Modern Cities and Their Religious ProblemsBaker & Taylor Company, 1887 - 219 páginas |
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Página 32 - The happiness of London is not to be conceived but by those who have been in it. I will venture to say, there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit, than in all the rest of the kingdom.
Página 31 - The lighted shops of the Strand and Fleet Street ; the innumerable trades, tradesmen, and customers, coaches, wagons, playhouses ; all the bustle and wickedness round about Covent Garden ; the very women of the Town ; the watchmen, drunken scenes, rattles ; life awake, if you awake, at all hours of the night ; the impossibility of being dull in Fleet Street ; the crowds, the very dirt and mud, the sun shining...
Página 31 - Town ; the watchmen, drunken scenes, rattles; life awake, if you awake, at all hours of the night ; the impossibility of being dull in Fleet Street ; the crowds, the very dirt and mud, the sun shining upon houses and pavements, the...
Página 31 - ... parsons cheapening books, coffee-houses, steams of soups from kitchens, the pantomimes — London itself a pantomime and a masquerade — all these things work themselves into my mind, and feed me without a power of satiating me. The wonder of these sights impels me into night-walks about her crowded streets, and I often shed tears in the motley Strand from fulness of joy at so much life.
Página 200 - But, beyond the ken of ordinary notice, there is an outnumbering both on the side of week-day profligacy, and of Sabbath profanation. There is room enough for apparent Christianity and real corruption, to be gaining ground together, each in their respective territories ; and the delusion is, that, while many are rejoicing in the symptoms of our country's reformation, the country itself may be ripening for some awful crisis, by which to mark, in characters of vengeance, the consummation of its guilt.
Página 116 - Society, ladies as associates and working girls and young women as members, for mutual help (religious and secular), for sympathy, and prayer. 2. To encourage purity of life, dutifulness to parents, faithfulness to employers, and thrift. 3. To provide the privileges of the Society for its members wherever they may be, by giving them an introduction from one Branch to another.