. A Directory of the Charitable and Beneficient Organizations of Boston, 1886, HathiTrust