Never had a home : a very commonplace history / by T.J. Barnardo.

  • Barnardo, Thomas John, 1845-1905.
Date:
[1890?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Never had a home : a very commonplace history / by T.J. Barnardo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ |fc£rer % Horn*! ” from the beginning of the work, twenty-three and a half years ago, even until now, to rescue, maintain, educate, Christianize and heip out into life no fewer than 14,453 boys and girls. Who can compute how many cf these must otherwise have become a peril to the State and a reproach to our Chris¬ tianity ? Too long, alas, has the cry of the children been unheard and unanswered by God’s servants ; but surely to one and all alike, who are touched by the quickening message of the “Gospel of the Holy Child” which has changed the face of the world, and swept away countless social wrongs, must come home their pitiful appeal as an impera¬ tive command. Help us, brethren and sisters, for our need is sore, and our hands are weak, and very white to harvest are the ripened fields! 18 to 26, Stepney Causeway, 'London, E, Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing’ Works, Frome, and London.