Annual Report of the Children's Aid Society, Volumes 31-40The Society, 1883 |
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Page ii - As Christian men we cannot look upon this great multitude of unhappy, deserted, and degraded boys and girls without feeling our responsibility to God for them. We remember that they have the same capacities, the same need of kind and good influences, and the same immortality as the little ones in our own homes. We bear in mind that
Page ii - and to be attempting to fill the leaky vessel of society by efforts which left it as empty as before. What soon struck all engaged in those labors was the immense number of boys and girls floating and drifting about our streets with hardly any assignable home or occupation, who continually swelled the multitude of criminals, prostitutes, and vagrants.
Page 114 - under the General Act, entitled " An Act for the Incorporation of Benevolent, Charitable, Scientific and Missionary Societies/
Page 37 - Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, ye have done
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Page 38 - or wholesome weed that, set in this fetid bed, could have its natural growth, or put its little leaves forth to the sun as God designed it.
Page 9 - on criminal courses of life, or have become drunkards or beggars, though four-fifths were children of drunkards. But a better test are the Police statistics of crime. During a portion of the period through which these figures run the population of the city increased from 814,224 in 1860, to about
Page 8 - largely in proportion to the population. Male petty thieves have fallen off some 700 during twenty-five years, and greatly in the average to the whole number, as have also the commitments of boys under fourteen years. One classification in the police reports, of what is called " Juvenile Delinquency," shows a like diminution of children's crime.
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Page 7 - *2,418 In regard to commitments of young girls, it should be remembered that our Police statistics include now all those committed to Charitable and Reformatory Institutions, whereas, formerly, only those imprisoned were reported in these tables. COMMITMENTS OF MALE VAGRANTS. 1859 2,829