The City Its Sins And Sorrows Being A Series Of Sermons

Author : Thomas Guthrie
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230372990
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book The City, Its Sins and Sorrows; Being a Series of Sermons from Luke Xix. 41. and Ragged Schools written by Thomas Guthrie and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ... Only one hour is counted from eleven to one, and from three to five, as then only half of the boys are in school-room and work-room. No. V. 27 York Place, December 25th, 1848. My Dear Mr. Guthrie, --The table showing the composition of the Original Ragged Schools is made up of terrible details. It affords subject-matter for the wisest men to ponder, constituting, as it does, an analysis of a sample only of the largest and sorest evil which affiicts the body social of this country. One item, not included in the table, might appear to many to be a strange one. Thirty per cent, of the children ran away from the Ragged Schools, "and came back, or were brought back, and then attended." It may seem strange that they ran away, and this after food had been given to them, clothing had been put upon them, and kind treatment had been exercised towards them. The key to the explanation of the phenomenon is to be found in this: they are callous to what we understand by hardship. They don't know home, neither do they know aught about friendship. From infancy they have catered for themselves.; they are ignorant of what is expressed by the word risk; they are independent; they resist the very gentlest restraint, and their first impulse is to escape from it; they have no love for what they never experienced; and they don't fear that with which they are familiar. Hence the smallest offence to their freer than Arab feelings is cause enough for them to endeavor to escape from school, and resume the more than savage life to which they have been habituated from their earliest infancy. It is very encouraging to know that " running away from school" is daily becoming less frequent; and that of those who run away, the number of instances in which the parents bring...