Reform School For Girls

The services at the dediciition of the chapel of the lleform School for Girp at Adrián on the Gek inst., were quite impres3ive. After prayer there were responsive readings by liev. Mr. Gallagher, reading of Scripture by Dr. McElroy of the college, and an address by Kev. J. B. Little. Gov. Jerome was then introduoed, and the girls of the school received him by rising. The Governor briefly alluded to the f act that under Gov. Croswell's administration the legislation that resulted in the placiug of the public institution, was had, aud said that in its organic capacity as a state Michigan was trying this experiment of doing for girls who had gone astray what it had done for boys. He cominented on the demanda and claims of Christian society to help lift up the weak and fallen, and the duty the state owed to sustain this reformatory work with a stroug arm. In closing he said : "The state can p: ovide shelter, raiment, food, books, teachers and pleasant surroundings; the stats can care for their physical and mental needs; but the state cannot provide a mother's patiënt love nor a home. This is beyond man's power as a legislator or benefactor. I appeal to the godly, virtuous, Christian mothers of Michigan to do this work. "We can take these girls from the haunts of vice and give them an education, and it is the duty of the mothers of Michigan to see that, when they are sent back to the great world, they are given a welcome that shall keep them in the paths of purity and virtue." XlemarkB were made by ex-Gov. Croswell and others, and the exercises closed with the dedication byinn sung by the pupils, after wliich Bishop Gillespie pronounced the beuudictlon.