In Darkest England, and the Way Out

rlorn denizens can escape into the light and freedom of a new life. But it is not enough to make a clear broad road out of the heart of this dense and matt

eds go into the highways and byways and compel them to come in. So it is not enough to provide our City Colony and

ds each of us to be as indomitable as Stanley, to burst through all obstacles, to force our way right to the centre of things, and then to labour with the poor prisoner of vice and crime with all our might. But had not the Expeditionary Committee furnished the financial means whereby a road was opened to the sea, both Stanley and Emin would probably have been in the heart of Darkest Africa to this day. This Scheme is our Stanley Expedition. The analogy is very close. I propose to make a road c

LUM CRUSADE.-O

New Guinea were much more conducive to the leading of a decent human existence than those in which many of the East-Enders live. Alas, it is not only in London that such lairs exist in which the savages of civilisation lurk and breed. A

not been afraid to exchange the comfort of a West End drawing-room for service among the vilest of the vile, and a residence in small and fetid rooms whose walls were infested with vermin. They live the life of the Crucified for the sake of the men and women for whom He lived and died. They form one of the branches of the activity of the Army upon which I dwell with deepest sympathy. They are at the front; they are at close quarters with the enemy. To the dwellers in decent homes who occupy cushioned pews in fashionable churches there is something strange and quaint in the language they hear read from the Bible, l

ly in the cleanliness and order, and the few articles of furniture which they contain. Here they live all the year round, visiting the sick, looking after the children, showing the women how to keep themselves and their h

ists who have seen these girls at work in the field. The first is taken from a long article which Julia Hayes Percy contributed to the New

re almost as careless and quite as unknowing as we pass the bridge in the late afternoon. Our immediate destination is the Salvation Army Barracks in Washington Street, and we are going finally to the Salvation Officers-two young women-who have been dwelling and doing a noble mission work for months in one of the worst corners of New York's most wretched quarter. These Officers are not living under the aegis of the Army, however. The blue bordered flag is furled out of sight, the uniforms and poke bonnets are laid away, and there are no drums or tambourines. "The banner over them is love" of their fellow-creatures among whom they dwell upon an equal plane of poverty, wearing no better clothes than the r

but clean and warm. A fire burns on the little cracked stove, which stands up bravely on three legs, with a brick eking out its support at the fourth corner. A tin lamp stands on the table, half-a-dozen chairs, one of which has arms, but must have renounced its rockers long ago, and a packing box, upon which we deposit our shawls, cons

tful blue eyes. This girl has been a Salvationist for two years. During that time she has learned to speak, read, and write English, while she has constantly laboured among the poor and wretched. The house where we find ourselves was formerly notorious as one of the worst in the Cherry Hill district. It has been the scene of some memorable crimes, and among them that of the Chinaman who slew his Irish wife, after the

ntering places where otherwise

with the fumes of sour beer and vile liquor. A sloppy bar extends along one side, and opposite is a long table, with indescribable viands littered over it, interspersed with empty glasses, battered hats, and cigar stumps. A motley crowd of men and women jostle in the narrow space. Em speaks to the soberest looking of the lot. He list

one, who replies that she would like to talk, but dare not, and as she says this an old hag comes to the door and cries: "Get along; don't hinder her work! During the evening a man to whom Em has been talking has told her: -"You ought to join the Salvation Army; they are the only good women who, bother us down here. I don't want to lead that sort of life; but I must go where it is light and warm and clean after working all day, and there isn't any place but this to come to" exclaimed the man. "You will appreciate the plea to-morrow when you see how the people live," Em says, as we turn our steps toward the te

lodging houses. Em and Mat keep the corridor without their room beautifully clean, and so it has become an especial favourite stamping ground for these vagrants. We were told this when Mattie locked and bolted the door an

sat up with a dying woman. They are worn out and sleep heavily. Liz and I lie awake and wait

a below our window there are several inches of stagnant water, in which is heaped a mass of old shoes, cabbage heads, garbage, rotten wood, bones, rags and refuse, and a few dead rats. We understand now why Em keeps her room full of

mall, and already contains three women, a man, a baby, a bedstead, a stove, and indescribable dirt. The atmosphere is rank with impurity. The man is evidently dying. Seven weeks ago he was "gripped." He is now in the last stages of pneumonia. Em has tried to induce him to be removed to the hospital, and he gasps out his desire "to die in comfort in my own bed." Comfort! The "bed' is a rack heaped with rags. Sheets, pillow-cases, and night-clothes

ying garbage lying about, and the dead cats and rats are evidence that there are mighty hunters among the gamins of the Fourth Ward. We find a number ill from the grip and consequent maladies. None of the sufferers will ent

is eyes feverishly bright, and he has a hard cough. "It's the chills, mum," says the little chap. Six beds stand close together in another room; one is empty. Three days ago a woman died there and the body has just b

n all my faculties are absorbed in speculating which will arrive first, the "Amen" or the "B flat" which is wending its way to w

a corpse. It is a woman in an opium stup

ails vary slightly, but the story is the same piteous tale of woe everywhere, and crime aboun

missing in that quarter. Every sin in the Decalogue flourishes in that feeder of penitentiaries and prisons. And even as its moral foulness perm

irradiated with the love-light which shone in th

a Journalist who had just witnessed t

aying the "dear Lord that he would bless these dear people, and save them, save them now!" Moved by curiosity, I pressed through the outer fringe of the crowd, and in doing so, I noticed a woman of another kind, also invoking Heaven, but in an altogether different fashion. Two dirty tramp-like men were listening to the prayer, standing the while smoking their short cutty pipes. For s

llowed to come upon you? In the midst of it all your Father loves you He wants you to return to Him; to turn your backs upon your sins; abandon your evil doings; give up the drink and the service of the devil. He has given His Son Jesus Christ to die for you. He wants to save you. Come to His fee

ur -- eyes, what do you mean by telling me that? You know what you ha' done, and now you are going to the Salvation Army. I'll let them know you, you dirty rascal." The man shifted his pipe. "What's the matter?" "Matter!" screamed the virago hoarsely." -- yer life, don't you know what's the matter? I'll matter ye, you -- hound. By God! I will, as sure as I'm alive. Matter! you know what's the matter."

in of the street and the swearing of the slums? Yea, verily, and that voice ceases not and

days. The table is very seldom, if ever, properly cleaned, dirty cups and saucers lie about it, together with bits of bread, and if they have bloaters the bones and heads are left on the table, Sometimes there are pieces of onions mixed up with the rest. The floors are in a very much worse condition than the street pavements, and when they are supposed to clean them they do it with about a pint of dirty water. When they wash, which is rarely, for washing to them seems an unnecessary work, they do it in a quart or two of water, and sometimes boil the things in some old saucepan in which they cook their food. They do this simply because they have no l

ing to those who are often indifferent to the agonies their fellow creatures suffer, so long as their sensitive ears are not shocked by

kness. But after they got used to it they saw a filthy room. There was no fire in the grate, but the fire-place was heaped up with ashes, an accumulation of several weeks at least. At one end of the room there was an old sack of rags and bones partly emptied upon the floor, from which there came a most unpleasant odour. At the other end lay an old man very ill. The apology for a bed on which he lay was filthy and had neither sheets nor blankets. His covering consisted of old rags. His poor wife, who attend

um Work was started in London. The principal work done by our first Officers was that of visiting the sick, cleansing the homes of the Slummers,

rd, place dirty and filthy, terribly poor. Saved now over two years, home

ot saved, and our lasses prayed for him to get work. He did so, and went to it. He fell out again a few weeks after, and beat his wife. She sought employment at charing and o

e Captain speak on "Seek first the Kingdom of God!" called out and said, "Do you mean that if I ask God for work, He will give

being out of work. Through joining the Army, he was turned out of his home. He

arvation wages, on which to keep himself, his wife, and four children. At the 10s. a week work he had to deliver drink for a spirit merchant; feeling condemned over it, he gave it up, and was out of work for wee

low his wife 2s. 6d. a week for cleaning the hall (to help them). In addition to that, she gets another 2s. 6d. for nursing, and on that husban

ago, but, having to work in a public-house on a Sunday, he gave it up; he has not been

een in the streets, wretchedly clad, her sleeves turned up, idle, only worked occasionally, got saved two years ago, had terr

rough the South of England, and South Wales, from one lodging-house to another, often starving, drinking when he could get any money; thriftless, idle, no heart for work. We found him in a lodging-house

ishes the above repo

g, and alas, alas, not only to hear it in the adjoining rooms, but witness it within their own. For over two years they have been delivered from the power of the cursed drink. The old rookery is gone, and now they have a comfortably-furnished home. Their children give evidence of being truly converted, and have a lively gratitude for their

say

ey could get it. The wretched hand-to-mouth existence many of them have to live disheartens them, a

work in the Slums m

the homes and children; disappearance of vermi

for true religion, an

tion

unt of work is being d

g th

cue of many

seems to us a develo

the Colony, enabling them thereby to help the poor people to conditions of life more favourable to health, morals, and religion. This would be accomplished by getting some of th

THE TRAVELL

n, suffer, and die, with less comfort and consideration than the cattle in the stalls and styes of many a country Squire. And this is certainly our

nurses trained for the business, it might be of immense service, without being very costly. They could have a few simple instruments, so as to draw a tooth or lance an abscess, and what was absolutely re

may be suggested, why don't the people when they are ill go to the hospital? To which we simply reply that they won't. They cling to their own bits of rooms and to the companionship of the members of their own families

s, makes the organisation of some system of nursing them in their own homes a Christian duty. Here are a handful of cases,

many cases where, with no one to look after them, they have to lie for hours without food or nourishment o

e floor, on a stuffed sack, and an old piece of cloth to cover her. Although it was wint

her food; but very frequently she had not the strength to light a fire or to get herself food. She was pa

man had been lying for days without having anything done for him. A cup of water was by his side. The Officers vomited from the terrible smells

some egg boxes. She had no one to look after her, except a drunken daughter, who very often, when drunk, used to knock the poor old woman about very badly. The Officers frequently found that

e ran and fetched another neighbour. Thinking the poor woman was dead, they got her into bed and sent for a doctor. He said she was in consumption and required quiet and nourishment. This the poor woman could not get, on account of her children. She got up a few hours a

at the door she was terrified for fear it was the landlord. The room was in a most filthy condition, never having been cleaned. She had a penny pa

ON OF OUR CRIMINALS.-

world more to be pitied than the poor fellow who has served his first term of imprisonment or finds himself outside the gaol doors without a character, and often without a friend in the world. Here,

has happened owing to the desire of the Government to do away with as many local gaols as possible? The prisoners, when convicted, are sent long distances by rail to the central prisons, and on coming out find themselves cursed with the brand of the gaol bird, so

ge from one of Her Majesty's prisons. It is incredible how much mischief is often done by well-meaning persons, who, in struggling towards the attainment of an excellent

better than their neighbours, most men because they are worse. Martyrs, patriots, reformers of all kinds belong to the first category. No great cause has ever achieved a triumph before it has furnished a certain quota to the prison population. The repeal of an unjust law is seldom carried until a certain number of those who are labouring for the reform have experienced in their own persons the hardships of fine and imprisonment. Christianity itself would neve

f our best Officers have themselves been in a prison cell. Our people, thank God, have never learnt to regard a prisoner as a mere convict-A 234. He is ever a human being to them, who is to be cared for and looked after as a mother looks after her ailing child. At present there seems to be but little likelihood of any real reform in the interior of our prisons. We have therefore to wait until the me

. One for women must follow immediately. Others will be required in different parts of the Metropolis, and contiguous to each of its great prisons. Connected with these Homes will be workshops i

al Courts, to take such offenders under our wing as were anxious to come and willing to accept our regulations. The confidence of both magistrates and prisoners would, we think, soon be secured, the friends of the latter would be mostly on our side, and the probability, therefore

s when they became acquainted with the nature of our work and the remarkable results which followed it. The right of entry into the gaols has already been conceded to our people in Australia, where they have free access to, and communion wit

he public-house is invariably adjourned to, where plans for further crime are often decided upon straight away, resulting frequently, before many weeks are past, in the return of the liberated convict to the confinement from which he has just escaped. Having been accustomed during confinement to the implicit submission of themselves to the will of another, the newly-disc

pon those who are discharged with tickets-of-leave, so as to free them from the hu

h individual. If not in possession of some u

n honest life, he will be transferred to the Farm Colony, unless in the meanwhile friends or old employers take him o

of being restored to Society in this country, o

t time some three years ago, have been limited, and unassisted by the important accessories above described, yet the s

me. It was his first conviction, and he had six months for robbing his employer. His trade was that of a baker. In a few days he presented himself at the Home, and was received. In the course of a few

is three years ago. He is there to-day, saved, and s

ht to the Home, where he worked at his trade a tailor. Eventually he got a situation, and has since married.

ere for a long period, offered for the work, and went into the Field, was Lieutenant for two yea

ocket. He was afraid to return, and decamped with the other into the country. Whilst in a small town he strolled into a Mission Hall; there happened to be a hitch in the proceedings, the organist was absent, a volunteer was called for, and W., being a good musician, offered to play. It seems the music took hold of him. In the middle of t

as saved. He managed the bootmaking there for a long time. He has since gone into business at Hackney

, and had destroyed his licence, taking an assumed name. When he got saved he gave himself up, and was taken before the magistrate, who, instead of sending him back to fulfil hi

ld go to the Salvation Army if they would discharge him. He was sent back to penal servitude. Application was made by us to the Home Secretary on his behal

years' penal servitude. The Chaplain at Pentonville advised him it he really meant reformation to seek the Salvation Army on his release. He came to Thames Street, was sent

him, but unsuccessfully. He entered the Prison Gate Home, became thoroughly saved, distributed handbills for the Home, and ultimately got work in a large printing and publishing wor

ears ago we took him in hand, admitted him into Prison Gate Brigade Home, where he became truly saved; he got a job of painting, which he had learnt in gaol, and has married a woman who had formerly been a procuress, but had passed

onths and became truly saved. Although his health was completely shattered from the effects of his sinful life, he steadfastly resisted all temptations to drink, and kept true to God. Through advertising in the War Cry, he found

and swearer. Met on his discharge by the Prison Gate Brigade, admitted into Home, where he remaine

ally landed in gaol, was met on his discharge and admitted into Prison Gate Brigade Home, was

ison Gate Brigade Officers, who got him saved, then found him work. After a few months he expressed a desire to work for God, and although a cripple, and having to use a crutch,

spent a good portion on board ship in drink, soon dissipated the balance on landing, and woke up one morning to find himself in gaol, with delirium tremens on him, no money, his lugga

est and truly consistent life the depth of his conversion, being made instrumental while with us in the salvation of many who, like himself, had come to utter destitution and

y fairly point to these cases, in which our instrumentality has been blessed, to the plucking of these brands from the burning, as affording some justification for the plea to be enabled to go on with this work on a much more extended scale. If a

TUAL DELIVERANCE

he slaves of strong drink, of both sexes, have

ain and again, and confessed on all hands by those who have had experience on the subject. As we have before said, the general feeling of all those who have tried their hands at this kind of business is one of despair. They t

ave been given already. We might multiply them by thousands. Still, when compared with the ghastly array which the drunken army presents to-day, those rescued are comparatively few. The great reason for this is the simple fact that the vast majority of those addicted to the cup a

y to fall again in the presence of the opportunity. The insatiable crave controls him. He cannot get away from it. It compels him to drin

rmy. The following will not only be examples of this, but will tend to illustrat

he age of eighteen, when her parents had forced her to throw over her sailor sw

t to live for only one thing-drink. It was life to her; and the mad craving grew to be irresistible. The woman who looked after her at the birth of her child refused to fetch her whisky, so when she had done all she could and left the mother to rest, Barbara crept out of bed and crawled slowly down the stairs over the way to the tap-room, where she sat drinking with the baby, not yet an hour old, in her arms. So things went on, until her life got so unbearable that she determined to have done with it. Taking her two eldest children with her, she went down to the bay, and deliberately threw them b

onscious, but still living. She became a terror to all the neighbourhood, and her name was the bye-word for daring and desperate act

the door against her, and she had turned to Barbie as the only hope. And of course Barbie took her in, with her rough-and-ready kindness got her to bed, kept out the other women who crowded round to sympathise and declaim against the husband's brutality, was both nurse and doctor for the poor woman till her child was born and laid in the mother's arms. And then, to Barbie's distress, she could do no more, for the woman, not daring to

nd is th

to reach it at nights. She would fall down on the do

but without a moment's hesitation, Maggie seized him and pushed him head-foremost down the old-fashioned wide sewer o

ed only as far, on her way home, as the narrow chain-pier. Here she stumbled and fell, and la

ng the bridge to their work, came upon her, lyi

free her in different ways, and receiving as a reward volleys of abuse and bad language, one of the girl's ran for a kettle of boiling water, and by pouring it all around her, they succeeded by

has not really gone back"; and the Captain ran to the house, tying her bonnet strings as she ran. "It's no good-keep awa'-I don't want to see'er, Captain," wailed Maggie "let me have some more-oh, I'm on fire inside." But the Captain was firm, and taking her to her home, she locked herself in with the woman, and sat with the key in her pocket, while Maggie, half mad with craving, paced the floo

clamouring for, the "bonnet" was by her side, "If you dare to serve her, I'll break the glass before it reaches her lips. S

for weeks. The roughs got to know of the trap he had laid for

is the cas

girl of thirteen, by a once well-to-do man, who is now, we be

etfulness in the intoxicating cup, and she soon became a notorious drunkard. Seventy-four times during her career she was dragged before the magistrates, and seventy-four times, with one exception, she was punished, but the sevent

d, in somewhat grim humour, "Then this is her Jubilee," and, moved by the

ot hurry her to an early grave; it did affect her reason, and for three weeks she wa

ging and biting, when, either by accident or design, one of the policemen let go of her head, and it came in contact with the curbstone, causing the blood to pour forth in a stream. As soon as they placed her in the cell the poor creature caught the blood in her hands, and literally washed her face with it. On the following morning she presented a pitiable sight, and before taking her into the court the police wanted to wash her, but she declared she would draw any man's blood who attempted to put a finger upon her; they had spilt her blood, and she would carry it into the court as a wi

called upon to give her testimony to the power of God to save. A more enthusiastic wave of sympathy never greeted any speaker than that which met her from that crowd, every one of whom was familiar

and gin palaces and other haunts of vice, from which she

the Captain at the Corps that in rescuing Rose a more wonderfu

influence of drink, resigned, and became a commercial traveller, but lost his berth through drink. He was then an insurance agent, and rose to be superintendent, but was again dismissed through drink. During his drunken career he had deli

lead for his soul, but S. knocked him down, and rushed back to the public-house for more drink. He was, however, so moved by what he had heard that he was unable to raise the liquor to his mouth, although he made thr

mercy, c

ll reserv

d his wra

ief of Sin

ictions. The Captain visited him at night, but was quickly thrust out of the house. He was there again next morning, and prayed and talked with S. for nearly two hours. Poor S.

imself, and three children, had not slept in a bed for three years. He has now a happy family, a comfortable ho

anufactories, sweeps on, bearing with it, I have no hesitation in saying, the foulest, bloodiest tide that ever flowed from earth to eternity. The Church of the living God ought not-and to say nothing about religion, the people who have any humanity ought not, to rest without doing something desperate to rescue this half of a million who are in the

herefore, is some method of removing the man out of the sphere of the temptation, and in the other for treating the passion as a disease

ith the assistance of their friends, would be able to pay two pounds a week for the privilege of being removed away from the licensed temptations to drink which surround them at every step. Moreover, could they obtain admission they would feel themselves anything but at ease amongst the class who avail themselves of these institutions. W

an be taken, watched over, kept out of the way of temptation,

ty in the day, being accompanied by an attendant to and from the Home. In thi

lsory confinement, they binding themselves by a bond confirmed by a magistrate that they would remain

ly one class in each e

and the poor did n

te institutions

have to engage in som

r work would be pr

arranged for those

weather and at such

k was impr

s. per week would b

here was no abi

ave any knowledge of their existence, and that is, those men and women who are being continually dragged before the magistrates, of whom we are constant

s of humanity to the sixty-fourth and one hundred and twentieth term of imprisonment, to send them to this Institution, by

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eal with remedially, than that which is known as the Social Evil. We have already seen something of the extent

the charge of 132 Officers, together with seventeen Homes abroad, open for the same purpose. The whole, although a small affair compared

undreds, if not thousands, have been delivered from lives of shame and misery. We have no exact return of the number who have gone th

to the homes to which they have been restored, and the benefit it has bestowed upon Society, but because it has assured us that much g

e number of our Homes both in London and the provinces, esta

into the system of reformation, tested as to the reality of their desires for

o their friends and relatives, while some would be detained in tra

Weaving; in the Garden and Glasshouses amongst fruit and flowers; in the Dairy, making butter

l and religious training, on which we s

r-marriage amongst the Colonists, and in this way a n

#3 a month wages. The scarcity of domestic servants in the Australian Colonies, Western States of America, Africa, and elsewhere is well known. And we have no doubt that on all hands our girls with 12 months' character w

number. Very few families will go out who will not be very glad to take a yo

clude the cost of those with whom we fail, and on whom the money is largely thrown away. Seven pounds is certainly not a very large sum for the measure of benefit bestowed upon the girl by bringing her off the streets, and that which is bestowed on Society by removing h

y successful so far, having at this hour probably 1,200 girls in domestic service alone, still the difficulty in this respect is great. Families are n

This can be easily understood. To be shut up seven days a week with little or no intercourse, either with friends or with the outside world, beyond that which comes of the weekly Church service or "night out" with nowhere t

a new country and begin the world afresh, with the possibility of being married and having a little home of their own some day. With su

e to dwell upon as an encouragement to persevere with the girls, and will be spared one element at least in the regret they experien

w, despite all their surroundings, we have many remar

by reason of the atrocities perpetrated in it, obtained an unenvia

t thirteen years of age was led away by an inhuman brute. The first false step taken, her course on the downward road

ime-having plenty of money, fine clothes, and luxurious surroundings until the terrible disease seiz

hand of love; but love won, and since that time she has been in two or three s

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icted to drink, going from bad to worse until drunkenness, robbery, and harlotry brought her to the lowest depths. She passed seven years in pri

the Salvation Army, stepped forward and explained to the magistrate th at he did not think the Salvation Army refused any who applied. She was formally handed over to us in a deplorabl

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a human habitation-more like the den of some wild animal-almost the only furniture of which was a fi

brutal man, who never allowed her to venture outside the door, keeping her alive by the scantiest allowance of food. Her only clothing consisted of a sack tied

d sunk so low that the man who then claimed her boasted to the Offic

changed in heart and life, she is one more added to the num

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from that infamy, but she was poor and friendless, and wanted somewhere to lay her head until she could secure work, and obtain a home. The matron must have pitied her, but she could not help her as she did not belong to the class for whose benefit the Institution was intended. The girl ple

ned, degraded harlot can run for shelter, there is only here and there a corner to which a poor friendless, moneyless, homeless, but unfallen girl

almost hopeless prey to the linx-eyed villains who are ever watching to take advantage of innocence when in danger. Then, again, what a number there must be in a great city like London who are ever faced with the alternative of being turned out of doors if they refuse to submit themselves to the infamous overtures of those around them. I understand that the Society for the Protection of Children pr

fly at any hour of the day or night, and be taken in, cared for,

forms of labour provided, such as laundry work, sewing, knitting by machines, &c. Every beneficial influence within our power would be brought to bear on the rectification and formation of character. Continued efforts would be made to secure situations according to the adaptation of the girls, to

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t in it every year, of whom 9,000 are never heard of any more, anyway in this world. What is true about London is, we suppose, true in about th

y to make some enquiries in this country, which, however, are not often successful; or where they can afford to spend large

stances, they are absolutely powerless, in nine cases out of ten, to e

the family are pleased. Letters continue to arrive of the same purport, but, at length, they suddenly cease. Full of concern, the mother writes to know the reason, but no answer comes back, and after a time the letters are returned with "gone, no address," written on the envelope. The mother writes to the mistr

of the parish, who is equally helpless, and there is nothing for them but for the father to hang his head and the moth

lvation Army Officer-probably in her own village, any way, in the nearest town-who would instruct the parents to write to the Chief Office in Lon

scale, as a branch of Rescue Work, have been marvellous. No more romantic stories can be found in the pages

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da to improve his position. He left a wife and four little children behind, and on leaving s

ctober 30th, but except receiving a card from him ere he started, the wife an

thinking he had disappeared upon his arrival, they put the matter in the hands of the Liverpool Pol

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ad come over by the same steamer, and after the lapse

ring from depression threw himself overboard three days after leaving America, and was drowned. We

on making report of the same to the family they took the matter into their own hands, dealt with the Company dire

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He feared she had gone to live an immoral life; gave us two addresses at whi

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nformation, but from observation in the neighb

onished at our having discovered her. She was dealt with faithfully and firmly: the plain t

e wrote that he had been telegraphed for, had

wrote expressing h

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o find her parents to be restored to them. She believes her home to be in Yo

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ng the advertisement, wrote, April 3rd, from 3, C. S., M. H., that her Lie

ote to this addres

hile, get from the Police, who had long sought this girl, a full description and photo, which we sent to Captain Cutmore; and on April 9th, she wrote us to th

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r since July, 1885, when she left for Canada. Letters had been once or twice received, date

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e had helped E. W. to emigrate, but they had n

photo., were sent to

in Montreal. The info

towns in that pa

ision, the girl was reported to us as having been recognised in one of our Barracks a

ted, on hearing of her mother's enquiries, to go into one of our Canadia

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id she was a good servant, but was ruined by the young man who courted her, and had since had three childr

ble brother in Hampshire. The last she heard of her was that some weeks ago she was staying

dded, "I believe you are the only people who, if successfu

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g her up we found that at a little place called Bridlington, on the way to Bath, she had met a man, of whom she enquired her way. He he

with them both upon the matter, got her to consent to come away if

to undertake matrimony, we brought her away, and sent her t

her of the success, they were greatly

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e basest desertion of her husband. Wandering from place to place drinking, he ha

begging us to advertise for the man in the Cry. We di

oup of men were drinking, and began to distribute War Crys amongst

glancing carelessly down its columns caught sight of his own name, and was so startled that the

ompletely, and there and then he left the public-house, and started to walk home-a distance o

poke also of his determination by God's help to be a different

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ather of her child who had for some time ceased to pay anything towards its support. The case had been brought into the Pol

ought the required in formation as to his son's whereabouts, and the same morning that our Inquiry Officer communicated with the police, and served a summons for the overdue money, the young man had also received a letter from his fa

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lay the South African town from which she had come, betrayed, disgraced, ejected from her home with words of bitter scorn, having no longer a friend in the wide world who would hold out to her a hand of help. What could th

d near by. Glad to accept the proffered shelter of the hut from the burning sun, the traveller entered, and was greatly astonished to find within a young white girl, evidently the mother of the frolicsome child. Full of pity for the strange pair, and especially for the girl, who wore an air of refinement little

up the vision of the girl he had met in the Hottentot's Kraal, and wondering whether any way of rescue

o is known, or feared to be, living in immorality, or is in danger of coming under the control of immoral persons, to write, stating full

addressed to Mrs. Bramwell Booth, 101, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C." "It will do no harm to try, anyhow," exclaimed he, "the thing haunts me as it is," and without fur

r some difficulty the kraal was discovered the girl was rescued and saved.

which it is proposed to very largely increase, the Army possesses in itself peculia

ed inadvisable, in the English "War Cry," with its 300,000 circulation, and from it copied into the twenty-three other "War Crys" published in different parts of the world. Specially prepared information in each case is

, through every quarter of the globe, may be regarded as an Agent. A small charge for enquiries

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is deserved than is bestowed. We have no direct purpose of entering on a crusade on their behalf, apa

. If we can reach and benefit their guardians, morally and materially,

o accept the responsibility of dealing with them, calculating that our organisation will ena

e for a small charge babies and young children can be taken care of in the day while the mothers are at work, instead of bei

in no other direction than that of soap and water and a little wholesome

extra one on the usual terms of boarding out children, and nothing would be more simple or easy for us than to set apart some trustworthy experienced dame to make a constant inspection

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s. I am nearly satisfied in my own mind that the children of the streets taken, say at eight years of age, and kept till, say twenty-one, would, by judicious management and t

chool is spent to little or no purpose -nay, it is worse than wasted. The minds of the children are only capable of useful application for so many consecutive minutes, and hence the rational method must be to apportion the time of the chil

oing away from apprenticeship, with the most precious part of life for ever gone so far as learning is concerned, chained to some pursuit for which there is no predilection, and which promises nothing higher than mediocrity if not fail

should begin probably with children selected for their goodness and capacity, with a view to imparting a superior education, thus fitting them for the position of Officers in all parts of the world, with the special ob

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times but seventy times seven, when you have fished him up from the mire and put him on firm ground only to see him relapse and again relapse until you have no strength left to pull him out once more, there will still remain a residuum of men and women who have, whether from heredity or custom, or hopeless demoralisation, become rep

the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large. The ultimate destiny of these poor wretches should be a penal settlement where they could be confined during Her Majesty's pleasure as are the criminal lunatics at Broadmoor. It is a crime against the race to allow those who are so inveterately depraved the freedom to wander abroad, infect their fellows, prey upon Society, and to multiply their kind. Whatever else Society may do, and suffer to be done, thi

which might minister to their diseased minds, and tend to restore them to a better state. Not until the breath leaves their bodies should we cease to labour and wrestle for their salvation. But when they have reached a certain point access to their fellow men should be forbidden. Between them and the wide world there should be reared an impassable barrier, which on

and women from that liberty which is th

become resigned to it. Habits of industry, sobriety, and kindness with them would create a restfulness of spirit which goes far on in the direction of happiness, and if religion were added it would make that happiness complete. There might be set continually before them a large measure of freedom and more frequent intercourse with the world in the shape of correspondence, newspapers, and even occasional interviews with relative

arrying out of such a sugges

r the present regulations of vice and crime. But there is no need for any great expense, seeing that after the first outlay the

e said that thi

he should forfeit his freedom to roam abroad and curse his fellows. When I include vagrancy in this list, I do it on the supposition that the opportunity and ability for work are present. Otherwise it seems to me most heartless to punish a hungry man