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Hundreds of Societies of various kinds for benefiting 

 the poor. 



Orphanages by the score. 



Industrial Homes of various kinds. 



Asylums for all sorts and conditions of poverty, and 

 Benevolent Associations of every imaginable descrip- 

 tion. 



After dealing with one hundred and eighty-six of 

 these institutions out of the multitudes that are in 

 existence, and leaving out of calculation all that : 



(1) devote their funds to spiritual aid to the poor; 



(2) that are partially self-supporting by payment 

 from inmates ; 



(3) that are in any way connected with trades or pro- 

 fessions ; 



it will be found that the aggregate annual income 

 amounts to the colossal sum of £1,533,821. 



Capitalise this in the same way as the income from 

 Hospitals, and there is the enormous sum of £38,455,525 

 as a further contribution from our well-to-do country- 

 men, in aid of the poor and needy and the destitute, the 

 outcast women, the poor little waifs and strays, the 

 afflicted and the suffering, and all that human flotsam 

 and jetsam cast up on the shores of our land by the 

 turbulent waves of human Ufe. 



Now we come to the greatest of all these prodigious Far-reaching 



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charities, the like of which cannot be found elsewhere m charities 

 any civihsed country in the world, not so much because 

 our foreign friends are lacking in the quality of mercy 

 and benevolence, but because there is no necessity for it 

 in other countries. 



