timacy to Crime--Statistics in France--Foundling
Asylums--Terrible Mortality of London Foundling Hospital, also of St
Petersburg and Paris Hospitals--Former Great Mortality of
Infant-Hospital in New York--Recent Improvement--Mortality of the
Massachusetts Alms-house, and in Dorchester Infant-Asylum--Great
Difficulty in Raising a Child without a Nurse or its Mother--Best Course
is, "PLACING-OUT SYSTEM"--Great Success of "Bureau of Ste.
Apolline"--Mortality Greatly Reduced--Children Scattered over
France--The Outlay by the Government--The Moral Effects--This Bureau to
be Distinguished from Private Bureaus--The Boarding out in Hamburg, in
Berlin, in Dublin--The FAMILY PLAN--Tendency of all Civilized Countries
towards this Plan--All the Illegitimate Children in this City might be
Placed out in Country Homes--Duties of the Legislature in regard to
Illegitimacy--Objections to the French Turning-tables--Too Great Laxness
Injurious--The New York Law too Severe......................pp. 404-417

CHAPTER XXXV.

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION FOR STREET-CHILDREN.

The Difficulties of Religious Teaching--Street-children not to be
Influenced like Sunday Schools--Rhetoric and Sentiment do not Touch
Them--True Oratory and the Dramatic Method always Reach them--They are
Peculiarly Open to Religion, but Exposed to Overwhelming
Temptations--Solemn Aspect of their Position to the Speaker--The
Problem--The Object to Implant Religious Love and Faith--Moral
Influences not Sufficient--"Bread-and-Butter Piety" Doubtful--Objection
to Prizes or Rewards--Religious Instruction not so desirable as
Religious Inspiration--The New Testament to be Preferred to the Old--The
Knowledge and Faith in Christ, Most of all Needed--What this Faith Has
Done, and What it Can Do--Mistakes of Sunday-school Oratory--Rhetorical
Pyrotechnics not Wanted--Allegory the Best Method--Our Best Speaker a
Sportsman--His Sympathies with Boys and with Nature--"BIBLE IN
SCHOOLS"--Religious Instruction in Public Schools Desirable, if all were
of the same Faith--Bible-reading used by the Priests Against the
Schools--Free Schools the Life-blood of the Nation--Protestants should
Never Allow Them to be Broken Up--Protestant Pluck--Are School Religious
Exercises of Much Use--Separation of Church and State--Experience of
England--Free Schools without Religion, rather than no Free
Schools.....................................................pp. 418-428