Short Sermons to News Boys: With a History of the Formation of the News Boys' Lodging HouseCharles Scribner & Company, 1866 - 244 páginas |
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Bank bargain become believe Bible Blackwell's Island blessed cents charity CHARLES LORING BRACE Children's Aid Society Christ Christian cold death died dollars earn earth face father feel felt friends gambling give habit hand happy hard hear heart Heaven homeless House imagine Jesus keep kind lads Lamb of God length light live lodgers lodging Lodging-House look means meet ment Mickety mind morning mother nails ness never night noble orphan pain pennies perhaps poor boy poverty prayer ragged religious remember rich rich boy sacrifice Santiago Cathedral Saviour seen selfish sell shillings sick slavery slaves sleep sometimes Son of God soul speak steal street-boy streets Sunday Superintendent suppose swear sweet tears tell thieves thing thou thought tical tion tomb Tracy Wandering Jew wicked words YORK SUN
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Página 154 - Lord thine oaths ; but I say unto you, Swear not at all, neither by heaven, for it is God's throne ; nor by the earth, for it is his footstool; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King ; neither shalt thou swear by thy head, for thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be Yea, yea ; nay, nay : for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Página 150 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths : but I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool...
Página 166 - LITTLE drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean, And the beauteous land.
Página 10 - This has now become so general a principle . . . that its novelty can hardly be recognized. But at that time it met with great opposition. To give a poor man bread before a tract ... to urge the entire change of circumstances and the emigration to country homes, as of far more importance to a certain class of vagrant children than any possible influence of Sunday-schools or Chapels, to talk of cleanliness as the first steps to godliness — all this seemed then to have a "humanitarian" tendency,...
Página 232 - After the excitement had passed away, and the boys were beginning to save again, Mr. T. gathered them one evening and spoke again on the importance of saving. One boy made a motion that the Bank be shut till December. This was seconded, and then opposed; and the uproar increased, as if the loudest lungs would carry it. The Superintendent quieted them, and said: "Boys — You know this is your affair; I shall do whatever you decide. We had better have a vote on it and not make this noise.
Página 22 - ... C. 0. Tracy, had been providentially secured to take charge of this branch of the enterprise, He addressed the boys kindly, and informed them that they were not objects of charity, but were to be considered lodgers in their own hotel, paying six cents each for his bed, the rules of the house being that they should keep order among themselves, and use the bath.
Página 13 - It was right that those who loved humanity in its lowest forms should labor for the forlorn prostitute, and the mature criminal. But on a broad scale no lasting effects could be expected to society from such efforts. The work seemed like pouring water through a sieve.
Página 244 - I do not fear to die," he said. " I feel all ready. I trust in Christ." He was doing well, and would, probably, have recovered, but for the very self-reliance which had secured him his success. He thought he would save the kind doctor the trouble of binding up his bandages, and that he could do it equally well, and one morning undid them, and attempted to clean the sore, when, accidentally, he opened the wound, and almost bled to death before help could arrive. This was too much for his weakened...
Página 25 - ... money. This evening, while a number of them were telling each other what they had for supper, I undertook to reason with them about their diet,— that they should avoid some of the nice things which they had mentioned, and live more upon plainer food, as that was healthier and cheaper; that they should allow their reason instead of their appetite to control them in the selection of their food. "Ah, Sir...
Página 243 - Well," he said, his natural cheerfulness running over, though his body was yet quivering with the surgeon's knife, " 'taint so bad, after all, for now, when I want, I can limp, and pass for half price on the railroad, or I can stretch up and be a big man !" All noticed, everywhere, this beautiful cheerfulness of this poor lame boy. "It was,