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Title: Street Arabs and gutter snipes. The pathetic and humorous side of young vagabond life in the great cities, with records of work for their reclamation
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Needham, Geo. C. (George Carter), 1840-1902
Subjects: Child welfare Poor
Publisher: Boston : D. L. Guernsey
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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tothe work, ready to brave all dangers and difficulties, and tellme is there not hope for England when she can produce suchcitizens, who, without hope of fee or reward, and in simplelove to the Master and for the welfare of the children, carryon this grand work. The great secret of the work is theparental principle. These children know nothing of parentalcare and love at home, and love begets love. Hence the holdthese teachers have over the wayward, neglected, and migra-tory children. I pray God most earnestly that so long as there is a raggedchild in existence, so long, by his grace and mercy, there maybe a ragged-school to receive, protect, love, and elevate thesechildren, and teach them the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hear the words of a preacher on the powerlessness ofScience to elevate degraded childhood: — The work, remember, is essentially a Christian work. Thiswork means Christianity or it means nothing. Now, thequestion is continually raised in the press, Is life worth
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WANTING TO LEARN. ODDS AND ENDS. 491 living ? but you never heard a Christian ask that question,though many a Christian has answered it nobly. Thesechildren, before you picked them up, might ask such aquestion, and if they are to answer it aright, we must givethem the Christian revelation, else will they have nothingreally worth living for. Now, it seems to me in these days of criticism we arebeing brought to face this question, and I want to face itto-night for two or three minutes. The question is this:Are we going to abide by the old revelation, or are we goingto be content to depend on science ? Now, if we are notcontent with science Ave must be shut up to revelation, andif we are not content with revelation Ave must be shut upto science. Which will it be ? Now, I Avant you to under-stand what this means. What has science to offer you ?Go through the length and breadth of the kingdom of scienceand you find one law. What is that law? The law of force,the law of might. Science lias

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