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love, as contrasted with the Gospel. The police made a little 

 bother, because of a neighbouring church ; but as I promised 

 not to sing, and had the Mayor's permission, it was overruled. 

 I hoped to escape the debating-demagogue element ; for I 

 feel less and less that my present work is arguing with clever 

 public-house infidels, and like to bear my testimony, and leave 

 it with the people." After relating the difficulties the Canada 

 Emigration Committee had to meet, he adds : " All the spare 

 time, of course, I gave to the Institute : the contrast between 

 the men this last week, and the men three months before, was 

 extraordinary ... in great measure the effect of quiet, steady 

 discipline. We completed the reading through the music of 

 all the songs, most of them in two parts. What struck them 

 most were my serious lessons on Dr. Broadbent's anatomical 

 plates, in which I spoke out on matters of bodily lusts. I 

 fully expected some giggling on the part of the low lads ; but 

 there was not a vestige of it. At the instance of the Guardians, 

 I held long arguments in favour of tramping : to see the un- 

 willingness of these townspeople to turn out into the country, 

 you would have thought badly of them for emigrants ! . . . Every 

 evening I let them come to me, individually, with their cases. 

 I gave them all, on parting, a quantity of my books and tracts, 

 which will doubtless find their way somewhere and do good.* 

 . . . On the Thursday evening, we had a temperance meeting. 

 I showed them stomach-pictures, and talked. Then Mr. Raper 

 came in, and made a very telling speech. ... It was not a large 

 audience, every one having his private affairs before closing * 

 but as dark closed in, there was a very nice feeling, and several 

 were going to emigrate, tramp, etc. So I proposed that all 

 who wished should stand up, join hands, and repeat the pledge 

 (as in the Band of Hope). So one after another they got up, 

 till our chain extended round three sides of the room : a large 



* Mr. Moulding, of Chicago, was told by a person who did not know 

 that he was Philip's friend, that "in a brickyard at Yorkshire, he read the 

 Oberlin Tracts [p. 164] daily to a set of drunken, wicked men : and that 

 four of them were not only made sober, but became Christians : and, he 

 believed, had not gone back to their old ways. " 



