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and had been thrown into that condition by bereave- 

 ment, and by her pride in refusing to ask for any 

 assistance. How are you to find out these cases 

 unless there is searching district visitation ? And 

 where are the slippered mesdames and the soft, vel- 

 vet}' mesdemoiselles that anywhere in this city call 

 themselves Christians, and do not feel honored to 

 enter into competition with each other in work of 

 that nobility? [Applause.] 



After all, we must unite three great spirits if we 

 are to solve this problem. Tiberius Gracchus must 

 attend to the re-distribution of the unemployed ; 

 then George Peabody had better build lodging- 

 houses ; and, lastly, Thomas Chalmers must whisper 

 to us renewed enthusiasm concerning his schemes. 

 These were really better than those of Elberfeld or 

 Germantown. It is fashionable now to talk about 

 Germantown and Elberfeld ; but there is one great 

 measure they leave out, which Chalmers employed, 

 — that of self-supporting churches among the poor. 

 But that measure ought to be courageously imitated. 

 Until the poor are taught to diffuse conscientiousness 

 among themselves, until there is a training of these 

 children in the gutters up to better principles than 

 their fathers and mothers have had, until the poor 

 become self-respecting, by doing something, however 

 little, in the support of moral instruction in their 

 midst, we have not done for them what can be done. 

 That West Port experiment in Edinburgh seems to 

 me altogether the most suggestive that ever has been 

 performed, because it included not only the measure 



