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of searching visitation, not only judicial discrimina- 

 tion in charity, not only the principle of skilled labor 

 there, but also the idea of self-supporting religious 

 institutions. 



Thirty thousand people in the North End of Bos- 

 ton are crushed into less than three-quarters of a 

 square mile. Take Lynn, or Salem, with about this 

 number of inhabitants, and with its beautiful parks 

 and wholesome grounds around private residences, 

 and crush the city together little by little. First 

 the parks go ; then the grounds go ; then the stables 

 come near to the thresholds ; finally you have the 

 gutters close under the windows. Sprinkle in your 

 gin-shops, make the whole place peppery and measly 

 with the unreportable quarters of vice, and then let 

 children be born there, and you have the North End. 

 But this North End has in it certain self-supporting 

 religious institutions, or would like to have, — some 

 have been begun there, — and what does Boston do ? 

 Starves them ! Chalmers stands above us, and 

 Prince Albert and George Peabody and Tiberius 

 Gracchus, and look on ; while Boston, the easiest- 

 managed city of its size on this continent, calls her 

 self abreast of the times. 



On the coast of North Carolina, the cold dead 

 bodies have hardly been picked up yet from a late 

 shipwreck. I was in Philadelphia to lecture last 

 week; and there men stood before the office of Col- 

 lins, whose ship had gone down. The workingmen 

 had their hats in their hands, humbly postured, ask- 

 ing for work at the hazard of a voyage like that 



