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THE GOLDEN BOOK OF


But this deep and vital interest in the working classes necessitated constant effort on their behalf. Sometimes he was pleading for little outcast children.

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What can be more dreadful than to see from day to day these wretched, miserable little children, who swarm in our streets, who know as little as we do how or where they can live, or who are their parents and natural protectors?
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It must be felt to be the duty of every good Christian to endeavour to ameliorate the condition of that class of our fellow creatures.
(1871)

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