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a trial of it to be made. The report was unani- 

 mously adopted, and this Society, having appropri- 

 ated a small sum towards the expenses of the 

 Bureau, and having consented that its Almoner 

 should act as its Superintendent, the Bureau was 

 started and proved a complete success, no less than 

 four hundred and fifty-five situations having been 

 obtained for worthy Englishmen through its instru- 

 mentality, during the first two years of its existence. 

 This Labor Bureau indeed has proved to be one of 

 the most useful and effective adjuncts to the work 

 of the Society. It had always been felt that the 

 giving of alms to able bodied men and women, 

 while frequently necessary and expedient, was, on 

 the whole, demoralizing in its tendency and influ- 

 ence upon the recipients, and it was thought that if 

 the deserving could be assisted by putting them in 

 the way of procuring the employment they sought, 

 and thereby enabling them to earn their own liveli- 

 hood, a great deal of practical good would be done, 

 more, indeed, than could be accomplished in any 

 other way. The giving effect to this idea was the 

 culminating effort of the Society at the close of the 

 first century of its existence, and it leaves to the 

 historian of the future the work of recording what 

 other and more beneficent provisions shall have 

 been made for the benefit and relief of distressed 

 Englishmen in this great metropolis, believing that 

 its successors will at least recognize the sincerity of 



