our day-and Sabbath-schools, would, in all human
probability, be now among the outcast, the vicious and the criminal.

"So much for what has been done among the children. Our work with men
and women has not been so fruitful as might well be supposed, and yet
great good has been accomplished even among the hardened, the desperate
and the miserably vile and besotted. Bad as things are to-day--awful
to see and to contemplate, shocking and disgraceful to a Christian
community--they were nearly as bad again at the time this mission set
up the standard of God and made battle in his name. Our work began as a
simple religious movement, with street preaching."

"And with what effect?" asked Mr. Dinneford.

"With good effect, in a limited number of cases, I trust. In a degraded
community like this there will always be some who had a different
childhood from that of the crowds of young heathen who swarm its courts
and alleys; some who in early life had religious training, and in whose
memories were stored up holy things from Scripture; some who have
tender and sweet recollection of a mother and home and family prayer and
service in God's temples. In the hearts of such God's Spirit in moving
could touch and quicken and flush with reviving life these old memories,
and through them bring conviction of sin, and an intense desire to rise
out of the horrible pit into which they had fallen and the clay wherein
their feet were mired. Angels could come near to these by what of good
and true was to be found half hidden, but not erased from their book of
life, and so help in the work of their recovery and salvation.

"But, sir, beyond this class there is small hope, I fear, in preaching
and praying. The great mass of these wretched beings have had little or
no early religious instruction. There, are but few, if any, remains
of things pure and good and holy stored away since childhood in their
memories to be touched and quickened by the Spirit of God. And so we
must approach them in another and more external way. We must begin with
their physical evils, and lessen these as fast as possible; we must
remove temptation from their doors, or get them as far as possible
out of the reach of temptation, but in this work not neglecting the
religious element as an agency, of untold power.

"Christ fed the hungry, and healed the sick, and clothed the naked,
and had no respect unto the persons of men. And we, if we would lift up
fallen humanity, must