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form and elevate,—to snatch as brands from the burning souls not yet wholly given over to the service of evil. The wonderful influence for good exerted over the most degraded and reckless criminals of London by the excellent and self-denying Elizabeth Fry, the happy results of the establishment of houses of refuge, and reformation, and Magdalen asylums, all illustrate the wisdom of Him who went about doing good, in pointing out the morally diseased as the appropriate subjects of the benevolentlon audience like Spenser's Una amidst the satyrs; unassailable and secure in the unresistible might of meekness, and panoplied in that noble grace which dashed brute violence With sudden adoration and mute awe. Twenty years ago, when Elizabeth Fry ventured to visit those spirits in prison,—the female tenants of Newgate,—her temerity was regarded with astonishment, and her hope of effecting a reformation in the miserable objects of her sympathy was held to be wholly visionary. Her pers<