etings--His Influence over the Young Vagrants--The Growth of the
Mission--His Humor--The Effect of His Sermon on Stealing--Contest of
Wits--His Torments from the Girls--His Dread of Paupers--Efforts among
the German Children--His Diplomatic Tact in Office-work--His Letters to
the Children Stereotyped by the Thousand....................pp. 271-279

CHAPTER XXIII.

RAISING MONEY FOR A CHARITY.

Sensation to be Avoided--All Raffles and Pathetic Exhibitions
Declined--Our Experience with a Concert--Labors through the Pulpit and
the Press--Character of the Trustees who entered in the Work--Sources of
Income--Mr. Barnard's Bequest--Mr. Chauncy Rose's Great Benefaction--The
Income of a Single Year--Different Sources from which it is
Derived.....................................................pp. 280-285

CHAPTER XXIV.

REFORM AMONG THE ROWDIES--FREE READING-ROOMS.

They Require Peculiar Management to be Successful--The Eleventh-ward
Reading-room--Its Failure--A Reformed Pugilist--"Awful Gardner"-His
Career--The Death of His Son--His Reform--His Words to His Old
Associates--The Effect of Christianity--The Drunkard's Club in the
Fourth Ward--Mr. Beecher's Address--Gardner's Speech--His Influence over
the Rowdies--His Theory of Reform--Great Numbers Rescued from
Drunkenness--Failure of his Health--Genuineness of his Reform--Mr.
Macy's Reading-room--The First-ward Room--Mr. J. Couper Lord--Mr.
Hawley's Exertions--The Free Reading-room a Recognized Means of Moral
Improvement.................................................pp. 286-297

CHAPTER XXV.

HOMELESS GIRLS.

The President of the Society--Mr. William A. Booth--His Character and
Capacity--His Policy in Regard to the Lodging-houses--His Suggestion
about the Street-girls--The Histories of these Girls--Causes of their
Condition--Their Unstable Character--Their Condition Fifteen Years Ago
Hopeless--THE GIRLS' LODGING-HOUSE--Its Plan--Means of Filling
it--Miserable Girls who Applied for Admission--Great Difficulties
Encountered--Necessity of Confining it to the Young, and Those not
Vicious--Principal Frequenters, Young Girls between Fourteen and
Eighteen--The Matron--Her Characteristics--The House was not to be an
Asylum--Our Effort to put the Girls in Places--Struggles of Mr. and Mrs.
Trott--Incidents from the Journal--Cases of R