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314 PAEK AND PLAYGEOUND.
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institutions , the Playground Society . He saw , too , that the teaching 1 of the daySundayor ragged school would have a much better
chance of doing , its work , if the impressions given within the walls were not immediately counteracted by the influences without . If
this was found to be the case in his district , an airy suburb to the north of Camden Townhow much more heavily must the evils
, press in the thickly peopled streets ! Let us help the town children to air and exercise ; the five or ten shillings given to the
Playground will be repaid in a blessing on our own more favored children bHim who blessed the little ones .
y The Playground Society also contemplates improving the evening * recreations of the people by penny lectures on popular subjects .
These will be given in the worst neighbourhoods , and may in time serve as a counter-attraction to the penny theatre or concert
room . They were tried with perfect success in the district of St . Pancras before mentionedwhere the attendance was good , and the
, interest manifested great . Amongst the subjects lectured on were Astronomy , Natural Philosophy , Botany , Eastern Customs , the
Microscope , the History of Printing , & c . . These lectures have been found nearly , if not quite , self-supporting "; but the subscriber to
the playgrounds can specify to which purpose his money should be app But lied we , as cannot the funds speak are of kept means separate of improvement . without a notice
of that without which , experience has proved all other instrumentalities to be wanting in vital strength , but in concert with which all
means devised by the benevolent for those who need a lifting hand , are endowed with manifold power . The following instance bears
almost visible signs of the providence of God , for no human being prepared itor could have anticipated the chain of circumstances by
which a source , of beneficent influences has arisen like a well-spring in the desert , in the very lowest depths of ignorance and vice .
A little monthly publication called The Booh and its Missions , contains in its eighteenth number , this history , which though short ,
we must abridge : bor n In w the ithin dingy the and precin dreary ts , w Seven ere lef Dials t orp , hans long . In , t . those girls dim who alley had s been they ht doorfed bchanc
par At strugg e leng nts le , th d adopted up one , l died ying the , b and survivor y ni a g poor . on He old was man -steps an who atheist , and had poorl , and been y t she a grew nei y gh up bour th an e charity atheist of the .
l also eading . "When to the married Bloomsbur , she y M one ission night H t ook ll , an d lt came er from in to listen rain . in Some e passage appeal , directed bthe Holy Spirit of Grodwent home to poor Marian ' s heart . A
who lending appeared library y to was ask lend opene the d loan the Bible of next , a ? book week was at Bible the Marian Hall said . , the and _< If yo the u first please person sir , '
did said not she , mean ' will to you lend Bibles me a . But I ' will 'A get you , ' one ; and Missionary the best , of ' we all books shall be the first volume lent from this library !'"
An extract from one of Marian's letters , addressed to the same Missionary two years after , will shew the effect of her reading . —
a You may remember the request I made the first time I ever
314 Paek And Playgeound.
314 PAEK AND PLAYGEOUND .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 314, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/26/
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