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have hitherto remained good; several of them are in cor-
respondence with their former teacher and friend, and only
one has again fallen into evil courses.
In large cities it is necessity which compels the estab-
lishment of a “ Refuge and Reformatory.” <A fact presents
itself there, which cannot be ignored: there exists a fallen
race, whose numerous offspring grows up to become a
plague-sore to society. Ought we to let them grow up thus?
I say “No!” Instead of the fallen race, we ought to foster
a better and a more healthy one. Or, how is the evil to be
attacked at the root? The number of wicked people’s
unfortunate offspring is increased by children who are too
many in the home of honest but poor parents, or who by
death have lost their natural protectors and support, and
are consequently thrown upon the world to shift for them-
selves.
There are, therefore, and with an increasing population,
there will probably always be found destitute children in
sufficient numbers to make such a Refuge necessary in its
first form. Possibly its later division may be gradually
dispensed with through the efficacy of the former.
I shall now proceed to the second point in your letter:
“ Let us grant the necessity and the use of separate Re-
formatory Institutions — may we perhaps not get too many
of them? Have we considered in all its parts what such
an Institution really is, and what children ought to be its
objects? Have we formed a distinct idea of the difference
between a Reformatory and a Boarding School?” ... .
These questions require to be more thoroughly weighed,
and they will no doubt be so now, when the attention of the
public has been directed to the chief object, and the public
mind is alive to it. ,
The indispensableness of a Refuge and Reformatory
seenis to be a settled thing. The number of these Institu-
tions, the locality where, and the manner how, they are to’
be established, must depend upon the want thereof, and
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