The million-peopled city
Garwood, John
1853
"' New Pye-street Girls' School, "' April 10, 1843.
' Dear Sir,-We know that we need not tell you that among us, the poor children of , there is a little Missionary Society. We have subscribed and sent our farthings to buy Bibles for the black people, that they may know about God, but we learn that there are white Heathens as well as black, and therefore we wish to help them. Will you be pleased to accept of 14s. as our contri- bution to the for this purpose, and as | |
40 | an expression of our gratitude to Almighty God for sending us Bibles and teachers to explain them. Some of us, whose names you will know, beg that you will pardon us for having grieved you lately; we have resolved, with God's help, to forsake our evil ways, and we ask both your forgiveness and your prayers. |
" We remain, dear Sir, 'I With grateful respect, "' The children of New Pye-street School, "' . "' . . . . . . "' To .'" &c., &c. | |
"Such a letter from children rescued from the streets, some of whom, ere this, had it not been for the school and the missionary, would have been the inmates of our prisons, is deeply interesting, and would teach a statesman that the improvement of a population and the prevention of crime, are not to be effected by the erection of model prisons, but, among other means, by the erection of school-houses, in which the great principles of the Bible shall be faithfully taught, and children made to feel, that there are nobler enjoyments than those, which either ignorance or vice can afford." | |