Christian herald and signs of our times . without being somewhat contamin-ated. What is the fire that burns your storedown compared with the conflagration whichconsumes your morals ? What is the theft ofthe gold and silver from your money safe com-pared with the theft of your childrens virtue ? We are all ready to arraign criminals. Weshout at the top of our voice, *• Stop thief!and when the police get on the track we comeout,v hatless and in our slippers, and assist inthe arrest. We come around the bawlingruffian and hustle him off to justice, and whenhe gets in prison, what do we do for him
Christian herald and signs of our times . without being somewhat contamin-ated. What is the fire that burns your storedown compared with the conflagration whichconsumes your morals ? What is the theft ofthe gold and silver from your money safe com-pared with the theft of your childrens virtue ? We are all ready to arraign criminals. Weshout at the top of our voice, *• Stop thief!and when the police get on the track we comeout,v hatless and in our slippers, and assist inthe arrest. We come around the bawlingruffian and hustle him off to justice, and whenhe gets in prison, what do we do for him ?With great gusto we put on the handcuffs andthe hopples ; but what preparation are we mak-ing for the day when the handcuffs and thehopples come off? Society seems to say tothese criminals, Villain, go in there and rot,when it ought to say, You are an offenderagainst the law, but we mean to give you anopportunity to repent ; we mean to help are Bibles and tracts and Christian influ-ences. Christ died for you. Look, and ELIZABETH FRY AND THE NEWGATE PRISONERS. They are harder in heart and more infuriatewhen they come out of jail than when they wentin. Many of the people who go to prison goagain and again and again. Some years ago offifteen hundred prisoners who during the yearhad been in Sing Sing, four hundred had beenthere before. In a house of correction in thecountry, where during a certain reach of timethere had been five thousand people, more thanthree thousand had been there before. So,in one case the prison, and in the other casethe house of correction, left them just as badas they were before. The secretary of one ofthe benevolent societies of New York saw a ladfifteen years of age who had spent three yearsof his life in prison, and he said to the lad, What have they done for you to make you 1 tet-ter ? Well, replied the lad, the first timeI was brought up before the judge he said, You ought to be ashamed of yourself. And thercommitted a crime again,
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