The Romance of Charity. [An Abridgment of the Author's “Six Months Among the Charities of Europe.”1867 |
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Page 90 - was not very inviting : two sleeping-rooms with the bed-straw piled up in a corner, and a doorway between them, where I stood, that I might be heard by the women on one side and the men on the other." A society for prison reform was now established after the English pattern ; and those horrible jails, which hitherto had been filthy dens and scenes of the lowest immorality, were gradually turned into places fit for the habitation of human beings, besides being provided with sufficient means for making...
Page 248 - Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
Page 123 - ... sometimes for an indefinite time, as he had fallen into the mistake of accepting young men too quickly. His motto was, "Better no schoolmaster at all than a bad one." For providing the poor people with bad teachers no establishment was required. But if he could only bless a few hamlets with well-trained, able, and truly Christian schoolmasters, he thought it would be worth all the trouble and sacrifice he was willing to undergo. The working of the establishment, as organised by Mr. Zeller, was...
Page 118 - ... truth. Mark xvi. 15, and Matt, xxviii. 20. Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature ; and lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Luke xviii. 16. Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not ; for of such is the kingdom of God. Matthew xviii. 5. Whoso shall receive one such little child in My name receiveth Me.
Page 285 - I will explain. Some time ago one of the doors in my house creaked. Nobody, therefore, liked to go in or out by it. One day I oiled its hinges, and it has been constantly used by every body ever since." "Then you think I am like the creaking door,'" cried the old gentleman. " How do you want me to oil myself?" "That's an easy matter,
Page 244 - let us not speak just now of that awful fire. We know that the Lord will not be mocked, and that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Page 144 - Awake out of sleep); Off! (ver. 12, Cast off the works of darkness); On! (verses 12 and 14, Put on the armour of light; put on the Lord Jesus Christ). After the close of the service, the whole congregation rose and remained standing. Mr. Zeller, leaving his desk, took the two youngest girls by the hand and walked out of the room, followed in orderly procession by the other children, to the singing of a hymn.
Page 11 - It was not exactly the most agreeable company one could wish for one's pleasure. Eight of them were illegitimate; four were brought up by drunken and criminal parents; one lad was known to the police for ninety-two thefts; one had escaped from prison. They were a lot of young savages, accustomed to live upon robbery, to amuse themselves with hazardous enterprises behind the policeman's back, to sleep under a bridge or on a staircase, to curse their fathers in return for parental curses, and to beat...
Page 284 - Once upon a time there lived an old gentleman in a large house. He had servants, and everything he wanted, yet he was not happy, and, when things did not go as he wished, he was cross. At last his servants left him. Quite out of temper he went to a neighbour to take counsel what to do. " ' It appears to me,' the neighbour said, ' that it would be as well for you to oil yourself a little.
Page 8 - Hamburg, of course ; for that would be keeping the children in the very atmosphere they ought to be removed from, but near Hamburg, somewhere down in the country, where fresh air and wholesome labour would invigorate the body, and a Christian family life, carried on with patriarchal simplicity, would revive the spirit These were the thoughts which on one October evening in 1832 he discussed with his friends, the members of the Visiting Society — men like himself, richer in faith and love than in...