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THE "PIMPS' CLUB" AT SINGAPORE 111
I wondered how on earth any human being
could stay in such a place with such truly
contemptuous people for a single moment
longer than was absolutely compulsory. This
is, of course, an extreme case, and wiser
counsels and more Christian wisdom now
" "
prevail. Fallen women are given a far
better chance than they used to be given even
ten years ago, and many of the rescue homes
are quite charming places. But how are these
poor women to know this ?
Then, of course, there is that dreadful habit
of preaching to them. What a wonderful
amount of good could be done, and how
much more moral and social reform could
be achieved, if we could only get people to
work among
those who need our service so
much, without preaching to them !
It is
very difficult for such women to step suddenly
from their free-and-easy life to a dis-
ciplined existence where they are compelled
to give an hour at least, morning and evening,
to listen, perhaps, to some dreary discourses.
These are, indeed, difficulties in the way of
helping what are called " fallen " women a
word I dislike immensely to a better life,
when one can only offer them that sort of
existence. If we could but believe that by
kindness and tenderness and a holy liberty we
would do more for them than by preaching at
them and compelling them to attend services,
our minds to
and if we could but make up
believe also that the Eternal Father is quite
capable of speaking to His own children and