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The school, as we have before stated, is but an experiment, and a recent one; but its results are such as to encourage renewed and continued exertion. Shall not little ones like these whom a few months has seen so far reclaimed from their miserably abject state, as to be at least "fed and clothed," be at length found sitting at the feet of Jesus and in their right mind? Yes, truly; in the heavenly home they shall; but let us hope with striving for such a state of things even here!

We have collected the above statements, not in boast of what has been done, but to show what may and ought to be done. And, we ask in conclusion, what will our other States do in behalf of these, their desolate, and helpless children? Let those whose voices may be heard in our public councils protest in the name of humanity, against a neglect which leaves, sunk in degradation, any portion of our population!

As surely as the good seed is sown in faith, so surely shall the sunshine of Gods's grace, and the dew of his blessing descend upon it, till it bring forth an harvest.

We know that the work is not one of weeks, or months, but of years -- years too, of long, unremitting, patient toil, but -- shall it not be undertaken? We doubt not that true-hearted ones will rise up in our midst ready to devote themselves, with an heroic patience, to the prosecution of this truly noble enterprise -- whose reward shall be great, for they shall be called the children of the Highest!

M. F. D.
Boston, Mass.