, two large and well ventilated school-rooms, where from two to
three hundred children that would not be admitted into any public school
are taught daily, a hospital and dispensary and bathrooms. Let me show
you the school. Then I will give you a measure of comparison."

Mr. Dinneford went up to the school-rooms. He found them crowded with
children, under the care of female teachers, who seemed to have but
little trouble in keeping them in order. Such a congregation of boys and
girls Mr. Dinneford had never seen before. It made his heart ache as he
looked into some of their marred and pinched, faces, most of which bore
signs of pain, suffering, want and evil. It moved him to tears when he
heard them sing, led by one of the teachers, a tender hymn expressive of
the Lord's love for poor neglected children.

"The Lord Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost," said the
missionary as they came down from the school-room, "and we are trying to
do the same work. And that our labor is not all in vain will be evident
when I show you what this work was in the beginning. You have seen a
little of what it is now."

They went back to the office of the missionary.

"It is nearly twenty years," said Mr. Paulding, "since the organization
of our mission. The question of what to do for the children became
at once the absorbing one. The only building in which to open a
Sunday-school that could be obtained was an old dilapidated frame house
used as a receptacle for bones, rags, etc.; but so forbidding was its
aspect, and so noisome the stench arising from the putrefying bones
and rotting rags, that it was feared for the health of those who
might occupy it. However it was agreed to try the effect of scraping,
scrubbing, white-washing and a liberal use of chloride of lime. This
was attended with such good effects that, notwithstanding the place was
still offensive to the olfactories, the managers concluded to open in it
our first Sabbath-school.

"No difficulty was experienced in gathering in a sufficient number of
children to compose a school; for, excited by such a novel spectacle
as a Sabbath-school in that region, they came in crowds. But such a
Sabbath-school as that first one was beyond all doubt the rarest thing
of the kind that any of those interested in its formation had ever
witnessed. The jostling, tumbling, scratching, pinching, pulling of
hair, little ones crying and larger ones punching each other's heads and
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