Sunlight and shadow; . werful in its application to the class whoheard it. Many of these street preachers are mechan-ics and working-men, who have been saved them-selves, and now, in the true spirit of the Gospel, arestriving to save others. Space will not permit me to enumerate all the be-nevolent institutions that are relieving so much dis-tress. I give you some statistics of one association,published some time since. This is the Reformatoryand Refuge Union. There were thirty-four institu-tions connected with and controlled by it, such asrefuges for destitute boys and girls, for criminals, f
Sunlight and shadow; . werful in its application to the class whoheard it. Many of these street preachers are mechan-ics and working-men, who have been saved them-selves, and now, in the true spirit of the Gospel, arestriving to save others. Space will not permit me to enumerate all the be-nevolent institutions that are relieving so much dis-tress. I give you some statistics of one association,published some time since. This is the Reformatoryand Refuge Union. There were thirty-four institu-tions connected with and controlled by it, such asrefuges for destitute boys and girls, for criminals, forthe neglected, for the homeless, for vagrants, foryoung girls exposed to temptation and out of employ-ment, for children of vicious or criminal parents, fordeserted children, for poor servants out of employ-ment, for destitute working-men, for those dischargedfrom hospitals, for crippled and destitute girls, forwomen discharged from prison, for degraded outcastboys, for orphan street-boys, &c., &c. Then there. CHARRINGTON — LING — MURPHY. 129 are Dr. Barnardos East-End Juvenile Mission, Home for Boys at Stepney, and the Girls Home atHford. The Midnight Meeting Movement, Friend-less and Fallen Eefuge, the Boys Home, Dept-ford, Poor Cabmans Society, Dock-LaborersMission, Destitute Childrens Dinners, LondonMedical Mission, Cow Cross Mission, Sick Chil-drens Dinners, Sermon Lane Free Breakfasts, Womans Mission to Women, &c. In short, thebenevolent and Christian enterprises are amazing intheir extent. Then there is Charringtons Mission. Mr. Char-rington was the son of a brewer, and gave up a for-tune for conscience sake, and now supports a nightlymeeting, and is doing a great work. Then the Cen-tral Hall meetings every evening, to provide for thepeople rational amusement and instruction withoutthe appendage of drink, under the direction of Then the meetings at the Edinburgh Castle,once a very immoral music-hall, now, under the super-intendence of Dr. Barnardo, a place
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