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BIOGRAPHY. 91
them, returned, after undergoing their punishment, to the
path of virtue. The greater number of them seemed to
be sincerely grateful for the sympathy shown to them, and
when one had time to disentangle their notions of right
and wrong, they listened with sincere repentance, and joy-
fully, to the exhortations to confess candidly their crimes,
patiently to submit to the punishment inflicted upon them,
and then to endeavor to become new beings.
These visits were continued during the following winter,
when Fredrika was residing in Stockholm. The hope of
having effected some permanent good in this way was,
however, more than once disappointed ; because several of
those for whom much had been done, and for whom, after
they had been discharged from prison, good places as serv-
ants had been procured, returned again to a life of vice
and crime.
Fredrika, together with two other ladies of this society,
also visited the large penitentiary for women. ‘Those who
were imprisoned there were more hardened and more prac-
ticed in crimes; still they were not inaccessible to the en-
deavors made with gentleness and in a Christian spirit, to
awaken their feelings and create in them a wish to repent.
On Fredrika’s visit to this prison on New Year’s Day,
1856, the following New Year’s greeting was presented to
her by its inmates : —
“ Now entering on another year,
F’en with its course our hope grows clear,
That God the erring keeps in mind,
Though worldly judgments are unkind.
With moved and grateful spirit
Our thanks we send to thee,
Who God’s good pleasure’s pathway
Hast made us clearly see.
We here before thy feet do humbly lay
Our New Year’s greeting, and we pray
That thou our words will not despise,
Though they from captive hearts arise.
May health and joy and peace in full
Be with thee until life depart; _
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